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TV Shows & Series: Popular TV Shows/Series of 1957

TV shows/series in chronological context: 1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1957th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 957th year of the 2nd millennium, the 57th year of the 20th century, and the 8th year of the 1950s decade. ()

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Perry Mason(1957-1966)

TV-PG
| 1h per episode | Mystery, Drama, Crime
3.8/5 (with 56 votes)

The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.

With Raymond Burr, Barbara Hale, William Hopper, William Talman, Ray Collins, Wesley Lau, ...

Zorro(1957-1959)

TV-G
| 24min per episode | Western, Action & Adventure, Drama, Comedy, Kids & Family
3.8/5 (with 49 votes)

Diego de la Vega, the son of a wealthy landowner, returns from his studies in Spain and discovers that Los Angeles is under the command of Capitan Monastario, a cruel man who relishes in the misuse of his power for personal gain. Knowing that he cannot hope to single-handedly defeat Monastario and his troops, Diego resorts to subterfuge. He adopts the secret identity of Zorro, a sinister figure dressed in black, and rides to fight Monastario's injustice.

With Guy Williams, Don Diamond, Henry Calvin, Gene Sheldon, George J. Lewis, Britt Lomond, ...

Leave It to Beaver(1957-1963)

TV-G
| 25min per episode | Comedy, Kids & Family
3.5/5 (with 33 votes)

Leave It to Beaver is an American television situation comedy about an inquisitive and often naïve boy named Theodore "The Beaver" Cleaver and his adventures at home, in school, and around his suburban neighborhood. The show also starred Barbara Billingsley and Hugh Beaumont as Beaver's parents, June and Ward Cleaver, and Tony Dow as Beaver's brother Wally. The show has attained an iconic status in the US, with the Cleavers exemplifying the idealized suburban family of the mid-20th century.

With Barbara Billingsley, Hugh Beaumont, Tony Dow, Jerry Mathers

The Adventures of the Mole(1957-2002)

5min per episode | Animation, Kids & Family
3.8/5 (with 27 votes)

Created by Czech director and animator Zdeněk Miler in 1956, Krtek, or The Mole in English, was an international hit with children. Because the cartoons were presented with no dialogue, Krtek was held to no national boundaries. Milers daughter voiced the noises and grunts that Krtek made, and gave Miler the feedback from a child's perspective he needed to keep his stories focus on his young fans.

Directed by Zdeněk Miler

Have Gun, Will Travel(1957-1963)

TV-G
| 25min per episode | Western, Action & Adventure, Drama
3.8/5 (with 19 votes)

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Directed by Andrew V. McLaglen - With Richard Boone, Kam Tong

Maverick(1957-1962)

TV-PG
| 1h per episode | Comedy, Western
3.4/5 (with 18 votes)

Maverick is an American Western television series with comedic overtones created by Roy Huggins. The show ran from September 22, 1957 to July 8, 1962 on ABC and stars James Garner as Bret Maverick, an adroitly articulate cardsharp. Eight episodes into the first season, he was joined by Jack Kelly as his brother Bart, and from that point on, Garner and Kelly alternated leads from week to week, sometimes teaming up for the occasional two-brother episode. The Mavericks were poker players from Texas who traveled all over the American Old West and on Mississippi riverboats, constantly getting into and out of life-threatening trouble of one sort or another, usually involving money, women, or both. They would typically find themselves weighing a financial windfall against a moral dilemma. More often than not, their consciences trumped their wallets since both Mavericks were intensely ethical. When Garner left the series after the third season due to a legal dispute, Roger Moore was added to the cast as their cousin Beau Maverick. Robert Colbert appeared later in the fourth season as a third Maverick brother, Brent Maverick. No more than two of the series leads ever appeared together in the same episode, and usually only one.

With James Garner, Jack Kelly, Roger Moore, Robert Colbert, Roxane Berard

Wagon Train(1957-1965)

TV-PG
| 1h per episode | Western, Drama, Kids & Family
3.2/5 (with 12 votes)

The series initially starred veteran movie supporting actor Ward Bond as the wagon master, later replaced upon his death by John McIntire, and Robert Horton as the scout, subsequently replaced by lookalike Robert Fuller a year after Horton had decided to leave the series. The series was inspired by the 1950 film Wagon Master directed by John Ford and starring Ben Johnson, Harry Carey Jr. and Ward Bond, and harkens back to the early widescreen wagon train epic The Big Trail starring John Wayne and featuring Bond in his first major screen appearance playing a supporting role. Horton's buckskin outfit as the scout in the first season of the television series resembles Wayne's, who also played the wagon train's scout in the earlier film.

With Ward Bond

The Real McCoys(1957-1963)

TV-14
| 30min per episode | Comedy
2.9/5 (with 5 votes)

The Real McCoys is an American situation comedy co-produced by Danny Thomas' "Marterto Productions", in association with Walter Brennan and Irving Pincus' "Westgate" company. The series aired for five seasons on the ABC-TV network from 1957 through 1962 and then for its final year on CBS from 1962 to 1963. The series, set in the San Fernando Valley of California, was filmed in Hollywood at Desilu studios.

Directed by Hy Averback, Richard Crenna - With Walter Brennan, Richard Crenna, Kathleen Nolan, Michael Winkelman, Lydia Reed, Tony Martinez, ...

The Sky at Night(1957-)

30min per episode | Documentary, News
4.2/5 (with 5 votes)

Your monthly journey through the fascinating world of space and astronomy with the latest thinking on what's out there in space and what you can see in the night sky.

With Chris Lintott, Peter B. Lawrence, Paul G. Abel

The Ruff and Reddy Show(1957-1960)

Kids & Family, Animation, Comedy
2.6/5 (with 5 votes)

The Ruff and Reddy Show is a Hanna-Barbera animated series starring Ruff, a straight and smart cat voiced by Don Messick, and Reddy, a dumb and stupid dog voiced by Daws Butler. First broadcast in December 1957 on NBC, it was the first television show produced by Hanna-Barbera and presented by Screen Gems, the television arm of Columbia Pictures.

Directed by William Hanna, Joseph Barbera

The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour(1957-1960)

1h per episode | Comedy
4.5/5 (with 5 votes)

The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour is a collection of thirteen one-hour specials airing occasionally from 1957 to 1960, and originally served as part of Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse. Its original network title was The Ford Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Show for the first season, and The Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse Presents The Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Show for the following seasons. It was the successor to the classic comedy, I Love Lucy, and featured the same major cast members. The production schedule avoided the grind of a regular weekly series. Desilu produced the show, which was mostly filmed at their Los Angeles studios with occasional on-location shoots at Lake Arrowhead, Las Vegas and Sun Valley, Idaho. CBS reran the show under the "Lucy-Desi" title during the summers of 1962-1967, after which it went into syndication.

Directed by Jerry Thorpe, Desi Arnaz - With Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance, William Frawley, Keith Thibodeaux

American Bandstand(1957-1966)

1h per episode | Reality-TV
4.2/5 (with 4 votes)

American Bandstand was an American music-performance show that aired in various versions from 1952 to 1989 and was hosted from 1956 until its final season by Dick Clark, who also served as producer. The show featured teenagers dancing to Top 40 music introduced by Clark; at least one popular musical act—over the decades, running the gamut from Jerry Lee Lewis to Run DMC—would usually appear in person to lip-sync one of their latest singles. Freddy "Boom Boom" Cannon holds the record for most appearances at 110. The show's popularity helped Dick Clark become an American media mogul and inspired similar long-running music programs, such as Soul Train and Top of the Pops. Clark eventually assumed ownership of the program through his Dick Clark Productions company.

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Wells Fargo(1957-1962)

TV-14
| 30min per episode | Western, Drama
3.2/5 (with 4 votes)

Jim Hardie helps Wells Fargo agents battle the bad guys.

Directed by Earl Bellamy - With Dale Robertson, William Demarest, Virginia Christine, Jack Ging

Suspicion(1957-1958)

TV-PG
| 1h per episode | Crime, Drama, Mystery
2.9/5 (with 4 votes)

Suspicion is the title of an American television mystery drama series which aired on the NBC from 1957 through 1959. The executive producer of Suspicion was film director Alfred Hitchcock.

Directed by Paul Bogart

Trackdown(1957-1959)

30min per episode | Western, Action & Adventure
3.2/5 (with 4 votes)

Trackdown is an American Western television series starring Robert Culp that aired on CBS between 1957 and 1959. More than seventy episodes of this series were produced by Dick Powell's Four Star Television and filmed at the Desilu-Culver Studio. The series was itself a spin-off of Powell's anthology series, Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater.

Directed by Thomas Carr - With Robert Culp, Ellen Corby, Peter Leeds, James Griffith, Gail Kobe, Addison Richards, ...

Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans(1957)

TV-PG
| 30min per episode | Western, Drama
2.4/5 (with 3 votes)

Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans was set in New York's Hudson Valley during the French and Indian war in the 1750's and depicted the adventures of Hawkeye and his Indian blood brother Chingachgook, the last member of the Mohican tribe. The series based on stories by James Fenimore Cooper.

Directed by Sam Newfield - With John Hart, Lon Chaney Jr.

M Squad(1957-1960)

TV-PG
| 30min per episode | Crime, Drama, Mystery
2.6/5 (with 3 votes)

Lt. Frank Ballinger is a no-nonsense plain clothes cop in the elite M Squad Division. The Squad's task is to root out organised crime and corruption in America's Second City, Chicago.

With Lee Marvin

Tombstone Territory(1957-1960)

30min per episode | Western
3.2/5 (with 3 votes)

Tombstone Territory is an American Western series starring Pat Conway and Richard Eastham. The series' first two seasons aired on ABC from 1957 to 1959. The third and final season aired in syndication from 1959 until 1960.

With Pat Conway, Richard Eastham

The Thin Man(1957-1959)

TV-PG
| 30min per episode | Drama
3.8/5 (with 3 votes)

Nick Charles was a private detective who married the wealthy Nora and decided to settle down and leave the good life. Unfortunately for the couple, Nick's past frequently caught up with him and got the couple involved in mystery after mystery. The series was based on the popular MGM series of movies of the 1930's starring William Powell and Myrna Loy. Peter Lawford and Phyllis Kirk starred as the televison versions of Nick and Nora which ran on NBC for two seasons from 1957-59.

With Peter Lawford, Phyllis Kirk

Sugarfoot(1957-1961)

TV-PG
| 1h per episode | Western
2.1/5 (with 2 votes)

Sugarfoot is an American western television series that aired on ABC from 1957 to 1961. The series stars Will Hutchins as Tom Brewster, an Easterner who comes to the Oklahoma Territory to become a lawyer. Jack Elam is cast in occasional episodes as sidekick Toothy Thompson. Brewster was a correspondence-school student whose apparent lack of cowboy skills earned him the nickname "Sugarfoot", a designation even below that of a tenderfoot.

Directed by Irving J. Moore - With Will Hutchins, Jack Elam

Casey Jones(1957-1958)

30min per episode | Western
2.8/5 (with 2 votes)

Television version of the classic train story of Casey Jones, the engineer of the steam-engine powered "Cannonball Express".

Directed by Lew Landers - With Alan Hale, Jr.

26 Men(1957-1959)

NR
| 30min per episode | Western, Crime
2.1/5 (with 2 votes)

26 Men is a syndicated American western television series about the Arizona Rangers, an elite group commissioned in 1901 by the legislature of the Arizona Territory and limited, for financial reasons, to twenty-six active members. Russell Hayden was the producer of the series and the co-composer of the theme song. The series aired between October 15, 1957 and June 30, 1959, for a total of 78 episodes.

With Tris Coffin

Whirlybirds(1957-1960)

30min per episode | Action & Adventure, Drama
2.7/5 (with 2 votes)

Whirlybirds is a syndicated American drama/adventure television series, which aired for 111 episodes — broadcast from February 4, 1957, through January 18, 1960. It was produced by Desilu Studios . The show centered around Chuck Martin (Kenneth Tobey) and Pete (P.T.) Moore (Craig Hill), owners of 'Whirlybirds, Inc', who flew their helicopter (N975B) between Longwood Field and anywhere where they could be of help to someone in trouble.

With Kenneth Tobey

Blondie(1957)

30min per episode | Comedy
2.3/5 (with 2 votes)

Blondie is the first of two TV series based on the comic strip of the same name. It first aired on January 4, 1957, on NBC. Although Penny Singleton had starred in most of the Blondie movies, producers chose Pamela Britton for the title role, with Arthur Lake playing the role of Dagwood Bumstead as he had in the Blondie movie series. A pilot episode was filmed in 1954 with Hal Le Roy as Dagwood opposite Britton's Blondie. The DVD for the 1957 version of Blondie was later released but only includes the first three episodes.

With Pamela Britton, Arthur Lake

Tonight Starring Jack Paar(1957-1962)

1h 45min per episode | Talk-Show
2.9/5 (with 2 votes)

Tonight Starring Jack Paar is an American talk show hosted by Jack Paar under The Tonight Show franchise from 1957 to 1962. It originally aired during late-night. During most of its run it was broadcast from Studio 6B inside the RCA Building. The same studio would also host early episodes of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, and Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. Its theme song was an instrumental version of "Everything's Coming Up Roses", and the closing theme was "So Until I See You" by Al Lerner.

Directed by Hal Gurnee - With José Melis

Decoy(1957-1959)

30min per episode | Drama, Crime, Action & Adventure, Mystery
3.0/5 (with 2 votes)

New York City policewoman Casey Jones' assignment to fight crime often entails her going undercover in some of the seediest and most dangerous parts of the city. Decoy is a groundbreaking American crime drama television series created for syndication and initially broadcast from October 14, 1957, to July 7, 1958, with thirty-nine 30-minute black-and-white episodes. It was the first American police series with a female protagonist. Many Decoy episodes are in the public domain.

With Beverly Garland

Bachelor Father(1957-1962)

TV-G
| 30min per episode | Comedy, Kids & Family
3.0/5 (with 2 votes)

Bachelor Father is an American sitcom starring John Forsythe, Noreen Corcoran, and Sammee Tong. The series first premiered on CBS in September 1957 before moving to NBC for the third season in 1959. The series' fifth and final season aired on ABC from 1961 to 1962. A total of 157 episodes were aired. The series was based on "A New Girl in His Life", which aired on General Electric Theater on May 26, 1957. Bachelor Father is the only primetime series ever to run in consecutive years on the three major televisions networks.

With John Forsythe, Noreen Corcoran, Sammee Tong, Jimmy Boyd

Alcoa Theatre(1957-1960)

30min per episode | Drama
2.7/5 (with 2 votes)

Alcoa Theatre is a half-hour American anthology series telecast on NBC at 9:30 pm on alternate Monday nights from October 7, 1957 to September 16, 1960. The program also aired under the title Turn of Fate, with the stories depicting the difficulties faced by individuals who are suddenly thrust into unexpected and perilous dangers. Alcoa Theatre was syndicated together with Goodyear Theatre as Award Theatre. In 1955, The Alcoa Hour premiered in a one-hour format aired on Sunday nights, but it was reduced to 30 minutes, retitled Alcoa Theatre, and moved to Monday evening in 1957. The show employed an alternating rotating company of actors: David Niven, Robert Ryan, Jane Powell, Jack Lemmon and Charles Boyer. Each appeared in dramatic and light comedic roles through the first season.

Directed by Robert Florey, Robert Ellis Miller, Don Weis - With David Niven

Richard Diamond, Private Detective(1957-1960)

30min per episode | Crime, Drama, Action & Adventure
3.0/5 (with 2 votes)

Richard Diamond, Private Detective is an American detective drama which aired on radio from 1949 to 1953, and on television from 1957 to 1960.

Directed by Thomas Carr

The Californians(1957-1959)

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

San Franciscans during the goldrush of the 1850s attempt to maintain law and order in their wild city. Newly arrived Matthew Wayne becomes sheriff, then marshal, and organizes the city police force while expressing interest in the young widow Fanzler and sparring with attorney Pitt. Adam Kennedy appears as Dion Patrick, an Irish newspaperman who helps the local vigilante committee.

With Richard Coogan, Art Fleming, Herbert Rudley, Sean McClory, Adam Kennedy
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