Perhaps no phenomenon shaped American life in the 1950s more than television (TV). TV altered most all aspects of American life—its recreation habits, its advertising

Television programing in the Fifties was made up of news, game shows, westerns, soap operas, kids shows, sports, comedy and variety shows, late night talk

Popular 1950s game shows included What’s My Line ?, Twenty-One, I’ve Got a Secret, Name That Tune and You Bet Your Life. Viewership ratings are

Television westerns are a subgenre of  television programming in which stories are set primarily in the American Old West, Western Canada and Mexico during the

Howdy Doody was an American children’s television program with circus and Western frontier themes that was telecast on the NBC network from December 27, 1947,

The sitcom was a 30-minute format featuring a continuing cast of characters that appeared in the same setting week after week. Audience laughter (either live

Television and vaudeville combined to create the form of entertainment known as the variety show. Variety shows were made up of short acts — musical

From television’s emergence as a national medium in the late 1940s through the early 1960s, much dramatic programming was broadcast live. A staple of such

The soap opera is the open-ended serial narrative, with stories spanning several episodes. One of the defining features that makes a television program a soap

In 1954, Congress added the words “under God” to the Pledge of Allegiance, and the phrase “In God We Trust” was included on all U.S.