HANCOCK’S HALF HOUR (1954-60) 57 EPISODES Hancock’s Half Hour began life as a BBC radio show, broadcast between 1954 and 1961, with the TV series alternating from 1954 until 1959. When its star, Tony Hancock, became disillusioned with the public’s perception of the TV show as a comedy double […]
OUR MISS BROOKS (1952-6) 130 EPISODES Connie Brooks (played by Eve Arden) teaches English at Madison High School. She gets a ride to school each day from student Walter Denton, portrayed by a very young Richard Crenna, long before he became […]
THE REAL MCCOYS (1957-63) 225 EPISODES Walter Brennan as Amos McCoy A little along the lines of the later series The Beverly Hillbillies, The Real McCoys saw Amos McCoy move his family from West Virginia to an inherited farm in California. Week after […]
THE ABBOTT & COSTELLO SHOW (1952-4) 52 EPISODES Still capitalizing on their enormous success as a movie comedy team, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello starred in their own TV series in which they play a couple of unemployed actors residing at the boarding house run by Mr. Fields […]
AMOS ‘N’ ANDY SHOW, THE (1951-3) 78 EPISODES Alvin Childress as Amos These thirty-minute episodes usually centred on ‘The Kingfish’s’ ‘get rich’ schemes that often involved duping his brothers in the ‘Mystic Knights of the Sea Lodge’. Andy was the most gullible and […]
WRANGLER (1960) 6 EPISODES This extremely short-lived western series was the summer replacement for a musical series, The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show (1956). Wrangler’s only claim to fame, miniscule as that claim may have been, is that it was the very first […]
There has been no shortage of situation comedies since television in the USA, Great Britain and Australia began. This segment will look at every show that went to air between 1949 and 1999. Assessments will vary according to the amount of information […]
WICHITA TOWN (1959-60) 26 EPISODES The model for this series had already been laid out in shows such as Gunsmoke, The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp and Lawman, so it was anything but unique. However, it did have the services of popular western star Joel McCrea […]
THE WESTERNER (1960) 13 EPISODES This was a series created by Sam Peckinpah about a cowboy named Dave Blassingame who wanders the American West with his faithful dog ‘Brown’. It may have enjoyed a longer run but for Peckinpah’s insistence that the sets and clothing should reflect […]
WAGON TRAIN (1957-65) 284 EPISODES Ward Bond & Robert Horton This iconic series followed the daily life and adventures of a post-Civil War wagon train as it meandered its way from Missouri to California. For 134 episodes the trail master was Seth Adams, played […]
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