The first episode of Parkinson aired on June 19 1971.
Seen as a temporary 10-week filler programme, it recorded over 650 episodes featuring interviews with over 2,000 guests and was voted by the BFI one of the top 10 UK television programmes of all time.In 2021, to mark the programme’s 50th anniversary, Sir Michael was interviewed by his son and producer Michael Parkinson Jr, as part of a BBC documentary: Parkinson At 50.
Sir Michael admitted that in the early days of the show it had been “difficult not to get tongue tied” when faced with the likes of Bergmann and Bacall.“I used to imagine getting married to when I was child watching them from the back row of the Rock Cinema in Barnsley,” he said. “It’s an excerpt I can barely watch and as you will see in the programme it brings me to tears,” Sir Michael said, ahead of the documentary’s airing.
“I simply couldn’t think of his name, so I stared at my crib sheet and it said ‘Duke’, which was his nickname, of course, but that didn’t do me much good,” he said. It switched from the BBC to ITV1 in 2004 due to a clash with football highlight show Match Of The Day.
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