Popular TV Programs When Paul Was Growing Up
1950's TV
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Popularity Charts For TV
Television Of The 50's
1949-50
| RANK |
TITLE |
NETWORK |
| 1 |
The Texaco Star Theater |
NBC |
| 2 |
Toast of the Town (Ed Sullivan) |
CBS |
| 3 |
Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts |
CBS |
| 4 |
Fireball Fun for All |
NBC |
| 5 |
Philco Television Playhouse |
NBC |
| 6 |
Fireside Theatre |
NBC |
| 7 |
The Goldbergs |
CBS |
| 8 |
Suspense |
CBS |
| 9 |
The Ford Television Theater |
CBS |
| 10 |
Cavalcade of Stars |
Dumont |
1950-51
| RANK |
TITLE |
NETWORK |
| 1 |
The Texaco Star Theater |
NBC |
| 2 |
Fireside Theatre |
NBC |
| 3 |
Your Show of Shows |
NBC |
| 4 |
Philco Television Playhouse |
NBC |
| 5 |
The Colgate Comedy Hour |
NBC |
| 6 |
Gillette Cavalcade of Sports |
NBC |
| 7 |
Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts |
CBS |
| 8 |
Mama |
CBS |
| 9 |
Robert Montgomery Presents |
NBC |
| 10 |
Martin Kane, Private Eye |
NBC |
| 11 |
Man Against Crime |
CBS |
| 12 |
Somerset MaughamTheatre |
NBC |
| 13 |
Kraft Television Theatre |
NBC |
| 14 |
Toast of the Town (Ed Sullivan) |
CBS |
| 15 |
The Aldrich Family |
NBC |
| 16 |
You Bet Your Life |
NBC |
| 17 |
Armstrong Circle Theater (tie) |
NBC |
| 17 |
Big Town (tie) |
CBS |
| 17 |
Lights Out (tie) |
NBC |
| 20 |
The Alan Young Show |
CBS |
1951-52
| RANK |
TITLE |
NETWORK |
| 1 |
Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts |
CBS |
| 2 |
The Texaco Star Theater |
NBC |
| 3 |
I Love Lucy |
CBS |
| 4 |
The Red Skelton Show |
NBC |
| 5 |
The Colgate Comedy Hour |
NBC |
| 6 |
Fireside Theatre |
NBC |
| 7 |
The Jack Benny Program |
CBS |
| 8 |
Your Show of Shows |
NBC |
| 9 |
You Bet Your Life |
NBC |
| 10 |
Arthur Godfrey and His Friends |
CBS |
| 11 |
Mama |
CBS |
| 12 |
Philco Television Playhouse |
NBC |
| 13 |
Amos 'n' Andy |
CBS |
| 14 |
Big Town |
CBS |
| 15 |
Pabst Blue Ribbon Bouts |
CBS |
| 16 |
Gillette Cavalcade of Sports |
NBC |
| 17 |
The Alan Young Show |
CBS |
| 18 |
All-Star Revue (tie) |
NBC |
| 18 |
Dragnet (tie) |
NBC |
| 20 |
Kraft Television Theatre |
NBC |
1952-53
| RANK |
TITLE |
NETWORK |
| 1 |
I Love Lucy |
CBS |
| 2 |
Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts |
CBS |
| 3 |
Arthur Godfrey and His Friends |
CBS |
| 4 |
Dragnet |
NBC |
| 5 |
The Texaco Star Theater |
NBC |
| 6 |
The Buick Circus Hour |
NBC |
| 7 |
The Colgate Comedy Hour |
NBC |
| 8 |
Gangbusters |
NBC |
| 9 |
You Bet Your Life |
NBC |
| 10 |
Fireside Theatre |
NBC |
| 11 |
The Red Buttons Show |
CBS |
| 12 |
The Jack Benny Program |
CBS |
| 13 |
Life with Luigi |
CBS |
| 14 |
Pabst Blue Ribbon Bouts |
CBS |
| 15 |
Goodyear Television Playhouse |
NBC |
| 16 |
The Life of Riley |
NBC |
| 17 |
Mama |
CBS |
| 18 |
Your Show of Shows |
NBC |
| 19 |
What's My Line? |
CBS |
| 20 |
Strike It Rich |
CBS |
1953-54
| RANK |
TITLE |
NETWORK |
| 1 |
I Love Lucy |
CBS |
| 2 |
Dragnet |
NBC |
| 3 |
Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts (tie) |
CBS |
| 3 |
You Bet Your Life (tie) |
NBC |
| 5 |
The Bob Hope Show |
NBC |
| 6 |
The Buick-Berle Show |
NBC |
| 7 |
Arthur Godfrey and His Friends |
CBS |
| 8 |
The Ford Television Theater |
NBC |
| 9 |
The Jackie Gleason Show |
CBS |
| 10 |
Fireside Theatre |
NBC |
| 11 |
The Colgate Comedy Hour (tie) |
NBC |
| 11 |
This Is Your Life (tie) |
NBC |
| 13 |
The Red Buttons Show |
CBS |
| 14 |
The Life of Riley |
NBC |
| 15 |
Our Miss Brooks |
CBS |
| 16 |
Treasury Men in Action |
NBC |
| 17 |
All-Star Revue (Martha Raye) |
NBC |
| 18 |
The Jack Benny Program |
CBS |
| 19 |
Gillette Cavalcade of Sports |
NBC |
| 20 |
Philco Television Playhouse |
NBC |
1954-55
| RANK |
TITLE |
NETWORK |
| 1 |
I Love Lucy |
CBS |
| 2 |
The Jackie Gleason Show |
CBS |
| 3 |
Dragnet |
NBC |
| 4 |
You Bet Your Life |
NBC |
| 5 |
Toast of the Town (Ed Sullivan) |
CBS |
| 6 |
Disneyland |
ABC |
| 7 |
The Bob Hope Show |
NBC |
| 8 |
The Jack Benny Program |
CBS |
| 9 |
The Martha Raye Show |
NBC |
| 10 |
The George Gobel Show |
NBC |
| 11 |
The Ford Television Theater |
NBC |
| 12 |
December Bride |
CBS |
| 13 |
The Buick-Berle Show |
NBC |
| 14 |
This Is Your Life |
NBC |
| 15 |
I've Got a Secret |
CBS |
| 16 |
Two for the Money |
CBS |
| 17 |
Your Hit Parade |
NBC |
| 18 |
The Millionaire |
CBS |
| 19 |
General Electric Theater |
CBS |
| 20 |
Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts |
CBS |
1955-56
| RANK |
TITLE |
NETWORK |
| 1 |
The $64,000 Question |
CBS |
| 2 |
I Love Lucy |
CBS |
| 3 |
The Ed Sullivan Show |
CBS |
| 4 |
Disneyland |
ABC |
| 5 |
The Jack Benny Program |
CBS |
| 6 |
December Bride |
CBS |
| 7 |
You Bet Your Life |
NBC |
| 8 |
Dragnet |
NBC |
| 9 |
I've Got a Secret |
CBS |
| 10 |
General Electric Theater |
CBS |
| 11 |
Private Secretary (tie) |
CBS |
| 11 |
The Ford Television Theater (tie) |
NBC |
| 13 |
The Red Skelton Show |
CBS |
| 14 |
The George Gobel Show |
NBC |
| 15 |
The $64,000 Challenge |
CBS |
| 16 |
Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts |
CBS |
| 17 |
The Lineup |
CBS |
| 18 |
Shower of Stars |
CBS |
| 19 |
The Perry Como Show |
NBC |
| 20 |
The Honeymooners |
CBS |
1956-57
| RANK |
TITLE |
NETWORK |
| 1 |
I Love Lucy |
CBS |
| 2 |
The Ed Sullivan Show |
CBS |
| 3 |
General Electric Theater |
CBS |
| 4 |
The $64,000 Question |
CBS |
| 5 |
December Bride |
CBS |
| 6 |
Alfred Hitchcock Presents |
CBS |
| 7 |
I've Got a Secret (tie) |
CBS |
| 7 |
Gunsmoke (tie) |
CBS |
| 9 |
The Perry Como Show |
NBC |
| 10 |
The Jack Benny Program |
CBS |
| 11 |
Dragnet |
NBC |
| 12 |
Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts |
CBS |
| 13 |
The Millionaire (tie) |
CBS |
| 13 |
Disneyland (tie) |
ABC |
| 15 |
Shower of Stars |
CBS |
| 16 |
The Lineup |
CBS |
| 17 |
The Red Skelton Show |
CBS |
| 18 |
You Bet Your Life |
NBC |
| 19 |
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp |
ABC |
| 20 |
Private Secretary |
CBS |
1957-58
| RANK |
TITLE |
NETWORK |
| 1 |
Gunsmoke |
CBS |
| 2 |
The Danny Thomas Show |
CBS |
| 3 |
Tales of Wells Fargo |
NBC |
| 4 |
Have Gun, Will Travel |
CBS |
| 5 |
I've Got a Secret |
CBS |
| 6 |
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp |
ABC |
| 7 |
General Electric Theater |
CBS |
| 8 |
The Restless Gun |
NBC |
| 9 |
December Bride |
CBS |
| 10 |
You Bet Your Life |
NBC |
| 11 |
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (tie) |
CBS |
| 11 |
Cheyenne (tie) |
ABC |
| 13 |
The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show |
NBC |
| 14 |
The Red Skelton Show |
CBS |
| 15 |
Wagon Train (tie) |
NBC |
| 15 |
Sugarfoot (tie) |
ABC |
| 15 |
Father Knows Best (tie) |
CBS |
| 18 |
Twenty-One |
NBC |
| 19 |
The Ed Sullivan Show |
CBS |
| 20 |
The Jack Benny Program |
CBS |
1958-59
| RANK |
TITLE |
NETWORK |
| 1 |
Gunsmoke |
CBS |
| 2 |
Wagon Train |
NBC |
| 3 |
Have Gun, Will Travel |
CBS |
| 4 |
The Rifleman |
ABC |
| 5 |
The Danny Thomas Show |
CBS |
| 6 |
Maverick |
ABC |
| 7 |
Tales of Wells Fargo |
NBC |
| 8 |
The Real McCoys |
ABC |
| 9 |
I've Got a Secret |
CBS |
| 10 |
Wyatt Earp |
ABC |
| 11 |
The Price is Right |
NBC |
| 12 |
The Red Skelton Show |
CBS |
| 13 |
Zane Grey Theater (tie) |
CBS |
| 13 |
Father Knows Best (tie) |
CBS |
| 15 |
The Texan |
CBS |
| 16 |
Wanted: Dead or Alive (tie) |
CBS |
| 16 |
Peter Gunn (tie) |
NBC |
| 18 |
Cheyenne |
ABC |
| 19 |
Perry Mason |
CBS |
| 20 |
The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show |
NBC |
1959-60
| RANK |
TITLE |
NETWORK |
| 1 |
Gunsmoke |
CBS |
| 2 |
Wagon Train |
NBC |
| 3 |
Have Gun, Will Travel |
CBS |
| 4 |
The Danny Thomas Show |
CBS |
| 5 |
The Red Skelton Show |
CBS |
| 6 |
Father Knows Best (tie) |
CBS |
| 6 |
77 Sunset Strip (tie) |
ABC |
| 8 |
The Price Is Right |
NBC |
| 9 |
Wanted: Dead or Alive |
CBS |
| 10 |
Perry Mason |
CBS |
| 11 |
The Real McCoys |
ABC |
| 12 |
The Ed Sullivan Show |
CBS |
| 13 |
The Bing Crosby Show |
ABC |
| 14 |
The Rifleman |
ABC |
| 15 |
The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show |
NBC |
| 16 |
The Lawman |
ABC |
| 17 |
Dennis the Menace |
CBS |
| 18 |
Cheyenne |
ABC |
| 19 |
Rawhide |
CBS |
| 20 |
Maverick |
ABC |
1950's TV
Color TV Was Really New
|
Our TV Shows Were In Black and White
1950's Television Engraved Memories For A Lifetime
|
Popularity Charts For TV
Television Of The 50's