Specific colour television sets were creatively advertised too, like a Philips Natural TV ad which suggested it offers colour so true it made household pets want to climb inside the box.

In the first of our 10-show salutes to the best sci-fi TV series in each decade, and without further ado, here is our unranked list of the finest in space-based home entertainment from the 1950s.

Colour TV ended a long period of technological isolation for Britain, the BBC drama department produced world beating TV series such as Doctor Who and The Forsyte Saga. The first satellite ...