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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

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To: Adder
Amos and Andy without a doubt..
Would be funny even today.. as good as Seinfeld..
41 posted on 02/21/2008 4:55:26 PM PST by hosepipe (CAUTION: This propaganda is laced with hyperbole....)
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To: mdittmar
I tell ya, Ralphie boy... all the guys I know are voting for Hillary. She has that sewer smell of success we are used to!
42 posted on 02/21/2008 4:56:16 PM PST by Bender2 ("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
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To: Califreak

To each his own, but I found ILLucy very unfunny and predictable at the time. Now, in retrospect, it appears unfunny and painfully, embarrassingly dated.

I know the comparison usually goes the other way, but, Lucille Ball is no Carol Burnett.


43 posted on 02/21/2008 4:56:27 PM PST by BunkDetector
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To: Bender2

For drama/action I enjoyed Rat Patrol and Combat.


44 posted on 02/21/2008 4:56:52 PM PST by South40 (Amnesty is a slap in the face to the USBP!)
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To: Bender2

TOPPER was a show that I recall in reruns.

The guy who was in charge over at the “Man from U.N.C.L.E.” was also Topper a guy who could see the ghosts who haunted his house while nobody else could.

I think that it was on in reruns when I was a kid only because of the stature of that Napoleon Solo series.


45 posted on 02/21/2008 4:57:04 PM PST by Radix (I do not want to press one for English.)
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To: fish hawk
I was a teenage Thurbur fan and loved that show too! Great stuff.

Howzabout:

The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
Hazel
My Living Doll (with Julie Newmar hubba hubba!)
Any variety show with Victor Borge
Anything with Lonesome George Gobel
And the king of them all, Red Skelton! My dad and I never missed his show. Inventive, clean comedy with a heart - they don't make 'em like Red anymore!
46 posted on 02/21/2008 4:57:32 PM PST by GodBlessRonaldReagan (Big dog, big dog, bow-wow-wow! We'll crush crime, now, now, now!)
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To: Califreak
About thst 'splainin', Rick... I'm working on it!
47 posted on 02/21/2008 5:00:02 PM PST by Bender2 ("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
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To: InvisibleChurch

I’d have to disagree with you guys. I seem to remember that 1967 was the year that color became the standard on tv.

Some of the shows that went from B&W in 1966 to color in 1967:

The Monkees, The Beverly Hillbillies, Gilligan’s Island, etc...


48 posted on 02/21/2008 5:01:58 PM PST by J40000
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To: GodBlessRonaldReagan
You can still watch him now in color on youtube... Red Skelton
49 posted on 02/21/2008 5:03:03 PM PST by shineon
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To: Bender2

“What are the best early 1948-60 TV Comedy Series?”

I’m only old enough to remember seeing re-broadcast airings of some
of the 1948-60s shows.

But I do remember the Dobie Gillis show a bit. Also notable for the
“love interest” of the main character was played by Sheila Kuehl
who became a prominent openly-lesbian state legislator in California.

Additionally, I do remember “The Honeymooners”...a great series about
an “everyman” bus driver and his long-suffering wife, as well as the
wacky neighbor and his sane wife. That series “broke trail” for all
sorts of following sitcoms (although I guess the experts say “I Love
Lucy” was the real trail-breaker).
...and if you go back farther, some of the film/media types say that
Will Rogers started the “everyman” father and nice wife sitcom with
some of his work in Hollywood.

“The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis” (1959)
TV series 1959-1963
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052490/

Full cast and crew for
“The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis” (1959)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052490/fullcredits

Sheila James Kuehl
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0473861/
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0473861/bio


50 posted on 02/21/2008 5:04:41 PM PST by VOA
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To: jdm
No can do, Bill... Senator Obama says a hanging chad is racist this time around.
51 posted on 02/21/2008 5:05:03 PM PST by Bender2 ("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
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To: J40000
show-off!

: )

52 posted on 02/21/2008 5:08:03 PM PST by InvisibleChurch (" Nobody likes weepy meat." -- Mayor Quimby)
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To: muir_redwoods
Fellas, if Hillary get elected... I won’t be the biggest conman on the government payroll anymore!
53 posted on 02/21/2008 5:08:18 PM PST by Bender2 ("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
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To: Bender2

MR. PEEPERS with Wally Cox (also his short-lived THE ADVENTURES OF HIRAM HOLIDAY). The Phil Silvers Show (aka YOU’LL NEVER GET RICH). Sid Caesar’s YOUR SHOW OF SHOWS. The original Steve Allen TONIGHT SHOW. MEET CORLISS ARCHER. MY LITTLE MARGIE.

There were a lot more.


54 posted on 02/21/2008 5:10:41 PM PST by Argus
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To: Onelifetogive
Re: There was TV then???

Yes, there was TV... but we had to rub two sticks together to power them up!

55 posted on 02/21/2008 5:11:40 PM PST by Bender2 ("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
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To: Radix
Topper was a good one.

Leo Carroll played Cosmo Topper.


56 posted on 02/21/2008 5:13:20 PM PST by South40 (Amnesty is a slap in the face to the USBP!)
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To: Argus

I know this was supposed to be situation comedy - but whatever...

Johnny Umah
Destry
Have Gun Will Travel
Wagon Train
The Littlest Hobo


57 posted on 02/21/2008 5:13:23 PM PST by shineon
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To: shineon

Did I say
Mr. Lucky


58 posted on 02/21/2008 5:14:20 PM PST by shineon
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To: Bender2

I enjoyed shows like “Private Secretary” with Ann Sothern, “Our Miss Brooks”, “Mr. Peepers”, “The People’s Choice,” and “My Little Margie” with Gale Storm. There were also the comedy/variety shows featuring: Red Skelton, Red Buttons, Ed Wynn, Jack Benny, Spike Jones and Ernie Kovacs. One we usually always watched was “Show of Shows” with Sid Caesar and Imogene Coco. There was also the George Goebel Show.


59 posted on 02/21/2008 5:15:02 PM PST by mass55th
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To: Bender2
but we had to rub two sticks together to power them up!

lol!

With no Internet, we had to do someting to pass the time. :-)

60 posted on 02/21/2008 5:15:42 PM PST by South40 (Amnesty is a slap in the face to the USBP!)
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