Being a child of the 1950s, aside vaccines for polio, TB and smallpox, the rest of the 'common diseases,' mumps, measles, chicken pox, rubella, and whooping cough were in fact, common! Sick days were ...

If you wanted to find the Vietnam War in American television shows, you mostly had to wait until it was long over.

When the Cincinnati Museum Center celebrates “1950s Day” next month, the city’s biggest TV stars will be showcased in the Scripps-Howard Newsreel Theater in grainy black-and-white.

Stacker compiled a list of 10 of the most unforgettable maternal figures in television history using information from IMDb ...

The first glimmers of public discontent emerged in American music. In 1963 Bob Dylan condemned the “Masters of War” who “hide ...

Even though the 1950s are far back in our collective cultural rear-view mirror, some things from the era have subsisted. If you scroll through your cable channels, you might see a few television ...

There are plenty of shows to spend time with. From seasons-long shows that will take months to finish, to short-binge ...

It was a somber and dark day in American history when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963. Television ended up becoming a crucial information point, uniting a grieving ...

Phillips went on to turn her successful radio drama “Guiding Light” into a TV soap opera in 1952 and ... the twisting plots were grounded in the great American postwar preoccupations of ...

First published in 1953 (which is surprising, given only 9% of American homes had a TV in 1950), TV Guide became almost as much a part of the television experience as the actual programs it covered.

The evening news brought the Vietnam War into American living rooms, but once the news was over, so was the war. Primetime shows brought nary a mention of it as … The post 12 TV Shows Influenced By ...