Back to the Future, 1960

What was happening.
• The French conducted nuclear tests in the Sahara desert
• John F Kennedy became President (USA)
• Floyd Patterson became the first boxer to regain the World Heavyweight title
• Premier of the Alfred Hitchcock classic 'Psycho'
• Mack Sennet, the man responsible for the 'Keystone Kops films, died age 80.

About 1960
At the start of the 'swinging' sixties, things weren't swinging too much yet. The decade that was to bring the Beatles, Woodstock, a war in Vietnam and the landing of the first man on the moon, was still a little naive.

You Have been Watching...
• Hancock's Half Hour
• The Arthur Haynes Show
• I Love Lucy
• The Larkins

At the Cinema
• The Apartment (best film Oscar)
• Spartacus
• The Magnificent Seven
• Psycho