BBC3
 BBC3 was a mixture of humorous songs, sketches and newsy
satire.
The son of That Was The Week That Was and a natural
successor to Not So Much A Program . . . More A Way Of Life,
the series was produced and directed by Ned Sherrin.
The main
presenters were Robert Robinson, Lynda Baron and John Bird,
assisted by Denis Norden, Patrick Campbell, Alan Bennett, Malcolm
Muggeridge, Leonard Rossiter, Bill Oddie, Roy Dotrice and John
Fortune.
This late-night satire show is now chiefly remembered for
allowing the first known use of the F word on national television
- An event which took place on 13 November 1965 during an
interview with Kenneth Tynan about theatre censorship.
Such frank discussions mingled with sketches, filmed inserts
and music in the program plan, but the show never achieved the
heights of TW3 despite employing writers like David Frost,
Christopher Booker, John Mortimer and Keith Waterhouse.
A one-off special called My Father Knew Lloyd George was
made by the same team and transmitted in December 1965 featuring
an imaginary news scandal at the turn of the century.
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