1 9 5 8 – 1 9 6 2 (USA) 111 x 25 minute episodes PT Moore (Craig Hill) and Chuck Martin (Kenneth Tobey) were ex-American…
Browsing: TV – 1950s
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1 9 5 4 (USA) 39 x 30 minute episodes “I am the Whistler. And I know many things for I walk by night. I know…
1 9 5 1 – 1 9 5 2 (USA) Bil and Cora Baird’s delightful puppets were the players in this droll Saturday morning fantasy series…
1 9 5 8 – 1 9 6 8 (UK) 149 x 30 minute episodes Andy Stewart was the star of the BBC’s The White Heather…
1 9 5 7 – 1 9 5 9 (UK) 39 x 30 minute episodes These stories of a game hunter in East Africa were filmed…
1 9 5 9 – 1 9 6 0 (USA) In the decade following the Civil War the town of Wichita, on the fringes of…
1 9 5 4 – 1 9 5 5 (USA) 39 x 30 minute episodes Willa “Willy” Dodger (June Havoc, the younger sister of Gypsy Rose…
1 9 5 4 (UK) 5 x 30 minute episodes When the Channing family learn that nasty Uncle Porteous (George Skillan) plans to make them sell…
1 9 5 5 (USA) 8 x 30 minute episodes This short-lived CBS dramatic anthology series (a summer replacement for Person to Person) featured stories about people…
1 9 5 3 – 1 9 5 7 (USA) Praised as the first “interactive” TV show, the show’s central gimmick was the use of a…
1 9 5 6 – 1 9 5 7 (USA) 39 x 60 minute episodes “Nothing travels faster than news. An electronic impulse splinters distance…
1 9 5 6 (UK) 7 x 30 minute episodes This ATV comedy series was written by 26-year-old comedian Digby Wolfe with Richard Waring and Tony…
1 9 5 4 (USA) 15 minute episodes The woman with a past in this short-lived CBS soap opera was Lynn Sherwood (Constance Ford), a dress…
1 9 5 5 – 1 9 7 7 (USA) This American Sunday morning children’s variety show was originally hosted by the engaging Sandy Becker, who…
1 9 5 3 (USA) 12 x 30 minute episodes This summer replacement show about an Irish-American family in Ludlow, Kentucky (just across the Ohio River…
1 9 5 4 – 1 9 8 3 (USA) 1 9 8 6 – 1 9 9 0 (USA) This pioneering example of cooperation between a…
1 9 5 5 – 1 9 5 8 (UK) The Woodentops joined the line-up of Watch With Mother on 9 September 1955 – It was Friday’s offering…
1 9 5 7 – 1 9 7 7 (USA) 30 minute episodes With arguably the most famous laugh of any cartoon character in history (“Ha-ha-ha-HA-ha!”),…
1 9 5 8 (UK) 7 x 30 minute episodes This children’s space series from Associated Rediffusion began life with a single episode aired on Friday…
1 9 5 9 (USA) 13 x 30 minute episodes This early sci-fi series starred Marshall Thompson as 6’2″ secret agent Mel Hunter who was shrunk…