1 9 7 4 – 1 9 7 5 (UK) 40 x 30 minute episodes Following the demise of the children’s TV pop show Lift Off…
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1 9 6 6 (UK) 24 x 30 minute episodes A Whole Scene Going was the first real teenage lifestyle programme with features on Carnaby Street…
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 the…
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…
1 9 6 8 (UK) 13 x 30 minute episodes Conceived as “Radio 1 in vision” and replacing Juke Box Jury on Friday nights, All Systems Freeman…
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 Night…
1 9 7 7 (UK) 17 x 60 minute episodes Director Tony Palmer bumped into John Lennon by chance on a Manhattan street in the autumn…
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…
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…
“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…
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 a…
1 9 5 7 – 1 9 7 2 (Australia) 1 9 7 6 (Australia) Bandstand was the longest-running Australian pop television show of its time, and…
The rise of Surf Music in the early 60s, coupled with the general surfing craze that was sweeping the USA, inevitably began to spawn movies,…
1 9 6 5 – 1 9 7 2 (West Germany) 83 x episodes Debuting on 25 September 1965, Beat Club was originally hosted by British…
1 9 6 4 – 1 9 6 5 (UK) 30 x 25/30 minute episodes BBC2’s The Beat Room – billed as “non-stop beat and shake”…
1 9 6 6 (USA) 26 x 30 minute episodes Hosted by the Nashville-based WLAC disc jockey Bill ‘Hoss’ Allen and presented from a single studio…
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…
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…
Fresh out of college, John Randall (William Reynolds) tries to persuade his father – the owner of a conservative record company – into releasing rock…
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 fire…
