America’s most successful pop group The Monkees – Micky Dolenz, Davy Jones, Mike Nesmith and Peter Tork – fractured their cheeky TV image (and anticipated much…
Browsing: Music on Film & TV
Fresh from the success of A Hard Day’s Night, The Beatles had the world at their feet and pitched to follow in the globetrotting wake of…
1 9 6 3 (UK) 13 x 15 minute episodes DJ Alan Freeman hosted this short-lived Wednesday-night music show, produced by Associated-Rediffusion and exclusively featuring female…
1 9 8 4 (UK) 12 x 60 minute episodes This Channel 4 series of hour-long recorded concerts was a spring/summer replacement for The Tube. The…
1 9 9 5 (USA) 10 x 60 minute episodes Produced by Time-Life and narrated by Gary Busey, this major 10-hour television miniseries aired initially in…
1 9 6 9 – 1 9 7 2 (Australia) 30 minute episodes The half-hour ABC (Australian Broadcasting Commission) show Hit Scene debuted on 10 May 1969…
1 9 6 5 – 1 9 6 6 (USA) Hullabaloo premiered on 12 January 1965 and aired until 29 August the same year. The NBC show…
Ian Meldrum was born on a ship outside the port of Aden, South Yemen. During 1966 and 1967, Meldrum worked as a mimer on the…
Director Richard Lester had already worked with the anarchic Goons on TV (A Show Called Fred) and on film – the short The Running Jumping…
Born in London on 7 August 1931, Jack Good was one of the first people in Britain to realise that Rock & Roll was more…
1 9 7 1 – 1 9 7 2 (USA) 23 x 20 minute episodes Cartoon adventures of the singing, dancing Jackson family, including a blue…
Young Honey Wynn (Freda Holloway) and Pete Porter (Paul Carr) want to be singing stars. Grace Shaw (Kay Medford) and Lew Arthur (Bob Pastene) are the…
1 9 5 9 – 1 9 6 7 (UK) 30 minute episodes Juke Box Jury remains one of the most iconic and long-lasting pop…
Layabout disc jockey Sam Costa lies in bed and operates the first computerised, push-button hit parade in history. In addition to music the computer also…
1 9 6 5 – 1 9 6 7 (Australia) In December 1965, the fledgling Australian Channel 0-10 (now Channel Ten) launched a teen music…
1 9 9 2 – Current (UK) Now established as the BBC’s longest-running serious contemporary music programme since the demise of The Old Grey Whistle Test…
Originally arranged as rehearsals for a one-off live show, the TV documentary/concert McCartney envisioned devolved instead into a depressing fly-on-the-wall ogle at The Beatles’ dissolution.…
Let The Good Times Roll is a 99-minute nostalgia wallow recorded at two of Richard Nader’s Rock & Roll Revival Concerts held in 1972 at…
1 9 6 4 – 1 9 6 6 (New Zealand) This pioneering New Zealand television music show was broadcast live from NZBC’s studios in Wellington,…
Julius LaRosa had a mild career in the 1950s, and here he plays popular teenage ballad singer Tommy Adano, who refuses to sing rock ‘n’…