This year saw the last of the Winter series as it bowed out after four years, but it was to return again eight years later at the start of the 1976 season.

No sooner had Katie Boyle joined as co-host with David Vine she upped sticks and left the programme in what proved to be a difficult year, owing in the main to student riots in Paris. These events caused the cancellation of the French Heat and for the French TV authorities to take the decision not to broadcast the series in France, even though French teams continued to participate. The BBC hurriedly staged an extra British Domestic heat due to another unforeseen happening and the West Germans stepped in to help with Jeux Sans Frontières, which resulted in them staging two consecutive International Heats.

Already having won four International Heats out of the six staged and not to be outdone, the West Germans ended the year by achieving the first ‘treble’ in Jeux Sans Frontières history. After two victories in 1966 and 1967, they lifted the Golden Trophy for the third year in succession at the International Final held in the beautiful city square in Brussels, Belgium. However, they were not finished yet and went one better in 1969.

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