Best TV Series of the 1950s

Top 500 most popular series that started in the 1950s

The Dinah Shore Show

★ 6.7
72 60 1951–1960
Comedy · Music

Front Page Detective

★ 6.2
72 39 1951–1953
Crime · Drama · Mystery

Boots and Saddles

★ 7.1
71 39 1956–1958
Western

Union Pacific

★ 7.9
71 38 1958–1959
Drama · Western

Panic!

★ 8.3
70 31 1957–present
Thriller

The Kaiser Aluminum Hour

★ 7.3
70 25 1956–1957
Drama

World of Giants

★ 7.2
70 13 1959–1959
Sci-Fi

The Eve Arden Show

★ 7.4
69 26 1957–1958
Comedy

Harbor Command

★ 7.2
69 39 1957–1958
Action

Opportunity Knocks

★ 6.2
68 124 1956–1990
Comedy · Game-Show

The Trollenberg Terror

★ 6.6
68 6 1956–1957
Sci-Fi

My Hero

★ 6.8
67 33 1952–1953
Comedy

Cinépanorama

★ 7.0
67 104 1956–1966
Documentary

Bozo the Clown

★ 7.8
67 6 1959–1962
Family

Big Town

★ 7.2
67 250 1950–1956
Drama

Foreign Intrigue

★ 7.2
67 171 1951–1955
Crime · Mystery · Thriller

Men, Women and Clothes

★ 8.1
67 6 1957–1957

Lux Playhouse

★ 7.8
67 19 1958–1959
Comedy · Drama · Romance

Zum blauen Bock

★ 5.9
66 213 1957–1987
Comedy · Family · Game-Show

Bozo: The World's Most Famous Clown

★ 7.2
66 156 1958–1962
Animation · Comedy

Frontier

★ 7.4
66 31 1955–1956
Western

CBS Television Workshop

★ 6.5
66 30 1952–present
Drama

Winky-Dink and You

★ 7.5
66 76 1953–1957
Animation · Family

The Halls of Ivy

★ 7.9
66 38 1954–1955
Comedy