!!!! Beat, The
1 9 6 6 (USA)
26 x 30 minute episodes
Hosted by the Nashville-based WLAC disc jockey Bill 'Hoss' Allen, The !!!! Beat featured a house band...
$10,000 Pyramid, The
1 9 7 3 - 1 9 7 6 (USA)
4270 x 30 minute episodes
"Keep your eye on this spot! You are about to see one...
$64,000 Question, The
1 9 5 5 - 1 9 5 8 (USA)
Before the quiz show scandal of the late 1950s, The $64,000 Question was a high-stakes, nail-biting, ratings-topping game...
3-2-1
1 9 7 8 - 1 9 8 7 (UK)
180 x 60 minute episodes
Ted Rogers and Dusty Bin (a robotic dustbin with a face on...
45 (Rock On With 45)
1 9 7 4 - 1 9 7 5 (UK)
40 x 30 minute episodes
Following the demise of children's TV pop show Lift Off With Ayshea, Granada...
A Question Of Sport
1 9 7 0 - Current (UK)
Fresh from the studio soccer game Quiz Ball, David Vine first introduced A Question Of Sport at 6:20 pm on Monday 5 January...
A Whole Scene Going
1 9 6 6 (UK)
A Whole Scene Going was the first real teenage lifestyle programme with features on Carnaby Street fashions, the London club scene...
A-Z
1 9 5 6 - 1 9 5 7 (UK)
BBC entertainment in which Alan Melville strung together sketches, songs, parodies and guest appearances to a...
ABC Rocks
1 9 8 4 - 1 9 8 5 (USA)
One year after the debut of NBC's Friday Night Videos (network television's first attempt to respond to the...
About Britain
1 9 5 2 - 1 9 5 4 (UK)
Following on the success of London Town, Richard Dimbleby presented About Britain - a similar series presenting "journeys to people...
About Faces
1 9 6 0 - 1 9 6 1 (USA)
138 x 30 minute episodes
Contestants, chosen from studio audience members, were placed opposite each other and...
About The Home
1 9 5 1 - 1 9 5 8 (UK)
About The Home was an essential part of afternoon viewing for many British women in the 1950s.
The...
Abracadabra
1 9 6 1 - 1 9 6 2 (UK)
26 x 25 minute episodes
"Right answers win letters. Letters build words. Words win cash (and...
Admags
A now-forgotten alternative to the commercial break in the early days of British commercial television was the Advertising Magazine (or 'Admag') in which performers...
Adventure Game, The
1 9 8 0 - 1 9 8 6 (UK)
Three people are stranded on a planet on the far side of the galaxy. In order...
Aerobics Oz Style
1 9 8 2 - 2 0 0 5 (Australia)
The continued allegiance of Australian TV aerobicists to hi-energy disco music is a wonderful thing. Long...
Alan Young Show, The
1 9 5 0 - 1 9 5 3 (USA)
In 1950, when network television was still in its infancy in the US and radio ruled...
Alistair Cooke’s America
1 9 7 2 - 1 9 7 3 (UK)
13 x episodes
British native, but long-term American resident Alistair Cooke hosted this long-running documentary on the...
All Clued Up
1 9 8 7 - 1 9 9 3 (UK)
All Clued Up was a Sunday tea-time classic, hosted by ''Diddy'' David Hamilton. It was a real...
All Our Yesterdays
1 9 6 0 - 1 9 7 3 (UK)
1 9 8 7 - 1 9 8 9 (UK)
A half-hour nostalgia documentary programme from Granada which...