Studio One is a long-running American dramatic radio-television anthology series, created in 1947 by the 26-year-old Canadian director Fletcher Markle, who came to CBS from the CBC. On April...
You Bet Your Life is an American radio and television quiz show. The first and most famous version was hosted by Groucho Marx, of Marx Brothers fame, with the unflappable announcer and...
Meet the Press is a weekly American television news/interview program produced by NBC. It is the longest-running television show in worldwide broadcasting history, having made its television...
Texaco Star Theater, a comedy-variety show , was one of the first successful examples of U.S. television broadcasting. Remembered best as the show that made a...
CBS Evening News is the flagship nightly television news program of the American television network CBS. The network has broadcast this program since 1948, and has used the CBS Evening News...
Queen for a Day was an American radio and television show. It helped usher in American broadcast listeners' and viewers' fascination with big prize giveaway shows when it was born on...
Captain Video and His Video Rangers was an American science fiction television series. It was broadcast on the DuMont Television Network, and was the first series of its kind on American...
Truth or Consequences was an American quiz show, originally hosted on NBC radio by Ralph Edwards and later on television by Edwards , Jack Bailey , Bob Barker ,...
Faraway Hill was the first soap opera broadcast on an American television network, running on the DuMont Television Network from October 2, 1946 to December 18, 1946. David P. Lewis, the...
The Ed Sullivan Show is an American television variety show that ran from June 20, 1948 to June 6, 1971, and was hosted by entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan. It ran on CBS every Sunday...
Art Linkletter's House Party or House Party was an American daytime variety/talk show which aired on CBS Radio from January 15, 1945 to October 13, 1967. It had an equally long run on CBS...
Candid Camera was a television series created and produced by Allen Funt, which initially began on radio as Candid Microphone June 28, 1947. After a series of theatrical film shorts, also...
Major League Baseball on NBC is the de facto name for a weekly presentation of Major League Baseball games televised on the National Broadcasting Company television network from 1947 to...
Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts was a radio and television variety show which ran on CBS from 1946 until 1958. Sponsored by Lipton Tea, it starred Arthur Godfrey, who was...
Howdy Doody is a children's television program (with a frontier/western theme, although other themes also colored the show) that was created and produced by E. Roger Muir and broadcast on...
The Philco Television Playhouse, a live television anthology series sponsored by Philco, was telecast from 1948 to 1955. Produced by Fred Coe, the NBC series was seen on Sundays from 9:00pm...
Winner Take All is an American television game show that ran from 1946-1952 on CBS and NBC. It was the first game show produced by the Mark Goodson-Bill Todman partnership. The series was...
Kraft Television Theatre is an American drama/anthology television series that began 7 May 1947 on NBC, airing at 7:30pm on Wednesday evenings until December of that year. In January 1948...
The Goldbergs is a comedy-drama broadcast from 1929 to 1946 on American radio. It was adapted into a 1948 play, Me and Molly, and later seen as a television situation comedy (1949–56). In...
The Life of Riley, with William Bendix in the title role, is a popular American radio situation comedy series of the 1940s that was adapted into a 1949 feature film, a long-run 1950s...
Kukla, Fran and Ollie was an early American television show using puppets, originally created for children but soon watched by more adults than children. Like many early shows, it did not...
Martin Kane, Private Eye was a 1949-52 radio series, sponsored by U.S. Tobacco. William Gargan starred as the New York City private detective Martin Kane on the Mutual Broadcasting System...
One Man's Family was a long-running American radio-TV dramatic series, created by Carlton E. Morse. One Man's Family debuted as a radio series on April 29, 1932 in Los Angeles, Seattle and...
The Beulah Show is an American situation-comedy series that ran in radio on CBS from 1945 to 1954, and in television on ABC from 1950 to 1953. It is notable for being the first sitcom to...
Burns and Allen, an American comedy duo consisting of George Burns and his wife, Gracie Allen, worked together as a comedy team in vaudeville, films, radio and television and achieved...