1 9 5 6 – 1 9 6 2 (Australia) 60 minute/30 minute episodes (weekdays) 120 minute episodes (Saturdays) “Ahoy there, Shipmates!” Bedecked in seaman’s clothes…
Browsing: TV – 1950s
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1 9 5 5 – 1 9 5 7 (USA) 65 x 30 minute episodes A western with a face-lift, Captain Gallant of the Foreign Legion simply relocated…
1 9 5 5 – 1 9 8 4 (USA) The longest-running network children’s show of all time, Captain Kangaroo left an indelible mark on the minds and…
1 9 5 4 – 1 9 5 6 (USA) 39 x 30 minute episodes “On a mountaintop high above a large city stands the headquarters…
1 9 5 8 (UK) 6 x 30 minute episodes 1 9 6 0 (UK) 6 x 30 minute episodes Captain Moonlight (Jeremy White) was the two-fisted,…
1 9 5 6 (UK) 10 x episodes The ITV children’s programme Space Club took a break from facts and figures in October 1956, introducing a cliff-hanger serial…
1 9 5 5 (USA) Randy Kraft starred as Captain Safari of the Jungle Patrol in this Saturday morning WCBS children’s show, which served as a…
1 9 4 9 – 1 9 5 5 (USA) Fighting for law and order, Captain Video operated from a “private mountain hideaway, sometime in the…
1 9 5 5 – 1 9 5 6 (USA) 26 x 30 minute episodes “Contact has been established. We now transmit you direct to…
1 9 5 6 – 1 9 6 0 (UK) 47 x 30/45/50 minute episodes Jeremy Geidt starred as the Caravan Showman to present this long-running…
1 9 5 2 – 1 9 5 3 (USA) 30 minute episodes 27-year-old Johnny Carson was given his own weekly half-hour variety show on…
1 9 5 9 – 1 9 6 2 (USA) Originally titled Cartoonsville, Cartoonies was an assortment of animated movie shorts from the 1940s and 1950s, interspersed with live-action…
1 9 5 5 – 1 9 5 6 (USA) 10 x 60 minute episodes Based on the classic 1942 film of the same name,…
1 9 5 9 (UK) 7 x 30 minute episodes “The accused appears, the charge is read, the plea is made; and you, the viewer, sit…
1 9 5 5 (UK) This half-hour drama series based on actual Scotland Yard case files was introduced by noted journalist and criminologist Edgar Lustgarten and…
1 9 5 2 (USA) 13 x 30 minute episodes The Drake Detective Agency at 130 West 45th Street in Manhattan is owned by Eddie Drake…
1 9 5 7 – 1 9 5 8 (USA) 32 x 30 minute episodes Alan Hale Jnr (who later crashed the SS Minnow and marooned himself and…
1 9 5 4 (UK) 6 x 30 minute episodes Widowed Mrs Martingale (Cicely Walper) and her four children – Petronella (Elizabeth Saunders), Nicholas (Wilfred Downing),…
1 9 5 8 (UK) 5 x 30 minute episodes Wilfred Caxton (Wilfred Pickles in his first television comedy series) was a printer who specialised…
1 9 5 8 (UK) 8 x 30 minute episodes Debuting on 12 September 1958, this eight-part BBC series was adapted by Constance Cox from the…