Planned as a six-episode summer replacement in 1971, The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour did so well that CBS brought it back immediately as a weekly variety series.
Just as World of Sport had challenged the comfortable cosy chair of the BBC by throwing an afternoon of horse racing and wrestling for ‘grappling fans’ up against Grandstand, so The Big Match competed with its football coverage, while the BBC stood still.
An inept broadcaster whose inflated sense of celebrity drives him to treachery and shameless self-promotion.
An exquisitely written, hilariously funny and surprisingly profound piece of television about a young woman trying to cope with life in London whilst coming to terms with a recent tragedy.
The Nat King Cole Show originally aired without a sponsor, but NBC agreed to pay for initial production costs assuming that once the show actually aired a national sponsor would emerge.
After an encounter with a demon, a sceptical nurse and ex-scientist meets the mysterious John Strange.
Bank manager Mark Telford takes a backward step in his career in order to retreat from the rat race.
Light-hearted drama series about Robby Box, a small-time London gambler, and his long-suffering family.
There aren’t that many series that have an episode entitled "A Wop-Boppa Loo-Bop A Wop-Bam Boom"
First Night presented a series of new plays written for television with an emphasis on action and conflict. The series debuted on BBC with Alan Owen's The Strain on 22 September 1963 and ran through until 1964.