1 9 6 1 – 1 9 6 2 (UK) Howard Williams (replaced by Wally Whyton), Muriel Young and Bert Weedon (the famous guitarist) presented…
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1 9 5 6 (Canada/USA) 39 x 30 minute episodes Salt spray, insults and action marked this expensively-produced comedy about rival tugboat captains in the Pacific…
1 9 8 9 – 1 9 9 0 (UK) 13 x 15 minute episodes In the 1920s, Bigg City Port was the biggest harbour…
1 9 8 4 – 1 9 8 5 (USA) 13 x 30 minute episodes During a thunderstorm, teenager Bret Mathews (voiced by Michael Mish)…
1 9 8 5 (Canada) 60 minute episodes Debuting on 3 June 1985, this Nickelodeon kids show presented a compendium of comedy aimed at teenagers.…
1 9 6 7 (UK) 6 x 55 minute episodes This short-lived comedy series from Granada featured Arthur Lowe and Robert Dorning as a duo of…
1 9 6 9 (USA) 1 x 30 minute episode American television’s most notorious flop, Turn-On was cancelled after just one outing on Wednesday 5 February…
1 9 7 9 (USA) 7 x 30 minute episodes Tough sportswriter Sam Alston (John Schuck) and his wife Penny (Sharon Gless) – vice president of…
1 9 7 2 (UK) 6 x 30 minute episodes This situation comedy series from Yorkshire Television was set at an independent television company called…
1 9 7 9 – 1 9 8 0 (UK) 7 x 60 minute episodes Six months before viewers were treated to the dodgy dealings of…
1 9 8 7 (UK) 6 x 60 minute episodes Tutti Frutti was John Byrne’s drily funny story about a group of washed-up fifties rockers from Glasgow…
1 9 8 8 – 1 9 8 9 (USA) 13 x 60 minute episodes Kevin Keegan (Sam Robards) is a recently divorced TV news…
1 9 9 2 (UK) 6 x 30 minute episodes The brainchild of former Vicious Boy Angelo Abela, this late-night Yorkshire Television comedy series grew out…
1 9 4 9 – 1 9 5 4 (USA) 60/30 minute episodes Broadcast from Philadelphia, this teen-oriented ABC musical talent show was hosted by veteran…
1 9 8 0 – 1 9 8 1 (UK) 10 x 25 minute episodes Debuting on 29 June 1980, this short-lived new wave music and…
1 9 7 9 (Australia) 20 x 50 minute episodes This soap opera/kitchen sink drama series from the Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC TV) told the story…
1 9 6 0 – 1 9 6 1 (UK) Originally a radio show, Twenty Questions was introduced to TV with long-time BBC announcer Stewart McPherson as chairman.…
1 9 5 6 – 1 9 5 8 (USA) This highly popular big-money quiz show based on the card game Twenty-One premiered on NBC…
1 9 5 8 (UK) 26 x 30 minute episodes Based on the American game show of the same name, the British version of Twenty-One featured two contestants…
1 9 6 7 (UK) 11 x 30 minute episodes This weekly (“twice a fortnight”) BBC1 series was filmed before a studio audience plied with alcohol…