1950s-1960s time period TV Shows / Series

In the early 1950s, Father Brown, a Roman Catholic priest based in the fictional Cotswold village of Kembleford, uses his distinctive skills to solve various crimes.

An elderly spinster living in the village of St. Mary Mead helps her friends and relatives solve mysterious murders.

A young African-American travels across the U.S. in the 1950s in search of his missing father.

Anthology horror series with varying characters and locations by season, featuring different aspects of the horror genre.

Drama about the pioneers of the science of human sexuality whose research touched off the sexual revolution.

A woman recounts the lifelong friendship and conflicts with a girl she met at primary school in Naples during the early 1950s.

Sarah Adams returns to Australia post World War II to start anew. She begins working in a hospital, much to the dismay of Elizabeth Bligh, a wealthy matriarch.

A tough US Air Force officer and a skeptical scientist investigate UFO and alien conspiracies as Cold War paranoia spreads.

A feel-good, compelling Spanish story of a fashion house in Madrid in the late 50's, which is scene to money, fashion, drama, entanglements, love, jealousies, plots, counter-plots involving its owners, customers and residential employees.

A hotelier conducts business with a mob boss among the glitz and glamour of late-1950s Miami Beach.

The story of events surrounding the notorious divorce of the Duke and Duchess of Argyll during the 1960s.

In 1952, four women who worked at the wartime code-breaking centre, Bletchley Park, reunite to track down a serial killer.

U.S. fighter pilots are recruited to test experimental aircraft and rockets to become first Mercury astronauts. TV adaptation of Tom Wolfe's book, 'The Right Stuff'.

Genius detective Nero Wolfe and his right-hand man: Archie Goodwin, solve seemingly impossible crimes, in 1950's New York.

The true story of Charmian Brent (née Powell), the rebellious product of a strict 1950s upbringing, and her whirlwind romance with Ronald Biggs leading to a descent into crime, most infamously 1963's Great Train Robbery.

The year is 1952. Denmark is experiencing a great shortage of nurses, and therefore the headmistress at Fredenslund Hospital has started a controversial trial. For the first time, the hospital will also be training men.

A three part TV miniseries about Lanarkshire's Detective William Muncie and his quest to bring to justice notorious killer Peter Manuel.

Cold war drama following a Russian Jewish inventor and his family living in Britain.

After her husband's disappearance, Maria Luiza opens a Bossa Nova club in defiance of her normally conservative demeanor.

Starting in 1949, the series follows four young Danes through 25 years of history and personal developments in a story about finding yourself in a world of changes.

A mother's romance in the 1950s and its aftermath decades later, exploring the evolution of female roles.

The fascinating biography of British 'Blonde Bombshell', Diana Dors, who brought Marylin Monroe-esque charms to the UK along with public scandals and personal tragedies.

Inspired by real events, Something's Rockin' tells the fascinating story of the rise and fall of "Radio Mercur", a pirate radio station founded by a small group of music-loving dreamers in the late fifties.

In the 1950s, Elizabeth Zott's dream of being a scientist is challenged by a society that says women belong in the domestic sphere; she accepts a job on a TV cooking show and sets out to teach a nation of housewives way more than recipes.

An anthology series that follows three women in different decades all living in the same house, as they deal with infidelity and betrayals in their marriages.