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    Television-related Games

    Many popular TV shows of the 1950s and 1960s spawned board games linked (sometimes rather tenuously) to the show itself. The trend continued into the 70s and 80s and some of the vintage games are worth a small fortune to collectors today.

    Dragnet. Transogram. 1955
    Perry Mason. Transogram. 1959
    The Rifleman. Milton Bradley. 1959
    77 Sunset Strip. Bell/Lowell. 1960
    Ben Casey MD. Transogram. 1961
    Dr Kildare. Ideal. 1962
    The Fugitive. Ideal. 1964
    I Dream of Jeannie. Milton Bradley. 1965
    Lost In Space. Milton Bradley. 1965
    The Flying Nun. John Sands/Milton Bradley. 1968
    Columbo. Milton Bradley. 1973
    Baretta. Milton Bradley. 1976
    S.W.A.T. Milton Bradley. 1976
    Space: 1999. Milton Bradley. 1976

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