#WATCH THE MESSAGE 1977 ONLINE SERIES#
7 July – The first episode of the BBC documentary series Brass Tacks is aired, featuring a debate as to whether Myra Hindley should be considered for parole from the life sentence she received for her role in the Moors murders in 1966.
It enters into the conspiracy theory canon. 20 June – Anglia Television broadcasts the fake documentary Alternative 3.Ken Barlow and " Uncle Albert" play Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing respectively. 6–9 June – Television viewers in Britain and around the world watch live coverage of the celebrations of the Silver Jubilee of Elizabeth II, while the soap opera Coronation Street features an elaborate Jubilee parade in the storyline, having Rovers' Return Inn manageress Annie Walker dress up in elaborate costume as Queen Elizabeth I.The British entry, " Rock Bottom" (written and sung by Lynsey de Paul and Mike Moran) finishes in second place. With Angela Rippon as the presenter, the contest is won by Marie Myriam representing France, with her song " L'oiseau et l'enfant" ("The Bird and the Child"). 7 May – The 22nd Eurovision Song Contest is held in London.In 2002, the series is relaunched in a new format. In 1978, it is offered to BBC2 where it airs until 2001. 22 April – The original series of motoring programme Top Gear begins as a local magazine format produced by BBC Midlands from its Pebble Mill Studios in Birmingham, presented by Angela Rippon and Tom Coyne.Both programmes run at the same time, with Tyne Tees, Good Morning North, and Yorkshire's Good Morning Calendar. It is credited as being the United Kingdom's first breakfast television programme, six years before the launch of TV-am and the BBC's Breakfast Time in 1983. 28 March – Yorkshire Television and Tyne Tees Television launch a nine-week breakfast television experiment.27 March – Jesus of Nazareth, a British- Italian television miniseries (co-produced by Lew Grade) dramatizing the birth, life, ministry, death, and resurrection of Jesus based on the accounts in the four New Testament Gospels debuts on British television, starring Robert Powell as Jesus.February – Michael Grade is appointed as Director of Programmes at London Weekend Television.26 February – British television premiere of the fourth James Bond film Thunderball airs on ITV, starring Sean Connery.15 February – The first Aardman Animations character, Morph, is introduced with the launch of BBC Television children's series Take Hart with Tony Hart.They include the establishment of a fourth independent television channel, the establishment of Broadcasting Complaints Commission and an increase in independent production. 3 February – The Annan Committee on the future of broadcasting makes its recommendations.1 January – BBC1 airs its first showing of the 1971 musical film Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, starring Gene Wilder.
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