Big Sky

An adaptation of Chester Gould's popular comic-strip detective starring Ralph Byrd, who also played the jut-jawed crimefighter in a series of movies in the 1930s and '40s.

Created by producer-novelist Sidney Sheldon and executive produced by Aaron Spelling, the weekly, hour-long adventure series Hart to Hart starred Robert Wagner and Stefanie Powers as the fabulously wealthy and drop-dead gorgeous married couple Jonathan and Jennifer Hart. A self-made millionaire, Jonathan ran a variety of thriving business enterprises with a firm but fair hand; Jennifer was likewise gainfully employed as a journalist. Good hearted souls that they were, the Harts were forever helping out friends and acquaintances who'd been victimized by criminals or accused of crimes they didn't commit. This, of course, required Jonathan and Jennifer to go the "Thin Man" route with some amateur sleuthing, which often as not nearly got them killed, or at the very least in the direst of dire peril. Acting as the Harts' chauffeur, aide, and self-appointed protector was gravel-voiced Max, a plum role for veteran character actor Lionel Stander. Also on hand was the Harts' "Asta" counterpart, a dog named Freeway. The series debuted August 25, 1979, in the form of a two-hour TV movie, in which Jonathan and Jennifer investigated the suspicious death of an old friend at a health spa. Not only did the movie set the deft, tongue-in-cheek mood of the series to come, but it also featured a well-publicized "surprise" cameo appearance by Robert Wagner's then wife Natalie Wood, billed under her real name Natasha Gurdin. The series proper lasted 112 episodes, closing out its successful ABC run on July 31, 1984.

A colourful spin on Charles Moulton's comic about the Amazon goddess battling evil.

Cheyenne is an American western television series of 108 black-and-white episodes broadcast on ABC from 1955 to 1963. The show was the first hour-long western, and in fact the first hour-long dramatic series of any kind, with continuing characters, to last more than one season. It was also the first series to be made by a major Hollywood film studio which did not derive from its established film properties, and the first of a long chain of Warner Brothers original series produced by William T. Orr.

An architect learns that aliens invaded Earth and assumed human form. But there was a flaw in the extraterrestrials' disguise: a bent pinky finger.

True love (or a TV facsimile thereof) gets the reality treatment in this long-running dating game, in which a successful bachelor romances a number of beauties.