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United! is a British television series produced by the BBC between 1965 and 1967, and screened twice-weekly on BBC1. Corporate logo of the British Broadcasting Corporation The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is the national publicly funded broadcaster of the United Kingdom. ... // Events January-February January 4 - United States President Lyndon Johnson proclaims his Great Society during his State of the Union address. ... 1967 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... BBC One (or BBC1 as it was formerly styled) is the oldest television station in the world. ...


The series followed the fortunes of a fictional second division football team, Brentwich United. The football scenes were filmed on the grounds of Stoke City with Jimmy Hill acting as a technical advisor, and the efforts to achieve authenticity saw the show being criticised by the management of Wolverhampton Wanderers, who complained that the series was based on their team. An Australian rules football match at the Richmond Paddock, Melbourne, in 1866. ... Stoke City F.C. (known as Stoke F.C. until 1925) is a football club from Stoke-on-Trent in England. ... Jimmy Hill OBE (born London, July 22, 1928) is a British football personality. ... Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C. is a Wolverhampton-based football club playing at Molineux. ...


United! was not a success, and was axed after two years. The series was generally too soft to appeal to male viewers, and too male-oriented and sweaty for the female soap opera audience. Due to common television practice of the time, all the episodes were wiped, with none being known to have survived in the archives. The first TIME cover devoted to soap operas: Dated January 12, 1976, Bill Hayes and Susan Seaforth Hayes of Days of Our Lives are featured with the headline Soap Operas: Sex and suffering in the afternoon. A soap opera is an ongoing, episodic work of fiction, usually broadcast on television... Wiping or junking is an economic move by TV companies in which old videotapes and kinescopes were wiped (deleted) and reused or were destroyed. ...


Created by Anthony Cornish, other writers on the programme included Gerry Davis, Brian Hayles, Malcolm Hulke and John Lucarotti. The directors included Innes Lloyd and Derek Martinus. Gerry Davis was a British television writer, best known for his contributions to the science-fiction genre. ... This biographical article needs to be wikified. ... Malcolm Hulke (died July 6, 1979) was a British television writer, notable for his work on the science fiction series Doctor Who. ... John Lucarotti (born 1926 in Aldershot, Hampshire) was a British screenwriter who contributed three scripts to the Doctor Who programme for the BBC in the 1960s. ... A television director is usually responsible for directing the actors and other taped aspects of a television production. ... Innes Lloyd was born in 1925 in Wales and was a producer for television who would later reach the front rank of BBC drama producers. ...


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