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64 Million Dollar Question, The (1953)


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.


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Andy Griffith – A wife for Andy (1963)


Barney tries to play Cupid and succeeds, but he doesn’t like it.

Barney tries to play cupid, but doesn't like Andy's final choice.


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Andy Griffith Show – Andy Discovers America


Andy gets himself and Opie in trouble with Opies teacher Ms. Krump.


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Andy Griffith Show – The Great Filling Station Robbery


Andy and Barney investigate a string of robberies at Wally’s Filling Station.


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Andy Griffith Show-Andy Discovers America


Andy gets in trouble with Opies teacher and must undo the damage with a lesson in American history.


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Andy Griffith Show-Aunt Beas Medicine Man


Aunt Bea has a problem with a 100 proof medicine man. Andy raids Aunt Bea.


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Astral Factor, The (1976)


The Astral Factor, also released as The Invisible Strangler is a 1976 film horror film starring Stephanie Powers and Robert Foxworth. Studying the paranormal allows a convicted strangler to make himself invisible to kill five women who testified against him at his trial.


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Beverly Hillbillies – Elly Races Jethrine (1960)


In this episode of the Beverly Hillbillies we get to see Max Baer Jr. in drag playing Ellies cousin Jethrine. Grannie and Pearl are trying to get Ellie May and Jethrine in a race to the altar


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Beverly Hillbillies – Ellys Animals (1963)


Between Pearl’s yodelling, Ellie’s animals and Grannie trying to keep Pearl out of the kitchen, it’s a funny episode of the Beverly Hillbillies.


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Beverly Hillbillies – Episode 1 – Clampetts Strike Oil


The Beverly Hillbillies series starts with the OK Oil Company learning of oil in Jed Clampett’s swamp land and paying him a fortune to acquire the rights to drill on his land.


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Beverly Hillbillies – Jed Becomes a Banker (1963)


In this episode Jed decides he’s gonna become a banker. Buddy Ebsen stars as Jed.


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Beverly Hillbillies – Jed Plays Solomon (1963)


Jed has to be the judge to make peace between Pearl, Grannie, Pearls yodelling, Ellies dogs… you get the idea….


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Beverly Hillbillies – Meet the Dodgers (1962)


The Beverly Hillbillies get an introduction to Baseball and the Dodgers. This is season 1 episode 20.


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Beverly Hillbillies – Trick or Treat (1963)


When the Beverly Hillbillies show up for Halloween, the Clampetts neighbors think it’s trick or treat.


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Bonanza – Breed of Violence (1959)


In this episode of Bonanza, the sheriff wants to control his daughter, but she’s gonna run off with the first bad guy that will have her.


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Bonanza – San Francisco (1959)


The Cartwrights go to San Francisco and one by one they get Shanghaied and sold off to merchant ships as crew.


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Burns and Allen – Beverly Hills Uplift Society (1952)


Gracie gets public spirited with an adventure with the society ladies of Beverly Hills.


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Burns and Allen – Gracie and the Book Salesman (1955)



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Burns and Allen – Gracie the Matchmaker (1950)


In this episode of the comedy hit the Burns and Allen show, Gracie fancies herself a matchmaker.


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Burns and Allen – Gracies Checking Account (1950)


Gracie just about drives the banker and George crazy with balancing her checkbook in this episode of the 1950′s comedy show.. the Burns and Allen show.


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Burns and Allen – Morton’s Private Secretary (1951)


Blanche Morton gets jealous when Harry hires a new secretary and Blanche thinks it’s a pretty young secretary that came to the house to interview George.


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Burns and Allen – the Tax Man (1951)


A conversation with Gracie leaves the tax man chagrined. George doesn’t even try to explain it.


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Checkmate – The Human Touch (1961)


Checkmate aired on CBS Television from 1960 to 1962 for a total of 70 episodes and was produced by Jack Benny’s production company, “JaMco Productions” in co-operation with Revue Studios. It’s a top notch crime drama starring starring Anthony George, Sebastian Cabot, and Doug McClure.


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Code 3 – Case 2206 (1957)



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Code 3 – The Man with Many Faces (1957)



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Code 3 – The Rookie Sheriff (1957)



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Code 3 – The Sniper (1957)


Code 3 was a popular 1950′s crime show about the Los Angeles County sheriffs department. In this case, they must take on a random sniper.


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Code 3 -The Benson Case (1957)


This was one of the better police dramas of the 1950?s. It’s about the duties of the Los Angeles County Sheriffs Departments fight against crime.


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Dangerous Assignment – The Alien Smuggler Story



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Dangerous Assignment – The Sunflower Seed Story (1952)



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Dangerous Assignment-The Art Treasure Story


US special agent Steve Mitchell (Brian Donlevy) travels to exotic locales where he encounters adventure and violent international intrigue. This was a spin off of the popular radio show.


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Dangerous Assignment-The Missing Diplomat Story


US special agent Steve Mitchell (Brian Donlevy) travels to exotic locales where he encounters adventure and violent international intrigue. This was a spin off of the popular radio show.


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Danny Thomas Show – The Ballplayers (1953)



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Danny Thomas Show – The Governess (1953)


The Danny Thomas Show (known as Make Room for Daddy during the first four seasons) is a sitcom which ran from 1953 to 1957 on ABC and from 1957 to 1964 on CBS. A revival series known as Make Room for Granddaddy aired on ABC from 1970 to 1971.


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Danny Thomas Show – Trip to Wisconsin (1953)


The Danny Thomas Show (known as Make Room for Daddy during the first four seasons) is a sitcom which ran from 1953 to 1957 on ABC and from 1957 to 1964 on CBS. A revival series known as Make Room for Granddaddy aired on ABC from 1970 to 1971.


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Dragnet – The Big Bird (1955)


Joe Friday and Frank Smith go after a burglar that kills any pet birds he finds.


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Dragnet – The Big Phone Call (1952)


The men of the Los Angeles police are after the indignant suspect in a jewelry store robbery.


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Dragnet – The Big Thief (1953)


Joe Friday and Smith go after a husband and wife team who call the doctor and then rob him. This is from the TV series Dragnet.


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Dragnet – The Big Trunk (1955)


In this episode of Dragnet, Joe and Frank investigate the murder of a vaudeville actress who keeps her valuables in a trunk in her room.


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Duffy’s Tavern (1951)


Duffy’s Tavern centers around the misadventures, get-rich-quick-scheming, and romantic missteps of the title establishment’s malaprop-prone, metaphor-mixing manager, Archie.


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Dusty’s Trail – The Bear (1973)


It’s Dusty’s Trail. It’s Gilligan’s Island in the Old West. In this episode, Dusty removes a thorn from the paw of a bear, and the bear becomes his friend.


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Enter the Lone Ranger (1949)



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Federal Men – The Case of the Black Sheep (1955)



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Federal Men – The Case of the Iron Curtain (1955)


A former POW is set up to take the fall for a smuggler who is involved with agents behind the Iron Curtain. This show is also known as Treasury Men In Action.


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Flash Gordon – Akim The Terrible (1955)


Flash’s best friend is sent to a planet where he is brainwashed and sent back to kill Flash.


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Flash Gordon – Deadline at Noon (1954)


In this episode of the TV series Flash Gordon, Flash and Dr. Zarkoff go back the past in 1950 to stop an atomic explosive that takes hundreds of years to explode.


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Flash Gordon – Lure of Light (1955)


Queen Tridentia steals the plans for a spaceship that can travel faster than the speed of light and wants to go back in time to change history.


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Flash Gordon – The Subworld Revenge (1955)


Flash, Dale and Dr. Zarkoff must confront a civilization that lives 1500 miles underneath the earth and is bent on world domination.


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Foreign Legionnaire – Gallant’s New Post (1955)


Buster Crabbe and Cullen Crabbe and cowboy sidekick Fuzzy Knight have adventures in the Foreign Legion.


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Four Star Playhouse – A Study in Panic (1952)



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Four Star Playhouse – The Frightened Woman (1952)


A woman enters a book store to find out she has travelled 25 years into the past. Four Star Playhouse was a repertoire theater, often with Charles Boyer, Ida Lupino, Joan Fontaine and David Niven as stars.


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Four Star Playhouse – Tunnel of Fear (1952)


Four Star Playhouse is a television anthology series that ran from 1952 to 1956. The original premise was that Charles Boyer, Ida Lupino, David Niven and Dick Powell would take turns starring in episodes. However, several other performers took the lead from time to time, including Ronald Colman and Joan Fontaine.<


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Four Star Playhouse – Tunnel of Fear (1952-56)


Four Star Playhouse is a television anthology series that ran from 1952 to 1956. The original premise was that Charles Boyer, Ida Lupino, David Niven and Dick Powell would take turns starring in episodes. However, several other performers took the lead from time to time, including Ronald Colman and Joan Fontaine


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Four Star Playhouse – Vote of Confidence (1954)



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George Burns and Gracie Allen – The Rocket Girls (1955)


It just doesn’t get much cuter than this. George and Gracie are host to a bunch of space alien rocket girls.


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I Married Joan (1952)


The show announced itself each week as “America’s favorite comedy show, starring America’s queen of comedy, Joan Davis, as Mrs. Joan Stevens.” The series focused on a married couple, Joan and Bradley Stevens. Joan Stevens usually found herself in numerous wacky jams, with or without the help of her younger sister (played by her real-life daughter, Beverly Wills).


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Jack Benny Show (1949-53)



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Love That Bob (1955-1959)


he Bob Cummings Show (also known as Love That Bob) is an American television sitcom which was produced from 1955 to 1959. The program began with a half-season run on NBC, then ran for two full seasons on CBS, and returned to NBC for its final two seasons. The program was later rerun in the daytime hours on ABC and then syndicated under the title Love That Bob.


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Lucy Show, The – Lucy Gets Caught in the Draft (1962)


Lucille Ball becomes a marine with the shortest career in military history, she gets drafted.


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Lucy Show, The – Lucy Gets Caught in the Draft (1966)


Lucy and Desi Arnaz split, so Lucy went on to do this later TV series, the Lucy Show. In this episode, Lucy gets a draft notice for Lou C. Carmichael and ends up drafted into the Marines.


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Mr. and Mrs. North – House Behind The Wall (1953)


Mr. and Mrs. North are fictional American amateur detectives. Created by Frances and Richard Lockridge, the couple were featured in a series of 26 Mr. and Mrs. North novels, a Broadway play, a motion picture and several radio and television series. They were not professional detectives but simply an ordinary couple who stumbled across a murder or two every week for 12 years.


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Mr. and Mrs. North – Shrinking Violet (1953)


Mr. and Mrs. North are fictional American amateur detectives. Created by Frances and Richard Lockridge, the couple were featured in a series of 26 Mr. and Mrs. North novels, a Broadway play, a motion picture and several radio and television series. They were not professional detectives but simply an ordinary couple who stumbled across a murder or two every week for 12 years.


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One Step Beyond – Brainwave (1960)


A soldier in WWI must perform emergency surgery being assisted only by a voice on the radio


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One Step Beyond – Delusion (1959)


Harold Stern has a rare blood type, but he knows that if he donates blood to a girl, he’ll be tormented by visions of her future.


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One Step Beyond – Earthquake (1952)


A mild mannered man has a premonition about an earthquake in this series that was a predecessor of Outer Limits and Twilight Zone.


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One Step Beyond – Make Me Not a Witch (1959)


In this One Step Beyond episode, a young girl with supernatural powers thinks she might be a witch. Her father isn’t helping anything.


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One Step Beyond – The Last Round (1961)


Charles Bronson plays a boxer who thinks he might be in trouble over the legend of Patty Terhune.


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One Step Beyond – The Lovers (1959)


Otto and Elsa are sweet on each other, but evil spirits want to break them up. One Step Beyond stars John Newland as your host to lead you into the weird and macabre.


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One Step Beyond – The Peter Hurkos Story Part One (1952)


Peter Hurkos falls fifty feet from the top of a building, while he is trying to run away from some . When he wakes up in the hospital, he finds out he is psychic.


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One Step Beyond – The Peter Hurkos Story Part Two (1952)


Peter Hurkos falls fifty feet from the top of a building, while he is trying to run away from some . When he wakes up in the hospital, he finds out he is psychic. Part Two.


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One Step Beyond – The Return of Mitchell Compion (1959)


In this episode of One Step Beyond, a man is known by everyone on a small Mediterranean island that he has never visited. One Step Beyond is credited by many as an inspiration for Outer Limits and Twilight Zone.


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Ozzie And Harriet – David and the Mermaid (1964)


Here’s an episode of Ozzie and Harriet from 1964. With June. I always liked Ozzie and Harriet better with June. Ozzie and the boys are on a mission to liven up the women’s club dance.


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Racket Squad – Accidentally On Purpose (1950)


Racket Squad stars Reed Hadley as Captain John Braddock, who works the racket and bunco squad for the San Francisco, California police department.


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Racket Squad – Anyone Can Be a Sucker (1950)


Racket Squad starred Reed Hadley as Captain John Braddock, a fictional cop working for the San Francisco, California Police Department.


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Racket Squad – The Bill of Sale Racket (1950)


Racket Squad stars Reed Hadley as Captain John Braddock, who works the racket and bunco squad for the San Francisco, California police department.


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Racket Squad – The Hearse Chaser (1950)


Racket Squad starred Reed Hadley as Captain John Braddock, a fictional cop working for the San Francisco, California Police Department.


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Racket Squad – The Long Shot (1950)



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Racket Squad – The Strange Case of James Doyle (1950)


Racket Squad stars Reed Hadley as Captain John Braddock, who works the racket and bunco squad for the San Francisco, California police department.


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Red Skelton Show – John Carradine Guests (1955)


This is the Red Skelton show with John Carradine as a guest. Red does a pantomime and a skit where he becomes a famous impressionist artist.


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Red Skelton Show – Mickey Rooney Guests (1956)


Here’s an episode of the Red Skelton show from 1956. It’s got Mickey Rooney as a guest star and Red Skelton plays his famous Freddie Freeloader.


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Red Skelton Show – w/George Raft (1956)


Here’s an episode of the Red Skelton Show with Red in some funny schtick with guest star. Tough guy, George Rafts gives Red Skelton the third degree and slaps him around to make him sing.


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Rifleman, The – Day of the Hunter (1960)


Cass Callicot arrives in North Fork to challenge Lucas McCain to a shooting contest, but McCain is a lilly livered coward who won’t fight and won’t hunt. Then Callicot kidnaps Mark, but regrets it because Mark is so annoying. As usual the Rifleman concludes with the Rifleman not actually shooting anyone.


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Rifleman, The – Mail Order Groom (1958)


Isabelle sent off for a new husband named Mr. Jupiter. She’s afraid the local riff raff is gonna bother him. Not too Much.


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Rifleman, The – Outlaws Inheritance.


Dave Stafford is an old friend of Lucas McCain. What no one knows is that he’s in North Fork to make sure the railroad spur line goes to another town, while pretending he’s on North Fork’s side


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Rocky Jones – Menace From Outer Space (1954)



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Sergeant Preston of the Yukon – The Limping King


In 1955, the same year the radio show ended, Sergeant Preston of the Yukon premiered as a television series. A mounty and his trustee dog fight crime in the Northwest Territory.


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Sergeant Preston of the Yukon – The Rookie (1955)


In 1955, the same year the radio show ended, Sergeant Preston of the Yukon premiered as a television series. Its the story of a RCMP Mounty who has to solve crimes with the help of his trusty dog Yukon King.


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Sherlock Holmes – Blind Mans Bluff (1954)


The first and only American television series of Sherlock Holmes adventures aired in syndication in the fall of 1954.


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Sherlock Holmes – Diamond Tooth (1954)


The first and only American television series of Sherlock Holmes adventures aired in syndication in the fall of 1954.


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Sherlock Holmes – Haunted Gainsborough (1954)


The first and only American television series of Sherlock Holmes adventures aired in syndication in the fall of 1954.


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Sherlock Holmes – Mother Hubbard (1954)


The first and only American television series of Sherlock Holmes adventures aired in syndication in the fall of 1954.


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Sherlock Holmes – Neurotic Detective (1954)


The first and only American television series of Sherlock Holmes adventures aired in syndication in the fall of 1954.


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Sherlock Holmes – Texas Cowgirl (1954)


The first and only American television series of Sherlock Holmes adventures aired in syndication in the fall of 1954.


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Studio One – The Night America Trembled (1949)


Sponsored by Westinghouse Electric Corporation, Studio One was seen on CBS , from 1948 through 1958, under several variant titles: Studio One Summer Theatre, Studio One in Hollywood, Summer Theatre, Westinghouse Studio One and Westinghouse Summer Theatre. It was telecast in black-and-white only.


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Studio One: A Passenger to Bali (1950)


A Dutch missionary boards a ship in the middle of the night. The Captain soon finds he has a guest that no country in the world will allow off the ship.


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Tales of Tomorrow – Blunder (1952)


Sometimes our moms just don’t give us basic information. Don’t blow up the earth! From the 1950′s science fiction series, Tales of Tomorrow.


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Tales of Tomorrow – Sneak Attack (1960)


Tales of Tomorrow is an American anthology science fiction series that aired live on ABC from 1951 to 1953. The series covered such stories as Frankenstein , starring Lon Chaney, Jr., 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea starring Thomas Mitchell as Captain Nemo, and many others


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Tales of Tomorrow – What you need (1954)


A merchant always knows what you need and sells it to you. The sign on his store says “I have what you need”.


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The Lone Ranger Fights On (1949)


This is the second episode of the Lone Ranger in 1949 where the Lone Ranger needs to find out what is happening to supplies meant for the Indians that are getting hijacked.


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The Veil – Food on the Table (1958)


Boris Karloff plays a ships Captain that saves his wife’s life and then plots her murder.


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The Veil – The Doctors (1958)


Dr. Angelo Marcabienti is coming home to replace his retiring father as the town doctor, but the townspeople object.


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Topper (1953)


Topper is a spinoff of the Topper movie from 1937. It’s the story of a guy who is haunted by an invisible couple and their dog who died in a landslide.


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Veil, The – Jack The Ripper (1958)