Cilla (1968)
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Cilla Black as Self
Episodes 69
Episode 7
A live weekly show starring Cilla Black. Tonight featuring Cliff Richard who sings the song chosen by viewers as the U.K. entry in the Eurovision Song Contest of 1968 with The Breakaways. Special guests Sandie Shaw, Terry Scott and Hugh Lloyd, and Mike Yarwood.
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Guest stars: Frankie Howerd, Sacha Distel
with Irving Davies and his dancers
Cilla sings a whole range of numbers from a Thirties medley to "Uptight" and "You've lost that loving feeling." Joining her are Sacha Distel and Frankie Howerd, who dabbles in a little transcendental meditation.
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Starring Cilla Black with her guests Dusty Springfield, Georgie Fame, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graham Chapman and Graeme Garden, and comedian Tom Ward. The Irving Davies Dancers and featuring her Birthday and Anniversary requests with the BBC Roving Eye unit somewhere in Great Britain
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Cilla Black
and guest star Sacha Distel
special guest Dora Bryan
with Johnny Hackett, Irving Davies
Tonight, Cilla welcomes one of the most glamorous of all French singing stars to her show - Sasha Distel. He will be singing his new single Raindrops are Falling on My Head.
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Starring Cilla Black
Special guest Henry Mancini
with Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, Graham Chapman
Guest star Sandie Shaw
Tonight Cilla is joined by another of Britain's best girl singers - Sandie Shaw. Sandie will be singing a track from her new LP Reviewing the Situation as well as a duet with Cilla. Another duet partner will be Henry Mancini who will be sharing one of his best-known songs, Moon River, with Cilla.
The comedy comes from Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, and Graham Chapman whose Top of the Form sketch was one of the most popular items in the last Cilla series.
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The first 'live' show in a new series starring Cilla Black
Guest star Jimmy Tarbuck
Special guest Cliff Richard
with Bill Shankly and the Liverpool Football Team and some surprise guests plus a live outside broadcast from somewhere in England.
Written by Ronnie Taylor
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A show recorded in the Concert Hall of SFB Berlin
Special guest star Sacha Distel
with Michael Bentine
Cilla spricht Deutsch... Fraulein Schwarz von Liverpool had to forsake her familiar haunts for this glamorous and uproarious night in front of an all-German audience in one of West Berlin's biggest concert halls.
Irving Davies and his Dancers
Paul Kuhn and his Orchestra
(A co-production BBC/SFB)
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A show specially recorded in Stockholm on Midsummer's Day, and on film locations in Norway, Sweden and Finland.
Guest stars: Ringo Starr, Sven-Bertil Taube, Basil Brush, Marvin, Welch and Farrar, Hannu Mikkola
(A co-production BBC/Sveriges Radio-TV2/Norsk Riksringkasting/Oy Yleisradio AB TV1)
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A live show starring Cilla Black
Special guest star Des O'Connor who takes on London's Saturday-night traffic in a frantic five-mile dash from the London Palladium to the TV Theatre at Shepherd's Bush and back in time for the second half.
With The New Seekers, Johnny Hackett and a special film appearance by Frankie Howerd plus a live outside broadcast from somewhere in England.
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A live show starring Cilla Black. Guest star Stephen Lewis, with A Song for Europe 1973 starring Cliff Richard who tonight sings Song No 1 'Come Back Billie Jo' written by Mitch Murray and Tony Macauley
Including live outside broadcasts from somewhere in England and viewers realising their Unusual Ambitions
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A live show starring Cilla Black. Special guest John Alderton with Pan's People and A Song for Europe 1973 starring Cliff Richard who tonight sings Song No 2 'Ashes to Ashes' written by Tony Cole
including live outside broadcasts from somewhere in England and viewers realising their Unusual Ambitions
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A live show starring Cilla Black. Guest stars T. Rex, Marc Bolan, and Kenny Lynch with A Song for Europe 1973 starring Cliff Richard who tonight sings Song No 3 'Tomorrow Rising' written by Brian Bennett and Mike Hawker and viewers realising their Unusual Ambitions
Written by Ronnie Taylor
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A live show starring Cilla Black with her star guests and A Song for Europe 1973 starring Cliff Richard, who tonight sings Song No 4 "The Days of Love" written by Alan Hawkshaw and Dougie Wright and featuring Cilla in her first situation comedy, "The World of Cilla" featuring Avis Bunnage and Sam Kelly with John McKelvey, John Clive
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A live show starring Cilla Black and her special guest Frankie Howerd
with A Song for Europe 1973 starring Cliff Richard who tonight sings Song No 5 'Power to All Our Friends' written by Guy Fletcher and Doug Flett
including live outside broadcasts from somewhere in England and viewers realising their Unusual Ambitions.
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A live show starring Cilla Black
Guest star Hannah Gordon
with A Song for Europe 1973 starring Cliff Richard, who tonight sings Song No 6 "Help It Along" written by Christopher Neil
Including live outside broadcasts from somewhere in England and viewers realising their Unusual Ambitions.
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In a special edition Cilla Black introduces Cliff Richard in A Song for Europe 1973
Tonight Cliff Richard sings all six Songs for Europe:
'Come Back Billie Jo' by Mitch Murray and Tony MacAulay
'Ashes to Ashes' by Tony Cole
'Tomorrow Rising' by Brian Bennett and Mike Hawker
'The Days of Love' by Alan Hawkshaw and Dougie Wright
'Power to All Our Friends' by Guy Fletcher and Doug Flett
'Help it Along' by Christopher Neil
Viewers are invited to select the song which will represent the UK in this year's Eurovision Song Contest.
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A live show starring Cilla Black
The last show of her present series features Cliff Richard and the result of the voting and the winning song from A Song for Europe 1973.
Also viewers realising their Unusual Ambitions and a live outside broadcast from the other side of the earth.
Read MoreBank Holiday edition
Boxing Day edition
A Boxing Day edition starring Cilla Black with her special guest David Essex also starring
Gerald Harper , The Wombles Irving Davies Dancers written by RONNIE TAYLOR
Including an outside broadcast from somewhere in England
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