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In September 1950 NBC added two live variety series, Four Star Revue and The Colgate Comedy Hour, to its fall schedule. These programs were a network effort to bring NBC's most popular radio stars to television; talent included Eddie Cantor , Jack Carson , Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis , Jimmy Durante , Danny Thomas , Ed Wynn , Bob Hope and Fred ...
Following are the programs on the 1950–1951 United States network television weekday schedule, listing daytime Monday–Friday schedules on four networks for each calendar season from September 1950 to August 1951. All times are Eastern and Pacific.
The series "proved the strength and acceptability of TV sitcoms, giving [CBS] a strong weapon against NBC's flashy comedy-variety hours". [ 1 ] DuMont , too, avoided flashy comedy series when in February 1952, in desperation the network added Bishop Fulton Sheen 's program, Life Is Worth Living , to its Tuesday night schedule.
Continuing from the prior season were the highly popular variety series Toast of the Town, the critically well-received and popular anthology series Studio One, the critically panned but popular Captain Video and His Video Rangers which was one of the earliest sci-fi TV series, the well received by critics and viewers anthology series Kraft ...
The early days of television introduced hour-long anthology drama series, many of which received critical acclaim. [6] [7] Examples include Kraft Television Theatre (debuted May 7, 1947), The Chevrolet Tele-Theatre (debuted September 27, 1948), Television Playhouse (debuted December 4, 1947), The Philco Television Playhouse (debuted October 3, 1948), Westinghouse Studio One (debuted November 7 ...
In the early 1950s, TV stations telecast a lot of movies from the 1930s and ’40s, with the unofficial rule that they would air only films that were at least 10 years old.
Sixty years ago, an episode of a TV showed called 'Trackdown' told the story of a conman named Trump who wants to build a wall. 1950s TV show had villain named Trump who promised to save world by ...
Print TV listings were a common feature of newspapers from the late-1950s to the mid-2000s. With the general decline of newspapers and the rise of digital TV listings as well as on-demand watching, TV listings have slowly began to be withdrawn since 2010. The New York Times removed its TV listings from its print edition in September 2020. [10]