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What are the best early 1948-60 TV Comedy Series?
2-21-08 | Bender2

Posted on 02/21/2008 4:36:29 PM PST by Bender2

What are your favorite TV variety and situation comedy series from 1948-1960? I am old enough to remember most of them!


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KEYWORDS: comedy; series; television
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My favorite of all times is... that was originally called "The Bob Cummings Show" that first ran from 1955-1959. I have several video tapes and some DVDs that I still watch and find very, very funny even after nearly 50 years!

Schultzy, Grandpa, Margaret, Chuck, Harvey Helm, Pamela Livingstone, Shirley [WOW!!!] Swanson! Now those are characters that will live forever in Comic Heaven!

1 posted on 02/21/2008 4:36:32 PM PST by Bender2
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Shirley [WOW!!!]

Hello:

http://images.google.com/images?safe=off&q=joi+lansing

2 posted on 02/21/2008 4:39:01 PM PST by KayEyeDoubleDee (const Tag &referenceToConstTag)
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To: Bender2

The Honeymooners.


3 posted on 02/21/2008 4:39:18 PM PST by mdittmar (May God watch over those who serve,and have served,to keep us free)
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I was born just a little too late(1964), but I used to love this one.
4 posted on 02/21/2008 4:39:32 PM PST by Califreak (Hangin' with Hunter-under the bus "Dread and Circuses")
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To: South40; Loyal Buckeye; Allegra; big'ol_freeper; TrueKnightGalahad; blackie; Larry Lucido; ...
Any of ya'll old enough to remember any of these?

Of course, had "Futurama" been on in the 1950s... I'd be a much bigger star today. I know that's hard to believe, but it is true!!!

5 posted on 02/21/2008 4:39:32 PM PST by Bender2 ("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
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I like old B&W games shows... What’s My Line, I’ve Got A Secret type stuff.

The late Senator Everett Dirksen was on What’s My Line a few nights ago on GSN (the game show network).

It was a great episode.


6 posted on 02/21/2008 4:39:51 PM PST by jdm (The traffic lights turn blue tomorrow.)
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Huh.

According to IMDB, she died of breast cancer.

Ouch.

7 posted on 02/21/2008 4:40:39 PM PST by KayEyeDoubleDee (const Tag &referenceToConstTag)
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To: Bender2

I remember Seinfeld. Does that count?


8 posted on 02/21/2008 4:40:42 PM PST by Dysart
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There was TV then???


9 posted on 02/21/2008 4:40:52 PM PST by Onelifetogive (This is an Obama-nation!)
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To: Bender2
You'll Never Get Rich

Also Known as

The Phil Silvers Show

10 posted on 02/21/2008 4:41:33 PM PST by muir_redwoods (Free Sirhan Sirhan, after all, the bastard who killed Mary Jo Kopechne is walking around free)
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To: jdm

Sgt. Bilko with Phil Silvers


11 posted on 02/21/2008 4:41:36 PM PST by mortal19440
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I loved “Leave It to Beaver” and “The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet”. They helped me to know what a normal childhood was like.Mine was far from that ideal.

I still catch LITB on TVLand and watch with nostalgia.


12 posted on 02/21/2008 4:41:44 PM PST by exit82 (People get the government they deserve. And they are about to get it--in spades.)
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To: Onelifetogive

Yeah, but there weren’t any used ones.


13 posted on 02/21/2008 4:41:56 PM PST by Richard Kimball (Sure, they'd love to kill me, as long as they can do it without admitting I exist)
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To: KayEyeDoubleDee
YES! WOW!!!!

14 posted on 02/21/2008 4:42:04 PM PST by Bender2 ("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
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I liked Our Miss Brooks.


15 posted on 02/21/2008 4:42:49 PM PST by Richard Kimball (Sure, they'd love to kill me, as long as they can do it without admitting I exist)
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The Dick Van Dyke Show & Red Skelton Show


16 posted on 02/21/2008 4:43:10 PM PST by SAMWolf (Huckabee & McCain say -- Those are my principles. If you don't like them I have others.)
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Make Room For Daddy
The Twilight Zone
Car 54, Where Are You?
You Bet Your Life

etc....


17 posted on 02/21/2008 4:45:21 PM PST by J40000
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I am running on reruns but was this Red Skeleton, Car 54, The Real McCoys era.
18 posted on 02/21/2008 4:45:25 PM PST by ThomasThomas
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Jack Benny and I don’t care, Amos and Andy was funny.


19 posted on 02/21/2008 4:45:36 PM PST by Adder (hialb)
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Saw some kinescopes of the Ernie Kovaks show. Really funny stuff.


20 posted on 02/21/2008 4:46:07 PM PST by LexBaird (Behold, thou hast drinken of the Aide of Kool, and are lost unto Men.)
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