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TV Shows & Series: Popular TV Shows/Series of 1960

TV shows/series in chronological context: 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1960th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 960th year of the 2nd millennium, the 60th year of the 20th century, and the 1st year of the 1960s decade. It is also known as the "Year of Africa" because of major events—particularly the independence of seventeen African nations—that focused global attention on the continent and intensified feelings of Pan-Africanism. ()

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The Flintstones(1960-1966)

TV-Y
| 25min per episode | Kids & Family, Animation, Comedy, Kids & Family
3.7/5 (with 408 votes)

The misadventures of two modern-day Stone Age families, the Flintstones and the Rubbles.

Popeye the Sailor(1960-1963)

TV-G
| 5min per episode | Animation, Kids & Family
3.6/5 (with 172 votes)

Follows the adventures of the famed spinach-eating sailor man. Popeye is one of the most popular cartoon characters of all time. This spunky but loveable spinach-eating sailor continues to delight young and old with his comic adventures, and the entire gang is around to provide plenty of rousing fun and action: Olive Oyl, Swee'Pea, Wimpy and Bluto.

The Bugs Bunny Show(1960-1972)

TV-G
| 25min per episode | Animation, Comedy
4.0/5 (with 152 votes)

The Bugs Bunny Show is an Animated television anthology series hosted by Bugs Bunny, that was mainly composed of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons released by Warner Bros. between August 1, 1948 and the end of 1969. The show originally debuted as a primetime half-hour program on ABC in 1960, featuring three theatrical Warner Bros. Cartoons with new linking sequences produced by the Warner Bros. After three seasons, The Bugs Bunny Show moved to Saturday mornings, where it remained in one format or another for nearly four decades. The show's title and length changed regularly over the years, as did the network: both ABC and CBS broadcast versions of The Bugs Bunny Show.

Directed by Chuck Jones, Friz Freleng, Robert McKimson

The Andy Griffith Show(1960-1968)

TV-G
| 25min per episode | Comedy, Kids & Family
3.7/5 (with 66 votes)

The Andy Griffith Show is an American sitcom first televised on CBS between October 3, 1960 and April 1, 1968. Andy Griffith portrays the widowed sheriff of the fictional small community of Mayberry, North Carolina. His life is complicated by an inept, but well-meaning deputy, Barney Fife, a spinster aunt and housekeeper, Aunt Bee, and a precocious young son, Opie. Local ne'er-do-wells, bumbling pals, and temperamental girlfriends further complicate his life. Andy Griffith stated in a Today Show interview, with respect to the time period of the show: "Well, though we never said it, and though it was shot in the '60s, it had a feeling of the '30s. It was when we were doing it, of a time gone by." The series never placed lower than seventh in the Nielsen ratings and ended its final season at number one. It has been ranked by TV Guide as the 9th-best show in American television history. Though neither Griffith nor the show won awards during its eight-season run, series co-stars Knotts and Bavier accumulated a combined total of six Emmy Awards. The show, a semi-spin-off from an episode of The Danny Thomas Show titled "Danny Meets Andy Griffith", spawned its own spin-off series, Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., a sequel series, Mayberry R.F.D., and a reunion telemovie, Return to Mayberry. The show's enduring popularity has generated a good deal of show-related merchandise. Reruns currently air on TV Land, and the complete series is available on DVD. All eight seasons are also now available by streaming video services such as Netflix.

With Andy Griffith, Ron Howard, Don Knotts, Frances Bavier

Coronation Street(1960-)

NR
| 24min per episode | Soap / Telenovela
2.7/5 (with 46 votes)

The residents of Coronation Street are ordinary, working-class people, and the show follows them through regular social and family interactions at home, in the workplace, and in their local pub, the Rovers Return Inn. Britain's longest-running soap.

With Philip Middlemiss, Mikey North, Chris Fountain, Sally Ann Matthews, Jimi Mistry, William Roache, ...

My Three Sons(1960-1972)

TV-PG
| 30min per episode | Comedy, Kids & Family
3.2/5 (with 15 votes)

A widower and aeronautical engineer named Steven Douglas raises three sons with the help of his father-in-law, and later the boys' great-uncle. An adopted son, a stepdaughter, wives, and another generation of sons join the loving family in later seasons.

With Fred MacMurray, William Frawley, William Demarest, Don Grady, Stanley Livingston, Barry Livingston, ...

Danger Man(1960-1968)

TV-PG
| 1h per episode | Action & Adventure, Drama
3.7/5 (with 9 votes)

Danger Man is a British television series which was broadcast between 1960 and 1962, and again between 1964 and 1968. The series featured Patrick McGoohan as secret agent John Drake. Ralph Smart created the programme and wrote many of the scripts. Danger Man was financed by Lew Grade's ITC Entertainment.

With Patrick McGoohan

Route 66(1960-1964)

TV-PG
| 1h per episode | Drama, Crime
3.2/5 (with 8 votes)

Route 66 is an American TV series in which two young men traveled across America in a Chevrolet Corvette sports car. The show ran weekly on Fridays on CBS from October 7, 1960 to March 20, 1964. It starred Martin Milner as Tod Stiles and, for the first two and a half seasons, George Maharis as Buz Murdock. Maharis was ill for much of the third season, during which time Tod was shown traveling on his own. Tod met Lincoln Case, played by Glenn Corbett, late in the third season, and traveled with him until the end of the fourth and final season. Among the series more notable aspects were the featured Corvette convertible, and the program's instrumental theme song, which became a major pop hit.

With Martin Milner, George Maharis, Glenn Corbett, Jean Muir

Thriller(1960-1962)

TV-PG
| 50min per episode | Crime
3.1/5 (with 7 votes)

Thriller is an American anthology television series that aired during the 1960–61 and 1961–62 seasons on NBC. The show featured host Boris Karloff introducing a mix of self-contained, macabre weird-horror and morbid, hitchockian crime stories, in some of which he also starred.

Directed by John Brahm, Herschel Daugherty, Paul Henreid, Douglas Heyes, Arthur Hiller, Mitchell Leisen, ...

Maigret(1960-1963)

TV-PG
| 50min per episode | Crime, Drama, Mystery
3.5/5 (with 5 votes)

BBC series based on the novels by Georges Simenon which starred Rupert Davies as Inspector Maigret, a French police detective who preferred to watch and listen in order to solve crimes. The series ran from 1960-63 on British television.

With Rupert Davies

The Westerner(1960)

NR
| 30min per episode | Western
3.4/5 (with 5 votes)

The Westerner is an American Western series that aired on NBC from September to December 1960. Created by Sam Peckinpah, the series was produced by Four Star Television. The Westerner stars Brian Keith as Dave Blassingame and features John Dehner as semi-regular Burgundy Smith.

With Brian Keith, John Dehner

Mr. Magoo(1960)

Animation, Comedy
3.5/5 (with 4 votes)

The adventures of a visually impaired old man.

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Hokey Wolf(1960-1961)

7min per episode | Animation, Comedy, Kids & Family
3.6/5 (with 3 votes)

Hokey Wolf is a Hanna-Barbera cartoon about the adventures of a con-artist wolf who is always trying to cheat his way into the simple life. He is often accompanied alongside by his young, diminutive, sidekick Ding-A-Ling Wolf, both of whom are featured as part of The Huckleberry Hound Show in their own segment.

Checkmate(1960-1962)

TV-PG
| 1h per episode | Crime, Drama, Mystery
1.8/5 (with 3 votes)

Checkmate is an American detective television series starring Anthony George, Sebastian Cabot, and Doug McClure. The show aired on CBS Television from 1960 to 1962 for a total of 70 episodes and was produced by Jack Benny's production company, "JaMco Productions" in co-operation with Revue Studios. Guest stars included Charles Laughton, Peter Lorre, and Lee Marvin, among many other commensurately prominent performers.

With Anthony George, Sebastian Cabot, Doug McClure

Stagecoach West(1960-1961)

TV-PG
| 1h per episode | Western
3.0/5 (with 3 votes)

Stagecoach West is an American Western drama television series which ran for thirty-eight episodes on the ABC network from October 4, 1960, until June 27, 1961. Characters Luke Perry and Simon Kane operate the Timberland Stage Line from fictitious Outpost, Missouri to San Francisco, California. Simon's 15-year-old son, David "Davey" Kane, joins the two as they face stagecoach robbers, murderers, inclement weather, and human interest stories. Perry and Kane, who are both deputy U.S. marshals, had been on opposite sides of the American Civil War; Kane, a captain in the Union Army, while Perry had fought for the Confederate States of America. The one-hour black-and-white program was offered at 9 p.m. Eastern on Tuesdays opposite NBC's Thriller, hosted by Boris Karloff, and CBS's The Red Skelton Show. Rogers became well-known a dozen years later on M*A*S*H, and Bray later portrayed the forest ranger Corey Stuart on Lassie from 1964–1969, both on CBS. Child actor Richard Eyer had starred in a number of films in the 1950s, including Friendly Persuasion and Desperate Hours. Stagecoach West was produced by Dick Powell's Four Star Television. It is believed that the series was cancelled despite the high quality of its production because of the glut of westerns on television at the time that it aired. The same fate had fallen on CBS's Johnny Ringo, a 1959 one-season spin-off of Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater.

Citizen James(1960-1962)

25min per episode | Comedy
4.0/5 (with 2 votes)

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With Sid James, Sydney Tafler, Alec Bregonzi, Bill Kerr

The Barbara Stanwyck Show(1960-1961)

30min per episode | Drama
3.1/5 (with 2 votes)

The Barbara Stanwyck Show is an American anthology drama television series which ran on NBC from September 1960 to September 1961. Barbara Stanwyck served as hostess, and starred in all but four of the half-hour productions. The four she did not star in were actually pilot episodes of potential series programs which never materialized. Stanwyck won the Emmy Award in 1961 for Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Series. Three of the shows in which Stanwyck starred were an attempt at spinning off a dramatic series of her own, in which she appeared as "Josephine Little", an American woman running an import-export shop in Hong Kong. The series, produced at Desilu Studios, was directed by Stuart Rosenberg. The Barbara Stanwyck Show lasted one season. It aired at 10 p.m. Eastern on Mondays opposite Jackie Cooper's military sitcom Hennesey on CBS and the second half of Gardner McKay's Adventures in Paradise on ABC.

Directed by Lewis Allen

Tate(1960)

NR
| 30min per episode | Western, Drama
2.1/5 (with 2 votes)

Tate is an American Western television series that aired on NBC from June 8 until September 14, 1960. It was created by Harry Julian Fink, who wrote most of the scripts, and produced by Perry Como's Roncom Video Films, Inc., as a summer replacement for The Perry Como Show. Richard Whorf guest starred once on the series and directed the majority of the episodes. Ida Lupino directed one segment.

Directed by Ida Lupino - With David McLean

The Nature of Things(1960-)

TV-PG
| Documentary
3.4/5 (with 2 votes)

The Nature of Things is a Canadian television series of documentary programs. It debuted on CBC Television on November 6, 1960. Many of the programs document nature and the effect that humans have on it. The program was one of the first to explore environmental issues, such as clear-cut logging. The series is named after an epic poem by Roman philosopher Lucretius: "Dē Rērum Nātūrā" — On the Nature of Things.

The Tall Man(1960-1962)

TV-PG
| 30min per episode | Western
3.0/5 (with 2 votes)

The Tall Man is a half-hour American western television series about Sheriff Pat Garrett and the gunfighter Billy the Kid that aired seventy-five episodes on NBC from 1960 to 1962, filmed by Revue Productions.

Directed by Tay Garnett, Sidney Lanfield, Sydney Pollack, Lesley Selander, William Witney - With Barry Sullivan, Clu Gulager

Here's Hollywood(1960-1962)

30min per episode | Talk-Show
2.0/5 (with 2 votes)

Here's Hollywood is an American celebrity interview program which aired on weekday afternoons on NBC at 4:30 Eastern time from September 26, 1960, to December 28, 1962.

Overland Trail(1960)

1h per episode | Western
2.7/5 (with 2 votes)

Overland Trail was a short lived television western about the adventures of an earthy stage coach line superintendent and his young partner as they strive to keep the stage routes open and safe. William Bendix played Frederick Thomas "Fred" Kelly, the superintendent of the fictitious Overland Stage Company. Doug McClure appeared as Frank "Flip" Flippen, Kelly's associate in the business.

Directed by Tay Garnett - With William Bendix

Klondike(1960-1961)

30min per episode | Western
3.0/5 (with 2 votes)

Klondike is a 17-episode half-hour American Western television series starring Ralph Taeger and James Coburn that aired on NBC. The series premiered on October 10, 1960 and ran until February 13, 1961, facing stiff competition from The Danny Thomas Show on CBS and the second half of the first-season detective series Surfside 6 starring Troy Donahue on ABC. Klondike followed Dale Robertson's Tales of Wells Fargo on the NBC schedule.

Directed by William Conrad, Elliott Lewis - With Ralph Taeger, James Coburn

Pony Express(1960)

30min per episode | Western
3.3/5 (with 1 vote)

Pony Express is an American western television series about the adventures of an agent in the 1860s of the Central Overland Express Company, better known as the Pony Express. The half-hour program starring Grant Sullivan was created by California National Productions. Pony Express ran for thirty-five episodes in syndication from the fall of 1959 until the May 1960.

Directed by Frank McDonald - With Grant Sullivan

Courageous Cat and Minute Mouse(1960-)

5min per episode | Animation
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Courageous Cat and Minute Mouse is a children's cartoon television show that was produced by Trans-Artists Productions and syndicated by Tele Features Inc. in 1960. The characters were created by Bob Kane as a parody of his earlier works Batman and Robin and in many ways predict the more campy aspects of the later live action series. This series and characters are trademarked and copyrighted and is currently owned by Telefeatures, LLC.

With Dallas McKennon

Angel(1960-1961)

30min per episode | Comedy
1.4/5 (with 1 vote)

Angel is an American sitcom that aired on CBS during the 1960–1961 television season. The series was created and executive produced by Jess Oppenheimer, and stars Annie Fargé as the title character.

Directed by Lamont Johnson - With Annie Fargue

Outlaws(1960-1962)

1h per episode | Western, Drama
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Outlaws is an NBC Western television series, starring Barton MacLane as U.S. marshal Frank Caine, who operated in a lawless section of Oklahoma Territory about Stillwater. The program aired 50 one-hour episodes from September 29, 1960, to May 10, 1962. The first season was shot in black-and-white, the second in color. Co-starring with MacLane in the 1960–1961 season was Don Collier as deputy marshal Will Foreman. In the second season, MacLane left the program, and Collier was promoted to full marshal, with Bruce Yarnell joining the cast as deputy marshal Chalk Breeson. Jock Gaynor appeared in the first season as deputy Heck Martin, the on-screen nephew of Will Foreman. Slim Pickens appeared as "Slim" in the second season. Judy Lewis also appeared the second season as Connie Masters, an employee of the Wells Fargo office in Stillwater. The dog who appeared in Walt Disney's Old Yeller was also cast in The Outlaws. Others who appeared on the program on at least three occasions were Vic Morrow, Cliff Robertson, Pippa Scott, and Harry Townes. In addition, John Anderson, Edgar Buchanan, Jackie Coogan, Bruce Gordon, Robert Harland, Robert Lansing Cloris Leachman, Robert Karnes, Brian Keith, Larry Pennell, Chris Robinson, William Shatner, Ray Walston, Jack Warden, and David Wayne each appeared twice in the series.

With Barton MacLane, Don Collier, Bruce Yarnell, Slim Pickens, Judy Lewis, Jock Gaynor, ...

Happy(1960-1961)

30min per episode | Comedy
2.8/5 (with 1 vote)

Happy is an American sitcom that aired on NBC. The series stars Ronnie Burns, the adopted son of George Burns and Gracie Allen, which aired from June 8 to September 28, 1960.

With Ronnie Burns

Pete and Gladys(1960-1962)

30min per episode | Comedy
3.3/5 (with 1 vote)

Pete and Gladys is an American situation comedy television series starring Harry Morgan and Cara Williams that aired on CBS on Mondays at 8:00 p.m. Eastern and Pacific time for two seasons, beginning on September 19, 1960. The last episode was broadcast on September 10, 1962.

Directed by Leslie Goodwins, James V. Kern, Sidney Lanfield - With Harry Morgan, Cara Williams

The Law and Mr. Jones(1960-1962)

1h per episode | Mystery, Crime, Drama
2.3/5 (with 1 vote)

The Law and Mr. Jones is a 45-episode half-hour television crime drama starring James Whitmore. The series aired on ABC in two nonconsecutive seasons from October 7, 1960, to September 22, 1961, and again from April 19 to July 5, 1962. The program was created and produced by Sy Gomberg, and was set in New York City.

With Janet De Gore, James Whitmore, Conlan Carter
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