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This table displays the top-rated primetime television series of the 1955–56 season as measured by Nielsen Media Research. [1] Rank ... The Phil Silvers Show: CBS: 28.1
Jim Henson's puppet show Sam and Friends first airs on WRC-TV in Washington, D.C. May 10 – The first episode of the long-running and popular Flemish TV sitcom Schipper naast Mathilde is broadcast. [1] June 7 – The quiz show craze begins with the premiere of The 64,000 Dollar Question in the U.S.
The series spawns many imitations, including Twenty-One the next year. September 28 World Series baseball is broadcast in color for the first time in the U.S., with WITN-TV in Washington, North Carolina signing on the air with the first game of the 1955 World Series as their first telecast. [1]
1955 | The $64,000 Question (CBS) A summer replacement in 1955, the show “marked the beginning of the big-money quiz shows,” notes the Museum of Broadcast Communications.
The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning series, new series, and series cancelled after the 1954–55 season. The $64,000 Question had debuted on CBS during summer 1955 and became the #1 program on U.S. television.
Philco TV Playhouse: 45.3 4: Your Show of Shows: 42.6 5: The Colgate Comedy Hour: ... October 1955–April 1956. Rank Program Network Rating 1: The $64,000 Question: CBS:
This table displays the top-rated primetime television series of the 1956–57 season as measured by Nielsen Media Research. [1] Rank Program Network Rating 1:
Television series which originated in the United States and began in the year 1955. Shows that originated in other countries and only later aired in the United States should be removed from this category.