Drama · 1960s
19 shows22 sequences
2 sequencesCoronation Street
1960–ITVDrama
The longest-running television soap in the world, opening on rooftops and a cornet ever since 1960.
- Season 1
- Season 31
1 sequenceDays of Our Lives
1965–NBCDrama
"Like sands through the hourglass" — the same sentence, over the same hourglass, for sixty years.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Man from U.N.C.L.E.
1964–1968NBCDrama
Sixties spy graphics and a brass chart, in the register every subsequent spy show either copied or reacted against.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Wild Wild West
1965–1969CBSDrama
An animated frontier vignette that pauses on four panels of a comic strip — a western opening built like a title card for a serial.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Virginian
1962–1971NBCDrama
The first ninety-minute western on American television, and the third longest-running of them all.
- Season 1
2 sequencesOne Life to Live
1968–2012ABCDrama
Llanview, and the first American daytime serial written around class and ethnicity rather than around a hospital.
- Season 21
- Season 44
1 sequenceAnother World
1964–1999NBCDrama
The first American serial to run an hour, and the first to spin off another serial from itself.
- Season 26
1 sequenceThe Big Valley
1965–1969ABCDrama
Barbara Stanwyck running a Stockton ranch, in the western that gave a woman the top billing.
- Seasons 1–4
1 sequenceThe High Chaparral
1967–1971NBCDrama
An Arizona cattle ranch and the Mexican family it marries into, from the producer of Bonanza.
- Season 1
1 sequenceCrossroads
1964–1988ATV Midlands / CentralDrama
A Midlands motel, taped so fast that the sets famously wobbled, and watched by fifteen million people anyway.
- Season 7
1 sequenceDanger Man
1960–1968ITVDrama
Patrick McGoohan as John Drake, the series he left to make The Prisoner.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMarcus Welby, M.D.
1969–1976ABCDrama
A family doctor in Santa Monica, and the first ABC series to finish a season as the most-watched programme in America.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMission: Impossible
1966–1973CBSDrama
A lit fuse crossing the screen while clips from the episode ahead flash past it — a title sequence recut every week from the show it introduces.
- Season 2
1 sequenceI Spy
1965–1968NBCDrama
Two agents under cover as a tennis player and his trainer, and the first American drama to cast a Black actor as a lead.
- Season 1
1 sequenceDepartment S
1969–1970ITVDrama
An Interpol unit for cases nobody else can explain, which gave Jason King his own spin-off.
- Season 1
1 sequenceJackanory
1965–1996BBC OneDrama
One actor, one chair, one book read aloud for fifteen minutes — the least televisual idea the BBC ever ran for thirty years.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Defenders
1961–1965CBSDrama
A father-and-son legal practice taking cases the era's networks were not supposed to broadcast — abortion, blacklisting, euthanasia.
- Season 1
2 sequencesGeneral Hospital
1963–ABCDrama
American daytime's longest-running scripted programme still in production.
- Season 16
- Season 43
1 sequencePeyton Place
1964–1969ABCDrama
The primetime serial that proved American networks could run a soap after dark, twice a week.
- Season 1