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Overall, 114 ninety-minute plays were produced, and for its final year from 1967 the series was produced in colour, in common with the rest of the BBC2 line-up, the channel being the first in Europe to broadcast in colour. Some of the best-known productions screened in the strand include a new version of Nigel Kneale's 1954 adaptation of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four ( 1965); the four-part Talking to a Stranger by John HopkinsJohn Hopkins (sometimes credited as John R. Hopkins born January 27 1931 in London, England, UK; died July 23 1998 in Woodland Hills, California, United States) was a British film and television writer. He began his career as a studio manager for BBC Tele ( 1966Events January January 1 In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bedel Bokassa ousts president David Dacko and takes over the Central African Republic. January 2 Strike of public transportation workers in New York City ends January 13 January 3 First Acid Test at the Fil) which told the same story from four different viewpoints across four different episodes, and starred Judi DenchDame Judi Dench (born December 9, 1934) is a renowned British actress. She was born in York as Judith Olivia Dench''. In 1971, she married British actor Michael Williams, who died of cancer in 2001. They starred together in a British sitcom, A Fine Romanc; and 1968's science-fictionDoctor Who''. Photo credit: Paul Hayes. Science fiction is perhaps the most eclectic and certainly one of the most varied of all the genres of fiction. Such is its appeal that it is not surprising it has been a popular element of television drama since it allegory Year of the Sex Olympics , again by Kneale.

As with other British television programmes of the 1960sCenturies: 19th century 20th century 21st century Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s Years: 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 Events and trends The 1960s was a turbulent decade of change around, many editions of Theatre 625 are missing from the archives. However, Talking to a Stranger exists, and was repeated on BBC2 as part of the channel's twenty-fifth anniversary season in 19891989 is a common year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar). Events January January 7 Akihito becomes Emperor of Japan following the death of Hirohito. The Heisei period begins January 8 the Kegworth Air Disaster A British Midland Boeing 737 cra, being shown again on digital station BBC FOUR in 20042004 is a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 2004 calendar), and has also been designated the: International Year of Rice International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition Elections are to be held in 73 co. In a 2000 poll of industry experts conducted by the British Film Institute to find the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes of the 20th century, Talking to a Stranger was placed seventy-eighth.

Following the conclusion of the series in 1968, some of the colour plays were later repeated on BBC1 in the popular Play for Today strand in the early 1970s. Year of the Sex Olympics was released on DVD by the BFI in 2003, although in black and white, as the original colour copy was wiped, with only a film telerecording surviving in the archives.