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…
Browsing: 1950s Television
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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…