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Join legendary archer Fred Bear and fellow hunters as they trek across the globe in search of wild game. Follow him as he bow fishes in Florida; hunts the majestic polar bear in the bitter cold of the Artic; heads to Africa for several safaris on quests for plains game, lion and elephant; takes a world record stone sheep in North America and much more.

Two teams competed to see which one knew more about movies. Various rounds of the game included trivia questions, identifying film clips and acting out scenes from a film.

The Jonathan Winters Show is the first of two American television network Variety show television programs to be hosted by comedian Jonathan Winters. The television series was broadcast from October 1956 to June 1957 on NBC.

An academic exploration of 20th century existentialist philosophy presented by Hazel E. Barnes, Ph.D.

The Super 6 is an animated cartoon series which was produced by DePatie-Freleng Enterprises in 1966, and shown on the NBC television network from 1966 to 1969. This was DePatie-Freleng's first vehicle for Saturday morning. The Super 6 theme song was performed by Gary Lewis & the Playboys.

Eye Guess is an American game show created by Bob Stewart and hosted by Bill Cullen, which aired on NBC from January 3, 1966 to September 26, 1969. In the game, two contestants attempted to answer questions by remembering the answers' location hidden on a gameboard. The winning contestant then played a bonus game for various prizes, including a new car. This was the first game show by Bob Stewart Productions. Stewart, a former producer for Goodson-Todman Productions, created this series and packaged it with Filmways. Don Pardo announced for the first year, after which Jack Clark replaced him for the rest of the run. The show used the Al Hirt tune "Sugar Lips" as its theme song.

In the 1940s a different kind of tool was invented a tool for extending certain powers of mans mind, the electronic computer. It is the fast, reliable, and tireless performance of a variety of arithmetic and logical operatic is which gives the computer its great utility and power. What this exciting invention means to mankind now and in the future is the subject of this provocative series.

The Sammy Davis Jr. Show is short-lived musical variety series hosted by Sammy Davis Jr. that aired on NBC in 1966.

THE FUNNY COMPANY was an American animated cartoon produced in 1963 and seen in syndication. Ken Snyder and Charles Koren produced 260 six-minute long episodes. The Mattel Corporation provided financial backing. Snyder conceived the program in response to then-Federal Communications Commission chairman Newton N. Minow's call for more educational children's programs. THE FUNNY COMPANY group resembled a club not unlike a Junior Achievement organization, and most of the time, the stories would revolve around the Company being hired for various jobs to make a little money or doing something for charity. As time went on, the Company decided to make Shrinkin' Violette a movie star and were on their way to Hollywood. Members included leader Buzzer Bell, inventor Jasper N. Park, club secretary Polly Plum, rotund Merry Twitter, club mascot Terry Dactyl, shy Shrinkin' Violette, and two Native American adults--Super Chief whose voice was an air horn of a single-chime railroad locomotive, and his translator Broken Feather. Another adult lending a hand was Professor Todd Goodheart with his supercomputer, the Weisenheimer.

The Donald O'Connor Show is a syndicated talk show hosted by Donald O'Connor that aired in the the 1968-1969 season.

Possible Possum is a series of animated shorts for television, produced by Terrytoons. One of the last series to be produced in-house at New Rochelle before the animation studio chose to outsource to the L.A-based studio for the remainder of its active years. The series ran from 1965 to 1971, a year after Deputy Dawg ceased production.

Where the Girls Are was a music and comedy special that aired on NBC in 1968. Noel Harrison, fresh from his role in the NBC series Girl From U.N.C.L.E., hosted the hour-long special. Comic skits were performed by Professor Irwin Corey and Don Adams, who was starring in the NBC series Get Smart. Musical numbers were performed by The Association, Barbara McNair, Cher and The Byrds. The "Close-Up" for the program in the April 20–26, 1968 TV Guide also notes: "The goings-on include antic camerawork and a bevy of mini-clad beauties." Celanese Arnel was a major sponsor. The special was broadcast on Tuesday, April 23, 1968. It pre-empted the Jerry Lewis Show on NBC's network schedule.

A half-hour sitcom, the series starred radio and theatre star Jimmy Clitheroe. Using his four-foot three-inch stature and mischievous persona to comic effect, causing further mischief and mayhem for his fictional family. It ran for one series of seven episodes in 1963.

Tom Sawyer is a 12-year-old boy in Missouri in the 1840s. His best friend is Huckleberry Finn, who doesn't go to school or to church, spends his days fishing, smokes a corncob pipe and has no use for society.

Dynamics of Desegregation, which aired in 1962 and 1963, was a 15-part intensive study of race relations in the United States. Harvard psychology professor Thomas F. Pettigrew hosted the series. It looks at the historical, political, psychological, personal and cultural aspects of segregation, with a particular emphasis on the South.

A 10-part public television series created by Dr. Maya Angelou for KQED in 1968, exploring the influence of African American culture on contemporary American society.

Celebrated American pianist Vladimir Horowitz in his first televised piano recital, taped at Carnegie Hall on February 1, 1968, and broadcast nationwide by CBS on September 22 of that year.

I'll Bet is an American game show that ran on NBC from March 29 to September 24, 1965. The series was created by Ralph Andrews, and hosted by Jack Narz. The series was a precursor to It's Your Bet, which was considerably more successful, running for four years.

Deputy Dawg is a Terrytoons cartoon character, featured on the animated television series of the same name that aired from 1960 to 1964

Series reflecting the tastes and times of Britain's under-twenty-ones.

Produced by Charles Hobson and aired on WNEW (better known as Channel 5), this weekly show was originally conceived to counter images of black neighborhoods as presented in the mainstream news.

War Documentary hosted by Ron Haddrick, published by Artransa Park Television in 1961 - English narration

Jimmy Durante Presents the Lennon Sisters is an American variety show that aired on ABC during the 1969-70 television season. The series was hosted by Jimmy Durante, and stars The Lennon Sisters.

You're in the Picture is an American television game show that aired on CBS for only one episode on Friday, January 20, 1961 at 9:30pm, the evening of the Inauguration of John F. Kennedy. The show, created by Don Lipp and Bob Synes, was an attempt by its host and star Jackie Gleason to "demonstrate versatility" after his success within variety shows and The Honeymooners. Gleason was joined by Johnny Olson as announcer and Dennis James doing live commercials for sponsor Kellogg's cereals. Technically, the show could be said to have run for two episodes, since the following Friday, Gleason appeared at the same time, but in a studio "stripped to the brick walls" and using the time to give what Time magazine called an "inspiring post-mortem", asking rhetorically "how it was possible for a group of trained people to put on so big a flop." Time later cited You're in the Picture as one piece of evidence that the 1960-61 TV season was the "worst in the 13-year history of U.S. network television."

It Takes Two is a game show in which contestants gave numerical answers to questions. The original program was created and produced by Ralph Andrews and aired on NBC from March 31, 1969 to July 31, 1970 at 10:00 AM Eastern. A second version, produced by Mark Phillips Philms & Telephision, aired on The Family Channel in 1997. Los Angeles Dodgers broadcaster Vin Scully hosted the NBC version with John Harlan as announcer and on-camera assistant. The 1997 version was hosted by Dick Clark.

An interview that Mr. Jack Kerouac gave in 1967 (just two (2) years before he passed away) in French (he was a Franco- American, and his first language, the one his family spoke at home in Lowell, Massachusetts, where he was raised, was French), on a TV show entitled "Le sel de la semaine" ("The Salt of the Week")

You're Putting Me On! was a short-lived Bob Stewart NBC game show in which celebrities tried to communicate the identities of famous people through odd and interesting clues. Bill Leyden was the original host, with Larry Blyden taking over halfway through the run. The program was broadcast from June 30 to December 26, 1969, at 1:30 pm.

Frankenstein Jr. is a robot constructed by a boy-genius to fight crime. He is a 30-foot mechanical robot that is summoned by a ring worn by Buzz, Dr. Conroy's son.

Letters to Laugh-In is a daytime game show and spin-off of NBC's popular nighttime comedy series at the time, Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, that aired on the network from September 29 to December 26, 1969. The show was hosted by Gary Owens, the announcer for Laugh-In.

A series of films with a new perspective on Britain - from the air.

It's Your Bet is an American game show which aired in syndication from 1969-1973. The series was a revised version of the NBC game I'll Bet, which aired for six months in 1965. Both I'll Bet and It's Your Bet were produced by Ralph Andrews.

Storybook Squares is a short-lived Saturday morning version of Hollywood Squares for children. The primary difference, apart from having children as contestants, was that it featured celebrities in costume as well-known fictional characters and some as historical figures. As with the adult version, Peter Marshall was host and Kenny Williams was announcer; Williams read the characters' names off a scroll as "The Guardian of the Gate", a role similar to his "Town Crier" on Video Village. The series originally ran on NBC from January 4 to April 19, 1969, with repeats airing until August 30.

An eclectic and frenetic mix of various contests, human-interest stories, and live entertainment.

Siberia: A Day in Irkutsk is a NBC News documentary. Kenneth Bernstein offers look at life in the Siberian city of Irkutsk.

The story of the pilgrims on the Mayflower with the story told from a mouses point of view.

In these six programmes Ian Nairn looks at industrial landscape; considers the unique appeal of Liverpool; tries to analyse the attraction of a summer Bank Holiday county like Cornwall; asks if in new towns like Cumbernauld people have been given enough say in their environment; sees the potential in a plan for a Welsh hill-town; and finally takes a look at a uniquely British institution - the public house.

Mickie Finn's was a summer replacement variety series for the failed NBC sitcom Mona McCluskey, which had starred Juliette Prowse and Denny Miller on Thursday nights. The variety program was based on the San Diego nightclub of the same name.

PDQ is an American television game shows created by Heatter-Quigley Productions. The objective was to guess a word or a given phrase in the shortest amount of time with the fewest letters given as possible. It was syndicated by Four Star Television which aired from September 6, 1965 to September 26, 1969, primarily on NBC-owned stations but syndicated in markets where NBC didn't own a station. PDQ was named after its original sponsor, a flavored drink mix. The show and product shared logos, although on the show the initials stood for "Please Draw Quickly".

A Lake District family's story from 1730-1962 weaves through England's key events. Historical figures appear as the saga unfolds across 1500 pages, celebrating the region where Walpole lived.

An anthology series with the premise that there is a story behind every door.

This is the story of the creation of the Nazi war machine. We trace its origins from the Freikorps and street thugs battling in the German streets after the great war, to the secret German army that was trained in Soviet Union to hide from the prying eyes of the victorius Allies. We show the growth of the Panzer Corps, the mighty Luftwaffe and the feared SS. This is the most comprehensive look at the military force that took Europe by storm during WWII.

An American television program of 26 30-minute episodes recorded in 1962, which featured performances by leading jazz musicians of the time. It was produced by Jimmie Baker, directed by Steve Binder, and (except for the first episode) was presented by Oscar Brown Jr.

100 Grand is an American game show hosted by Jack Clark. The series ran for three episodes, weekly on Sunday nights from September 15 to 29, 1963 on the highly-touted "New ABC" as the network's attempt to bring back high-stakes game shows after the quiz show scandals of 1958. When 100 Grand made its debut, it had been two years since any large jackpots comparable to the quiz shows had aired on any broadcast network, and it would be over a decade more before six-figure jackpots returned to television.

People Will Talk was an American game show that aired on NBC from July 1 to December 27, 1963. The host was Dennis James, with Kenny Williams announcing. In 1964, packager Heatter-Quigley Productions revamped the program under the name The Celebrity Game, with host Carl Reiner at CBS Television City in Hollywood.

An artless father makes an awkward attempt to explain the facts of life to his son, but he becomes increasingly embarrassed to the point where his explanations are so ambiguous they become incomprehensible.

British chat show

Who Killed Lake Erie is a two and a half hour television documentary that aired on NBC in September 1969.

Produced in 1963, "Sam Bassett, Hound for Hire" is a quirky, bizarre and hilarious series of short cartoons that almost defy description. Sam Bassett, a Bogart-esque Bassett Hound and his partner, a mute Chihuahua named Chapultepec (who "talks" by playing his mariachi guitar) attempt to solve mysteries that somehow usually involve psychotherapy.

Fast Draw was a game show hosted by now-Jeopardy! announcer Johnny Gilbert for syndication from May 25 to Fall 1968 and was distributed by Warner Brothers/Seven Arts Television. Taped at the studios of WNEW-TV in New York, the show involved two teams, each composed of a celebrity and a civilian contestant. The format both predated the board game Pictionary and was the game show predecessor to Win, Lose or Draw.

A series of dramas based on the works of Guy de Maupassant which aired in 1963 from Granada Television

A half-hour dramatic anthology series that ran in syndication circa 1959-1960, primarily on educational television stations.

Your First Impression is a NBC daytime game show which aired from January 2, 1962, to June 26, 1964. A panel of three celebrities tried to guess the identity of mystery guests from clues supplied by the host. Bill Leyden was the MC of the program, with Dennis James as a regular panelist or alternating host. Filmed in Burbank, California, Your First Impression was a Monty Hall-Art Stark Production. Hall was the series executive producer. The program aired at Noon Eastern time and followed another quiz program, Concentration, then hosted by Hugh Downs. Celebrities who appeared on the series included Pat Carroll, Bob Crane, Nina Foch, Ross Martin, Dean Miller, Leslie Nielsen, Inger Stevens, Elena Verdugo, Betty White, and Paul Winchell. Joan Crawford was a mystery guest. Richard Nixon appeared as a mystery guest after his losses to John F. Kennedy for President and Edmund G. Brown for governor of California. He got a laugh when he was asked to fill in the blank: "I wish that I __________," and he answered, "had been a PT-boat captain."