Despite a sometimes stormy relationship with Judy Garland, CBS had found success with several television specials featuring the star. Garland, who for years had been reluctant to commit to a weekly series, saw the show as her best chance to pull herself out of severe financial difficulties.
Popular music show of the 1960s where a guest panel listened to the latest releases and predicted whether or not they'd be a 'Hit' or a 'Miss'
An old-fashioned gentleman dabbles in detective work.
Not since the 1950s, when Ethel Waters starred as a maid to the Henderson family in the ABC sitcom Beulah, had a black female been cast in a leading TV role...
Although women taking centre stage in police procedurals was nothing new, previous shows hadn't yet promoted females beyond the rank of Detective Sergeant...
A boy grows up in the wilds as an orphan when the rest of his family is killed in an airplane crash. Filmed entirely on location in Kenya, East Africa.
12 Jurors - 11 Actors: American documentary-style comedy series about a fake civil trial in which a member of the public serves on the jury case not knowing that the whole setup has been staged
Witty banter and delightful comedic situations as girl meets boy - except this is the boy who had jilted her at the altar five years previously.
Courtroom drama series based on a one-off play.
Western-style, gun-slinging U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens confronts murder, drugs, bank heists, mobsters, crime families, corrupt politicians and even his own tumultuous past – and never backs down.
Born on the same day near the turn of the century on opposite sides of the world, both men are brought together by fate and the quest of a dream. Kane and Abel battle for the success and triumph that only one man can have
Drama series that blended emotional realism with the social concerns of its time as an 'agony aunt' in a national magazine gets far too involved with the people she offers advice to
Two newly divorced women move into an apartment together.
Music, dance and comedy sketches starring Kathy Kirby from Ilford, Essex.
1960s current affairs programme
Dudley Rush is a cartoonist, but not one that is particularly thrilled about his career. At 45 years old he spends his time drawing, or putting off drawing, a newspaper strip called Barney the Bionic Bulldog.
Hyacinth Bucket (pronounced Bouquet), who spends her entire time trying to climb the local social ladder, much to the dismay of her long suffering husband Richard.
The affable American comedian made such a hit with the British public that the BBC gave him his own stand-up comedy and sketch show, which featured a host of well-known stars
Madcap radio DJ Kenny Everett brings his lunacy to television in a show that was made "in the best possible taste."
Comedy sketch show, taking an irreverent look at life in the eighties.
A young boxer's career is destroyed by a scheming woman in this one-off BBC play that also starred Sid James.
When young David Balfour arrives at his uncle's to claim his inheritance, his relative tries to murder him, then has him shipped off to be sold as a slave in the colonies
Detective Inspector Sarah Lund is all set to emigrate to Sweden but her plans are put on hold when the police investigation into the murder of a young girl in Copenhagen turns out to have implications in high places.
British spy thriller in which a spy hunts down an assassin. But while the hunter becomes obsessed with the hunted, the hunted becomes obsessed with the hunter
A failed sitcom - three times over. Despite the sublime talents of Ronnie Barker, Richard O'Sullivan, Peter Jones, Peter Butterworth, Brian Murphy and Roy Kinnear, no one could raise a laugh from this dreary comedy concept
A nightmare journey into the subconscious anxieties of teenager Roland Wright, whose problems find expression in the dreamscape of his mind when a broken lift plunges to the basement of 'the Castle', a bizarrely twisted reflection of the real world
How many post-apocalyptic science fiction stories are both tremendously heartwarming and uplifting, and perfect viewing for the whole family?
After the fall of the Berlin Wall, a former East German spy resolves to find out who betrayed her and why — and use her lethal skills to exact revenge in this action thriller series that will appeal to fans of 'Killing Eve'
"Knight Errant '59. Quests undertaken, dragons defeated, damsels rescued. Anything, anywhere, for anyone, so long as it helps. Fees according to means"
A lone crimefighter battles the forces of evil with the help of a virtually indestructible and artificially intelligent supercar in this US series filled with action, pacey storylines and an element of tongue-in-cheek humour