Best TV Series of the 1950s

Top 500 most popular series that started in the 1950s

Cowboy G-Men

★ 6.5
85 39 1952–present
Drama · Western

Emergency-Ward 10

★ 6.4
85 993 1957–1967
Drama

Zoo Quest

★ 7.9
85 38 1954–1964
Documentary

Your Hit Parade

★ 7.5
85 60 1950–1959
Family · Music

Bill Kennedy at the Movies

★ 8.9
84 1956–present

It's a Great Life

★ 7.4
84 78 1954–1956
Comedy

Rocky King, Detective

★ 7.3
84 252 1950–1954
Action · Crime · Drama

The Nat King Cole Show

★ 8.4
84 53 1956–1957
Music

Biff Baker, U.S.A.

★ 7.3
84 26 1952–1954
Adventure

Meet Corliss Archer

★ 7.2
84 39 1954–present
Comedy

Buck Rogers

★ 6.8
84 10 1950–1951
Sci-Fi

J.P. Patches

★ 9.2
84 1958–1981
Family

The Adventures of Hiram Holliday

★ 8.0
84 26 1956–1961
Comedy

The Great Gildersleeve

★ 7.0
84 40 1954–1956
Comedy

The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show

★ 7.7
83 188 1956–1961
Comedy · Music

Candid Camera

★ 7.2
83 2 1953–present
Comedy · Reality-TV

Inner Sanctum

★ 8.0
83 40 1954–1954
Horror · Mystery

Stanley

★ 4.4
83 19 1956–1957
Comedy

What's My Line

★ 7.0
82 414 1951–1964
Game-Show

CBC News: The National

★ 1.2
82 6 1952–present

The Adventures of Ellery Queen

★ 6.2
82 127 1950–1956
Crime · Drama · Mystery

Philip Marlowe

★ 7.1
82 26 1959–1960
Crime · Drama · Mystery

You Asked for It

★ 7.4
81 27 1950–1959
Family · Game-Show

Treasury Men in Action

★ 7.2
81 191 1950–1955
Crime · Drama