Ready Steady Go!
Broadcast
1966
© Associated Rediffusion
This latter-day title sequence is more ethereal, involving a beatnik girl in a floaty dress covering her face, jump-cutting to jazzy dancers flicking into negative and back. Host Keith Fordyce appears too. The show employed a teenage adviser for entirety of the series, Cathy McGowan. Once a ~£10-per-week secretary, she beat off competition from 600 hopefuls and became an icon to teenagers, receiving 500 fan letters per week and launching a range of Cathy McGowan shirts, stockings and even a doll…