* 1953 – Nippon Television broadcasts Japan's first television show, including its first TV advertisement.

The first programme to air on the channel was the teatime game show Countdown, at 16: 45 produced by Yorkshire Television ; it is still running as of 2012.

Granada Television commissioned only 13 episodes and some inside the company doubted the show would last its planned production run.

The extent to which drug addiction was now affecting Bowie was made public when Russell Harty interviewed the singer for his London Weekend Television talk show in anticipation of the album's supporting tour.

Television critics gave the new show and its host poor reviews.

The show also aired on RTÉ Two in Ireland, and in Australia on Nine Network ( season 1 ) and ABC Television ( seasons 2 and 3 ).

Four Feather Falls was the third puppet TV show produced by Gerry Anderson for Granada Television, from an idea by Barry Gray.

Color Television was introduced to the game show genre in the late 1960s on all three networks.

* Intelligence ( TV series ), a Canadian television show running on CBC Television

Their show grew quickly until it was carried by close to a hundred stations, with average viewers numbering over twelve million, and the Bakkers had established their own network, The PTL Television Network ( also known as PTL-The Inspirational Network ).

Because of the controversial format and content of the show, distributor MCA Television had problems selling the show to a number of stations and advertisers.

Gould was also on the Board of Advisers to the influential Children's Television Workshop television show, 3-2-1 Contact, where he made frequent guest appearances.

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The show was created while Patrick McGoohan and George Markstein were working on Danger Man, an espionage show produced by Incorporated Television Company ( also called ITC Entertainment ).

Television shows such as Urban Legends, Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction, and later Mostly True Stories: Urban Legends Revealed feature re-enactments of urban legends detailing the accounts of the tales and ( typically ) later in the show, these programs reveal any factual basis they may have.

The former show was produced by Paramount Television, while the latter two were produced by 20th Century Fox Television.

Warner Bros. Television provided the ABC with a weekly show, Warner Bros. Presents ; the show featured a rotating series of shows based on three of the studio's film successes, Kings Row, Casablanca and Cheyenne, followed by a promotion for one of Warner's big screen films.

Two dramas produced by Spelling Television, 7th Heaven and Charmed also helped bring The WB into the spotlight, with " Charmed " lasting eight seasons and being the longest running drama with female leads and " 7th Heaven " surviving eleven seasons and being the longest running family drama and longest running show for The WB.

* August 5 – American Bandstand, a local dance show produced by WFIL-TV in Philadelphia, joins the ABC Television Network.

is a Japanese television cooking show produced by Fuji Television.

The popular British Television show Doctor Who featured the Transcontinental Railroad in a BBC audio book entitled The Runaway Train, read by Matt Smith and written for audio by Oli Smith.

Television also got into the act with series like The Man from U. N. C. L. E and I Spy in the U. S., and Danger Man and The Avengers in Britain.

This included voices for Danger Mouse alongside Terry Scott, The BFG, Count Duckula, Hugo from Victor and Hugo and Toad from The Wind in the Willows, all produced by Cosgrove Hall for Thames Television / ITV.

Yet The Encyclopedia of 20th-Century American Television by Ron Lackmann claims that Danger Man was one of the most violent series ever produced.

This dramatic overlapping is complicated by reference books such as Vincent Terrace's The Complete Encyclopedia of Television Programs 1947 – 1979 referring to The Prisoner as a Danger Man continuation.

Danger Mouse is a British animated television series which was produced by Cosgrove Hall Films for Thames Television.

Philco Television Playhouse producer Fred Coe saw the Danger and Manhunt episodes and enlisted Chayefsky to adapt the story It Happened on the Brooklyn Subway about a photographer on a New York subway train who reunites a concentration camp survivor with his long-lost wife.

* Danger: Marmalade at Work ... Marmalade Atkins ; 20 February – 30 April 1984, Thames Television for ITV ( writer: Andrew Davies ; director: John Stroud )

Danger Bay is a Canadian television series, produced in Vancouver, with first-run episodes broadcast on CBC Television starting October 18, 1984 and the Disney Channel starting October 7, 1985.

Other roles include the lead in The Borderers ( BBC, 1968-70 ), Tom Brown's Schooldays ( BBC, 1971 ) ( as Thomas Arnold ), The Stone Tape ( BBC, 1972 ), Sutherland's Law ( BBC, 1973-76 ), Children of the Stones ( HTV / ITV, 1977 ), and Danger UXB ( Thames Television / ITV, 1979 ), The House With Green Shutters ( BBC, 1980 ).

ITV television has been available on parts of the east of the Isle of Man on 3rd May 1956 when Granada Television transmissions started from the Winter Hill transmitting station, and to parts of the west of the island on 1st October 1959 from the Black Mountain transmitting station in Northern Ireland which broadcast Ulster Television.

* Also excluded were several films in the Zane Grey western series, including To the Last Man ( 1932 ), that were licensed to a theatrical reissue distributor at the time of the MCA deal, as well as all the Hopalong Cassidy films purchased by star William Boyd, and are currently under the control of U. S. Television Office, founded by Boyd.

* Man About The House ( 1974 ) Film version of the popular TV series, playing himself at the Thames Television Studio finale.

Other film treatments have included a 1983 British television documentary produced by Thames Television, narrated by Sir Dirk Bogarde entitled, Schindler: The Documentary ( released in the US in 1994 as Schindler: The Real Story ), and a 1998 A & E Biography special, Oskar Schindler: The Man Behind the List.

* Rowland, John, The Television Man: The Story of John Logie Baird.

ITV plc owns twelve of the fifteen franchises and broadcasts to England, Wales, southern Scotland, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands through its subsidiary companies ITV Broadcasting Limited and Channel Television Limited.

He also played Peter Pupkin in Sunshine Sketches, the CBC Television adaptation of Stephen Leacock's Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town, and had an uncredited ( and unconfirmed ) minor role in the 1964 television film John Cabot: A Man of the Renaissance.

In 2000, a documentary about his life and involvement in the emergence of Rock and Roll called " Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock ' n ' Roll " was released by A & E Television Networks.

* Miles O ' Keeffe Television and film actor most well known for starring in the 1981 film Tarzan, the Ape Man and the Ator movies.

* Self, Jane 60 Minutes and the Assassination of Werner Erhard: How America's Top Rated Television Show Was Used in an Attempt to Destroy a Man Who Was Making A Difference Breakthru Publishing ( 1992 ) ISBN 0-942540-23-9

* Television ( Series ): The Thin Man ran two seasons from 1957-1959 starring Peter Lawford and Phyllis Kirk as Nick and Nora.

* September 1 – Border Television, the ITV franchise for the English-Scottish Border and Isle of Man, goes on air.

* The franchise for the English-Scottish Border and the Isle of Man was awarded to Border Television, from two applications.

Granada Television was now received in Greater Manchester, Lancashire, Merseyside and Cheshire, the south of Cumbria around Barrow-in-Furness, the High Peak district of Derbyshire ( Glossop, Buxton ) and parts of the Isle of Man.

During the film version of Man About the House, Smethurst and Walker appeared as themselves, sitting in the Thames Television bar.

The ITV1 name was only used in England, Wales, Southern Scotland and Isle of Man until Channel Television adopted the name in January 2006, bringing it to the Channel Islands.

As a result, Perkins developed shows for both performers, in the form of Elton's hosted Saturday Live and sketch show The Man From Auntie ; and Enfield's Harry Enfield's Television Programme.

* Frank Sinatra-A Man And His Music Television Special ( 1968 )

The Ascent of Man was placed 65th on a list of the 100 Greatest World Television Programmes voted for by industry professionals and drawn up by the British Film Institute in 2000.

* Man at the Top ( Thames Television, 1970-1 ): five scripts for the first series of this drama based on Braine's character Joe Lampton