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Here’s about a dozen examples of classic 1950′s soap operas. A soap opera is an ongoing, episodic work of fiction on television or radio. Programs described as soap operas have existed as an entertainment long enough for audiences to recognize them simply by the term soap. The name “soap opera” stems from the original dramatic [...]

Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis in a very funny skit from the Colgate Comedy Hour. It’s a spoof on a game show where Dean tortures poor Jerry for the 64 million.

A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost Story of Christmas (commonly known as A Christmas Carol) is what Charles Dickens described as his “little Christmas Book” and was first published on December 19, 1843 with illustrations by John Leech. The first of the author’s five “Christmas books”, the story was instantly successful, selling over [...]

Helene Hanff, best-known for her book 84 Charing Cross Road, was a scripter for the television series version of The Adventures of Ellery Queen (1950-52), which began on the DuMont Television Network but soon moved to ABC. Shortly after the series began, Richard Hart, who played Queen, died and was replaced in the lead role [...]

The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet is an American sitcom, airing on ABC from October 3, 1952 to September 3, 1966, starring the real life Nelson family. The series starred Ozzie Nelson and his wife, singer Harriet Nelson (Hilliard), and their young sons, David Nelson and Eric Nelson, better known as Ricky. The series attracted [...]

The Adventures of Robin Hood was a popular, long-running British television series (143 half-hour, black and white episodes, 1955-1960) starring Richard Greene as Robin Hood.
Richard Greene stars as Robin Hood, a nobleman forced into the life of an outlaw, dwelling in Sherwood Forest with a band of men who right the wrongs committed by the [...]

Amos ‘n’ Andy was a situation comedy based on archetypes of African-Americans and popular in the United States from the 1920s through the 1950s. The show began as one of the first radio comedy serials, written and voiced by Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll and originating from station WMAQ in Chicago, Illinois. After the series [...]

Filmed at Desilu Studios in California and televised by CBS between October 3, 1960 and April 1, 1968, The Andy Griffith Show is an American television sitcom starring Andy Griffith as small town sheriff Andy Taylor. The show consistently placed in the Nielsen Ratings top-ten with Griffith’s co-stars Don Knotts and Frances Bavier winning Emmys [...]

The Beverly Hillbillies is an American television series about a hillbilly family transplanted to Beverly Hills, California after finding oil on their land. A Filmways production, the series aired on CBS from September 26, 1962 – September 7, 1971 and comprises 274 episodes,106 in black-and-white and 168 in color. The show starred Buddy Ebsen as [...]

The Beverly Hillbillies is an American television series about a hillbilly family transplanted to Beverly Hills, California after finding oil on their land. A Filmways production, the series aired on CBS from September 26, 1962 – September 7, 1971 and comprises 274 episodes — 106 in black-and-white (1962-1965) and 168 in color (1965-1971). The show [...]

Bonanza is an American western/cowboy television series starring Pernell Roberts, Lorne Greene, Dan Blocker, and Michael Landon, which aired on the NBC television network from September 12, 1959 until January 16, 1973. From 1964 through 1967, the show was #1 in the yearly Nielsen ratings. In terms of longevity, the show remains NBC’s second longest-running [...]

Robert Shaw plays Captain Dan Tempest in this 1956 TV series which could probably be best described as Robin Hood on the high seas. The series is about the adventures of Tempest and his crew of former pirates as they made their way across the seven seas in The Sultana.