ABC Weekend TV - British TV Nostalgia

ABC Weekend TV launched the fourth and sixth independent television services in the UK, providing the weekend services for the Midlands and the North of England between 1956 and 1968.

After the 1967 franchise review, ATV were offered the seven-day service in the Midlands, and ABC, who were expected to get the weekend licence for London narrowly lost out to LWT. The Independent Television Authority (ITA) decided that there would be no place for Rediffusion London in the new structure, but told them to merge with ABC and form Thames Television to continue London's weekday service. The North of England was split into two new regions: North West England, awarded to Granada Television, and Yorkshire, awarded to Yorkshire Television.

ABC SciFi productions

The Trollenberg Terror (TV series, 1956-57)
Electrode 93 (TV serial, 1957)
Target Luna (TV serial, 1960)
Pathfinders In Space (TV serial, 1960)
Pathfinders To Mars (TV serial, 1960-61)
Pathfinders To Venus (TV serial, 1961)
Plateau Of Fear (TV serial, 1961)
Out Of This World (TV serial, 1962)
City Beneath The Sea (TV serial, 1962)
Dimensions Of Fear (TV serial, 1963)
Secret Beneath The Sea (TV serial, 1963)
Emerald Soup (TV serial, 1963)
Undermind (TV series, 1965)