1 9 5 4 – 1 9 5 5 (USA) 348 x 15 minute episodes The World of Mr Sweeney originally appeared on The Kate Smith…
Browsing: TV – 1950s
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1 9 5 7 – 1 9 5 9 (UK) 23 x 30 minute episodes Premiering on Sunday 29 December 1957, with a production of…
1 9 5 3 (UK) 4 x 30 minute episodes This four-part children’s comedy from the BBC starred Frank Atkinson as the animated scarecrow Worzel. Written…
1 9 5 6 (UK) 19 x 25 minute episodes Premiering on Sunday 6 May 1956, ITV’s short-lived panel game Yakity-Yak would attract little support…
1 9 5 8 – 1 9 5 9 (USA) 34 x 30 minute episodes Former Confederate soldier Yancy Derringer (Jock Mahoney) was a stylishly-dressed bon…
1 9 5 7 (UK) 6 x 30 minute episodes A Chelsea Pensioner (Peter Sellers) opens an iron gate and sees attached to the railings a…
1 9 5 4 – 1 9 5 8 (UK) 32 x 40 minute episodes This BBC series debuted on 19 April 1954 Based on the…
1 9 5 3 – 1 9 5 7 (USA) 1 9 7 1 – 1 9 7 2 (USA) 160 x 30 minute episodes Newsman Walter…
1 9 5 0 – 1 9 5 9 (USA) 23 x 30 minute episodes “Whatever it is . . . wherever it is . .…
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 6 – 1 9 6 4 (Australia) ATN 7 (Australia) presented this long-running daytime show “for the housewife”, with segments on cooking, fashion,…
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) 90 minute episodes As television was coming of age in the 1950s, it was important…
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…