1 9 5 7 (UK) 6 x 30 minute episodes Harry Green, Warren Mitchell and Peter Welch starred as three bumbling gangsters in this six-part fortnightly…
Browsing: TV – 1950s
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1 9 5 6 – 1 9 5 9 (USA) 1 9 7 8 – 1 9 8 6 (USA) 1 9 9 0 (USA) The format of…
1 9 5 9 – 1 9 6 0 (USA) 37 x 30 minute episodes Mike Connors played an unnamed undercover police agent who infiltrated organised…
1 9 4 9 – 1 9 5 4 (USA) 15 minute episodes This early presentation of the Bob Clampett created characters of Beany (a…
1 9 5 8 – 1 9 5 9 (UK) 24 x 30 minute episodes Lively, scatter-brained blonde Peggy Spencer (Billie Whitelaw) inherited a run-down…
1 9 5 4 (USA) 129 x 15 minute episodes 28-year-old Julie Byron (Pat Sully) was a proofreader who wanted to be a part-time reporter at…
1 9 5 6 (UK) 10 x 30/45 minute episodes Emerging from the ashes of Hit Parade, this short-lived music show from the BBC debuted on…
1 9 5 9 (East Germany) Based on the fairytale by Hans Christian Andersen, The Tinderbox tells the story of a poor young soldier who meets…
1 9 5 6 – 1 9 6 8 (USA) 1 9 6 9 – 1 9 7 8 (USA) 1 9 8 0 – 1 9…
1 9 5 2 – Current (USA) Today debuted on 14 January 1952 and was the first of its genre on American television. The brainchild of…
1 9 5 8 (USA) 30 minute episodes Airing on NBC between June and December 1958 as a short-lived replacement for Matinee Theater, Today is Ours holds…
1 9 5 0 – 1 9 5 5 (USA) 89 x 15 minute episodes “Kelloggs, the greatest name in cereals presents . . .…
1 9 5 7 – 1 9 6 1 130 x 5 minute episodes Developed by Gene Deitch as the first CBS-based Terrytoon (the network…
1 9 5 7 – 1 9 6 0 (USA) 91 x 26 minute episodes Harris Claibourne (Richard Eastham), the editor of the Epitaph, was the voice…
1 9 5 7 – 1 9 6 5 (UK) 1,800 x 35 minute episodes Tonight was broadcast every weekday, beginning in 1957, with an audience…
1 9 5 4 – Current (USA) 13,000+ x 60 minute episodes The Tonight Show premiered on NBC in 1954 with Steve Allen as its…
1 9 5 7 (USA) 12 x 105 minute episodes When Steve Allen and The Tonight Show left the air in January 1957, NBC premiered a…
1 9 5 9 (USA) 8 x 30 minute episodes This short-lived NBC sitcom – the last completely live prime-time sitcom – starred Donald Cook as…
1 9 5 1 – 1 9 5 2 (UK) 60 minute episodes Premiering on 20 October 1951, this variety show was created by the…
1 9 5 7 – 1 9 5 9 (UK) ABC’s Top Numbers offered viewers a continuous stream of the day’s most popular hits, brought…