Early television in the 1950s was a freewheeling frontier of both live and taped offerings mostly dominated by comedies, game shows, kids programs, and westerns like "I Love Lucy," "The $64,000 ...

“You don’t play down to children,” Space Patrol lead Ed Kemmer once remarked. “A lot of shows make that mistake.” It’s an approach which explains why his 1950s series spawned more than 1000 episodes ...

It's hard to imagine a world without Star Trek or Doctor Who, but back in the 1950s and 1960s, science fiction on television was still trying to figure out what it wanted to be. The genre was new to ...

"Give me a child at an impressionable age, and she is mine for life." So the fanatical teacher of "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" (1969) liked to say. And so the TV networks have repeatedly proved.