1 9 5 8 – 1 9 6 0 (USA) 64 x 30 minute episodes This Desilu drama series was a spin-off from The Sheriff of…
Browsing: TV – 1950s
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1 9 5 8 – 1 9 5 9 (USA) The Uncle Al Show was the longest-running local American TV show with the same host (it…
1 9 5 4 – 1 9 5 5 (USA) 1 9 5 6 (USA) This Chicago-based live series featured ventriloquist Johnny Coons as host and puppet…
1 9 4 8 – 1 9 5 2 (USA) 15 minute episodes Debuting in September 1948, this early children’s TV show from WENR-Channel 7…
1 9 5 5 – 1 9 5 8 (USA) 30 minute episodes This CBS anthology series of dramatic plays was a summer replacement show for…
1 9 5 8 – 1 9 5 9 (USA) 38 x 30 minute episodes Former Union cavalry major Bart McClelland (Jeff Morrow) supervises rail construction…
1 9 5 3 – 1 9 6 3 (USA) 251 x 60 minute episodes The United States Steel Hour was one of America’s most enduring…
1 9 5 9 – 1 9 6 3 (USA) 119 x 60 minute episodes In the 1930s, gangsters and G-Men alike were busy dealing with…
1 9 5 6 – 1 9 6 1 (UK) Dave King (pictured above), one of the most popular comedians in Britain, was a regular…
1 9 5 6 – 1 9 6 0 (UK) This showcase series – initially called Val Parnell’s Variety Startime – from the theatrical impresario and…
1 9 5 3 – 1 9 5 7 (USA) 1000+ x 15 minute episodes Valiant Lady was an in-name-only adaptation of the NBC radio serial,…
1 9 5 4 (USA) 50 x episodes The first television horror host was Los Angeles’ Vampira, portrayed by Maila Nurmi (real name Maila Elizabeth…
1 9 5 3 – 1 9 5 8 (UK) 60 minute/45 minute episodes Variety Parade was originally a BBC Home Service radio show that began…
1 9 5 8 (USA/UK) 12 x 25 minute episodes “The story you are about to see actually happened and is completely documented. It is one…
1 9 5 8 – 1 9 5 9 (UK) 1 9 6 2 – 1 9 6 3 (UK) This series of mock trials…
1 9 5 7 – 1 9 5 8 (USA) CBS news and sports commentator (and former Baltimore Evening Sun reporter) Jim McKay (pictured below…
1 9 5 2 – 1 9 5 3 (USA) 26 x 30 minute episodes Produced only seven years after the end of World War II,…
1 9 5 4 – 1 9 6 1 (UK) 221 x 30 minute episodes This British drama series from Associated-Rediffusion was made by the…
1 9 4 9 – 1 9 5 9 (USA) 30 minute episodes 1 9 6 2 – 1 9 6 3 (USA) 30 minute episodes…
1 9 5 9 – 1 9 6 0 (UK) 6 x 30 minute episodes This Saturday night thriller from ATV began with witchcraft on Hampstead…