1960s

Mayberry, North Carolina: a sheriff with no gun, a deputy with one bullet, and small town wisdom. Griffith played straight man to ...

Steed with bowler and umbrella, and across the eras Cathy Gale then Emma Peel in a leather catsuit that made Diana Rigg a phenomen...

Richard Kimble, wrongly convicted, hunts the one armed man while Lieutenant Gerard hunts him. The episodic chase with serialized l...

A Time Lord in a stolen police box, twenty six seasons of monsters and morals on a BBC budget. The Daleks and Cybermen became nati...

Would you believe: a spy spoof where the shoe phone outranks the gun. Brooks and Henry wrote the Cold War absurd, Don Adams played...

Wagon train to the stars, canceled after three seasons, then the most successful failure in tv history. Kirk, Spock, and a multira...

The tape self destructs and the IMF team cons dictators and syndicates with clockwork capers. The Geller format: the plan montage,...

Cast as a band, then became a real one: a manufactured answer to the Beatles that won an Emmy for comedy and then fought for and w...

Number Six resigns, wakes in the Village, and resists interrogation by Rover, a roaring weather balloon. McGoohan, fresh from Dang...

Just one more thing: Peter Falk as the rumpled lieutenant in a trench coat and a cigar, inverting the mystery by showing the murde...

And now for something completely different: the surreal sketch show that ended sketch comedy as previously known. The Ministry of ...

Sunny days since 1969: education research plus Muppets plus advertising techniques equaled the most studied children show in histo...

Fred Rogers, an ordained minister, spoke directly to one child at a time about feelings, death, divorce, and why he wore the same ...

A working class street in Weatherfield, a pub called the Rovers Return, and Britain settled in for the longest running television ...

The modern Stone Age family: Fred, Wilma, Barney, and Betty in a Bedrock of bronto cranes and foot powered cars. Prime time animat...

The first popular anime series, adapted by Tezuka from his own manga about a robot boy with a 100,000 horsepower heart. Set the vi...

Samantha twitches her nose and rewrites suburbia; her mortal husband Darrin panics about it for eight seasons. Elizabeth Montgomer...

Gomez, Morticia, Lurch, Thing, and Uncle Fester, the loving family next door if the door creaked. Built from Charles Addams New Yo...

Allied POWs run a sabotage operation from inside a German prison camp, played as barracks farce. The premise still startles, and t...

Adam West and Burt Ward fight a rogues gallery of camp: Pow, Zap, and Biff in graphic overlays. A mid season replacement that beca...

The Walmington on Sea Home Guard: too old and too young for the real army, ready anyway. Arthur Lowes Captain Mainwaring, pompous ...

Steve McGarrett and his state police unit fight spies, gangsters, and Wo Fat with the Pacific as backdrop. Twelve seasons of locat...

Four teens and a Great Dane solve mysteries that always end with a rubber mask pulled off a land developer. The formula is the poi...