1 9 9 1 (UK) 5 x 30 minute episodes A sculptor who fashioned rotting flesh, human faeces and vomit (Kenneth Hutcheson), a film director with…
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1 9 8 0 (UK) 13 x 25 minute episodes “Mysteries from the files of Arthur C Clarke, author of 2001 and inventor of the communications…
1 9 4 9 – 1 9 5 9 (USA) One of the most popular stars on US radio throughout the 1940s, Arthur Godfrey’s arrival on…
1 9 4 8 – 1 9 5 8 (USA) The first of four Arthur Godfrey series’ to air on television, and memorably sponsored by Lipton…
1 9 5 0 – 1 9 6 0 (USA) For 10 years as it moved from time slot to time slot and station to station, The…
1 9 5 3 – 1 9 6 1 (UK) The first Asian magazine programme on BBC Television was an External Services radio programme which was…
1 9 5 4 – 1 9 5 6 (UK) Many modern TV shows owe a considerable debt to this show, which began in May 1954…
After early success with documentaries covering their travels along the Darling River (in Down the Darling, 1963) and across Australia (in Wheels Across the Wilderness,…
1 9 8 4 – 1 9 9 3 (UK) 115 x 60 minute episodes Michael Aspel proved he was more than the bland charmer he sometimes…
1 9 9 0 (Australia) 1 x 300 minute episode The first National Australian Music Day was celebrated in 1990 with the country’s largest rock…
1 9 9 2 (Australia) 1 x 34 minute episode (!) Aussie clip show Australia’s Naughtiest Home Videos was hauled off the air midway through…
1 9 6 6 – 1 9 7 2 (Australia) 198 x episodes Premiering on Sydney’s Channel 10 on 22 July 1966, Aweful Movies with Deadly…
1 9 8 1 (UK) 6 x 30 minute episodes Billed as a cross between a variety show and a situation comedy, this Granada Television production…
1 9 5 7 – 1 9 7 2 (Australia) 1 9 7 6 (Australia) Bandstand was the longest-running Australian pop television show of its time, and…
1 9 8 0 – 1 9 8 2 (USA) This NBC variety series hosted by Barbara Mandrell and her sisters Louise and Irlene had a…
1 9 7 6 – 1 9 8 8 (USA) 19 x 120 minute episodes Premiering on 6 November 1976, television stars from ABC, CBS and…
1 9 7 9 – 1 9 8 1 (USA) 25 x 30 minute episodes Surely one of the most unusual programmes broadcast nationally in the…
The best-known faces of the early 50s on British television belonged to the BBC programme announcers: McDonald Hobley, Mary Malcolm and Sylvia Peters. The trio first appeared in…
1 9 7 7 (UK) 7 x 60 minute episodes This Saturday night summer variety series from Granada Television ran for seven weeks on ITV from…
1 9 8 6 – 1 9 9 6 (UK) 33 x 30 minute episodes Debuting on ITV on Saturday 22 November 1986, Beadle’s About presented…