UK TV Ratings – 1960s

by Candace Rich — Updated: August 3, 2023 Comment — Reading Time: 4 minutes

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Here are the top rated Sixties TV shows by year!
1960 1961 1962 1963 1964	1965 1966 1967 1968 1969

Data graciously contributed by Tony Rogerson. Many thanks!

1960
1. Royal Variety Show (ITV) 2. Armchair Theatre (ITV) 3. Take Your Pick (ITV) 4. No Hiding Place (ITV) 5. Wagon Train (ITV) 6. The Army Game (ITV) 7. Bootsie and Snudge (ITV) 8. Sunday Palladium (ITV) 9. The Larkins (ITV) 10. Arthur Haynes Show (ITV)	11. Bernard Delfont Show (ITV) 12. Knight Errant (ITV) 13. Double Your Money (ITV) 14. TV Playhouse (ITV) 15. Emergency Ward Ten (ITV) 16. Hippodrome (ITV) 17. Dickie Henderson Show (ITV) 18. Concentration (ITV) 19. Candid Camera (ITV) 20. Moscow State Circus (ITV)

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1961
1. Royal Variety Show (ITV) 2. No Hiding Place (ITV) 3. Sunday Night at the Palladium (ITV) 4. Coronation Street (ITV) 5. The Army Game (ITV) 6. Probation Officer (ITV) 7. Russ Conway (ITV) 8. The Dickie Henderson Show (ITV) 9. Take Your Pick (ITV) 10. Double Your Money (ITV)	11. Armchair Theatre (ITV) 12. Emergency Ward Ten (ITV) 13. Echo Four-Two (ITV) 14. British Song Contest (ITV) 15. Arthur Hayes Show (ITV) 16. Harpers West One (ITV) 17. Circus Comes to Town (ITV) 18. Knight Errant Limited (ITV) 19. Somerset Maugham (ITV) 20. Bootsie and Smudge (ITV)

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1962
1. Royal Variety Show (BBC) 2. Coronation Street (ITV) 3. Miss World 1962 (BBC) 4. Sunday Palladium (ITV) 5. European Cup Football (ITV) 6. Armchair Theatre (ITV) 7. Val Parnell (ITV) 8. Crazy Gang Last Night (ITV) 9. No Hiding Place (ITV) 10. Bernard Delfont Show (ITV)	11. Drama ’62 (ITV) 12. Take Your Pick (ITV) 13. Double Your Money (ITV) 14. Maigret (BBC) 15. One Step Beyond (ITV) 16. Emergency Ward Ten (ITV) 17. Play of the Week (ITV) 18. Rawhide (ITV) 19. Top Secret (ITV) 20. Bruce Forsyth Show (ITV)

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1963
1. Royal Variety Show (ITV) 2. Coronation Street (ITV) 3. Steptoe and Son (BBC) 4. Dr. Finlay’s Case Book (BBC) 5. Drama 63 (ITV) 6. Miss World (BBC) 7. They’ve Sold a Million (ITV) 8. Max Bygraves Show (ITV) 9. Take Your Pick (ITV) 10. Val Parnell’s Sunday Show (ITV)	11. This Week (ITV) 12. No Hiding Place (ITV) 13. Armchair Theatre (ITV) 14. Kennedy’s Funeral (ITV) 15. Here’s Harry (BBC) 16. The Odd Man (ITV) 17. Dickie Henderson (BBC) 18. Laughter USA (BBC) 19. Juke Box Jury (BBC) 20. The Larkins (ITV)

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1964
1. Steptoe and Son (BBC) 2. Sunday Palladium (ITV) 3. Coronation Street (ITV) 4. Dick Powell Theatre (BBC) 5. Take Your Pick (ITV) 6. Royal Variety Show (BBC) 7. No Hiding Place (ITV) 8. Armchair Theatre (ITV) 9. It’s Tarbuck (ITV) 10. Crane (ITV)	11. Stars and Garters (ITV) 12. Double Your Money (ITV) 13. Emergency Ward Ten (ITV) 14. Around the Beatles (ITV) 15. Frank Ifield Show (ITV) 16. The Avengers (ITV) 17. Christmas Comedy (ITV) 18. Miss World 1964 (ITV) 19. Max Bygraves (ITV) 20. Love Story (ITV)

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1965
1. Royal Variety Show (ITV) 2. Coronation Street (ITV) 3. Take Your Pick (ITV) 4. Riviera Police (ITV) 5. No Hiding Place (ITV) 6. Double Your Money (ITV) 7. This Money (ITV) 8. Love Story (ITV) 9. Crane (ITV) 10. Emergency War Ten (ITV)	11. The Power Game (ITV) 12. Hello Dolly (ITV) 13. Steptoe and Son (BBC) 14. The Avengers (ITV) 15. The Music of Lennon and McCartney (ITV) 16. It’s Tarbuck (ITV) 17. Miss World 1965 (BBC) 18. Here Comes the Pops (ITV) 19. Blackmail (ITV) 20. Professional Boxing (ITV)

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1966
1. Miss World 1966 (BBC) 2. Mrs Thursday (ITV) 3. A Royal Gala (ITV) 4. Secombe and Friends (ITV) 5. The London Palladium (ITV) 6. Coronation Street (ITV) 7. Double Your Money (ITV) 8. Take Your Pick (ITV) 9. The Rat Catchers (ITV) 10. No Hiding Place (ITV)	11. The Avengers (ITV) 12. Cinema (ITV) 13. World Title Boxing (BBC) 14. Dare I Weep, Dare I Moan (ITV) 15. The Morecambe and Wise Show (ITV) 16. Emergency Ward Ten (ITV) 17. Gone Laughing Home (BBC) 18. Hippodrome (ITV) 19. The Blackpool Show (ITV) 20. The Power Game (ITV)

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1967
1. Royal Variety (ITV) 2. Miss World 1967 (BBC) 3. A London Palladium (ITV) 4. Coronation Street (ITV) 5. Market in Honey Lane (ITV) 6. Eurovision Song Contest (BBC) 7. Take Your Pick (ITV) 8. The Morecambe and Wise Show (ITV) 9. Mrs Thursday (ITV) 10. Dr Finlay’s Casebook (BBC)	11. Secombe and Friends (ITV) 12. Z Cars (BBC) 13. This is Petula Clark (BBC) 14. World in Action (ITV) 15. Double Your Money (ITV) 16. The Avengers (ITV) 17. Cinema (BBC) 18. Professional Boxing (BBC) 19. Death by Misadventures (ITV) 20. International Ice Gala (BBC)

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1968
1. A Special Royal Performance (ITV) 2. Miss World 1968 (BBC) 3. Eurovision (BBC) 4. The Grand National (BBC) 5. Howerd’s Hour (ITV) 6. International Football (BBC) 7. The Boat Race (BBC) 8. Life With Cooper (ITV) 9. Coronation Street (ITV) 10. Frost on Sunday (ITV)	11. Till Death Us Do Part (BBC) 12. World in Action (ITV) 13. Harlech Opening Night (ITV) 14. Morecambe and Wise (BBC) 15. Des O’Connor Show (ITV) 16. European Cup Final (ITV) 17. Piccadily Palace (ITV) 18. Sherlock Holmes (BBC) 19. News at Ten (ITV) 20. Father Dear Father (ITV)

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1969
1. Miss World 1969 (BBC) 2. Royal Variety (ITV) 3. In Loving Memory (ITV) 4. Coronation Street (ITV) 5. Benny Hill Show (ITV) 6. Max (ITV) 7. The Dustbinmen (BBC) 8. Mr Digby Darling (ITV) 9. The Power Game (ITV) 10. Till Death Do Us Part (BBC)	11. Royal Family (BBC) 12. Eurovision Song Contest (BBC) 13. Please Sir (ITV) 14. This is Your Life (BBC) 15. Two in Clover (ITV) 16. Sportsnight With Coleman (BBC) 17. The Best Things of Life (ITV) 18. Special Branch (ITV) 19. News at Ten (ITV) 20. Opportunity Knocks (ITV)

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