1965

1965

Advertisement, November 1965

Hire a pop group by ringing Peter Harrison Star Attractions Ltd (details given). Can get most groups – except the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. Five piece group – lead guitar, bass guitar, organ, drums and lead singer. Jazz groups and dance orchestras also available. The more pop the group the higher the fee.

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Pub Crawl by Bus

You can hire a coach that holds up to 52 people. Cost, three guineas a head, including drinks at four pubs – the Victoria Tavern, the Sherlock Holmes, the George at Southwark, and the Dirty Duck at Shoreditch. Also included: jellied eels, shellfish, whelks, coffee, and hamburgers. Trip lasts about four hours.

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Ice is usually a problem at parties. Ice Cubes Ltd will deliver cubes in plastic bags at 6d lb. For a good party, you need about 1lb of ice per person, or 1 1/2 lbs for Americans.

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Drinking Out of Hours: The Nag’s Head, Covent Garden.

Opens 5am. Don’t go there dressed in evening-dress if you want to get a drink as they are only supposed to serve drinks to market workers. Snacks – hot pies and sausages – available and sandwiches, but no onion soup.

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Richard Conway’s Ginger Group of Hairdressers. Haunt of young Londoners as it is gay (non-stop music) and cheap (13s 6s for a standard shampoo and set) and go-ahead. You can take in your own records to play.

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The Curse of the Daleks, premiere 21 December 1965, Wyndham’s Theatre, London.

Daily at 2pm. Prices: stalls 15s, 12/6, 7/6. Dress circle 12/6, 10/6. Upper Circle 7/6, 5s. Balcony 3/6 – all bookable. 

Maigret continues as usual in the evenings.

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In 1965, Mary Whitehouse (pictured) launched the National Viewers’ and Listeners’ Association with the aim of “cleaning up television”. She saw offensive content everywhere, including in the innocuous Pinky and Perky, Dr Who and Alice Cooper, who she managed to get banned from Top of the Pops.

Whitehouse’s principal target was the BBC and its director-general Hugh Carleton-Greene. When Carleton-Greene axed the popular satirical show That Was The Week That Was, he said, “It was as a pillar of the Establishment that I yielded to the fascist hyena-like howls to take it off.”

On his retirement, Hugh Carleton-Greene hung a nude oil painting of Mary Whitehouse in his home. He used the painting as a dartboard.