Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When it comes to 1950s TV sitcoms, if you caught them in reruns, you undoubtedly look at them as examples of classic TV. And if ...

Before television became crowded with formats and genres, it learned how to make people laugh-with the history of classic TV serving as proof. In the 1950s, sitcoms weren't just another category of ...

When the Cincinnati Museum Center celebrates “1950s Day” next month, the city’s biggest TV stars will be showcased in the Scripps-Howard Newsreel Theater in grainy black-and-white. Just as they ...

The Arthur Murray Party is an American television variety show which ran from July 1950 until September 1960. The show was hosted by famous dancers Arthur and Kathryn Murray, and was basically one ...

Television in the 1950s did more than entertain you, it quietly rewired how families organized their evenings, talked to one another, and imagined the wider world. Living rooms became mini theaters, ...

Ed Sullivan's show was straight out of old vaudeville; brief acts of every description, from slapstick comedy to operatic arias. At least once, he showed a film, the only known film of Anna Pavlova ...

This short-lived French TV series from 1950 features police investigations tinged with astrology. In nine episodes of about ten minutes each, in a humorous style, a duo of private detectives ...