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TV Shows & Series: Popular TV Shows/Series of 1951

TV shows/series in chronological context: 1951 (MCMLI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1951st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 951st year of the 2nd millennium, the 51st year of the 20th century, and the 2nd year of the 1950s decade. ()

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I Love Lucy(1951-1957)

TV-G
| 30min per episode | Comedy, Kids & Family
4.0/5 (with 97 votes)

Cuban Bandleader Ricky Ricardo would be happy if his wife Lucy would just be a housewife. Instead she tries constantly to perform at the Tropicana where he works, and make life comically frantic in the apartment building they share with landlords Fred and Ethel Mertz, who also happen to be their best friends.

Directed by Desi Arnaz - With Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance, William Frawley, Keith Thibodeaux, Kathryn Card, ...

Dragnet(1951-1959)

TV-PG
| 30min per episode | Drama, Crime
3.2/5 (with 15 votes)

Follows the cases of a dedicated Los Angeles police detective, Sergeant Joe Friday, and his partners. The show takes its name from the police term "dragnet", meaning a system of coordinated measures for apprehending criminals or suspects.

Directed by Jack Webb - With Jack Webb, Ben Alexander, Harry Morgan

The Red Skelton Show(1951-1971)

TV-G
| 1h per episode | Comedy, Talk-Show, Kids & Family
3.7/5 (with 6 votes)

The Red Skelton Show is an American variety show that was a television staple for two decades, from 1951 to 1971. It was second to Gunsmoke and third to The Ed Sullivan Show in the ratings during that time. Skelton, who had previously been a radio star, had appeared in several motion pictures as well. Although his television series is largely associated with CBS, where it appeared for more than fifteen years, it actually began and ended on NBC. During its run, the program received three Emmy Awards, for Skelton as best comedian and the program as best comedy show during its initial season, and an award for comedy writing in 1961.

With Red Skelton

Sanremo Music Festival(1951-)

NR
| 3h 30min per episode | Kids & Family, Reality-TV
3.8/5 (with 6 votes)

The Sanremo Music Festival is the most popular Italian song contest and awards, held annually in the town of Sanremo, Imperia, Italy, and consisting of a competition amongst previously unreleased songs. The Festival was the inspiration for the Eurovision Song Contest.

The Roy Rogers Show(1951-1957)

30min per episode | Western
3.2/5 (with 4 votes)

Roy Rogers is the owner of the RR Ranch in the Mineral City area, which he runs with the help of the German shepherd dog Bullet and his horse Trigger. Roy, supported by his friend Pat Brady, is often helping the weakest usually threatened by cattle thieves, dishonest sheriffs and villains of various kinds. Pat Brady works as a cook at the Eureka Café, owned by Dale Evans.

Directed by John English, Leslie H. Martinson, Christian Nyby - With Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, Pat Brady, Trigger

Amos 'n' Andy(1951-1953)

30min per episode | Comedy
3.6/5 (with 4 votes)

A sitcom set in Manhattan's historic black community of Harlem.

Directed by Charles Barton

Hallmark Hall of Fame(1951-)

2h per episode | Drama
4.4/5 (with 3 votes)

Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones. The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.

Directed by George Schaefer, Albert McCleery, Kirk Browning, Fielder Cook, Jeannot Szwarc

Tales of Tomorrow(1951-1953)

TV-G
| 30min per episode | Science-Fiction & Fantasy
2.9/5 (with 3 votes)

Tales of Tomorrow is an American anthology science fiction series that was performed and broadcast live on ABC from 1951 to 1953. The series covered such stories as Frankenstein, starring Lon Chaney, Jr., 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea starring Thomas Mitchell as Captain Nemo, and many others featuring such performers as Boris Karloff, Brian Keith, Lee J. Cobb, Rod Steiger, Bruce Cabot, Franchot Tone, Gene Lockhart, Walter Abel, Leslie Nielsen, and Paul Newman. The series had many similarities to the later Twilight Zone which also covered one of the same stories, "What You Need". In total it ran for eighty-five 30-minute episodes.

Directed by Charles S. Dubin

The Range Rider(1951-1953)

NR
| 30min per episode | Western
3.4/5 (with 2 votes)

The Range Rider is an American Western television series that aired in syndication from 1951 to 1953. A single lost episode surfaced and was broadcast in 1959. The Range Rider was also broadcast on British television during the 1960s, and in Melbourne, Australia during the 1950s.

Directed by George Archainbaud - With Jock Mahoney, Dick Jones

Racket Squad(1951-1953)

TV-PG
| 30min per episode | Drama, Action & Adventure, Crime
2.9/5 (with 2 votes)

Racket Squad is an American TV crime drama series starring Reed Hadley as Captain John Braddock, a fictional detective working for the San Francisco, California Police Department. The show aired in syndication for a season before being picked up by CBS for three seasons. The series was filmed at Hal Roach Studios in Culver City, California, and was sponsored by cigarette manufacturer Philip Morris, hence there was a pack of the sponsor's brand on Braddock's desk at the beginning and end of the episode, as well as occasional scenes of him or other characters "lighting up".

With Reed Hadley

The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok(1951-1958)

30min per episode | Western
1.9/5 (with 2 votes)

The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok is an American Western television series which ran for eight seasons from 1951 through 1958. The Screen Gems series began in syndication, but ran on CBS from 1955 through 1958, and, at the same time, on ABC from 1957 through 1958.

Directed by Wesley Barry, William Beaudine, Thomas Carr, Jean Yarbrough - With Guy Madison, Andy Devine

The Ernie Kovacs Show(1951-1962)

1h per episode | Comedy
3.0/5 (with 2 votes)

The Ernie Kovacs Show is an American comedy show hosted by comedian Ernie Kovacs, first shown in Philadelphia during the early 50s, then nationally. The show appeared in many versions and formats, including daytime, prime-time, late-night, talk show, comedy, and as a summer replacement series. The Ernie Kovacs Show was one of only six TV shows broadcast on all four U.S. television networks during the Golden Age of Television, the others being The Original Amateur Hour, Pantomime Quiz, Down You Go, The Arthur Murray Party, and Tom Corbett, Space Cadet.

Directed by Barry Shear - With Boris Karloff, Ernie Kovacs, Bill Wendell, Edie Adams
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The Adventures of Kit Carson(1951-1955)

NR
| 30min per episode | Western, Crime
2.7/5 (with 2 votes)

The Adventures of Kit Carson is an American Western series that aired in syndication from August 1951 to November 1955, originally sponsored by Coca-Cola. It stars Bill Williams in the title role as frontier scout Christopher "Kit" Carson. Don Diamond co-starred as "El Toro", Carson's Mexican companion.

Directed by John English - With Bill Williams

Goodyear Television Playhouse(1951-1957)

1h per episode | Drama
1.8/5 (with 1 vote)

The Goodyear Television Playhouse is an American anthology series that was telecast live on NBC from 1951 to 1957 during the "Golden Age of Television". Sponsored by Goodyear, Goodyear alternated sponsorship with Philco, and the Philco Television Playhouse was seen on alternate weeks. In 1955, the title was shortened to The Goodyear Playhouse and it aired on alternate weeks with The Alcoa Hour. The three series were essentially the same, with the only real difference being the name of the sponsor. Producer Fred Coe nurtured and encouraged a group of young, mostly unknown writers that included Robert Alan Aurthur, George Baxt, Paddy Chayefsky, Horton Foote, Howard Richardson, Tad Mosel and Gore Vidal. Notable productions included Chayefsky's Marty starring Rod Steiger, Chayefsky's The Bachelor Party, Vidal's Visit to a Small Planet, Richardson's Ark of Safety and Foote's The Trip to Bountiful. From 1957 to 1960, it became a taped, half-hour series titled Goodyear Theater, seen on Mondays at 9:30pm.

Directed by Sidney Lumet

Sherlock Holmes(1951)

35min per episode | Crime, Drama
0.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Sherlock Holmes was a 1951 television series produced by the BBC featuring Alan Wheatley as Sherlock Holmes and Raymond Francis as Dr. Watson. This was the first series of Sherlock Holmes stories adapted for television.

With Alan Wheatley

Sua Vida Me Pertence(1951-1952)

20min per episode | Drama
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Sua Vida Me Pertence was the first in a tradition of telenovelas in Brazil. Broadcast by TV Tupi in São Paulo in black and white in 1951, it pioneered the genre worldwide, and featured Brazil's first on-screen kiss.

Directed by Walter Forster - With Walter Forster, Vida Alves, Dionísio Azevedo, José Parisi

Miss Susan(1951)

15min per episode | Soap / Telenovela, Drama
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Miss Susan is a daytime drama which aired on NBC from March 12 to December 28, 1951. The show, originating from Philadelphia and later retitled Martinsville, U.S.A., aired for fifteen minutes at 3:00 p.m. ET on weekdays. The main writer was William Kendall Clarke.

With Susan Peters

Tom Corbett, Space Cadet(1951-1955)

30min per episode
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

- No description / details available yet. -

The Living Christ(1951)

NR
| 5h 44min per episode | Drama
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

The first ever made for TV miniseries documents the story of Jesus Christ from birth to resurrection.

Directed by John T. Coyle - With Martin Balsam, Jeanne Bates

The Kate Smith Evening Hour(1951-1952)

1h per episode
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

- No description / details available yet. -

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars(1951-1963)

1h per episode | Drama, Comedy
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS. Offering both comedies and drama, the series was sponsored by the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company. The title was shortened to Schlitz Playhouse, beginning with the fall 1957 season.

Directed by Robert Aldrich

Foreign Intrigue(1951-1955)

30min per episode | Drama
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

The experiences of Robert Cannon and Helen Davis, foreign correspondents for "Consolidated News". Stories relate to their attempts to infiltrate and expose espionage rings.

With Jerome Thor

Saturday Roundup(1951)

1h per episode | Western
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Saturday Roundup is an American Western television program that aired on NBC on Saturday night from June 10, 1951 to September 1, 1951 at 8:00 p.m Eastern time .

Search for Tomorrow(1951-1952)

30min per episode | Drama, Soap / Telenovela
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

- No description / details available yet. -

With Mary Stuart

Love of Life(1951-1980)

30min per episode | Soap / Telenovela
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Love of Life is an American soap opera which aired on CBS from September 24, 1951, to February 1, 1980. It was created by Roy Winsor, whose previous creation Search for Tomorrow had premiered three weeks before Love of Life, and who would go on to create The Secret Storm two and a half years later.

With Audrey Peters, Ron Tomme

Captain Video and His Video Rangers(1951)

30min per episode
2.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Captain Video and His Video Rangers is an American science fiction television series, which was aired on the DuMont Television Network, and was the first series of its kind on American television. The series aired between June 27, 1949 and April 1, 1955, originally Monday through Saturday at 7pm ET, and then Monday through Friday at 7pm ET. A separate 30-minute spinoff series, The Secret Files of Captain Video, aired Saturday mornings, alternating with Tom Corbett, Space Cadet, from September 5, 1953 to May 29, 1954 for a total of 20 episodes.

With Richard Coogan, Al Hodge, Don Hastings, Wright King, Earl Hammond

Seven at Eleven(1951)

1h per episode | Comedy

Seven at Eleven is an American comedy/variety show that aired live on NBC Monday and Wednesday night from 11:00 pm to midnight Eastern time from May 28, 1951 to June 27, 1951 on the nights when Broadway Open House wasn't on.

The Gallery of Madame Liu-Tsong(1951)

30min per episode | Mystery

The Gallery of Madame Liu-Tsong was an American television series which aired on the now defunct DuMont Television Network. It starred Chinese American silent film and talkie star Anna May Wong, who played a detective in a role written specifically for her. The Gallery of Madame Liu Tsong was the first U.S. television series starring an Asian-American series lead.

With Anna May Wong

Young Mr. Bobbin(1951)

22min per episode | Comedy

Young Mr. Bobbin is an American television situation comedy that aired live on the NBC network during the 1951-1952 season.

With Jackie Kelk

Watch Mr. Wizard(1951)

30min per episode | Kids & Family

Watch Mr. Wizard was an American television program for children that demonstrated the science behind ordinary things. The show's creator and on-air host was Don Herbert. Marcel LaFollette said of the program, "It enjoyed consistent praise, awards, and high ratings throughout its history. At its peak, Watch Mr. Wizard drew audiences in the millions, but its impact was far wider. By 1956, it had prompted the establishment of more than five thousand Mr. Wizard science clubs, with an estimated membership greater than one hundred thousand." It was briefly revived in 1971, and then in the 1980s was a program on the Nickelodeon children's television network as Mr. Wizard's World.

With Don Herbert
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