!!!! Beat, The
1 9 6 6 (USA)
26 x 30 minute episodes
Hosted by the Nashville-based WLAC disc jockey Bill 'Hoss' Allen, The !!!! Beat featured a house band...
45 (Rock On With 45)
1 9 7 4 - 1 9 7 5 (UK)
40 x 30 minute episodes
Following the demise of children's TV pop show Lift Off With Ayshea, Granada...
A Whole Scene Going
1 9 6 6 (UK)
A Whole Scene Going was the first real teenage lifestyle programme with features on Carnaby Street fashions, the London club scene...
ABBA: The Movie (1977)
Unashamed and supremely slick commercial for the group, maintaining a gentle air of self-parody while at the same time being a celebration of all...
ABC Rocks
1 9 8 4 - 1 9 8 5 (USA)
One year after the debut of NBC's Friday Night Videos (network television's first attempt to respond to the...
All You Need Is Cash (The Rutles) (1978)
Starting out as a two-minute sketch on Idle's post-Monty Python comedy show, Rutland Weekend Television, The Rutles took on a life of their own when Saturday...
Alright Now
1 9 7 9 - 1 9 8 0 (UK)
Running for two seasons between 1979 and 1980, Alright Now was an ITV music series featuring the very...
American Bandstand
1 9 5 2 - 1 9 8 9 (USA)
American Bandstand became a powerful symbol of American teenage culture with its nearly four-decade look at the...
American Hot Wax (1978)
"This is Alan Freed . . . and this is rock'n'roll."
With these words, the young hearts of New York beat fast as the celebrated radio...
Backbeat (1994)
The early days of The Beatles when the yet-to-be-fab four were chasing fame and fräuleins in the grimy basement clubs of Hamburg, Germany, provide...
Bandstand (Australia)
1 9 5 7 - 1 9 7 2 (Australia)
Bandstand was the longest running Australian pop television show of its time, and throughout its fifteen years,...
Beach Movies
The rise of Surf Music in the early 60s, coupled with the general surfing craze that was sweeping the USA, inevitably began to spawn...
Beat Room, The
1 9 6 4 - 1 9 6 5 (UK)
BBC2's The Beat Room - billed as "thirty minutes of non-stop beat and shake" - delved...
Beatbox
1 9 8 5 - 1 9 8 7 (Australia)
Though ostensibly a music TV programme, this Saturday afternoon show from the Australian ABC network was...
Beatles Cartoon, The
1 9 6 5 - 1 9 6 9 (USA)
39 x 30 minute episodes
The Beatles cartoons were screened in the US from 25 September 1965 to...
Big Beat, The (1958)
Fresh out of college, John Randall (William Reynolds) tries to persuade his father into releasing rock and roll along with the other lame records...
Blues Brothers, The (1980)
Universal were so confident in The Blues Brothers that they poured a record $27 million into the movie. One scene alone called for six camera crews, five...
Born To Boogie (1973)
Born To Boogie was, first and last, a celebration of the phenomenon of Marc Bolan. There was no plot, no message, no subliminal undertone;...
Breaking Glass (1980)
Singer Kate (Hazel O'Connor) claws her way into the charts, with help from spiv manager Danny (Phil Daniels), only to find the glitter tarnished and the...
