This is a list of British TV shows from the 50s, 60s and 70s. I’ve removed some that weren’t really suitable for my purposes – which includes any which have been recently re-made (for good or ill).
1950s
1960s
- Adam Adamant Lives!
- The Baron
- The Champions
- Danger Man
- The Dark Island
- Department S
- Espionage
- Man of the World
- Man in a Suitcase
- The Mask of Janus
- Spycatcher
1970s
I vote for Blakes 7 purely because of The Liberator and the fact that you could make a communicator bangle from a used Sellotape roll. Perhaps Blake might hang around a bit longer this time.
I have a full 5-year treatment of a B7 reboot in my head (mostly) that I’ve been working on for years. The Liberator set would need the paint hall to do it justice. The idea of a morally grey show about terrorism and an oppressive state being made in NI is also delicious. And I fully intend to play up the moral greyness of it.
But the BBC don’t own B7, it belongs to the Terry Nation estate. Which means the opportunity for (e.g.) HBO to support it, and they have the infrastructure in place already.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blake's_7#Revivals
On 24 April 2008, Sky1 announced that it had commissioned two 60-minute scripts for a potential series, working alongside B7 Productions, a subsidiary of B7 Media who owns the licence to the show.
On 4 August 2010, Sky1 announced that although it had agreed to the development of two new scripts, it had decided against commissioning a series. B7 Productions responded that the decision was “…obviously disappointing” but added that the development process has resulted in the “…dynamic reinvention of this branded series”. It said it was confident it would still find a partner to bring the new version of Blake’s 7 to television.