BBC Show of the Week
Season 1
Episodes
1. Satchmo
A chronicle of the musical career of Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong, using clips of the jazz trumpeter/singer's performances as well as interviews with him and fellow musicians. During this program, the following aspects of Armstrong's life are explored: his formative years in New Orleans; his world tour from 1955 to 1956; how he spends his free nights while on tour; and his visit to the Gold Coast of Africa.
2. Peter Nero in Person
3. Max Bygraves Entertains
4. Count Basie and His Orchestra
5. Ella Fitzgerald Swings It
6. Presenting Peter Nero
7. The Road to the Isles
8. Shelley Berman
9. Jim and the Night and the Music
10. The Sound of Shirley Bassey
11. Joyce Greenfall
12. Norman Vaughan
13. An Evening with Petula Clark
14. The Dickie Henderson Show
15. Larry Adler Meets Les Compagnons de la Chanson
16. Woody Herman and His Orchestra
17. The Vikki Carr Show
18. Pat Boone
19. Cliff Richard and the Shadows
20. Marlene Dietrich Sings
21. In All Directions
Peter Ustinov and Peter Jones play themselves as two characters in a London car journey failing to find a location known as Copthorne Avenue. Ustinov and Jones also portrayed various characters they meet on the journey, from which much of the show's comedy was derived. The show was improvised on tape and then edited for broadcast by Frank Muir and Denis Norden, who also sometimes took part.