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BBC Genome Or Produced by Other Companies Genome BETA Radio Times 1923 - 2009 Viewing entries 1 to 10 of 10. Gadzooks! (It's All Happening) with The Three Bells and The Beat Girls Monday Guest artists, Friday Brown and Rog Whittaker 9 August and from America, The Byrds and Sonny and Cher 1965 19.00 George Hamilton IV and Other Folk featuring The King's Singers Friday Wednesday Brown Adge Cutler and the Wurzels 14 November Recorded at Cesar's Club, Luton 1973 Sound JOHN LIVINGSTONE Lighting hu CARTWRIGHT 19.35 Musical director JEREMY lubbock Director MIKE BEGG Producer DOUGLAS hespe Show of the Week: The Two Ronnies starring Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett special guests Monday Alan Price and Georgie Fame with FRIDAY 11 June BROWN JEROLD WELLS , IAN GRAY and SUE LLOYD as Blanche 1973 THE FRED TOMLINSONSINGERS 21.25 Written by BRYAN BLACKBURN , BARRY CRYER SPIKE MULLINS , DAVID NOBBS MICHAEL PALIN and TERRY JONES PETER VINCENT. GERALD WILEY Arrangements and Orchestra directed by RONNIE HAZLEHURST Designer KEITH CHEETHAM Producer TERRY HUGHES Show of the North Presenting from Scotland a group of 11 international artists in a non-stop musical Saturday presentation of songs old and new. 10 October Featuring this week: New World 1970 Davy Johnstone Friday Brown 18.15 Maureen Kennedy Martin Hedley Kay and The Bitter Withy BBC SCOTTISH RADIO ORCHESTRA leader IAN TYRE conductor IAIN SUTHERLAND Musical arrangements NICKY WELSH Designer JIM LONGMUIR Producer IAIN MACFADYEN One More Time! A non-stop sing-in of familiar songs with Friday Brown, Trevor Chance Monday Heathmore, Samantha Jones Dick Jordan , Mike Redway 5 October Barbara Ruskin , Andee Silver 1970 Musical director/arranger BILL SHEPHERD Producer JOHNNIE STEWART 22.10 One More Time! A non-stop sing-in of familiar songs with Friday Brown, Trevor Chance Monday Heathmore, Samantha Jones Dick Jordan , Mike Redway 19 October Barbara Ruskin , Andee Silver 1970 Musical director/arranger BILL SHEPHERD 22.05 Produced by JOHNNIE STEWART The Stanley Baxter Show A new comedy series starring Friday Stanley Baxter with guest Friday Brown and Denise Coffey 12 February Clare Richards , Joan Young David Webb , Lillian Welsh 1971 BBC SCOTTISH RADIO ORCHESTRA Conductor IAIN SUTHERLAND 20.00 Choreographer BRUCE MCCLURE Scripts by KEN HOARE KELSO ROBERTSON , DENISE COFFEY Designer HELEN RAE Producer ROGER RACE (from BBC Scotland) (Stanley Baxter is in ' Mother Goose ' at The Kings Theatre, Edinburgh) The Two Ronnies starring Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett Saturday Guests Alan Price, Georgie Fame 23 September With FRIDAY BROWN, JEROLD WELLS, IAN GRAY and SUE LLOYD as 1972 Blanche 19.35 THE FRED TOMLINSON SINGERS Written by BRYAN BLACKBURN, BARRY CRYER, SPIKE MULLINS, DAVID NOBBS, MICHAEL PALIN and TERRY JONES, PETER VINCENT, GERALD WILEY Arrangements and orchestra directed by RONNIE HAZLEHURST Producer TERRY HUGHES Reflections Friday Brown Friday The Fivepenny Piece accompanied by THE AUGMENTED NORTHERN DANCE 10 November ORCHESTRA conducted by BERNARD HERRMANN 1972 Musical arrangements PETER KNIGHT , PAT NASH Producer NICK HUNTER 23.45 (from Manchester) George Hamilton IV and Other Folk Although a dedicated country stylist himself, America's ambassador of country Thursday music says ' Yippee ' to most other forms of singing entertainment including: The 30 May old and yet very new sound of The King's Singers 1974 The smooth playing and singing of Friday Brown and listens amazed to the 20.00 musical zeal of Adge Cutler 's Wurzels Recorded at Cesars Club, Luton Musical director JEREMY LUBBOCK Director MIKE BEGG Producer DOUGLAS HESPE Programmes not listed in the BBC Genome or produced by other companies: Information from http://tvbrain.info and http://missingepisodes.proboards.com and other sources. E&OE. ATV Today (ATV MIdlands) Unknown dates: various appearances. Scene at 6.30 (Granada TV) January 1966: Friday Brown performs ‘Getting Nowhere’. She appeared several times on other episodes. Now! (TWW TV) 2 February 1966: Episode 7: with Michael Palin, Friday Brown, Lee Dorsey Cat Stevens Show (Belgium TV) 4 November 1967: with Friday Brown, Double Feature, The Mindbenders Max Bygraves Introduces New Faces (Granada TV) 7 November 1967: with Amen Corner, Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, The Grumbleweeds. Friday Brown performs 'And I Love Him'. Doddy's Music Box (ABC TV) 17 February 1968: Series 2, Episode 5: with The Dave Clark Five, Paul and Barry Ryan, Friday Brown, Frankie Vaughan, David Hamilton A Girl Called Friday (Tyne-Tees TV) Produced by George Adams 6, 13, 20, 27 April 1968 4, 11, 18, 25 May 1968 1, 8, 15, 22 June, 1968 The show on 15 June featured Godfrey Winn and Johnny Jardine. Discotheque (Granada TV) 9 April 1969: with Billy J Kramer and The Remo, Ayshea, The Four Spots, Vince Hill, Friday Brown The Golden Shot (ATV) 29 June 1969: Series 2, Episode 25: with Anne Aston, Friday Brown Wait While... (BBC TV North) 1970: Tuesday nights The Val Doonican Show (BBC TV) 3 November 1971: First episode following Series 1: with Hylda Baker, Norman Vaughan, Peter Goodwright, Friday Brown, Marion Davis The Val Doonican Show (BBC TV) 24 December 1971: Christmas edition: with Harry H Corbett, Friday Brown, Marian Davies, Lois Lane, Sylvia McNeill * *A 16mm black-and-white film print exists, but the programme was originally on 2" colour videotape. Tuesday Night is Friday Night (BBC TV North) 1972: six weeks of shows Singout with The Settlers (Tyne-Tees TV) 14 February 1973: with The Settlers and Friday Brown, directed by Roy Lomas The Golden Shot (ATV) 16 December 1973: Series 5, Episode 14: with Roy Hudd, John Baker, Friday Brown, Allan Stewart, Denise Distel Castle Concert (BBC TV) 1975: with Friday Brown, David McWillaims and Trinity .
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