1 9 5 5 – 1 9 5 6 (USA) 26 x 26 minute episodes The talented exploits of Champion were originally aired in the USA…
Browsing: TV – 1950s
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1 9 4 9 – 1 9 6 0 (UK) 47 x 60 minute episodes Charlie Chester’s most successful television series ran for 11 years on…
1 9 5 8 – 1 9 6 0 (UK) 22 x 30 miute episodes Hot on the heels of Drake’s Progress came this BBC series…
1 9 5 6 (USA) 12 x 30 minute episodes Charlie Farrell had previously portrayed Vern Albright, Gale Storm’s dad, on My Little Margie. On The…
1 9 5 1 – 1 9 5 2 (USA) 57 x 30 minute episodes The cases of New York City-based private detective Charlie Wild (Kevin…
1 9 5 7 – 1 9 6 0 (UK) 60 x 60 minute episodes Chelsea At Nine was Monday night’s big variety offering presented by Granada…
1 9 4 8 – 1 9 5 0 (USA) 82 x 30 minute episodes This NBC anthology series – sponsored by Chevrolet (obviously) -…
1 9 5 5 – 1 9 6 3 (USA) 107 x 60 minute episodes Rescued from a wagon train travelling through Wyoming territory when it…
1 9 5 5 (UK) 6 x 30 minute episodes Captain Frederick Marryat’s 1847 classic children’s novel was first produced by the BBC as a six-part…
1 9 5 8 – 1 9 6 0 (USA) George Montgomery was both star and narrator of this saga of a boomtown on the western…
1 9 5 7 (USA) 1 x 90 minute episode This classic fairytale of the glass-slippered heroine, rescued from the scullery by a handsome prince, was…
1 9 5 6 – 1 9 5 8 (USA) 49 x 30 minute episodes This NBC family adventure series told of life under the big…
1 9 5 0 – 1 9 5 6 (USA) 156 x 30 minute episodes One of television’s earliest western series produced with the younger viewer…
1 9 5 3 – 1 9 5 5 (USA) 64 x 30 minute episodes This syndicated bare-knuckles detective show was one of several such vehicles…
1 9 5 1 – 1 9 5 3 (USA) 30 minute episodes City Hospital began life in October 1951 as a Saturday-morning series on the CBS…
1 9 5 2 (USA) 30 minute episodes This Saturday afternoon NBC series related events in the lives of the newlywed Naughtons – architect David (Hugh…
1 9 5 4 (UK) 6 x 30 minute episodes This six-part BBC serial was adapted by film critic C. A. Lejeune from the novel by…
1 9 5 4 – 1 9 5 8 (USA) 166 x 60 minute episodes Climax! was one of the longer-running dramatic series aired on network…
1 9 5 9 (USA) 260 x 4 minute episodes Clutch Cargo was a handsome and anvil-jawed writer and pilot (voiced by TV announcer Richard Cotting)…
1 9 5 7 (USA) 39 x 30 minute episodes This syndicated American crime drama, produced by the Hal Roach Studio, was based on actual files…