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What are the best early 1948-60 TV Comedy Series?
2-21-08 | Bender2

Posted on 02/21/2008 4:36:29 PM PST by Bender2

What are your favorite TV variety and situation comedy series from 1948-1960? I am old enough to remember most of them!


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KEYWORDS: comedy; series; television
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To: Bender2
Uncle Miltee was called "Mr Televison" for one very important reason. In 1929 the first TV broadcast was made and a young Milton Berle was the subject!

We got our first TV in 1948. I lived in the NY metropolitan area, (north Joisey) and we could see the TV antennae on the Empire State bldg. Sid Caesar, Amos and Andy and of course Captain Midnight, Captain Video and Tom Corbett Space Cadets. Those made me the space geek that I am today.

Then there was Superman and Howdy Doody! Wowser

101 posted on 02/21/2008 6:11:48 PM PST by Young Werther (Julius Caesar (Quae Cum Ita Sunt. Since these things are so.))
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To: mass55th

Duffy’s Tavern

Slowly, bit by bit they leak out of my memory.


102 posted on 02/21/2008 6:12:41 PM PST by Roccus (Able Danger??? What's an Able Danger????)
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To: Bender2

"Norton... come down here...I want to show you something."

"I've been watching you, and I know you've been watching me....."

103 posted on 02/21/2008 6:15:20 PM PST by dfwgator (11+7+15=3 Heismans)
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To: Young Werther

Tom Corbett Space Cadets. I never knew there was a TV show on that. I just read from that character/story line I don’t know how many cheap novels from the library. It was a major competitor of Tom Swift stories.


104 posted on 02/21/2008 6:27:59 PM PST by nomorelurker (keep flogging them till morale improves)
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To: Califreak

A classic!

Still funny/relevant today, IMHO.

Mrs. F is a self-styled ILL Expert. No bit of trivia too small.

Fred Mertz is The Man.

< |:)~


105 posted on 02/21/2008 6:47:17 PM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: J40000
"Make Room For Daddy" (1953-1965)

Rusty, stop kicking my backside... or I'll replace you like I did your first mother!

BTW Sherry Jackson... WHOA... MOMA!

"The Twilight Zone" (1959-64)

You do realize... that Christina Ricci is playing your part in the 2009 movie!

"Car 54, Where Are You?" (1961-1963)

Will you stop putting your hand there... People will think we are a gay couple!

"You Bet Your Life" (1950-1961)

George, the secret word tonight is Hitler... So stop wisecracking in German!

106 posted on 02/21/2008 6:48:45 PM PST by Bender2 ("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
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To: lowbridge

Thanks for the info.

Glad we both survived.


107 posted on 02/21/2008 6:53:46 PM PST by exit82 (People get the government they deserve. And they are about to get it--in spades.)
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To: Bender2

Here are some more obscure ones—My Mother The Car, I’m Dickens He’s Fenster, Fair Exchange, and Burke’s Law. Just to say their titles makes them real again and brings back sooo many memories....


108 posted on 02/21/2008 6:56:34 PM PST by MHT
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To: Richard Kimball

And the Gail Storm Show!


109 posted on 02/21/2008 6:57:12 PM PST by MHT
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To: Richard Kimball

And Ann Southern!


110 posted on 02/21/2008 6:57:31 PM PST by MHT
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To: Adder
"Jack Benny and I don’t care, Amos and Andy was funny."

They were excellent.

111 posted on 02/21/2008 6:59:12 PM PST by blam (Secure the border and enforce the law)
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To: shineon

There was a great Saturday night line-up—Have Gun Will Travel, Maverick, Gunsmoke. Then there were the week night westerns—The Rifleman, which followed the Gary Moore Show with Durwood Kirby, Carol Burnett, and Marion Lord.


112 posted on 02/21/2008 6:59:21 PM PST by MHT
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To: Adder
My money or my life, eh? Well... let me think!

Lay off the Kingfish... He found a bottle of Viagra. He found it in Sapphire's handbag!

BTW I tell ya, Bogie! No one... no one puts a drink on my bar bill!

113 posted on 02/21/2008 7:06:47 PM PST by Bender2 ("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
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To: MHT
Thank you for listing shows that actually appeared from 1948 to 1960. A lot of the posters are listing 1960's shows.

Ann Sothern Show Theme.

Our Miss Brooks.

Remember December Bride? It was the first show I ever saw Harry Morgan in.

114 posted on 02/21/2008 7:13:11 PM PST by Richard Kimball (Sure, they'd love to kill me, as long as they can do it without admitting I exist)
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To: Bender2


I'm thinking....

115 posted on 02/21/2008 7:15:38 PM PST by BIGLOOK (Keelhaul politicians. The Ship of State needs a good scrubbing!)
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To: LexBaird
Ernie Kovacs! What... a sweetie!

What... a band leader!

And that Edie chick he married... she was a real bocat in bed!

116 posted on 02/21/2008 7:17:30 PM PST by Bender2 ("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
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To: Richard Kimball

No, but do you remember Morgan in Pete and Gladys? BTW, do you know where you can get some of these less well-known shows on DVD?


117 posted on 02/21/2008 7:23:42 PM PST by MHT
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To: mass55th

LOL. I loved Gale Storm.

I’m glad to have been a kid back in the day! Lots of good shows back then...not so many now it seems.

I always liked George Burns and Gracie Allen too.


118 posted on 02/21/2008 7:24:39 PM PST by LucyJo
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To: MHT
Pete and Gladys was actually a spin-off of December Bride, although they didn't call them spin-offs back then. In December Bride, Pete would show up and talk about his wife and mother-in-law, who were never seen. The way he described her, she was kind of a Gracie Burns scatterbrain. IIRC, in Pete and Gladys, she was more of a Lucy type character.

I find some of the old shows on DVD very cheap at Walmart, etc. but it's kind of catch as catch can. Picked up some old Ozzie and Harriet shows, and nothing ever happened on that show.

119 posted on 02/21/2008 7:34:54 PM PST by Richard Kimball (Sure, they'd love to kill me, as long as they can do it without admitting I exist)
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To: no more apples; J40000
Re: J40000's Woah!!! That does NOT look anything like Billy Mumy to me. Anybody???

Was not a fan of "Lost in Space" (1965-1968)... Didn't even like the robot!

Danger, Will Robinson, my ass... Will, let Doc Smith put that ugly sumbitch out of his misery!

I've done some googling and there was a first pilot never aired, but it did not say anything about Billy Mumy not being in it. One reviewer mentions Billy Mumy, so I have no idea who that little redheaded sucker is in no more apples' picture--

But he sure don't look... like Billy Mumy to me either!

120 posted on 02/21/2008 7:38:16 PM PST by Bender2 ("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
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