Show Time for Beany From Wikipedia : Time for Beany was an American television series, with puppets for characters, which aired locally in Los Angeles starting in 1949 and nationally (via kinescope) on the improvised Paramount Television Network from 1950 to 1955. It was created by animator Bob Clampett, who later...
Show Hank McCune Show, The From Wikipedia: The Hank McCune Show was an American television situation comedy. Filmed without a studio audience, it was notable for being the first program to incorporate a laugh track. The series began as a local Los Angeles program in 1949. NBC placed it on its national primetime schedule at...
Show Ben Casey Ben Casey , a medical drama about the "new breed" of doctors, ran on ABC from October 1961 to May 1966. James Moser, who also created the Richard Boone series Medic , created Ben Casey and Matthew Rapf produced the program for Bing Crosby Productions. The show was very successful for ABC and broke...
Show Return to Mayberry From Wikipedia: Return to Mayberry is a 1986 American made-for-television comedy film based on the 1960s sitcoms The Andy Griffith Show and, to an extent, Mayberry R.F.D. as well. The film premiered on April 13, 1986 on NBC, and was the highest-rated television film of 1986. Sixteen of the original...
Show Electric Company, The The Electric Company is an educational American children's television series that was produced by the Children's Television Workshop (now called Sesame Workshop) for PBS in the United States. PBS broadcast 780 episodes over the course of its six seasons from October 25, 1971 to April 15, 1977...
Show Slattery's People From Wikipedia: Slattery's People is a 1964-1965 American television series about local politics starring Richard Crenna as title character James Slattery, a state legislator, co-starring Ed Asner and Tol Avery, and featuring Carroll O'Connor and Warren Oates in a couple of episodes each. James E...
Show Zorro The television version of Zorro , like its previous movie incarnations, was based on stories written by Johnston McCulley. These stories recounted exploits of the swashbuckling alter-ego of Don Diego de la Vega in colonial California. The most popular and recognizable TV version of Zorro was the...
Show Father Knows Best Father Knows Best , a family comedy of the 1950s, is perhaps more important for what it has come to represent than for what it actually was. In essence, the series was one of a slew of middle-class family sitcoms in which moms were moms, kids were kids, and fathers knew best. Today, many critics...
Show Studs' Place CHICAGO SCHOOL OF TELEVISION During the late 1940s and early 1950s, broadcast television emanating from Chicago was noted for its original ideas, inventive production techniques and significant contributions to the development of the new visual medium. Paying close attention to the problems of...
Show Kukla, Fran & Ollie Kukla, Fran and Ollie was the first children's show to be equally popular with children and adults. The show's immense popularity stemmed from its simplicity, gentle fun and frolic and adult wit. Burr Tillstrom's Kuklapolitan Players differed from typical puppets in that the humor derived from...
