TV Shows released in 1949

The Fred Waring Show

87/100

Standard musical show featuring Fred Waring and His Pennsylvanians. During the 1949-50 season, there was a dance contest titled Video Ballroom.

The Admiral Broadway Revue

80/100

A comedy/variety show featuring the early performances of Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca.

Your Show Time

78/100

Filmed dramas of famous literary short stories by authors such as Guy de Maupassant, Robert Louis Stevenson, Henry James, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, etc.

The Voice of Firestone

97/100

This show started on radio in 1928 and migrated to TV in 1949. Most of the shows featured grand opera but on occasion, popular singers were also guests.

The Boris Karloff Mystery Playhouse

72/100

KRMG News

Tulsa's 24-Hour Breaking News, Severe Weather, and Traffic NEWS102.3 KRMG.

The Al Morgan Show

Pianist-songwriter Al Morgan offered a half-hour of music.

The Adventures of Cyclone Malone

The Fifty-Fourth Street Revue

The Front Page

Newspaper comedy/drama based loosely on the 1928 stage play and its subsequent film adaptations.

Eloise Salutes the Stars

The Paul Whiteman's Goodyear Revue

This Is Show Business

City at Night

Kieran's Kaleidoscope

Le Jour du Seigneur

This iconic religious program, airing every Sunday morning since 1949, is the longest-running television show on French national TV. It features the weekly TV Catholic Mass and a number of short subjects associated with faith and religion.

Garroway at Large

Mr. I. Magination

72/100

Come Dancing

66/100

Exhibition dancing series.

Music and the Spoken Word

88/100

For more than eight decades, nearly the lifetime of radio, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir has presented a weekly program - Music and the Spoken Word - without interruption, giving voice to ... See full summary »

The Silver Theatre

88/100

The teleplays normally concerned the various aspects of romance.

The Herb Shriner Show

90/100

The Magic Clown

73/100

A Saturday morning kids show featuring a clown doing magic tricks.

Fireball Fun-For-All

82/100

A lively comedy series. It was short-lived, but stars Olsen and Johnson continued to work on television variety shows during the 1950s.

That Wonderful Guy

58/100

Franklin Westbrook is a snooty theater critic who relishes showing disdain for everything. Midwestern Harold is his eager valet who thinks his job will help him become a successful actor and become more worldly.