1953 TV Series and Shows

Topper

Starring: Anne Jeffreys, Robert Sterling, Leo G. Carroll, Buck

Country: United States of America

Outline: This series was about a somewhat grumpy and uptight banker, Cosmo Topper, and the ghosts which only he could see or hear, George and Marion Kerby. The Kerbys would often try to get Cosmo to...

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The Loretta Young Show

Starring: Loretta Young

Country: United States of America

Outline: A drama anthology series hosted by actress Loretta Young. In addition to hosting the series, she played the lead in various episodes.

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Make Room for Daddy

Directed by: William Asher

Starring: Danny Thomas, Rusty Hamer, Marjorie Lord, Angela Cartwright

Country: United States of America

Outline: Danny Williams, a successful nightclub singer, encounters a variety of difficult or amusing situations in trying to balance his career with his family: his outspoken wife Kathy, teenage ...

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Person to Person

Starring: Edward R. Murrow, Charles Collingwood

Country: United States of America

Outline: Interviews with figures from public life.

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You Are There

Starring: Walter Cronkite

Country: United States of America

Outline: Walter Cronkite hosted the reenactments of historical events. Shows included "The Landing of the Hindenburg", "The Salem Witchcraft Trials", "The Gettysburg Address", "The Fall of Troy", and "The Scuttling of the Graf Spee".

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Inner Sanctum

Starring: Edward Binns, Rusty Lane, Warren Stevens, Paul Stewart

Country: United States of America

Outline: A hosted horror and mystery anthology series hosted by Paul McGrath, and later by House Jameson as "Your Host".

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The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse

Starring: Polly Bergen, Arlene Dahl

Country: United States of America

Outline: An anthology series with episodes split between comedies and drama. Anita Colby and Arlene Dahl shared hosting duties the first season that was originally filmed live but switched to film. ...

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The Ray Milland Show

Written by: Joe Connelly, Bob Mosher

Starring: Ray Milland, Phyllis Avery

Country: United States of America

Outline: Originally Ray McNutley is an English professor at an all girls school where every female swoons for him except for the Dean. Luckily he has an understanding wife Peggy. By the second year ...

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The Pride of the Family

Starring: Larry J. Blake, Paul Hartman, Fay Wray, Natalie Wood

Country: United States of America

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Life with Father

Starring: Leon Ames, Lurene Tuttle

Country: United States of America

Outline: Clarence Day believed in running his home with a firm hand but in reality his soft spoken wife Vinnie was in charge. They had four boys from late teens Clarence Jr. to young lad John. Their mischief kept the house busy.

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The Sandy Becker Show

Starring: Sandy Becker

Country: United States of America

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Valiant Lady

Starring: Jerome Cowan

Country: United States of America

Outline: Helen Emerson was daytime's "valiant lady", a fortyish matron who was widowed in the serial's first year. Helen valiantly endured sudden financial hardship while alternately fretting over ...

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Your Favorite Story

Starring: Adolphe Menjou

Country: United States of America

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Private Secretary

Starring: Ann Sothern, Don Porter, Ann Tyrrell

Country: United States of America

Outline: Susie is secretary to handsome talent agent Peter Sands and keeps getting messed up in (and messing up) his private life. She's assisted (usually) by receptionist Vi and semi-rival Sylvia. ...

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I Led 3 Lives

Starring: Richard Carlson, John Zaremba

Country: United States of America

Outline: Herbert Philbrick was a young professional and pacifist in 1939 Boston. He joined an anti-war group and quickly found himself caught up in the secret world of underground communist activity...

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Colonel Humphrey Flack

Starring: Boris Aplon, Eddie Hyans, Sally Jessup, Jack Klugman

Country: United States of America

Outline: Colonel Humphrey Flack is the consummate con-man, swindling swindlers at every opportunity.

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The United States Steel Hour

Starring: Richard Kiley, Betsy Palmer, Jeff Donnell, Mona Freeman

Country: United States of America

Outline: Live drama series that was one of the best television shows ever shown. Over two hundred live plays, covering all aspects of society, were shown.

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City Detective

Starring: Rod Cameron

Country: United States of America

Outline: Lieutenant Bart Grant is a city detective more in theory then reality. His police work takes him into Mexico and the Mojave desert. Grant primarily solves his cases with physicality then sleuthing ability.

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Ethel and Albert

Written by: Peggy Lynch

Starring: Peggy Lynch, Alan Bunce

Country: United States of America

Outline: Married couple, Ethel and Albert Arbuckle, living in the small town of Sandy Harbor.

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The Bob Crosby Show

Starring: The Modernaires, Paula Kelly, Joan O'Brien, Stephen Dunne

Country: United States of America

Outline: Daily daytime show featuring music by Bob Crosby's band and different singers.

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Winky-Dink and You

Written by: Harry W. Prichett, Edwin Brit Wyckoff

Starring: Jack Barry, Dayton Allen, Mae Questel

Country: United States of America

Outline: "winky-dink and you" was the pioneer in interactive programming. The core of the program was children sent away for a kit. The kit had a plastic screen that stuck to the TV tube with static...

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Coke Time

Starring: Eddie Fisher, Fred Robbins, Lou Crosby, Axel Stordahl and His Orchestra

Country: United States of America

Outline: An American Musical Variety series that was both entertaining and brilliant at marketing Coca Cola.

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The Irv Kupcinet Show

Starring: Irv Kupcinet

Country: United States of America

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The Philip Morris Playhouse

Starring: Everett Sloane, John Beal, Donald Cook

Country: United States of America

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Candid Camera

Starring: Allen Funt, Johnny Roventini

Country: United States of America

Outline: Unsuspecting people are placed in confusing, impossible, embarrassing, ridiculous, and hilarious positions, while their reactions are recorded on a hidden camera.

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