the favourite of co-writer Jimmy Perry. 21 November – The controversial London Weekend Television comedy Curry and Chips begins airing. The programme is the first LWT comedy to have been broadcast in colour. It is pulled off air after six episodes following a ruling by the ITA that it is racist. 24 November – Coronation Street first officially transmitted in colour, according to its archivist Daran Little, but the 17 November episode may have been the first. December 13 December Scottish Television starts broadcasting in colour from the Black Hill transmitter. Southern Television starts broadcasting in colour from the transmitters of Rowridge and Dover. 24 December – ITV show the first of several Christmas television comedy sketch shows with Carry On Christmas. 25 December – BBC1 debut Morecambe & Wise's long-running annual Christmas Day special The Morecambe & Wise Christmas Show. Unknown Soul Limbo by Booker T. & the M.G.'s becomes the new theme tune for the BBC's cricket coverage. Debuts BBC1 2 January – Holiday (1969–2007) 14 January – Scobie in September (1969) 14 April – The Liver Birds (1969, 1971–1979, 1996) 5 April – As Good Cooks Go (1969–1970) 20 April – The Elusive Pimpernel (1969) 22 April – The Prior Commitment (1969) 12 July – Star Trek (1966–1969) 17 August – Dombey and Son (1969) 8 September – Counterstrike (1969) 9 September Decidedly Dusty (1969) Nationwide (1969–1983) 17 September – Up Pompeii! (1969–1970; 1975, 1991) 22 September – A Handful of Thieves (1969) 5 October – Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969–1974) 6 October – The Trumptonshire Trilogy: Chigley (1969) 7 October – Mary, Mungo and Midge (1969) 16 November Clangers (1969–1974, 2015–present) Special Project Air (1969) 17 November Pegasus (1969) Take Three Girls (1969–1971) 19 November – The Doctors (1969–1971) 20 November – Softly, Softly: Taskforce (1969–1976) 23 November – Paul Temple (1969–1971) 15 December – The Battle of St George Without (1969) Unknown – Wacky Races (1968–1969) BBC2 25 January – The Possessed (1969) 17 February – The High Chaparral (1967–1971) 27 January – Where Was Spring? (1969–1970) 23 February - Civilisation (1969) 8 March – Imperial Palace (1969) 14 March – Q (1969–1982) 5 April – The Way We Live Now (1969) 10 May – Sinister Street (1969) 12 May – The Gnomes of Dulwich (1969) 3 June – W. Somerset Maugham (1969–1970) 23 July – Pot Black (1969–1986, 1990–1993, 2005–2008) 6 September – Review