Documentary · 1960s
9 shows11 sequences
2 sequencesTop of the Pops
1964–2006BBC OneDocumentary
Forty-two years of the chart, and a Phil Lynott instrumental called Yellow Pearl for a theme.
- Season 1
- Seasons 18–20
1 sequenceUniversity Challenge
1962–ITV / BBC TwoDocumentary
College Boy by Derek New, and a split screen that has stacked two teams on top of each other since 1962.
- Season 1
1 sequenceTomorrow's World
1965–2003BBC OneDocumentary
Live demonstrations of things that did not work yet, opening on graphics that promised they would.
- Season 29
1 sequenceReady Steady Go!
1963–1966ITVDocumentary
"The weekend starts here" — the British pop programme that put the Beatles, the Stones and Motown on the same stage.
- Season 1
1 sequenceWorld of Sport
1965–1985ITVDocumentary
ITV's answer to Grandstand, which is remembered now almost entirely for the wrestling at four o'clock.
- Season 20
1 sequenceSportsnight
1968–1997BBC OneDocumentary
The midweek sports programme, and the strand most of British sports broadcasting learned its trade on.
- Season 26
2 sequencesMatch of the Day
1964–BBC OneDocumentary
Barry Stoller's theme, unchanged since 1970, over whatever graphics the decade happens to allow.
- Season 7
- Season 62
1 sequence60 Minutes
1968–CBSDocumentary
A stopwatch and a ticking sound, and nothing else — the shortest argument any programme has made for its own title.
- Season 23
1 sequenceABC's Wide World of Sports
1961–1998ABCDocumentary
"The thrill of victory and the agony of defeat" — a narration so well known that the ski-jumper who supplied the agony became famous for falling over.
- Season 20