Most episodes in the 1960s, 70s, and 80s rated with over 20 million viewers and during the 1990s and early 2000s 15 – 20 million per episode would be typical Like most terrestrial television in the UK, a dramatic decline in viewership has taken place and the show currently posts figures of between 8 and 14 million per episode.

Music commented that Jones's death " hit so many people so hard " because " Monkees nostalgia cuts across generations: from the people who discovered the band during their original 1960s run ; to the kids who came of age watching 1970s reruns ; to the twenty-and thirtysomethings who discovered the Monkees when MTV ( a network that owes much to the Monkees ' influence ) began airing old episodes in 1986.

Kelly also frequently appeared on television shows during the 1960s, but his one effort at television series, as Father Chuck O ' Malley in Going My Way ( 1962 – 63 ), based on the Best Picture of 1944 starring Bing Crosby, was dropped after thirty episodes, although it enjoyed great popularity in Roman Catholic countries outside of the United States.

In addition to the new episodes, the classic 1950s and 1960s shorts were re-run as part of the series, but with newly recorded soundtracks, with the voices re-recorded and the original music replaced by Jerry Gerber's score from the 1988 series.

In the early 1960s, Voight found work in television, appearing in several episodes of Gunsmoke, between 1962 and 1966, as well as guest spots on Naked City, and The Defenders, both in 1963, and Twelve O ' Clock High, in 1966.

He initially worked as an assistant director at Northampton repertory theatre ( now known as Royal & Derngate ), but in the early 1960s moved into television direction and was credited in this role on early episodes of Z-Cars in 1964.

All soap operas broadcast half-hour episodes by the end of the 1960s.

Many episodes from the first three series are thought to no longer exist, having been wiped in the late 1960s and early ' 70s as was the policy at the time.

The house seen in the opening and closing titles to the 1960s episodes was located on Garnet Street in Wapping ( from where writer Johnny Speight took the Garnett family name ) and this terrace was demolished in the 1980s.

Most of the show's 26 episodes from series 1-3 that were videotaped in black and white and broadcast 1965-68 no longer exist ; they were wiped by the BBC during the late 1960s and early ' 70s.

The other surviving 1960s B & W episodes that still exist are: " Arguments, Arguments "; " A House With No Love In It "; " Peace & Goodwill "; " In Sickness and In Health "; " State Visit "; " Alf's Dilemma "; " Till Closing Time Do Us Part "; " The Phone "; " The Blood Donor ".

In 2009, brief scenes from the early 1960s episodes of College Bowl with Allen Ludden appeared in the film Gifted Hands.

In the late 1960s, Milland hosted rebroadcasts of certain episodes of the syndicated western anthology series, Death Valley Days under the title Trails West ; the series ' original host had been Ronald Reagan.

* Kitty Cat is the family lion, and can be seen in several 1960s television episodes roaming around the house.

Very few episodes of the 1960s The Match Game survive ( see " Episode Status " section below ).

Excluding a scene from the closing credits, Rosie appears in only two episodes of the original 1960s show, but makes many appearances on the 1980s show.

Appeared in two 1960s episodes, " Uniblab ", where he becomes George's supervisor and " G. I.

* The original 1960s episodes are distinguished by 1960s design motifs, music, and references ( similar to The Flintstones and other Hanna-Barbera shows of that period ).

The 1960s episodes were rereleased with the redesigned closing segment ( containing fewer production staff credits than the 1980s episodes, but has more names than the original closing scene which left several people uncredited ) but are usually seen rebroadcast with their original credits segment.

* The 1960s episodes do not contain title cards.

When the 1980s episodes were made, title cards were also made for the 1960s episodes, which explains the appearance of Orbitty in the title cards of the 1960s episodes.

First conceived during the Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower as a three-man spacecraft to follow the one-man Project Mercury which put the first Americans in space, Apollo was later dedicated to President John F. Kennedy's national goal of " landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth " by the end of the 1960s, which he proposed in a May 25, 1961 address to Congress.

The song was the # 1 hit in the U. S. for the five weeks encompassing March 1966, the # 1 hit on the Hot 100's end of the year chart for 1966, and the No. 21 song of 1960s, despite the later unpopularity of the Vietnam War and the competing " California Dreaming ", sharply dividing the popular music market.

The use of the cane toad in experiments started in 1950s, and by the end of 1960s, large numbers were being collected and exported to high schools and universities.

In one 1960s comic, when Kent finds himself at a loose end when staff at the Daily Planet go on strike, he seriously considers it a chance to try out a new identity in case he has " to abandon Clark Kent role permanently.

By the end of the 1960s, admission to CUNY's flagship City College had become highly competitive.

During the next 10 years, Hopper appeared frequently on television in guest roles, and by the end of the 1960s had played supporting roles in several films.

From the 1960s through the end of the century Gary Karr was the leading proponent of the double bass as a solo instrument and was active in commissioning or having hundreds of new works and concerti written especially for him.

Policy on buying and stocking Blyton's books by British public libraries drew attention in newspaper reports from the early 1960s to the end of the 1970s, as local decisions were made by a London borough, Birmingham, Nottingham and other central libraries.

As a consequence of this, numerous German production and distribution companies went out of business in the 1950s and 1960s and cinemas across the Federal Republic closed their doors ; the number of screens in West Germany almost halved between the beginning and the end of the decade.

The movement, while an inspiration to other national cinemas and unmistakably a direct influence on the future New Hollywood directors, slowly faded by the end of the 1960s.

Similarly, Colorado State University's enrollment doubled during the 1960s, making it the city's primary economic force by the end of the century.

Digital electronic computers like the ENIAC spelled the end for most analog computing machines, but hybrid analog computers, controlled by digital electronics, remained in substantial use into the 1950s and 1960s, and later in some specialized applications.

Another major industry, the chemical factory IFF, also closed by the end of the 1960s.

Though his name was then a household word ( as was " existentialism " during the tumultuous 1960s ), Sartre remained a simple man with few possessions, actively committed to causes until the end of his life, such as the May 1968 strikes in Paris during the summer of 1968 during which he was arrested for civil disobedience.

These two words have been confused in American usage since the early 1960s, and widely confounded in Great Britain since the end of World War II.

Some 10 % to 35 % of the pieces are believed to come from Jewish spoliations and until the identification of their rightful owners, which declined at the end of the 1960s, they are registered indefinitely on separate inventories from the museum's collections.

By the end of the 1960s – 1970s, most western countries had completely replaced steam locomotives in passenger service.

Although in the early years of the 21st century Luxembourg enjoyed one of the highest GNP per capita in the world, this was mainly due to the strength of its financial sector, which gained importance at the end of the 1960s.

Gaines sold his company in the early 1960s to the Kinney Parking Company, which would also acquire National Periodicals ( aka DC Comics ) and Warner Bros. by the end of that decade.

Mahfouz even visited Qutb when the latter was in the hospital, during the 1960s, near the end of his life.

Towards the end of the 1960s, and under the leadership of Allen Aylett, North Melbourne began its climb to supremacy.

By the end of the 1960s psychedelic rock was in retreat.

While psychedelic rock began to waver at the end of the 1960s, psychedelic soul continued into the 1970s, peaking in popularity in the early years of the decade, and only disappearing in the late 1970s as tastes began to change.

President John F. Kennedy then made a speech at Rice Stadium reiterating that the United States intended to reach the moon before the end of the decade of the 1960s, and " to become the world's leading space-faring nation ".

As both the British invasion and the 1960s came to an end, Rickenbacker guitars fell somewhat out of fashion ; however Rickenbacker basses remained highly in favor through the 1970s and on.