1 9 7 8 – 1 9 8 1 (UK) 43 x 40 minute episodes Producer Mike Appleton was tasked with producing “in concert” editions…
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1 9 7 8 (USA) 1 x 60 minute episode Aired on 15 July 1978, this was the unsuccessful ABC television pilot based on the critically-acclaimed…
Released almost concurrently with Rock Around The Clock (1956), this teen vehicle was considered a much more respectable and sympathetic portrayal of teen life than the garish…
Young teenager Dori Graham (a 13-year-old Tuesday Weld) is popular at school and has landed the dreamy Tommy (Teddy Randazzo) as her boyfriend. Tommy is a singer…
At its best, Rockers, a picaresque reggae romp, is an enjoyable wallow in Kingston (Jamaica) slum culture. The star, Leroy “Horsemouth” Wallace, has an engaging, deadpan…
Easily the greatest lost rock film of the 60s, Rock & Roll Circus is a freewheeling, psychedelic carnival of acrobats, clowns, fire-breathers, dwarves and pure rock…
England 1978. The mood is one of disillusionment, economic decline, and political failure. Fascists demonstrate in the street. The left-wing clash with the police (not…
1 9 7 0 – 1 9 7 1 (UK) 17 x 35 minute episodes Some five years before The Bay City Rollers fronted their…
With a score consisting of 29 compositions by John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison, Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band must have sounded like a…
1 9 7 5 – 1 9 7 7 (UK) 20 x 25 minute episodes 1 x 50 minute episode Shang-A-Lang premiered on Britain’s ITV…
1 9 6 5 – 1 9 6 7 (USA) 60 minute episodes Premiering on 22 March 1965, this local Los Angeles teen music show…
1 9 6 4 – 1 9 6 5 (USA) Shindig! premiered on 16 September 1964 and made Wednesday nights something special for every American teenager. The…
1 9 6 5 – 1 9 6 6 (USA) This fast-paced Los Angeles-based music variety show was created and hosted by KFWB-AM personality Gene Weed,…
1 9 7 7 – 1 9 8 3 (UK) Long before the introduction of Nicam digital stereo and 5.1 Surround Sound, the BBC gave British…
1 9 6 2 – 1 9 6 5 (Australia) This musical variety series from ATN7 (Australia) was originally hosted in the first year by Lionel…
1 9 5 9 – 1 9 6 2 (Australia) Australian rock & roll variety show Six O’Clock Rock premiered on the ABC network on 28 February 1959.…
1 9 5 7 – 1 9 5 8 (UK) On 16 February 1957, Six-Five Special roared onto British television screens, its title taken from its…
1 9 8 9 – 1 9 9 1 (UK) 31 x 30 minute episodes Broadcast as part of the BBC’s DEF II youth programming strand,…
1 9 6 0 – 1 9 6 1 (UK) 14 x 30 minute episodes Debuting on Monday 4 July 1960, this BBC series set a…
1 9 8 0 – 1 9 8 8 (USA) Solid Gold was a countdown of the top ten records of the week, most of them…