achieve huge international success. April – The Annan Committee on the future of broadcasting is established to discuss the United Kingdom broadcasting industry, including new technologies and their funding, the role and funding of the BBC, Independent Broadcasting Authority and programme standards. May No events. June 8 June – Jon Pertwee makes his final regular appearance as the Third Doctor in the concluding moments of Part Six of the Doctor Who serial Planet of the Spiders. Tom Baker briefly appears as the Fourth Doctor at the conclusion of the serial. July No events. August 5 August – For the first time on a pre-school children's programme, the show Inigo Pipkin covers the death of the main character, Inigo, as the actor who played him (George Woodbridge) has died. The show is renamed Pipkins. This predates the Mr. Hooper death episode of Sesame Street by nine years. 24 August – BBC1 begins broadcasting the US police series Kojak starring Telly Savalas. September 2 September – ITV launches the sitcom Rising Damp starring Leonard Rossiter and Richard Beckinsale. 5 September ITV shows the feature length pilot episode of The Six Million Dollar Man, starring Lee Majors as the half-man, half-cyborg action hero Steve Austin. Following the pilot shown in April 1973, BBC1 commences with the Ronnie Barker comedy series Porridge. 23 September The BBC teletext service Ceefax goes live with 30 pages of information. BBC Schools starts broadcasting programmes in colour. October 16 October – The Welsh language soap Pobol y Cwm makes its debut on BBC Wales. 21 October – BBC1 airs the first episode of the children's animated series Roobarb, featuring Roobarb the green dog and Custard the pink cat. November No events. December 5 December – Party Political Broadcast, the final episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus is broadcast on BBC2. 24 December – ITV Anglia exclusively screen the 1966 Batman movie, several years before other regions (ATV Midlands 9 April 1977, Granada and Tyne Tees 29 August 1977 and HTV 29 August 1978). 28 December BBC1 & BBC2 are rebranded with new logos and idents. Tom Baker makes his first full appearance as the Fourth Doctor in the Doctor Who serial Robot. Unknown ITV begins developing the ORACLE teletext service. Dates for its launch are unclear but it becomes popular around 1980. Debuts BBC1 3 January – It Ain't Half Hot Mum (1974–1981) 7 January – Tom's Midnight