1940s TV Shows

Browse TV shows from the 1940s.

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The BAFTA Awards
The BAFTA Awards
1949 · Continuing

BAFTA presents awards for film, television and games, including children's entertainment, at a number of annual ceremonies across the UK and in Los Angeles, USA....

The Goldbergs
The Goldbergs
1949 · Ended

The Goldbergs is a comedy-drama broadcast from 1929 to 1946 on American radio, and from 1949 to 1956 on American television. It was adapted into a 1948 play, Me and Molly, a 1950 f...

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The Hartmans
1949 · Ended

The Hartmans is an American television sitcom that aired live on NBC on Sunday nights from February 27 to April 24, 1949. The series stars Paul and Grace Hartman, a married couple ...

Suspense
Suspense
1949 · Ended

An anthology series adapted from the radio program of the same name. Like the radio program, many scripts were adaptations of literary classics by well-known authors. Classic autho...

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Colgate Theatre
1949 · Ended

Colgate Theatre is a 30-minute dramatic television anthology series telecast on NBC during 1949 and 1958 for a total of 50 episodes. The first edition, a live anthology, was teleca...

Studio One
Studio One
1948 · Ended

An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher Markle, who came to CBS from the CBC. Studio One, presented by Westinghouse, was one of...

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Actors Studio
1948 · Ended

Actors Studio is an American TV show which aired for 65 episodes, from September 26, 1948 to October 26 on the fledgling ABC Television Network; then from November 1, 1949 to June ...

The Ed Sullivan Show
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948 · Ended

The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist ...

Bambi
Bambi
1948 · Continuing

The Bambi, often called the Bambi Award and stylised as BAMBI, is a German award presented annually by Hubert Burda Media to recognize excellence in international media and televis...

Meet the Press
Meet the Press
1947 · Continuing

Meet the Press is a weekly American television news/interview program airing on NBC. It is the longest-running television series in American broadcasting history, despite bearing l...

BBC Proms
BBC Proms
1947 · Continuing

The World's Greatest Classical Music Festival. The BBC Proms is a classical music festival held every summer at the Royal Albert Hall in London, and in recent years has explored a...