1 9 7 8 (Australia) 9 x 30 minute episodes Aimed at children from senior primary to junior secondary school, this fast-moving experimental kids’ television show…
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1 9 7 3 – 1 9 8 7 (UK) 112 x 30 minute episodes The BBC’s ‘Mr Athletics’, sports commentator Ron Pickering, hosted this series which…
1 9 8 3 – 1 9 8 4 (USA) 48 x 30 minute episodes The role model for We Got It Made was the British hit Man About…
1 9 6 8 (UK) Frank Muir headed up this 30-minute programme of “comedy, music and glee” on ITV for the newly appointed London Weekend…
1 9 7 5 (USA) 12 x 30 minute episodes Alan Alda (best known as Hawkeye Pierce from M*A*S*H) created this short-lived CBS sitcom about a normal…
1 9 8 2 (UK) 13 x 50 minute episodes “Overpaid, oversexed and over here” was the familiar description applied to US military personnel stationed in…
1 9 8 6 (UK) 6 x 30 minute episodes This dire but mercifully short-lived sitcom from Thames Television was set in Manchester and revolved around…
1 9 7 7 (USA) 13 x 30 minute episodes Pudgy Stuart Hibbard (Oliver Clark) worked at home as a copywriter for the ‘Herman Gutman Mail…
1 9 6 6 (UK) 50 x 30 minute episodes This short-lived twice-weekly soap opera from Anglia was intended to be television’s answer to popular radio…
1 9 5 0 – 1 9 5 4 (USA) 175 x 30 minute episodes 1 9 5 7 (USA) 14 x 30 episodes Normal, everyday…
1 9 8 3 – 1 9 8 9 (USA) 150 x 25 minute episodes George Papadapolis (Alex Karras), a 41-year-old former pro football player turned…
1 9 7 6 – 1 9 7 8 (UK) 19 x 60 minute episodes Liverpudlian comedian, former assistant headmaster and four-time Opportunity Knocks winner Tom O’Connor…
1 9 6 4 – 1 9 7 0 (UK) 60 x 60 minute episodes First broadcast on 28 October 1964, this long-running series of dramatic…
1 9 6 5 (UK) 8 x 50 minute episodes Subtitled “Not for the Nervous”, the BBC presented this series of eight specially written suspense-racked plays…
1 9 9 5 (UK) 10 x 30 minute episodes The Weekend Show was a Friday night primetime BBC show produced by the company behind The Big Breakfast (Planet…
1 9 7 0 – 1 9 7 1 (Australia) 12 x 60 minute episodes This short-lived Friday night variety show from GTV9 in Melbourne was…
1 9 7 2 – 1 9 8 8 (UK) 506 x 70/90 minute episodes News and current affairs hit Sunday lunchtimes in 1972 as Peter…
1 9 9 7 (USA) 13 x 25 minute episodes This Saturday morning show from CBS starring pop music parody king Weird Al Yankovic was…
1 9 9 4 – 1 9 9 8 (USA) 88 x 30 minute episodes Gary Wallace (John Asher) and Wyatt Donnelly (Michael Manasseri) are high…
1 9 7 5 – 1 9 7 9 (USA) 95 x 30 minute episodes Debuting on 9 September 1975, this ABC comedy series introduced Jewish…