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- The ghosts of various murder victims tell their terrifying and haunting stories.
- 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.
- "Lights Out" was a US narrated horror short story series.
- Live plays featuring people who were in dangerous and threatening situations.
- Mike Barnett is the title character, a bright and tough private detective in New York. This very violent show was broadcast live until 1952.
- A crime program, with a twist - The Lieutenant (Ken Lynch) was never seen on camera, as the program used the subjective first-person camera technique as did the 1947 film "Lady in the Lake".
- Short lived (six weeks) show featuring horror and suspense stories.
- Four centuries into the future, Cadets Tom Corbett, Roger Manning and Astro are training to become Solar Guards. Their ship, the "Polaris" took them to numerous adventures, usually natural catastrophes rather than villains.
- "Stage 13" was a thirty minute USA anthology television series produced, directed, and written by Wyllis Cooper. It aired on CBS from 19 April 1950, until 28 June 1950.
- A hosted horror and thriller movie show with Allen Harvey and later Art Hern as "Drana Badour the Swami" who presented movies on WBKB-4, Chicago, Illinois from 1950 till 1953.
- "Tales of Tomorrow" was a hosted science fiction anthology series running from 1951 until 1953.
- The experiences of Robert Cannon and Helen Davis, foreign correspondents for "Consolidated News". Stories relate to their attempts to infiltrate and expose espionage rings.
- Peter House was an agent for International Security Intelligence in this live spy series.
- Follows the first manned space flight from Australia. In its return to Earth, from the crew of 3, only Victor Carroon, is still aboard. Examinations reveal that something attacked the crew as they were on course back to Earth.
- This innovative half-hour science-fiction anthology aired live each Saturday morning. Captain Video (Al Hodge) was the catalyst that brought science-fiction and reality together in a creative showcase for dramatization of the works of well known authors. Strong character development and adult themes, a hallmark of the two Captain Video series, kept a positive look of quality within the storyline threads.
- The Atom Squad is a top-secret planetary defense organization faced with challenges from evildoers and malfunctioning machines alike.
- Teckman was a great pilot, and he died in a plane crash. Simple as that. So why are so many people opposed to Chance writing a book about him?
- "Tales of the Black Cat" was a hosted horror / thriller television series by CBS with Bob Dalton that was aired on WTOP-TP, Channel 9 Washington, D.C., in 1953.
- The Vampira Show was a hosted horror movie show, with Vampira played by Maila Nurmi; aired on KABC-TV Channel 7, Los Angeles, California (USA) between 30 April 1954 till 2 April 1955.
- This British production featured lesser-known actors in filmed plays showing people caught in "the vise" of fate created by their own deeds.
- Around 1954 on Channel 7, WXYZ-TV Detroit, Michigan; Edwin Immerman was "The Black Spider" on the show "The Black Spider"; presenting hair-raising movies.
- "Cauldron of Horrors" was a hosted horror movie show with "The Witch" presenting movies on WNBW Channel 4, Detroit, Michigan from 23 July 1954.
- "Captain 11" was a 1950's children's science fiction afternoon show hosted by "Captain 11" with Jim Lange playing the Captain from 1954 until 1955, and Chris Wedes as the Captain from 1955 until 1957.
- "The Doldrum" was a hosted horror/mystery movie show with "Doldrum" presenting movies on Thursday nights at 9:00pm for WTTG Channel 5, Detroit, Michigan from 5 August 1954 until 16 September 1954.
- Jungle Jim is a 26-episode syndicated adventure television series which aired from 1955 till 1956, starring Johnny Weissmuller, as James "Jungle Jim" Bradley, a hunter, guide, and explorer in, primarily, Africa.
- Professor Quatermass is trying to perfect a dangerously unstable nuclear-powered rocket engine. After a disastrous test firing in Australia, his soon-to-be son-in-law, Captain John Dillon, draws the Professor's attention to a strange hollow meteorite which interrupted an Army Training exercise. Quatermass and Dillon investigate, and discover a vast government production plant which has some connection with the meteorites. After coming in contact with the noxious gas contained inside the meteorites, Dillon is taken away by the plant's security guards. When Quatermass presses this issue with an old civil service acquaintance, he learns that the plant is supposedly making synthetic food. Both men learn that this is untrue, and that the true products of the plant will threaten the world itself.
- Raymond Massey is host and narrator for this anthology series featuring tales of espionage.
- William Thompson, an American intelligence agent, goes on missions deep behind enemy lines to gather information about threats to American security and protect American diplomats abroad.
- Dr. Fu Manchu, evil genius and possessor of seemingly unlimited financial resources, has pledged to bring about the downfall of western civilization to avenge unknown wrongs of the past. Only Sir Dennis Nayland-Smith of the Yard is able to thwart his evil plans, ranging from assassination to germ attacks to sparking an all-out war.
- "Vampira" introduces movies and does several segments during the film in the form of skits and information about the movie.
- "Classic Nightmares" was a hosted horror movie show with Shirl Vloedman Selman as "Ghoulia" presenting movies on Fridays at Midnight on KOLD-TV Channel 13 Tucson, Arizona between about 1956 until 1958.
- "Shock Theater" was a hosted horror show with firstly Alec Gibson and later Chuck Zink presenting movies on WTVJ, Channel 4 now Channel 6 Miami Florida in the 1950's.
- The hard-hitting adventures of tough Lieutenant Frank Ballinger, a member of the Chicago Police Department's M Squad, an elite crime-fighting unit.
- The show consisted of forty episodes, half of which were live and half of which were filmed. The shows, which often involved murder, were intended to confuse and mystify the audience.
- "Shock Theatre" was a hosted horror movie show with Terry Bennett as "Marvin" and Joy Bennett as "Dear" on WBKB-TV, Channel 7 Chicago, Illinois, USA.
- A short-lived anthology series narrated by Westbrook Van Voorhis. Each episode tells its own thriller story and featured its own unique cast.
- "The Shock Theatre" was a hosted horror movie show with John Zacherle as "Roland" presenting movies on WCAU-TV Channel 10, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; from 7 October 1957 to 13 September 1958.
- "Shock!" was a hosted horror movie show with Richard Dix as Dr. Lucifer, and Nancy Lee Dix as Mrs. Grace Lucifer, screened on Saturdays at 11:15 pm (live) on WBAL-TV, Channel 11, Baltimore, Maryland, USA from November 9 1957 till 1959.