The Fabulous Sixties

The Fabulous Sixties
Genre	Documentary miniseries
Narrated by	Peter Jennings
Country of origin	Canada
Original language	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	10
Production
Producers	Philip Hobel Douglas Leiterman
Original release
Network	CTV
Release	12 October 1969 (1969-10-12) – 1970 (1970)
Related
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 programs 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 on 12 October 1969 with the following episodes broadcast as occasional specials into 1970. The series was released on DVD on 24 April 2007 by MPI Home Video.[1]

Episodes

• "1960, Be a Man – Sell Out" (aired 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 25 January 1970)
• "1965" (no additional detail in title) (aired 15 February 1970)
• "1966, Life, liberty and the pursuit of violence"
• "1967, Love is in the Streets... Death in the Desert"
• "1968, Up Against the Wall"
• "1969, The Eagle Has Landed"

References

• Millin, Leslie (11 October 1969). "'Sixties' project has merit". The Globe and Mail. Toronto. p. 27.
• Kastner, Susan (26 January 1970). "A 20-year career but no stardom (multi-topic article)". The Globe and Mail. Toronto. p. 15.
• Kirby, Blaik (16 February 1970). "Magoo offering makes CRTC move valid (multi-topic article)". The Globe and Mail. Toronto. p. 14.
• "Douglas Leiterman (bio)". Film Reference Library. 5 April 2004. Archived from the original on 13 August 2007. Retrieved 9 September 2007.
• "The Fabulous Sixties (review)". DVD Talk. Retrieved 9 September 2007.
• "Fabulous Sixties (National Library of Canada search)". Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved 9 September 2007.