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‘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 episode
"Listen very carefully, I shall say zees only once"
"Good Moaning" -...
$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 NBC) saw six female contestants compete in categories of poise and...
$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 celebrity and one contestant step into this circle with a chance...
$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 show phenomenon.
Sponsored by the Revlon lipstick company it was the first...
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 Williams) is hanged. The ghost of Black Jack remains on the...
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 918th Bombardment Group of the US Eighth Air Force.
First commanded by...
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 as Felicia Winters was originally meant to be about five women...
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 of life. The rapid growth of the popularity of television surpassed even...
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 social and cultural change, so television led the way in reflecting...
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 the audience.
British TV comedy was king during the Seventies, serving up...
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 your set - you are watching television as seen in the...
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 London (at 199 Park Lane, natch).
The series did not do well....
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 for underachievers of all ages, leading to a rapid proliferation of...
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 to Roseanne (1988), primarily because of Gary Olsen's burly build as lumberjack-shirted Ben...
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 set out to emulate the success of CBS' 60 Minutes but...
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 high schools, colleges and wherever their youthful looks would help them...
