| 1947-1960 | NBC | children's variety show featuring a freckled cowboy puppet and an audience of children known as the Peanut Gallery | Howdy Doody |
| 1948-1971 | CBS | variety show that famously featured performances by Elvis and The Beatles | The Ed Sullivan Show |
| 1949-1957 | ABC | western about a masked Texas Ranger and his Native American companion | The Lone Ranger |
| 1951-1957 | CBS | a housewife, who dreams of being a performer, is married to a Cuban bandleader | I Love Lucy |
| 1952-present | NBC | news and talk morning show | The Today Show |
| 1954-1973 | CBS | family drama about a female Collie dog | Lassie |
| 1954-present | NBC | late night talk show | The Tonight Show |
| 1955-1956 | CBS | sitcom about a bus driver and his wife and friends who live in Bensonhurst, an area of Brooklyn | The Honeymooners |
| 1955-1975 | CBS | western set in Dodge City, Kansas in the 1870s | Gunsmoke |
| 1956-1963 | syndication | cartoon about a sailor who gets strong when he eats spinach | Popeye the Sailor |
| 1958-1959 | syndication | a trio of bumbling, short-tempered laborers attempt everyday tasks that inevitably devolve into physical slapstick and verbal insults | The Three Stooges |
| 1959-1964 | CBS | sci-fi horror anthology | The Twilight Zone |
| 1959-1973 | NBC | western about a ranch owner and his sons who operate Ponderosa Ranch near Virginia City, Nevada | Bonanza |
