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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.
Notable interviews...
60 Minutes
1 9 6 8 - Current (USA)
1 9 7 9 - Current (Australia)
In 1967 Don Hewitt conceived of his new programme, 60 Minutes, as a strategy for...
A Current Affair
1 9 7 1 - 1 9 7 8 (Australia)
1 9 8 8 - current (Australia)
An Australian magazine programme that started life as a...
A Question Of Sport
1 9 7 0 - Current (UK)
Fresh from the studio soccer game Quiz Ball, David Vine first introduced A Question Of Sport at 6:20 pm on Monday 5 January...
Big Breakfast, The
1 9 9 2 - 2 0 0 2 (UK)
Departing from the established news and magazine-based format of other breakfast TV shows, The Big Breakfast placed the...
Braden’s Week
1 9 6 8 - 1 9 7 2 (UK)
The clear ancestor of That's Life, Braden's Week - which aired on Saturday evenings on BBC1 - not only...
Breakfast Time
1 9 8 3 - 1 9 8 9 (UK)
Selina Scott joined nice "uncle" Frank Bough on BBC1's Breakfast Time at 6.30 am on 17 January...
Cops
1 9 8 9 - Current (USA)
Cops features cameras following real-life police officers around their headquarters, on street patrols and raids, at stakeouts, and sometimes even...
Fantasy Football League
1 9 9 4 - 1 9 9 6 (UK)
The idea for the Fantasy Football League TV show came from hosts Frank Skinner and David Baddiel who,...
Four Corners
1 9 6 1 - Current (Australia)
Four Corners debuted on the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) on 19 August 1961 and went on to become Australia's longest-running...
Free Speech
1 9 5 5 (UK)
ITV introduced Free Speech, political cross-talk between Robert Boothby, W J Brown, Michael Foot and historian and writer A J P Taylor,...
Good Morning Britain
1 9 8 3 - 1 9 9 2 (UK)
Produced by the newly formed TV-am, ITV debuted its first breakfast show on 1 February 1983...
Grandstand
1 9 5 8 - 2 0 0 7 (UK)
Wives everywhere threw up their hands in horror on Saturday 11 October 1958 as Saturday...
Henry Cooper’s Golden Belt
1 9 8 3 (UK)
A series of programmes from ITV featuring a Boy's Club Boxing tournament, with former British, Commonwealth and European champion Henry Cooper (who...
Indoor League, The
1 9 7 3 - 1 9 7 8 (UK)
The Indoor League was broadcast on ITV at Sunday lunchtime in the mid-1970s. It was hosted by...
Jack Solomons’ Scrapbook
1 9 5 5 - 1 9 5 6 (UK)
Boxing promoter Jack Solomons introduced action from big fights in Jack Solomons' Scrapbook.
Solomons showed film of famous...
Kick Start
1 9 7 9 - 1 9 8 8 (UK)
35 x episodes
Originally hosted by the hairy cornflake himself, radio DJ Dave Lee Travis, Kick...
Larry King Live
1 9 8 5 - 2 0 1 0 (USA)
For 15 years, Larry King Live was the most-watched programme on CNN, regularly reaching over one million viewers...
Marriage, The
1 9 8 6 (UK)
7 x 45 minute episodes
Airing in January 1986, The Marriage was a fly on the wall documentary series from Desmond Wilcox...