1 9 9 6 – 2 0 0 8 (UK) 101 x 30 minute episodes With a fly-on-the-wall view, cameras followed the many staff members who…
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1 9 7 2 – 1 9 7 3 (UK) 13 x episodes British native, but long-term American resident Alistair Cooke hosted this long-running documentary on…
1 9 6 0 – 1 9 7 3 (UK) 1 9 8 7 – 1 9 8 9 (UK) A half-hour nostalgia documentary programme from Granada…
1 9 7 7 (UK) 17 x 60 minute episodes Director Tony Palmer bumped into John Lennon by chance on a Manhattan street in the autumn…
1 9 7 3 (USA) 12 x 60 minute episodes Craig Gilbert’s PBS documentary about the Loud family (yes, “Loud” was their surname) of Santa Barbara,…
1 9 9 4 – 2 0 0 4 (UK) Animal Hospital began as Animal Hospital Live, a twice-daily report on events at the RSPCA Harmsworth Memorial Animal…
1 9 7 5 – Current (UK) This popular long-running arts programme from the BBC has encompassed documentary features on many subjects during its long run.…
1 9 8 9 (UK) 7 x 50 minute episodes As a member of the Monty Python team, Michael Palin presented his fair share of…
1 9 7 3 (UK) 13 x 50 minute episodes The most praised British documentary series of the early 1970s was The Ascent of Man, a…
1 9 8 7 – 2 0 0 4 (Australia) 686 x 60 minute episodes Debuting on Saturday 12 September 1987 on TCN9, this long-running Aussie…
1 9 9 6 – 2 0 0 4 (UK) 165 x 30/60 minute episodes With a time limit of two days and a budget…
1 9 6 3 (UK) 5 x 30 minute episodes This five-part documentary series, produced by future movie director John Boorman for BBC West (Bristol), observed…
1 9 6 9 (UK) 13 x 50 minute episodes A 13-part documentary series created, written and presented by Sir Kenneth Clark, charting the events from…
1 9 9 7 (UK) 6 x 30 minute episodes Driving School started on the BBC on 10 June 1997. The participants’ willingness to be filmed…
1 9 7 4 (UK) 12 x 30 minute episodes Based on a similar US documentary called An American Family, this show was really the…
1 9 7 7 – 1 9 8 2 (USA) 144 x 30 minute episodes This series was created following the successful television documentaries In…
1 9 7 3 (UK) 6 x 50 minute episodes Debuting on Friday 13 July 1973, this six-part BBC documentary investigation into the facts of the…
1 9 8 4 (UK) 3 x 60 minute episodes In its second year of operation, Britain’s new Channel 4 commissioned this three-part miniseries from London…
1 9 6 5 – 1 9 6 8 (USA) Originating from KTTV in Los Angeles and running in syndication from 1965 to 1968, the…
1 9 7 5 (UK) 2 x 60 minute episodes The screening on Tuesday 22 July 1975 of Yorkshire Television’s controversial documentary Johnny Go Home -…