Spotlight – Nostalgia Central

1 9 6 7 – 1 9 6 8 (UK)
9 x 60 minute episodes

This one-hour Sunday night series of light entertainment and comedy from ATV was presold to CBS in the States and featured a mix of British and American guests.

Filmed in colour to cater for the American market (though broadcast in black and white in the UK), episodes aired sporadically in the UK (interspersed with other Sunday night shows such as The Big Show), with the debut episode – starring Benny Hill and Noel Harrison – going out on Sunday 8 October 1967.

Other shows featured Robert Goulet, Tommy Cooper, Lainie Kazan, Shelly Berman, Engelbert Humperdinck, Phil Silvers, John Junkin, Barbara McNair, Tom Jones, Fran Jeffries, Eddie Fisher, Connie Stevens, Roy Castle, Paul Anka, Lana Cantrell, Patricia Hayes, Annette Andre, Trini Lopez, Frank Gorshin, Georgia Brown (pictured), Frankie Vaughan and Bill Dana.

All the musical acts were accompanied by Jack Parnell and his Orchestra and the Mike Sammes Singers.

Dancing was provided by the Douglas Squires Dancers.