Early television in the 1950s was a freewheeling frontier of both live and taped offerings mostly dominated by comedies, game shows, kids programs, and westerns like "I Love Lucy," "The $64,000 ...

Midwestern Hayride with Kenny Price, Bob Shreve’s The General Store, and clips of Dotty Mack, Bob Braun, Ruth Lyons and the ...

Radio and television featured programs like Space Patrol, which ran from 1950 to 1955. The show followed the adventures of Commander Buzz Corey as he fought to keep the galaxy safe. Space Patrol ...

Its ratings soared so high that it bumped off the classic radio comedy, the "Fred Allen Show." As television moved into millions of homes in the 1950s, the popular quiz shows followed. Like many ...