Topic JFK Assassination and Funeral ASSASSINATION AND FUNERAL OF PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY The network coverage of the assassination and funeral of John F. Kennedy warrants its reputation as the most moving and historic passage in broadcasting history. On Friday 22 November 1963, news bulletins reporting rifle shots during the...
Profession Journalists & News Producers This category consists of news anchors, correspondents, documentarians, historians, moderators, news producers, sports producers, and television critics.
Show Gunsmoke Gunsmoke , America's longest running television Western, aired on CBS from 1955-75. In 1956, its second season on the air, the series entered the list of top ten programs on U.S. television and moved quickly to number one. It remained in that position until 1961 and in the top twenty until 1964...
Show Bonanza Bonanza , the first Western televised in color, premiered on a Saturday night in the fall of 1959. After Gunsmoke , Bonanza was the longest-running and most successful Western in U.S. television, airing for fourteen seasons. The series related the story of Ben Cartwright (Lorne Greene) and his...
Show Virginian, The From Wikipedia: The Virginian is a western-themed television series which aired on NBC from 1962 to 1971 for a total of 249 episodes. It was the first western to air in 90-minute installments each week (75 minutes excluding commercial breaks),[citation needed] and was filmed in the color format...
Show Bewitched Bewitched , a fantasy situation comedy featuring the suburban life of a witch housewife married to a mortal, aired on ABC from 1964 to 1972. In its first season, it was the highest rated of all the new series and for its first five seasons, the program found itself consistently in Neilsens' Top...
Show Rifleman, The The Rifleman is an American Western television program that starred Chuck Connors as homesteader Lucas McCain and Johnny Crawford as his son, Mark McCain. It was set in the 1880s in the fictitious town of North Fork, New Mexico Territory. The show, filmed in black-and-white, ran on ABC, from...
Show Real McCoys, The From Wikipedia: The Real McCoys is an American situation comedy co-produced by Danny Thomas's Marterto Productions in association with Walter Brennan and Irving Pincus's Westgate Company. The series aired for six seasons altogether, the first five on the ABC-TV network from 1957 through 1962 and in...
