Young Scientists of the Year was a BBC1 television series which ran from 1966 to 1981.
The series first aired on Thursday 7 July 1966 on BBC1 at 18:30 and was called Science Fair '66.
The series was called Science Fair '67 and the final was on 19 May 1967 at 18:15 and was forty-five minutes.
The 1968 series was first aired on Thursday 11 January at 18:40, and was called Science Fair '68, where the four heats would compete for the title of Young Scientists of the Year, and the programme was twenty five minutes.
The fourth series in 1970 was called Young Scientists of the Year, and was first aired on Sunday 18 January 1970 at 14:30, and was thirty minutes.
The 1977 series began on Sunday 27 February at 16:30 and was thirty minutes, preceding Go With Noakes.
The original titles to the programme in the sixties were provided by a most unlikely dance/swing arrangement, later replaced by Herb Alpert's "Magic Trumpet" with bracing brass band instrumentation, which were similar to those of Go With Noakes, and the presentation similar to an Open University educational television programme.