Patrick McGoohan as agent John Drake, this was a classic and incredibly popular British TV drama from the early and mid 60s.
The original first series was broadcast between 1960 and 1962 and the second series two years later, which is probably when I first saw it. If you remember, the second series of episodes were twice the length of the originals and both series were made in black and white.
And that’s not the only difference. Drake in the first series is American and works for NATO, while by the second series he is British working for a secret British agency called M9. No problem, secret agents, like normal people, must change jobs!
‘In the lands of the North, where the Black Rocks stand guard against the cold sea, in the dark night that is very long the Men of the Northlands sit by their great log fires and they tell a tale… ‘
A Western, but a family entertainment Western, maybe more of a Western soap. Bonanza went down so well in the 1960s that it ran throughout the decade and then into the 1970s making it one of the longest running Westerns.
Do you remember seeing Robinson Crusoe on BBC TV in the 1960s and hearing that very distinctive music? 
Coronation Street (Corrie) is everyone’s favourite TV program and, having begun in 1960 and still current today, is one of the longest running and best loved of British soaps.
A great and truly classic American sitcom that has been repeated time after time and which I saw (again) a few weeks ago. I thought it was being shown on Living TV but I can’t find it in the schedules so if anyone knows where it is at the moment please post a comment below.
OK, I admit it, I am something of a Star Trek fan but you won’t find much of a mention in this blog about it, I’m afraid.
The top ten UK singles of the 1960 year of the decade were: