The classic British comedy trio who were contemporaries of Monty Python and also went on to influence many modern comedy sketch shows. Comprising of Bill Oddie, Graeme Gardener and the late Tim Brooke-Taylor. As individuals the they were at the forefront of British television comedy in the 1960's with...

The 1970's were the glory days of television comedy not only for classic programmes such as Dad's Army but also for comedy partnerships like Morecombe and Wise and their main rivals The Two Ronnies. Ronnie Corbett and Ronnie Barker were already well known individually from their television work in the...

The legendary comic duo made millions laugh. Christmas wouldn't have been Christamas without the whole family sitting around the television in the evening laughing at the antics of Eric Morecombe and Ernie Wise. Even today Morecombe and Wise re-runs on telvision are still as popular as they were decades...

Considered to be the godfathers of British comedy and loved by Prince Charles, The Goons BBC radio show aired between 1952 and 1960. Consisting of Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe and Spike Milligan they created colourful characters that spread joy during the gloomy post war years of the 1950's. This book...

Generations of British children have sat down and watched Blue Peter. For sixty years this classic BBC programme produced for children has been on our television screens. Dating from 1969, when the show was produced by the formidible Biddy Baxter and presented by Valerie Singleton, Peter Purves and the...

All of us of a certain age and over will remember watching one of the biggest television events in history.... the shooting of JR Ewing. Over 30 million people watched it just in the UK!! Dallas, the classic US television first aired in 1978 and ended in 1991. The Ewing family, lived at Southfork Ranch...

"Grange Hill", the classic BBC TV children's drama series ran from 1978 to 2008. For us of a certain age the earlier series of the 1970's and 1980's were our first insight into the goings on at a comprehensive school. Early characters such as Tucker Jenkins (played by Todd Carty), Benny Green (Terry...

Back in the 1980's this classic American television programme had everything a teenage boy wanted - guns, explosions, stunts, crazy inventions, over the top characters, memorable catchphrases, a great theme tune and what's more no-one ever got hurt. It was compulsory Saturday afternoon watching. On the...

Hi-Yo Silver! The authorised publication from the famous, long running American television series of the same name. Follow the escapades of the Lone Ranger and his faithful Native American companion Tonto, as they right wrongs across the American West. The contents include cartoons, stories, quizzes...

"Open Channel D .... " Possibly the best looking law enforcement/espionage agents that graced the television screens of the 1960's. This cult American series has been re-run many times over the decades. The dynamic agents, Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin played by the late Robert Vaughan and David McCallum...

The opening credits of this cult American television show, The Planet of the Apes, was far more scary to a young boy than a whole army of Daleks in Dr Who. The series follows astronauts, Pete Burke and Alan Virdon, as they travel around with their chimpanzee friend, Galen trying to avoid capture by the...

Yet another classic Sci-Fi puppet show created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson in the 1960's for television. Captain Scarlet, who looked and sounded remarkably like legendary actor Cary Grant, spent his time disrupting the evil plans of the Mysterons and Captain Black. As part of Spectrum, whose headquarters...