The best-known faces of the early 50s on British television belonged to the BBC programme announcers: McDonald Hobley, Mary Malcolm and Sylvia Peters. The trio first appeared in…
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1 9 7 8 – 1 9 8 5 (UK) 37 x episodes This ambitious BBC2 series (a £9 million co-production with Time Life of…
1 9 6 5 – 1 9 6 6 (UK) 24 x 60 minute episodes BBC3 was a mixture of humorous songs, sketches and newsy satire. The…
1 9 7 7 (UK) 7 x 60 minute episodes This Saturday night summer variety series from Granada Television ran for seven weeks on ITV from…
1 9 6 6 (Australia) Australian show Be Our Guest was an attempt by the Australian ABC-TV to capture a slice of the late daytime viewing audience,…
1 9 9 9 – 2 0 0 3 (UK) 195 x 30 minute episodes Debuting in August 1999, this weekday-morning children’s series on Channel…
1 9 7 2 – 1 9 9 0 (Canada) 324 x episodes The Beachcombers was in production for 19 years – the longest-running drama in Canadian…
1 9 7 5 (USA) 1 x 120 minute episode 13 x 60 minute episodes Blending drama, virtuoso acting, social commentary and soap opera, the British…
1 9 8 6 – 1 9 9 6 (UK) 33 x 30 minute episodes Debuting on ITV on Saturday 22 November 1986, Beadle’s About presented…
1 9 6 6 – 1 9 6 8 (USA) 36 x 30 minute episodes This cartoon series from Leonardo Productions related the misadventures of two…
1 9 6 2 – 1 9 6 8 (USA) 1 9 8 8 (USA) The characters of Beany and Cecil were first seen as puppets on…
1 9 9 7 – 2 0 0 6 (USA) 117 x 25 minute episodes Created by Mitchell Kriegman and produced by The Jim Henson Company,…
1 9 7 1 (USA) 1 x 90 minute episode 13 x 60 minute episodes A CBS drama series set in the American Southwest around 1914,…
1 9 7 6 (UK) 6 x 60 minute episodes This series of six effective and concise horror/mystery stories commissioned by ATV from producer Nicholas Palmer…
1 9 6 5 – 1 9 7 2 (West Germany) 83 x 30/60 episodes Debuting on 25 September 1965, Beat Club was initially hosted by…
1 9 8 3 (UK) 1 x 30 minute episode This black-and-white parody of the hedonistic beat poets of the 1960s and European art-house cinema was…
1 9 6 4 – 1 9 6 5 (UK) 30 x 25/30 minute episodes BBC2’s The Beat Room – billed as “non-stop beat and shake”…
1 9 5 0 – 1 9 6 1 (USA) The very active game show Beat The Clock began on CBS radio in 1949 and transferred to television…
1 9 6 6 (USA) 26 x 30 minute episodes Hosted by the Nashville-based WLAC disc jockey Bill ‘Hoss’ Allen and presented from a single studio…
1 9 8 5 – 1 9 8 7 (Australia) Though ostensibly a music TV programme, this Saturday afternoon show from the Australian ABC network was…