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- Twenty five years after defending the people of California, Zorro has fallen a victim of age. The people are still being oppressed, now by Commandant Paco Pico and his aide Sergeant Sepulveda, so Zorro's faithful servant Bernardo sends for Zorro's son who is living in Spain. The son turns out to be a swinger always chasing the women, gambling and using modern weapons (guns, gas bombs, etc.) in his war on Pico.
- Best remembered by its posterior title, Your Show of Shows, this live variety show included comedy sketches with TV pioneers Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca.
- 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 format was to sing the seven top rated popular songs for the week; the songs were sung by the regular cast of vocalists. An attempt was made to revive the show in 1974 with songs from selected broadcasts of songs from the 1940s and 1950s.
- In this live sitcom, 18-year-old Alexander Bobbin has just graduated from high-school and is planning his future. He lives with his two old-maid aunts, Clara and Bertha, who have raised himm abd gus sister Susie. Alexander is in love with the girl next door, Nancy, but she likes him but wants to keep her options open.
- Only four episodes of this show about young, unmarried Daniel Boone were shown. Boone does his exploring with three companions, Peter Dawes, a 12-year-old English boy; Hawk, a runaway slave; and Tsiskwa, a Cherokee Indian. Meanwhile, Rebecca Bryan waits at home hoping that she and Daniel will marry.
- The show takes place in Staten Island, New York. Unlike the stage play and film versions, the TV show was set in the then-modern era of the late 1980s. Martin lives in a Victorian home with his daughter Penny, her husband Paul and Essie and Alice, their daughters. Mr. Pinner is a neighbor.
- An adventurer, gambler, and widely respected southern gentleman is recruited to work as a secret agent, at no pay, in post-Civil War New Orleans, helped by his companion, a silent Pawnee Native American.
- Tony Wolf, a San Francisco cop, is framed on a drug charge by the criminals he has been pursuing. Thrown off the force, he gets a job as a private detective working for the attorney, Dylan Elliott, who led the fight to have him thrown off the force. Dylan came to believe that Tony had been framed and attempts to help him prove his innocence. Tony lives with his father, Sal, on a boat that always needs repairs, and spends most of his free time with Connie, his girlfriend.
- Syndicated show which debuted in the USA in September 1987, and ran until 1989. Two teams of three men and three women competed, one person from a team was given the name of a famous person and had to communicate the name to the rest of the team by drawing pictures.
- Willa Dodger opens a law practice in Renfrew, New Hampshire, USA after graduating from law school but business is slow so she left her boyfriend Charlie Bush in Renfrew, went to New York City and began representing a vaudeville group headed by Perry Bannister.
- Five weapons specialists/cowboys fight crime in the town of Wildside, CA.
- Short lived (four weeks) comedy about Jack Slayton and Brian Grant, two twenty-somethings living together in Chicago. Shelly Thomas was Jack's ex-girlfriend who was being dated by Brian. The rest of the cast were also twenty-somethings who only had sex on the brain.
- Teams of kids compete against each other in a variety of physical competitions and sports.
- It's about a Wichita U. S. Marshal named Mike Dunbar along with his deputy named Ben Matheson, this show was produced by Four Star, and in association with Mirisch Television Enterprises and McCrea's production company and airs on NBC.
- Short lived (five weeks) quiz show with the panelists and guests trying to solve a murder. The murder was dramatized, frequently by famous stars, and it ended just before the murderer's identity was revealed. The panelists and guests had to solve the murder based on the clues presented.
- Angie and Stacy are two showgirls in Las Vegas, Nevada. Their two younger siblings, Frankie and Melissa, live with them and are frequently watched by Larry, a neighbor. At the club where the sisters work, Mitzi Logan is the emcee and Memphis O'Hara is a singer.
- The original concept of this summer replacement show was for Warren Hull to interview people who had made headlines in the previous week. When enough people fitting this category could not be found, the format changed to include human interest stories.
- The adventures of a group of young kids who are amateur computer experts and detectives.
- Charter helicopter pilots Chuck and P. T. solve crimes. Rescue people, perform tasks and more using their Bell helicopter, the star of the show;
- The story of American Christopher Cobb and his foundation of Australia's first coach-line, which he established in the colony of New South Wales, Australia.
- The misadventures of a team of football players and their families on and off the field.
- A group of youthful Los Angeles construction workers looking to party both on and off the job.
- This summer replacement show rewarded people who had performed heroic deeds or had helped others. The contestants were brought on stage and Todd Russell would relate what they had done. They would then spin a wheel and win the amount of money shown on the wheel.
- This show originated on the ABC-TV network in February 1953 with one cast and switched to the Dumont TV network in May 1953 with a different cast. The theme of the show was auctioning goods that the audience bid on. One item on each show was supposedly owned by a famous person and had a significance with that person.
- Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while blindfolded, their identity - by asking only "yes" or "no" questions.
- "What's Happening Now!" is a sequel to "What's Happening!," a TV series about the adult main characters (Raj, Dwayne, Rerun, Shirley, and Dee) as teenagers/children.
- Ed Brannigan's Great-Uncle dies and leaves a trunk full of props from his ventriloquist days. His dummy, Buzz, has been locked in the trunk for years. When Ed's family opens the trunk, they discover that Buzz can think and talk.
- The trials and misadventures of a US citizenship teacher and his class of recent immigrants.
- This show investigated man-made and natural disasters to see what really happened. The producers used computer simulation and film analysis to theorize high-profile events, e.g., JFK's assassination, the explosion of the 16-inch gun turret on the USS Iowa, etc. The events were always presented in a sensational mode.
- This quiz show, an "I've Got A Secret" clone, lasted three weeks in the summer of 1952. The panelists attempted to guess what event had happened to the contestants by asking questions. Something had happened to the contestants and it had been reported in a newspaper.
- Nan, a successful Broadway star, marries Dan McGovern a widower. On their way home, Dan tells her that he had not told his two children, Buddy and Nancy, that he was getting married. Nan is then confronted with two rude and indifferent stepchildren and the housekeeper, Mrs. Harper. The following episodes detail her trials and tribulations in dealing with the kids and housekeeper.
- Retired vaudevillian George Burns acquires an apartment complex.
- The wacky ups and downs of a group of kids attending their first year of high school.
- Role reversal was the theme of this show: Stuart Hibbard worked at home and did the cooking and cleaning while his wife Judy commuted to Los Angeles to work for photographer Damon Jerome. Ken Redford lived next door and drove Stuart crazy while Dee Dee Baldwin, a model at the photography studio, drove Judy crazy. Donna was the studio secretary.
- Mickey Mackenzie is a young lady who works as a maid for David Tucker and Jay Bostwick, two bachelors who live together in a Manhattan apartment.
- John Herrick was the Captain of the tug "Cheryl Ann" in Los Angeles harbor. His family consisted of wife May, Police Detective son Jim, and the crew of the tug, his son Carl, Tip, and Willie. Carl was engaged to Terry. The stories revolved around the family and various criminals encountered around the harbor.
- This show featured three rotating series, "Kings Row", "Cheyenne" and "Casablanca". The last 15 minutes was devoted to promoting Warner Brothers movies but this was dropped along with "Kings Row" and "Casablanca". "Cheyenne" went on to run on TV for eight years.
- Walter and Emily Collins take care of their grandson Zach while their son Matt (divorced from Zach's mother) travels as a sportswriter. It can be a real challenge, especially when Zach and his friend Hartley are always getting into trouble.
- Sheriff Buford Pusser maintains law and order in McNeal County, Tennessee, with the help of his loving family, loyal staff, and a large club he calls his "pacifier".
- A conservative father butts heads with his family on various social attitudes of the day.
- Nightime soap opera about Pamela Bellwood head of Special Events Programming at Trans Atlantic Broadcasting Co., a TV network. Jack Kiley is the head of programming, Gus Dunlap head of the news division, Dan Costello is the sales chief, Walter Mathews is the head of operations, and Harvey Pearlstein is the research head. Lots of backstabbing among these group of characters.
- A re-tooled continuation of the "Top of the Heap" TV series, which was also a spinoff of characters from "Married...with Children."
- Two contestants compete in a life-sized board game, answering questions and performing stunts for cash and prizes.
- Two plot lines evolved for this show. The first, broadcast from August 1949 to January 1951, was a live variety show set in a nightclub with guest singers, comedians, etc. Guests who did not perform that night, or other famous people, were seen sitting at ringside in the "nightclub." The original emcee was George "the Greek Ambassador of Good Will" Givot but he left after two months, replaced by comedian Harold Barry who was succeeded by singer Bob Russell. Anne Francis appeared in floor covering commercials as "Bonny Maid" assisted by four other people. The show went off the air in January 1951 and returned in September 1951 with a different format. Lady Irish Mountbatten appeared with a group of children and the show featured children's stories and songs; the show finally went off the air in December 1951.
- Actual court cases were presented on this show. CBS correspondents provided the background material and excerpted testimony for the trial transcript were read and finally, the jury reached a verdict. This was a summer replacement show that lasted three months.
- Hunted by the authorities for a murder he didn't commit, a man races against time to prove his innocence and unmask the real perpetrators
- Valentine Farrow works for O.D. Dunstall in a New York publishing house. He is young and single and constantly chased by women. While in the Army, he was saved by "Rocky" Sin, a poker-playing con artist, who now serves as Farrow's valet. Sin lives in the basement of Farrow's townhouse with the handyman Grover Fipple. In the office, Libby is Farrow's secretary and Molly the receptionist.
- Ex-con Victor Torres is hired by Francine Primeau, the editor of The Montreal Tribune, to be their source for crime stories, since he can use his connections within the city's criminal underworld to get scoops as well as the truth.
- Live quiz show that appeared three times a week. Paar would pick contestants from the studio audience and quiz them about current news events; the contestants would win money for each right answer. At the end of the show, all contestants would be given the same question and the one or ones with the right answer won the big prize ($100).