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1950’s Soap Operas | Global | Here’s about a dozen examples of classic 1950’s soap operas. A soap opera is an ongoing, episodic work of fiction on television or radio. Programs described as soap operas have existed as an entertainment long enough for audiences to recognize… |
24 – Season 8 (2010) | USA | Few series have hooked me like 24, which is now in it’s 8th season. 24 returned for a two-night premiere with the first two episodes airing on January 17, 2010 and the following two episodes airing the following night. |
30 Days | USA | 30 Days is a reality television show on the FX cable network in the United States, created and hosted by Morgan Spurlock. In each episode, Spurlock, or some other person or group of people, spend 30 days immersing themselves in… |
3D Sun (2008) | USA | This documentary is about NASA′s Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) spacecraft. It is the third mission in NASA’s Solar Terrestrial Probes program. |
64 Million Dollar Question, The (1953) | Global | Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis in a very funny skit from the Colgate Comedy Hour. It’s a spoof on a game show where Dean tortures poor Jerry for the 64 million. |
A Christmas Carol (1955) with Vincent Price | Global | A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost Story of Christmas (commonly known as A Christmas Carol) is what Charles Dickens described as his “little Christmas Book” and was first published on December 19, 1843 with illustrations by John Leech.… |
A History of Sci-Fi Television (1980) | Global | A rare documentary of science fiction on American television. During half an hour you will watch a synthesis of what was the first forty years of the science fiction production for television. From precursors as “Rocky Jones, Space Ranger“, “Space… |
A Sweathog Christmas Special (1975) | USA | Welcome Back, Kotter is an American television sitcom that originally aired on the ABC network from September 9, 1975 to June 8, 1979. |
A-Team, The (1983) | USA | The A-Team is an American action adventure television series about a fictional group of ex-United States Army Special Forces who work as soldiers of fortune while being on the run from the military for a “crime they didn’t commit”.… |
Addams Family, The (1964-1966) | USA | The Addams Family is an American television series based on the characters in Charles Addams’ New Yorker cartoons. The 30 minute series was shot in black-and-white and aired for two seasons in 64 installments on ABC from September 18,… |
Adventures of Ellery Queen (1950) | Global | Helene Hanff, best-known for her book 84 Charing Cross Road, was a scripter for the television series version of The Adventures of Ellery Queen (1950-52), which began on the DuMont Television Network but soon moved to ABC. Shortly after the… |
Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (1952) – 15 episodes | Global | The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet is an American sitcom, airing on ABC from October 3, 1952 to September 3, 1966, starring the real life Nelson family. The series starred Ozzie Nelson and his wife, singer Harriet Nelson (Hilliard), and… |
Adventures of Robin Hood, The (1957) – 45 episodes | Global | The Adventures of Robin Hood was a popular, long-running British television series (143 half-hour, black and white episodes, 1955-1960) starring Richard Greene as Robin Hood. |
Air Force One – National Geographic | USA | No matter where in the world the President travels, if he flies in an Air Force jet, the plane is called Air Force One. Technically, Air Force One is the call sign of any Air Force aircraft carrying the President.… |
Airwolf (1984-87) | USA | Airwolf is an American television series that ran from 1984 through 1987. The program concerned a supersonic military helicopter, code named Airwolf, and her crew as they undertook various missions, many involving espionage, with a Cold War theme. |
Alan Alda – Scientific American Frontiers | USA | Scientific American Frontiers was an American television program primarily focused on informing the public about new technologies and discoveries in science and medicine. It was a companion program to the Scientific American magazine. The show was produced for PBS… |
Alf’s Christmas Special (1987) | USA | ALF and the Tanners prepare to spend Christmas in a cabin. When the owner comes to visit them, ALF accidentally jumps into his trunk and he is taken to a hospital and given away as a Christmas gift to a… |
Alfred Hitchcock – The Cheney Vase (1955) | Global | IMDB: Lyle Endicott is a smooth manipulator, but he’s not smooth enough to save his job at a Manhattan art museum. And his talent doesn’t seem to have gotten him anywhere in life. “Why not just once can something go… |
Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962) | USA | Originally 30 minutes per episode, the series Alfred Hitchcock Presents was expanded to 60 minutes in 1962 and retitled The Alfred Hitchcock Hour. Hitchcock himself only directed 17 of the 270 filmed episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents and only one… |
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1961) | USA | Alfred Hitchcock Presents is well known for its title sequence. The camera fades in on a simple line-drawing caricature of Hitchcock’s rotund profile. As the program’s theme music, Charles Gounod’s Funeral March of a Marionette, plays, Hitchcock himself appears in… |
Amos n Andy – 9 shows (1930s-50’s) | Global | Amos ‘n’ Andy was a situation comedy based on archetypes of African-Americans and popular in the United States from the 1920s through the 1950s. The show began as one of the first radio comedy serials, written and voiced by Freeman… |
Andy Griffith Show – 10 episodes (1963) | Global | Filmed at Desilu Studios in California and televised by CBS between October 3, 1960 and April 1, 1968, The Andy Griffith Show is an American television sitcom starring Andy Griffith as small town sheriff Andy Taylor. The show consistently… |
Archie Bunker’s Place (1979) | USA | Archie Bunker’s Place is an American sitcom originally broadcast on the CBS network, conceived in 1979 as a continuation of All in the Family. While not as popular, the show maintained a large enough audience to last four seasons, ending… |
Astro Boy (2003) | USA | Astro Boy is a remake of the 1960s anime series of the same name created by Osamu Tezuka, which was produced by his company, Tezuka Productions, and the anime television network, Animax, who have broadcast the series across its respective… |
Babylon 5 (1993) | USA | Babylon 5 is an American science fiction television series created, produced and largely written by J. Michael Straczynski. The show centers on the Babylon 5 space station: a focal point for politics, diplomacy, and conflict during the years 2257–2262. With… |
Barack Obama (2009) | USA | Barack Obama’s background made him uniquely able to capture the imagination of the electorate. But it wasn’t always that way. Raised by his white mother and white grandparents, young “Barry Obama” often felt like an outsider. |
Barney Miller (1975-82) | USA | Captain Barney Miller (Hal Linden) tries to remain sane while leading the 12th Precinct’s detectives: crochety, nearing-retirement Jewish-American Philip K. Fish (Abe Vigoda); naive but goodhearted Polish-American Det. Stanley “Wojo” Wojciehowicz (Max Gail); ambitious, arrogant African-American Det. Ronald “Ron” Nathan… |
Bat Masterson (1958-59) | USA | Bat Masterson is an American Western television series which showed a fictionalized account of the life of real-life marshal/gambler/dandy Bat Masterson. The title character was played by Gene Barry and the half-hour black and white shows ran on NBC from… |
Battlestar Galactica (1978) | USA | Glen A. Larson, the Executive Producer of Battlestar Galactica, has stated in many interviews that he originally conceived of the Galactica premise in the late 1960s, which he originally called Adam’s Ark. However, he was unable to get the project… |
Beverly Hillbillies Christmas Shows (1962-64) | Global | The Beverly Hillbillies is an American television series about a hillbilly family transplanted to Beverly Hills, California after finding oil on their land. A Filmways production, the series aired on CBS from September 26, 1962 – September 7, 1971 and… |
Beverly Hillbillies, The – 20 shows | Global | The Beverly Hillbillies is an American television series about a hillbilly family transplanted to Beverly Hills, California after finding oil on their land. A Filmways production, the series aired on CBS from September 26, 1962 – September 7, 1971 and… |
Bewitched (1969) | USA | Bewitched is an American situation comedy originally broadcast for eight seasons on ABC from 1964 to 1972. The show stars Elizabeth Montgomery, Dick York (1964-1969), Dick Sargent (1969-1972), Agnes Moorehead and David White. It continues to be seen throughout the… |
Bewitched – A Vision of Sugar Plums (1962) | USA | In the shows first Christmas episode, the Kravitzes and Stephenses participate in a program that allows orphaned children to stay with adults for the holidays. When the Stephenses’ young charge reveals that he does not believe in Santa Claus, Samantha… |
Big Valley, The (1965-69) | USA | The Big Valley was based loosely on the Hill Ranch located at the western edge of Calaveras County, not far from Stockton (one episode places the Barkley Ranch a few hours ride from town while another has Jarrod riding past… |
Biography – Albert Einstein (2008) | USA | Albert Einstein (14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a theoretical physicist. His many contributions to physics include the special and general theories of relativity, the founding of relativistic cosmology, the first post-Newtonian expansion, explaining the perihelion advance of… |
Biography – Douglas MacArthur : The General (1956) | USA | General of the Army Douglas MacArthur (January 26, 1880 – April 5, 1964) was an American general, United Nations general, and Field Marshal of the Philippine Army. He was a Chief of Staff of the United States Army during the… |
Biography – The Green River Killer | USA | Gary Leon Ridgway (born February 18, 1949), known as the Green River Killer, is an American serial killer. Ridgway murdered numerous women in Washington during the 1980s and 1990s. He strangled them with rope, fishing line and anything else he… |
Biography – The Hussein Family | USA | “The family that slays together, stays together.” This was a family without limits. “Sadistic,” “dysfunctional”…they did whatever it took to remain in power. |
Bob Newhart (1972-78) | USA | The popular CBS series starred Newhart as Robert Hartley, a Chicago psychologist. The show divided most of its action between the character’s home life and work, with Suzanne Pleshette as Hartley’s supportive (though occasionally sarcastic) wife Emily, and Bill Daily… |
Bonanza (1959) – 11 shows | Global | Bonanza is an American western/cowboy television series starring Pernell Roberts, Lorne Greene, Dan Blocker, and Michael Landon, which aired on the NBC television network from September 12, 1959 until January 16, 1973. From 1964 through 1967, the show was #1… |
Buccaneer, The (1959) | Global | Robert Shaw plays Captain Dan Tempest in this 1956 TV series which could probably be best described as Robin Hood on the high seas. The series is about the adventures of Tempest and his crew of former pirates as they made their way across the seven seas in The Sultana. |
Buck Rogers (1979) | USA | Buck Rogers in the 25th Century is an American science fiction adventure television series produced by Universal Studios. The series was developed by Glen A. Larson and ran for two seasons, from 1979 – 1981. The feature-length pilot episode for… |
Buffy, the Vampire Slayer (1997) | USA | Buffy the Vampire Slayer is an American supernatural drama series that aired from March 10, 1997 until May 20, 2003. The series was created in 1997 by writer-director Joss Whedon under his production tag, Mutant Enemy Productions with later co-executive… |
Bullwinkle Show (1961) | USA | Much of the success of Rocky and Bullwinkle was a result of it being targeted towards both children and adults. The zany characters would draw in children, while the clever usage of puns and topical references appealed to the… |
Burns and Allen (1950) | Global | When The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show, aka The Burns and Allen Show, began on CBS television October 12, 1950, it was an immediate success. The show was originally live before a studio audience. Ever the businessman, Burns realized… |
Carol +2 | Global | Here’s a funny 1960’s show called “Carol +2″. It has some funny performances by Carol Burnett, Lucille Ball and Zero Mostel. |
Carol Burnett Show (1967-78) | Global | The Carol Burnett Show is a sketch comedy television show starring Carol Burnett, Tim Conway, Harvey Korman, Vicki Lawrence, and Lyle Waggoner. It originally ran on CBS from September 11, 1967 to March 29, 1978 for 278 episodes, and originated… |
Castle (2009) | USA | Castle is an American comedy-drama television series, which premiered as a mid-season replacement on ABC on March 9, 2009. The series is produced by ABC Studios. Nathan Fillion stars as Richard Castle, a famous mystery novelist who is initially called… |
Charles in Charge (1984-85) | USA | Charles in Charge is an American sitcom series which stars Scott Baio as Charles, a 19-year-old student at the fictional Copeland College in New Jersey, who worked as a live-in babysitter in exchange for room and board. Baio directed… |
Charlies Angels (1978-79) | USA | Charlie’s Angels is a television series about three women who work for a private investigation agency, and is one of the first shows to showcase women in roles traditionally reserved for men. The series was broadcast on the ABC… |