1950s
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The Gene Autry Show (1950)
Byte-Sized Overview The Gene Autry Show is one of those early television westerns that helps explain why the genre took…
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The Cisco Kid (1950)
Byte-Sized Overview The Cisco Kid is a breezy, half-hour Western about a charming Mexican outlaw and his equally charmingly bewildered…
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The Detectives (1959)
Byte-Sized Overview The Detectives is the lean, hard-boiled American crime drama that put Robert Taylor in charge of a plainclothes…
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Lock Up (1959)
Byte-Sized Overview Lock Up is a hard-boiled legal drama from the end of the 1950s, set in Philadelphia and built…
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Johnny Staccato (1959)
Byte-Sized Overview Johnny Staccato is a sleek, smoke-laced private-eye series with a jazz pulse and a distinctly nocturnal mood. John…
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Hawaiian Eye (1959)
Byte-Sized Overview Hawaiian Eye is a glossy, sunlit detective series set in Honolulu, where private investigators Tracy Steele and Tom…
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Rawhide (1959)
Byte-Sized Overview Rawhide is the sort of long-running American Western that makes modern television look positively timid. Set on a…
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The Adventures of William Tell (1958)
Byte-Sized Overview The Adventures of William Tell is a brisk, old-school swashbuckler set in 14th-century Switzerland, where the Austrian occupiers…
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Ivanhoe (1958)
Byte-Sized Overview Ivanhoe is the 1958 British adventure serial in which Roger Moore wears the armour, stares nobly into the…
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Sea Hunt (1958)
Byte-Sized Overview Sea Hunt is a lean, salt-stung adventure series built around one gloriously simple premise: Lloyd Bridges as former…
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Naked City (1958)
Byte-Sized Overview Naked City is the 1958 American police drama that took the grimy, argumentative energy of Jules Dassin’s 1948…
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Peter Gunn (1958)
Byte-Sized Overview Peter Gunn is the sort of late-fifties detective series that arrives in a trench coat, orders a black…
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