In 1960, it produced the first transistor television in the world.

* 1960 – Carol Vorderman, British television presenter

* 1960 – The first episode of the world's longest-running television soap opera Coronation Street is broadcast in the United Kingdom.

The firm expanded into television in 1960 under the name Belmont Television.

* 1960 – Laurent Petitguillaume, French radio and television host

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You Bet Your Life debuted in October 1947 on radio on ABC ( which aired it from 1947 – 49 ), sponsored by costume jewelry manufacturer Allen Gellman ; and then on CBS ( 1949 – 50 ), and finally NBC, continuing until May 1961 — on radio only, 1947 – 1950 ; on both radio and television, 1950 – 1960 ; and on television only, 1960-1961.

Television broadcasting began in 1953, and color television was introduced in 1960.

* 1960 – New Zealand's first official television broadcast commences at 7. 30 pm from Auckland.

* 1960 – Carol Kirkwood, Scottish journalist and television host

From 1960 to 1964, he had a television series, It's a Square World, which won a BAFTA award in 1962 and Grand Prix de la Presse at Montreux in 1963.

* 1960 – Marc Labrèche, Canadian actor and television host

She dropped out after a year, and made her professional debut in 1960 on her father's television special, The Frank Sinatra Timex Show: Welcome Home Elvis, welcoming the return of Elvis Presley home from Europe following his discharge from service in the US Army.

For the first several decades of television broadcasting, sets displayed images with a 4: 3 aspect ratio in which the width is 1. 33 times the height — similar to most theatrical films prior to 1960.

In 1960 he made his first radio commentary in the United Kingdom at the BBC, after which he moved into television.

William Roache has played Ken Barlow continuously from 1960 on the British soap Coronation Street, which is also the longest-running television soap in the world still in production.

In the 1960s, Britain's commercial television network, ITV, influenced by Canadian producer Sydney Newman produced the science-fiction serials Pathfinders In Space ( 1960 ) and its sequel Pathfinders to Venus ( 1961 ).

The narrative tone of television espionage ranged from the drama of Danger Man ( 1960 – 68 ) to the sardonicism of The Man from U. N. C. L. E ( 1964 – 68 ) and the flippancy of I Spy ( 1965 – 68 ) until the exaggeration, akin to that of William Le Queux and E. Phillips Oppenheim before the First World War ( 1914 – 18 ), degenerated to the parody of Get Smart ( 1965 – 70 ).

* Laurent Petitguillaume ( 1960 ), radio and television host

Along with other 1960 Olympic athletes such as Cassius Clay, who later became Muhammad Ali, Rudolph became an international star due to the first international television coverage of the Olympics that year.

* 1960 – United States presidential election, 1960 – The key turning point of the campaign was the series of four Kennedy – Nixon debates ; they were the first presidential debates held on television.

Little Shop of Horrors was based on an off-Broadway musical adaptation of a 1960 Roger Corman film, a precursor of later film-to-stage-to-film adaptations, including The Producers.

On February 19, 1960 Wright learned from Reynolds that the New York premiere of the stage adaptation of The Long Dream received such bad reviews that the adapter, Ketti Frings, had decided to cancel further performances.

While the 1931 adaptation is arguably the better and more successful of the two, the 1960 remake receives more attention and is still broadcast on television.

( The 1960 Italian film David and Goliath starring Orson Welles was not one of these, since that movie was a straightforward adaptation of the Biblical story ).

** The Citadel ( 1960 British miniseries ), British adaptation

** The Citadel ( 1960 ), American movie adaptation

The adaptation ran from 3 February to 21 May 1960, and was written by Henry Gammidge and illustrated by John McLusky.

Abigail and Roger, The Airbase, As Good Cooks Go, the 1960 adaptation of The Citadel, the 1956 adaptation of David Copperfield, The Dark Island, The Gnomes of Dulwich, Hurricane, For Richer ... For Poorer, Hereward the Wake, The Naked Lady, Night Train To Surbiton, Outbreak of Murder, Where do I Sit ?, and Witch Hunt have all been wiped with no footage surviving while four out of seven episodes of the paranormal anthology series Dead of Night were wiped.

During 1960, Herman also met playwright Tad Mosel and the two men collaborated on an Off-Broadway musical adaptation of Mosel's 1953 television play, Madame Aphrodite.

An adaptation of Alas, Babylon was broadcast on April 3, 1960 as the 131st episode of the Playhouse 90 dramatic television series.

In Serling's original first-draft script ( and in his short-story adaptation that appeared in the 1960 anthology, " Stories From ' The Twilight Zone '"), the team was supposed to have been the Brooklyn Dodgers stadium in the original story: " Tebbet's Field ", who, like the fictitious " Hoboken Zephyrs ", moved West in 1958 to become the Los Angeles Dodgers.

In 1960, Moore was chosen to play the role of the runaway slave Jim in Michael Curtiz's film adaptation of Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, opposite Eddie Hodges as Huck.

By December 1970 Burke formed eight of his children, including Kyrell " Connie " Burke Groves ; Eleanor A. Burke, who was named after his grandmother who raised him ; Melanie Burke ( born March 1960 ); Gemini Curtis Burke ( born June 3, 1961 ), Solomon Vincent Burke, Jr. ( born 15 October 1961 ); Carolyn Burke ; and John Fitzgerald Kennedy " JFK " Burke into a " kiddie-soul " group, the Sons and Daughters of Solomon, whose entire output consisted of " Think of the Children " ( later known as " Save the Children ") ( K14354 ), recorded on December 10, 1971 ; " Don't Leave Me Now " ( K14233 ) and " A Piece of Clay " ( K14354 ), recorded on 21 December 1970 ; MGM single, " Everybody's Got Fingers " ( written by Solomon Burke, and Melanie Burke and JFK Burke ), recorded on January 16, 1971 ; b / w " Don't Leave Me Now " ( MGM K14233 ), a single " Save the Children " ( 1972 ), and a 1973 album " Kid Power " ( PRD0010, MGS 2994 ), the soundtrack to Kid Power, a cartoon adaptation of Morrie Turner's Wee Pals comic strip that was part of ABC Television's Saturday morning lineup during the 1972 – 73 season, on MGM's Lion subsidiary.

The adaptation ran from 3 October 1960 to 1 April 1961.

Rennie appeared as adventurer Lord John Roxton in director Irwin Allen's 1960 adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World, a tale of a jungle expedition that finds prehistoric monsters in South America ; the film also starred Claude Rains, David Hedison, Fernando Lamas, Jill St. John and Richard Haydn.

The first television adaptation of the play was in 1960 when the BBC produced a serial entitled An Age of Kings.

The first television adaptation of the play was in 1960 when the BBC produced a serial entitled An Age of Kings.

The first television adaptation of the play was in 1960 when the BBC produced a serial entitled An Age of Kings.

* A 1960 film adaptation, The Tell-Tale Heart, adds a love triangle to the story.

* In the 1960 Broadway musical Bye Bye Birdie ( and its 1963 film adaptation ), the character of Albert Peterson refers to the saying in the song " Rosie ", in which he sings, " Oh, I once heard a poem that goes / A rose is a rose is a rose / But I don't agree / Take it from me / There's one rose sweeter than any that grows!

Taylor's first leading role in a feature film was George Pal's adaptation of H. G. Wells science-fiction classic The Time Machine ( 1960 )

His film Zazie dans le métro (" Zazie in the Metro ," 1960, an adaptation of the Raymond Queneau novel ) did inspire Truffaut to write an enthusiastic letter to Malle.

The 1960 adaptation, Death of a Ghost, featured Arthur Brough as Oates.

Dullea made his film debut in 1961's Hoodlum Priest, in which he played a juvenile delinquent, though he had had an earlier role as the German pilot in a 1960 television adaptation of Mrs. Miniver starring Maureen O ' Hara.