history of television 1960's

 

• 1960: First broadcast of The Andy Griffith Show, The Shari Lewis Show, My Three Sons, The Flintstones, Coronation Street, Route 66,;Popeye the Sailor, and The Bugs Bunny Show, BBC Sunday-Night Play; American presidential candidates John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon debate live on television.
• 1961: First broadcast of The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Alvin Show, The Yogi Bear Show, Mister Ed, The Avengers, The Defenders, Top Cat, The Morecambe and Wise Show, Car 54, Where Are You? and Jango; CTV network launches in Canada.
• 1962: First broadcast of The Beverly Hillbillies, The Virginian, McHale's Navy, Steptoe and Son, The Jetsons, The Saint, University Challenge, The Lucy Show, That Was The Week That Was, Match Game, The Late Late Show (Ireland) and Sábado Gigante; Johnny Carson succeeds Jack Paar as host of The Tonight Show; first satellite television KATU is launched relayed by Telstar. The first colour television introduced in the Indonesia.
• 1963: First broadcast of Doctor Who, General Hospital, The Fugitive, Let's Make a Deal, Petticoat Junction, A Boy Named Charlie Brown, The Hanna-Barbera New Cartoon Series, The Patty Duke Show, Astro Boy, The Outer Limits and The Human Jungle; Hiwaga sa Bahay na Bato; American Cable Systems is founded; Martin Luther King Jr. addresses his famous I Have a Dream speech to the world; the world watches in horror over the Assassination of John F. Kennedy. The first color television introduced in Malaysia and Mexico.
• 1964: First broadcast of Gilligan's Island, The Munsters, Bewitched, Underdog, Peyton Place, Play School, The Peter Potamus Show, The Man from U.N.C.L.E, The Addams Family, Top of the Pops, Flipper, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Match of the Day, Jeopardy!, Jonny Quest and the Up series; the controversial political advertisement "Daisy" airs only once, but is later considered to be an important factor in Lyndon B. Johnson's landslide victory over Barry Goldwater in the 1964 United States presidential election, and BBC Two is launched an important turning point in political and advertising history; Broadcast of U.S. president Lyndon Johnson signing the Civil Rights Act Of 1964; The Beatles appear on The Ed Sullivan Show.
• 1965: First broadcast of I Dream of Jeannie, Days of Our Lives, Get Smart, Thunderbirds, F Troop, The Dean Martin Show, The Smothers Brothers Show, Honey West, Green Acres, Hogan's Heroes, I Spy, My Mother the Car, Camp Runamuck, Lost in Space, Till Death Us Do Part, The Dating Game, Peanuts animated specials, Des chiffres et des lettres, A Charlie Brown Christmas, Tomorrow's World, The Magic Roundabout, The War Game and Knock on Any Door; ABC, CBS, and NBC all transition their prime-time programs to color.
• 1966: First broadcast of Star Trek (original series), Batman (the live-action TV series), Hollywood Squares, The Monkees, Batfink, Dark Shadows, Ultra Series, Family Affair, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, That Girl, Cathy Come Home, The Newlywed Game, Mission: Impossible, W5, Softly, Softly and The Frost Report; England wins the World Cup Final, seen by tens of millions; NBC becomes the first network to air their entire schedule in color. The first color television broadcasts introduced in Canada and the Philippines.
• 1967: First broadcast of The Carol Burnett Show, George of the Jungle, Spider-Man, Dragnet, Mannix, The Prisoner, News at Ten and The Phil Donahue Show; first Super Bowl is broadcast by both CBS and NBC; PAL and SECAM colour standards introduced in Europe, with BBC2 making their first colour broadcasts. The first colour television introduced in France, Germany, Russia, Thailand, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
• 1968: First broadcast of 60 Minutes, One Life to Live, The Banana Splits, Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, The Dick Cavett Show, Here's Lucy, Dad's Army, Julia, Columbo, Elvis, Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, Hawaii Five-O, Adam-12 and Gazette. The first color television introduced in Bermuda, Georgia, Iraq, Latvia, Lithuania and Switzerland.
• 1969: First broadcast of Sesame Street, Love, American Style, H.R. Pufnstuf, Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, Charlie Brown and Charles Schulz, Room 222, Monty Python's Flying Circus, The Brady Bunch, Hadleigh and Softly, Softly: Task Force MBC TV of launched. completion of Fernsehturm Berlin; the Apollo 11 Moon landing is broadcast live worldwide. The first colour television introduced in American Samoa, Dominican Republic, Finland, Martinique and Taiwan.