1 9 7 6 – 1 9 7 7 (UK) 1 9 8 0 (UK) Esther Rantzen offered adults the chance to fulfil their dreams and…
Browsing: Variety
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1 9 6 6 – 1 9 9 5 (Australia) Bill Collins has been described as “Mr Movies of Australia”. He presented films on television and…
1 9 5 6 – 1 9 6 6 (UK) The leading showman of the mid-fifties in Britain was chirpy cockney chappie Billy Cotton, and the lively Billy…
1 9 7 5 – 1 9 7 6 (UK) 6 x 45 minute episodes Billy Dainty was given his own Thames Television show on the…
1 9 6 4 – 1 9 6 5 (USA) 28 x 30 minute episodes This ABC sitcom featured ex-crooner Bing Crosby as (wait for it)…
1 9 5 8 – 1 9 7 8 (UK) No doubt this BBC show would be condemned as terribly politically incorrect in this new and…
1 9 6 4 – 1 9 6 5 (UK) 24 x 60 minute episodes Debuting on Sunday 5 July 1964, this weekly summer variety…
1 9 6 6 – 1 9 6 7 (UK) 16 x 60 minute episodes Debuting on 19 June 1966, this Sunday night summer ITV variety…
1 9 6 4 (UK) 1 x 38 minute episode Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Muddy Waters braved the British rain for this one-off TV special from…
1 9 5 3 – 1 9 5 7 (USA) 30 minute episodes Bob Crosby – destined to be best remembered as Bing Crosby’s brother -…
1 9 5 2 – 1 9 7 5 (USA) After a successful career in films and on radio, Bob Hope debuted on NBC television…
1 9 6 9 – 1 9 7 3 (Australia) 75 minute episodes Fresh from a spot as a judge on Australia’s version of New…
1 9 5 4 (USA) “Buffalo” Bob Smith of Howdy Doody fame increased his TV exposure with this NBC series, using the cast of his morning…
1 9 8 7 – 1 9 8 8 (UK) 14 x 30 minute episodes Two series for ITV’s dazzling Davro, with viewers treated to impressions…
1 9 5 9 – 1 9 6 3 (Australia) This Australian national variety show was produced by TCN Channel 9 and originally titled Bobby Limb’s…
1 9 6 3 – 1 9 7 0 (Australia) 338 x 55 minute episodes Premiering on 19 July 1963 and running for seven and a…
1 9 7 8 (UK) 24 x 30 minute episodes ATV presented this half-hour of knockabout fun with Bob Monkhouse and comedy singing group The Hudson…
1 9 7 1 (UK) Radio and television personality Sue Becker had an early keep-fit show on Australian TV in the 1960s, called Swing In Time.…
1 9 5 9 – 1 9 6 0 (UK) 26 x 25 minute episodes ITV dropped Oh Boy! to launch Boy Meets Girls featuring Marty Wilde (the ‘boy’…
1 9 6 8 – 1 9 7 2 (UK) The clear ancestor of That’s Life, Braden’s Week – which premiered on 9 November 1968 and aired on…