TOP 30 TV SHOWS OF 1958-59

[@cynthiahawkins2389]

I am 70, now a 'junior-senior'..and my heart warms to revisit these great shows I enjoyed as a youngster. Yes, indeed....time marches on!!! Good Lord, wow...I even remember Boxing from St. Nicholas Arena, and The Gillette Cavalcade of Sports....my Italian granny LOVED boxing shows!!! She'd let me stay up late and watch with her.

[@ApartmentKing66]

Oh, OK...I was wondering why a little girl would be watching boxing matches!! LOL

[@suzycreamcheesez4371]

but a little boy can?? whats with you? @@ApartmentKing66

[@garyfrancis6193]

You’re old. I was only 68 in 2018.

[@kennethmcdonald2987]

all great shows nice to see Danny Thomas on here what an awesome human being and think what this show brought about the amazing St Jude's Children's Hospital which has helped millions of sick kids from around the world free of charge for so many years all because he kept the promise he made if he made it big So many great westerns on here

[@PapaSanDoc]

I just relived my early youth. I watched every one of these shows as a 5-6 year old. What pleasant memories. Thank you very much for this!

[@frdjr2529]

I did, too! I was 6 in '58 and I remember every one of these shows. Great memories!

[@pfromturri194]

I remember watching Perry Mason with m grandmother..she never missed an episode...

[@JESUSISLORDforever888]

My mother luv Perry Mason and later it was Mission Impossible.

[@earlsauls2126]

Grew up with all these shows, that was the good old days!

[@orlandocajun]

The best years of my life. I remember every one of those shows. I'd give anything to go back to 1958.

[@JESUSISLORDforever888]

No, Eric, lets keep moving forward. If you are a christian, the BEST days are ahead. GOD bless you as we move forward. Maranatha.

[@wandaburns8075]

Have Gun Will Travel and The Rifleman, two of the best shows ever.

[@jubalcalif9100]

Indeed ! In fact, "Have Gun Will Travel" was so popular that CBS ran a radio version (on radio, Palladin was played by John Dehner) which ran from '58 to '60.

[@tubeblack35]

Yes, both were excellent shows. Glad they are on MeTV.

[@anthonywalsh785]

good heavens i was born out here in australia in 1949, but i can remember seeing most of these shows before i was even a teenager. some great memories.

[@larryloveless2967]

i WAS ONLY 5 WHEN THESE SHOWS PLAYED THAT YEAR BUT SURE REMEMBER WATCHING ALL THE WESTERNS. My mom and dad liked Red Skelton and Perry Mason.

[@elwoodblues9613]

1:00 - hit "Like" if you immediately thought of the Blues Brothers playing at Bob's Country Bunker.

[@VolcanoEarth]

I feel seen. I also immediately thought of Art of Noise when I heard the Peter Gunn theme.

[@VolcanoEarth]

Holy crap! Are you telling me there was TPiR before Bob Barker?! Also, this collection is missing The Untouchables. That show guest-starred a load of great actors and quite a few who would later become greats.

[@rascal0175]

That’s the way it was. I know, I was there. Those were better days. I miss them. Back then we wondered what the future would bring. Now I know. And I prefer then to now.

[@ronnie6902]

I remember some of these show, I was really a child of the 1960's.

[@ktkat1949]

Westerns were popular at this time because Westerns had always been popular fiction in the US mythology of their history. They had been very popular during Saturday matinees in the 30s and 40s and then on radio so the transition to TV was a natural. The majority of these were considered to be 'adult westerns'. I was 9 years old at this time and my Dad's favourite show was Maverick which came on, I think, on Sunday night. James Garner the star was very popular and likeable. He played the part as a loveable rogue and the show became enormously popular. At one time in the first season of 1958 there were 30 westerns across the three main networks all of which were renewed for the coming year. And this was at a time when TV lasted for 48 weeks out of 52. None of this taking a break in the summer time. At the same time there were 30 shows running there was 14 more coming down the pike. The scary thing for me is that I can remember all of these shows and can still sing the theme music!! Sugarfoot, Sugarfoot, easily loping, cattle roping Sugarfoot. don't get me started!

[@fredparkinson1289]

How do you explain why the Germans like them so much?

[@garyfrancis6193]

Oh

[@dicarlo57]

How do we shut you off?

[@LittleBirdPathfinder]

I was only four in 1959. However, some of these shows were ongoing to the point that I remember them. :)

[@dmac3551]

Iris Wilde same here

[@1985OldSkool]

Dick Van Dyke (who is seen in this video as a guest on NBC's "The Perry Como Show") would have his own TV sitcom on CBS a few years later, alongside Mary Tyler Moore.

[@fromthesidelines]

And was opposite "PERRY COMO'S KRAFT MUSIC HALL" during 1962 and '63.

[@garyfrancis6193]

Really? How informative.

[@suzij7004]

Best 15 minutes of my day (so far)!😁

[@coachmetro4860]

Love watching these with my grandparents

[@DJmemoriesPlaylists]

I didn't expect this to make me sad but it did when I realized how far this country I love has fallen.

[@cynthiahawkins2389]

He actually warmly shook hands with wonderful Nat Cole on national television..man I bet they got hate mail!! This was...what...1958. Brave, hip Perry....

[@fromthesidelines]

Perry paid tribute to Nat (after his death in February 1965) on one of his "KRAFT MUSIC HALL" specials.

[@nstix2009xitsn]

Cynthia Hawkins "man I bet they got hate mail!!" Why? The problems were only if a white woman embraced a black man, e.g., Rosie Clooney on the Nat King Cole show. White folks had this crazy idea about preserving the white race, unlike today's race to erase it.

[@paulshallbetter1080]

No, in fact they received far more fan mail than hate mail. Nat Cole was incredibly respected by folks of all shades and ages then. Much of the racial disharmony we created and/or suffered is hyped by media. I had a grandmother who had very little kindness for people who weren't Irish and white...and she adored Nat King Cole...

[@pretorious700]

Yeah, because everybody was racist then....idiot.

[@hebneh]

Considering the controversy and hatred that erupted when Petula Clark held Harry Belafonte's hand briefly at the end of a duet on a national American TV show 10 years later, yes, it was a major gesture for Perry to shake hands with Nat as an equal in 1958. Comments claiming otherwise here are wrong.

[@bigthunder2860]

Petticoat junction, the macoys,Clint whipped there ass ,wanted dead or alive,rifleman, wagon train,ma and pa kettle,honeymooners Jackie Gleason,then came Bronson

[@outofthegrave4073]

The era of the western.

[@luisreyes1963]

Warner Brothers ones, especially.

[@jamescurran9002]

Lawman, Sugarfoot,Cheyenne...i remember all ,those, i was only three

[@robinjohnson8149]

Born November 1958. Great year for everything!

[@barbaradownie3265]

I SAW REAL MCCOYS IN THE 60'S AS WELL

[@christiansgrandma6812]

Still watch Rawhide, Alfred Hitchcock,Perry Mason, Cheyenne, Wanted Dead or Alive, Father knows best, The Price is Right, Watt Earth, Tales of Wells Fargo, Maverick, The Rifleman, Have gun will travel, Wagon train, and Gunsmoke. In other words, I keep my channel on Metv.

[@IngefromGraz]

Christian's Grandma Good for you! I watch all the old shows too! Better than the mind rotting crap on tv today!

[@kennethmcdonald2987]

They recently added In The Heat of The Night to our line up in my opinion still one of the best cops shows ever along with the movie They have a great Saturday western line up

[@mikeries6930]

I just noticed at the 5:28 part.... The front of the house on the Sugarfoot episode.... Is the same one used on the Munsters..

[@VolcanoEarth]

I thought I was the only one who caught that. 1313 Mockingbird Lane IIRC

[@tolfan4438]

The local discount grocer still has Imperial for .50$

[@joemahoney1221]

Wow! Early audio of Linus!

[@colinduff2922]

I can't believe that 77 SUNSET STRIP wasn't in the Top 30 shows?

[@fredparkinson1289]

No s**t Kookie, I was waiting for the hair action.

[@lightmarker3146]

Lend Me Your Comb !

[@LittleBirdPathfinder]

One I was really surprised to NOT see on here unless I missed it was Death Valley Days that ran for 23 years. I wasn't that "hot" on all westerns but I loved Death Valley Days on the assumption that many of the stories were based on real life.

[@hebneh]

I'm pretty sure "Death Valley Days", brought to you by 20 Mule Team Borax and Boraxo, was syndicated. This video just shows clips from network shows.

[@kimamoore9499]

ON EVERYDAY ON GRIT’CHANNEL IN PHX THAT COMES IN ON FREE ANTENNA STYLE THING WITH OTHER OL SHOW CHANNELS

[@codyanderson8572]

5:43 charlie brown

[@hebneh]

My father jokingly referred to Clint Walker, the star of "Cheyenne", as "Mushmouth" for the way he talked.

[@ericscarburry8527]

Those westerns kept a lot of people employed

[@harveyabel1354]

Cows and horses too ;)

[@jehnayr7949]

And many of the same people in different series

[@tubeblack35]

I vaguely remember watching The Millionaire as a little kid. Have no idea why it appealed to me.

[@luisreyes1963]

I immensely enjoyed The Millionaire. I often imagined what it would be like to receive that $1m tax-free cashier's check. 💵

[@codyanderson8572]

ROLLIN ROLLIN ROLLIN ROLLIN ROLLIN ROLLIN

[@daveerhardt1879]

Over half the shows were westerns. How many westerns are on tv now? Zero.

[@amandavaldez2462]

No westerns now.

[@wrestlingconnoisseur]

Subtitled "The era in which television executives propagated airwaves with programming aimed towards instilling in viewers a million misconceptions about the Old West."

[@chrishaines1677]

I remember going to New York and seeing the Perry Como Show.

[@kenlichtig8024]

Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour was once a month Sponsors-- Westinghouse & Ford Motor Company

[@fromthesidelines]

Ford, 1957-'58; Westinghouse (as "THE WESTINGHOUSE LUCILLE BALL- DESI ARNAZ SHOW", appearing alternately with "WESTINGHOUSE DESILU PLAYHOUSE"), 1958-'60

[@sharrigarvin3348]

RAWHIDE GREATEST TV THEME SONG

[@frdjr2529]

The "Rawhide" theme song was sung by Sheb Woolley, who had the #1 hit "Purple People Eater" in the summer of 1958.

[@suzycreamcheesez4371]

Frankie Laine

[@tomservo56954]

RAWHIDE was a rarity then...a mid-season replacement show.

[@pattibrooks1907]

Im a 62 year old senior person was 2 and 3 when these shows first were aired !! Dont recall any of them but do a bit as they are were in reruns after awhile !

[@JESUSISLORDforever888]

If you are 62yrs old now, then you were born in 1958 and these shows came out in 1958.

[@pattibrooks1907]

@@JESUSISLORDforever888 I am 65 not 62 . That was two years ago so not 62 anymore and was almost 63 when I wrote that now I just turned 65 ! Born 1956 not 1958 .

[@pattibrooks1907]

@@JESUSISLORDforever888 I was almost 63 so i am no longer 62 . I know what year I was born 1956 ! So what if I did not reca;; The REal Mccoys ! Big deal !

[@JESUSISLORDforever888]

@@pattibrooks1907 okay, I was born 9/29/58. No, it’s no “Big Deal”. That’s fine.

[@pattibrooks1907]

@@JESUSISLORDforever888 Thank you for understanding . Sometimes videos can even be 3 years ago but say its 2 years ago so that s how I got to be 65 now .Its not always acurate to date or year ! Dont know why !

[@billbright1755]

Louis Zamperini was on this is your life.

[@deletethis5489]

Bonanza debuted in 59

[@garyfrancis6193]

My theory is the reason cowboys became very popular in movies then TV right after WW2 was that people yearned for a simpler time after seeing the technological horrors of the war especially the atomic bomb. They wanted to go back to a relatively modern time without modern 20th Century technology that had all been martialed to the service of war. They saw the Wild West of the 19th Century as a time of a simple life with simple moral values when the majority of people still adhered to traditional religious faith. This carried on onto television in the 1950’s but even those shows towards the end of the 50’s started to invent imaginary gun technology to try to appeal the audience’s interest in technological novelty no one in the 19th Century could have imagined. Also the characters became more psychologically complex beyond being simply all good and all bad. What finally killed off the popularity of rge cowboy genre was James Bond and the spy genre of the 60’s. The audience enbraced imaginary modern technology and the political rivalry of the Cold War super powers because, like me, were growing up with no direct memory of WW2 because the were too young to remember it or born after it. A person 25 years old in 1965 was 5 years old in 1945 when WW2 ended. Even someone 30 years old would not have remembered much if anything of WW2. They wanted to leave the past behind and embrace the future represented by the Space Race. They expected by now we would be living like the Jetsons with whole cities on the moon. That may have happened in a parallel dimension but not this one. We live more in a hellscape like you would see in the Twilight Zone. We now look back at the 50’s as a simpler more wholesome time like people in the 1950’s looked back at the 1880’s. It’s about the same time interval of 70 years from now to the 1950’s and 70 years from the 1950’s to the 1880’s. That’s enough time for most of the previous generation to have died out. Only children of the 1880’s would be alive in the 1950’s and not remember much of the decade of their birth as I barely remember the 1950’s and people are living longer now. There is a cycle of poltical and sociological change that has a periodicity of 70 years. We are seeing that now as the Cold War ended 30 years ago and veterans of WW2, like my father, are all mostly gone. But human nature stays the same so we continue to repeat the patterns of the past though our interpretation of the past is never accurate as we see it through the filter of the present. “This time it’s going to be different.” And it never is.

[@bigthunder2860]

The rifleman played pro baseball pitcher for st. Louis

[@phillipkulas2302]

Big Thunder , actually he was a first baseman for the Chicago Cubs in 1951.

[@tubeblack35]

And basketball for the Celtics.

[@scronx]

Man, so many cowboy shows back then! Sure makes it seem like a loooong time ago.

[@rredhawk]

1:56 John Russell clears the rifle before tossing it to his co-star. Nice to see good/safe gun-handling in a TV show for once.

[@RoyPage1970]

🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪

[@Eyesofthebeholder214]

Wow everyone has there clothes on. What a concept?

[@paulohara8967]

Not only did they have their clothes on, there was no cussing either.

[@daveerhardt1879]

What's wrong with them?!

[@ParsnipPizza]

What shows could you possibly be talking about? Swearing doesn't automatically make current tv worse

[@Eyesofthebeholder214]

@@paulohara8967 💖🙏

[@VolcanoEarth]

Now if Barbara Eden had worn a frock dress in I Dream Of Jeannie, would all y'all still watch? Tell me true. :D

[@richardherrington2852]

The heyday of television ended after the 60's. Today... television is total crap.

[@elwoodblues9613]

To modify John Milner's statement from "American Graffiti": "Television has been going downhill ever since 'All In The Family' debuted."

[@dennistravers8392]

Oops; looks like a 1960 copyright at 13:00. Got cha'. It's awwwll goooood.

[@michaelguidry9204]

I love the UNTOUCHABLES.

[@mattosullivan9687]

4:27 the very entertaining young comedian Dick Van Dyke

[@keithidota]

Since this is a countdown set it would have been better if you included the ranking (#30,#29.etc.) for each show.

[@francesbacon7825]

Rawhide had the best song. People still sing it and even younger people do.

[@johndonnell4381]

Im amazed at just how many westerns were on the tv roster.

[@tomservo56954]

30 on the schedule, and seven in the Top 10

[@abcbatman1966]

@10:33 Blue Bonnet Still tastes like a 70c spread....

[@runner6500]

Imperial. It's still in the same box and still tastes like the 70c spread.

[@CrossJeniel]

Nice

[@garyfrancis6193]

The good old days.

[@joelfogelsanger5773]

Gee there were a lot of Westerns back then.

[@amandavaldez2462]

Cheap to make.

[@davidcouch6514]

I had a “Lawman” lunch box.

[@luisreyes1963]

Neat. 👌

[@nickmad887]

thanks

[@joeferaco9896]

I was 10 what a simpler time no wars no political turmoil.

[@ITILII]

Even better no antifa, sjw, blm, or "peaceful" terrorists.....MAGA

[@srats56]

ililli - all created just for you! i see you are enjoying the show!

[@LiLi-or2gm]

@@ITILII But plenty of racism and sexism, just the way you pro-fascists like it! GAGME

[@arkady714]

Just lots of segregation, unreported spousal abuse, sexism, homophobia and the cold war.

[@ronatopaz2793]

In between the Korean and the Vietnam wars, of course. Delusion is a great comfort to some..

[@judyjones5089]

I have perfect pitch, the themes are 1/2 step higher than when actually televised.

[@StephenNu9]

On Perry Mason, I used to think why would anyone hire Mr. Burger since he never won a case.

[@phillipkulas2302]

StephenNu9 , he probably won lots of cases, just not when the defendant had Perry Mason as a lawyer. Lots of lawyers in Los Angeles would have lost to Hamilton Burger. Perry Mason was expensive and the best.

[@hebneh]

How come none of the other characters ever referred to him as "'Ham' Burger"?

[@lp-xl9ld]

It wasn't a case of someone hiring him; he was the DA

[@blacquesjacques7239]

lemme guess , Cowboys were reaaaaaly popular in the 50s ?

[@Frottussle]

Cowboys have been heros since movies began. William S. Hart, later Gene Autry then Hopalong Cassidy, Cisco Kid, a hundred others.

[@martyspargur5281]

I don't remember Chuck Conners The Rifleman being on before the early 60's. Did he ever have a wife or a girlfriend?

[@martyspargur5281]

It'true lol we were watching re runs

[@hebneh]

No wife or girlfriend, but he had a son, played by Johnny Crawford who had a brief singing career in the early 1960s. Actually I don't remember if this was his actual biological son, or if he'd been informally adopted.

[@jasondaniel918]

Sorry, but I have to sound off loud and clear about "This Is Your Life." It was a great show, and folks in my area loved it. The impact of ordinary people on their communities and the good they did for those around them. But, then, it was no longer good enough. Ordinary people's lives were too mundane. So the show became "CELEBRITY This Is Your Life." Only celebs were worthy of TV air time. The show crashed, and deservedly so!!! "Corporate decisions are made by corporate executives." - "Rollerball." Who in 1958/59 could predict that "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" and "Gunsmoke" would become multi generational classics? The scripts were great. I enjoy the reruns even more than I did the originals because I can now see how good the writing really was. But, of all of them, "Cheyenne" was my favorite!

[@donofon1014]

Dear America... I grew up with in the Toronto area.. the big 3 from Buffalo. It is my childhood too. How many shows of this era feature rifles. pistols.. a freaking Derringer,, as KEY components of the heroes character and nature? My country watched.. and your NRA bought congress.

[@intercommerce]

Lotta westerns....

[@JimmyFranny]

This tastes like the seventy cent spread...

[@luisreyes1963]

Repeats of the original The Price Is Right can now be seen on the Buzzr DTV channel.

[@danpiasecki1487]

People were really infatuated with westerns!

[@luisreyes1963]

Crazy time, wasn't it?

[@keithhyttinen8275]

5:26 The Munster's house

[@johnhummer265]

You left out The Mickey Mouse Club!!!

[@ApartmentKing66]

I thought "Rawhide" didn't premiere until the Fall of '59.

[@fromthesidelines]

It premiered as a mid-season replacement (for "TRACKDOWN", which moved to Thursdays, and a short-lived revival of "THE JACKIE GLEASON SHOW") on January 9, 1959.

[@RwDt09]

Actually, Trackdown moved to Wednesday 8:30. An innocent slip-up by a night, I'm sure.

[@fromthesidelines]

Yes, you're absolutely right! :)

[@fromthesidelines]

You're right! Sorry about that. :)

[@myyoutubepage199]

7:47 spyhunter theme lol.

[@fromthesidelines]

Henry Mancini originally composed it for "PETER GUNN".

[@dicarlo57]

Anglo Theater staring Frank DeWasp

[@johnmavris6913]

Rawhide # 1

[@amystoudt7543]

Huckleberry hound show

[@georgekraft1401]

Where was The Twilight Zone?

[@frlouiegoad4087]

How we have fallen from God!

[@LiLi-or2gm]

Fr Louie Goad WTF?! This is television, not religion.

[@luisreyes1963]

Maybe he misses shows like The Real McCoys.

[@mikeries6930]

Just what was the . 70 cent spread?

[@hebneh]

Butter was the "70c spread", later referred to as the "higher-priced spread". These absurd terms were used in Imperial margarine commercials because some kind of national dairy association copyrighted the word "butter" and claimed it could not be used by competing companies, or something like that.

[@kennethmcdonald2987]

@@hebneh there is a huge difference between the two I found that out 20 years ago I made the mistake of buying cheap margarine for my then girlfriend a southern cook who was cooking lobster tails It is 20 years later still get reminded to get butter not margarine as a given lesson here is never mess around in a southern woman's kitchen Hey she at least cooks her own at home She buys the rock lobster tails on sale ,stores them in the freezer she can buy 3 or 4 nice tails for what one small one costs at Red Lobster They are not that hard to cook but Red Lobster sure doesn't know how to cook them She sent one back and at 32.50 I didn't blame her she asked them did I order prawns or jumbo shrimp ? It was burnt and hard on the outside and frozen on the inside and very small She did pay for we had eaten and tipped the waitress before we left We have not been back nor plan to Butter is made from cream from milk margarine is a cheap vegetable oil product

[@arkady714]

One person of color in this whole compilation. White men ruling the land and ladies who were either sexy, elegant entertainers or housewives. Good lord...

[@sneauxman3673]

Quit whining you sound like Kamala Harris

[@arkady714]

So?

[@harlow743]

The day of the WESTERN

[@benlee913]

Those dayz are long gone, now we are hip enuff to spell wurds funny😐

[@harveyabel1354]

Due tell

[@robinjohnson8149]

Kwel

[@charlottedashwood6034]

What about Bonanza, that began in 1959. Wasn't it popular back then?

[@RwDt09]

Bonanza began in the 59-60 season and only hit the top beginning with the 60-61 season.

[@charlottedashwood6034]

RwDt09 oh right, thanks (-:

[@fromthesidelines]

Actually, "BONANZA" didn't crack the "Top Ten" until it moved to Sunday nights [for Chevrolet] in the 1961-'62 season.

[@ApartmentKing66]

Yes, Charlotte, but it took a while to get there. In fact, the only thing that saved it from cancellation by NBC after its first season was that it was filmed in color.

[@fromthesidelines]

AND the fact that RCA, NBC's parent company, was its primary sponsor during those first two seasons They used the program to promote the sale of RCA Victor color sets in dealers' showrooms; when it was scheduled on Saturdays at 7:30pm(et) [opposite CBS' "PERRY MASON"], RCA insisted that all of its dealers tune it in on their showroom sets, so that potential customers could see just HOW great the show looked on RCA color sets......

[@hertzair1186]

Never understood the extensive Western shows on the networks…..seems as if half the shows were westerns.

[@randallsage6740]

Many of these show's were western's (during this time), why were they western's ? Seriously, why were they western's ? Seem's kind of odd. There were other topic's to produce during this time.

[@luisreyes1963]

Blame the kiddies back then with their Western fixations.

[@hebneh]

It was just a fad, and this TV season was the high point of popularity. After that they tapered off, over the years. And yes, there were other shows on TV then too.

[@HawklordLI]

Rawhide vocals are just a wee bit over the top, hope he didn't get a hernia.

[@SirDaShadow]

Ronald Reagan? The actor?

[@freeguy77]

No, it was the host of Death Valley Days, and frequently playing bad guys. :) Before he TRIPLED the National Debt with his insane OFFENSE spending that started the path to the U.S. bankrupting itself. $ TRILLIONS spent although not needed, except to burnish the Military Industrial Complex and those who invested in their stocks.

[@brianboisguilbert6985]

Aw give it a freakin' rest, man, go to a political site if you wanna rant, the rest of us would like to just share pleasant memories of growing up and the shows we watched..

[@fromthesidelines]

Reagan was the host of "GENERAL ELECTRIC THEATER" (and occasionally starred in the episodes) from 1954 through 1962. Later, he became host of "DEATH VALLEY DAYS" in the mid-1960's, until he became California's governor.

[@jimbo97]

He and Nancy also did the commercials for Borax and Boraxo hand soap (which I still use). :-)

[@sombrerobeach]

I thought the same thing (Back to the Future...)

[@chrisn7259]

Wow, it was definitely a man's world. Not a single show that starred a female. i remember as a kid getting so sick of Westerns.

[@robertcuminale1212]

Gale Storm had two shows. My Little Margie and the Gale Storm Show where she the entertainment director on a ship costarring Zasu Pitts Who had been a silent star.

[@freeguy77]

I recall a tv series, "The Loretta Young Show" a compilation of dramatic episodes. i believe she was not a man.

[@MWarne58]

Chris N now you can sick to death of cop shows

[@fromthesidelines]

"MY LITTLE MARGIE" was in syndicated repeats by then.

[@jimbo97]

And don't forget Dinah Shore's Chevy Show. "MmmmmWAHH!!

[@Joesfosterdogs]

How many westerns could the culture digest! Geez... The Danny Thomas Show,,,list of the actors as The Wife The Son The Daughter...OK

[@fromthesidelines]

1958-'59 was "The Year of the Western". There were 25 of them scheduled that season on the three networks- and about half of the episodes of "WALT DISNEY PRESENTS" featured Westerns (in the recurring episodes of "The Nine Lives of Elfego Baca" and "Texas John Slaughter")- which Walt Disney eventually became disgusted with, because he wanted to produce more of what HE wanted, but ABC kept insisting, "More Westerns!".

[@frdjr2529]

There were great syndicated shows in 1958-59. "Highway Patrol" and "Sea Hunt" were my favorites. They aired in reruns well into the 70s.

[@scottlarson1548]

It would be another five to eight years before they stopped announcing the credits on every show as if they were radio shows. We can read!

[@fromthesidelines]

"MY THREE SONS", "FAMILY AFFAIR" and "THE LUCY SHOW" continued that tradition through the 1960's.

[@jimbo97]

The names were both announced AND shown.

[@VolcanoEarth]

I think the same voice did a lot of those spoken credits too. "...and Jerry Mathers, as The Beaver"

[@LiLi-or2gm]

We sure have a lot better media these days! I cringe almost every time I watch episodes of these old shows. The audiences were a lot less sophisticated in those days.

[@luisreyes1963]

An hour of The Millionaire is better than a week of Reality TV garbage.

[@IngefromGraz]

So you like the low class mind rotting garbage that’s on today? Keep watching!

[@VolcanoEarth]

There were some gems and some real classics, but a whole lot of shows-that-look-like-other-shows.....kind of like modern TV. One day 50 years in the future you'll be explaining Real Housewives to your grandkids. I know I'm already trying to explain to the 13yo next door that the classic Beavis and Butt-head is like a Tiktok "reaction" video ...but with more plot, and that it's an old-people thing.