1 9 5 7 – 1 9 6 0 (USA) 65 x 30 minute episodes Several major changes were made when Alcoa transferred its dramatic efforts…
Browsing: TV – 1950s
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1 9 4 9 – 1 9 5 3 (USA) Before it became a successful sitcom on television, The Aldrich Family had been a long-running and popular radio…
1 9 5 5 – 1 9 6 5 (USA) 268 x 25 minute episodes Although only 20 of the 300+ episodes of this anthology of…
1 9 5 8 – 1 9 5 9 (UK) 26 x 30 minute episodes The SS Adriana set sail on 6 December 1958, but this…
1 9 5 1 – 1 9 5 3 (USA) Comedy variety shows were popular in America during television’s first decade of prominence in the late…
1 9 5 2 – 1 9 6 1 (UK) Introduced by the incredibly tall Huw Wheldon (later to become BBC Director of Television) and frequently…
1 9 5 7 (UK) 6 x 30 minute episodes Considered to be British television’s First Lady of popular music during the late 1950s and early…
1 9 5 1 – 1 9 5 2 (USA) John J Malone (Lee Tracy) was a brilliant criminal attorney working out of Chicago. He was…
1 9 5 2 – 1 9 8 9 (USA) American Bandstand became a powerful symbol of American teenage culture with its nearly four-decade look at the…
1 9 5 1 – 1 9 5 3 (USA) 78 x 30 minute episodes Amos ‘n’ Andy had been one of American radio’s biggest hits,…
1 9 5 0 – 1 9 5 7 (UK) 26 x black & white episodes 1 9 7 0 (UK) 13 x colour episodes Although Andy Pandy was…
1 9 5 8 (USA) 1 9 5 9 (USA) 1 9 6 2 – 1 9 6 7 (USA) 1 9 6 9 – 1 9 7…
1 9 5 5 – 1 9 6 0 (USA) 30 minute episodes Andy’s Gang began as Smilin’ Ed’s Gang in 1950, sponsored by the Buster…
1 9 5 2 – 1 9 5 9 (UK) 114 x 30 minute episodes Animal, Vegetable, Mineral? debuted on 23 October 1952 and presented distinguished…
1 9 5 7 – 1 9 6 2 (USA) 93 x 30 minute episodes Ann Sothern, an important film actress in the 1930s and 1940s,…
1 9 5 4 (Canada) 29 x 30 minute episodes Produced by Radio Canada, this short-lived daily soap opera – one of the very first soap…
1 9 5 8 (USA) 19 x 15 minute episodes After her parents’ deaths, newly orphaned 15-year-old Annette McCloud (Annette Funicello) moves away from the small farming community…
1 9 5 3 – 1 9 5 6 (USA) 81 x 30 minute episodes A gun-toting, pigtailed Annie Oakley (an actual American Wild West character…
1 9 5 8 – 1 9 6 3 (Australia) 30 minute episodes This weekly television panel discussion show from the Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC) had…
1 9 5 3 (USA) 30 minute episodes Well-known cartoonist and humorist Al Capp (the creator of the Li’l Abner comic strip) hosted this CBS summer…