TV Shows - 1990s

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

1 9 9 1 - 1 9 9 3 (UK) 14 x 60 minute episodes This black talent contest - a clone of the talent shows held at the Apollo Theatre in Harlem, New York - was produced...

1 9 9 6 - 2 0 0 1 (USA) A surprise hit of the 1996-1997 season, 3rd Rock From The Sun surprised most of the critics who had made sport of its improbable premise when it became an...

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 addressing issues given insufficient time for analysis in two minutes of...

1 9 9 0 - 1 9 9 2 (UK) Debuting on BBC1 on 21 April 1990, the Children's magazine programme The 8:15 from Manchester was presented by Ross King and professional northerner Charlotte Hindle from...

1 9 8 1 - 1 9 9 3 (Australia) 1057 x 60 minute episodes This long-running Australian drama series revolved around the activities of a medical clinic, hospital and veterinary practice in Wandin Valley, a small (fictitious)...

1 9 7 1 - 1 9 7 8 (Australia) 1 9 8 8 - current (Australia) An Australian magazine programme that started life as a bona fide current affairs news show (hence the name) but degenerated...

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 1970 with captains Henry Cooper (the boxer) and Cliff Morgan (from...

1 9 7 2 - 1 9 9 7 (USA) ABC After School Specials were sixty-minute specials for young people, both dramatic and documentary, and were broadcast on occasional weekday afternoons between 1972 to 1997. The specials began in...

1 9 8 9 - 1 9 9 1 (UK) 12 x 30 minute episodes This series of twelve unconnected sitcoms placed the spotlight on the many talents of Maureen Lipman, as she played twelve different and varied...

1 9 8 9 - 1 9 9 3 (UK) 28 x 30 minute episodes This anarchic and surreal sketch show - a sort of latter-day Monty Python in tartan in which criminals robbed security vans using toddlers as weapons...

1 9 9 2 - 2 0 1 2 (UK) 39 x 45 minute episodes Developed from a sketch on French and Saunders, this tale of rich bitches Edina 'Eddy' Monsoon (Jennifer Saunders) and Patsy Stone (Joanna Lumley) -...

1 9 9 3 - 1 9 9 4 (USA) 1 9 9 8 - 1 9 9 9 (USA) 48 x 60 minute episodes Former MI6 agent Ashley Hunter-Coddington (Catherine Oxenberg) and former CIA man Mike Savage (Brendan Kelly)...

1 9 8 9 - 1 9 9 2 (Australia) 63 x 30 minute episodes This Aussie sitcom from Crawford Productions was effectively a spin-off from the successful Wogs Out Of Work stage show which toured Australia in the...

1 9 9 5 - 1 9 9 6 (USA) 26 x 30 minute episodes "Action Man" (voiced by Mark Griffin) is the leader of the elite multinational strike force known as 'Action Force' which was established to...

1 9 9 7 - 1 9 9 9 (UK) 20 x 25 minute episodes 12-year-old Adam was able to call upon his ancestors from throughout history to help him solve everyday problems. The title character was played...