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- Solser en Hesse were short Dutch silent films featuring the comedians Lion Solser and Piet Hesse. Both films are lost.
- Televised Cabaret featuring different guests from music, comedy and novelty acts every week.
- The first ever programme broadcast when regular British television broadcasts commenced (excluding welcome broadcast).
- A live variety programme.
- Variety musical sketch about army life in the First World War.
- A television revue.
- Hollywood life, from the lowest rungs of the show business ladder to the top.
- "Men At Work" was a 1941-1942 television series. During any given show, viewers might watch singers, dancers, bicyclists, acrobats, roller skaters, and other entertainers.
- "Noveltoons" was a classic U.S. animated cartoon series produced by Famous Studios for Paramount Pictures from 1943 to 1967. The series was considered to be the successor to the "Color Classics" series produced by Fleischer Studios. Many popular animated characters were first introduced through "Noveltoons," including Casper the Friendly Ghost, Herman and Katnip, Little Audrey and Baby Huey.
- It tells the adventures and misadventures of the mouse Herman and the cat Katnip.
- One of television's first game shows. The host, John Reed King, supervised activities from various New York City supermarkets with the help of his assistant, Jimmy Brown. Riddles with a "jingle", puzzles for the audience to solve and other games were played.
- This was a variety series which aired in New York City. Acts included comedians, dancers, etc.
- An almost forgotten landmark series in TV history, "Hour Glass" was the first variety show produced for network television. Included were songs, skits, and a chorus line. Many of the biggest names in the entertainment industry were guests.
- Misadventures of a multiple store proprietor.
- A live variety show.
- A live variety show, with singers, dancers, novelty acts, etc.
- Some semi-strange lady with a couple of puppets talks about stuff. One of the puppets is a dinosaur or dragon, and the other is something else.
- The adventures and misadventures of the strait-laced bank employee Johnny Stearns and his zany wife Mary Kay.
- This genteel children's show aimed at pre-schoolers encouraged good behavior among its viewers. Skits were performed by a group of in-studio characters (actors in animal costumes).
- The Texaco Star Theatre was one of the most popular shows in the history of television. In the first year, Milton Berle was not the permanent emcee, but once he replaced the rotation, the show soared to ratings dominance (Number One in 1950-51), NBC dominated Tuesday night, and Berle became the first great star of the new medium, "Mr. Television". The basic format was modeled after a vaudeville variety hour, spotlighting Berle's jokes, sight gags, and costumes.
- Riley worked in an aircraft plant in California, but viewers usually saw him at home, cheerfully disrupting life with his malapropisms and ill timed intervention into minor problems. His stock answer to every turn of fate became a catch phrase: 'What a revoltin' development this is!"
- A direct descendant of radio's "Major Bowes Original Amateur Hour" (1934-1946), hosted by Major Edward Bowes until his death. After a one-year hiatus, Ted Mack, who had directed Bowes' auditions, revived the show (which lasted into 1952) and brought the concept to the DuMont Television Network. The at-home audience voted by postcard for the favorite, winning performer(s) each week.
- Unsuspecting people are placed in confusing, impossible, embarrassing, ridiculous, and hilarious positions, while their reactions are recorded on a hidden camera.
- The show had two venues. In December 1948 to March 1949, Morey Amsterdam was the emcee at a small fictional nightclub in New York City's Times Square. Charlie the Doorman (later Newton the Waiter) and Lola the cigarette girl were also employed at the club. Between April 1949 and October 1950, the show shifted to a different network and the scene shifted to the Silver Swan Cafe with Newton and Lola still employed.
- Live music and light comedy featuring singer Lanny Ross. For the first 5 months, a quiz segment was included where contestants attempted to determine names, places and events from a series of visual clues. In September 1948, the show switched to "Lanny's penthouse where various guests made an appearance and Lanny's "girlfriend" Eileen Baron would visit. In March 1949, the format changed to straight musical variety.
- Apartment 4A was an original TV Series at the dawn of television in the 1940's. The show revolved around the lives of three girls sharing Apartment 4A. The main characters were played by Anne Diamond, as a G.I. majoring in psychology, Martha Shaw, as a secretary who writes short stories, and Julie Kingdon, as a manicurist at a beauty shop. The announcer on the series was Howard Culver.
- A sitcom aired in a 15-minute time-slot, about a constantly bickering husband and wife.
- A popular radio personality in the 1940's brought his variety talent contest show to television that continued into the 1950's.
- An American sitcom that starred Amanda Randolph, who was the first African-American actress to appear in a recurring role on an American television series. The sitcom aired on the Dumont Television Network from August 1948 to October 1948.
- Mr.Paynes son falls in love.