Best TV Series of the 1950s

Top 500 most popular series that started in the 1950s

The Steve Allen Show

★ 8.5
276 165 1956–1960
Comedy

Captain Pugwash

★ 6.8
275 104 1957–1975
Animation · Family

Shirley Temple's Storybook

★ 7.4
274 41 1958–1961
Drama · Family · Fantasy

The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Applegate Treasure

★ 8.4
270 19 1956–1956
Family · Mystery

Casey Jones

★ 7.5
269 32 1957–1958
Family · Western

Rocky Jones, Space Ranger

★ 5.7
268 40 1953–1954
Family · Sci-Fi

Hennesey

★ 8.0
267 96 1959–1962
Comedy

Annette

★ 8.1
266 19 1958–1958
Comedy

The Detectives

★ 7.5
264 97 1959–1962
Action · Crime · Drama

Telephone Time

★ 7.1
261 81 1956–1958
Drama

The Tonight Show

★ 7.9
259 597 1953–1957
Comedy · Music · Talk-Show

The Gale Storm Show: Oh! Susanna

★ 7.9
257 126 1956–1960
Comedy

The Wayne & Shuster Show

★ 7.7
256 47 1954–1985
Comedy

The Dinah Shore Chevy Show

★ 8.0
256 200 1956–1963
Music

The DuPont Show with June Allyson

★ 7.6
255 57 1959–1961
Drama

Jungle Jim

★ 7.3
255 26 1955–1956
Action · Adventure · Crime

Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok

★ 7.6
254 113 1951–1958
Family · Western

Fractured Fairy Tales

★ 8.4
252 5 1959–1964
Adventure · Animation · Comedy

Riverboat

★ 7.4
251 44 1959–1961
Adventure · Western

The 20th Century-Fox Hour

★ 7.1
249 37 1955–1957
Drama

The Third Man

★ 7.7
249 78 1959–1965
Crime · Drama

Steve Canyon

★ 7.2
247 34 1958–1959
Adventure

Startime

★ 6.6
247 33 1959–1961
Comedy · Drama · Musical

Men Into Space

★ 7.7
246 38 1959–1960
Sci-Fi