1 9 5 1 – 1 9 5 9 (USA) 1 9 6 2 (USA) 30 minute episodes Male contestants had to answer three questions correctly to…
Browsing: TV – 1950s
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1 9 5 7 – 1 9 5 8 (USA) 35 x 60/30 minute episodes This music variety series from CBS was hosted by Patti Page,…
1 9 4 9 – 1 9 5 7 (USA) 315 x 30 minute episodes “Stories from The Big Story Newsstand. Fact, not fiction, taken from…
1 9 5 5 – 1 9 5 7 (USA) 30 minute episodes This live nighttime game show from NBC aired from 8 October 1955 to…
1 9 5 0 – 1 9 5 7 (USA) The Big Top featured American and foreign circus acts, many of which travelled from Europe to appear…
1 9 5 0 – 1 9 5 6 (USA) 249 x 30 minute episodes This long-running melodrama, set in Big Town USA, related the story-gathering assignments…
1 9 5 3 (USA) Husband and wife team Bil and Cora Baird were two of the hardest-working puppeteers on American daytime television in the 1950s,…
1 9 6 3 – 1 9 6 5 (USA) 42 x 30 minute episodes Writer-comedian Bill Dana had a very successful career on records and…
1 9 5 4 – 1 9 5 6 (UK) This afternoon’s children’s programme from the BBC featured a character called Billy Bean, who operated a…
1 9 5 2 – 1 9 6 1 (UK) 120 x 30 minute episodes At a time when young children were enthralled by Andy Pandy, their…
1 9 5 6 – 1 9 6 6 (UK) The leading showman of the mid-fifties in Britain was chirpy cockney chappie Billy Cotton, and the lively Billy…
1 9 5 8 – 1 9 7 8 (UK) No doubt this BBC show would be condemned as terribly politically incorrect in this new and…
1 9 5 9 – 1 9 6 0 (USA) 44 x 30 minute episodes Seeing the kind of success that Warner Brothers was having with…
1 9 5 5 (UK) 4 x 45 minute episodes Jim Blake (Robert Raglan) loses his factory job in a Herefordshire town and grows disenchanted with…
1 9 4 9 – 1 9 5 0 (USA) 30 minute episodes 1 9 5 2 (USA) 8 x 30 minute episodes 1 9…
1 9 5 7 (USA) 26 x 30 minute episodes 1 9 6 8 – 1 9 6 9 (USA) 14 x 30 minute episodes Even though…
1 9 5 8 – Current (UK) On 16 October 1958, a former beauty queen and a former Army officer sat down to introduce the first…
1 9 5 3 – 1 9 5 7 (USA) 30 minute episodes Bob Crosby – destined to be best remembered as Bing Crosby’s brother -…
1 9 5 5 – 1 9 5 9 (USA) 1 9 6 1 – 1 9 6 2 (USA) 173 x 30 minute episodes The…
1 9 5 2 – 1 9 7 5 (USA) After a successful career in films and on radio, Bob Hope debuted on NBC television…