W. Somerset Maugham, on reading:

 

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
- W. Somerset Maugham.

Recommended reading - Blue City

Blue City

by Ross Macdonald.

Published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.
First published 1947.
Paperback.

ISBN-10: 0307740730
ISBN-13: 978-0307740731
 
Description:
 
“[The] American private eye, immortalized by Hammett, refined by Chandler, brought to its zenith by Macdonald.” – New York Times Book Review.
 

“Macdonald should not be limited in audience to connoisseurs of mystery fiction.  He is one of a handful of writers in the genre whose worth and quality surpass the limitations of the form.” – Los Angeles Times.

“Most mystery writers merely write about crime.  Ross Macdonald writes about sin.” – The Atlantic.
 

“Without in the least abating my admiration for Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, I should like to venture the heretical suggestion that Ross Macdonald is a better novelist than either of them.” – Anthony Boucher.

“[Macdonald] carried form and style about as far as they would go, writing classic family tragedies in the guise of private detective mysteries.” – The Guardian (London).

“[Ross Macdonald] gives to the detective story that accent of class that the late Raymond Chandler did.” – Chicago Tribune.

He was a son who hadn’t known his father very well.  It was a town shaken by a grisly murder – his father’s murder.  Johnny Weatherly was home from a war and wandering.  When he found out that his father had been assassinated on a street corner and that his father’s seductive young wife had inherited a fortune, he started knocking on doors.  The doors came open, and Johnny stepped into a world of gamblers, whores, drug-dealers, and blackmailers, a place in which his father had once moved freely.  Now Johnny Weatherly was going to solve this murder – by pitting his rage, his courage, and his lost illusions against the brutal underworld that has overtaken his hometown.

Born on this day – Christine McIntyre:

 

Christine McIntyre

Actress

Singer

April 16, 1911 – July 8, 1984

Credits:

A Blunderful Time (1950); A Knight and a Blonde (1944); A Modern Marriage (1950); A Pinch in Time (1948); All Gummed Up (1947); Back from the Front (1944); Beautiful But Broke (1944); Behind the Mask (1946); Blondie Takes a Vacation (1939); Border Buckaroos (1943); Boston Blackie (1951); Bride and Gloom (1947); Brideless Groom (1947); Bubble Trouble (1953); Cinderella Swings It (1943); Clunked in the Clink (1949); Colorado Ambush (1951); Community Sing: Strauss Waltzes (1939); Crazy Like a Fox (1944); Crime on Their Hands (1948); Dawn on the Great Divide (1942); Defective Detectives (1944); Doctor, Feel My Pulse (1944); Doggie in the Bedroom (1954); Dopey Dicks (1950); Flung by a Fling (1949); Forbidden Trails (1941); French Fried Frolic (1949); From Rogues to Riches (1951); Frontier Feud (1945); Fuelin' Around (1949); Garden of Eatin' (1943); Gasoline Alley (1951); Get Along Little Zombie (1946); Gun Talk (1947); Hectic Honeymoon (1947); He's in Again (1949); His Baiting Beauty (1950); His Hotel Sweet (1944); His Tale Is Told (1944); Honeymoon Blues (1946); Hot Heir (1947); Hot Water (1946); Hugs and Mugs (1950); Innocently Guilty (1950); Jiggers, My Wife (1946); Jitter Bughouse (1948); Kansas City Kitty (1944); Knutzy Knights (1954); Land of the Lawless (1947); Louisiana Hayride (1944); Love at First Bite (1950); Man from Headquarters (1942); Mark Saber (1952); Meet Mr. Mischief (1947); Men in Her Diary (1945); Micro-Phonies (1945); Microspook (1949); Missing Daughters (1939); Mopey Dope (1944); Mr. Wright Goes Wrong (1946); News Hounds (1947); No Dough Boys (1944); Of Cash and Hash (1955); Off Again, on Again (1945); Oh, Say Can You Sue (1953); Open Season for Saps (1944); Out West (1947); Pals and Gals (1954); Pardon My Terror (1946); Parlor, Bedroom and Wrath (1948); Partners of the Trail (1944); Pistol Packin' Nitwits (1945); Punchy Cowpunchers (1950); Racket Squad (1951); Radio Romeo (1947); Riders of the West (1942); Rock River Renegades (1942); Rolling Down to Reno (1947); Scotched in Scotland (1954); Sea Racketeers (1937); She Took a Powder (1951); Shivering Sherlocks (1948); Should Husbands Marry? (1947); Slappily Married (1946); Society Mugs (1946); Squareheads of the Round Table (1948); Studio Stoops (1950); Super Wolf (1949); Swing Fever (1937); Tall, Dark and Gruesome (1948); The Blonde Stayed On (1946); The Blue Danube (1941); The Crimson Canary (1945); The Fire Chaser (1954); The Gentleman from Texas (1946); The Gink at the Sink (1952); The Gunman from Bodie (1941); The Hot Scots (1948); The Mayor's Husband (1945); The Power of God (1942); The Range Rider (1951–1952); The Rangers' Round-Up (1938); The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947); The Sheepish Wolf (1948); The Stranger from Pecos (1943); The Three Troubledoers (1946); They Stooge to Conga (1943); Three Hams on Rye (1950); Three Little Pirates (1946); To Heir Is Human (1944); Trapped by a Blonde (1949); Two Jills and a Jack (1947); Two Nuts in a Rut (1948); Vagabond Loafers (1949); Valley of Fear (1947); Waiting in the Lurch (1949); Wanted: Dead or Alive (1951); Wedded Bliss (1944); Wedding Belle (1947); Wedlock Deadlock (1947); West of the Rio Grande (1944); When the Wife's Away (1946); Where the Pest Begins (1945); Who Done It? (1949); Who's Hugh? (1943); Wife Decoy (1945); Wife to Spare (1947); Wine, Women and Bong (1951); Woo, Woo! (1945).

Born on this day – Catherine Scorsese:

 

Catherine Scorsese

Actress

April 16, 1912 – January 6, 1997

Credits:

After Hours (1985); American Masters (1990); Cape Fear (1991); Casino (1995); China Girl (1987); Cinéma, de notre temps (1990); Easy Money (1983); Goodfellas (1990); Italianamerican (1974); It's Not Just You, Murray! (1964); Martin Scorsese: Back on the Block (1973); Mean Streets (1973); Men Lie (2004); Moonstruck (1987); Taxi Driver (1976); The Age of Innocence (1993); The Godfather Part III (1990); The King of Comedy (1982); The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984); Who's That Knocking at My Door (1967); Wise Guys (1986).

Born on this day – Barry Nelson:

Barry Nelson

Actor

April 16, 1917 – April 7, 2007

Credits:

A Guy Named Joe (1943); A Yank on the Burma Road (1942); Airborne Lifeboat (1945); Airport (1970); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1959); Allen Ludden's Gallery (1969); Bataan (1943); Battlestar Galactica (1978); Ben Casey (1963); Bicentennial Minutes (1975); Biography (2003); Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1964); Cannon (1973); CBS Playhouse (1968); Circle of Fear (1973); Climax! (1954–1958); Climb an Angry Mountain (1972); Colgate Theatre (1950); Comet Over Broadway (1938); Command Decision (1948); Dallas (1981); David Cassidy - Man Undercover (1978); Don't Talk (1942); Dr. Kildare (1964); Dr. Kildare's Victory (1942); Eyes in the Night (1942); Fantasy Island (1983); Fitz and Bones (1981); Fools, Females and Fun (1974); Get the Message (1964); Greatest Heroes of the Bible (1978); Here's Boomer (1981); Hollywood Screen Test (1948); How to Get Killed in One Easy Lesson (1943); Hudson's Bay (1959); Island Claws (1980); I've Got a Secret (1952); J.J. Starbuck (1988); Johnny Eager (1941); Kaz (1978); Kraft Suspense Theatre (1964); Kraft Theatre (1950); Kraft Theatre (1960); Living Easy with Dr. Joyce Brothers (1974); Longstreet (1971); Love, American Style / Love and the Militant (1969); Lux Playhouse (1958); Magnum, P.I. (1982); Mary, Mary (1963); Mason (1977); McLean and Company (1970); Monsters (1990); Murder, She Wrote (1988); My Favorite Husband (1953–1955); My Wives Jane (1971); Nero Wolfe (1981); Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law (1972); Password (1962–1967); Personality (1967–1968); Pete 'n' Tillie (1972); Producers' Showcase (1956); Pulitzer Prize Playhouse (1950); Rio Rita (1942); Robert Montgomery Presents (1950); Salvage 1 (1979); Schlitz Playhouse (1955); Screen Directors Playhouse (1956); Seven in Darkness (1969); Shadow of the Thin Man (1941); Snap Judgment (1968); Starlight Theatre (1950); Stars for Israel (1967); Sucker Bait (1943); Suspense (1950–1951); Taxi (1981); Tenth Avenue Angel (1948); The 19th Annual Tony Awards (1965); The 20th Annual Tony Awards (1966); The 32nd Annual Tony Awards (1978); The Affairs of Martha (1942); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1964); The Beginning or the End (1947); The Borgia Stick (1967); The Chevrolet Tele-Theatre (1948–1950); The David Frost Show (1970); The Dennis Wholey Show (1969); The DuPont Show of the Week (1963); The DuPont Show with June Allyson (1960); The F.B.I. (1969); The Face Is Familiar (1966); The First Traveling Saleslady (1956); The Ford Theatre Hour (1949); The Fred Waring Show (1951); The Greatest Show on Earth (1964); The Human Comedy (1943); The Hunter (1952); The Joan Rivers Show (1968); The Love Boat (1979); The Luckiest Guy in the World (1947); The Man with My Face (1951); The Match Game (1963); The Mike Douglas Show (1966); The Name of the Game (1969); The Ropers (1979); The Shining (1980); The Twilight Zone (1964); Thriller (1973); Time to Kill (1945); To Tell the Truth (1962–1981); Undercover Maisie (1947); Vacation Playhouse (1967); Variety Club of Great Britain Awards for 1956 (1957); Washington: Behind Closed Doors (1977); What's My Line? (1961); Willys Theatre Presenting Ben Hecht's Tales of the City (1953); Winged Victory (1944); You're Putting Me On (1969); Zane Grey Theatre (1960).

Born on this day – Spike Milligan:

Spike Milligan

Actor

Comedian

Writer

Musician

Writer

April 16, 1918 – February 27, 2002

Credits:

Books:

A Book of Milliganimals (1968); A Children's Treasury of Milligan (1999); A Dustbin of Milligan (1961); A Mad Medley Of Milligan (1999); Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall (1971); Bad Jelly the Witch: A Fairy Story (1973); Black Beauty According to Spike Milligan (1996); Book of Bits or a Bit of a Book (1974); Box 18 (2006); Chill Air (1981); Classic Adventures According to Spike Milligan (2002); Condensed Animals (1991); D.H. Lawrence's John Thomas And Lady Jane According to Spike Milligan (1995); Dear Robert, Dear Spike (1991); Depression And How To Survive It (1993); Dip the puppy (1974); Fleas, Knees And Hidden Elephants (1995); Floored Masterpieces with Worse Verse (1985); Frankenstein according to Spike Milligan (1997); Get in the Q annual (1980); Goblins (1978); Goodbye Soldier (1986); Goon Again (2001); Goon Cartoons (1982); Gunner Milligan, 954024 (1995); Hidden Words (1993); If Only I Were Bald (1981); Indefinite Articles and Scunthorpe (1983); It Ends With Magic (1990); Lady Chatterly's Lover According to Spike Milligan (1994); Milligan's Meaning of Life (1994); Milligan's War (1988); Monty, His Part In My Victory (1976); More Goon Cartoons (1983); More Goon Show Scripts (1973); More Nation's Favourite Poems (2004); More Spike Milligan Letters (1984); Mussolini: His Part in My Downfall (1978); My Mother (1991); Nothing Solemn (1973); Open Heart University (1979); Peace Work (1991); Poems (1997); Potboiling Dustbin Full Of Bits (1984); Puckoon (1963); Robin Hood According to Spike Milligan (1998); 'Rommel?' 'Gunner Who?' (1974); Scunthorpe Revisited - Added Articles and Instant Relatives (1989); Silly Verse For Kids (1959); Sir Nobonk And The Terrible, Awful, Dreadful, Naughty, Nasty Dragon (1982); Small Dreams Of A Scorpion (1972); Spike Milligan (2013); Spike Milligan: A Celebration (1995); Spike Milligan's Further Transports Of Delight (1985); Spike Milligan's Transports of Delight (1974); Startling Verse For All The Family (1987); Sunday-midnight (1990); That's Amazing (1989); The 101 Best And Only Limericks Of Spike Milligan (1984); The Bald Twit Lion (1968); The Bedside Milligan (1960); The Bedsitting Room (1972); The Bible According to Spike Milligan (1993); The Book of the Goons (1974); The Compulsive Spike Milligan (2004); The Essential Spike Milligan (2002); The Family Album (1999); The Goon Show (2017); The Goon Show Companion: A History and Goonography (1976); The Goon Show Scripts (1972); The Goons (1997); The Great MaGonagall Scrap Book (1975); The Hound of the Baskervilles According to Spike Milligan (1998); The Little Pot Boiler (1963); The Looney (1987); The Lost Goon Shows (1988); The Magical World of Milligan (2009); Milligan's Ark (1973); The Melting Pot (1983); The Mirror Running (1987); The Murphy (2000); The Nation's Favourite Animal Poems (2001); The Nation's Favourite Children's Poems (2001); The Nation's Favourite Love Poems (1997); The Nation's Favourite Poems (1998); The Nation's Favourite Poems of Remembrance (2003); The Nation's Favourite Poems: Book 1 (1996); The Nation's Favourite: Comic Poems (1998); The Q Annual (1979); The Spike Milligan Letters (1977); There's A Lot Of It About! (1983); Treasure Island According To Spike Milligan (2001); Unspun Socks From A Chicken's Laundry (1982); Where Have All the Bullets Gone? (1985); William McGonagall Meets George Gershwin (1988); William McGonagall: Freefall (1992); William McGonagall: The Truth at Last (1976); Wuthering Heights According To Spike Milligan (1995).

Movies and television:

2Gs and the Pop People (1972); 90 Minutes Live (1977); A Big Hand for Sooty (1998); A Christmas Cracker (1956); A Current Affair (2011); A Kid for Two Farthings (1955); A Royal Birthday Celebration (1998); A Short History of Man and Music: Part 2 (1957); A Show Called Fred (1956); A Tribute to Johnny Speight: For Richer, for Poorer (1998); A Whole Scene Going (1966); Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall (1973); Alfred Marks Time (1959); Alice Through the Looking Box (1960); Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1972); All Star Secrets (1985–1986); All the Best from Denis Norden (2007); An Apple a Day (1971); An Evening with Spike Milligan (1996); Aquarius (1972–1973); Arena (1993–2011); Australia (1987); Badjelly (2025); Badjelly the Witch (2000); Barry Humphries Gives Us the Good Oil (2003); Behind the Scenes of 'the Last Remake of Beau Geste' (1977); Believe: The Eddie Izzard Story (2009); Bernard Miles on the Halls (1986); Between Two Women (2003); Billy Cotton Band Show (1964–1966); Blankety Blank (1981–1984); Bob Hope's Happy Birthday Homecoming (London Royal Gala) (1985); Breakfast (2010); Britain's Favourite Christmas Songs (2011); Burke's Backyard (1995); Call My Bluff (1987); Call the Midwife (2013); Calling All Cars (1954); Carrott Confidential (1987–1988); Carry on Spike in Australia (1972); Celebrity Squares (1975–1979); Chaos Supersedes E.N.S.A.. (1980); Children in Need (1984); Cilla (1968–1969); Clapper Board (1980); Clive Anderson Talks Back (1995); Come Here Often (1967–1968); Comedy Connections (2008); Comedy Playhouse (1975); Comic Roots (1983); Cucumber Castle (1970); Curry & Chips (1969); Das Auto: The Germans, Their Cars and Us (2013); Decidedly Dusty (1969); Dee Time (1967–1969); Demob Happy: How TV Conquered Britain (2007); Des O'Connor Tonight (1988–1996); Digby: The Biggest Dog in the World (1973); Doctor Who: Thirty Years in the TARDIS (1993); Don't Miss Wax (1987); Don't Say a Word (1963–1964); Don't Spare the Horses (1952); Dot and the Kangaroo (1977); Down Among the Z Men (1952); Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964); Earth Patrol (1979); EMI: The Inside Story (2016); Emmy the Robot (2026); Every Night Something Atrocious (1980); Everyman (1977–1999); Face Your Image (1975); Fantastic Animation Festival (1977); Festival of Entertainment (1972); Film Night (1970); Fish and Milligan (1966); Friday Night (1993); Full House (1973); Ghost in the Noonday Sun (1974); Give Us a Clue (1979–1988); Going a Bundle (1974); Goonreel (1952); Gormenghast (2000); Group Madness (1983); Hancock's Half Hour (1956); Have I Got News for You (1995); Hawkins' Rivers (1982); Here Comes Channel 8 (1980); Heroes of Comedy (1995–2002); Highway (1991); History of the World: Part I (1981); Hitler: The Comedy Years (2007); Home and Dry (1955); Home Movie Roadshow (2010); Home on Sunday (1984); Hullabaloo (1968); I Told You I Was Ill: The Life and Legacy of Spike Milligan (2005); In Sickness and in Health (1987); In the Best Possible Taste: A Tribute to Kenny Everett (1995); Invasion Quartet (1961); It's Patently Obvious (1980); Jackanory (1971–1979); Jeremy Taylor (1980); John Nettles Applauds (2008); Jools Holland's Happening (1991); Juke Box Jury (1960–1966); Kazuko's Karaoke Klub (1989); Kenny Everett's Christmas Carol (1985); Labour's Old Romantic (1997); Late Night Line-Up (1965 / 1969); Laugh Line (1960–1961); Lena (1981); Let's Go Crazy (1951); Living Famously (2003); London Entertains (1951); Looks Familiar (1976–1986); Loose Talk (1983); Lost in the Wild (1976); Man About the House (1974); Mary: Rhymes and Reasons (1972); Milligan in... (1972–1973); Milligan's Wake (1964–1965); M'Lords... Ladies and Gentlemen... (1978–1979); Monitor (1959); Monty Python: Almost the Truth - The Lawyer's Cut (2009); Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979); Moonshadow (1972); Multi-Coloured Swap Shop (1978); Muses with Milligan (1964–1965); Nelson's Column Big Band (1984); New Faces (1988); No 73 (1985); oel Edmonds: The Rise & Fall of Mr Saturday Night (2022); Noel's House Party (1992); Not Only... But Also (1966–1970); Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation! (2008); Now and Then (1967–1968); Off the Record (1956–1958); Oh in Colour (1970); Omnibus (1974–1996); Once More with Felix (1967–1968); One Foot in the Past (1995); One Man's Week (1975); One Pair of Eyes (1973); Open Door (1977); Pantomania, or Dick Whittington (1956); Parkinson (1971–1982); Parkinson in Australia (1981); Parkinson One to One (1987); Paul Merton's Palladium Story (1994); Penny Points to Paradise (1951); Perspectives (2012); Peter Sellers: A State of Comic Ecstasy (2020); Plunder (1990); Pob's Programme (1985–1990); Pop Gold (2015); Postman's Knock (1962); Private Eye TV (1971); Puckoon (2002); Q5 (1969–1980); Quiz of the Year (1970); Rentadick (1972); Rhubarb Rhubarb (1980); Right to Work March (1972); Rita and Wally (1968); Room 101 (1999); Rugby Special (1973); Sad/Happy Ending Story of the Bald Twit Lion (1967); Saturday Live (1986); Saturday Night at the Mill (1977–1981); Score with the Scaffold (1970); Secombe and Friends (1959 / 1966); Secombe Here! (1955); Sellers' Best? (1992); Sing a Song of Secombe (1974); Six Dates with Barker (1971); Six-Five Special (1957); Some Jerk with a Camera (2012); Some You Win (1984); Something to Sing About (1975); Son of Fred (1956); Spike (1996); Spike Milligan Meets Joe Brown (1961); Spike Milligan on Treasure Island WC2 (1961); Spike Milligan: A Series of Unrelated Incidents at Current Market Value (1961); Spike Milligan: Assorted Q (2014); Spike Milligan: I Told You I Was Ill... - A Live Tribute (2002); Spike Milligan: Love, Light and Peace (2014); Spike Milligan: The Unseen Archive (2022); Spike Night (1998); Steve Wright's People Show (1994); Studio 9: The Home of Australian Television (2004); Super Gran (1985); Surprise! Surprise! (1984); Sykes and A... (1960); Takin' Over the Asylum (1994); Telescope (1963); Television (1985); Tell Me Another (1977); That Was the Year That Was (2023); That's Life! (1985); The 11 O'Clock Show (2000); The ABC of ABC - A Souvenir with Music (1966); The Adventures of Barry McKenzie (1972); The Adventures of Barry McKenzie: A Conversation with Barry Humphries (2002); The Adventures of Barry McKenzie: Introduction by Dame Edna Everage (2007); The Adventures of Bazza in Chunderland: The Making of 'The Adventures of Barry McKenzie' (2007); The Bed Sitting Room (1969 / 2016); The Big Freeze (1993); The Big Time (1976); The Bob Monkhouse Show (1983); The British Comedy Awards 1992 (1992); The British Comedy Awards 1994 (1994); The Case of the Mukkinese Battle-Horn (1956); The Cherry Picker (1974); The Climber (1983); The Comedians' Comedian (2005); The Comedy Map of Britain (2008); The Comedy Trail: A Shaggy Dog Story (1999); The Curious Case of Inspector Clouseau (2002); The Daryl Somers Show (1983); The Des O'Connor Show (1968); The Diana Dors Show (1981); The Diane Solomon Show (1974); The Dick Cavett Show (1971); The Don Lane Show (1980); The Eamonn Andrews Show (1957–1968); The Frankie Howerd Show (1953); The Ghost of Peter Sellers (2018); The Gladys Half-Hour (1958); The Good Old Days (1964); The Goon Show (1968); The Great Bong (1993); The Great McGonagall (1975); The Happening (1991); The Heart of Show Business (1967); The Hippodrome Show (1989); The Hound of the Baskervilles (1978); The Idiot Weekly, Price 2d (1956); The Idiot Weekly, Price 2d (1956); The James Whale Radio Show (1992); 'The Jewel in the Crown' Southall, Middx (1985); The Jo Stafford Show (1961); The Last Goon Show of All (1972); The Last Impresario (2013); The Last Laugh Before TV-am (1985); The Last Remake of Beau Geste (1977); The Last Turkey in the Shop Show (1974); The Lively Arts (1976–1977); The Magic Christian (1969); The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins / Segment; Sloth (1971); The Marti Caine Show (1984); The Marty Feldman Comedy Machine (1971–1972); The Melting Pot (1975–1976); The Muppet Show (1979–1981); The Nations' Favourite Children's Poem (2001); The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything (1999); The New London Palladium Show (1965); The Noel Edmonds Saturday Roadshow (1988–1990); The Other Spike (1970); The Paranormal Peter Sellers (2002); The Pythons (1979); The Ratties (1988); The Risk (1960); The Rock 'n' Roll Years (1987); The Rolf Harris Show (1974); The Roy Castle Show (1969); The Royal Variety Performance 1965 (1965); The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film (1959); The Saturday Show (1982); The Secret Life of Brian (2007); The Sooty Show (1986); The Super Secret Service (1953); The Sweepstakes Game (1976); The Telegoons (1963–1964); The Three Musketeers (1973); The Tonight Show Starring Jack Paar (1960); The Two Ronnies (1976); The Two Ronnies at the Movies (1999); The Two Ronnies Sketchbook (2005); The Undertakers (1969); The Undiscovered Peter Cook (2016); The Unforgettable Harry Secombe (2010); The Unforgettable Spike Milligan (2010); The Unknown Peter Sellers (2000); The Unseen Spike Milligan (2005); The Very Best of 'Have I Got News for You' (2002); The World of Beachcomber (1968–1969); Them and Us (1990); There's a Lot of It About (1982); This Is Your Life (1958–1999); Through the Keyhole (1987); Till Death Us Do Part (1970–1974); Timeshift (2007–2012); Tiswas (1980); To See Such Fun (1977); Tonight Live with Steve Vizard (1990–1993); Tonight with Jonathan Ross (1991); TV Heroes (1993); Under the Volcano (2021); Up Yer Festival (1990); Val Parnell's Spectacular (1957); Variety Parade (1955); Victoria Wood's Sketch Show Story (2001); Village (1996); Walk Across Britain: Right to Work (1973); Watch Your Stern (1960); Wham! Bam! Strawberry Jam! (1995); What a Performance! (2000); What a Whopper (1961); What We Were Watching (2025); Whatever Next? (1968–1970); When the Sun Goes In... (1999); Where Do I Sit? (1971); Wild About Harry: A Tribute to Sir Harry Secombe (2001); Wildlife Spectacular (1971); Will the Real Mr Sellers.....? (1969); 'Wiltons' - The Handsomest Hall in Town (1970); With a Little Help from My Friends (1969); Without Walls (1991); Wogan (1983–1989); Wolves, Witches and Giants (1995–1998); World in Action (1992); Yellowbeard (1983); Yoko Ono: This Is Not Here (1972); You Bet! (1988–1991).

Born on this day – Peter Ustinov:

Peter Ustinov

Actor

Director

Writer

April 16, 1921 – March 28, 2004