1 9 7 9 – Current (UK) When it debuted on 18 February 1979, few would have predicted that Antiques Roadshow would draw bigger audiences in some regions…
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1 9 5 3 (USA) 30 minute episodes Well-known cartoonist and humorist Al Capp (the creator of the Li’l Abner comic strip) hosted this CBS summer…
1 9 7 0 – 1 9 7 7 (UK) ITV arts programme, Aquarius, was originally edited and presented by Humphrey Burton, a former editor of Monitor, though…
1 9 5 2 (USA) An NBC summer series that ran from 6 July 1952 to 24 August 1952. Celebrity sports panellists attempted to identify well-known athletes from…
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 7 6 (UK) 28 x 25 minute episodes Alan, Jake and Paul of glam-pop band Arrows starred in their own Tuesday afternoon series, produced…
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 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 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…
1 9 6 7 – 1 9 8 4 (UK) 20 minute episodes Open to families of four (quite often teachers and their egg-headed offspring), Ask The…
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 8 3 – 1 9 8 5 (UK) 30 minute episodes Beginning on 31 July 1983, Peter Purves (ex-Blue Peter) hosted this evening panel…
1 9 5 2 – 1 9 5 3 (USA) 30 minute episodes Bert Parks – billed as “the keeper of the Horn of Plenty”…