1 9 6 7 – 1 9 7 8 (Australia) Commonly abbreviated to TDT, This Day Tonight was Australia’s first nightly current affairs television show. Based on…
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1 9 6 4 – 1 9 6 6 (Canada) 50 x 60 minute episodes This Hour Has Seven Days has repeatedly been cited as the most…
1 9 5 6 – 1 9 7 8 (UK) 1 9 8 6 – 1 9 9 2 (UK) This Week was ITV’s answer to Panorama. The programme…
1 9 5 2 – Current (USA) Today debuted on 14 January 1952 and was the first of its genre on American television. The brainchild of…
1 9 5 7 – 1 9 6 5 (UK) 1,800 x 35 minute episodes Tonight was broadcast every weekday, beginning in 1957, with an audience…
The commentary of former CBS Evening News anchorman Walter Cronkite defined issues and events in America for almost two decades. Cronkite, whom a major poll…
1 9 8 5 – 2 0 1 9 (UK) Initially a segment on Nationwide, BBC consumer affairs programme Watchdog was launched as a show in…
1 9 7 2 – 1 9 8 8 (UK) 506 x 70/90 minute episodes News and current affairs hit Sunday lunchtimes in 1972 as Peter…
1 9 8 5 – 1 9 8 9 (USA) West 57th premiered as a summer magazine series that was a fast-paced ‘yuppie’ version of 60…
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…
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 5 3 – 1 9 5 5 (USA) 30 minute episodes Debuting in August 1953, CBS’s answer to Youth Wants to Know had a…
1 9 5 1 – 1 9 5 8 (USA) 30 minute episodes This was the longest-running of several 1950s public affairs series involving adolescents (others…