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You Are There

CBS (ended 1957)

Welcome to the You Are There guide at TV.com. Walter Cronkite hosted the reenactments of historical events. Shows included The Landing of the Hindenburg ,The Salem Witchcraft Trials, and The Scuttling of the Graf Spee.
You Are There was nominated for 2 Emmys in 1956 and won 1 of those 2. The show also won a Peabody Award in 1957.moreless
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MLB World Series

FOX

Major League Baseball's Championship Series. Each year the American League Champion and the National League Champion meet in a best-of-seven series. Since 2003, the League that wins the July All-Star Game is awarded home field advantage and hosts Games 1, 2, 6 and 7, the latter two if necessary. The first World Series was played in 1903. The first televised World Series was played in 1947, which is the point at which this guide begins.
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The editor would like to gratefully acknowledge Baseball-Reference.com, from which much of the historical box score and play-by-play information is derived. Additional sources of information are Retrosheet.org, Baseball-Almanac.com, Yahoo! Sports, and The Sporting News' 2007 Complete Baseball Record Book, online edition. The complete rosters, including the players who did not play in any games, are largely from the reference book The World Series: Complete Play-By-Play of Every Game, 1903-1989. This information could not be found anywhere on the else on the web. Information post-1989 was compiled from the Google News Archives.moreless
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The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin

ABC (ended 1959)

The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin showcasted one of television's earliest canine heroes who left big paw prints for his descendants to follow. Rin Tin Tin was the only dog in Los Angeles to be listed in the telephone directory. Lee Duncan, his owner and trainer, sais, "Rinty was very close to his great grandfather," the original Rin Tin Tin, who appeared in many popular motion pictures of the 1930s and the 1940s, and was for a time the highest paid performer (Actor?) in films. The first episode of this canine crime fighter series commenced when the U.S. Cavalry came upon a wagon train that had been attacked by Apache Indians. The only survivors were a young boy named Rusty and his German shepherd he called Rin Tin Tin. The Cavalry took the boy and his dog to Fort Apache in Arizona, where Lt. Ripley "Rip" Masters made Rusty a Corporal so he could stay on at the fort.moreless
104
The Lux Video Theatre

CBS (ended 1957)

Welcome to The Lux Video Theatre guide at TV.com
105
Law of the Plainsman

NBC (ended 1960)

The Law Of The Plainsman recounts the exploits of Sam Buckhart, born among the Apache Indians but eventually educated at Harvard University and now a Deputy U.S. Marshal in the New Mexico territory of the 1880's.moreless
106
The Garry Moore Show

CBS (ended 1967)

The Garry Moore Show is a Red Wing Production from Bob Banner Associates Inc. and was a very successful variety program that featured the guests in light-hearted fun and antics. Showcasing musical themed sketches and from 1958 to 1963 the highlight of the show was "That Wonderful Year" with tributes and facts that were special to the year that was being celebrated. Allen Funt also had a segment of "Candid Camera". There was a rotating cast of regulars with Marion Lorne and Carol Burnett and one in particular Durward Kirby who was on Garry's previous series that ran in 1950 to 1951. This show ran twice: 9/30/58 - 6/16/64: Tuesdays at 10:00p 9/11/66 - 1/29/67: Sundays at 9:00pmoreless
107
Sky King

NBC (ended 1959)

Schuyler J. ("Sky") King of the Flying Crown Ranch and his niece Penny fight the evil that men do and take arms against a sea of troubles in Sky's plane, the Songbird. The aerodynamic Western. Adapted from the radio series Sky King (1946-1954).moreless
108
Blue Peter

BBC

Blue Peter is the longest running British childrens television show, celebrating it's fiftieth birthday in October 2008. The show airs as part of the CBBC strand of programming on BBC One on Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 4.35pm. It is currently in it's 52nd series. The show began on October 16th 1958, and since then has gone through a cycle of 31 presenters, with Andy Akinwolere, Helen Skelton and Joel Defries currently presenting. The name Blue Peter comes from the blue and white flag which hoists a ship in port when it's getting ready to sail. The logo for the show is a blue and white boat designed by Tony Hart. Blue Peter badges are worn by presenters and different variations of the badge are awarded to both viewers and celebrity guests. The theme tune to the show is a take on the sea shanty Barnacle Bill and was originally composed by Ashworth Hope and has since been re-recorded ten times, the current version is orchestrated by Murray Gold. Throughout it's first series it ran for 15 minutes on Monday nights. From the 1960s until 1995, the show ran twice a week on Mondays and Thursdays, at 4.35pm until the mid 1970s, when it moved to 5.10pm. Throughout 1995 until 2001, three shows aired, on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, in 2002 the show moved to 5pm and in 2007 remaining in the same time slot, shows aired on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. From September 2007, the show began airing twice a week and from February 2008 moved to it's current slot Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 4.35pm. The show has many features and traditions that it carry's from series to series. The show always features 'Blue Peter Pets', Petra the dog been the first. Their's been five dogs, seven cats, four tortoises and a parrot that have all appeared, before the current line up of two dogs - Mabel & Lucy, two cats - Socks & Cookie and a tortoise, Shelley. Another regular feature on the show is the 'Blue Peter Garden', based in the BBC Television Centre were Blue Peter is filmed, alot of features are based in the garden, so their's need for a regular Blue Peter gardener, Percy Thrower (who also originally designed the garden), Chris Crowder and Clare Bradley have all had the job, before Chris Collins took it on. The show has also made an appeal every year since the show began, these range from bring and buy sales been organised and endorsed by Blue Peter or to the more recent, Mission Nutrition campaign, helping kids eat better here and abroad.moreless
109
The Cisco Kid

(ended 1956)

The Cisco Kid and his sidekick Pancho roam the old west looking for people to help.
110
The Life of Riley (1953)

NBC (ended 1958)

1313 Blue View Terrace, Los Angeles, California, the residence of the Riley Family: Chester, a riveter with Stevenson Aircraft and Associates; his wife Peggy; and their children, Babs and Junior. Riley worked in an aircraft plant in California, but viewers usually saw him at home, cheerfully disrupting life with his malapropisms and ill timed intervention into minor problem.moreless
111
Fireside Theatre

NBC (ended 1955)

Fireside Theatre was the first successful filmed drama series on television at a time when everything else on the networks was being produced live. The first brief "season" was one of experimentation, with shows of every type being tried, from brief filmed and live dramas to ballet to Broadway reviews. By the second season (the first full season), the series had settled on filmed episodes, generally fifteen minutes in length, that were paired together to fill a half-hour program. The subjects were primarily dramas, with mysteries and a few comedies thrown in. By the next season, the series was concentrating on full half-hour dramas. Since the West Coast was not yet connected to the national coaxial cables, Fireside Theatre was one of the networks' first series to originate from Hollywood. Many episodes were filmed at the Hal Roach Studios in California. The driving force behind the program was a one-man-band named Frank Wisbar. His "Frank Wisbar Productions" produced most of the series and was able to keep costs down because Wisbar often produced, wrote, directed and hosted the episodes himself. Whenever possible, he adapted public domain stories as scripts. Through mid-1951, the weekly cost of producing the series was a paltry $17,000. During the series' final two seasons, actor Gene Raymond was hired as host and starred as a performer in numerous episodes. Fireside was a top ten ratings hit for most of its run, airing in the cushy time slot following TV's biggest hit, Texaco Star Theater starring Milton Berle. By 1955, the ratings had begun to sag and the sponsor, Proctor & Gamble, decided to overhaul the program to such a degree that it became a totally new series. Jane Wyman Presents the Fireside Theatre is the program it became. Beginning in 1951, the 50-plus segments produced for the 1949-1950 season were repackaged as Royal Playhouse and sold into syndication. Other later episodes were syndicated under various titles including TV Theater and Theatre Time. They also turned up on the networks during the 1950s packaged together with reruns of other programs to air as a summer filler series with new titles.moreless
112
Tales of Wells Fargo

NBC (ended 1962)

Dale Robertson played Wells Fargo special agent Jim Hardie in this 30-minute NBC western from 1957. In its sixth and final season, the show expanded to a full hour and was broadcast in color.moreless
113
Robert Montgomery Presents Your Lucky Strike Theatre

NBC (ended 1957)

Producer/actor Robert Montgomery hosted this award-winning anthology series from TV's Golden Age of live drama. Montgomery introduced each episode, sometimes chatted briefly with performers and occasionally acted in the presentations. During several summers, Robert Montgomery Presents utilized a repertory company of actors to perform in all of the episodes for several months.moreless
114
The Philco Television Playhouse

NBC (ended 1955)

Welcome to The Philco Television Playhouse guide at tv.com This live dramatic anthology series featured top name actors and actresses in original TV plays and adaptations of novels, short stories and plays. Perhaps the most elaborate production during the first season was "Cyrano de Bergerac" with Jose Ferrer and seven sets to recreate 17th century Paris. From 1951 till the show finished in 1955 Philco Television Playhouse alternated weekly with Goodyear Television Playhouse. This series was also known as TV Playhouse, since the sponsors Philco and Goodyear alternated weekly.moreless
115
Fury

NBC (ended 1960)

Fury chronicled the story of Joey, an orphan boy befriended by Jim Newton a recently widowed horse rancher, who's wife and son were killed in an auto accident by a drunk driver. Joey was brought to court for breaking a window. Jim had seen the whole incident and went to court with Joey, he told the Judge that Joey was innocent, and convinced the Judge to let Joey come stay at the Broken Wheel.moreless
116
The Rebel

ABC (ended 1961)

Johnny Yuma was a former Confederate soldier. We follow his adventures in the Old West following the Civil War.
117
The Grammy Awards

CBS

In similar fashion to their film equivalent (The Academy Awards), The Grammys is an awards show that honors the achievements of the members of the professional music recording industry through a voting system. The members of the Recording Academy vote on who they think is most deserving of an award in 108 categories as specified by the academy. Each year the awards are presented during a live telecast that was begun in 1971 by ABC, but has since been televised by CBS after they bought it in 1973. They were initially known as the Gramophone Awards this is because the trophy itself is a golden gramophone but later they became the Grammys.moreless
118
Texaco Star Theater

NBC (ended 1953)

This new medium needed something to get people talking and looking. It came in the form of a visual comedian who was larger than the tiny screens on which he appeared. On June 8, 1948, television's first hit series and superstar were born with Milton Berle starring on Texaco Star Theater.
When the series began, there was little else on the TV landscape: an occasional cooking show, a low budget talent show, a newsreel or two, but nothing compelling. In fact, some stations were staying on the air longer hours just to show their test pattern for viewers' entertainment. That was about to change as 1948 was the year networks became serious about programming. Big-time entertainment also became possible at that time as a boycott by the musicians union finally came to an end.
In the summer try-out, Berle was the first of several hosts who were tested. Comedians like Henny Youngman,Morey Amsterdam, and Jack Carter all gave it a shot, but Berle was an immediate hit and signed for the series within a few weeks of his debut.
The show opened with four men in Texaco uniforms singing a jingle about the sponsor ("We are the men of Texaco/We work from Maine to Mexico..."). Then, they would give Milton an introduction that was a set-up for whatever goofy outfit he was wearing. One on occasion he was introduced as a man who had just paid his taxes so he came out dressed as a hobo wearing a barrel. More than once, Miltie came out in drag--very, very bad drag--walking on the sides of his feet while teetering in his heels. Berle would do absolutely anything to get a laugh! The crowd howled, especially his mother Sarah. She was always in the audience as a "plant" to egg on the laughter. You can easily pick her out on any episode; she's the loudest laughter in the studio.
Texaco was a boon for vaudevillians. Besides big name singers and stars who performed in slapstick sketches and production numbers, novelty acts were a staple. It wasn't unusual to go from a dramatic torch song into a trained animal act. (On one show, a group of unfortunate dancers had to follow an elephant act that left a few "gifts" on the stage.) But ultimately, the show was all about Berle. He horned in on every performer's act. He personally ran the rehearsals armed with a referee's whistle that dangled from his neck. He'd even use his hands to give camera instructions while he was performing.
In the first years, he was drawing more than 80% of all viewers--a feat that hasn't been accomplished since. NBC was so intent on keeping Berle around that, in 1951, they signed him to an exclusive 30-year contract worth $200,000 annually.
During 1952, Berle's ratings began to slip, thanks in part to his taking a week off each month. The agencies, client and network all panicked and demanded changes. A new writing staff, headed by Goodman Ace, was brought in and the crazy Berle and his vaudeville format were out. In its place was a more dignified show that was set primarily "behind the scenes" of the Berle show, in much the same way as The Jack Benny Program. There were plenty of big production numbers and a staff of malcontents for Berle to do battle with. Now, instead of being Milton Berle, he was playing Milton Berle, something he says he was never comfortable with. Despite his misgivings, the show's ratings rebounded.
Texaco Star Theater ended it's run June 9, 1953 when Texaco moved its sponsorship to another series. That fall, Miltie continued his Tuesday night reign with a new title: The Buick-Berle Show). "Mr. Television" began his final season in September 1955 under the simple title The Milton Berle Show. (That same title was used on his ABC variety series in the late 1960s.)
A few notes on this episode guide: Texaco Star Theater, the Buick-Berle Show and The Milton Berle Show are all included under this listing; the episodes' air dates are correct but the episode numbers are relative; information from these earliest days of live television is sketchy at best. This guide has been pieced together using various reference books, newspapers and magazines of the day (NY Times, Variety, Time among them), various performers websites and Milton Berle's autobiography.moreless
119
No Hiding Place

ITV (ended 1967)

Welcome to the No Hiding Place guide at TV.com.

This long-running police procedural drama showcased the activities of Detective Chief Superindentent Tom Lockhart of Scotland Yard. Lockhart had begun his television career in ATV's Murder Bag (1957/58) before moving to Crime Sheet in 1959. This third series to feature actor Raymond Francis as Lockhart followed the detective as he worked his way through over 200 cases, many of which were transmitted live.

Lockhart was supported by Detective Sergeants Harry Baxter (Eric Lander, whose character was given his own series Echo Four Two), Russell (Johnny Briggs), Perryman (Michael McStay) and Gregg (Sean Caffrey).

The show was immensely popular, with all but 25 of the episodes making the weekly ratings top twenty. When the show was taken off air in 1965 after 188 episodes, public pressure forced the producers to extend DCS Lockhart's career by another two years.moreless
120
Huckleberry Hound

CBS (ended 1962)

Huckleberry Hound is a blue-haired Southern dog with a fondness for the song, "My Darling, Clementine", and is a jack-of-all-trades cartoon star, appearing as a scientist (trying to neutralize a gigantic, thinking potato), a Scotland Yard detective (chasing Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in Victorian London or investigating reports of a mad scientist's Frankenstein-like weiner monster in early-1900s rural England), a Foreign Legion soldier (foiling a renegade Frenchman-turned-Arab), or a modern policeman (trying to subdue an impish ape named Wee Willie). Episodes of this television series begin and end with a Huckleberry cartoon. Sandwiched between them is a cartoon with two mischievous mice, Pixie and Dixie and a cantankerous cat named Mr. Jinks. Sometimes appearing in their stead in the middle cartoon was a free-spirited Hokey Wolf or the "smarter than the average" Yogi Bear.moreless
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