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    The Johnny Cash Show

    The Johnny Cash Show

    The Johnny Cash Show was an American television music variety show hosted by Johnny Cash.  The Screen Gems 58-episode series ran from June 7th, 1969 to March 31st, 1971 on ABC; it was taped at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee.  The show reached No. 17 in the Nielsen ratings in 1970. Cash opened each […]

    This Is Tom Jones

    This is Tom Jones

    This Is Tom Jones was an ATV variety series starring Tom Jones. The series was exported to the United States by ITC Entertainment and was networked there by ABC. The series ran between 1969 and 1971 to total 65 color episodes. Jones was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for “Best Actor In a Television […]

    The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour

    The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour

    The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour is an American network television music and comedy variety show hosted by singer Glen Campbell from January 1969 through June 1972 on CBS. He was offered the show after he hosted a 1968 summer replacement for The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour.  Campbell used “Gentle on My Mind” as the theme song of the show.  The […]

    the Ghost and Mrs. Muir

    the Ghost and Mrs. Muir

    The Ghost & Mrs. Muir is an American situation comedy based on the 1947 film of the same name, which was based on the 1945 novel by R. A. Dick. Itpremiered in September 1968 on NBC.  After NBC canceled the series, it aired on ABC for one season before being canceled a final time. The series stars Hope Lange as Carolyn Muir, a young widow […]

    Blondie

    Blondie

    Blondie (also known as The New Blondie) is an American sitcom that aired on CBS during the 1968-1969 television season.  The series is an updated version of the 1957 TV series that was based on the comic strip of the same name.  The series stars Will Hutchins as Dagwood Bumstead and Jim Backusas his boss Mr. Dithers, and featured child character actress Pamelyn Ferdin as the Bumstead’s daughter, and […]

    The Ugliest Girl in Town

    The Ugliest Girl in Town

    The Ugliest Girl in Town is a short-lived American sitcom produced by Screen Gems for ABC.  It ran from September 26th, 1968 to January 30th, 1969. Timothy Blair is a Hollywood talent agent.  He falls in love with Julie Renfield, a British actress who is visiting the United States to do a movie.  After that movie is finished, she returns to […]

    Here Come the Brides

    Here Come the Brides

    Here Come the Brides is an American comedy Western series from Screen Gems that aired on the ABC television network from September 25th, 1968 to April 3rd, 1970.   The series was loosely based upon the Mercer Girls, Asa Mercer‘s efforts to bring civilization to old Seattle by importing marriageable women from the east coast of the United States in the 1860s, where the ravages of the American Civil […]

    The Doris Day Show

    The Doris Day Show

    The Doris Day Show is an American sitcom that was originally broadcast on the CBS Television network from September 1968 until March 1973, remaining on the air for five seasons and 128 episodes. The Doris Day Show was also the title of her radio show which aired from Hollywood in 1952, with “It’s Magic” as […]

    Mayberry R.F.D.

    Mayberry RFD

    Mayberry R.F.D. is an American television series produced as a spin-off and direct continuation of The Andy Griffith Show.  When star Andy Griffith decided to leave his series, most of the supporting characters returned for the new program, which ran for three seasons (78 episodes) on the CBS Television Network from 1968–1971.   During the final season of The Andy Griffith Show, widower farmer Sam Jones (Ken […]

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    Mission: Impossible

    Mission: Impossible

    This tape will self-destruct in 5 seconds…. Mission: Impossible is an American television series that was created and initially produced by Bruce Geller.  It chronicles the missions of a team of secret government agents known as the Impossible Missions Force (IMF).  In the first season, the team is led by Dan Briggs, played by Steven […]

    The Rat Patrol

    rat patrol

    The Rat Patrol is an American television program that aired on ABC during the 1966–1968 seasons. A total of fifty-eight 30-minute episodes were produced by Mirisch-Rich Television Productions, a subsidiary of United Artists Television, in association with Tom Gries Productions Inc.  Just as The Man From U.N.C.L.E. episode titles included the word “Affair”, all Rat […]

    Daniel Boone

    Daniel Boone

    Daniel Boone is an American action-adventure television series starring Fess Parker as Daniel Boone that aired from September 24th, 1964 to September 10th, 1970 on NBC for 165 episodes, and was made by 20th Century Fox Television. Ed Ames co-starred as Mingo, Boone’s Cherokee friend, for the first four seasons of the series.  Albert Salmi […]

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    The Jack Benny Program

    The Jack Benny Program

    The Jack Benny Program, starring Jack Benny, is a radio-TV comedy series that ran for more than three decades and is generally regarded as a high-water mark in 20th-century American comedy. Jack Benny made his TV debut in the 1949 season.  There is a kinescope of his later November 1949 TV appearance on the intermittent Jack Benny Program special […]

    The Perry Como Show

    The Perry Como Show

    Perry Como made the move to television when NBC initially televised the Chesterfield Supper Club radio program on December 24th, 1948. A very special guest on that first television show was Como’s eight-year-old son, Ronnie, as part of a boys’ choir singing “Silent Night” with his father.  The show was the usual Friday night Chesterfield Supper Club with an important […]

    The Ed Sullivan Show

    The Ed Sullivan Show

    Edward Vincent “Ed” Sullivan (September 28th, 1901 – October 13th, 1974) was an American entertainment writer and television host, best known as the presenter of the television variety program The Toast of the Town, now usually remembered under its second name, The Ed Sullivan Show.  Broadcast for 23 years from 1948 to 1971, it set […]

    The Original Amateur Hour

    The Original Amateur Hour

    The Original Amateur Hour is an American radio and television program. The show was a continuation of Major Bowes Amateur Hour which had been a radio staple from 1934 to 1945. The television debut came on January 18th, 1948 on the DuMont Television Network with Mack as the host.  The regular staff for the television […]

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    Barney Miller

    Barney Miller

    Barney Miller is an American situation comedy television series set in a New York City police station in Greenwich Village.  The series originally was broadcast from January 23rd, 1975, to May 20th, 1982, on ABC.  It was created by Danny Arnold and Theodore J. Flicker.  Noam Pitlik directed the majority of the episodes. Barney Miller […]

    Blondie

    Blondie

    Blondie (also known as The New Blondie) is an American sitcom that aired on CBS during the 1968-1969 television season.  The series is an updated version of the 1957 TV series that was based on the comic strip of the same name.  The series stars Will Hutchins as Dagwood Bumstead and Jim Backusas his boss Mr. Dithers, and featured child character actress Pamelyn Ferdin as the Bumstead’s daughter, and […]

    The Ugliest Girl in Town

    The Ugliest Girl in Town

    The Ugliest Girl in Town is a short-lived American sitcom produced by Screen Gems for ABC.  It ran from September 26th, 1968 to January 30th, 1969. Timothy Blair is a Hollywood talent agent.  He falls in love with Julie Renfield, a British actress who is visiting the United States to do a movie.  After that movie is finished, she returns to […]

    The Long, Hot Summer

    The Long, Hot Summer

    The Long, Hot Summer is an American drama series from 20th Century Fox Television that was broadcast on ABC-TV for one season from 1965-1966.  Created by Dean Riesner, The Long, Hot Summer was based on the novel The Hamlet by William Faulkner, the short story “Barn Burning”, and the 1958 film of the same name. […]

    Mona McCluskey

    Mona McCluskey

    Mona McCluskey (also known as Meet Mona McCluskey) is an American sitcom that aired on NBC as part of its 1965-1966 schedule.  The series stars Juliet Prowse in the title role, and aired from September 16th, 1965 to April 14th, 1966. Prowse portrayed Mona McCluskey, an actress who marries a United States Air Force sergeant, Mike McCluskey, played by Denny Scott Miller.  The major premise of […]

    Laredo

    Laredo

    Laredo is an American Western television series that aired on NBC from September 16th, 1965, to April 7th, 1967.  Laredo stars Neville Brand, William Smith, Peter Brown, and Philip Carey as Texas Rangers.  It is set on the Mexican border around Laredo, Texas.  The program was produced by Universal Television. The pilot episode of Laredo […]

    Gidget

    Gidget

    Gidget is an American situation comedy about a surfing, boy-crazy teenager called “Gidget” and her widowed father Russ Lawrence, a UCLA professor.  Sally Field stars as Gidget with Don Porter as father Russell Lawrence.  The series was first broadcast on ABC from September 15th, 1965 to April 21st, 1966. The television series was based upon concepts and characters created by Frederick Kohner in his […]

    The Baileys of Balboa

    The Baileys of Balboa

    The Baileys of Balboa is an American sitcom that appeared on CBS in the 1964-1965 season on Thursdays at 9:30pm ET.  The show was directed by Gary Nelson and Bob Sweeney. The show was primarily developed for the network because its president, James T. Aubrey, insisted that Gilligan’s Island, which premiered the same season (and […]

    Daniel Boone

    Daniel Boone

    Daniel Boone is an American action-adventure television series starring Fess Parker as Daniel Boone that aired from September 24th, 1964 to September 10th, 1970 on NBC for 165 episodes, and was made by 20th Century Fox Television. Ed Ames co-starred as Mingo, Boone’s Cherokee friend, for the first four seasons of the series.  Albert Salmi […]

    The Munsters

    The Munsters

    The Munsters is an American television sitcom depicting the home life of a family of benign monsters.  The series originally aired on Thursday at 7:30pm on CBS from September 24th, 1964, to May 12th, 1966.  Seventy episodes were produced. The series stars Fred Gwynne as Herman Munster and Yvonne De Carlo as his wife, Lily […]

    Bewitched

    Bewitched

    Bewitched is an American TV situation comedy fantasy that was originally broadcast for eight seasons on ABC from 1964 to 1972.  It was created by Sol Saks under executive director Harry Ackerman, and starred actress Elizabeth Montgomery, Dick York (1964–1969), Dick Sargent (1969–1972), Agnes Moorehead, and David White. The show is about a witch who […]

    Shindig!

    Shindig!

    Shindig! is an American musical variety series which aired on ABC from September 16th, 1964 to January 8th, 1966.  The show was hosted by Jimmy O’Neill, a disc jockey in Los Angeles at the time, who also created the show, along with his wife Sharon Sheeley and production executive Art Stolnitz. Shindig! was conceived as […]

    My Three Sons

    my3sons

    My Three Sons is an American situation comedy.  The series ran from 1960 to 1965 on ABC, and moved to CBS until its end on August 24th, 1972.  My Three Sons chronicles the life of a widower and aeronautical engineer named Steven Douglas (Fred MacMurray), raising his three sons.  The series also starred William Frawley as the boys’ live-in maternal grandfather, Bub.  William Demarest replaced […]

    Huntley – Brinkley Report

    The Huntley Brinkley Report

    The Huntley-Brinkley Report (sometimes known as The Texaco Huntley-Brinkley Report, for one of its early sponsors) was the NBC television network’s flagship evening news program from October 29th, 1956, until July 31st, 1970.  It was anchored by Chet Huntley in New York City, and David Brinkley in Washington, D.C.  It succeeded the Camel News Caravan, […]

    The People’s Choice

    The Peoples Choice

    The People’s Choice is an American television situation comedy that aired on NBC from 1955 to 1958, primarily sponsored by The Borden Company. It stars Jackie Cooper as Socrates “Sock” Miller, an ex-Marine and a young politician in fictitious New City, California.  Sock has a basset hound named “Cleo”, whose thoughts (voiced by Mary Jane Croft), as she balefully observes Sock’s dilemmas, are recorded on the soundtrack […]

    Sargeant Preston of the Yukon

    Sergeant Preston of the Yukon

    In 1955, the same year the radio show ended, Sergeant Preston of the Yukon premiered as a television series.  Mainly filmed at Ashcroft, Colorado, the series was telecast on CBS from September 29th, 1955, to September 25th, 1958. Richard Simmons starred as Sgt. Preston, and was supported by Yukon King and Rex, now played by […]

    John Charles Daly and the News

    John Charles Daly and the News

    John Charles Patrick Croghan Daly (generally known as John Charles Daly or simply John Daly (February 20th, 1914 – February 24th, 1991) was an American journalist, game show host and radio personality, probably best known for hosting the panel show What’s My Line?.  He was the vice president of ABC during the 1950s.  On December […]

    The Johnny Carson Show

    The Johnny Carson Show

    The Johnny Carson Show is a 1955-56 half hour prime time television variety show starring Johnny Carson. While working as a staff writer on The Red Skelton Show, local Los Angeles television comedian Carson filled in as host when Skelton was injured during a show rehearsal.  As a result of Carson’s performance, CBS created the primetime variety program The Johnny Carson Show, a traditional potpourri of comedy, music, dance, […]

    Star Tonight

    Star Tonight, an American television anthology series, aired on ABC from February 1955 to August 1956. It consisted of 80 total episodes, 30 from 1955 and 50 from 1956.  Each episode was a self-contained story, usually adapted from famous plays, short-stories or novels by some of the writers of the day.  It was designed as a showcase for […]

    The Bob Cummings Show

    The Bob Cummings Show

    The Bob Cummings Show (also known as Love That Bob) is an American situation comedy starring Robert “Bob” Cummings, which was produced from January 2nd, 1955 to September 15th, 1959.  The Bob Cummings Show was the first-ever series to debut as a mid season replacement. The program began with a half-season run on NBC, then ran for two full seasons on CBS, and […]

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    Medical Horizons

    Quincy Howe and John Daly

    Medical Horizons is a public affairs television series, focusing on advancements in medical technology, which aired on ABC from September 12th, 1955 to March 5th, 1956.  The program, broadcast live, sometimes offered surgical scenes as well as information about new medical equipment. The series was hosted for the first four episodes by Quincy Howe.  He […]

    Medic

    Medic

    Medic is an American medical drama that aired on NBC beginning in 1954.  Medic was television’s first doctor drama to focus attention on medical procedures. Created by its principal writer James E. Moser, Medic tried to create realism (The Doctor and City Hospital had not) which would typify medical shows from then on.  Moser had previously written for the radio shows Dragnet and Dr. Kildare.  He went on to write […]

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    The Perry Como Show

    The Perry Como Show

    Perry Como made the move to television when NBC initially televised the Chesterfield Supper Club radio program on December 24th, 1948. A very special guest on that first television show was Como’s eight-year-old son, Ronnie, as part of a boys’ choir singing “Silent Night” with his father.  The show was the usual Friday night Chesterfield Supper Club with an important […]

    Arthur Godfrey’s Talent Scouts

    arthurgodfrey'sts

    Arthur Godfrey’s Talent Scouts (also known as Talent Scouts) is an American radio and television variety show which ran on CBS from 1946 until 1958.  Sponsored by Lipton Tea, it stars Arthur Godfrey, who was also hosting Arthur Godfrey and His Friends at the same time. The concept for the show was that Godfrey had several “talent scouts” who brought their discoveries onto […]

    Studio One

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    Studio One is an American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher Markle, who came to CBS from the CBC. In 1948, Markle made a quantum leap from radio to television. Sponsored by Westinghouse Electric Corporation, the television series was seen on CBS (which Westinghouse owned between 1995 and 2000), from 1948 through 1958, under several variant titles: Studio One […]

    Break the Bank

    Break the Bank

    Break the Bank is an American quiz show which aired variously on Mutual Radio and ABC, CBS and NBC television from 1945 to 1957.  From October 1956 to January 1957, NBC Television aired a short-lived prime-time version called Break the $250,000 Bank. Sponsored by Vicks, the series began on radio October 20, 1945, heard Saturdays on Mutual until April 13th, 1946.  Initially, it featured different hosts each week, including John […]

    Ford Television Theater

    Ford Theater

    Ford Theatre, spelled Ford Theater for the radio version and known as Ford Television Theatre for the TV version, was a radio and television anthology series broadcast in the United States in the 1940s and 1950s. At various times the television series appeared on all three major television networks, while the radio version was broadcast on two separate networks and on two separate […]

    The Milton Berle Show

    The Milton Berle Show

    Milton Berle was an American comedian and actor.  As the host of NBC’s Texaco Star Theater (1948–55), he was the first major American television star and was known to millions of viewers as “Uncle Miltie” and “Mr. Television” during TV’s golden age. Berle would revive the structure and routines of his vaudeville shows for his debut on TV.  His first TV series was The […]

    Douglas Edwards with the News

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    Douglas Edwards was America‘s first network news television anchor, anchoring CBS‘s first nightly news broadcast from 1948–1962, which was later to be titled CBS Evening News. In 1948, as CBS’s top correspondents and commentators shunned the fledgling medium of television, Edwards was chosen to present regular CBS television news programs and to host CBS’s television coverage of the 1948 Democratic […]

    Our Miss Brooks

    Our Miss Brooks

    Our Miss Brooks is an American situation comedy starring Eve Arden as a sardonic high school English teacher.  It began as a radio show broadcast on CBS from 1948 to 1957.  When the show was adapted to television (1952–56), it became one of the medium’s earliest hits. Our Miss Brooks was considered groundbreaking for showing […]

    The Ed Sullivan Show

    The Ed Sullivan Show

    Edward Vincent “Ed” Sullivan (September 28th, 1901 – October 13th, 1974) was an American entertainment writer and television host, best known as the presenter of the television variety program The Toast of the Town, now usually remembered under its second name, The Ed Sullivan Show.  Broadcast for 23 years from 1948 to 1971, it set […]

    The Original Amateur Hour

    The Original Amateur Hour

    The Original Amateur Hour is an American radio and television program. The show was a continuation of Major Bowes Amateur Hour which had been a radio staple from 1934 to 1945. The television debut came on January 18th, 1948 on the DuMont Television Network with Mack as the host.  The regular staff for the television […]

    Kraft Television Theatre

    Kraft Television Theater

      Kraft Television Theatre is an American drama/anthology television series that began May 7th, 1947 on NBC, airing at 7:30pm on Wednesday evenings until December of that year.  In January 1948, it moved to 9pm on Wednesdays, continuing in that time slot until 1958.  Initially produced by the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency, the live hour-long series offered television plays […]

    Gillette Cavalcade of Sports

    Gillette Cavalcade of Sports

    The Gillette Cavalcade of Sports is an American network radio program and later television program that included broadcasts of a variety of sports, although it is primarily remembered by many for its focus on boxing. The diversified field of sporting events continued onto television, reportedly including at least two golfing tournaments as well (beginning in 1958) with football’s Rose Bowl.  With all of this, however, […]

    The Voice of Firestone

    the voice of firestone

    The Voice of Firestone is a long-running radio and television program of classical music.  The show featured leading singers in selections from opera and operetta.  Originally titled The Firestone Hour, it was first broadcast on the NBC Radio network on December 3rd, 1928 and was later also shown on television starting in 1949.  The program […]

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    Kool-Aid Man

    He started as the pitcher man in 1954:

    Then he came alive in the 70’s as a 6′ dude:

     Our Friend is Kool-Aid!

     Kool-Aid Man is the mascot for Kool-Aid, a brand of flavored drink mix.  The character has appeared on television and print advertising as a fun-loving gigantic pitcher, filled with red Kool-Aid and marked with a smiley face.  He is typically featured answering the call of children by smashing through walls and furnishings, holding a pitcher filled with Kool-Aid.

     

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    The Kaiser Aluminum Hour

    The Kaiser Aluminum Hour is a dramatic anthology television series which was broadcast in prime time in the United States during the 1956-57 season by NBC The Kaiser Aluminum Hour was shown on alternate Tuesday nights at 9:30 pm Eastern time in rotation with the longer-running Armstrong Circle Theatre, with the first broadcast airing on July 3rd, 1956 and the final one on June 18th, 1957. 

    As can be surmised from the title, the program was sponsored by the Kaiser Aluminum Company.  Unlike low-budget anthology series such as Fireside TheaterThe Kaiser Aluminum Hour featured many well-known Hollywood actors of the era, including Paul Newman (who appeared in the first telecast, Army Game), Ralph BellamyMacDonald CareyHume Cronyn, Robert CulpKim HunterWilliam ShatnerForrest TuckerJack Warden and Natalie Wood.

     

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    The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour

    The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour is an American network television music and comedy variety show hosted by singer Glen Campbell from January 1969 through June 1972 on CBS.

    He was offered the show after he hosted a 1968 summer replacement for The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour.  Campbell used “Gentle on My Mind” as the theme song of the show.  The show was one of the few rural-oriented shows to survive CBS’s rural purge of 1971.
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    Land of the Giants

    land of the giants

    Land of the Giants is an hour-long American science fiction television program lasting two seasons beginning on September 22nd, 1968, and ending on March 22nd, 1970. The show was created and produced by Irwin Allen.  Land of the Giants was the fourth of Allen’s science fiction TV series.  The show was aired on ABC and […]

    The Time Tunnel

    the time tunnel

    The Time Tunnel is a 1966–1967 U.S. color science fiction TV series, written around a theme of time travel adventure. The show was creator-producer Irwin Allen’s third science fiction television series, released by 20th Century Fox and broadcast on ABC. The show ran for one season of 30 episodes. Project Tic-Toc is a top secret […]

    Lost in Space

    lost in space

    Lost in Space is an American science fiction television series created and produced by Irwin Allen, filmed by 20th Century Fox Television, and broadcast on CBS.  The show ran for three seasons, with 83 episodes airing between September 15th, 1965, and March 6th, 1968. Though the original television series concept centered on the Robinson family, […]

    Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

    voyage to the bottom of the sea

    Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea is a 1960s American science fiction television series based on the 1961 film of the same name.  Both were created by Irwin Allen. Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea was the first of Irwin Allen’s four science fiction television series, as well as the longest running.  It […]