1 9 6 5 (USA) 110 x 5 minute episodes Back in the days of Mercury, Gemini and Apollo, nothing got a kid’s heart pumping faster than the Space Race.…
Browsing: TV – 1960s
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1 9 6 0 (UK) 35 x 30 minute episodes This action-packed weekly children’s action series followed the adventures of air ace James “Biggles” Bigglesworth (Neville…
1 9 6 6 – 1 9 9 5 (Australia) Bill Collins has been described as “Mr Movies of Australia”. He presented films on television and…
1 9 6 9 – 1 9 7 1 (USA) This gentle comedy from NBC was set in the working-class (and fictional) Richard Allen Holmes High…
1 9 5 2 – 1 9 6 1 (UK) 120 x 30 minute episodes At a time when young children were enthralled by Andy Pandy, their…
1 9 5 6 – 1 9 6 6 (UK) The leading showman of the mid-fifties in Britain was chirpy cockney chappie Billy Cotton, and the lively Billy…
1 9 6 4 – 1 9 6 5 (USA) 28 x 30 minute episodes This ABC sitcom featured ex-crooner Bing Crosby as (wait for it)…
1 9 6 7 – 1 9 6 9 (USA) 61 x 30 minute episodes Endowed with power from the Egyptian sun god Ra, ordinary human…
1 9 6 7 (UK) The character of Bizzy Lizzy first appeared in 1955 as the star of a flimsily animated insert in Picture Book, the…
1 9 5 8 – 1 9 7 8 (UK) No doubt this BBC show would be condemned as terribly politically incorrect in this new and…
1 9 6 5 – 1 9 6 6 (UK) 27 x 50 minute episodes Premiering on Friday 10 September 1965, this collection of original dramas…
1 9 6 1 (UK) 6 x 30 minute episodes This six-part serial for children from Associated-Rediffusion was written by Howard Wiliams and Barry Pevan,…
1 9 6 4 – 1 9 6 5 (UK) 24 x 60 minute episodes Debuting on Sunday 5 July 1964, this weekly summer variety…
1 9 6 6 – 1 9 6 7 (UK) 16 x 60 minute episodes Debuting on 19 June 1966, this Sunday night summer ITV variety…
1 9 6 7 (UK) 6 x 30 minute episodes This BBC series – adapted from stories by PG Wodehouse – starred Ralph Richardson as the…
1 9 6 3 – 1 9 6 4 (UK) Bleep and Booster was a ‘mini-show’ about Bleep (an alien from the planet Miron) and…
1 9 5 7 (USA) 26 x 30 minute episodes 1 9 6 8 – 1 9 6 9 (USA) 14 x 30 minute episodes Even though…
1 9 6 5 (UK) 2 x 80 minute episodes This short series from Granada TV presented two Jacobean plays by 17th-century English dramatist Thomas Middleton.…
1 9 6 0 – 1 9 6 1 (USA) 39 x 30 minute episodes Long before Top Gun, pilots swooshed across the screen on Blue…
1 9 6 6 (USA) 17 x 30 minute episodes Set in World War II, crooner Robert Goulet played US secret agent David March in this…