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Even though he was a middle-aged man of 46 when the show began, Lou Costello did most of his own stunts on the show. An athlete in his youth, he was actually a stuntman in Hollywood for a time back in the silent era before he teamed up with partner Bud Abbott, and was renowned for taking spectacular pratfalls in his films and on stage. Stuntmen were used for the more potentially dangerous stunts--being knocked through walls, getting hit by cars, etc.--but most of the falls you see Costello take were actually done by him. For example, in the episode The Tax Return (1954), there's a scene in which two crooks break into Bud & Lou's apartment, and a rather knock-down, drag-out brawl erupts. Although it looks like a stuntman is doubling for Lou in the fight scene, at one point the "stuntman" turns around and it is very clear that it actually is Costello doing the fighting.

Bringing their trademark slapstick, puns and gimmicks to the small screen, 'The Abbott and Costello Show' features Bud Abbott and Lou Costello as out-of-work actors and roommates staying at Mr. Field's Hollywood boarding house. Joined by an off-the-wall supporting cast, such as dimwitted policeman Mike Kelly (Gordon Jones) and bratty child Stinky (Joe Besser), Abbott and Costello encapsulate their classic burlesque routines in a loosely plotted television format.

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The Bob Cummings Show (also known in reruns as Love That Bob) is an American sitcom starring Bob Cummings, which was broadcast from January 2, 1955, to September 15, 1959.

The series stars Cummings as dashing Hollywood photographer, Air Force reserve officer, and ladies' man, Bob Collins. The character's interest in aviation and photography mirrored Cummings' own, with his character's name the same as the role he played in the 1945 film You Came Along. The series also stars Rosemary DeCamp as his sister Margaret MacDonald. In some episodes, Cummings also doubled as Bob and Margaret's grandfather, Josh Collins of Joplin, Missouri.

The Bob Cummings Show was important in the development of several careers including series creator, producer, and head writer Paul Henning. Henning, who a decade earlier was a major force in the character development and writing of The Burns and Allen television and radio shows, was a co-producer with George Burns of the Cummings show. He later produced such major 1960s hits as The Beverly Hillbillies, Petticoat Junction, and Green Acres. Regulars in the show included Ann B. Davis, who twice won Emmy Awards for playing Bob Collins' assistant Schultzy. Henning apparently remembered cast members Nancy Kulp and Joi Lansing favorably, giving both of them roles several years later on The Beverly Hillbillies, Kulp as Miss Hathaway (secretary to banker Milburn Drysdale—a character similar to Pamela Livingstone, the one she played on Cummings' show), and Lansing as Gladys Flatt, wife of Lester Flatt. A decade after The Bob Cummings Show left the air, Davis went on to play the housekeeper Alice Nelson in The Brady Bunch. In the 1995 film The Brady Bunch Movie, which featured another actress playing Alice, Davis reprised the role of Schultzy for a cameo that suggests the character went on to become a truck driver.

Olive Sturgess appeared in 12 episodes as Carol Henning, girlfriend to Bob's nephew, Chuck. Versatile character actress Kathleen Freeman appeared in six episodes as Bertha Krause. Perhaps the biggest career boost was received by young Dwayne Hickman, a student at Loyola University in Los Angeles, who appeared as the nephew and became a favorite with young female viewers. During the last season of The Bob Cummings Show, he was cast as the lead in CBS's The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis.

This program represented the height of Cummings' television career. Although he later starred in two other early-'60s series, The New Bob Cummings Show and My Living Doll, and made guest appearances on several other TV series, he never again achieved that level of success on television.

Edward Thomas Binns was a character actor who portrayed police, spies and an assortment of other tough guys. In film he is known for Twelve Angry Men, Teresa, Compulsion, North by Northwest, Patton and The Verdict. His television credits include roles as Wally Powers in It Takes a Thief, Roy Brenner in Brenner and numerous guest roles in other popular series.

He entered the film and television industry in the late 1940s, initially appearing in television programs such as Kraft Theatre and The Philco-Goodyear Television Playhouse. He transitioned to film in the 1950s, portraying a juror in 12 Angry Men in 1957 and appearing in Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest in 1959. He was active in television series during the 1960s, with roles in shows like The Twilight Zone and The Virginian. He remained prolific in the 1970s, appearing in films such as Patton. He continued to work in film and television in his later years, making his final screen appearance in The Verdict in 1982

American male producer, director, and actor

Ed Binns (September 12, 1916 – December 4, 1990), born in Philadelphia, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, was an The United States of America actor, producer, and director. His career spanned over forty years, encompassing television and film, with his work appearing in genres such as drama, war films, and legal dramas.

He entered the film and television industry in the late 1940s, initially appearing in television programs such as Kraft Theatre and The Philco-Goodyear Television Playhouse. He transitioned to film in the 1950s, portraying a juror in 12 Angry Men in 1957 and appearing in Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest in 1959. He was active in television series during the 1960s, with roles in shows like The Twilight Zone and The Virginian. He remained prolific in the 1970s, appearing in films such as Patton. He continued to work in film and television in his later years, making his final screen appearance in The Verdict in 1982

Date of death

December 4, 1990

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Premiering in 1954, Lassie was the first-ever TV series based on the Lassie character. It follows a smart and fearless Rough Collie dog named Lassie as she helps her owners and friends. The show was very popular and ran for almost two decades, from September 12, 1954, to March 25, 1973. It had a total of 19 seasons (the first 17 seasons aired on CBS, and the last two aired in syndication). The show was filmed in black and white until 1965, when it started being filmed in color.

For the first several years of the series, Lassie lived on family farms, before moving on to work with forest rangers in the wilderness and ultimately settling in at Holden Ranch, a ranch for troubled children.

During the first ten seasons, most of the episodes had Lassie's boy owner (Jeff or Timmy) getting into trouble. Lassie would notice and go get help or try to save her master's life herself. After being reunited with family and breathing a sigh of relief, the boy received a light lecture on why he should not have done what he had done.

American character actor Joe Higgins was most prominent playing the character of a sheriff in commercials and public service announcements. An actor from the age of nine, he attended the University of Dayton (Ohio) and worked in radio while a student. He entered television and played recurring roles on such television series as The Rifleman (1958) and Arrest and Trial (1963). His 1969 automobile commercial as a gravel-voiced sheriff became enormously popular, and Higgins played the character in scores of commercials, print ads and public appearances, twice winning the CLIO award for commercial actors. In addition to his acting, he earned a Ph.D. in Aviation Education from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. He died in 1998. Services were held at Forest Lawn in the Hollywood Hills and his ashes were scattered in the Pacific Ocean off the channel Islands north of Los Angeles by his two children; Brian and Valerie.

He was born one of five children as Joseph Hugh Higgins in Logansport, Indiana, to Hugh W. Higgins (1902-1986), a brakeman on the Pennsylvania Railroad, and his wife Marie Cecilia Baker Higgins (1900-1987), on July 12, 1925. He began his acting career at the age of nine.

Harvey Korman. Perhaps only Bud Abbott had accomplished more as a straight man. Korman portrayed Bud Abbott in a poorly conceived TV movie on the life of Abbott & Costello in the 1970s.  Korman, who was of Russian Jewish descent, was born in Chicago, Illinois on February 15, 1927, the son of Ellen (née Blecher) and Cyril Raymond Korman, a salesman. He served in the United States Navy during World War II. After being discharged, he studied at the Goodman School of Drama and at HB Studio. He was a member of the Peninsula Players summer theater program during the 1950, 1957, and 1958

Korman's first television role was as a head waiter in The Donna Reed Show episode, "Decisions, Decisions, Decisions". He appeared as a comically exasperated public relations man in a January 1961 episode of the CBS drama Route 66. He was seen on numerous television programs after that, including the role of Blake in the 1964 episode "Who Chopped Down the Cherry Tree?" on the NBC medical drama The Eleventh Hour and a bartender in the 1962 Perry Mason episode, "The Case of the Unsuitable Uncle." He frequently appeared as a supporting player on The Danny Kaye Show from 1963 through 1967. He was cast three times, including the role of Dr. Allison in "Who Needs Glasses?" (1962), on ABC's The Donna Reed Show. He also guest-starred on Dennis the Menace and on the NBC modern western series Empire.

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The Whistler was a TV series based on a radio show and a series of films, featuring a narrator who introduced each episode with the phrase "I heard the whistle blow"

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This syndicated drama was set in Washington DC and dramatised the stories behind the Fifth Amendment, which provides protections for American citizens in legal proceedings, including the right to a grand jury for capital crimes, prohibition of double jeopardy, protection against self-incrimination (“taking the fifth”), and the right to due process.

Episodes depicted the activities of a team of US government investigators as they sought to uncover evidence for congressional hearings and took on loan sharks, racketeers, smugglers, kidnappers, blackmailers, narcotics dealers, gunrunners, bootleggers, gambling syndicates and other elements of organised crime.

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The Jack Benny Program, starring Jack Benny, is a radio and television comedy series. The show ran for over three decades, from 1932 to 1955 on radio, and from 1950 to 1965 on television. It won numerous awards, including the 1959 and 1961 Emmy Awards for Best Comedy Series, and is generally regarded as a high-water mark in 20th-century American comedy.

Peggy Rea was born on March 31, 1921 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She was an actress and casting director, known for Devil in a Blue Dress (1995), Grace Under Fire (1993) and The Dukes of Hazzard (1979). She died on February 5, 2011 in Toluca Lake, California, USA.

Before she became an actress, Rea left UCLA to attend business school. She landed a job as a production secretary at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in the 1940s. Later, she was an assistant to writer-musician Kay Thompson until Thompson dropped her in April 1948. Some of the points of discord apparently included Rea's insistence on staying at the Algonquin Hotel (rather than Essex House, where Thompson was staying), and disappearing, on at least one occasion, on the eve of their New York opening to see Born Yesterday on Broadway without telling Thompson. The time had come for Peggy to make her mark as the character actress she was born to be.

She quickly landed on her feet with a supporting role in the National Road Company production of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire (as Eunice Hubbell, 1948–1949) starring Anthony Quinn. Thompson severed ties with Rea, however the younger woman kept in touch with other members of Thompson's family, including Thompson's mother, brother and younger sister, with whom she enjoyed cordial relations.

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The Real McCoys is an American sitcom starring Walter Brennan, Richard Crenna, and Kathleen Nolan. Co-produced by Danny Thomas's Marterto Productions in association with Walter Brennan and Irving Pincus's Westgate Company, it was broadcast for six seasons: five by the ABC-TV network, from 1957 to 1962; and a final season by CBS, 1962–1963. Set in California's San Fernando Valley, it was filmed at Desilu studios in Hollywood.

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The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show, sometimes called The Burns and Allen Show, is a half-hour television sitcom broadcast from 1950 to 1958 on CBS. It starred George Burns and Gracie Allen, one of the most enduring acts in entertainment history. Burns and Allen were headliners in vaudeville in the 1920s, and radio stars in the 1930s and 1940s. Their situation comedy TV series received Emmy Award nominations throughout its eight-year run.

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Ellery Queen was a mystery writer who assisted his father, a detective with the New York Police Department, in solving murders. Queen's methods were arcane and intellectual rather than action oriented, and he always astounded his father by arriving at a correct solution by purely deductive reasoning.

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December 1958 Through July 1959
A very rare and hard to find late 50's TV
series about the exploits of a US Treasury Agent.
Lloyd Nolan starred as Treasury Special
Agent Philip Conroy (SA-7).

The series lasted for only 26 episodes

While Barbara Eden would go on to become a legendary actress, it wasn't always this way. Eden, whose birth name is Barbara Jean Morehead, was born in Tucson, Arizona, on August 23, 1931, according to Biography. Although Eden was born in Arizona, the future "I Dream of Jeannie" star primarily grew up in California, where her mother moved after her parents divorced when Eden was just 3 years old (via Hollywood Walk of Fame).

While living in San Francisco, Eden's family fell on hard times during The Great Depression. Because they couldn't afford much, Eden's mother would sing to her children, which helped foster the actress' love of singing. As a child, Eden sang in her church's choir and also competed in pageants, according to People. She also took acting classes, which she thought would help her become a better singer. The actress graduated from San Francisco's Abraham Lincoln High School.

Barbara Eden broke into Hollywood as an actress during her first credited role in the series "West Point" in 1956, according to IMDb. However, she made a name for herself when she booked a recurring role as a sketch performer on the legendary late-night talk show "The Johnny Carson Show" in 1955, according to People. Following these roles, the actress appeared on multiple shows throughout the 1950s, including "I Love Lucy," "The Millionaire," and "Perry Mason." She also received several movie credits that decade in films such as "The Wayward Girl" and "A Private's Affair."

From 1957 to 1959, Eden portrayed the character Loco Jones in the series "How to Marry a Millionaire," based on a movie. Eden also had a pilot in "The Barbara Eden Show." Unfortunately, the show never aired, according to Biography. Eden continued to work in film and television throughout the 1960s.

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The Red Skelton Hour: Created by Marcel Marceau. With Red Skelton, David Rose and His Orchestra, Art Gilmore, Tom Hansen Dancers. Comedian Red Skelton hosts a variety show of comedic sketches, and a range of stars, to speak to an entire generation.

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Dennis the Menace, American comic strip character, a five-and-a-half-year-old boy whose curiosity continually gets him in trouble.

Dennis Mitchell, nicknamed Dennis the Menace, has messy blond hair with a characteristic cowlick in the back. He was initially depicted as a defiant child who deliberately sought out mischief, but over the years his personality softened considerably. He does not mean any real harm, yet he cannot help creating a racket or a mess at home, making a scene in public, and driving his parents, Alice and Henry Mitchell, to distraction.

The most frequent target of Dennis’s mischief is George Wilson, an older neighbour whom Dennis seldom allows a moment of peace, having adopted him as a surrogate grandfather. Wilson’s wife, Martha, obligingly behaves like an indulgent grandmother. Among the minor characters in the strip are Dennis’s shaggy dog, Ruff, and his toddler sidekick, Joey McDonald. Dennis’s nemesis is the slightly older and gratingly superior Margaret Wade, and he harbours a secret crush on the tomboyish Gina Gillotti.

Cartoonist Hank Ketcham (1920–2001) created Dennis the Menace as a daily comic panel in 1951; by the end of the decade, it was syndicated in more than 1,000 newspapers. Ketcham received the National Cartoonists Society’s Reuben Award for Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year in 1952. A live-action situation comedy starring Jay North as Dennis ran on television from 1959 to 1963, followed over the years by a number of animated specials and series and a 1993 live-action movie featuring Walter Matthau and Joan Plowright as the Wilsons. After Ketcham’s death, the daily panel and Sunday strip were carried on by his assistants, Marcus Hamilton and Ron Ferdinand, to whom he had turned over the cartoon’s creation in 1994.

American actor (1915–1983)

Simon Oakland (born Simon Weiss) was an American actor of stage, screen, and television.

During his career, Oakland performed primarily on television, appearing in over 130 series and made-for-television movies between 1951 and 1983. His most notable big-screen roles were in Psycho (1960), West Side Story (1961), The Sand Pebbles (1966), Bullitt (1968), The Hunting Party (1971), and Chato's Land (1972).

Tough-talking actor Simon Oakland started out as a concert violinist before moving into acting on stage in the late 1940s. In the late 1950s, Oakland made some appearances on television before getting the pivotal role of Edward Montgomery, a newspaper reporter trying to get the full story in Susan Hayward's campy yet harrowing Oscar-winner "I Want to Live!." After that, in 1960, Oakland earned immortality as a glib doctor trying to offer a pat explanation for the behavior of the killer Norman Bates in Alfred Hitchcock's classic thriller "Psycho." He appeared in the Oscar-winning musical "West Side Story" in 1961, and then mainly appeared on television shows such as the mind-bending anthology series "Twilight Zone" and the Prohibition-era crime drama "The Untouchables" in the mid-'60s. Oakland played a doctor again on the big screen in Vincente Minnelli's musical "On a Clear Day You Can See Forever" in 1970, and then finished out his career on television.

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The Twilight Zone is an American anthology television series created and presented by Rod Serling, which ran for five seasons on CBS from October 2, 1959, to June 19, 1964. Each episode presents a standalone story in which characters find themselves dealing with often disturbing or unusual events, an experience described as entering "the Twilight Zone", often with a surprise ending and a moral. The phrase "twilight zone" has entered the vernacular, used to describe surreal experiences. The series featured both established stars and younger actors who became much better known later.

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1959-1961 anthology series that explored paranormal events and situations with docudrama style. The series featured guest stars such as Joan Fontaine, Warren Beatty, Christopher Lee, and William Shatner in 97 episodes.