1 9 5 5 – 1 9 5 8 (USA) Before the quiz show scandal of the late 1950s, The $64,000 Question was a high-stakes, nail-biting, ratings-topping game…
Browsing: TV Shows – 1950s
Television mesmerised us from the moment it entered our households, and – in less than a decade – became a staple of our way of…
1 9 5 6 – 1 9 5 7 (UK) 24 x 30 minute episodes BBC entertainment in which Alan Melville strung together sketches, songs, parodies…
1 9 5 2 – 1 9 5 4 (USA) 52 x 30 minute episodes Stage and screen comedians Bud Abbott (born William Abbott) and Lou…
1 9 5 6 (UK) 9 x 20 minute episodes The comedy adventures of an engaged couple living separately (this was the 1950s) in London’s bedsitter…
1 9 5 2 – 1 9 5 4 (UK) 40 minute episodes Following on the success of London Town, Richard Dimbleby presented About Britain – a similar series…
1 9 5 1 – 1 9 5 8 (UK) About The Home was an essential part of afternoon viewing for many British women in the 1950s.…
1 9 5 3 – 1 9 5 4 (USA) 250 x 30 minute episodes Action in the Afternoon was television’s first live outdoor Western. Set…
A now-forgotten alternative to the commercial break in the early days of British commercial television was the Advertising Magazine (or ‘Admag’) in which performers were…
1 9 5 9 – 1 9 6 2 (USA) 91 x 60 minute episodes Created by James Michener, this black & white action-adventure series from…
1 9 5 7 (UK) 13 x 30 minute episodes The exploits of Boy (Michael Carr Hartley), the young, orphaned survivor of an aeroplane crash, as…
1 9 5 6 – 1 9 5 7 (UK) 26 x 30 minute episodes This early British-made sitcom starred a US actress so it…
1 9 5 8 (UK) 6 x 30 minute episodes This series for children used the biggest film location devised to date by BBC Television, for…
1 9 5 9 (UK) 5 x 30 minute episodes This BBC comedy series followed the adventures of retired Army Brigadier, Garnet Wellington-Bull, who was a…
1 9 5 3 – 1 9 5 5 (USA) These adventure stories for children from ABC related the adventures of Captain Hartz as he travelled…
1 9 5 7 – 1 9 5 8 (USA) 15 x 15 minute episodes This short serial was broadcast as a segment of The Mickey…
1 9 5 6 (USA) 13 x 30 minute episodes Dr Fu Manchu (Glen Gordon), evil genius and possessor of seemingly unlimited financial resources, has…
1 9 5 0 – 1 9 5 2 (USA) 93 x 30 minute episodes The investigations of Ellery Queen (played initially by Richard Hart and…
1 9 5 9 – 1 9 6 2 (UK) 50 x 25 minute episodes This children’s Saturday serial from the BBC starred Terence Longdon as dashing…
1 9 5 9 – 1 9 6 2 (Australia) 5 minute episodes The first regular live children’s television show from Channel Nine in Melbourne…
