It’s Lulu

1 9 7 0 – 1 9 7 1 (UK)
17 x 30 minute episodes
1 9 7 3 (UK)
10 x 30 minute episodes

Scottish dynamo Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie – aka Lulu – bounced back onto British television screens on Saturday 11 July 1970, in this BBC1 variety series – her third series for BBC television.

Lulu was accompanied by the Alyn Ainsworth Orchestra and dancers, the Dougie Squires Dozen.

Since her last BBC series – Happening For Lulu (1969) – she had gone on to share first place in the Eurovision Song Contest.

Guests on the new show included comedians Ronnie Corbett, Ronnie Barker, Warren Mitchell, Marty Feldman, Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Jimmy Edwards, Dick Emery, Mike Yarwood, Terry Scott, Rod Hull and musical acts Aretha Franklin, Dusty Springfield, Martha & The Vandellas, The Kinks, The Hollies, Stevie Wonder, Don McLean, Alan Price and Georgie Fame, The New Seekers, The Moody Blues, Buddy Greco, The Brotherhood of Man, Matt Monro, Engelbert Humperdinck, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Pickettywitch, Marmalade and The Bee Gees.

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