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Early 21st century, 20th
century
Australia, Canada, UK, USA
Jane Campions highly acclaimed drama
starring Holly Hunter and Elisabeth
Moss.
Top of the Lake, only on BBC Two.
Video
Trailer BBC
27 June 2013
YouTube
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctwo
Special Ops: Lioness
USA
premiered on July 23, 2023
on Paramount+
Lioness is inspired
by a real-life CIA programme
that used female military
personnel,
first simply to search local
women
during operations
in Iraq and Afghanistan,
and then to distribute
information among them
and gather information.
Creator Taylor Sheridan
(Mayor of Kingstown,
Yellowstone and its
prequels,
Tulsa King, among much else)
takes that premise,
adds a starry cast
led by Zoe Saldana,
including Nicole Kidman
and Morgan Freeman,
and runs with it.
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/jul/23/
special-ops-lioness-review-like-a-female-mission-impossible
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/jul/23/
special-ops-lioness-review-like-a-female-mission-impossible
The Bear
USA
premiered on Hulu on June
23, 2022
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/jul/19/
the-bear-season-two-review-
somehow-even-more-delicious-than-before
https://www.npr.org/2023/06/23/
1184000989/the-bear-season-2-review
https://www.npr.org/2023/06/15/
1182423425/the-bear-has-beef-and-heart
https://www.npr.org/2023/03/09/
1162363587/joseph-zucchero-obit-
italian-beef-mr-beef-the-bear-season-2-chicago-allen-white
https://www.npr.org/2022/07/25/
1113450332/jeremy-allen-white-the-bear-hulu-chefs
https://www.npr.org/2022/07/20/
1112483713/the-bear-dishes-up-a-sneaky-smart-show-
thats-just-as-manic-as-restaurant-life
https://www.npr.org/2022/06/20/
1105979840/review-fx-the-bear
The Idol
USA
The Idol's first two
episodes
premiered on May 22, 2023
at 76th Cannes Film Festival
where it was panned by
critics
for its graphic sexual
content
and themes.
It is scheduled to begin
airing
on HBO on June 4, 2023.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/03/
arts/television/the-idol-the-weeknd-sam-levinson-lily-rose-depp.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/03/
arts/television/the-idol-the-weeknd-sam-levinson-lily-rose-depp.html
White House Plumbers USA
premiere on HBO on May 1,
2023
HBO's new five-part miniseries,
White House Plumbers,
revisits the infamous
Watergate burglary
that brought down
President Richard Nixon
from the perspective of the men
who orchestrated it:
G. Gordon Liddy
and E. Howard Hunt,
played by Justin Theroux
and Woody Harrelson.
https://www.npr.org/2023/05/01/
1172978160/a-tragedy-that-makes-you-laugh-
hbos-white-house-plumbers-revisits-watergate
Saint X
USA
Saint X is an American
psychological drama
television series
developed by Leila Gerstein
that premiered on Hulu
on April 26, 2023.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_X
https://www.npr.org/2023/04/26/
1171757311/saint-x-review
Heartstopper
UK
released on 22 April 2022
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/aug/03/
heartstopper-season-two-review-
this-lgbtq-teen-drama-is-even-sweeter-and-lovelier-than-before
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/29/
arts/television/they-put-the-heart-in-heartstopper.html
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/jul/22/
heartstoppers-kit-connor-
i-wasnt-used-to-the-idea-of-millions-of-people-being-interested-in-my-private-life
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/02/
heartstopper-tv-younger-self-sexuality
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/apr/22/
heartstopper-review-alice-oseman-netflix-tv-drama
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/mar/18/
no-drugs-booze-sex-or-swearing-will-heartstopper-rewrite-the-young-love-rulebook
Abbott Elementary
premiered as a midseason
entry
in the 2021–22 television
season
on December 7, 2021,
https://www.npr.org/2023/04/07/
1156532261/philadelphia-teachers-abbott-elementary-school
'Extrapolations'
Apple TV+
-
premiered on March 17, 2023
The Apple TV+ series
depicts a planet
on the brink
of environmental
crisis,
where ordinary human beings
battle increasingly
hostile elements,
and a villainous tech tycoon seeks
to take over
the world.
Yet in contrast to apocalyptic
climate change
dramas,
like The Day After Tomorrow
and Snowpiercer,
Extrapolations doesn't dwell
on the End of
Days.
"We wanted to focus
on what we call the 'messy
middle,' "
series creator Scott Burns
told NPR in an
interview.
"Because before we get to the end,
there's a lot of life
that we're all gonna have
to go through."
Despite the barrage
of daily news headlines
devoted to climate change,
there still aren't
many fictional TV shows
and movies that deal
with the topic.
And those
that do tend towards disaster,
picturing the end of life on Earth
as we know
it.
But Extrapolations attempts
to walk the line
between fiction and scientific fact
to tell the story of what's at stake
for our planet
over the next few decades.
https://www.npr.org/2023/04/04/
1166078098/extrapolations-apple-tv-climate-change
https://www.npr.org/2023/04/04/
1166078098/extrapolations-apple-tv-climate-change
Succession
USA
premiered on June 3, 2018,
on HBO
https://www.npr.org/tags/1063563742/
succession
https://www.npr.org/series/1045640636/
succession-recaps
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/
succession
https://www.npr.org/2023/06/05/
1179595456/jesse-armstrong-succession-interview
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/may/28/
absurdity-meets-gravitas-how-nicholas-britell-scored-succession
https://www.npr.org/2023/05/29/
1178715007/succession-recap-finale-shiv-roy-kendall-roman-greg-tom
https://www.npr.org/2023/05/25/
1178008172/nicholas-britell-succession
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/09/
arts/television/brian-cox-succession.html
https://www.npr.org/2023/03/25/
1166097286/encore-
hbos-hit-dark-comedy-succession-returns-for-its-final-season
https://www.npr.org/2023/03/24/
1165824579/fresh-air-marks-the-final-season-of-succession-
with-cox-culkin-and-macfadyen
https://www.npr.org/2021/12/06/
1061232763/succession-actor-kieran-culkin
Euphoria
USA 2019-2022
https://www.npr.org/2022/02/22/
1082288241/unlocking-the-sensory-overload-of-euphoria
https://www.npr.org/2022/02/06/
1078634127/euphoria-actress-storm-reid-talks-
about-the-shows-popularity-and-power
https://www.npr.org/2022/01/10/
1071852125/hbo-euphoria-zendaya-review
The White Lotus
HBO USA
The White Lotus premiered
on
July 11, 2021
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/05/
arts/television/f-murray-abraham-white-lotus.html
Mythic Quest
Apple TV+ USA
Mythic Quest premiered
on
February 7, 2020
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/05/
arts/television/f-murray-abraham-white-lotus.html
Moon Knight
USA Disney+
Moon Knight debuted
on March
30, 2022
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/05/
arts/television/f-murray-abraham-white-lotus.html
The Midnight Club
USA
https://www.npr.org/2022/10/09/
1127683752/mike-flanagan-the-midnight-club-netflix-horror-jump-scare
Industry
HBO USA
https://www.npr.org/2022/08/02/
1115146342/in-industry-myhala-herrold-makes-herself-undeniable
https://www.npr.org/2020/12/03/
941425173/hbos-industry-features-the-most-fascinating-character-on-tv-right-now
Reservation Dogs
USA
https://www.npr.org/2022/08/08/
1115613218/reservation-dogs-indian-native-american-hulu
https://www.npr.org/2021/08/17/
1028578146/native-voices-tell-the-story-of-reservation-dogs
In Therapy HBO
The original “In Treatment,”
set in Brooklyn,
began on HBO in 2008,
itself an adaptation
of a popular Israeli series,
“Be’ Tipul,” set in Tel
Aviv.
It had an unusual structure.
A therapist
— Assi Dayan in “Be’ Tipul,”
Gabriel Byrne in “In
Treatment” —
saw a different patient each
night.
And then,
on the fourth or fifth
or sixth night of the week,
he saw his own supervisor.
Episodes consisted entirely
of two or sometimes three
people talking,
mostly about feelings.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/19/
arts/television/in-treatment-uzo-aduba.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/19/
arts/television/in-treatment-uzo-aduba.html
Five Days at Memorial
USA
https://www.npr.org/2022/08/13/
1117156676/five-days-at-memorial-showcases-john-ridleys-skill-at-tough-stories
THEM USA
'Scandal'
USA
https://www.npr.org/2018/04/18/
603248724/scandal-will-keep-on-giving-long-after-olivia-pope-handles-her-last-crisis
https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2014/11/20/
365457210/4-reasons-why-scandal-is-a-telenovela-and-a-good-one
https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2014/11/09/
362401259/is-america-ready-to-fall-in-love-with-the-telenovela
https://www.npr.org/2014/04/18/
304530711/so-scandal-writers-how-did-you-write-t
https://www.npr.org/2013/11/07/
243515839/shonda-rhimes-knows-where-this-scandal-will-end
Superman & Lois CW USA
https://www.npr.org/2021/02/23/
969068962/in-superman-lois-the-man-of-steel-faces-his-biggest-challenge-yet-fatherhood
It's a Sin UK
Survivor CBS USA
CBS reality show
https://www.npr.org/2020/07/01/
885750685/do-right-by-us-black-survivor-alums-say-
the-reality-was-harmful-stereotypes
The Crown Netflix USA
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/
the-crown
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/nov/16/
the-crown-season-6-review-so-bad-its-like-an-out-of-body-experience-netflix
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/audio/2020/dec/02/
the-crown-netflix-drama-fact-or-fiction
Watchmen HBO USA
https://www.npr.org/2020/08/10/
901073481/why-you-should-stream-watchmen
City
on a Hill Showtime USA
https://www.npr.org/2019/06/14/
732440006/aldis-hodge-
a-30-year-acting-veteran-at-age-32-on-city-on-a-hill
Black Mirror 5th Season Netflix
UK

In episode "Demon
79"
an employee at a
department store (Anjana Vasan)
is visited by an
apprentice demon (Paapa Essiedu).
Credit:
Netflix
5 new 'Black
Mirror' episodes have dropped
— and there's not
a dud in the bunch
NPR
June 16, 2023
https://www.npr.org/2023/06/16/
1182425919/black-mirror-season-6-review-netflix
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/
black-mirror
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
List_of_Black_Mirror_episodes
https://www.npr.org/2023/06/16/
1182425919/black-mirror-season-6-review-netflix
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/jun/16/
aaron-paul-on-black-mirror-ai-and-his-love-of-dark-roles
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/jun/15/
black-mirror-6-review-
prepare-to-convulse-in-horror-on-the-sofa-netflix
https://www.npr.org/2019/06/05/
729701805/originality-and-uncertainty-still-reign-
as-black-mirror-enters-its-5th-season
https://www.npr.org/2018/12/28/
680671691/black-mirror-bandersnatch-
makes-you-choose-your-own-adventure
https://www.npr.org/2018/01/17/
578561689/black-mirror-and-electric-dreams-prove-it-
the-anthology-show-is-back
https://www.npr.org/2017/12/29/
572264537/in-season-4-of-black-mirror-
power-corrupts-but-love-still-matters
https://www.npr.org/2016/10/21/
498734538/black-mirror-is-back-
reflecting-our-technological-fears
When They See Us USA
When They See Us
is director/writer/producer
Ava DuVernay's
searing,
four-part drama
about five black
and Latino boys
who were railroaded
into falsely confessing
to the most notorious
gang rape
in New York City history.
https://www.npr.org/2019/06/01/
728237648/horrors-and-humanity-in-ava-duvernays-gripping-when-they-see-us
https://www.npr.org/2019/06/01/
728237648/horrors-and-humanity-in-ava-duvernays-gripping-when-they-see-us
Kim's Convenience
premiered in 2016 Canada
https://www.npr.org/2019/01/09/
682888290/kim-s-convenience-is-a-sitcom-about-asian-immigrants-with-depth
True Detective USA premiered in 2014
https://www.npr.org/2019/01/11/
684610135/season-3-of-true-detective-might-slightly-redeem-the-series-reputation
https://www.npr.org/2019/01/11/
684430006/true-detective-regains-its-footing-in-a-meditative-3rd-season
https://www.npr.org/2019/01/11
/684346425/hbos-true-detective-is-back-with-a-sinister-investigation
https://www.npr.org/2014/01/10/
261412408/hbos-true-detective-brings-big-stars-to-tell-a-brutal-tale
Andi Mack Disney Channel USA
http://www.npr.org/sections/monkeysee/2017/10/27/
560453926/a-boy-with-a-crush-on-a-boy-and-for-the-disney-channel-a-first
Mindhunter USA 2017
http://www.npr.org/2017/10/31/
561086996/mindhunter-actor-jonathan-groff-on-his-most-life-altering-roles
http://www.npr.org/2017/10/12/
557328890/fbi-profilers-pursue-serial-killers-and-their-motives-in-mindhunter
The Handmaid’s Tale UK 2017
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2017/sep/18/
haunting-chillingly-plausible-peerless-how-the-handmaids-tale-changed-tv
Curb Your Enthusiasm HBO USA 2017
http://www.npr.org/2017/09/29/
554262873/curb-your-enthusiasm-returns-and-larry-david-is-back-to-playing-himself
Will & Grace USA 2017
http://www.npr.org/sections/monkeysee/2017/09/28/
553996659/-will-grace-is-back-but-will-its-viewers-be
http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2015/08/31/
432294253/how-shows-like-will-grace-and-black-ish-can-change-your-brain
Star Trek: Discovery CBS USA 2017
http://www.npr.org/2017/09/25/
553532524/cbs-star-trek-discovery-goes-boldly-where-no-trek-show-has-gone-before
The Deuce USA 2017
http://www.npr.org/2017/09/27/
553867653/deuce-creators-capture-the-birth-of-americas-billion-dollar-porn-industry
http://www.npr.org/2017/09/08/
549474980/in-the-deuce-sex-isn-t-titillating-it-s-business
Disjointed USA 2017
http://www.npr.org/2017/08/25/
546044880/-disjointed-is-like-any-workplace-sitcom-think-cheers-with-more-pot
The Bachelorette USA 2017
http://www.npr.org/2017/05/23/
529705257/the-bachelorette-may-have-a-black-star-but-its-still-set-in-a-white-world
The Americans USA 2017
http://www.npr.org/2017/03/25/
521289363/we-are-all-martha-alison-wright-on-how-her-americans-character-became-a-hit
Shots Fired Fox USA 2017
http://www.npr.org/2017/03/22/
521006704/seeking-empathy-shots-fired-creators-flip-the-script-on-police-shootings
You're the Worst USA
http://www.npr.org/2016/09/29/
495931508/in-youre-the-worst-even-the-most-flawed-characters-find-love
Buffy the Vampire Slayer USA
The series premiered
on March 10, 1997, on The WB
and concluded
on May 20, 2003, on UPN.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/buffy-the-vampire-slayer
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2017/mar/10/
buffy-the-vampire-slayer-at-20-the-thrilling-brilliant-birth-of-tv-as-art
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
USA 2013-2021
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
is an American police
procedural comedy
television series
that aired on Fox, and later
on NBC.
The show aired
from September 17, 2013,
to September 16, 2021,
for a total of eight seasons
and 153 episodes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklyn_Nine-Nine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Brooklyn_Nine-Nine
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/sep/13/
10-years-of-brooklyn-nine-nine-
the-most-relentlessly-funny-show-of-the-last-decade
Misfits UK 2009-2013
Misfits
is a British science fiction
comedy-drama television
show, on E4,
about a group of young
offenders
sentenced to work
in a community service
programme,
where they obtain
supernatural powers
after a strange electrical
storm.
The show premiered
on 12 November 2009
and concluded
on 11 December 2013
in its fifth series.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misfits_(TV_series)
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/
misfits
https://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/19/
arts/television/misfits-from-britain-on-logo.html
Speechless USA
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/18/
arts/television/speechless-abc-comedy-nonverbal-child.html
Stranger Things Netflix USA
http://www.npr.org/2016/08/19/
490671346/stranger-things-creators-on-barb-eleven-and-how-glitter-delayed-production
Born this way USA
http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/07/22/
486796812/a-cast-with-down-syndrome-brings-fresh-reality-to-reality-tv
Greenleaf
USA
https://www.npr.org/2016/06/21/
482829462/oprahs-new-show-greenleaf-is-megachurch-melodrama
Silicon Valley HBO
USA
http://www.npr.org/2016/06/09/
481377115/in-hbos-silicon-valley-the-comedy-is-inspired-by-real-life-tech-culture
Line of duty
UK
http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/line-of-duty
http://www.npr.org/2016/03/09/
469670174/new-tv-drama-recounts-heroic-escapes-on-the-underground-railroad
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
USA
http://www.npr.org/2016/03/04/
469191201/crazy-ex-girlfriend-challenges-stereotypes-one-song-at-a-time
Martin Scorsese's 'Vinyl'
http://www.npr.org/2016/03/30/
472385235/ray-romano-gets-deep-dark-and-angsty-for-martin-scorsese-s-vinyl
‘black-ish’
USA
https://www.npr.org/2017/11/05/
562233999/jennifer-lewis-of-blackish-looks-back-at-her-decades-long-career-in-new-autobiog
http://www.npr.org/2016/02/28/
468446215/-black-ish-opens-conversation-about-race-and-police-brutality
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/26/
arts/television/blackish-police-brutality.html
http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2015/08/31/
432294253/how-shows-like-will-grace-and-black-ish-can-change-your-brain
The Fall UK / IR
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/the-fall
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/oct/28/
the-fall-why-were-we-ever-excited-about-this-dead-dog-of-a-show
Fuller House
USA
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/26/
business/media/netflix-aims-for-family-friendly-nostalgia-with-new-slate.html
X-Files
Fox
USA 2000s
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/08/
arts/television/the-x-files-season-10-episode-4-back-in-the-day.html
http://www.npr.org/2016/01/23/
463726029/mulder-and-scully-on-why-the-world-is-ready-for-an-x-files-reboot
http://www.npr.org/2016/01/22/
463971641/as-x-files-returns-meet-the-man-behind-the-theme-song
Nurse Jackie
USA
http://www.npr.org/2015/04/10/
398713112/nurse-jackie-ends-as-tvs-most-honest-depiction-of-addiction
Veep
HBO USA
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/12/
magazine/julia-louis-dreyfus-and-tony-hales-demented-double-act-on-veep.html
Power
Starz USA
http://www.starz.com/originals/power/
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/07/
arts/television/50-cents-power-about-a-drug-dealer-debuts-on-starz.html
True Detective
HBO USA
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/10/
arts/television/true-detective-finds-philosophical-answers-by-seasons-end.html
Orphan Black
BBC3
television drama
that plunges into the moral minefield
of human cloning
http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2014/mar/08/
bbc-three-orphan-black-a-worldwide-hit
House of Cards
http://www.nytimes.com/video/arts/television/100000002710158/
house-of-cards-power-nearly-undone.html
Top of the Lake
http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/top-of-the-lake
http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2013/dec/16/
best-tv-2013-top-of-the-lake
DCI Banks
http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2011/sep/17/
dci-banks-tv-review
The Mill
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2013/jul/27/
the-mill-relentless-misery
Game of Thrones HBO
USA
http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/07/10/
536052787/game-of-thrones-finds-fans-among-disability-rights-activists-too
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/03/
arts/television/for-game-of-thrones-rising-unease-over-rapes-recurring-role.html
Game of Thrones:
season three, episode six – The Climb
HBO USA
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2013/may/06/
game-of-thrones-season-three-episode-six-the-climb
Nashville ABC
USA
http://tv.nytimes.com/2012/10/10/
arts/television/nashville-starring-connie-britton-on-abc.html
mystery drama > Awake NBC
USA
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2012/apr/28/
awake-rubicon-new-lost
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/apr/13/
us-drama-awake-sky-atlantic
Homeland USA
http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/homeland
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/homeland
http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/series/homeland-episode-by-episode
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/06/
arts/television/homeland-review.html
http://www.npr.org/sections/monkeysee/2012/09/29/
161969152/damian-lewis-on-the-conflicts-and-complexities-of-homeland
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2012/apr/12/
homeland-have-you-been-watching
https://www.npr.org/2011/10/05/
140947830/in-homeland-its-hard-to-know-whom-to-trust
Girls HBO
USA
released in 2012
Lena Dunham’s series
about four white women lurching
through their 20s
in New York City.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/16/
style/girls-show-hbo-lena-dunham.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/18/
arts/television/girls-finale-a-season-of-frayed-friendships-and-poignant-arcs.html
http://tv.nytimes.com/2012/04/13/
arts/television/lena-dunhams-girls-begins-on-hbo.html
UK > Downton Abbey
USA
http://www.npr.org/2016/03/06/
469345607/as-downton-draws-to-a-close-a-look-back-on-what-made-the-show-great
http://www.npr.org/sections/monkeysee/2016/03/04/
468973612/pop-culture-happy-hour-a-fond-farewell-to-downton-abbey
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/02/
arts/television/julian-fellowes-on-twists-in-the-downton-abbey-season-finale.html
UK > British costume drama Downton Abbey > Season Two
UK
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/
downton-abbey
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2012/oct/14/
downton-abbey-series-three-episode-five
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2012/feb/20/
downton-abbey-series-two-pbs
Sex and the City
HBO USA
American romantic comedy-drama
television
series
created by Darren Star for HBO.
It is an adaptation of Candace Bushnell's
1997 book of the same name.
The series premiered in the United States
on June 6, 1998,
and concluded on February 22, 2004,
with 94 episodes broadcast over six seasons.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Sex_and_the_City - 21 January 2021
https://www.npr.org/2021/09/22/
1039545276/beloved-sex-and-the-city-actor-willie-garson-dies-at-57
https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2021/aug/27/
revisited-why-is-sex-and-the-city-coming-back-to-our-screens
https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2021/jan/21/
why-is-sex-and-the-city-coming-back-to-our-screens-podcast
Arthur USA 1996-2021
much beloved animated kids
show
Arthur
followed its titular
character,
an eight-year-old aardvark,
as he navigated life among
family,
friends and school.
The show had a knack
for featuring characters
from different cultures,
classes and family
backgrounds.
At times it was boundary
pushing
— an episode of the show's
spin-off,
Postcards from Buster,
received criticism
from then-Education
Secretary
Margaret Spelling
for a 2005 episode
that featured lesbian
parents,
and Alabama Public Televisio
refused to air a 2019
episode
that showed a same-sex
wedding.
https://www.npr.org/2021/07/28/
1021687616/pbs-kids-show-arthur-ending
https://www.npr.org/2021/07/28/
1021687616/pbs-kids-show-arthur-ending
The Simpsons USA
https://www.nytimes.com/topic/subject/the-simpsons
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/10/
arts/television/sam-simon-who-helped-shape-the-simpsons-dies-at-59.html
USA > The Simpsons 500th episode
UK
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2012/feb/18/
simpsons-tv-500th-episode
The US television hits of 2011,
from Community to Revenge
The new season was weak
– but there was plenty of good stuff
worth watching
in 2011.
Here's a pick of the 10 best
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2011/dec/28/us-
television-2011-top-10
best US TV shows
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2011/dec/04/us-
tv-shows-hidden-gems
The Walking Dead
https://www.npr.org/2017/10/23/
559035940/the-walking-dead-returns-to-form-in-season-8-premiere
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2011/oct/21/
the-walking-dead-season-two
BBC2's 50s newsroom thriller > The Hour
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/the-hour
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2011/aug/23/the-hour-bbc-finale
Taggart axed by ITV after 27 years
Broadcaster decides not to commission
28th series of Scottish detective
drama,
but it could continue in some form on STV
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/may/12/
taggart-axed-by-itv
sitcom > Not Going Out?
Not Going Out
is a British
television sitcom
that has aired
on BBC One since 2006
and is the
second-longest-running
British sitcom
(number of
series),
behind Last of
the Summer Wine.
It stars Lee
Mack and Sally Bretton
with Geoffrey
Whitehead, Deborah Grant,
Hugh Dennis,
and Abigail Cruttenden.
The series has
previously
starred Megan
Dodds,
Miranda Hart,
Tim Vine,
Katy Wix and
Bobby Ball.
- Wikipedia, July 23, 2023
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Not_Going_Out
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Not_Going_Out
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2011/feb/03/
not-going-out
The Slap
http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2011/oct/27/
tv-review-the-slap-panorama
True Blood
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/
true-blood
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2011/jan/13/
true-blood-season-three
Freaks and Geeks USA
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2010/dec/31/
box-set-freaks-and-geeks
Agatha Christie's Poirot UK
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2010/dec/24/
poirot-murder-on-the-orient-express
Peep Show
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/
peep-show
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2010/dec/23/
miranda-peep-show-tv-matters
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2010/dec/14/
andradioblog/2010/dec/14/peep-show-series-7">
peep-show-series-7
Screen Burn
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/series/
screenburn
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2010/oct/16/
charlie-brooker-leaving-screen-burn
cartoon series > The Flintstones
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2010/sep/29/
the-flintstones-google-doodle-50
Heroes USA
NBC series about young people
who use their superpowers to save the planet
https://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/28/
arts/television/28family.html
The Mentalist USA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
The_Mentalist
No Ordinary Family
USA
http://tv.nytimes.com/2010/09/28/
arts/television/28family.html
bedsit-set sitcom > Him & Her
UK
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2010/sep/27/
him-her-bbc
interactive reality TV show > Seven Days
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2010/sep/23/
seven-days-tv-review
Spooks
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/
spooks
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2010/sep/20/
spooks-series-nine-episode-one
The Inbetweeners
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/
is-the-inbetweeners-all-its-cracked-up-to-be-2083304.html
Our Friends In The North
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2010/sep/18/
our-friends-flannery-eccleston
The Deep
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2010/aug/31/
the-deep-have-you-been-watching
The OC
USA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
The_O.C. .
The Good Wife USA
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/06/
arts/television/the-good-wife-a-broadcast-gem-fades-away.html
http://www.npr.org/2016/04/30/
476154723/good-wife-creators-say-they-wanted-to-end-the-show-while-it-was-still-good
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2010/aug/30/
emmy-awards-2010-archie-panjabi
Modern Family USA
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/31/
arts/television/31emmy.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/30/
arts/television/30emmys.html
Hung USA
https://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/06/
arts/television/06hung.html
Six Feet Under
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/
six-feet-under
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2011/aug/16/box-set-club-six-feet-under
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2011/apr/01/next-box-set-six-feet-under
Coronation Street UK
Coronation Street is a British television soap opera
created by Granada Television and shown on ITV
since 9 December 1960.
The programme centres
on a cobbled, terraced street
in the fictional Weatherfield,
a town based on inner-city Salford, England.
Originally broadcast twice weekly,
the series began airing six times a week in 2017.
The programme was conceived
by scriptwriter Tony Warren.
Warren's initial proposal was rejected
by the station's founder Sidney Bernstein,
but he was persuaded by producer Harry Elton
to produce the programme for 13 pilot episodes.
The show has since become
a significant part of British culture.
Coronation Street is made
by Granada's successor, ITV Studios,
at MediaCityUK and shown in all ITV regions,
as well as internationally.
In 2010, upon its 50th anniversary,
the series was recognised by Guinness World Records
as the world's longest-running television soap
opera.
Initially influenced
by the conventions of kitchen-sink realism,
Coronation Street is noted for its depiction
of a down-to-earth, working-class community,
combined with light-hearted humour
and strong characters.
The show currently averages
around five million viewers per episode.
The show premiered its 10,000th episode
on 7 February 2020,
and celebrated its 60th anniversary later that year.
Source: Wkipedia, July 23, 2023.
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/
coronation-street
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Coronation_Street
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/dec/09/
every-character-was-eccentric-it-was-beautiful-the-inside-story-of-coronation-street
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2011/oct/15/betty-driver
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/gallery/2011/jan/19/coronation-street-photography
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/video/2010/aug/28/tony-warren-corrie-video
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2010/jul/08/coronation-street-birthday-disaster
Coronation Street creator Tony Warren
UK
https://www.theguardian.com/media/video/2010/aug/28/
tony-warren-corrie-video
Hollyoaks UK
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/
hollyoaks
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/jul/01/hollyoaks-transgender-teenagers
Cougar Town
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2010/jun/14/
cougar-town-renaming-tv-shows
Ashes to Ashes
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/ashes-to-ashes
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2010/may/21/ashes-to-ashes-final-episode
Lost USA
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/lost
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/apr/17/jj-abrams-novel-rumours
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/25/arts/television/25lost.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/22/technology/22lost.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2010/may/21/lost-season-six-episode-sixteen
Luther
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/
luther
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2011/jun/14/luther-second-series
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2010/apr/26/luther-idris-elba-bbc1
South Park
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/
south-park
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/mediamonkeyblog/2010/apr/08/south-park-season-4-episode-14-facebook
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2010/apr/16/south-park-200th-episode
political dramas UK
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2010/apr/29/six-to-watch-political-dramas
war dramas UK
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2010/mar/30/best-tv-war-dramas
The Pacific
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/arts/television/07pacific.html
Cast Offs
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/video/2009/nov/18/cast-offs-channel-4
The Thick Of It
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qgrd
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2009/nov/17/chris-addison-interview
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2009/oct/26/thick-of-it-casualty-emma
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2009/oct/17/peter-capaldi-malcolm-tucker-tv
Casualty
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006m8wd
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2009/oct/26/thick-of-it-casualty-emma
soap opera > Guiding Light
USA
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/19/opinion/19collins.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/sep/18/guiding-light-final-episode
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/deadlineusa/2009/sep/18/television-usa
Psychoville
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/
psychoville
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/tvandradioblog/2009/jul/30/
psychoville-final-episode
Flight of the Conchords
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/
flight-of-the-conchords
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2010/oct/16/kristen-schaal-interview
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/aug/29/jemaine-clement-flight-of-conchords
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/tvandradioblog/video/2009/jul/27/flight-of-the-conchords-deleted-scene
“Ruby & the Rockits” > pilot episode
USA
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/21/arts/television/21ruby.html
Cold Feet
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2011/jan/12/cold-feet-itv
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/aug/28/cold-feet-might-return-harries
Desperate Romantics
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/tvandradioblog/2009/aug/26/desperate-romantics-episode-six
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2009/jul/22/desperate-romantics-coast
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2009/jul/21/desperate-romantics-bbc-drama
Rubicon
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/06/24/arts/AP-US-TV-Rubicon.html
Occupation
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/garethmcleanblog/2009/jun/16/occupation-peter-bowker-iraq
Dollhouse
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/tvandradioblog/2009/jun/02/joss-whedon-dollhouse-stage-fright
Battlestar Galactica
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2009/mar/19/battlestar-galactica-review
Being Human
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/feb/26/being-human-return-for-second-series
Law & Order: UK
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/organgrinder/2009/feb/24/television-television
Absolutely Fabulous
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2011/apr/21/absolutely-fabulous-edina-patsy
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/apr/20/absolutely-fabulous-bbc-1-sitcom
sitcom > Everybody Loves Raymond
USA 1996-2005
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/19/
arts/television/doris-roberts-the-mother-on-everybody-loves-raymond-dies-at-90.html
Doctor Who
UK
Doctor Who
is a British science fiction television series
broadcast by the BBC since 1963.
The series depicts
the adventures of a Time Lord called the Doctor,
an extraterrestrial being who appears to be human.
The Doctor explores the universe
in a time-travelling space ship called the TARDIS.
The TARDIS exterior appears as a blue British police
box,
which was a common sight in Britain in 1963
when the series first aired.
With various companions, the Doctor combats foes,
works to save civilisations, and helps people in
need.
July 23, 2023
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Who
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/
doctor-who
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Who
https://www.npr.org/2017/12/25/
573415852/doctor-who-says-goodbye-to-peter-capaldi-as-show-prepares-for-first-female-docto
http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/video/2014/aug/23/doctor-who-telly-addict-special-video
http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2014/aug/23/doctor-who-capaldi-hype-plot-beyond-daft
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/interactive/2013/mar/29/doctor-who-50-year-history-visualised
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2013/feb/24/raymond-cusick
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2012/mar/24/doctor-who-time-lord-cardiff-conventio
http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/from-the-archive-blog/2011/nov/23/doctor-who-anniverary-first-episode
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/oct/09/the-debate-doctor-who
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2011/sep/30/doctor-who-tribute-brigadier-actor
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/aug/19/the-coversation-doctor-who
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2011/apr/22/doctor-who-tardis-in-us
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2011/apr/20/doctor-who-fantasy
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2011/apr/19/elisabeth-sladen-doctor-who-star-dies
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2011/apr/05/doctor-who-new-series
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2010/dec/25/doctor-who-christmas-special-2010
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2010/dec/16/doctor-who-christmas-special
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2010/jun/19/doctor-who-the-pandorica-opens
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/jul/22/dr-who-matt-smith-fashion
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/may/29/doctor-who-karen-gillan
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/jan/03/doctor-who-matt-smith
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/jun/26/bbc.doctorwho
Roots remake USA 2016
This new Roots works its way
through stories along several generations.
It still leaves room,
as did the original, for a
sequel
— but the central Roots story remains potent enough,
and even more so in this new telling.
Characters are given more time,
and the actors do wonders with their scenes —
especially Kirby as Kunta Kinte, Rose as Kizzy,
and Page as Chicken George.
You'll feel for them and their journeys.
This new Roots is a TV miniseries
that not only should be seen but, like the original,
definitely deserves to be talked about.
https://www.npr.org/2016/05/26/
479494123/in-its-retelling-roots-is-powerful-must-see-television
Roots ABC
USA 1977
The original Roots miniseries,
based on the 1976 Alex Haley novel
tracing his own family tree
from African tribal life
to American slavery and freedom,
was a phenomenon.
ABC showed it over consecutive nights
in January
1977,
not because it was expected to earn huge ratings
but because network executives were afraid
it
wouldn't.
So they crammed the entire miniseries
into an eight-day prime-time marathon,
which aired, by coincidence,
during a massive winter storm
that snowed in much of the Northeast.
Roots was TV's
original binge-viewing experience,
and it kept drawing more viewers every night.
Its
finale,
still one of the most-viewed scripted
programs in TV
history,
was seen by more than 100 million people.
It started a new national dialogue
about race and
racism,
and slavery and genealogy,
and launched or heightened
the careers of several
black actors,
including LeVar Burton, John Amos,
Leslie Uggams, Louis Gossett Jr.
and Ben Vereen.
https://www.npr.org/2016/05/26/
479494123/in-its-retelling-roots-is-powerful-must-see-television
“Roots” transfixed Americans
— first as an overnight best
seller
by Alex Haley,
then as an ABC mini-series,
which drew 100 million viewers
(...).
It made the slave trade and black
history
inescapable parts of national
popular culture
and produced a unique moment
when
ordinary Americans
talked about slavery in
workplaces,
bars, churches and schools.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/28/
opinion/why-america-forgot-about-roots.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/17/
books/review/alex-haley-hamilton-college-autobiography-of-malcolm-x-roots.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/28/
opinion/why-america-forgot-about-roots.html
Strictly Come Dancing
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/nov/23/strictlycomedancing-bbc
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/tv-radio/
the-end-of-the-affair-last-waltz-for-john-sergeant-1031212.html
I'm a Celebrity
https://www.theguardian.com/media/organgrinder/2008/nov/18/
imacelebrity
Criminal Justice
2008
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2008/jun/26/
television.television
Generation Kill
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/14/generation-kill-the-wire
The Wire
HBO
USA 2002-2008
https://www.theguardian.com/media/david-simon
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/13/
arts/television/the-wire-baltimore.html
https://www.npr.org/2021/09/06/
1034655290/michael-williams-omar-the-wire-hbo-dies-at-age-54
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/feb/21/david-simon-interview-wire-treme
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/organgrinder/2008/oct/13/wire-television
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/jul/20/television.irvinewelsh
USA > David Simon
UK
https://www.theguardian.com/media/david-simon
Gossip Girl
USA
2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/08/fashion/08gossip.html
Skins UK
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/
skins
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2012/mar/08/skins-tv-sorely-missed
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/dec/19/teenagers-under-their-skins
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/gallery/2010/dec/16/skins-series-5-cast
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2010/mar/18/skins-season-four
Skins series 5 UK
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2011/jan/28/
skins-series-5
UK >
Skins
USA
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/20/business/media/20mtv.html
Eddi-Rue McClanahan 1934-2010
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/04/arts/04mcclanahan.html
http://movies.nytimes.com/person/47011/Rue-McClanahan
Last of the Summer Wine, Porridge >
actors > Brian Wilde 1927-2008
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/mar/21/television1
Prison Break
USA
http://www.fox.com/prisonbreak/
Desperate
housewives USA
https://www.npr.org/2004/10/01/
4056963/-unhappily-ever-after-desperate-housewives
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/
story.php?storyId=4057281 - October 1,
2004
The Office UK
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00jd68z
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/jul/10/
the-office-20-years-ricky-gervais-stephen-merchant
four-part television series
> The Passion UK
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2009/sep/20/
frank-deasy-obituary
Prime Suspect 7 UK
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2009/sep/20/
frank-deasy-obituary
USA > The Sopranos
UK / USA
https://www.npr.org/2022/07/09/
1110670719/sopranos-tony-sirico-dies-paulie-walnuts-obit
http://www.usatoday.com/life/television/news/2007-06-07-sopranos_N.htm
http://www.usatoday.com/life/television/reviews/2007-04-05-the-sopranos_N.htm
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2007/mar/24/usnews.broadcasting
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2006/aug/30/broadcasting.g2
Friends reunion HBO Max
USA
https://www.npr.org/2021/05/27/
1000519295/the-friends-reunion-that-lost-its-nerve
Friends
NBC sitcom
USA
https://www.npr.org/2019/12/17/
788760850/in-2019-tvs-friends-remains-successful-and-divisive
All Creatures Great and Small
BCC UK
1978-1990
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2017/aug/03/
robert-hardy-obituary
Spitting Image - in pictures
3 August 2014
We take a look at Spitting image puppets
created by Roger Law for the famous TV satire
http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/gallery/2014/aug/03/
comedy-puppetry
The Persuaders!
1970s
Tony Curtis (born Bernard Schwartz) 1925-2010
a classically handsome movie star
who came out of the
Hollywood studio system
in the 1950s
to find both wide popularity and critical acclaim
in dramatic and comic roles
alike,
from “The Defiant Ones” to “Some Like It Hot”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/tony-curtis
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/01/movies/01curtis.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/sep/30/tony-curtis-tributes-film-world
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/sep/30/tony-curtis-obituary
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2010/sep/30/tony-curtis-true-hollywood-star
family sitcom > The Cosby Show USA 1984-1992
https://www.npr.org/2021/06/30/
1011859393/bill-cosbys-release-could-have-a-silencing-effect-on-victims-advocates-say
https://www.npr.org/2018/09/25/
651065803/bill-cosby-sentenced-to-at-least-3-years-in-state-prison
https://www.npr.org/2018/04/26/
606005482/bill-cosby-convicted-on-3-counts-of-aggravated-indecent-assault
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/18/
arts/television/how-to-think-about-bill-cosby-and-the-cosby-show.html
http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2017/06/12/
532242734/when-what-was-good-for-bill-cosby-was-good-for-black-america
http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2014/09/19/
349847465/examining-bill-cosbys-legacy-as-the-cosby-show-turns-30
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/11/
arts/television/bill-cosby-appreciation-and-screenings-at-paley-center-for-media.html
sitcom > The Fresh Prince of
Bel-Air USA
1990s
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/02/
arts/television/james-avery-fresh-prince-actor-dies-at-68.html
Law & Order
USA
1990s
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/10/
arts/television/doris-belack-judge-on-tvs-law-order-dies-at-85.html
Sesame Street
USA
PBS
For generations,
Sesame Street has been a mainstay
of American children's television.
But when the show premiered
(...) on Nov. 10, 1969,
it was considered controversial,
even radical.
https://www.npr.org/2021/05/08/
994738544/the-story-of-sesame-street-from-radical-experiment-to-beloved-tv-mainstay
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/26/
business/media/lloyd-morrisett-dead.html
https://www.npr.org/2021/11/15/
1055733980/sesame-street-makes-history-with-the-debut-of-its-first-asian-american-muppet
https://www.npr.org/2021/05/08/
994738544/the-story-of-sesame-street-from-radical-experiment-to-beloved-tv-mainstay
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/26/
arts/television/david-smyrl-dies-at-80-played-mr-handford-on-sesame-street.html
L.A. Law NBC 1986-1994
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/19/
arts/television/larry-drake-lovable-clerk-on-la-law-dies-at-67.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/10/
arts/television/richard-dysart-emmy-winning-actor-on-la-law-dies-at-86.html
Diff’rent Strokes
USA
on NBC from 1978 to 1985
and on ABC from 1985 to 1986
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/17/
arts/television/conrad-bain-actor-on-diffrent-strokes-dies-at-89.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/29/
arts/television/29coleman.html
prime-time soap opera “Dynasty”
USA 1980s
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/31/
arts/television/kate-omara-played-caress-on-dynasty-dies-at-74.html
nuclear thriller > Edge of
Darkness UK 1980s
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Edge_of_Darkness
ABC’s glamour soap “Dynasty”
USA 1981-1989
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/03/
arts/television/03forsythe.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/apr/02/
john-forsythe-dynasty-actor-dies
Designing Women
USA 1980s-1990s
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/12/
arts/television/12carter.html
Family Ties
USA 1980s
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/25/
arts/television/gary-david-goldberg-creator-of-family-ties-dies-at-68.html
The Golden Girls
USA
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/04/arts/04mcclanahan.html
Band of Brothers
USA
http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/obit/2011-01-10-
dick-winters-obit_N.htm
Neighbours Australia
1985-2022
Australian television soap opera
that was first broadcast
on the Seven Network
on 18 March 1985.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neighbours
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/
neighbours
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2022/jul/29/
the-guide-neighbours-finale
Pennies from Heaven
Dennis Potter’s
groundbreaking 1978 television series
about a travelling sheet music-seller
of the 1930s,
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/may/21/
ken-westbury-obituary
The Love Boat USA
aired on ABC from 1977 to 1986
in addition,
four three-hour
specials aired
in 1986, 1987, and 1990.
The show,
which ran from 1977 to 1986,
revolved around Mr. MacLeod’s
affable white-suited captain
and a crew of regulars
as it ventured into
new television territory,
offering simultaneous plot lines
in each episode, all having to do
with the humorous, and amorous,
adventures of the cruise ship’s
passengers, played by guest stars.
(Mr. MacLeod later
became a
pitchman
for Princess Cruises.)
But unlike
“The Mary Tyler Moore Show,”
which was acclaimed for its
writing
and its willingness to defy
the sanitized conventions
of situation comedy,
“The Love Boat,”
produced by Aaron Spelling,
was vilified by critics
as just another example of safe,
formulaic TV comedy.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/29/
arts/television/gavin-macleod-dead.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/29/
arts/television/gavin-macleod-dead.html
cartoon series > Voltron: Defender
of the Universe USA
1980s
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/11/arts/design/11keefe.html
Spitting Image
It was on 26 February 1984
that the caricatures of Peter Fluck and Law
were brought to life in puppet form
for Spitting Image.
The show ran on ITV for 18 series,
bringing to the world
a jive-talking banjo-strumming Pope John Paul II,
a CND supporting Queen,
a leather-clad Norman Tebbit
and many more.
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/feb/25/
spitting-image-exhibition-margaret-thatcher-reputation
http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2014/apr/15/
how-we-made-spitting-image
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/feb/25/
spitting-image-exhibition-margaret-thatcher-reputation
Are You Being
Served? UK 1972-1985
department store comedy
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2011/apr/16/
trevor-bannister-served-lucas-dies
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2007/mar/08/
broadcasting.uknews1
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2007/mar/09/
guardianobituaries.artsobituaries
Diff'rent Strokes USA NBC sitcom
1978
https://www.npr.org/2018/08/06/
636024363/remembering-charlotte-rae-her-voice-quavered-her-comic-timing-didnt
The Professionals UK 1977-1983
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2013/nov/28/
lewis-collins
television comedy > groundbreaking
series
“All in the Family” USA 1970s
adaptation of the British series
“Till Death Us Do Part,”
starring Carroll O’Connor
as the
bigoted,
malaprop-prone Archie Bunker;
Jean Stapleton as his wife, Edith;
and Sally Struthers and Rob Reiner
as their bleeding-heart daughter
and son-in-law.
(...)
“All in the Family,”
which had
been rejected by ABC,
had its premiere on CBS in 1971
as
a midseason replacement
in the unenviable Tuesday night
slot
following “Hee Haw,”
the variety show
built around
country music
and cornpone humor.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/19/
arts/television/bud-yorkin-writer-and-producer-of-all-in-the-family-dies-at-89.html
https://www.npr.org/2021/11/02/
1051363358/all-in-the-family-
the-show-that-began-in-1971-changed-television-history
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/19/arts/television/
bud-yorkin-writer-and-producer-of-all-in-the-family-dies-at-89.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/02/arts/television/
jean-stapleton-who-played-archies-better-angel-dies-at-90.html
“The Waltons” 1970s
enormously popular 1970s television series
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/26/
arts/television/earl-hamner-jr-who-created-the-waltons-dies-at-92.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/15/
arts/television/ralph-waite-patriarch-in-tv-series-the-waltons-dies-at-85.html
“The Partridge Family” USA 1970s
sitcom
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/17/
arts/television/dave-madden-of-the-partridge-family-dies-at-82.html
Alice
USA 1970s and ’80s
sitcom
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/25/
arts/television/beth-howland-accident-prone-waitress-
from-the-sitcom-alice-dies-at-74.html
One Day at a
Time USA
1970s and ’80s
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/02/
arts/television/bonnie-franklin-actress-dies-at-69.html
Morecambe and
Wise UK 1960s-1970s
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/gallery/2018/sep/01/
bring-me-sunshine-morecambe-and-wise-anniversary-in-pictures
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2013/feb/15/
john-ammonds
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/oct/17/
eric-morecambe-son-gary
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2009/oct/12/
eric-morecambe-ernie-wise-letter
“M*A*S*H” > Larry Gelbart,
comedy writer USA
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/12/arts/12gelbart.html
Columbo USA 1971-1978
https://www.npr.org/2021/01/14/
956821460/remembering-michael-apted-william-link-and-neil-sheehan
https://www.npr.org/2011/06/24/
137398923/peter-falk-tvs-legendary-columbo-dies-at-83
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/25/
arts/television/peter-falk-columbo-actor-dies-at-83.html
An American Family USA 1973
first reality
television show
Mr. Gilbert
(...)
in the early
1970s
(...)
was the envy
of many
documentarians,
having produced
well-received
films
about the
anthropologist
Margaret Mead
and the
disabled Irish writer
Christy Brown.
He was a
producer at WNET,
the New York
public
television
outlet,
when he came up
with an even
more
ambitious idea, at a time
when narrative
journalism
was on the
rise: to follow
a real American
family
for months,
capturing
moments
mundane and
emotional
in an
unvarnished,
unrehearsed
style
known as cinéma
vérité.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/13/
arts/television/craig-gilbert-dead.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/11/
arts/television/pat-loud-dead.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/13/
arts/television/craig-gilbert-dead.html
The Mod Squad 1968-1973
one of the first
prime-time series
to
acknowledge
the existence
of
the hippie counterculture
and an early example
of
multiracial casting.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/12/
obituaries/peggy-lipton-mod-squad-dead.html
https://www.npr.org/2021/06/07/
1003885526/clarence-williams-iii-the-mod-squad-and-purple-rain-actor-dies-at-81
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/06/
obituaries/clarence-williams-iii-dead.html
https://www.npr.org/2019/05/12/
722590154/peggy-lipton-star-of-the-mod-squad-and-twin-peaks-dies-at-72
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/12/
obituaries/peggy-lipton-mod-squad-dead.html
Man About the House UK
sex in peak-time television
did not start
–
and, then,
only fumblingly and furtively –
until 1973.
On
15 August that year,
ITV premiered the sitcom
Man About the House.
Its writer Brian Cooke
had seen a few adverts
in
the flat shares section
of
the Evening Standard
specifying “a male or female”
flatmate.
The phrasing was striking,
as
the convention at the time
was for rentals
being single-sex and,
by
heterosexual assumption,
therefore no sex.
Carla Lane’s The Liver Birds,
which debuted on BBC One in 1969,
featured two young women sharing.
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/aug/15/
naughty-rather-than-dirty-50-years-of-man-about-the-house-
the-sitcom-that-introduced-sex-to-british-tv
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/aug/15/
naughty-rather-than-dirty-50-years-of-man-about-the-house-
the-sitcom-that-introduced-sex-to-british-tv
Laugh-In USA
Broadcast on NBC
from 1968 to
1973,
“Laugh-In”
was a sketch-comedy
series
hosted by the comedians
Dan Rowan
and Dick Martin.
It featured Ruth Buzzi,
Judy
Carne, Henry Gibson,
Arte Johnson and Lily Tomlin
as
regular performers.
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/14/
arts/television/gary-owens-announcer-on-laugh-in-dies-at-80.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/14/
arts/television/gary-owens-announcer-on-laugh-in-dies-at-80.html
https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=vZpsVsrlUd8&index=2&list=PL2RzsTTHhhwWjnc-tpG5zivYXwCSTq9f3
Mission: Impossible USA
1966-1973 on CBS
1988-1990 on ABC
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2010/mar/15/peter-graves-obituary
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/15/arts/television/15graves.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/15/arts/television/15graves.html
Happy Days USA 1974-1984
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/20/
arts/television/20bosley.html
sitcom > Benson
1980s USA
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/29/
arts/television/james-noble-absent-minded-governor-on-benson-dies-at-94.html
TV host Don Cornelius 1936-2011 > “Soul Train”
USA
one of the longest-running
syndicated shows in television history,
it played a critical role
in spreading the music of black America
to the world,
offering wide exposure to musicians
like
James Brown, Aretha Franklin,
Marvin Gaye and Michael Jackson
in the 1970s and ’80s.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/02/arts/music/don-cornelius-soul-train-creator-is-dead-at-75.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/02/
arts/music/don-cornelius-soul-train-creator-is-dead-at-75.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SUEyf_2fbo
1970s sitcom > “Welcome Back,
Kotter”
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/28/
arts/television/robert-hegyes-60-of-welcome-back-kotter-is-dead.html
1970s soap-opera parody > “Mary
Hartman, Mary Hartman”
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/16/
arts/television/phil-bruns-dad-on-mary-hartman-mary-hartman-dies-at-80.html
The Rockford Files
1970s
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/19/
arts/television/joe-santos-a-mainstay-of-the-rockford-files-dies-at-84.html
“The Odd Couple”
1970s
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/25/
arts/television/jack-klugman-stage-and-screen-actor-is-dead-at-90.html
“Quincy, M.E.”
1970s
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/25/
arts/television/jack-klugman-stage-and-screen-actor-is-dead-at-90.html
NBC series > “The Life and Times
of Grizzly Adams” USA
1970s
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/04/
arts/television/04seiller.html
M*A*S*H
USA 1970s-1980s
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/04/
obituaries/david-ogden-stiers-mash-dies.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/01/nyregion/
wayne-rogers-82-actor-in-tv-show-mash.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/08/
arts/television/harry-morgan-mash-and-dragnet-actor-dies-at-96.html
David Allen Ogden Stiers USA 1942-2018
tall, balding,
baritone-voiced actor
who brought articulate,
somewhat snobbish comic dignity
to six seasons
of the acclaimed television series
“M*A*S*H”
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/04/
obituaries/david-ogden-stiers-mash-dies.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/04/
obituaries/david-ogden-stiers-mash-dies.html
Harry Morgan 1915-2011
(born Harry Bratsburg)
Harry Morgan,
the prolific character actor
best known for playing
the acerbic but kindly Colonel Potter
in the long-running television series
“M*A*S*H”
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/08/
arts/television/harry-morgan-mash-and-dragnet-actor-dies-at-96.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/08/
arts/television/harry-morgan-mash-and-dragnet-actor-dies-at-96.html
“The Mary Tyler Moore Show”
and
its spinoff “Rhoda”
USA 1970s
“The Mary Tyler Moore Show,”
running from 1970 to 1977,
became one
of the most acclaimed
comedies in television history,
winning Emmys
and a devoted
audience,
not least because
it centered on
a young,
single professional woman
— still an adventurous premise
at
the time —
and offered quick-witted comedy
with generous doses
of the real
world,
addressing serious topics
like
drug use,
homosexuality, women’s rights
and premarital sex.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/29/
arts/television/gavin-macleod-dead.html
https://www.npr.org/2021/08/29/
1032229523/ed-asner-award-winning-actor-who-played-lou-grant-dies-at-91
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/29/
arts/television/gavin-macleod-dead.html
The Two Ronnies BBC 1971-1987
http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2016/mar/31/
ronnie-corbett-obituary
mime-and-dance comedy team Shields
and Yarnell USA 1970s
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/07/
arts/dance/07yarnell.html
ABC sitcom > The Brady Bunch USA 1969-1974
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/02/
arts/television/ann-b-davis-the-maid-on-the-brady-bunch-dies-at-88.html
The Persuaders! 1971-1972
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
The_Persuaders!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xckIh7C4LYg - pilot opening
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
USA
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
(also known simply as Mary Tyler
Moore)
is an American sitcom television
series
created by James L. Brooks and
Allan Burns
and starring actress Mary Tyler
Moore.
The show originally aired
on CBS from 1970 to 1977.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
The_Mary_Tyler_Moore_Show
https://www.npr.org/2023/05/22/
1177058025/being-mary-tyler-moore-review-documentary
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/01/25/
461947952/she-turned-the-world-on-with-her-smile-mary-tyler-moore-dies-at-80
“Laugh-In” USA NBC 1968 to 1973
ensemble comedy show
composed of brief bits of
slapstick antics
and verbal nonsense tumbling over
one another
in furious succession.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/08/arts/
judy-carne-sock-it-to-me-girl-on-laugh-in-dies-at-76.html
NBC series > Julia USA from 1968 to 1971
first television series
to center on the life
of a black professional woman
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/09/
arts/television/hal-kanter-a-creator-of-julia-series-on-tv-dies-at-92.html
Hawaii Five-O USA 1968-1980
One of television’s
longest-running crime shows.
It was seen in more than 80 countries.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/29/
arts/television/29mccarthur.html
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
- first show on Feb. 19, 1968
USA
https://www.npr.org/2018/02/19/
586180373/its-a-beautiful-50th-birthday-for-mister-rogers-neighborhood
https://www.npr.org/2018/02/18/
584669284/mister-rogers-still-lives-in-your-neighborhood
https://www.npr.org/2018/02/18/
586216858/50-years-later-mister-rogers-remains-our-favorite-neighbor
https://www.npr.org/2018/02/07/
583970831/mister-rogers-will-appear-forever-on-a-stamp
https://www.npr.org/2016/03/11/
469846519/walking-the-beat-in-mr-rogers-neighborhood-
where-a-new-day-began-together
The Dick Van Dyke Show
USA
The Dick Van Dyke Show
is an American television sitcom
created by Carl Reiner
that initially aired on CBS
from October 3, 1961,
to June 1, 1966,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
The_Dick_Van_Dyke_Show
https://www.npr.org/2023/05/22/
1177058025/being-mary-tyler-moore-review-documentary
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/01/25/
461947952/she-turned-the-world-on-with-her-smile-mary-tyler-moore-dies-at-80
BBC television play > Cathy Come
Home UK 1966
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/jul/31/
shelter-cathy-come-home-homelessness-anniversary
I Spy USA NBC 1965-1968
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/29/arts/television/29gillis.html
The Man From U.N.C.L.E. USA NBC
1964-1968
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
The_Man_from_U.N.C.L.E.
Car 54, Where Are You? USA NBC 1961-1963
https://www.npr.org/2018/08/06/
636024363/remembering-charlotte-rae-her-voice-quavered-
her-comic-timing-didnt
“The Beverly Hillbillies”
burst upon the scene
on the evening of Sept. 26, 1962.
“In tonight’s fun-filled premiere,
Buddy Ebsen stars
as the head of a proud hillbilly clan
that discovers an oil well at home
that leads to a new home
in
Hollywood!”
a CBS print advertisement
proclaimed.
Other cast members included
Irene Ryan
as the flinty matriarch Granny
and Max Baer Jr.,
as the bumpkin cousin
Jethro Bodine.
At its height, in the ’60s,
“The Beverly Hillbillies”
was a family favorite
watched by millions.
But by the end of a decade
marked by assassinations,
urban riots and the Vietnam War,
American tastes were moving away
from such innocent,
cornpone
fare,
and the series ended in 1971.
An effort to revive it
in the fall of 1981,
through a two-hour
movie pilot titled
“The Return
of the Beverly Hillbillies,”
fell flat.
But the show’s fans,
many of them children
who grew up watching it,
remained fond of the series
(it was later broadcast
in reruns)
(...)
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/03/
arts/television/donna-douglas-the-fairest-beverly-hillbilly-dies-at-82.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/03/
arts/television/donna-douglas-the-fairest-beverly-hillbilly-dies-at-82.html
The Tall Man
USA 1960-1962

Clu Gulager, right, as Billy the Kid
and
Barry Sullivan as Pat Garrett
in the television series “The Tall Man.”
Mr. Gulager’s
rough-hewed good looks and Southwestern upbringing
made him a natural for the TV westerns
that proliferated in the 1950s and ’60s.
Photograph: NBC, via Everett
Collection
NYT
August 7, 2022
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/07/
movies/clu-gulager-dead.html
a half-hour American
western television series
about Sheriff Pat Garrett
and gunfighter Billy the
Kid
that aired on NBC
from September 10, 1960,
to September 1, 1962,
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/07/
movies/clu-gulager-dead.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/07/
movies/clu-gulager-dead.html
Johnny Staccato NBC USA 1959-1960
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Johnny_Staccato
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
John_Cassavetes
“Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In”
USA
one of the top-rated shows on television
in the late 1960s
(...)
The show, which first appeared
as a special in 1967 and ran
until 1973,
satirized the counterculture
and featured show business guests
like Diana Ross
as well as public figures
like the Rev. Billy Graham
and Richard M. Nixon, who,
appearing while running for president
and trying to shed a stiff image,
drew laughs and a few gasps
when he asked, “Sock it to me?”
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/09/
arts/television/digby-wolfe-actor-and-laugh-in-writer-dies-at-82.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/03/
arts/television/alan-sues-a-laugh-in-cast-mainstay-dies-at-85.html
Adam-12 USA from 1968 to May
20, 1975
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Adam-12
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/09/07/
438353111/martin-milner-star-of-adam-12-and-route-66-dies-at-83
Mister Ed USA from 1961 to 1966 on CBS
sitcom
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/21/
arts/television/alan-young-the-affable-owner-on-mister-ed-
dies-at-96.html
The Untouchables 1960s
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/21/
arts/television/21picerni.html
F Troop USA 1960s
1960s spoof of Western frontier TV shows
(...)
Although "F Troop" lasted
only two seasons on ABC,
from 1965 to 1967,
it became a cult favorite in reruns.
https://www.npr.org/2022/07/09/
1110677088/larry-storch-f-troop-obit
https://www.npr.org/2022/07/09/
1110677088/larry-storch-f-troop-obit
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/28/
arts/television/melody-patterson-66-wrangler-jane-on-f-troop.html
The Roaring ’20s USA 1960s
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/30/arts/
30provine.html
Batman 1960s
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/08/19/
432862575/yvonne-craig-best-known-as-batgirl-dies-at-78
Danger Man 1960s UK
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2009/jan/14/
television2
‘Gilligan’s Island' 1960s USA
Though “Gilligan’s Island”
lasted only three seasons,
canceled in 1967,
it hardly slipped from the horizon.
Endless reruns ensued,
and the cast members
had a series of encore performances.
Ms. Wells, for one,
reprised her role as Mary Ann
in three reunion TV movies:
“Rescue From Gilligan’s Island”
(1978),
“The Castaways on Gilligan’s Island”
(1979)
and “The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan’s Island”
(1981).
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/30/
arts/television/dawn-wells-dead.html
Bronco late 1950s and early ’60s USA
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/06/
arts/television/ty-hardin-dead.html
Route 66 1960-1964 USA
“Route 66” began in 1960,
and Mr. Maharis left the show in 1963.
His co-star, Martin Milner,
got a new partner,
played by Glenn Corbett,
and the series continued
for one more season.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/28/
arts/television/george-maharis-dead.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Route_66_(TV_series)
https://www.npr.org/2023/05/29/
1178696361/george-maharis-route-66-dies
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/28/
arts/television/george-maharis-dead.html
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/09/07/
438353111/martin-milner-star-of-adam-12-and-route-66-dies-at-83
https://www.npr.org/2012/05/29/
153937350/letters-george-maharis-and-route-66
Peter Loves Mary 1960
USA
sitcom about married show-business
celebrities
struggling to adjust to life in
the suburbs
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/05/arts/television/
mary-healy-actress-and-singer-dies-at-96.html
The Avengers UK
The Avengers
is a British espionage television series,
created in 1961,
that ran for 161 episodes until 1969.
It initially focused on David Keel (Ian Hendry),
aided by John Steed (Patrick Macnee).
Hendry left after the first series;
Steed then became the main character,
partnered with a succession of assistants.
His most famous assistants
were intelligent, stylish, and assertive women:
Cathy Gale (Honor Blackman),
Emma Peel (Diana Rigg),
and Tara King (Linda Thorson).
Dresses and suits for the series
were made by Pierre Cardin.
The series screened
as one-hour episodes for its entire run.
The first episode, "Hot Snow",
aired on 7 January 1961.
The final episode, "Bizarre",
aired on 21 April 1969 in the United States,
and on 17 May 1969 in the United Kingdom.
The Avengers was produced by ABC Weekend TV,
a contractor within the ITV network.
After a merger with Rediffusion London
in July 1968,
ABC Weekend became Thames Television,
which continued production of the series,
subcontracted to ABC Television Films.
By 1969, The Avengers
was shown in more than 90 countries.
ITV produced a sequel series,
The New Avengers (1976–1977),
with Patrick Macnee returning as John Steed,
and two new partners.
In 2004 and 2007,
The Avengers was ranked No. 17 and No. 20
on TV Guide's Top Cult Shows Ever.
Wikipedia - July 23, 2023
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Avengers_(TV_series)
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2011/sep/22/
your-next-box-set-avengers
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/feb/07/
sir-john-dankworth-obituary
The Prisoner
UK
http://www.npr.org/sections/monkeysee/2017/09/29/
554067095/number-six-at-50-the-fiftieth-anniversary-of-the-prisoner
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2009/jan/14/
television2
The Saint 1960s UK
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2009/oct/02/
robert-s-baker-obituary
Roger Moore 1927-2017 UK
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/may/23/
sir-roger-moore-obituary-james-bond
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2011/sep/23/
roger-moore-james-bond-film
Robert Sidney Baker 1916-2009
producer, director and screenwriter
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2009/oct/02/
robert-s-baker-obituary
police drama > Z Cars BBC first broadcast 1962
http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2014/mar/09/
james-ellis
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2011/apr/16/
trevor-bannister-served-lucas-dies
Z-Car early 1960s
The Invaders
USA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Invaders
Leonard Nimoy,
Spock of ‘Star Trek,’ Dies at 83
NYT 27 February 2015
Leonard Nimoy, Spock of ‘Star Trek,’ Dies at 83
Video The New York
Times 27 February 2015
Leonard Nimoy,
best known for playing the character Spock
in the Star Trek television shows and films, died at 83.
Produced by: Robin Lindsay
Read the story here:
http://nyti.ms/17DJ6iw
Watch more videos at:
http://nytimes.com/video
YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3msMUM9gig
Leonard Simon Nimoy USA 1931-2015
sonorous, gaunt-faced actor
who won a worshipful
global following as Mr.
Spock,
the resolutely logical human-alien
first
officer of the Starship Enterprise
in the television
and movie juggernaut
“Star
Trek”
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/27/
arts/television/leonard-nimoy-spock-of-star-trek-dies-at-83.html
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/leonard-nimoy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3msMUM9gig
https://www.npr.org/2015/02/28/
389706306/nimoy-is-gone-but-mr-spock-will-live-forever
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/27/arts/television/leonard-nimoy-spock-of-star-trek-dies-at-83.html
http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2015/feb/27/leonard-nimoy-mr-spock-star-trek-dies-ages-83
http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2015/feb/27/leonard-nimoy
http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2015/feb/27/leonard-nimoy-a-life-in-clips
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/02/27/
389516793/leonard-nimoy-mr-spock-on-star-trek-dies-at-83
Star Trek USA
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/
star-trek
http://www.npr.org/2016/09/08/
492880770/much-more-than-a-five-year-mission-star-trek-turns-50
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/26/
arts/television/sarah-marshall-actress-in-twilight-zone-and-star-trek-dies-at-80.html
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/tvandradioblog/2012/apr/19/
star-trek-captain-who-best
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2009/may/21/
starship-enterprise-jonathan-glancey
The Wild Wild West
USA
The Wild Wild West is an American Western,
espionage, and science fiction television series
that ran on the CBS television network
for four seasons from September 17, 1965,
to April 11, 1969.
Two satirical comedy television film sequels
were made with the original cast in 1979 and 1980
and the series was adapted for a theatrical film in
1999.
Developed at a time
when the television Western was losing ground to the
spy genre,
this show was conceived by its creator,
Michael Garrison, as "James Bond on horseback."
Set during the administration
of President Ulysses Grant (1869–1877),
the series followed Secret Service agents
James West (Robert Conrad)
and Artemus Gordon (Ross Martin)
as they solved crimes, protected the President,
and foiled the plans of megalomaniacal villains
to take over part or all of the United States.
The show featured a number of fantasy elements,
such as the technologically advanced devices
used by the agents and their adversaries.
The combination of the Victorian era time-frame
and the use of Vernean technology
has led several steampunk web sites
to cite the show as a pioneering influence on the
genre.
This aspect was accentuated
even more in the 1999 film adaptation.
Despite high ratings,
the series was cancelled near the end of its fourth
season
as a concession to Congress over television
violence.
- Wikipedia, July 23, 2023
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
The_Wild_Wild_West
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/08/
arts/robert-conrad-dead.html
The Twilight
Zone USA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
The_Twilight_Zone
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/26/
arts/television/sarah-marshall-actress-in-twilight-zone-and-star-trek-dies-at-80.html
The Restless Gun
USA
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/09/arts/television/09dortort.html
Perry Mason
USA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Perry_Mason#Television_series
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/09/arts/television/09dortort.html
Bonanza
USA
appeared for the first time
at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 12, 1959,
opposite “Perry Mason” on CBS.
Two years later
it moved to 9 p.m. on Sunday
and became a dominant hit,
running for 14 seasons
— including three years, from 1964 to 1967,
when it was the most-watched television show
in the country.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/09/arts/television/09dortort.html
David Solomon Katz USA 1916-2010
Bonanza creator
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/09/arts/television/09dortort.html
As the World Turns USA 1950s-2010
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/04/arts/04wagner.html
Lassie 1954-1970s
In 1954, Lassie made her television debut
in a series which removed her from Britain
and placed her on the American family farm,
where once again, she was asked to help
hold a struggling family together.
http://www.museum.tv/eotvsection.php?entrycode=lassie - broken link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Lassie_(1954_TV_series)
“Honey West”
lasted only one season, 1965-66, on ABC
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/04/
arts/04francis.html
Leave It to Beaver USA 1957-1963
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/17/
arts/television/17billingsley.html
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet > David Nelson 1936-2011
Nelson was the last remaining
member of the Nelsons TV family,
which included actor/bandleader Ozzie,
his singer wife, Harriet Hilliard
and his
teen idol brother Rick.
The show originated on radio in 1952
as "Here Come the Nelsons,"
then ran for 320 episodes on TV
from 1952 to 1966
as "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet"
with some of the story lines
taken from
the stars' own lives.
http://movies.nytimes.com/person/104237/
David-Nelson - broken link
Wagon Train
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/15/
arts/television/robert-horton-handsome-scout-on-wagon-train-dies-at-91.html
Topper USA CBS 1953 to 1955
based on the 1937 film of the same name
starring Cary Grant and Constance Bennett
as a young couple, George and Marion Kerby,
who die in an accident
and come back to haunt their old house,
now occupied by a stodgy banker, just for fun.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/28/
obituaries/anne-jeffreys-glamorous-ghost-of-50s-tv-is-dead-at-94.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/28/
obituaries/anne-jeffreys-glamorous-ghost-of-50s-tv-is-dead-at-94.html
“All in the Family” and “The
Defenders” USA 1950s
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/18/
arts/television/paul-bogart-tv-director-dies-at-92.html
children’s television series > Sky King USA 1950s
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/28/
arts/television/28winters.html
Davy Crockett USA 1950s
a great success for Walt Disney
in the mid-1950s
on both television and in
the cinema
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/mar/18/
fess-parker-obituary
The Dragnet USA 1950s
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Dragnet_(franchise)
variety shows > “The Peter Lind Hayes Show” on NBC
and “Star of the Family” CBS
early 1950s
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/05/
arts/television/mary-healy-actress-and-singer-dies-at-96.html
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