Sequences of the 1950s

66 sequences from shows that began in the 1950s. A show’s sequences stay together under the decade it started in, even where the run carried on into the next one.

• The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet — Season 127sFan upload.
• The Adventures of Superman — Season 159sFan upload. The oldest American series in the catalogue by first broadcast.
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents — Seasons 1–7Unchanged for seven seasons. Hitchcock drew the caricature himself, and chose Gounod's 'Funeral March of a Marionette' because of what it had done to him in a film he saw in 1927 — a piece of borrowed music now so welded to his profile that most people who hum it have never heard its title.
• American Bandstand — Season 1No usable clip kept. The one upload runs the opening into a performer's introduction rather than stopping at the titles.
• As the World Turns — Season 4145sFan upload of the long 1996 opening; counting a season per year from the April 1956 launch, that is the forty-first.
• As the World Turns — Season 5230sFan upload of the 2007 titles; counting a season per year from the April 1956 launch, that is the fifty-second.
• The Benny Hill Show — Season 1No usable clip kept. The one result is a Thames continuity announcement rather than the programme's own titles.
• Blue Peter — Season 4540sFan upload of the 2002 titles; counting a season per year from the October 1958 launch, that is the forty-fifth.
• Blue Peter — Season 6423sPosted by Liquid TV, the studio that designed it, dated 2021 — the sixty-fourth season counted from the October 1958 launch.
• Bonanza — Season 137sThe opening, with the map catching fire.
• The Bullwinkle Show — Season 125sFan upload.
• Captain Kangaroo — Season 1No usable clip placed. The one clean upload is dated 1985, after the CBS run had ended, and cannot be attributed to a season of it.
• Captain Pugwash — Season 1No usable clip kept. The one upload is a videotape capture that runs the opening, the closing and the distributor's front matter together.
• The Cisco Kid — Season 164sFan upload.
• The Colgate Comedy Hour — Season 428sFan upload dated 21 March 1954, which falls in the fourth season counted from the September 1950 launch.
• The Danny Thomas Show — Season 131sFan upload. The programme ran as Make Room for Daddy on ABC before taking this title at CBS.
• The Donna Reed Show — Season 834sFan upload of the eighth and final season.
• Dragnet — Season 132sFan upload of the 1967 revival's open. The first search returned an opening-and-closing bundle spanning both runs; a second query found this alone.
• The Edge of Night — Season 1No usable clip kept. The one upload runs nearly four minutes and collects the whole 1956 to 1984 run into a montage.
• Father Knows Best — Season 125sFan upload.
• The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show — Season 19sFan upload. Nine seconds — as short as anything the streaming services do now, seventy years earlier.
• Grandstand — Season 2398sFan upload of the 1980 titles; counting a season per year from the 1958 launch, that is the twenty-third.
• Grandstand — Season 3349sFan upload of the 1990 titles; counting a season per year from the 1958 launch, that is the thirty-third.
• Guiding Light — Season 4452sFan upload dated 1995; counting a season per year from the 1952 television launch, that is the forty-fourth.
• Guiding Light — Season 5131sFan upload dated 2002; counting a season per year from the 1952 television launch, that is the fifty-first.
• Gunsmoke — Season 1No usable clip kept — the available upload runs the opening and closing themes together rather than the opening alone.
• Hancock's Half Hour — Season 113sBBC tv presents, and the caricature at the tuba. The BBC original rather than the later Australian series that had been answering every search.
• Have Gun – Will Travel — Seasons 1–627sFan upload. The uploader states this open ran across all six seasons unchanged.
• Highway Patrol — Season 144sFan upload.
• Hockey Night in Canada — Season 7041sFan upload of the 2021/22 intro; counting a season per year from the 1952 television launch, that is the seventieth.
• The Honeymooners — Season 136sThe opening theme.
• The Huckleberry Hound Show — Season 162sFan upload of the 1958 intro, sponsor card included.
• I Love Lucy — Season 122sThe animated heart-and-satin title card.
• I've Got a Secret — Season 1No usable clip verified. The one result labelled as the first season's intro runs nearly four minutes, and a narrower search returns nothing.
• Ivor the Engine — Season 113sFan upload, dated by the uploader to 1975.
• The Lawrence Welk Show — Season 154sFan upload.
• Leave It to Beaver — Season 1No usable clip verified. The only result runs over three minutes against a much shorter broadcast open, and a second query found nothing better.
• Maverick — Season 1No usable clip verified. Every result is the 2022 Top Gun sequel of the same name.
• Mr Squiggle — Season 121sFan upload.
• Noggin the Nog — Season 122sFan upload, dated by the uploader to 1959.
• One Step Beyond — Season 128sFan upload.
• Our Miss Brooks — Season 113sFan upload.
• Panorama — Season 3025sFan upload of the 1982 titles; counting a season per year from the November 1953 launch, that is the thirtieth.
• Perry Mason (1957) — Season 142sThe original opening.
• The Phil Silvers Show — Season 144sThe opening theme, from Shout! Studios.
• Playhouse 90 — Season 1The opening, from an archive upload that runs on into the programme.
• The Quick Draw McGraw Show — Season 136sFan upload of the 1959 intro.
• Rawhide — Season 160sFan upload of the first season's open, found on a second query after the first returned an opening-and-closing bundle and the theme as a music release.
• The Rifleman — Season 121sPosted by Crackle, which holds the series — a rights-holder upload for a 1958 western.
• Romper Room — Season 135sFan upload.
• Sea Hunt — Season 128sFan upload.
• Search for Tomorrow — Season 124sThe 1984 title card, the show's name over cloud. Counting a season a year from the 1951 start puts that near the thirty-fourth, which is arithmetic rather than a label, so it stays filed at the first with the year stated here.
• The Sky at Night — Season 130sFan upload.
• Sky King — Season 114sFan upload, dated by the uploader to the 1950s.
• The Sooty Show — Season 1No usable clip placed. The one dated upload covers 1985 to 1987, and the programme's move from the BBC to ITV leaves no season numbering that reaches it. The successor series, Sooty & Co, is catalogued separately.
• This Is Your Life — Season 1No usable clip kept. The one upload of the titles carries no date, and the programme moved between the BBC and ITV more than once.
• To Tell the Truth — Season 131sFan upload of the CBS credits.
• Truth or Consequences — Season 167sFan upload.
• The Twilight Zone — Season 151sThe first version: drifting grey cloud, Serling's 'fifth dimension' narration, and Bernard Herrmann's score rather than the theme the show is remembered for.
• The Twilight Zone — Season 228sReworked into a different abstraction, with a single point of light resolving out of the texture.
• The Twilight Zone — Seasons 3–529sThe one that became the shorthand for the whole show — the spiral, the shattering window, the eye and the door, cut to Marius Constant's two-guitar theme. Held for the last three seasons and quoted ever since.
• The Untouchables — Season 1110sThe opening, with Winchell's narration.
• Wagon Train — Season 189sFan upload.
• What's My Line? — Season 1No usable clip kept. The available uploads run the opening and closing together, and have been colourised.
• You Bet Your Life — Season 1No usable clip kept. The one upload runs nearly three minutes and carries the whole opening block rather than the titles.
• Your Show of Shows — Season 1No usable clip found. Searching returns Apple TV's The Morning Show, which shares no words with the title.

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