Horne died of a heart attack on 14 February 1969, while hosting the annual Guild of Television Producers' and Directors' Awards at the Dorchester hotel in London. An award had gone to Took and Feldman for their television series "Marty", and Horne had just urged viewers to tune into the fifth series of "Round the Horne" – which was due to start on 16 March – when he fell from the podium. By 24 February 1969 it had been decided that "Round the Horne" could not continue without its star. As a result, the scripts for series five – which Horne had jokingly suggested should be subtitled "The First All-Nude Radio Show" – were hastily adapted into a new series for Williams called "Stop Messing About", which ran for two series before it was dropped from the schedule in 1970.