1957

1957

  • 16/2/57

    Jo Douglas and Pete Murray introducing among others:


    Kenny Baker and his Dozen
    Michael Holliday
    The King Brothers
    Pouishnoff

    Featuring sport:

    Freddie Mills

    Star Spotlight on

    Lisa Gastoni

  • 23/2/57

    Jo Douglas and Pete Murray introduce among others:


    Denny Boyce and his Orchestra

    with

    June Robinson
    George Browne and Malcolm Joseph-Mitchell
    Dennis Lotis
    Mick Mulligan and his Band

    Featuring Sport:

    Freddie Mills

    Star Spotlight on

    Tony Britton

  • 2/3/57

    Jo Douglas and Pete Murray introducing among others:


    Tommy Steele and his Steelmen
    Julian Bream
    Russ Henderson and his steel band
    Michael John
    Mike Winters and Bernie Winters

    Featuring Sport:

    Freddie Mills

    Star Spotlight on:

    Adrienne Corri

  • 9/3/57

    Jo Douglas and Pete Murray introduce among others:


    Tommy Steele and his Steelmen
    The Vipers’ Skiffle Group
    Mike and Bernie Winters
    Charles Yates

    Guest star:

    Big Bill Broonzy

    Featuring Sport:

    Freddie Mills

    Star Spotlight on:

    The Boulting Brothers

  • 16/3/57

    Jo Douglas and Pete Murray introducing among others:


    Tommy Steele and his Steelmen
    Dennis Lotis
    Humphrey Lyttelton and his Band
    The Southlanders

    Featuring Sport:

    Freddie Mills

    “Star Spotlight” on:

    John Fraser

  • 23/3/57

    Jo Douglas and Pete Murray introducing among others:


    Tommy Steele and his Steelmen
    Jill Day
    Lonnie Donegan and his Skiffle Group
    Humphrey Lyttelton and his Band

    Featuring Sport:

    Freddie Mills

    Star Spotlight on:

    Sylvia Syms

  • 30/3/57

    Josephine Douglas and Pete Murray introducing among others:


    Tommy Steele and his Steelmen
    Jack Brymer
    Patti Lewis
    Humphrey Lyttelton and his Band
    Mike Winters and Bernie Winters

    Featuring Sport:

    Freddie Mills

    Star Spotlight on:

    Ian Carmichael

  • 6/4/57

    Josephine Douglas, Pete Murray introducing among others:

    Bill Maynard
    Jimmy Young
    Cy Laurie
    Boscoe Holder and Sheila Clar
    Ricky James

    Guest star:

    Larry Adler
    The Teenagers singing ‘Baby, Baby’
    in an excerpt from the film ‘Rock, Rock, Rock’.

    Featuring Sport:

    Freddie Mills

    Star spotlight on:

    Tyrone Power

  • 13/4/57

    Josephine Douglas and Pete Murray introducing:


    Chris Barber’s Jazz Band with Ottilie Patterson
    Don Lang and his Frantic Five
    Clive Lythgoe

    Guest star:

    Dickie Valentine

    Featuring sport:

    Freddie Mills

    Star spotlight on:

    Eva Gabor

  • 20/4/57

    Josephine Douglas and Pete Murray introducing among others:


    Tony Crombie and his Rockets, with Dickie Bennett
    Ronnie Hilton
    Leonora Mila
    Graham Stuart and his Jazz Band and Jackie Collins

    Featuring Sport:

    Freddie Mills

    Star Spotlight on:

    John Derek

  • 27/4/57

    Josephine Douglas and Pete Murray together with Humphrey Lyttelton and his Band introduce:


    Jim Arthur
    Leon Bell and his Hellcats
    Jim Dale
    Terry Dene and his Deneagers
    The Johnny Lenniz Group featuring The Earl of Wharncliffe
    The Peterson Brothers

    Guest vocalist:

    Vera Day

    Featuring Sport:

    Freddie Mills

  • 4/5/57

    Josephine Douglas and Pete Murray introducing among others:


    Johnny Dankworth and his Band
    Lorrae Desmond
    Rory Blackwell and his Group
    Bob Cort and his Skiffle
    The Johnston Brothers
    Mike Winters and Bernie Winters

    Featuring Sport:

    Freddie Mills

  • 11/5/57

    Josephine Douglas and Pete Murray introducing among others:


    Denny Boyce and his Band
    Desmond Lane

    Guest Vocalist:

    Michael Holliday

    Star Spotlight on:

    Ron Randell

    Featuring Sport:

    Freddie Mills

  • 18/5/57

    Josephine Douglas and Pete Murray introducing among others:


    Terry Dene and his Dene-agers
    The Delta Four
    Ken Dodd
    Don Lang and his Frantic Five
    Harry Walton and his Dixieland Jazzmen

  • 25/5/57

    From the Scottish Radio and Television Exhibition, with Josephine Douglas and Pete Murray introducing among others:


    Lita Roza
    David Hughes
    Jimmy Logan
    The Eric Delaney Band
    The Chas McDevitt Skiffle Group with Nancy Whiskey
    Art Baxter and his Sinners
    The Burt Twins
    The Clyde Valley Stompers
    The Glasgow Rock ‘n’ Roll Sinners

    Featuring Sport:

    Freddie Mills

  • 8/6/57

    Josephine Douglas and Pete Murray introducing among others:


    Patti Lewis
    Don Lang and his Frantic Five
    The Jazz Couriers with Ronnie Scott and Tubby Hayes
    Jim Dale

    Special Guest:

    Spike Milligan

    Star Vocalist:

    Dickie Valentine

    Tommy Steele
    in an excerpt from ‘Kill Me Tomorrow’

    Featuring Sport:

    Freddie Mills

    Star Spotlight on:

    Lois Maxwell

  • 15/6/57

    Josephine Douglas and Pete Murray introducing among others:

    Edna Savage
    Tony Brent
    Ronnie Carroll
    Humphrey Lyttelton and his Band
    Johnny Duncan and his Blue Grass Boys
    Angela Balfe

    Guest star:

    Larry Adler

    Featuring Sport:

    Freddie Mills

    Star Spotlight on:

    David Oxley

  • 29/6/57

    Josephine Douglas and Pete Murray introducing among others:


    Lita Roza
    Humphrey Lyttelton and his Band
    The Bob Cort Skiffle
    Frank Holder
    The Tony Kinsey Quintet

  • 13/7/57

    Josephine Douglas and Pete Murray introducing among others:


    Dennis Lotis
    Patti Lewis
    Don Lang and his Frantic Five
    Jim Dale
    George Fierstone and his Sextet

    Special Guest:

    Spike Milligan

    Featuring Sport:

    Freddie Mills

  • 20/7/57:

    Josephine Douglas and Pete Murray introducing among others:


    Dennis Lotis
    Freddie Mills
    Patti Lewis
    Vic Lewis and his Orchestra
    Don Lang and his Frantic Five
    Terry Dene

    Special guest:

    Stephane Grappelly

  • 3/8/57

    Josephine Douglas and Pete Murray introducing among others:


    Dennis Lotis
    Freddie Mills
    Humphrey Lyttelton and his Band
    Don Lang and his Frantic Five
    Jim Dale

    Special Guest:

    Spike Milligan

  • 10/8/57

    Josephine Douglas and Pete Murray introducing among others:


    Mel Torme
    Shirley Abicair
    Johnny Dankworth and his Orchestra
    Humphrey Lyttelton and his Band
    The Vipers Skiffle Group

    Guest Star:

    Charlie Drake

    Featuring Sport:

    Freddie Mills

  • 17/8/57

    Josephine Douglas and Pete Murray introducing:


    Dennis Lotis
    Freddie Mills
    Jim Dale
    Eric Delaney and his Orchestra
    Humphrey Lyttelton and his Band
    Don Lang and his Frantic Five

    Special Guest:

    Petula Clark

  • 31/8/57

    Josephine Douglas and Pete Murray introducing among others:


    The Deep River Boys
    Spike Milligan
    Eric Delaney and his Band
    Chris Barber and his Jazz Band with Ottilie Patterson
    Michael Holliday
    Don Lang and his Frantic Five
    Freddie Mills

  • 7/9/57

    Josephine Douglas and Pete Murray introducing among others:


    Johnny Dankworth and his Orchestra and Cleo Laine
    Danny Purches
    The Vipers Skiffle Group
    Betty Smith and her Jazz Group

    Pat Boone
    in an extract from ‘Bernadine’ (by permission of Twentieth Century-Fox).

    Star Spotlight on:

    Heather Sears

  • 14/9/57

    Josephine Douglas and Pete Murray introducing among others:


    Ken Mackintosh and his Orchestra
    Humphrey Lyttelton and his Band
    James Rushing
    The Jazz Couriers
    Bob Cort and his Skiffle
    Jim Dale
    Nancy Whiskey
    Freddie Mills

    Special Guest:

    Bill Maynard

  • 21/9/57

    Josephine Douglas and Pete Murray introduce among others:


    Ted Heath and his Music
    Larry Adler
    Eve Boswell
    Patti Lewis
    Dennis Lotis
    Murray Campbell
    The John Barry Seven*
    Brian Phelps

    and

    Elvis Presley
    in an excerpt from ‘Loving You’.

    *(BBC TV debut of The John Barry Seven)

    Radio Times, 21-09-1957

    Radio Times, 21-09-1957
    Radio Times, 21-09-1957
  • 28/9/57

    Josephine Douglas and Pete Murray introducing among others:


    Joe Loss and his Orchestra
    Rose Brennan
    Ross MacManus and Larry Gretton
    Kenneth Connor
    The Southlanders
    The Tony Kinsey Quintet
    Johnny Duncan and his Blue Grass Boys
    Rosemary Squires
    Diane Todd
    Russ Hamilton
    Freddie Mills

  • 5/10/57

    Josephine Douglas and Pete Murray introducing among others:


    Freddie Mills
    Michael Holliday
    Mike Winters and Bernie Winters
    Terry Wayne
    Don Lang and his Frantic Five
    The Don Rendell Jazz Six
    Sonny Stewart and his Skiffle Kings

    and

    Elvis Presley
    in an excerpt from the Paramount production ‘Loving You’.

  • 12/10/57

    Josephine Douglas and Pete Murray introducing among others:


    Freddie Mills
    Terry Dene and his Dene Aces
    Don Lang and his Frantic Five
    Basil Kirchin and his Band
    Les Hobeaux

  • 19/10/57

    Josephine Douglas and Pete Murray introduce:


    Freddie Mills
    Don Lang and his Frantic Five
    The Vipers Skiffle Group
    Murray Campbell and his trumpet
    Ronnie Keene and his Orchestra

    Guest star:

    Frankie Vaughan

    Special guest appearance of:

    Roger Bannister
    Chris Brasher

    Tonight’s programme is a Boys’ Club edition and will virtually launch the Boys’ Club Week which starts on Monday. The guest star of the programme, Liverpool-born Frankie Vaughan, is himself a former member of the Lancashire Boys’ Club. During the past two years he has appeared without charge at nearly a hundred Boys’ Club shows, and has also given the royalties of two of his best-selling records to the same cause. Roger Bannister, also making an appearance, is Chairman of the Physical Fitness Committee of the National Association of Boys’ Clubs, and Chris Brasher is Chairman of the Association’s Art Advisory Committee.

    Radio Times, 19-10-1957
    Radio Times, 19-10-1957
  • 26/10/57

    From Warren’s Albert Ballroom, Glasgow, with Josephine Douglas and Pete Murray introducing:


    Freddie Mills
    Colin Hicks and his Cabin Boys
    Terry Wayne
    Don Lang and his Frantic Five

    and a guest star.

  • 2/11/57

    Josephine Douglas and Pete Murray introducing among others:


    Petula Clark
    Freddie Mills
    Don Lang and his Frantic Five
    Les Hobeaux
    The Solos

  • 9/11/57

    Josephine Douglas and Pete Murray introduce among others:

    Johnny Dankworth and his Orchestra
    Rosemary Squires
    Freddie Randall
    Carl Barriteau
    The Southlanders
    Freddie Mills
    Mike and Bernie Winters
    Don Lang and his Frantic Five
    The Six-Five All-Star Buskers

    America’s Disc of the Week

  • 16/11/57

    From the Two I’s Coffee Bar, Old Compton Street, London with Josephine Douglas and Pete Murray introducing among others:

    Freddie Mills
    Don Lang and his Frantic Five
    Lucille Mapp
    The King Brothers
    Mike and Bernie Winters
    Charles McDevitt and his Skiffle Group with Shirley Douglas
    The Worried Men
    Wee Willy Harris
    Jon Pertwee

    Disc Spot of the Week:

    Terry Dene
    in an excerpt from “The Golden Disc” by permission of Butchers Film Distributors, Ltd.

  • 23/11/57

    From the North with Josephine Douglas and Pete Murray introducing among others:


    Ronnie Aldrich and the Squadronaires featuring Andrew Reavley and Peter Morton,
    Chris Barber and his Jazz Band,
    Sister Rosetta Tharpe,
    Mike and Bernie Winters,
    Jim Dale,
    Sheila Buxton,
    The Gaunt Brothers,
    John Barry and the 7,
    The Demijeans,
    Freddie Mills,
    Don Lang and his Frantic Five,
    The Six-Five All-Star Buskers

    America’s Disc of the Week.

    Radio Times, 23-11-1957
    Radio Times, 23-11-1957
  • 30/11/57

    Josephine Douglas and Pete Murray introducing among others:


    David Hughes,
    The King Brothers,
    Freddie Mills,
    Jon Pertwee,
    Jimmy Lloyd,
    Joyce Shock,
    The Vernons Girls,
    Don Lang and his Frantic Five,
    Kenny Baker and his Baker’s Dozen,
    The Confrey Phillips Trio,
    The Vic Ashe Group

    The Disc of the Week.

  • 7/12/57

    Josephine Douglas and Pete Murray introducing among others:

    Michael Holliday,
    Marion Ryan,
    Johnny Duncan and his Blue Grass Boys,
    Graham Stark,
    Laurie Gold and his Pieces of Eight,
    Jim Dale,
    The Five Dallas Boys,
    Johnnie Gray,
    Freddie Mills and Don Lang and his Frantic Five

  • 14/12/57

    Josephine Douglas and Pete Murray introducing among others:


    Peter Sellers,
    Spike Milligan,
    Lonnie Donegan and his Skiffle Group,
    Terry Dene,
    The King Brothers,
    Lita Roza,
    Freddie Mills,
    Max Geldray,
    Stephane Grappelly with The Dill Jones Trio,
    Don Lang and his Frantic Five,
    Andre Gersh and his Orchestra

    The Disc Spot of the week.

  • 21/12/57

    From the NAAFI Club, Plymouth with Josephine Douglas and Pete Murray introducing among others:


    Dennis Lotis,
    Michael Holliday,
    Terry Dene,
    Jim Dale,
    Ken Mackintosh and his Orchestra,
    Chris Barber and his Jazz Band with Ottilie Patterson,
    Don Lang and his Frantic Five

    The Disc Spot of the Week.

  • 27/12/57

    Josephine Douglas and Pete Murray introducing among others:


    Spike Milligan,
    The King Brothers,
    Glen Mason,
    Freddie Mills,
    The Vernons Girls,
    Vic Lewis and his Orchestra,
    Don Lang and his Frantic Five,
    Denny Boyce and his Band,
    The Confrey Phillips Trio,
    Roy Gibbs and the Live Jive Five,
    The Show Biz Eleven

    The Disc Spot of the Week.