1960s
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The Prisoner (1967)
Byte-Sized Overview The Prisoner is the sort of television series that arrives, does something gloriously odd with the idea of…
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Mannix (1967)
Byte-Sized Overview Mannix is a Los Angeles private-eye series with a very specific 1960s idea of what “modern” looks like:…
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Ironside (1967)
Byte-Sized Overview Ironside is the 1967 NBC crime drama built around Robert Ironside, a brilliant San Francisco police consultant who…
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Mission: Impossible (1966)
Byte-Sized Overview Mission: Impossible begins with a tape, a mission briefing and a promise that somebody, somewhere, is in very…
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The Fugitive (1963)
Byte-Sized Overview The Fugitive is the sort of series that understands one very useful truth about television drama: give a…
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Z-Cars (1962)
Byte-Sized Overview Z-Cars is the BBC police drama that helped drag British television crime fiction out of the polished, pipe-smoking…
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The Saint (1962)
Byte-Sized Overview The Saint is the suave, globe-trotting British adventure series in which Simon Templar, played by Roger Moore, roams…
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Danger Man (1960)
Byte-Sized Overview Danger Man is the cool, compact British spy thriller that helped set the template for televisual espionage before…
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