When it comes to TV shows, you’ve heard it (and probably said it) more times than you can count: They don’t make them like ...

But when it came to rescuing the world from peril in the 1970s with super-strength and other fantastical powers, this was a decade dominated by primetime TV’s superheroes. For a generation that ...

James Mitchell, pictured above on a return to South Shields, was born in 1926 and created television series When The Boat Comes In and Callan. He died in 2002. | Freddie Mudditt He said at the ...