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Milton Berle
Watch a 1954 episode of “The Buick-Berle Show” featuring Milton Berle and a guest appearance by Mickey Rooney
George Burns and Gracie Allen Jay Silverheels and Clayton Moore in The Lone Ranger
Watch an episode of the television game show “You Bet Your Life” hosted by Groucho Marx
The Honeymooners
Watch “The Honeymooners,” a 1951 sketch from Cavalcade of Stars
Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz Edward R. Murrow Gunsmoke
Quizzes
1970s style television set with static on the screen, on a small table with a doily underneath. (retro style)
Pop Culture Vocabulary Quiz
USA 2006 - 78th Annual Academy Awards. Closeup of giant Oscar statue at the entrance of the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles, California. Hompepage blog 2009, arts and entertainment, film movie hollywood
Pop Culture Quiz
The Kardashians at the Kardashian Kollection Launch Party held at the Colony in Los Angeles, California, United States on August 17, 2011.
American Reality TV
Viola Davis accepts the award for outstanding lead actress in a drama series for "How to Get Away With Murder"at the 67th Primetime Emmy Awards on Sunday, Sept. 20, 2015, at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles.
“And The Emmy Goes To…” Quiz
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An ancient egyptian hieroglyphic painted carving showing the falcon headed god Horus seated on a throne and holding a golden fly whisk. Before him are the Pharoah Seti and the goddess Isis. Interior wall of the temple to Osiris at Abydos, Egypt.
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Watch a 1954 episode of “The Buick-Berle Show” featuring Milton Berle and a guest appearance by Mickey Rooney
A 1954 episode of The Buick-Berle Show (1953–55) featuring star Milton Berle...
Video: Public Domain video
Watch an episode of the television game show “You Bet Your Life” hosted by Groucho Marx
An episode from the pioneering television game show You Bet Your Life (1950–61),...
Video: Public Domain video
Watch “The Honeymooners,” a 1951 sketch from Cavalcade of Stars
“The Honeymooners,” a 1951 sketch from Cavalcade of Stars, evolved into...
Video: Public Domain video
See the episode “A Wife for Andy” from The Andy Griffith Show, 1963
A 1963 episode of the classic rural comedy The Andy Griffith Show (1960–68).
Video: Public Domain video
Watch the first episode of the television comedy “The Beverly Hillbillies”
The first episode of the television comedy The Beverly Hillbillies (1962–71).
Video: Public Domain video
View an episode of “The Lucy Show” featuring Lucille Ball and a guest appearance by Mel Torme
A clip from a 1967 episode of The Lucy Show (1962–68) featuring star Lucille...
Video: Public Domain video

Images

Milton Berle
Milton Berle.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
George Burns and Gracie Allen
George Burns and Gracie Allen, 1952.
CBS Television
Jay Silverheels and Clayton Moore in The Lone Ranger
Jay Silverheels (left) as Tonto and Clayton Moore as the Lone Ranger in The Lone...
American Broadcasting Company
The Honeymooners
(From left to right) Jackie Gleason, Audrey Meadows, Art Carney, and Joyce Randolph...
Paramount Pictures—Archive Photos/Getty Images
Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz
Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz.
Photofest
Edward R. Murrow
Edward R. Murrow, 1954
UPI—Bettmann/Corbis
Gunsmoke
Ken Curtis (left) in the role of Festus Haggen and James Arness as Marshal Matt Dillon...
© Columbia Broadcasting System
scene from the television series Leave It to Beaver
(Clockwise from far left) Jerry Mathers, Hugh Beaumont, Barbara Billingsley, and...
© American Broadcasting Company
television quiz show Twenty-One
Host Jack Barry standing at the podium while contestant Charles Van Doren (right)...
NBC Television/Hulton Archive/Getty Images
Robert Stack in the role of Eliot Ness
Robert Stack in the role of Eliot Ness in a scene from the television series The...
© American Broadcasting Company
The Andy Griffith Show
(From left) Ron Howard as Opie, Frances Bavier as Aunt Bee, and Andy Griffith as...
© Columbia Broadcasting System
Master of suspense
Alfred Hitchcock's genius as both filmmaker and storyteller is abundantly evident...
The Bettmann Archive
Bonanza
(From left) Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, and Lorne Greene, the stars...
© National Broadcasting Company
Big Bird in Sesame Street
Big Bird reading a storybook during a taping of Sesame Street, 2008.
Mark Lennihan/AP Images
All in the Family
(Clockwise from top right) Carroll O'Connor, Rob Reiner, Sally Struthers, and Jean...
© Columbia Broadcasting System
M*A*S*H
(From left) Actors McLean Stevenson, Wayne Rogers, Gary Burghoff, and Alan Alda in...
© Columbia Broadcasting System
Ted Turner
Ted Turner being interviewed at the Cable News Network (CNN) studio in Atlanta, June...
Cynthia Johnson—Hulton Archive/Getty Images
scene from The Cosby Show
The cast of The Cosby Show: (standing, from left) Bill Cosby and Phylicia...
© NBCUniversal
Hill Street Blues
(From left) Michael Conrad, Veronica Hamel, and Daniel J. Travanti, stars of the...
© National Broadcasting Company
The Sopranos
Cast members of The Sopranos: (from left) Tony Sirico, Steven Van Zandt,...
© 1999 HBO
the cast of Dallas
(From left) Steve Kanaly, Patrick Duffy, Victoria Principal, Barbara Bel Geddes,...
© Columbia Broadcasting System
Bette Midler and Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show
Bette Midler kissing Johnny Carson during his penultimate appearance as the host...
Courtesy of Carson Entertainment
Oprah Winfrey
Oprah Winfrey, 1989.
AP
Alec Baldwin and Robert Osborne
Actor Alec Baldwin (left) and Turner Classic Movies host Robert Osborne.
PRNewsFoto/Turner Classic Movies/AP Images
Seinfeld
Scene from the television series Seinfeld, with actors (from left) Jason...
© Castle Rock Entertainment; all rights reserved
The Simpsons
The Simpsons—(from left) Lisa, Maggie, Marge, Homer, and Bart—fleeing Springfield...
The Simpsons TM and © 2007 Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation. All rights reserved.
Sarah Jessica Parker
Sarah Jessica Parker as Carrie Bradshaw in the television series Sex and the...
© Home Box Office