1 9 5 4 (USA) “Buffalo” Bob Smith of Howdy Doody fame increased his TV exposure with this NBC series, using the cast of his morning…
Browsing: TV – 1950s
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1 9 5 9 (USA) 45 x 30 minute episodes Summoned to the bedside of his dying friend, adventurer Slate Shannon (Dane Clark) agrees to become…
1 9 5 3 (USA) 16 x 30 minute episodes Fortunato Bonino (Ezio Pinza) was – as Pinza was in real-life – an opera singer who…
1 9 5 8 – 1 9 6 0 (USA) 39 x 30 minute episodes Subtitled The Story of the Fifth Cavalry, this series told of brave…
1 9 5 9 (USA) 39 x 30 minute episodes This half-hour syndicated drama series was based on Department of Justice files concerning the activities of…
1 9 5 2 (USA) 12 x 30 minute episodes Gwen F. Allen (Lynn Bari) was the beautiful CEO of a highly successful construction firm, Hillendale Homes,…
1 9 5 1 – 1 9 5 3 (USA) 58 x 30 minute episodes “Enemy of those who make him an enemy. Friend of those…
1 9 5 9 – 1 9 6 0 (USA) 39 x 60 minute episodes Bourbon Street Beat was the least successful of the many cloned 77 Sunset…
1 9 5 9 – 1 9 6 0 (UK) 26 x 25 minute episodes ITV dropped Oh Boy! to launch Boy Meets Girls featuring Marty Wilde (the ‘boy’…
1 9 5 6 – 1 9 6 4 (UK) 84 x 30 minute episodes Michael Denison featured as Britain’s answer to Perry Mason, suave and…
1 9 4 9 – 2 0 0 1 (USA) In 1946, creator Alan W. Livingston and Capitol Records introduced Bozo the Clown to the world…
1 9 5 5 – 1 9 6 1 (UK) This completely unscripted discussion programme began on BBC Radio in 1941, at the height of the…
1 9 5 5 – 1 9 5 6 (USA) 26 x 30 minute episodes In a turnabout from the normal pattern of TV Westerns, Brave Eagle presented…
1 9 4 8 – 1 9 5 7 (USA) Originally heard on the radio in 1945, Break The Bank was one of American television’s first popular quiz…
1 9 5 9 (USA) 26 x episodes Brenner was based on a one-shot January 1959 production from Playhouse 90 entitled ‘The Blue Men’. Roy Brenner (Edward…
1 9 5 7 – 1 9 6 9 (Australia) Melbourne radio announcer Brian Naylor began hosting a children’s talent program called Swallow’s Juniors on…
1 9 5 1 – 1 9 5 8 (USA) Couples who married on this show received one of the most lavish weddings one could have…
1 9 5 4 – 1 9 6 2 (USA) 1830 x 15/25 minute episodes “Our years are as the falling leaves. We live, we love,…
1 9 5 0 – 1 9 5 1 (USA) Broadway Open House was an informal live late-night variety program – the forerunner of The Tonight…
1 9 5 6 – 1 9 5 8 (USA) 1 9 6 0 (USA) Indian agent Tom Jeffords (John Lupton) and Indian Chief Cochise (Michael Ansara)…