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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. In ...
A Man Called Shenandoah is an American Western television series that aired Monday evenings on ABC-TV from September 13, 1965 [1] to May 16, 1966. It was produced by MGM Television . Some of the location work for the 34 half-hour black and white episodes were filmed in California's Sierra Nevada and Mojave Desert .
The Loner is an American Western television series that played for one season on CBS from 1965 to 1966, with the alternate sponsorship of Philip Morris and Procter & Gamble. The series was created by Rod Serling a year after the cancellation of the series The Twilight Zone. It was one of the last TV series broadcast by CBS in black-and-white.
Date Event Ref. January 1 Comedian Soupy Sales, who hosted the "Lunch With Soupy Sales" children's program on New York City's WNEW-TV, encourages his young viewers to send him money ("those funny little green pieces of paper with pictures of U.S. presidents") from their parents' pants and pocketbooks and send them to him, and in return he would "send you a postcard from Puerto Rico!"
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. In ...
Sierra Railway Engine #3 at the old Jamestown, California Depot, for the filming of the pilot episode of The Big Valley, 1965. The Big Valley is an American Western television series that originally aired from September 15, 1965, to May 19, 1969 on ABC. [1] The series is set on the fictional Barkley Ranch in Stockton, California, from 1884 to 1888.
All three networks would carry the launch of Gemini 5 in color that August and all subsequent crewed space launches. July 31 - GTV (Ghana) begins as GBC TV, making it the first television station in Ghana. August 1 – Cigarette adverts are banned from UK television, though pipe tobacco and cigar adverts continue until 1992.
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