Best Talk-Show TV Series of the 1940s

17 Talk-Show series that started in the 1940s, ranked by popularity

The Ed Sullivan Show

★ 7.9
2K 1075 1948–1971
Music · Talk-Show

Meet the Press

★ 5.4
779 1238 1947–present
News · Talk-Show

Lamp Unto My Feet

★ 7.0
36 608 1948–1979
Talk-Show

We, the People

★ 5.2
28 217 1948–1952
Talk-Show

Leave It to the Girls

★ 3.5
27 65 1947–1963
Family · Talk-Show

Author Meets the Critics

★ 3.6
18 25 1947–1954
Family · Talk-Show

You Are an Artist

★ 6.1
17 14 1946–1955
Talk-Show

The Faye Emerson Show

★ 3.7
17 135 1949–present
Family · Talk-Show

Critic at Large

★ 5.5
17 35 1948–1949
Talk-Show

Ship's Reporter

★ 4.6
15 1948–1952
Short · Talk-Show

This Is Show Business

★ 4.0
15 76 1949–1956
Family · Talk-Show

Easy Aces

★ 2.8
14 1 1949–1950
Comedy · Family · Talk-Show

Mr. and Mrs.

★ 6.6
12 1948–present
Talk-Show

Bristol-Myers Tele-Varieties

★ 3.2
10 2 1947–present
Talk-Show

The Mary Margaret McBride Show

★ 3.2
10 3 1948–present
Talk-Show

The 50/50 Club

★ 4.4
9 39 1949–1967
Talk-Show

Swift Home Service Club

★ 3.8
6 32 1947–1948
Talk-Show