1 9 5 0 – 1 9 5 9 (USA) 23 x 30 minute episodes “Whatever it is . . . wherever it is . .…
Browsing: TV Shows – 1950s
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1 9 5 0 – 1 9 6 1 (USA) 209 x 30 minute episodes They called it a game show, but nobody really watched…
1 9 5 6 – 1 9 5 7 (USA) Contestants on the Saturday night CBS show You’re On Your Own had free access to anything…
1 9 5 8 – 1 9 6 3 (USA) Set in fictional Denison, Maryland, this daytime serial from NBC – adapted from a popular long-running…
1 9 5 1 – 1 9 5 2 (USA) 18-year-old Alexander Bobbin (Jackie Kelk) has just graduated from high school and is planning his future.…
1 9 5 0 – 1 9 5 9 (USA) Your Hit Parade premiered on NBC as a summer replacement for Robert Montgomery Presents on 10 July…
1 9 5 8 – 1 9 6 4 (UK) 1 9 8 0 – 1 9 8 6 (UK) Before 1958, British television had confined its…
1 9 5 0 – 1 9 5 4 (USA) As television was coming of age in the 1950s, it was important for the networks…
1 9 5 2 (USA) 30 minute episodes A precursor to Let’s Make a Deal, this short-lived CBS daytime game show had contestants bring items on…
1 9 5 3 – 1 9 5 5 (USA) 30 minute episodes Debuting in August 1953, CBS’s answer to Youth Wants to Know had a…
1 9 5 1 – 1 9 5 8 (USA) 30 minute episodes This was the longest-running of several 1950s public affairs series involving adolescents (others…
1 9 5 6 – 1 9 6 1 (USA) 146 x 30 minute episodes Like Death Valley Days and Frontier, Zane Grey Theatre was a…
1 9 5 2 (USA) 12 x 15 minute episodes Judd Holdren took over the role of Commando Cody in this sequel to Radar Men from…
1 9 5 0 – 1 9 5 7 (USA) Marlin Perkins became a nationally known (and much-parodied) animal expert thanks to this long-running Sunday afternoon…
1 9 5 3 – 1 9 6 3 (UK) Certainly the most important natural history programme of its time, Zoo Quest is arguably the father…
1 9 5 6 – 1 9 6 8 (UK) 500+ x 25 minute episodes With videotape and film expensive, and technology limited in television until…
1 9 5 7 – 1 9 5 9 (USA) 82 x 30 minute episodes “Out of the night, when the full moon is bright, comes…
