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Cultural highlights of 1961

Television: UK
New shows
• A for Andromeda (BBC, from 3 October). Six-part science-fiction series written by Fred Hoyle and John Elliott and produced as a telerecording rather than being transmitted live. A second series, The Andromeda Breakthrough begins on 28 June 1962.

Television: US
Hit shows
• Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color (Disney for NBC). Documentaries.
• Doctor Kildare (MGM/Arena for NBC). Medical soap.

 

Chronomedia 1961