!!!! Beat, The
1 9 6 6 (USA)
26 x 30 minute episodes
Hosted by the Nashville-based WLAC disc jockey Bill 'Hoss' Allen, The !!!! Beat featured a house band...
‘Allo ‘Allo
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 x 35 minute...
$1.98 Beauty Show, The
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...
$10,000 Pyramid, The
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 one...
$64,000 Question, The
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...
100 Lives of Black Jack Savage, The
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 (Steven...
12 O’clock High
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 the...
13 East
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 where...
13 Queens Boulevard
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 Brennan...
1950s Television – Introduction
Television mesmerised us from the moment it entered our households, and - in less than a decade - became a staple of our way...
1960s Television – Introduction
If the Fifties were the innocent childhood of television, the Sixties were definitely the period of rebellious adolescence. Just as the world underwent dramatic...
1970s Television – Introduction
In the 1970s, TV Producers turned from the excess of violence seen in drama series' of the 60s, to seek other ways of stimulating...
1980s Television – Introduction
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...
199 Park Lane
1 9 6 5 (UK)
18 x 30 minute episodes
This twice-weekly serial from BBC1 was based around the residents of an exclusive block of apartments in...
1990
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 of...
1990s Television – Introduction
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...
2 Point 4 Children
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 compared...
20/20
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 show...
21 Jump Street
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 to...
227
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 NBC...