1 9 5 2 (UK) 6 x 30 minute episodes This 30-minute British television series, broadcast over six Saturday nights, has the distinction of being the…
Browsing: TV – 1950s
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1 9 5 8 – 1 9 6 2 (USA) 68 x 60 minute episodes This black and white Western drama from ABC starred Ty Hardin as…
1 9 5 6 – 1 9 5 8 (USA) 26 x 30 minute episodes Inexperienced and desperately in need of money, Harvey Box (Gale Gordon) and…
1 9 5 6 – 1 9 5 7 (UK) 39 x 30 minute episodes This ITV pirate action-adventure series, starring a young Robert Shaw as…
1 9 5 8 – 1 9 5 9 (USA) 39 x 30 minute episodes In 1880, widowed Annie O’Connell (Sally Brophy) ran a boarding house…
1 9 5 9 – 1 9 6 0 (USA) This early cartoon from Trans-Artists Productions featured the adventures of a young red-haired boy named Bucky…
1 9 5 5 – 1 9 5 6 (USA) 42 x 30 minute episodes Orphaned teenager Buffalo Bill Jr. (Dick Jones, who began his TV…
1 9 5 0 – 1 9 5 1 (USA) 13 x 30 minute episodes This Sunday afternoon CBS puppet series from Bob Clampett (of Beany…
1 9 5 9 – 1 9 6 4 (USA) “Hey Rocky, watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat!” The Bullwinkle Show – a pun-filled…
1 9 5 4 (UK) 13 x 10 minute episodes Michael Bentine’s three pear-shaped Bumblies came from the planet Bumble. The star of the show was…
1 9 5 7 (UK) 7 x 25 minute episodes A couple would air their grievances on camera and then compete to beat their partner, with…
1 9 5 9 (UK) 5 x 30 minute episodes This Sunday afternoon children’s serial from the BBC was set in the time when white settlers…
1 9 5 4 – 1 9 5 7 (USA) 73 x 60 minute episodes After great success on Your Show of Shows, NBC gave funnyman Sid…
1 9 4 7 – 1 9 5 5 (UK) Broadcast live from the BBC’s studios at Alexandra Palace, North London, Café Continental was the first televised variety…
1 9 5 7 – 1 9 5 9 (USA) In the Gold Rush days of old San Francisco in the 1850s, the call of “there’s…
1 9 5 9 (UK) 6 x 30 minute episodes Premiering on Wednesday 26 August 1959, this short-lived light comedy series from the BBC was set…
1 9 5 6 (UK) 7 x 30 minute episodes Debuting on Monday 9 April 1956 and broadcast as part of the hourly Tea-V Time slot…
1 9 4 8 – Current (USA) 1 9 6 0 – 1 9 6 7 (UK) 1 9 7 4 (UK) Candid Camera was originally created in the…
1 9 5 8 – 1 9 5 9 (Canada) 39 x 30 minute episodes This joint Canadian/UK production featured the adventures of two truckers -…
1 9 5 7 – 1 9 6 0 (USA) 39 x 30 minute episodes Guild Films produced this continuing story of South Sea trader Captain…