The Fabulous Sixties

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The Fabulous Sixties
Genre	Documentary miniseries
Narrated by	Peter Jennings
Country of origin	Canada
Language(s)	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	10
Production
Producer(s)	Philip Hobel Douglas Leiterman
Broadcast
Original channel	CTV
Original run	12 October 1969 – 1970
Chronology
Followed by	Here Come the Seventies

The Fabulous Sixties was a 10-part Canadian television documentary miniseries narrated by Peter Jennings. Each episode featured a year from the 1960s.

The programmes were produced by Philip Hobel and Douglas Leiterman under the production units Hobel-Leiterman Productions and Document Associates. The duo then produced the regular-season series Here Come the Seventies and Target: The Impossible for CTV.

The first episode aired on CTV 12 October 1969 with the following episodes broadcast as occasional specials into 1970. The series was released on DVD 24 April 2007 by MPI Home Video.[1]

[edit] Episodes

"1960, Be a Man - Sell Out" (aired CTV 12 October 1969)
"1961, Victory Has a Hundred Feathers"
"1962, Morality and Brinkmanship"
"1963, End of a Thousand Days"
"1964, From Liverpool With Love" (aired CTV 25 January 1970)
"1965" (no additional detail in title) (aired CTV 15 February 1970)
"1966, Life, liberty and the pursuit of violence"
"1967, Love is in the Air..."
"1968, Up Against the Wall"
"1969, The Eagle Has Landed"

[edit] References

Millin, Leslie. "'Sixties' project has merit", The Globe and Mail, 11 October 1969, p. 27.
Kastner, Susan. "A 20-year career but no stardom (multi-topic article)", The Globe and Mail, 26 January 1970, p. 15.
Kirby, Blaik. "Magoo offering makes CRTC move valid (multi-topic article)", The Globe and Mail, 16 February 1970, p. 14.
Douglas Leiterman (bio). Film Reference Library (5 April 2004). Retrieved on 2007-09-09.
The Fabulous Sixties (review). DVD Talk. Retrieved on 2007-09-09.
Fabulous Sixties (National Library of Canada search). Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved on 2007-09-09.