1966

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[edit] Events

  • January 3 - Hullabaloo shows promotional videos of The Beatles songs "Day Tripper" and "We Can Work It Out".
  • January 8 - Shindig! airs for the last time on ABC, with musical guests the Kinks and the Who.
  • January 12 - Batman debuts on ABC (1966-1968).
  • February 23 - Television is first broadcast in Greece when ERT went on the air.
  • April 5 - The Money Programme debuts on BBC2 (1966-present).
  • June 5 - A taped appearance by The Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show. The band debuts their music videos for "Rain" and "Paperback Writer".
  • June 27 - The first episode of the supernatural soap opera Dark Shadows airs on ABC, introducing Victoria Winters (Alexandra Moltke) to the viewing audience as she applies for a job at the Collinwood Manor.
  • July 1 - First Canadian color television broadcast.
  • September - ABC switches to the color standard, meaning that all three US networks are now broadcasting in color regularly.
  • September 3 - The last new episode of the television series The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet airs.
  • September 7 - The final episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show airs (the first episode aired on October 3, 1961).
  • September 12 - The Monkees premieres (1966-1968).
  • October 2 - The four-part serial Talking to a Stranger, acclaimed as one of the finest British television dramas of the 1960s, begins transmission in the Theatre 625 strand on BBC2.
  • October 27 - It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown airs for the first time on CBS.
  • November 16 - Cathy Come Home, possibly the best-known play ever to be broadcast on British television, is transmitted in BBC1's The Wednesday Play anthology strand.

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[edit] Films released

  • A Man for All Seasons
  • Alfie
  • Batman
  • The Battle of Algiers Golden Lion winner
  • The Birds, the Bees and the Italians Palme d'Or winner
  • Blowup
  • Chappaqua
  • Cul-de-Sac Golden Bear winner
  • Follow Me, Boys!
  • Frankie and Johnny
  • A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
  • The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
  • Hawaii
  • It Happened Here
  • A Man and a Woman Palme d'Or winner
  • Morgan!
  • Our Man Flint
  • Paradise, Hawaiian Style
  • The Sand Pebbles
  • The Singing Nun
  • Spinout
  • Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree (short subject)
  • The Wild Angels

[edit] Hit Songs

[edit] New Books

  • The Adventurers - Harold Robbins
  • The Anti-Death League - Kingsley Amis
  • Capable of Honor - Allen Drury
  • The Circle Game - Margaret Atwood
  • The Dartmoor Worker anthology of William Crossing
  • Der Meteor - Friedrich Dürrenmatt
  • The Devil's Brigade - Robert H. Adleman
  • The Double Image - Helen McInnes
  • The Embezzler - Louis Auchincloss
  • Expeditions - Margaret Atwood
  • Fantastic Voyage - Isaac Asimov
  • The Fixer - Bernard Malamud
  • In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
  • Jean de Florette - Marcel Pagnol
  • Last Picture Show - Larry McMurtry
  • The Magic Finger - Roald Dahl
  • Manon des sources - Marcel Pagnol
  • The Master and Margarita - Mihail Bulgakov
  • The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - Robert A. Heinlein
  • Octopussy and The Living Daylights - Ian Fleming
  • The Soldier's Art - Anthony Powell
  • The Solid Mandala - Patrick White
  • Speeches for Doctor Frankenstein - Margaret Atwood
  • The Sun King - Nancy Mitford
  • Tai-Pan - James Clavell
  • Tell No Man - Adela Rogers St. Johns
  • A Thousand Days - Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
  • Valley of the Dolls - Jacqueline Susann
  • Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys