1 9 6 4 – 1 9 7 8 (Australia) The Australian Channel 9 show World Championship Wrestling featured unlikely looking (and oddly named) stars such as Killer…
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1 9 6 3 – 1 9 9 8 (UK) Granada TV’s hard-hitting current affairs series World in Action was first transmitted in 1963 and set a…
1 9 6 9 (UK) 6 x 30 minute episodes “No matter where in the world news is being made, “World in Ferment” will be somewhere…
1 9 6 8 – 1 9 6 9 (UK) 19 x 30 minute episodes This surreal Spike Milligan vehicle was adapted from the long-running humorous…
1 9 5 8 (UK) 7 x 30 minute episodes This children’s space series from Associated Rediffusion began life with a single episode aired on Friday…
1 9 5 9 (USA) 13 x 30 minute episodes This early sci-fi series starred Marshall Thompson as 6’2″ secret agent Mel Hunter who was shrunk…
1 9 6 4 – 1 9 6 5 (UK) 13 x 30 minute episodes The first series of Roy Kinnear’s BBC1 series A World Of…
1 9 5 4 – 1 9 5 5 (USA) 348 x 15 minute episodes The World of Mr Sweeney originally appeared on The Kate Smith…
2 0 0 1 (UK) 6 x 30 minute episodes Brothers Barry (Phil Cornwell) and Garry (Peter Serafinowicz) run East End boozer, The King’s Head -…
1 9 6 5 – 1 9 8 5 (UK) World of Sport was created in January 1965 as a Saturday afternoon rival to Grandstand. The show -…
1 9 6 0 – 1 9 6 1 (UK) 18 x 30 minute episodes This BBC drama series incorporated three six-part stories and was created…
1 9 6 5 – 1 9 6 7 (UK) 20 x 30 minute episodes A gentle comedy series adapted for television by Richard Waring and…
1 9 5 7 – 1 9 5 9 (UK) 23 x 30 minute episodes Premiering on Sunday 29 December 1957, with a production of…
1 9 8 2 (USA) 2 x 100 minute episodes This gripping miniseries was a major event when it screened. It told the hypothetical tale of…
1 9 7 9 – 1 9 8 0 (USA) 8 x 60 minute episodes By 1979, the Super Friends series – originally launched on ABC…
1 9 7 9 – 1 9 8 1 (UK) 31 x 30 minute episodes Children’s novelist Barbara Euphan Todd created the character of Worzel Gummidge…
1 9 5 3 (UK) 4 x 30 minute episodes This four-part children’s comedy from the BBC starred Frank Atkinson as the animated scarecrow Worzel. Written…
This early 1980s TV advertising campaign for the British Meat Marketing Board (who were clearly worried about the encroaching trend towards vegetarianism) presented cheeky cockney…
1 9 6 0 (USA) 6 x 30 minute episodes Wrangler was the 1960 summer replacement for The Ford Show Starring Tennessee Ernie Ford on NBC.…
1 9 7 0 (UK) 6 x 30 minute episodes A ferocious night in 1770 and another storm-lashed ship crashes into the deadly rocks at Dead…