Although never a huge hit in the UK, Gilligan's Island was a massive success in its native USA, and has stood the test of time by becoming almost an icon of 1960's American sitcom.
Crossing five generations of children and courting controversy at almost every twist and turn of its storylines, Grange Hill, was hailed in some quarters as the most important children's television series of all time.
Popular fortnightly series resurrecting stage melodramas of the 19th century
Created for the radio in 1936 by 'Lone Ranger' inventor George W. Trendle and writer Fran Striker, the Green Hornet aka Britt Reid was originally introduced as the son of Dan Reid, the masked man's nephew.
The Grove Family was Britain's first soap opera for adults - coming two years after the children's equivalent, The Appleyards.
Two married women, one with her head in the clouds and the other with her feet on the ground, decide it's time their husbands took more notice of them.
Porridge was always going to be a tough act to follow. And Going Straight suffered because of it.
Something of a rarity in the TV life of Richard Briers-an unsuccessful sitcom which came sandwiched between two successful ones, namely, The Good Life and Ever Decreasing Circles.
When Gary Sparrow makes a discovery in Ducketts Passage in London's East End his will become life far more complicated than he could ever have imagined - in two time-zones...
Inferior spin-off from The Man from U.N.C.L.E. but notable for launching the TV career of Stefanie Powers, The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. was inspired by Peter O'Donnell's British comic strip heroine, Modesty Blaise.
Another cracking series from Lynda La Plante who has always excelled in placing her female lead characters in what are perceived to be male dominated roles.
Co-created by Rex Firkin and Vincent Tilsley, The Guardians was one of the first drama series to get its hands dirty with the soiled laundry of the political and social fall-out of the late 1960s.
Exciting series centred round the participants in a multi-million pound bullion robbery, and the CID officer who doggedly tracks them down.
1960s detective series about a policeman with an enormous capacity for work and a strong self-discipline.
The Goodies were the quintessential image of a 1970's Britain that had not yet shaken off its 1960's 'swinging' image.
Alex, Penny, Robin and Naomi come home from school one day to find their predictable secure pattern of life completely changed.
Stately Motley Hall has been the ancestral home of the Uproar family since the 16th Century...and they refuse to leave.
Off-beat TV series that reunited Terry Scott and Hugh Lloyd a year after their last series together found the two stars in the almost surreal guise of two garden gnomes!
Domestic sitcom about a work-shy husband and his sex-starved, upwardly aspiring but ultimately frustrated wife.
Comedy spoof of just about every secret agent movie and TV series.
The husband and wife comedy team of George Burns and Gracie Allen repeated their success in vaudeville, film and radio with a show perfectly suited to the new medium of television.
Eerie teenage drama series with a time-travel context.
TV producer, Muriel Young, came up with the idea for a new TV pop music programme to follow on from her successful shows, Lift Off with Ayshea, the Bay City Rollers Shang-a-lang and The Arrows TV show.
When a woman and her two children move into a cottage they are not prepared for the fact that it already has an occupant. A ghost...
Classic sitcom starring Sid James as an over-amorous handyman who wants his boss to employ a 'dolly-bird' housekeeper, but ends up with a 'dragon' (Peggy Mount).
Teenage magazine show
All the drama of a Fleet Street newsroom
Hard hitting crime drama series inspired by the movie The French Connection.
Man's best friend in this series wasn't a dog but a huge bear...
Political satire and current affairs in a sketch comedy format.