1 9 8 4 – 1 9 9 2 (UK) 55 x 30 minute episodes 26 x 25 minute episodes 3 x 45 minute episodes 1…
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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 9 1 (USA) 7 x 60 minute episodes On the Caribbean island of San Pietro in the 1790s, a pirate named Black Jack Savage…
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 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 Fifties were the innocent childhood of television, the Sixties 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…
1 9 7 7 (UK) 16 x 60 minute episodes Great Britain, 1990. A dystopian future (at the time) in which Britain is under the grip…
Fox scored big with The Simpsons, the animated brainchild of comic artist Matt Groening. Bart Simpson, the show’s young troublemaking fourth-grader, immediately became an icon…
1 9 9 1 – 1 9 9 9 (UK) 56 x 40 minute episodes When Andrew Marshall’s 2 Point 4 Children first hit British screens it was…
1 9 7 8 – Current (USA) This hour-long current affairs show from ABC has always featured award-winning journalists covering social issues and current events. The…
1 9 8 7 – 1 9 9 0 (USA/Canada) 34 x 60 minute episodes 21 Jump Street was about undercover cops who were assigned…
1 9 8 5 – 1 9 9 0 (USA) 116 x 30 minute episodes 227 first aired in September 1985 and ran for five seasons on…
