1 9 8 5 (UK) 6 x 30 minute episodes This short-lived BBC game show was devised and presented by eternal chat show guest Gyles Brandreth.…
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1 9 5 1 (UK) 8 x 30 minute episodes 4 x 60 minute episodes In 1951, Edith Nesbit’s story was chosen as one of the…
1 9 5 7 (UK) 8 x 30 minute episodes This 1957 version of The Railway Children featured Anneke Willys as Bobbie, Cavan Kendall as Peter and…
1 9 6 8 (UK) 7 x 30 minute episodes This is arguably the best of the BBC television adaptations (they already made the 1906 E…
1 9 7 2 – 1 9 9 2 (UK) Approx 1000 x 20 minute episodes Up above the streets and houses, Rainbow climbing high Everyone…
1 9 8 4 – 1 9 8 6 (USA/France/Japan) 13 x 25 minute episodes Rainbow Brite is a young girl on a mission to make…
1 9 6 7 (UK) 6 x 25 minute episodes Produced by BBC Birmingham, Rainbow City was the first British drama production to feature a black…
1 9 6 2 (UK) 5 x 45 minute episodes Arthur Askey starred in this fortnightly BBC series (alternating with The Black and White Minstrel Show)…
1 9 8 8 (USA) 9 x 30 minute episodes Building contractor Donald Marshak (James Naughton) and his smart but sensitive teenaged daughter, Miranda (Royana Black)…
1 9 5 2 – 1 9 5 4 (USA) Adults shook their heads at this one, but kids thought it was neat and made Ramar…
1 9 6 8 (UK) 4 x 25 minute episodes This four-part children’s adventure serial aired on BBC1 on Monday afternoons in August and September 1968.…
1 9 6 9 – 1 9 7 0 (UK) 26 x 60 minute episodes In the course of investigating a murder case, private investigator Marty…
1 9 5 1 – 1 9 5 2 (USA) 76 x 25 minute episodes The Range Rider featured muscular ex-stuntman Jock Mahoney as a mysterious,…
1 9 6 7 (USA) 17 x 30 minute episodes This was the story of Rango (Tim Conway) – a clumsy, bumbling, inept Texas Ranger who…
1 9 6 6 (UK) 6 x 30 minute episodes Into Glasgow airport files a charter aircraft carrying a contingent of the fabulous Bilhardi family, a…
1 9 8 8 – 1 9 9 2 (France/UK) 49 x 25 minute episodes Rapido was a fast-paced English-language version of a French music show,…
1 9 6 6 – 1 9 6 7 (UK) This British Spy drama featured the Whitehall-based ‘Rat Catchers’ – A Top Secret group who were…
1 9 6 6 – 1 9 6 8 (USA) 58 x 30 minute episodes The Rat Patrol was based on the exploits of the real-life British…
1 9 8 1 (Australia) 13 x 50 minute episodes A woefully vacuous variety show from Australia’s Network Ten. Seemingly commissioned by an office boy…
1 9 5 6 (UK) 6 x 30 minute episodes Premiering on Thursday 24 May 1956, the Grand Order of Water Rats presented this fortnightly variety…