1 9 7 8 – 1 9 8 0 (USA) This spoof of beauty pageants (created by the production company of Chuck Barris and aired on…
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1 9 7 3 – 1 9 7 6 (USA) 4270 x 30 minute episodes “Keep your eye on this spot! You are about to see…
1 9 5 5 – 1 9 5 8 (USA) Before the quiz show scandal of the late 1950s, The $64,000 Question was a high-stakes, nail-biting, ratings-topping game…
1 9 9 7 – 2 0 0 1 (UK) 1,030 x 30 minute episodes This cheap and cheerful computer-generated quiz show from Channel 5…
1 9 9 1 – 1 9 9 3 (UK) 14 x 60 minute episodes This black talent contest – a clone of the talent shows…
1 9 7 2 (UK) 6 x 45 minute episodes The six episodes of this short-lived LWT series were broadcast on Saturday nights in June and…
1 9 7 7 (USA) 4 x 60 minute episodes This innovative four-episode variety show-cum-sitcom from NBC starred three beautiful, talented newcomers: dancer Debbie Allen, singer…
1 9 7 8 – 1 9 8 7 (UK) 180 x 60 minute episodes Ted Rogers and Dusty Bin (a robotic dustbin with a face…
1 9 7 4 – 1 9 7 5 (UK) 40 x 30 minute episodes Following the demise of the children’s TV pop show Lift Off…
1 9 5 6 – 1 9 5 7 (UK) 24 x 30 minute episodes BBC entertainment in which Alan Melville strung together sketches, songs, parodies…
1 9 8 4 – 1 9 8 5 (USA) One year after the debut of NBC’s Friday Night Videos (network television’s first attempt to respond to the…
1 9 6 6 – 1 9 6 7 (USA) 26 x 60 minute episodes ABC presented this series of original television productions in a…
1 9 6 4 – 1 9 6 5 (USA) 179 x 105 minute episodes This late-night show by ABC was an attempt to put…
1 9 5 2 – 1 9 5 4 (UK) 40 minute episodes Following on the success of London Town, Richard Dimbleby presented About Britain – a similar series…
1 9 6 0 – 1 9 6 1 (USA) 138 x 30 minute episodes This early ABC game show was broadcast live from Hollywood and…
1 9 5 1 – 1 9 5 8 (UK) About The Home was an essential part of afternoon viewing for many British women in the 1950s.…
1 9 6 1 – 1 9 6 2 (UK) 26 x 25 minute episodes “Right answers win letters. Letters build words. Words win cash…
1 9 7 0 (UK) 7 x 30 minute episodes This short-lived BBC series hosted by Michael Aspel featured British club entertainers taking part in a…
1 9 7 0 (Australia) 7 x 30 minute episodes Every so often, something comes along on TV that is so sub-standard there can be no…
A now-forgotten alternative to the commercial break in the early days of British commercial television was the Advertising Magazine (or ‘Admag’) in which performers were…
