TV Pop Diaries
Pop Music on British Television 1955 -
A series of six Christian faith morality plays starring Cliff Richard.
Cliff had been up to Newcastle in 1968 to perform with a Christian choir at a concert at the City Hall, broadcast by Tyne Tees in February. Cliff talked to Barry Westward about his faith and took questions from the audience while singing songs from his recently released album Good News. Presumably the show must have proved successful as he was invited back to star in this series the following year.
Broadcast on Sunday evenings the show sees Cliff play ‘everyman’ Johnny Brown. Each
week Johnny encounters a situation taken from the Christian parables and makes his
own choices about dealing with them. Johnny, the non-
The show was announced at the end of 1968, but took six months to make it to the
screen. A Tyne Tees spokesman told Disc in late 1968 "Nothing has been decided yet
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Lynda Marchal (aka Lynda La Plante), Una Stubbs and Cyndi Kent of The Settlers play
various girlfriends, while William Hartnell, in a rare post-
The episodes were as follows,
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The series wasn't fully networked across all ITV stations and was never repeated, with only three of the shows still surviving in the archive.
LIFE WITH JOHNNY
Tyne Tees
25th May 1969 -