BBC-3 (TV series)

"BBC-3" was a BBC television programme, devised and produced by Ned Sherrin and hosted by Robert Robinson, which aired for twenty-four hour-long editions during the winter of 1965-1966.

It was the third in a line of weekend satire-and-chat shows, successor to "That Was The Week That Was" and "Not So Much a Programme, More a Way of Life", though David Frost did not participate in this series.

In the edition of 15 November 1965, during a discussion on theatre censorship in which Robert Robinson and Mary McCarthy also participated, Kenneth Tynan uttered 'fuck' for the first time on British television, in an attempt to claim, perhaps disingenuously, that the word no longer shocked anyone. The storm which resulted forced the BBC to make a public appology for Tynan's comments.

External links

* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/bbc3 BBC on BBC-3]
* [http://media.guardian.co.uk/radio/comment/0,,2182229,00.html Ned Sherrin obituary]