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The Cannonball TV series had a theme that opened and closed each episode composed by Joseph Hooven, Marilyn Hooven, and music packager Raoul Kraushaar.Though IMDb claims the words and music were written and performed by the American country artist Merle Haggard [4] the singer was incarcerated in San Quentin State Prison from 1957 to 1960 and ...
His train is named "Cannonball Express" (the real Jones' locomotive, #382, was nicknamed "Cannonball"). The name of the character Wallie Sims is a conflation of Illinois Central employee Wallace Saunders, who wrote the earliest version of " The Ballad of Casey Jones ," and the real Jones' fireman, Simeon "Sim" Webb.
Television portal; United States portal; 1950s portal; Television series which originated in the United States in the decade 1950s. i.e. in the years 1950 to 1959.Television shows that originated in other countries and only later aired in the United States should be removed from this category and its sub-categories
Cannonball (TV series) Colonel March of Scotland Yard; The Count of Monte Cristo (1956 TV series) The Crime of the Century (TV series) Crime on Our Hands; D.
Pages in category "1950s American crime television series" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
When television became popular in the late 1940s and 1950s, TV Westerns quickly became an audience favorite, with 30 such shows airing at prime time by 1959. Traditional Westerns faded in popularity in the late 1960s, while new shows fused Western elements with other types of shows, such as family drama, mystery thrillers, and crime drama.
The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning series, new series, and series cancelled after the 1959–60 season. New fall series are highlighted in bold. All times are Eastern and Pacific. Each of the 30 highest-rated shows is listed with its rank and rating as determined by Nielsen Media Research. [1]
Sheena, Queen of the Jungle (TV series) Sky King; Soldiers of Fortune (TV series) Stage 7; The Stage Door; Star Tonight; The Stranger (1954 TV series) Studio 57; Studio One (American TV series) Suspicion (American TV series)