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!
December Bride! First time I watched ‘Colonel Potter’ and loved him. Was Spring Byington the woman’s name, or was that some other similar show?
I watched Pete and Gladys, too, but not much. I think I Married Joan was on around the same time slots, too.
I do remember all the Sat morning shows, sometimes vividly, lol. Also Roy Rogers, the Lone Ranger, the Cisco Kid, Hopalong Cassidy. Sky King (”with Penny”) was a must-see for me, too.
*Plunk your magic twanger, Froggy!*
Andy “Jingles” Devine. I think he had been a Roy Rogers sidekick - no, wait, it was some other cowboy. Roy Rogers and Dale Evans’ sidekick was Patrick Aloysius Brady and his Jeep Nellie Belle.
Buster Brown and his dog Tige. Look for them inside the shoe!
Remember Jungle Boy?
And June Lockhart was his mom. Wow, she keeps popping up just like Cartwright girls (Angela, Veronica - not Bonanza) on this thread!
Loved Burke’s Law (we’re talking later timeframe now) - but had not ever thought of Dickens-Fenster since that time, lol.
That wasn’t Burns & Schreiber, was it? No. I’ll have to look that one up.
I was thinking of Burns & Schreiber because Andy Griffith jumped the shark after Barney left - but it REALLY jumped the sharkeroo when he had one of those two as the new deputy he hired - the one who would go “Huh? Huh? Huh?” after everything anyone said. Stinkeroo.
OK, Dickens-Fenster was John Astin (pre-Addams) and Marty Ingels (can’t believe Shirley Jones has been married to that idiot all these years!) - ugh!
Two morning timeslot shows I remember - The Millionaire (John Beresford Tipton - always a welcome caller!) and I Led Three Lives, which was based on a true story, I think.
I just remember the character was named Herbert Philbrick and he was a spy for the FBI, acting like he was a communist.
*Now I do!*
Yes! Older, but still lovable in a grumpy sort of way.
Are you not up a little late tonight? I think I saw a Texas flag. It’s 10:30 here on Maui so that would make it around 2 or 3 AM in Texas. We are five hours earlier than the East Coast. Two hours earlier than Calif. Aloha
Well, I looked up The People’s Choice and it wasn’t at all what I remembered. I must not have watched it very much.
I distinctly remember Cleo, the Basset hound, and her “voice” and a lot of the episode synopses sound very familiar, but I’m not getting it completely in my mind’s eye.
I was thinking he was with the SAC (I wrote SAG earlier, oops) - Strategic Air Command. Seems like his house was out in a wide open space, just like Jimmy Stewart’s and June Allyson’s house in the movie about the SAC - so it must have been a pretend “Nebraska” scene. I thought it was Oklahoma.
Oh, I know - I think Jackie Cooper (Sock) was a real estate salesman or something with a tract house development - and that’s where they lived! Maybe in AZ. Memory is fuzzy on this, but I know I liked the show.
Aloha! I am a day-sleeper, so this is my “daytime.”
Have “I Married Joan” and “Life of Riley” and “Burns and Allen” and “Jack Benny Show” made the list? Those were mine! Oh, oh, and “Car 54 Where Are You”.
You didn’t ask, but when my brothers and I were small there used to be this commercial about a headache product (Bayer? Anacin?) where there was a drawing of half a head, cut so you could see the inside, and a drawing of a hammer hammering on the head, and they played this crazy, catchy music for the commercial, and we kids would come running from wherever we were in the house to watch the commercial. When it was over, we’d run back and get back to whatever it was we’d been doing (usually fighting).
Wow, I just hit a motherlode of show titles from this era when I looked up someone on the Andy Griffith episode I’m watching right now. It’s called Barney’s First Car and the little old lady who sells it to him is Ellen Corby, later to be known as Grandma Walton.
She was in:
You Are There (remember that one, which re-created moments from history?)
Dragnet
Trouble with Father (aka Stu Erwin Show, mentioned earlier)
Lux Video Theatre
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
On Trial (aka the Joseph Cotten Show)
Adventures of Jim Bowie
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
77 Sunset Strip
Peter Gunn
Perry Mason
The Restless Gun
Richard Diamond, Private Detective
The June Allyson Show
The Betty Hutton Show
Tightrope
Wagon Train
The Jim Backus Show
Dennis the Menace
Tales of Wells Fargo
Surfside 6
The Tall Man
That’s just 1953 thru 1960!
YES!
I was going to add that one...how I remember watching that show...poor Chester. Couldn’t catch a break a lot of the time.
Ernie Kovacs
OMG there were so many:
Our Miss Brooks
Topper
December Bride
Bob Cummings
Andy Griffith
My Little Margie, just to name a few.
I’ll never forget the night he died in a car accident. I was a kid and it broke my heart. Edie sang on tv shows alot and always looked very, very sad.
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