How Many 60s TV Shows Can You Name?

Hawaii Five-O was an American police procedural drama series produced by CBS Productions and Leonard Freeman. Set in Hawaii, the show originally aired for 12 seasons from 1968 to 1980, and continues in reruns.

The Flying Nun was a sitcom produced by Screen Gems for ABC based on the 1965 book The Fifteenth Pelican, written by Tere Rios. It starred Sally Field as Sister Bertrille. The series originally ran on ABC from September 7, 1967, to September 18, 1970.

The Mod Squad was a crime drama series that ran on ABC from 1968 to 1973. It starred Michael Cole as Peter “Pete” Cochran, Peggy Lipton as Julie Barnes, Clarence Williams III as Lincoln “Linc” Hayes, and Tige Andrews as Captain Adam Greer.

The F.B.I. was a television series broadcast on ABC from 1965 to 1974. It was sponsored by the Ford Motor Company, and the characters usually drove Ford vehicles in the series. Alcoa and American Tobacco Company co-sponsored the first season only with Ford.

The Munsters was a sitcom depicting the home life of a family of benign monsters starring Fred Gwynne as Frankenstein’s monster-type head-of-the-household Herman Munster, Yvonne De Carlo as his vampire wife, Lily Munster, and Al Lewis as Grandpa, the over-the-hill vampire who relishes in talking about the “good old days”.

That Girl was a sitcom that ran on ABC from 1966 to 1971. It starred Marlo Thomas as the title character Ann Marie, an aspiring actress, who moves from her hometown of Brewster, New York, to try to make it big in New York City. Ann has to take a number of offbeat “temp” jobs to support herself in between her various auditions and bit parts.

Hollywood Squares was a panel game show in which two contestants play tic-tac-toe to win cash and prizes. The show piloted on NBC in 1965, and the regular series debuted in 1966 on the same network. The board for the game is a 3 √ó 3 vertical stack of open-faced cubes, each occupied by a celebrity seated at a desk and facing the contestants.

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson was a talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under the Tonight Show franchise from October 1, 1962 through May 22, 1992. It originally aired during late-night. For its first decade, Johnny Carson’s The Tonight Show was based at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York City.

The Patty Duke Show was a sitcom that ran on ABC from September 18, 1963 to April 27, 1966, with reruns airing through August 31. The show was created as a vehicle for rising star Patty Duke. 105 episodes were produced, 104 of them airing over three seasons.

American Bandstand was a music-performance show that aired in various versions from 1952 to 1989 and was hosted from 1956 until its final season by Dick Clark. The show featured teenagers dancing to Top 40 music introduced by Clark; at least one popular musical act.

The Man from U.N.C.L.E. was a spy-fiction television series first broadcast on NBC. It follows secret agents, played by Robert Vaughn and David McCallum, who work for a secret international counterespionage and law-enforcement agency called U.N.C.L.E. The series premiered on September 22, 1964 until January 15, 1968.

Leave It to Beaver was a television sitcom about an inquisitive and often na√Øve boy, Theodore “The Beaver” Cleaver, and his adventures at home, in school, and around his suburban neighborhood. The show has attained an iconic status in the United States, with the Cleavers exemplifying the idealized suburban family of the mid-20th century.

Mannix was a television detective series that ran from 1967 to 1975 on CBS. Created by Richard Levinson and William Link and developed by executive producer Bruce Geller, the title character, Joe Mannix, is a private investigator. He was played by Mike Connors.

Flipper was a television program first broadcast on NBC from September 19, 1964, until April 15, 1967. Flipper, a bottlenose dolphin, is the pet of Porter Ricks, Chief Warden at Coral Key Park and Marine Preserve, and his two young sons, Sandy and Bud.

Family Affair was a sitcom that aired on CBS from September 12, 1966, to March 4, 1971. The series explored the trials of well-to-do engineer and bachelor Bill Davis as he attempted to raise his brother’s orphaned children in his luxury New York City apartment.

The Fugitive was a drama series created by Roy Huggins. It aired on ABC from September 1963 to August 1967. David Janssen starred as Dr. Richard Kimble, a physician who is wrongfully convicted of his wife’s murder and sentenced to receive the death penalty. En route to death row, Dr. Richard Kimble’s train derails over a switch, allowing him to escape and begin a cross-country search for the real killer, a “one-armed man.

The Untouchables was a crime drama that ran from 1959 to 1963 on the ABC Television Network. It fictionalized Ness’ experiences as a Prohibition agent, fighting crime in Chicago in the 1930s with the help of a special team of agents handpicked for their courage, moral character, and incorruptibility, nicknamed the Untouchables.

The Big Valley was a Western television series which ran on ABC from September 15, 1965 to May 19, 1969, starring Barbara Stanwyck as the widow of a wealthy 19th-century California rancher and Richard Long, Lee Majors, Peter Breck and Linda Evans as her family.

The Jackie Gleason Show was a series of American network television shows that starred Jackie Gleason, which ran from 1952 to 1970, in various forms.

The Huckleberry Hound Show was a 1958 syndicated animated series and the second from the Hanna-Barbera studios following The Ruff and Reddy Show, sponsored by Kellogg’s. Three segments were included in the program: one featuring Huckleberry Hound, another starring Yogi Bear and his sidekick Boo Boo, and a third with Pixie and Dixie and Mr. Jinks.

Wild Kingdom was a television show that features wildlife and nature. It was originally produced from 1963 until 1988, and was revived in 2002. The show’s second incarnation currently airs on Animal Planet in the U.S.

Rawhide was a Western TV series starring Eric Fleming and Clint Eastwood. The show aired for eight seasons on the CBS network on Friday nights, from January 9, 1959, to September 3, 1965, before moving to Tuesday nights from September 14, 1965, until January 4, 1966.

Love, American Style was an anthology comedy television series produced by Paramount Television that originally aired between 1969 and 1974. For the 1971 and 1972 seasons, it was a part of an ABC Friday prime-time lineup that also included The Brady Bunch, The Partridge Family, Room 222 and The Odd Couple.

Here’s Lucy was a sitcom starring Lucille Ball. The series co-starred her long-time partner Gale Gordon and her real-life children Lucie Arnaz and Desi Arnaz Jr.. It was broadcast on CBS from 1968 to 1974. It was Ball’s third network sitcom following I Love Lucy (1951‚Äì57) and The Lucy Show (1962‚Äì68).

I Dream of Jeannie was a fantasy sitcom starring Barbara Eden as a 2,000-year-old genie and Larry Hagman as an astronaut who becomes her master, with whom she falls in love and eventually marries. The show originally aired from September 18, 1965 to May 26, 1970 with new episodes, and through September 1970 with season repeats, on NBC.

The Addams Family was a television series created by David Levy and Donald Saltzman, airing for two seasons on ABC from September 18, 1964, to April 8. The Addamses are a close-knit extended family with decidedly macabre interests and supernatural abilities, though no explanation for their powers is explicitly given in the series.

Scooby-Doo was an animated franchise, comprising many animated television series produced from 1969 to the present day. Writers Joe Ruby and Ken Spears created the original series, Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, for Hanna-Barbera Productions in 1969.

Gidget was a sitcom by Screen Gems about a surfing, boy-crazy teenager called “Gidget” and her widowed father Russ Lawrence, a UCLA professor. Sally Field stars as Gidget with Don Porter as father Russell Lawrence. The series was first broadcast on ABC from September 15, 1965 to April 21, 1966.

The Saint was an ITC mystery spy thriller television series that aired in the United Kingdom on ITV between 1962 and 1969. It was based on the literary character Simon Templar created by Leslie Charteris in the 1920s. He was played by Roger Moore. Templar helps those whom conventional agencies are powerless or unwilling to assist or protect, often using methods that skirt or are outside the law.

The Lucy Show was a sitcom that aired on CBS from 1962‚Äì68. It was Lucille Ball’s follow-up to I Love Lucy. A significant change in cast and premise for the fourth season (1965-1966) divides the program into two distinct eras; aside from Ball, only Gale Gordon, who joined the program for its second season, remained. For the first three seasons, Vivian Vance was the co-star.

The Rat Patrol was an action and adventure television series that aired on ABC between 1966 and 1968. The show follows the exploits of four Allied soldiers — three Americans and one Briton — who are part of a long-range desert patrol group in the North African campaign during World War II.

The Avengers was an espionage British television series created in 1961. It initially focused on Dr. David Keel aided by John Steed. Hendry left after the first series; Steed then became the main character, partnered by a succession of assistants. His most famous assistants were intelligent, stylish and assertive women: Cathy Gale, Emma Peel, and Tara King.

It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown is a 1966 American prime time animated television special based on the comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz. A Halloween special, it was the third Peanuts special to be produced and animated by Bill Melendez.

Lost in Space was a science fiction television series created and produced by Irwin Allen. The series follows the adventures of a pioneering family of space colonists who struggle to survive in a strange and often hostile universe after their ship is sabotaged and thrown off course.

Petticoat Junction was a sitcom that originally aired on CBS from September 1963 to April 1970. The series takes place at the Shady Rest Hotel, which is run by Kate Bradley, her three daughters Billie Jo, Bobbie Jo, and Betty Jo, and her uncle Joe Carson.

Gilligan’s Island was a sitcom created and produced by Sherwood Schwartz via United Artists Television. It aired for three seasons on the CBS network from September 26, 1964, to April 17, 1967. The series followed the comic adventures of seven castaways as they attempted to survive the island on which they had been shipwrecked.

It Takes a Thief was an action-adventure television series that aired on ABC for three seasons between 1968 and 1970. It stars Robert Wagner in his television debut as sophisticated thief Alexander Mundy, who works for the U.S. government in return for his release from prison. For most of the series, Malachi Throne played Noah Bain, Mundy’s boss.

The Donna Reed Show was a sitcom starring Donna Reed as the middle-class housewife Donna Stone. Carl Betz co-stars as her pediatrician husband Dr. Alex Stone, and Shelley Fabares and Paul Petersen as their teenage children, Mary and Jeff. The show originally aired on ABC from September 24, 1958 to March 19, 1966.

Adam-12 was a television police procedural drama that follows Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officers Pete Malloy and Jim Reed as they ride the streets of Los Angeles in their patrol unit 1-Adam-12. The show ran from September 21, 1968 through May 20, 1975.

Car 54, Where Are You?, a sitcom that ran on NBC from 1961 to 1963, is the story of two New York city police officers based in the fictional 53rd precinct in The Bronx. Car 54 was their patrol car.

Julia was a sitcom. It is notable for being one of the first weekly series to depict an African American woman in a non-stereotypical role. Previous television series featured African American lead characters, but the characters were usually servants.

Perry Mason was a legal drama series originally broadcast on CBS television from September 21, 1957, to May 22, 1966. The title character, portrayed by Raymond Burr, is a fictional Los Angeles criminal-defense lawyer who originally appeared in detective fiction by Erle Stanley Gardner.

The Monkees was a situation comedy that aired on NBC from September 12, 1966 to March 25, 1968. The series follows the adventures of four young men trying to make a name for themselves as a rock ‘n roll band. The show introduced a number of innovative new-wave film techniques to series television and won two Emmy Awards in 1967.

Charlie Brown’s All Stars! was the second prime-time animated TV special based upon the popular comic strip Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz. It was the second such TV special to be produced by Lee Mendelson and Bill Melendez, and originally aired on CBS on June 8, 1966.

The Red Skelton Show was a television comedy/variety show that, from 1951 to 1971, was an entertainment staple and an institution to a generation of viewers. Red Skelton’s network television program began at the start of the 1951 fall season on NBC (for sponsor Procter & Gamble).

The Beverly Hillbillies was a sitcom television series originally broadcast on CBS from 1962 to 1971. The show had an ensemble cast featuring Buddy Ebsen, Irene Ryan, Donna Douglas, and Max Baer Jr. as the Clampetts, a poor backwoods family who move to posh Beverly Hills, California, after striking oil on their land.

The Andy Griffith Show was a situation comedy which aired on CBS from October 3, 1960, to April 1, 1968. The series partially originated from an episode of The Danny Thomas Show. The show originally starred Andy Griffith in the role of Andy Taylor, the widowed sheriff of the fictional small community of Mayberry, North Carolina.

Mister Ed was a television sitcom produced by Filmways which originally aired in syndication from January 5 to July 2, 1961, and then on CBS from October 1, 1961, to February 6, 1966. The show’s title character ‚Äì a talking horse ‚Äì originally appeared in short stories by Walter R. Brooks.

The Dick Van Dyke Show was a television sitcom that initially aired on CBS from October 3, 1961 to June 1, 1966. The show was created by Carl Reiner and starred Dick Van Dyke, Rose Marie, Morey Amsterdam, Larry Mathews, and Mary Tyler Moore. It centered on the work and home life of television comedy writer Rob Petrie (Van Dyke).

The Rifleman was a Western television program starring Chuck Connors as rancher Lucas McCain and Johnny Crawford as his son Mark McCain. It was set in the 1870s and 1880s in the fictional town of North Fork, New Mexico Territory. The show was filmed in black and white, in half-hour episodes.

To Tell the Truth was a television panel game show in which four celebrity panelists are presented with three contestants and must identify which is the “central character” whose unusual occupation or experience has been read out by the show’s moderator/host. When the panelists question the contestants, the two “impostors” may lie whereas the “central character” must tell the truth.

Star Trek was a science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry that follows the adventures of the starship USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) and its crew. The show is set in the Milky Way galaxy, roughly during the 2260s. The ship and crew are led by Captain James T. Kirk, first officer and science officer Spock, and chief medical officer Leonard McCoy.

Batman was a 1960s live action television series, based on the DC comic book character of the same name. It stars Adam West as Batman and Burt Ward as Robin – two crime-fighting heroes who defend Gotham City from a variety of arch villains. It aired on ABC network for three seasons from January 12, 1966 to March 14, 1968.

Alfred Hitchcock Presents was a television anthology series that was hosted and produced by Alfred Hitchcock; the program aired on CBS and NBC between 1955 and 1965. It featured dramas, thrillers, and mysteries. Time magazine named it one of “The 100 Best TV Shows of all time”.

The Flintstones was an animated sitcom produced by Hanna-Barbera for ABC. The series takes place in a romanticized Stone Age setting, depicts the lives of the titular characters and their next-door neighbors and best friends. It was originally broadcast from September 30, 1960, to April 1, 1966.

Get Smart was a comedy television series that satirizes the secret agent genre that was popular at the time. It had its television premiere on NBC on September 18, 1965. The show stars Don Adams as agent Maxwell “Max” Smart, a.k.a. Agent 86, Barbara Feldon as Agent 99, and Edward Platt as Thaddeus, the Chief.

Bonanza was an NBC television western series that ran from 1959 to 1973. Bonanza is NBC’s longest-running western, and ranks overall as the second-longest-running western series on U.S. network television. The show is set in the 1860s and it centers on the wealthy Cartwright family that live in the vicinity of Virginia City, Nevada, bordering Lake Tahoe.

F Troop was a satirical television sitcom about U.S. soldiers and American Indians in the Wild West during the 1860s that originally aired for two seasons on ABC. It debuted in the United States on September 14, 1965 and concluded its run on April 6, 1967 with a total of 65 episodes. The series relied heavily on character-based humor; verbal and visual gags, slapstick, and physical comedy.

Route 66 was a television drama that premiered on CBS on October 7, 1960, and ran until March 20, 1964. The series followed two young men traversing the United States in a Chevrolet Corvette convertible, and the events and consequences surrounding their journeys.

Combat! was a television program that originally aired on ABC from 1962 until 1967. The show covered the grim lives of a squad of American soldiers fighting the Germans in France during World War II. The program starred Rick Jason as platoon leader Second Lieutenant Gil Hanley and Vic Morrow as Sergeant “Chip” Saunders.

My Favorite Martian was a television sitcom that aired on CBS from September 29, 1963, to May 1, 1966, for 107 episodes. The show starred Ray Walston as Uncle Martin (the Martian) and Bill Bixby as Tim O’Hara.

The Brady Bunch was a sitcom created by Sherwood Schwartz that aired from September 26, 1969, to March 8, 1974, on ABC. The series revolves around a large blended family with six children.

Captain Kangaroo was a children’s television series that aired weekday mornings on the American television network CBS from October 3, 1955, until December 8, 1984, making it the longest-running nationally broadcast children’s television program of its day.

Have Gun – Will Travel was a Western television series that aired on CBS from 1957 through 1963. It was rated number three or number four in the Nielsen ratings every year of its first four seasons. The show was one of the most successful shows in television history.

The Courtship of Eddie’s Father was a sitcom about a widower, Tom Corbett, who is a magazine publisher, and his young son, Eddie. Eddie believes his father should marry, and manipulates situations surrounding the women his father is interested in.

Gunsmoke was a radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman Macdonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West.

Sesame Street was an educational children’s television series that combines live action, sketch comedy, animation and puppetry. It was created by Joan Ganz Cooney and Lloyd Morrisett. The series premiered on November 10, 1969. It has aired on the U.S.’s national public television provider PBS since its debut.

The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour was a comedy and variety show television series hosted by the Smothers Brothers and initially airing on CBS from 1967 to 1969. The series was a major success with content that appealed to contemporary youth viewership with daring political satire humor and major music acts.

Top Cat was an animated television series made by the Hanna-Barbera studios that first ran from September 27, 1961 to April 18, 1962 for a run of 30 episodes on the ABC network. Top Cat was co-sponsored by Kellogg’s and Bristol-Myers. The central character, Top Cat is the leader of a gang of Manhattan alley cats living in Hoagy’s Alley.

Mission: Impossible was a television series, created and initially produced by Bruce Geller, chronicling the exploits of a team of secret government agents known as the Impossible Missions Force (IMF). The series aired on the CBS network from September 1966 to March 1973.

Here Come the Brides was a comedy Western series from Screen Gems that aired on the ABC television network from September 25, 1968 to April 3, 1970. The series was loosely based upon the Mercer Girls project, Asa Mercer’s efforts to bring civilization to old Seattle in the 1860s by importing marriageable women from the east coast cities of the United States, where the ravages of the American Civil War left those towns short of men.

I Spy was a television secret-agent buddy adventure series. It ran for three seasons on NBC from 1965 to 1968 and teamed US intelligence agents Kelly Robinson and Alexander “Scotty” Scott, traveling undercover as international “tennis bums”. Robinson poses as an amateur with Scott as his trainer, playing against wealthy opponents in return for food and lodging. Their work involved chasing villains, spies, and beautiful women.

The Carol Burnett Show was a variety/sketch comedy television show starring Carol Burnett, Harvey Korman, Vicki Lawrence, and Lyle Waggoner. The show originally ran on CBS from September 11, 1967, to March 29, 1978.

The Green Hornet television series aired on the ABC US television network in the 1966–1967 TV season, starring Van Williams as the Green Hornet/Britt Reid and Bruce Lee as Kato. The single-season series premiered September 9, 1966, and ran through March 17, 1967, lasting 26 episodes.

Green Acres was a sitcom starring Eddie Albert and Eva Gabor as a couple who move from New York City to a country farm. Produced by Filmways as a sister show to Petticoat Junction, the series was first broadcast on CBS, from September 15, 1965, to April 27, 1971.

The Outer Limits was a television series that was broadcast on ABC from 1963 to 1965. The series is often compared to The Twilight Zone, but with a greater emphasis on science fiction stories (rather than stories of fantasy or supernatural matters). The Outer Limits is an anthology of self-contained episodes, sometimes with a plot twist at the end.

McHale’s Navy was a sitcom starring Ernest Borgnine that aired from October 11, 1962, to April 12, 1966, on the ABC television network. The series was filmed in black and white and originated from an hour drama entitled Seven Against the Sea, broadcast on April 3, 1962.

Room 222 was a comedy-drama television series produced by 20th Century Fox Television that aired on ABC for 112 episodes from September 17, 1969, until January 11, 1974. The show was broadcast on Wednesday evenings at 8:30 (EST) for its first two seasons before settling into its best-remembered time slot of Friday evenings at 9.

The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends was an animated television series that originally aired from November 19, 1959, to June 27, 1964. The series is structured as a variety show, with the main feature being the serialized adventures of the two title characters, the anthropomorphic flying squirrel Rocky and moose Bullwinkle.

Ironside was a television crime drama that aired on NBC over 8 seasons from 1967 to 1975. The show starred Raymond Burr as Robert T. Ironside, a consultant for the San Francisco police, who was paralyzed from the waist down after being shot while on vacation.

Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In was a sketch comedy television program that ran from January 22, 1968, to March 12, 1973, on the NBC television network. It was hosted by comedians Dan Rowan and Dick Martin.

Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color was an animated show that aired on NBC.

The Jetsons was an animated sitcom produced by Hanna-Barbera, originally airing in primetime from September 23, 1962, to March 17, 1963. While the Flintstones lived in a world which was a comical version of the “stone age”, with machines powered by birds and dinosaurs, the Jetsons live in a comical version of the future, with elaborate robotic contraptions, aliens, holograms, and whimsical inventions.

A Charlie Brown Christmas was a 1965 animated television special based on the comic strip Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz. The program made its debut on CBS on December 9, 1965. In the special, lead character Charlie Brown finds himself depressed despite the onset of the cheerful holiday season. Lucy suggests he direct a neighborhood Christmas play, but his best efforts are ignored and mocked by his peers.

The High Chaparral was a Western-themed television series starring Leif Erickson and Cameron Mitchell, which aired on NBC from 1967 to 1971. The show revolves around “Big John” Cannon (Erickson), a rancher living in the dry desert of southern Arizona Territory, near the Mexican border in Apache Indian country in the 1870s.

The Dean Martin Show was a TV variety-comedy series that ran from 1965 to 1974 for 264 episodes. It was broadcast by NBC and hosted by entertainer Dean Martin.

Marcus Welby, M.D. was a medical drama television program that aired on ABC from September 23, 1969, to July 29, 1976. It starred Robert Young, James Brolin, and Elena Verdugo. It was produced by David Victor and David J. O’Connell.

Bewitched was a television sitcom fantasy series, originally broadcast for eight seasons on ABC from September 17, 1964 to March 25, 1972. It starred Elizabeth Montgomery, Dick York (1964–1969), Agnes Moorehead, David White and Erin Murphy. The show is about a witch who marries an ordinary mortal man, and vows to lead the life of a typical suburban housewife.

Password was a television game show which was created by Bob Stewart. The host was Allen Ludden, who had previously been well known as the host of the G.E. College Bowl. In the game, two teams, each composed of a celebrity player and a contestant, attempt to convey mystery words to each other using only single-word clues, in order to win cash prizes.

The Wild Wild West was a Science Fiction/Spy/Western television series that ran on the CBS television network from September 17, 1965, to April 4, 1969. The series followed Secret Service agents James West and Artemus Gordon as they solved crimes, protected the President, and foiled the plans of megalomaniacal villains to take over all or part of the United States.

Dragnet was a television series created by their star, Jack Webb. Both shows take their name from the police term dragnet, which means a system of coordinated measures for apprehending criminals or suspects. Webb reprised his radio role of Los Angeles police detective Sergeant Joe Friday. Ben Alexander co-starred as Friday’s partner, Officer Frank Smith.

Hazel was a sitcom about a live-in maid named Hazel Burke (played by Shirley Booth) and her employers, the Baxters. The five-season, 154-episode series aired in prime time from September 28, 1961, to April 11, 1966, and was produced by Screen Gems.

Please Don’t Eat the Daisies is an American sitcom that aired on NBC from September 14, 1965 to September 2, 1967. The series was based upon the 1957 book by Jean Kerr and 1960 film starring Doris Day and David Niven. The series ran for 58 half-hour episodes and starred Patricia Crowley and Mark Miller. The show also features Dub Taylor, Clint Howard, and Bonnie Franklin.

Hogan’s Heroes was a television sitcom set in a German prisoner of war (POW) camp during World War II. It ran from September 17, 1965, to April 4, 1971, on the CBS network. Bob Crane starred as Colonel Robert E. Hogan, coordinating an international crew of Allied prisoners running a Special Operations group from the camp.

The Time Tunnel was a color science-fiction TV series, written around a theme of time travel adventure and starring James Darren and Robert Colbert. The show was released by 20th Century Fox Television and broadcast on ABC.