Stars and Garters

{{Short description|British TV variety series (1963–1966)}}

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Stars and Garters is a British television variety show produced by Associated-Rediffusion from 1963 until 1966, set in a fictional public house.{{cite web|title=Stars and Garters (1963-66)|url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/1252518/|website=BFI Screenonline|access-date=14 February 2018}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b69bb0b75|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200715112355/https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b69bb0b75|url-status=dead|archive-date=15 July 2020|title=Stars and Garters[12/04/1965] (1965)|website=BFI}}The Times and Daily Mirror, 03 January 1966. Hosted by comedian Ray Martine, regulars included singers Kathy Kirby, Vince Hill, Tommy Bruce, Al Saxon, Clinton Ford and Julie Rayne.{{Cite web|url=https://televisionheaven.co.uk/reviews/stars-and-garters|title=Stars and Garters|first=Laurence |last=Marcus |date=August 2003 |website=Television Heaven |access-date=3 June 2024}} Readers of Weekend magazine voted the show the Best TV Series of 1963.

Martine left the show in October 1965, after which it was renamed The New Stars and Garters and hosted by Jill Browne and Willie Rushton.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b8b2ed0d1|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200712221416/https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b8b2ed0d1|url-status=dead|archive-date=12 July 2020|title=The New Stars and Garters [18/10/1965] (1965)|website=BFI}}

The Don Harvey Trio were the accompaniment band for the singers in this show, in The Rising Sun public house in London, when it was aired there.{{Cite web|url=https://nostalgiacentral.com/television/tv-by-decade/tv-shows-1960s/stars-garters/|title=Stars and Garters | Nostalgia Central|date=3 June 2014 }}