1 9 6 6 (Australia) 13 x 60 minute episodes Produced in Sydney by the Australian TEN network, ’66 and All That was a vehicle for former Mavis…
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2 0 0 1 (UK) 8 x 30 minute episodes Paul Clark (ex Big Breakfast presenter and former jailbird Johnny Vaughan) is a 32-year-old part-time minicab…
1 9 7 8 – 1 9 8 0 (USA) This spoof of beauty pageants (created by the production company of Chuck Barris and aired on…
1 9 7 3 – 1 9 7 6 (USA) 4270 x 30 minute episodes “Keep your eye on this spot! You are about to see…
1 9 5 5 – 1 9 5 8 (USA) Before the quiz show scandal of the late 1950s, The $64,000 Question was a high-stakes, nail-biting, ratings-topping game…
1 9 8 4 (UK) 5 x 30 minute episodes BBC Radio 1 went on the road (hence the title) with host DJ Peter Powell -…
1 9 9 1 (USA) 7 x 60 minute episodes In 1650 on the Caribbean island of San Pietro, a pirate named Black Jack Savage (Steven…
1 9 9 7 – 2 0 0 1 (UK) 1,030 x 30 minute episodes This cheap and cheerful computer-generated quiz show from Channel 5…
1 9 9 8 – 2 0 0 0 (UK) 147 x 30/45/50 minute episodes This late-night satirical comedy series from Channel 4 was written, recorded…
1 9 6 4 – 1 9 6 7 (USA) 78 x 60 minute episodes 12 O’clock High chronicled the adventures of the men of…
1 9 8 9 – 1 9 9 0 (USA) 16 x 30 minute episodes 13 East was a hectic ward in a large unnamed hospital…
1 9 7 9 (USA) 9 x 30 minute episodes Originally to have been titled Five Women, this short-lived spring replacement comedy series from ABC starring Eileen…
1 9 5 4 – 1 9 5 7 (Canada) 125 x 30 minute episodes The Delisles were a middle-class Montreal family who lived (as…
2 0 0 2 (UK) 6 x 30 minute episodes 2 0 0 4 (UK) 6 x 30 minute episodes Vince is a miserable misanthropic, gormless…
1 9 8 2 (Australia) 7 x 50 minute episodes On the eve of World War I in the small country town of Bindogundra (in the…
Television mesmerised us from the moment it entered our households and – in less than a decade – became a staple of our way of…
If the 1950s were the innocent childhood of television, the ’60s were definitely the period of rebellious adolescence. Just as the world underwent dramatic social…
In the 1970s, TV Producers turned from the excess of violence seen in drama series’ of the 60s, to seek other ways of stimulating the…
If the TV show you are watching features a swag of characters in infeasibly large shoulder pads and an excess of hair gel, do not adjust your…
1 9 6 5 (UK) 18 x 30 minute episodes This twice-weekly serial from BBC1 was based around the residents of an exclusive and fashionable block…