"faded out of existence more and more with television dramas now being filmed in Los Angeles, California. However the essence and format of these dramas continued in the form of filmed anthology dramas such as ""Alfred Hitchcock Presents"" and ""The Twilight Zone"". With anthology series now being filmed in Los Angeles, these shows were broadcast for 39 weeks with a hiatus in the summer. The 1960s and 1970s gave rise to two complex narrative formats which would come to dominate the American television landscape decades later. The primetime serial (radio and television) with ""Peyton Place"" based on the Grace Metalious"
"Peyton Place (novel) Peyton Place is a 1956 novel by Grace Metalious. The novel describes how three women are forced to come to terms with their identity, both as women and as sexual beings, in a small, conservative, gossipy New England town, with recurring themes of hypocrisy, social inequities and class privilege in a tale that includes incest, abortion, adultery, lust and murder. It sold 60,000 copies within the first ten days of its release and remained on the ""New York Times"" best seller list for 59 weeks. The novel spawned a franchise that would run through four decades. Twentieth"
"Century-Fox adapted it as a motion picture in 1957, and Metalious wrote a follow-up novel that was published in 1959, called ""Return to Peyton Place,"" which was also filmed in 1961 using the same title. The original 1956 novel was adapted again in 1964, in what became a wildly successful prime time television series for 20th Century Fox Television that ran until 1969, and the term ""Peyton Place"" – an allusion to any small town or group that holds scandalous secrets – entered into the American lexicon. An NBC daytime soap opera, titled ""Return to Peyton Place,"" ran from 1972"
"Return to Peyton Place Return to Peyton Place is a 1959 novel by Grace Metalious, a sequel to her best-selling 1956 novel ""Peyton Place"". After the phenomenal success of her first novel, Metalious hastily penned a sequel centering on the life and loves of bestselling author Allison MacKenzie, who follows in the footsteps of her mother by having an affair with a married man, her publisher Lewis Jackman. The similarity of their situations bond Allison and her mother. When she returns to her hometown following the publication of her first novel, ""Samuel's Castle"", she is forced to face the wrath"
"Most were reprinted, some with alternative titles. In 1966, several of the stories were presented on the BBC children's TV program 'Jackanory', read by the British actress Sheila Hancock. Susan Beatrice Pearse Susan Beatrice Pearse (19 January 1878 – 1980) was a British illustrator of children's books best known for the Ameliaranne series of books. She was born in Kennington in South London and educated at King Edward's School, Southwark. She married Walter E Webster in Fulham towards the end of 1919, but continued to use her maiden name professionally. To her friends, she was known as 'Trissy' Webster. She"
"ABC Television Network. It was released on both VHS and DVD in the same year by Buena Vista Home Entertainment. Eloise (1955 book) Eloise (originally titled Eloise: A Book for Precocious Grown-ups) is the first of the ""Eloise"" book series of written and drawn by Kay Thompson and Hilary Knight, respectively. It was published in 1955. In 1969, the adult-oriented book was re-released as a children's book. An audiobook version of ""Eloise"", narrated by Bernadette Peters, was released in October 2015 to coincide with the 60th anniversary of the series. In 2003, ""Eloise"" was adapted into a live-action made-for-TV film,"
"Originally a short story, he expanded it into a novel, followed by a further four books, the titles of the first four of which were used as episode titles for the TV series: The first novel in the series was originally adapted to the screen in 1959 as ""The Mating Game"", starring Debbie Reynolds and Tony Randall as Mariette and Charley. The fifth novel, ""A Little of What You Fancy?"", was never adapted for television, but it was adapted into a six-part series by Eric Pringle for BBC Radio, with Jason and Ferris reprising their roles, first airing in February"
"book that did not receive a major contemporary award when it was originally published twenty years earlier. The award is named after the mythical bird phoenix, which is reborn from its ashes, to suggest the book's rise from obscurity. ""Carrie's War"" has been adapted twice for television by the BBC, first in 1974, and then again in 2004. The original 1974 version starred Juliet Waley as Carrie, and Rosalie Crutchley as Hepzibah. The more recent 2004 BBC television film version (broadcast in America on PBS – Masterpiece Theatre in 2006) starred Keeley Fawcett as Carrie, Alun Armstrong as Mr Evans,"
"Award for books deemed to ""belong on the same shelf"" as ""Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"" and ""Through the Looking-Glass"". ""Minnow on the Say"", a Canadian TV drama based on the book, aired in 1960. In the UK, the story was read on ""Jackanory"" in 1966 and a BBC serial adaptation, ""Treasure over the Water"", aired in 1972. Minnow on the Say (novel) Minnow on the Say is a children's novel written by Philippa Pearce, first published by Oxford University Press in 1955. Like many of her books, the novel is set in the area where she grew up, specifically in"
"most important and affecting television dramas of the 1960s, in a 2000 poll of industry professionals conducted by the British Film Institute to determine the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes of the 20th century, it was placed seventy-eighth. ""The Observer"" TV critic George Melly called it ""the first authentic masterpiece written directly for television"" and claimed that ""on the evidence of this work alone, the medium can be considered to have come of age."" Dench won the 1967 British Academy Television Award for Best Actress for her performance. Originally transmitted on BBC2 as part of the ""Theatre 625"" anthology strand,"
"began airing the fall after her death (on ABC-TV, from 1964 through 1969) was a ratings success as well. Metalious was promoted by her publisher in a photo captioned ""Pandora in Blue Jeans"". Commenting on her critics, she observed, ""If I'm a lousy writer, then an awful lot of people have lousy taste,"" and as to the frankness of her work, she stated, ""Even Tom Sawyer had a girlfriend, and to talk about adults without talking about their sex drives is like talking about a window without glass."" Her other novels sold well but never achieved the same success as"
"Barrie, Michael Bates, Brian Blessed, Jeremy Brett, Michael Crawford, Anton Diffring, Paul Eddington, Denholm Elliott, Thora Hird, Desmond Llewelyn, Margaret Lockwood, Leo McKern, Bob Monkhouse, Leslie Phillips, Prunella Scales and Elizabeth Shepherd, among others. Only a single episode is believed to have survived. Saturday Playhouse Saturday Playhouse was a 60-minute UK anthology television series produced by and airing on the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) from 4 January 1958 until 1 April 1961. There were sixty-eight episodes, among them adaptations of the plays ""The Man Who Came to Dinner"" and ""The Cat and the Canary"". One of the episodes, Alex Atkinson’s"
"series in 1957 and a 7-episode series in 1968. The 1968 adaptation was placed 96th in the BFI's 100 Greatest British Television Programmes poll of 2000. It starred Jenny Agutter as Roberta and Gillian Bailey as Phyllis. Of all the BBC TV adaptations, only the 1968 version is known to be extant (it is currently available on DVD); the rest may be lost. After the successful BBC dramatisation of 1968, the film rights were bought by the actor Lionel Jeffries, who wrote and directed the film, released in 1970. Jenny Agutter and Dinah Sheridan starred in the film. The music"
"in a San Francisco restaurant. Then, in 1961, she again starred in a comedy pilot based on Bess Streeter Aldrich's book ""Cheers for Miss Bishop"". None of those three pilots was ever ""picked up"" or purchased by a sponsor for production as a weekly series. Clayton also performed in the 1961 episode ""The Prairie Story"" on NBC's ""Wagon Train"". The episode, written by Jean Holloway, examines how the harsh prairie causes havoc in the lives of some of the women on the wagon train. Robert Horton starred in this episode, which aired three months after the death of Ward Bond."
"was canceled after three months. The Pruitts of Southampton The Pruitts of Southampton is a situation comedy that aired during the 1966-67 season on the ABC network. The show was based on the novel ""House Party"" (1954) by Patrick Dennis. It was ABC's attempt to turn female stand-up comic Phyllis Diller into a sitcom comedian very much in the style of Lucille Ball. The program starred Diller as Phyllis Pruitt, and featured Gypsy Rose Lee and Richard Deacon in supporting roles with Diller feeling the series was an inverted version of ""The Beverly Hillbillies"". The show's producers originally sought comic"
"were broadcast on Fridays at 5:00 p.m. from 1 April to 24 June 1960. Minnow on the Say Minnow on the Say is a Canadian children's adventure television series which aired on CBC Television in 1960. It is based on the 1955 novel of the same title by Philippa Pearce, who later wrote the classic ""Tom's Midnight Garden"". (Her first novel was adapted for British television in 1972, as ""Treasure over the Water"".) This Vancouver-produced dramatic series featured two boys and their canoe, ""The Minnow"", as they seek treasure along the Sayfor River. The treasure was buried in 1588 by"
"1960s included ""One Way Pendulum"" (1964) with George Cole, Eric Sykes and Jonathan Miller; ""Hotel Paradiso"" (1966) with Alec Guinness and Gina Lollobrigida; and Carol Reed's film of the musical ""Oliver!"" (1968) in which she played Mrs Bumble. Mount appeared regularly on BBC radio from the 1960s to the 1980s, on panel shows, ""Woman's Hour"", and arts features. Her acting roles for radio in the 1960s included the title role in Ted Willis's ""Big Bertha"" (1962), Emma Hornett in adaptations of ""Sailor Beware!"" and ""Watch it, Sailor"" (both 1965) and the Queen of Hearts in ""Alice in Wonderland"" (1965). On"
"was responsible for classic 1960s TV shows such as ""My Name's McGooley, What's Yours?"" and ""The Mavis Bramston Show"". She attended the Abbotsleigh School for Girls on the upper North Shore of Sydney. She attained her Masters of Arts in English Literature at the University of Sydney in 1973. Her first job was assistant editor at Paul Hamlyn publishing. She later worked at Angus and Robertson Publishers where she remained for fourteen years as Editor, Senior Editor, managing director, Deputy Publisher and finally Publisher. During this time she began writing children's books under the pseudonym Emily Rodda (her grandmother's name)."
"of unnerving change. BBC One adapted the book in the television series ""The Children of Green Knowe"" (1986), starring Alec Christie as Tolly, Daphne Oxenford as Mrs. Oldknow, and Polly Maberly as Linnet Oldknow. ""The Chimneys of Green Knowe"" was a commended runner up for the 1958 Carnegie Medal. In the United States it was published within the calendar year by Harcourt, as ""The Treasure of Green Knowe"". ""The Chimneys"" also features Tolly, who has returned to Green Knowe for the Easter holidays. As she mends a patchwork quilt, Mrs. Oldknow continues telling Tolly stories about the previous inhabitants of"
"2006. Sylvia Anderson wrote two British children's annuals based on the show, published by Collins in 1960 and 1961. The first book featured a short text story based on the pilot episode of the TV series. The show's music and song lyrics were composed by Barry Gray. Michael Holliday provided Tex's singing voice, and Tommy Reilly performed the harmonica pieces. The best known song to come out of the series was ""Four Feather Falls"", sung in some episodes by Michael Holliday in the style of Bing Crosby and sometimes incorrectly described as the theme song to the series. The closing"
"Sixties puppet show."" Stephen La Rivière, writer of ""Filmed in Supermarionation: a History of the Future"", comments on the violence of several scenes, such as the murders of the original Captains Scarlet and Brown, the deceased Scarlet's bleeding body, the explosion of Brown's Mysteron double, and the shooting of the duplicated Scarlet and its fall from the Car-Vu. Paul Cornell, Martin Day and Keith Topping, authors of ""The Guinness Book of Classic British TV"", cite Brown's conversion into a living bomb as an example of the ""incredibly violent"" nature of some episodes of ""Captain Scarlet"". Andrew Blair of Den of"
"a book which the audience and the other panellists read. The first book was chosen by Coleen Nolan called 'The Girl On The Train' by Paula Hawkins which later went to number 1. As of the new year 2016, Loose Books is no longer a feature on the show. On 19 November 2010, as part of Children in Need 2010, Andrea McLean, Sherrie Hewson, Carol McGiffin, Zoe Tyler and Denise Welch performed Girls Aloud's song ""The Promise"" as Nanas Aloud. ""Loose @ 5.30"" aired at 5.30pm on ITV for two weeks from 29 May 2006. This teatime spin-off of ""Loose"
"The Pruitts of Southampton The Pruitts of Southampton is a situation comedy that aired during the 1966-67 season on the ABC network. The show was based on the novel ""House Party"" (1954) by Patrick Dennis. It was ABC's attempt to turn female stand-up comic Phyllis Diller into a sitcom comedian very much in the style of Lucille Ball. The program starred Diller as Phyllis Pruitt, and featured Gypsy Rose Lee and Richard Deacon in supporting roles with Diller feeling the series was an inverted version of ""The Beverly Hillbillies"". The show's producers originally sought comic actress Beatrice Lillie in the"
"1965). Original Australian play directed by Alan Burke.<br> 39. ""Tartuffe""* (aired 13 Oct. 1965) Adaptation of the play by Moliere directed by Henri Safran.<br> 40. ""Collect Your Hand Luggage"" (aired 20 Oct. 1965). British TV production by John Mortimer starring Kenneth More.<br> 41. ""Cross of Gold""* (aired 27 Oct. 1965). Australian production based on novel by Balzac by Richard Lane<br> 42. ""The Bergonzi Hand"" (aired 3 Nov. 1965). British TV production by Tyrone Guthrie with Keith Michell and Gordon Jackson<br> 43. ""Photo Finish""* (aired 3 Nov. 1965). By Peter Ustinov<br> 44. ""The Casualties"" (aired 17 Nov. 1965). Previously aired in"
"location for the stately home. While the film was a moderate success at the United Kingdom box office, it was a box office bomb in the United States. Despite this, it was reviewed positively by critics and has since developed a following and has been a staple of American cable television. At the time of its release, Jean Simmons's performance as a madcap heiress earned some praise and a Laurel Award nomination. The Grass Is Greener The Grass Is Greener is a 1960 comedy film directed by Stanley Donen and starring Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum, and Jean Simmons."
"book's dedication read as follows: """"FOR THE ROCK (Her son's nickname) and the children and sugar people of NamCan"""". The TV series ""The Flying Nun,"" starring Sally Field, was based on this book. The sitcom was produced by ABC between 1967 and 1970. Upon learning of their son's fate, Ríos and her husband tried to find out what they could about the circumstances surrounding his death. She went to Paris in the late 1960s, trying unsuccessfully to see the North Vietnamese delegation as it arrived for peace talks. Ríos expressed her frustration and anguish in poems and in unpublished novels."
"Minnow on the Say Minnow on the Say is a Canadian children's adventure television series which aired on CBC Television in 1960. It is based on the 1955 novel of the same title by Philippa Pearce, who later wrote the classic ""Tom's Midnight Garden"". (Her first novel was adapted for British television in 1972, as ""Treasure over the Water"".) This Vancouver-produced dramatic series featured two boys and their canoe, ""The Minnow"", as they seek treasure along the Sayfor River. The treasure was buried in 1588 by an ancestor of the boys. Peter Statner adapted the story for broadcast. 15-minute episodes"
"in the UK, on ITV1 in March 2006. While the adaptation, written by Nick Dear, retains some elements of the plot, including the method of the murder and who committed it, the episode was only loosely based on the novel. The changes that were made included: ""Cards on the Table"" was adapted for radio by BBC Radio 4, featuring John Moffatt as Hercule Poirot, Donald Sinden as Colonel Johnny Race, and Stephanie Cole as Ariadne Oliver. The book was first serialised in the US in ""The Saturday Evening Post"" in six instalments from 2 May (Volume 208, Number 44) to"
"Our House (1960 TV series) Our House is a British sitcom that aired on ITV from 1960 to 1962. The main writer of the programme, which starred many actors known for their roles in the ""Carry On"" films, was Norman Hudis, who wrote the first six ""Carry On"" films from 1958 to 1962. ""Our House"" is based on the premise of nine people of differing backgrounds sharing a house together. ""Our House"" was created by Norman Hudis, who was also the main writer. Two other writers contributed to the series, Brad Ashton and Bob Block. It was produced by Ernest"
"that made his heart sink. However, the writer went on to praise his portrayal and added that the whole family found the character hilarious. Two books related to the programme have been released in the UK. One was written by Graham McCann and published by BBC Books in October 2014 and the other one, a 'novelisation' based on scripts for the first series, was written by Christine Sparks and was published by BBC Books. This was published in February 1981 which is based on the original programme. This was published on 30 October 2014. A selection of 15 episodes of"
"as a serial during the middle of WWII, possibly 1943. It was introduced by a catchy signature tune, easily recalled 73 years later; it concluded with the lyric ""...the Swish of the Curtain"". In 1980, the book was adapted for BBC television. Sarah Greene starred in the production as Sandra Fayne. In 1994, the book was dramatised for radio by Felicity Hayes-McCoy and broadcast on the old BBC Radio 5, before it became BBC Radio Five Live. For a time this was regularly repeated in the Young Classics Hour on BBC Radio 7. James Lance starred in the production as"
"Eventually, Allison and Selena grow distant because of Selena's closeness with Ted Carter. At the same time, a new high school principal arrives to catch the eye of Allison's mother, Constance, and to dredge up forbidden thoughts. Peyton Place (novel) Peyton Place is a 1956 novel by Grace Metalious. The novel describes how three women are forced to come to terms with their identity, both as women and as sexual beings, in a small, conservative, gossipy New England town, with recurring themes of hypocrisy, social inequities and class privilege in a tale that includes incest, abortion, adultery, lust and murder."
"cannot get right. Hammill observed that the idea that Anne was entirely cheerful is a product of the film and television versions as the Anne of the books has to deal with loss, rejection, cruel authority figures, and loneliness. Anne was portrayed by Kim Braden in two BBC mini-series in the early 1970s, based upon the books ""Anne of Green Gables"" and ""Anne of Avonlea"". Anne was portrayed by Megan Follows in three of the four CBC Television film adaptions by Kevin Sullivan: ""Anne of Green Gables"", ""Anne of Green Gables: The Sequel"", and """"; the third film is an"