This is a list of British television related events from 1969. Events January 3 January – ITV Granada exclusively begins showing the American cartoon series Spider-Man long before any other ITV regions. 4 January – Guitarist Jimi Hendrix causes complaints of arrogance from television producers after playing an impromptu version of Sunshine Of Your Love past his allotted timeslot on the BBC1 show Happening for Lulu. February No events. March 19 March – The 385 metre tall Emley Moor transmitting station mast collapses because of icing. 29 March – The UK shares the win of the 14th Eurovision Song Contest, in a four-way tie with France, Spain, and the Netherlands. Lulu represents the UK, singing Boom Bang-a-Bang. 31 March – Charles Curran becomes Director-General of the BBC. That same day, The Flashing Blade airs on BBC1 for the very first time, transmitted in Black & White. April 14 April – The hugely popular and long-running comedy series The Liver Birds debuts on BBC1. The Liverpool set series was created by Carla Lane, it would run for over a decade. May No events. June 21 June Patrick Troughton makes his last regular appearance as the Second Doctor in the concluding moments of Episode 10 of the Doctor Who serial The War Games. It also marks the final time that the series is broadcast in black and white. The documentary Royal Family is broadcast which attracts more than 30.6 million viewers, an all-time British record for a non-current event programme. June – Anglia Television and Yorkshire Television begin talks regarding a cost-cutting exercise which would involve sharing equipment and facilities. Neither company plans joint productions or a merger. The reason to form an association is purely down to the costs of the increased levy on the companies' advertising revenue by the government and the cost of colour TV. The ITA stated there was no reason why the companies should not have talks about sensible economies that could be made, but would examine all details before any association were to be implemented. July 3 July – Lulu the elephant runs amok on Blue Peter. The clip is subsequently repeated many times, becoming the archetypal British TV blooper. 12 July – The US sci-fi TV series Star Trek makes its debut on BBC1 beginning with the episode Where No Man Has Gone Before. 20–21 July – Live transmission from the Moon with the landing