TV Shows released in 1959

The Twilight Zone

90/100

Ordinary people find themselves in extraordinarily astounding situations, which they each try to solve in a remarkable manner.

Bonanza

73/100

The adventures of Ben Cartwright and his sons as they run and defend their ranch while helping the surrounding community.

Rawhide

80/100

Gil Favor is trail boss of a continuous cattle drive. He is assisted by Rowdy Yates. The crew runs into characters and adventures along the way.

The Untouchables

81/100

Special Agent Eliot Ness and his elite team of incorruptable agents battle organized crime in 1930s Chicago.

Rocky and His Friends

81/100

An comedic anthology featuring primarily the adventures of a heroic flying squirrel and his dumb moose friend.

Dennis the Menace

72/100

Television episodes built around the same sorts of incidents found in Hank Ketcham's long-running comic strip.

The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis

78/100

Sensitive teenager Dobie Gillis exasperates his grocer father Herbert T. Gillis and is the apple of his mother Winnie Gillis' eye. Dobie has an almost singular focus on the opposite sex, ... See full summary »

One Step Beyond

79/100

Produced at the same time as the more well-known The Twilight Zone (1959), this series fed the nation's growing interest in paranormal suspense in a different way. Rather than creating ... See full summary »

Quick Draw McGraw

70/100

Quick Draw Mcgraw was a dimwitted and lanky mustang (horse) who caused much chaos in the Old West. If he could get his own six shooter out of his holster at all, he would usually shoot the ... See full summary »

Laramie

78/100

It is the 1870s in the Wyoming Territory. Slim Sherman and his fourteen-year-old brother Andy try to hang on to their ranch after their father was shot by a land grabber. They augment their... See full summary »

The Rebel

79/100

After the end of the Civil War, a former Confederate Army private roams the Wild West, and, as a rogue drifter, gets involved in helping out various settlers threatened by various bad guys.

Hawaiian Eye

81/100

Set against the beautiful tropical landscape of Honolulu, Hawaii, this series centered around the cases of Hawaiian Eye Private Investigations and the two handsome, slick, tough-guy ... See full summary »

Adventures in Paradise

85/100

Adam Troy was an American Korean War veteran who stayed in the Pacific after the war. As captain of the schooner "Tiki III", Troy drifted from adventure to adventure while carrying ... See full summary »

Mr. Lucky

80/100

Mr. Lucky was an honest professional gambler who had won a plush floating casino, the ship Fortuna, and used it as his base of operations. Staying beyond the three-mile limit, where he ... See full summary »

The Deputy Dawg Show

71/100

A canine sheriff's deputy in a backwoods Southern town always manages to catch the bad guy, despite his own ineptitude.

As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me

77/100

Johnny Staccato

84/100

Johnny Staccato is a jazz pianist and private detective.

The Deputy

71/100

The Deputy is Clay McCord, a storekeeper in 1880's Silver City, Arizona Territories, who is an expert shot, but refuses to use his gun, because he believes they are the major cause of ... See full summary »

Clutch Cargo

55/100

The adventures of a pilot who takes on dangerous assignments.

Hennesey

82/100

United States Navy physician, Lt. Charles W. "Chick" Hennesey and Navy nurse Lt. Martha Hale are assigned to the hospital at the U.S. Naval Station in San Diego, California.

Riverboat

78/100

Grey Holden wins a river boat in a poker game, which he then pilots, along with his crew, in various adventures along the Mississippi River. This action series is set in the nineteenth century.

Men Into Space

81/100

The adventures of Colonel Ed McCauley, head of the American space program. He battles saboteurs, budget cuts, defective equipment and other problems in outer space.

The Detectives

80/100

Captain Matt Holbrook leads a squad of brave and tough detectives in a large, unnamed city. Instead of leading personal lives, they spend all of their time tracking murderers, thieves, ... See full summary »

The Third Man

83/100

Harry Lime makes money dealing art and solves crime to save his life.

The Soupy Sales Show

83/100

Saturday morning comedy for all ages brought to you by comic Soupy Sales and his friends Black Tooth, White Fang and Pookie. Largely one-set production relied heavily on cuts to old film ... See full summary »