Back to the Future, 1963

That was the year when...
• UK: The Great Train Robbery netted the infamous gang a cool £2.6m
• John F Kennedy was shot and a thousand conspiracy theories were born
• The infamous Alcatraz closed it's doors for the last time as a prison
• The British government revealed that newspaper correspondant Kim Philby was a Soviet spy
• Civil rights leader Medger Evers murdered outside his home

About 1963
1963 was a time of great political unrest with the assassinations of JFK and Medgar Evers sparking race riots across the country. In the UK the Profumo scandal broke causing John Profumo to resign and Dr Stephen Ward to commit suicide.

You Have been Watching...
• The Stanley Baxter Show
• The Beverly Hillbillies
• The Dick Van Dyke Show
• The Dick Emery Show

At the Cinema
• Tom Jones (Best Film Oscar)
• It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
• The Pink Panther
• Cleopatra