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- Hiya, pal. Laugh along with Mickey Mouse and all his friends in these timeless cartoon shorts.
- Young performers got their start on this live musical program built around a current play on Broadway.
- 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.
- Harry Owens and His band The Royal Hawaiians. A show on local TV Good Hawaiian style music and dancing .
- Ballet interpretations of literary classics. Sponsored by the Ford Automotive Dealers of America.
- Live adaptations of operettas and Broadway musical comedies.
- Daily musical variety show.
- A series presenting short musicals for television.
- Young dancers were featured in production numbers.
- Daytime music variety show which employed vaudeville and musical acts "live" and on film.
- A re-creation of the Music Hall variety shows that were popular in the late Victorian and the Edwardian periods (late 1800s and early 1900s). Entertainers performed musical, comedy, magic and recitation acts on stage in Edwardian costume, in some cases appearing as famous Edwardian music hall performers such as Vesta Tilley. Even the audience was dressed in authentic 1900s costumes. The show always ended with the entire cast and the audience singing a rousing rendition of "Down at the Old Bull and Bush".
- This program aired once every fourth week, and was one of the most costly live shows of the 1950s. Many stars appeared on this show.
- A non-denominational Sunday morning religious show that covered issues from multiple perspectives.
- A CBS variety show that ran monthly from 1954-1958, broadcast in color. Stars appearing included Betty Grable, Mario Lanza, Jack Benny, Basil Rathbone, Fredric March, Shirley MacLaine, and Ed Wynn. Lanza and Grable appeared in an amusing episode with Fred Clark, featuring Grable as the unlikely replacement for Lanza in a show.
- The Best of Broadway is a 60-minute live television anthology series that aired on CBS Television on Wednesdays at 10 p.m. Eastern Standard Time from September 15, 1954, to May 4, 1955, for a total of nine episodes. Each show was broadcast live in color from New York City, was an adaptation of a famous Broadway play, and included commercials for Westinghouse featuring Betty Furness. Using a "giant new studio", plays were presented in front of a studio audience, which contributed to a Broadway-like atmosphere.
- -"L'heure du concert", (from 1954 to 1966 at Radio-Canada), encouraged Canadian talent.
- A musical fantasy for teenagers about a nightclub in the stars.
- As the title, Dutch for 'Discover the star', indicates, this Flemish show format was a talent-hunt, one of the primitive precursors of our age's "American Idol: The Search for a Superstar" (2002; mind the equivalent subtitle), only in this long deceased version a large number of candidates simply did their thing, getting a few minutes of fame in Flanders, one by one, not in a musical chairs-crescendo formula.
- An anthology series broadcast by ABC during the summer of 1956. It featured parts of dramatic films which were previously unavailable for television. The series included performances by well-known actors of the 1950s, such as Ronald Reagan and Barbara Billingsley.
- Top musicians of the time perform on this 1950s variety show.