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- Hiya, pal. Laugh along with Mickey Mouse and all his friends in these timeless cartoon shorts.
- The ghosts of various murder victims tell their terrifying and haunting stories.
- W2XAB's schedule was arranged like a vaudeville program, with each performer given their own segment. In her segment, Grace Voss, a dancer, gave dramatic pantomimes.
- The story of a London society couple's romance, from their meeting to their grand society wedding.
- A series of short whodunnits with enough clues to enable viewers to solve the crime.
- Hollywood life, from the lowest rungs of the show business ladder to the top.
- A four-part thriller. In the second episode there was a dope peddler named Dr. Mordaunt, while Mary Patton played a woman trying to save her husband from the electric chair by finding the real killer of a murdered actress.
- Newly widowed New Yorker Karen St. John moves to a rural town to be close to her relatives. There she falls for a man who was adopted by her relatives when he was a boy. But, he's already betrothed to another.
- A well-received anthology series presenting live television dramas.
- This program featured live performances of plays, some by famous authors, e.g., Tennessee Williams but featuring actors and actresses who have not reached stardom. Both serious and not so serious plays were performed.
- A film noir drama-dey cop & crime show, Public Prosecutor was created for one major networks but they gave up on the series and another early TV network called DuMont picked it up.
- A soap opera about a singer who tries to make it big in the city. Ran from August to October 1947.
- Produced by the ABC as its television network was just getting off the ground, this program was one of the first dramatic series television to attract top-name actors and actresses. Performing plays by such authors as Poe and Thurber, cast members included current well-known performers like Julie Harris and Cloris Leachman, as well as up-and-coming talents like Marlon Brando. The series was renamed "The Play's the Thing" midway through its final season.
- This was an anthology series which aired live. It often featured adaptations of one-act stage plays.
- This live dramatic series featured original stories and adaptations of novels, plays, etc., during its eight-year run. During the first year, the show was sponsored by the Actor's Equity Association, and featured adaptations of Broadway plays and musicals. Bert Lytell, the former President of the Association, acted as host. During the second season, an agreement was made with the Book-of-the-Month Club, and the plays were adaptations of current novels. Starting in the third season, the television plays were adaptations of plays, novels, dramas, etc., by known and unknown authors. The title of the show was changed to "Repertory Theatre" (1949) for episodes 1.29 to 1.31 and "Arena Theatre" (1949) for episodes 1.32 to 1.38. Effective with episode 1.39, the original title was used. Starting with the fourth season, this show alternated weekly with "The Goodyear Theatre" (1951); starting in the eighth season, this program alternated with "The Goodyear Theatre" (1951) and "The ALCOA Hour" (1955).
- An anthology series based in New York City which attracted a high caliber group of actors, often Broadway stars. Stories were both drama and comedies, some original but others adaptions of films and plays.
- A pinnacle of the Golden Age of Television, "Studio One" presented a wide range of memorable dramas and received eighteen Emmy nominations and five wins during its prestigious nine-year run on CBS.
- A short story was told in each episode.
- A short-lived anthology series by the NBC network. It lasted from January to October, 1949.
- Live plays featuring people who were in dangerous and threatening situations.
- Produced during the earliest days of television, this program was essentially a series of short stage plays performed in front of a camera. Filmed in Chicago and starring little-known local actors and actresses in half-hour dramas, this show lasted for just under a year, during which time it went through two name changes, being later known as "ABC Tele-Players" and "ABC Penthouse Players."
- Filmed dramas of famous literary short stories by authors such as Guy de Maupassant, Robert Louis Stevenson, Henry James, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, etc.
- One of the first television soap operas, this show focused on an immigrant Irish family who lived in a boarding house in Chicago.
- The first season, beginning in March 1949, featured Robert L. Ripley sitting in a "living room" recounting tales of strange stories. Ripley died on 27 May and was replaced by Robert St. John who continued to November 1949. The second season, beginning in January 1950, was a dramatic anthology series based on Ripley's stories and featured guest players every week.
- An anthology series which became the first successful filmed series on American television.
- Suspense/Anthology series based on an ABC radio series which ran from 1946-48. The half-hour series mostly consisted of original dramas concerning murder, mayhem or insanity. Series narrator Larry Semon was the only regular; each week a new set of actors were featured. The title of the series was derived from a clock which was major plot element in each story. The show's musical theme was "The Sands of Time."
- Short lived (six weeks) show featuring horror and suspense stories.
- This well-received series was a comedy-drama about an immigrant family living in 1910s San Francisco.
- A kind of do-it-yourself mystery series, in which a pair of short, one-act plays was presented. In each, a crime was committed, investigated, and eventually solved, after which H. Allen Smith of the California State Legislation would explain each step of the investigation, ending with how the authorities arrived at the solution.
- Little-known actors perform live stage dramas.
- Two married couples, the Colemans and the Abbotts, are neighbors. The husbands also happen to work together.
- Hands of Murder (also known as Hands of Mystery and Hands of Destiny) was an American mystery/anthology series that aired on the DuMont Television Network.; seen on Friday nights.
- Private detective Martin Kane works in New York solving crimes. Depending on the year, Kane was either smooth and suave or hard bitten and the cooperation he received from the police depended on the year. The only constant was Happy McMann's tobacco shop where Kane hung out.
- Dress designer Peggy O'Neil is attempting to raise two children, Janice and Eddie, while dealing with Uncle Bill, the Levy's who live next door and Mrs. Bailey.