Beyond the Fringe of musical items in the show, using Dudley Moore's music, most famously an arrangement of the Colonel Bogey March which resists Moore's repeated attempts to bring it to an end. The show prefigured the Satire Boom of the 1960s. Without it, there might not have been either "That Was the Week That Was" or "Private Eye", the satirical magazine which originated at the same time, that partially survived due to financial support from Peter Cook, and that served as the model for the later American "Spy Magazine". Cook and Moore formed a comedy team and appeared in the popular television
The Sixties (miniseries) inception of the project coming within a year of Zucker's appointment as president of CNN, Zucker also stated to "Variety" that "Projects like this are emblematic of exactly the type of programming that we need more of, signifying a new direction and expanded sensibility at CNN." Although "The Sixties" premiered in May 2014, the third episode, "The Assassination of President Kennedy", was previously released as its own television special on November 14, 2013 to coincide with the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy's assassination. The Sixties (miniseries) The Sixties is a documentary miniseries which premiered on CNN on May 29,