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Blondie (theatrical series) (1938-50) starring Penny Singleton & Arthur Lake
The Girls:Young and Gay (CBS)(1950) starring Bethel Leslie, Mary Malone
The Bickersons (syndicated)(circa 1950) starring Frances Langford & Lew Parker
The Life of Riley (CBS)(1949-50) starring Jackie Gleason
The Aldrich Family (NBC)(1949-53)
The Ruggles (ABC)(1949-53)
The Goldbergs (1949-56) starring Gertrude Berg
Mama (1949-57) starring Peggy Wood, Judson Laire
Beulah (Roland Reed/ABC) starring Ehel Waters (1950-52), Louise Beavers (1952-53)
The Stu Erwin Show: Trouble With Father (1950-55) starring Stu Erwin
The Burns and Allen Show (CBS) (1950-58) / The George Burns Show (NBC) (1958-59)
Two Girls Named Smith (ABC)(1951) starring Peggy Ann Garner, Peggy French
Amos 'n' Andy (Hal Roach/CBS)(1951-53) starring Alvin Childress, Spencer Williams
A Date With Judy (ABC)(1951-53) starring Patricia Crowley, Mary Lynn Beller
I Love Lucy (Desilu/CBS)(1951-57) Lucille Ball &Desi Arnaz
The Jack Benny Program (1951-65) starring Jack Benny
The Red Skelton Show (NBC/CBS) (1951-71) starring Red Skelton
Boss Lady (Jack Wrather/NBC)(Summer 1952) starrin Lynn Bari
Life with Luigi (CBS)(1952-53) starring J. Carrol Naish, Vitto Scotti
My Hero (1952-53) starring Bob Cummings
My Friend Irma (CBS)(1952-54) starring Marie Wilson
My Little Margie (Hal Roach Studios)(1952-55) starring Gale Storm
I Married Joan (1952-55) starring Joan Davis & Jim Backus
Our Miss Brooks (Desilu)(1952-56) starring Eve Arden
Meet Millie (CBS)(1952-56) starring Elena Verdugo

The Honeymooners (CBS)(1952-57)
starring JackieGleason, Audrey Meadows, Art Carney, Joyce Randolph

The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet (1952-66) starring Ozzie & Harriet Nelson
My Son Jeep (ABC)(Summer 1953) starring Jeffrey Lynn & Martin Houston
Pride Of The Family (Revue)(1953-54) starring Paul Hartman & Fay Wray
Jamie (Talent Associates/ABC)(1953-54) starring Brandon de Wilde
Colonel Humphrey Flack (DuMont 1953-54 live) starring Alan Mowbray, Frank Jenks
Life With Elizabeth (Don Fedderson/Synd)(1953-55) starring Betty White & Del Moore
Topper (1953-55) starring Leo G. Carroll
Where's Raymond (1953-54)/ The Ray Bolger Show (1954-55)
My Favorite Husband (CBS)(1953-55) starring Barry Nelson, Joan Caulfied, Vanessa Brown
Life With Father (1953-55) starring Leon Ames & Lurene Tuttle
Meet Mr McNutley (Revue) (1953-54)/ The Ray Milland Show (1954-55)
Ethel and Albert (NBC later ABC)(1953-56) starring Pat Lynch and Alan Bunce
Private Secretary a.k.a. Susie (1953-57) starring Ann Sothern
Life Of Riley (NBC)(1953-58) starring William Bendix & Marjorie Reynolds
Make Room For Daddy (1953-57)/ The Danny Thomas Show (1957-64)
The Duke (NBC) (Summer 1954) starring Paul Gilbert, Phyllis Coates
Honestly, Celeste! (CBS)(fall 1954) starring Celeste Holm
Duffy's Tavern (Hal Roach Studios) (1954) starring Ed Gardner
The Marriage (NBC) (1954) starring Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy
That's My Boy (CBS)(1954-55) starring Eddie Mayerhoff
The Mickey Rooney Show: Hey Mulligan (NBC)(1954-55)
The Halls of Ivy (1954-55) starring Ronald Colman
Mayor of the Town (Drama/Comedy)(1954-55) starring Thomas Mitchell
Meet Corliss Archer (ZIV)(1954-55) starring Ann Baker
Willy (1954-55) starring June Havoc
Dear Phoebe (CBS) (1954-55) starring Peter Lawford
It's A Great Life (1954-56) starring Michael O'Shea & William Bishop
December Bride (Desilu)(1954-59) starring Spring Byington
Father Knows Best (1954-63) starring Robert Young
Professional Father (CBS)(1955) starring Steve Dunne
The Eddie Cantor Comedy Theatre (ZIV)(1955) comedy anthology hosted by Eddie Cantor
Norby (NBC) (1955) starring David Wayne
So This is Hollywood (NBC) (1955) Mitzi Green, Virginia Gibson
The Great Gildersleeve (Hal Roach Studios) (1955-56) starring Willard Waterman
It's Always Jan (1955-56) starring Janis Paige
Those Whiting Girls (Desilu)(1955-57) starring Margaret & Barbara Whiting
The People's Choice (1955-58) starring Jackie Cooper
Love That Bob (Revue)(1955-59) starring Bob Cummings
You'll Never Get Rich (CBS/Nat Hiken)(1955-59) starring Phil Silvers as Sgt. Bilko
The Charlie Farrell Show (summer 1956) starring Charlie Farrell
Joe and Mabel (CBS) (pilots 1955/ series-summer 1956) starring Larry Blyden -Nita Talbot
The Brothers (Desilu/CBS)(1956-57) starring Gale Gordon, Bob Sweeney
The Adventures of Hiram Holliday (1956-57) starring Wally Cox
Stanley (NBC)(1956-57) starring Buddy Hackett
Hey, Jeannie (4 Star)(1956-57) starring Jeannie Carson
Oh! Susanna (1956-60) starring Gale Storm
The Marge and Gower Champion Show (NBC)(1957)
Blondie (Hal Roach Studios/NBC)(1957) starring Pamela Britton, Arthur Lake
 Sally (Paramount/NBC)(1957-58) starring Joan Caulfield
Date with the Angels (Don Fedderson/ABC)(1957-58) starring Betty White & Bill Williams
The Eve Arden Show (1957-58) starring Eve Arden
Mr Adams And Eve (4 Star) (1957-58) starring Ida Lupino & Howard Duff
How to Marry a Millionaire (NTF) (1957-59) starring Barbara Eden
Bachelor Father (Revue) (1957-62) starring John Forsythe
The Real McCoys (1957-63) starring Walter Brennan & Richard Crenna
Love That Jill (early 1958) starring Anne Jeffreys & Robert Sterling
The Betty White Show (Don Fedderson/ABC)(early 1958)- comedy/music/variety show
This is Alice (Desilu/Synd)(1958) starring Patty Ann Gerrity
The Ed Wynn Show (Screen Gems/NBC)(1958-59) starring Ed Wynn
Colonel Humphrey J. Flack (CBS Films/Synd )(1958-59) starring Alan Mowbray, Frank Jenks
The Ann Sothern Show (1958-61) starring Ann Sothern
The Donna Reed Show (1958-66) starring Donna Reed
Peck's Bad Girl (Summer 1959) starring Wendell Corey, Marsha Hunt, Patty McCormack
Too Young To Go Steady (NBC)(Summer 1959) starring Brigid Bazlen, Donald Cook, Joan Bennett
Fibber McGee And Molly (NBC)(1959-60) starring Bob Sweeney, Cathy Lewis
Love and Marriage (NBC)(1959-60) starring William Demarest, Stubby Kaye
The Dennis O'Keefe Show (1959-60) starring Dennis O'Keefe
The Betty Hutton Show : Goldie (1959-60) starring Betty Hutton
Hennesey (1959-62) starring Jackie Cooper
Dennis The Menace (1959-63) starring Jay North
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (1959-63) starring Dwayne Hickman

1960's

The Jim Backus Show: Hot Off The Wire (1960-61) starring Jim Backus & Nita Talbot
The Tab Hunter Show (1960-61) starring Tab Hunter
My Sister Eileen (Screen Gems)(1960-61) starring Elaine Stritch & Shirley Bonne
The Tom Ewell Show (4 Star)(1960-61) starring Tom Ewell & Marilyn Erskine
Peter Loves Mary (1960-61) starring Peter Lind Hayes & Mary Healy
Harrigan & Son (Desilu/ABC) (1960-61) starring Pat O'Brien & Roger Perry
Guestward, Ho! (Desilu)(1960-61) starring Joanne Dru & J. Carrol Naish
Bringing Up Buddy (1960-61) starring Frank Aletter
Angel (CBS) (1960-61) Annie Fargé, Marshall Thompson, Doris Singleton, Don Keefer
Pete And Gladys (1960-62) starring Harry Morgan & Cara Williams
The Andy Griffith Show (1960-68) co-starring Don Knotts, Ron Howard
Westinghouse Playhouse: The Nanette Fabray Show (Early 1961) starring Nanette Fabray
One Happy Family (NBC)1961) starring Dick Sargent & Jody Warner
Holiday Lodge (Summer 1961) starring Johnny Wayne & Frank Shuster
Happy (CBS)(1960, 1961) starring Ronnie Burns & Yvonne Lime
Mrs G. Goes To College (1961-62) starring Gertrude Berg
The New Bob Cummings Show (Revue)(1961-62) starring BobCummings
Father Of The Bride (1961-62) starring Leon Ames & Ruth Warrick
Room For One More (WB) (1961-62) starring Andrew Duggan & Peggy McCay
Margie (1961-62) starring Cynthia Pepper
Ichabod And Me (1961-62) starring Robert Sterling
The Hathaways (1961-62) starring Peggy Cass & Jack Weston
Car 54, Where are you? (1961-63) starring Joe E. Ross & Fred Gwynne
The Dick Van Dyke Show (Desilu)(1961-65) starring Dick Van Dyke & Mary Tyler Moore
The Joey Bishop Show (1961-65) starring Joey Bishop
Hazel (1961-66) starring Shirley Booth
Oh Those Bells (1962) starring The Wiere Brothers
Mr. Smith Goes To Washington (1962-63) starring Fess Parker
Our Man Higgins (1962-63) starring Stanley Holloway
The New Loretta Young Show (1962-63) starring Loretta Young
Fair Exchange (1962-63) starring Eddie Foy Jr.
I'm Dickens, He's Fenster (1962-63) starring John Astin & Marty Ingels.
McKeever And The Colonel (1962-63) starring Scott Lane & Allyn Joslyn
Ensign O'Toole (4 Star)(1962-63) starring Dean Jones
Don't Call Me Charlie! (NBC)(1962-63) starring Josh Peine, John Hubard
McHale's Navy (ABC)(1962-66) starring Ernest Borgnine
The Lucy Show (Desilu)(1962-68) starring Lucille Ball & Vivian Vance
The Beverly Hillbillies (Filmways)(1962-71)
starring Buddy Ebsen, Irene Ryan, Donna Douglas, Max Baer Jr.
Glynis (Desilu)(1963) starring Glynis Johns & Keith Andes
Grindl (1963-64) starring Imogene Coca
Harry's Girls (MGM/NBC)(1963-64) starring Larry Blyden
The NEW Phil Silvers Show (CBS)(1963-64) starring Phil Silvers
The Bill Dana Show (1963-65) spin-off from The Danny Thomas Show
The Patty Duke Show (1963-66) starring Patty Duke
The Farmer's Daughter (1963-66) starring Inger Stevens
My Favorite Martian (Chertok/CBS)(1963-66) starring Ray Walston, Bill Bixby
Vacation Playhouse (CBS)(Summers 1963-67) Comedy Pilots
Petticoat Junction (Filmways)(1963-70) starring Bea Benaderet & Edgar Buchanan
My Living Doll (1964-65) starring Bob Cummings & Julie Newmar
The Tycoon (1964-65) starring Walter Brennan
Wendy And Me (WB)(1964-65) starring George Burns & Connie Stevens
No Time For Sergeants (WB) (1964-65) starring Sammy Jackson
Mickey (1964-65) starring Mickey Rooney
Many Happy Returns (1964-65) starring John McGiver
The Bing Crosby Show (1964-65) starring Bing Crosby & Beverly Garland
Valentine's Day (1964-65) starring Tony Franciosa
Broadside (1964-65) starring Kathy Nolan, Edward Andrews, Dick Sargent
The Baileys of Balboa (1964-65) starring Paul Ford
The Cara Williams Show (1964-65) co-starring Frank Aletter
90 Bristol Court: Karen (1964-65) starring Debbie Watson
90 Bristol Court: Harris Against The World (1964-65) starring Jack Klugman
90 Bristol Court: Tom, Dick & Mary (1964-65) starring Don Galloway
Gilligan's Island (CBS)(1964-67) starring Bob Denver, Alan Hale
O.K. Crackerby (1965-66) starring Burl Ives
The Smothers Brothers Show (4Star) (1965-66) starring Tom & Dick Smothers
Hank (WB) (1965-66) starring Dick Kallman
Gidget (Screen Gems/ABC) (1965-66) starring Sally Field, Don Porter
My Mother the Car (1965-66) starring Jerry Van Dyke & the voice of Ann Sothern
Mister Roberts (WB)(1965-66) starring Roger Smith
The John Forsythe Show (1965-66) starring John Forsythe
Mona McCluskey (1965-66) starring Juliet Prowse
Tammy (1965-66) starring Debbie Watson
Camp Runamuck (1965-66) starring Dave Ketchum & Arch Johnson
Please Don't Eat The Daisies (1965-67) starring Patricia Crowley
Get Smart (TA/NBC/CBS )(1965-70) Don Adams, Barbara Feldon, Ed Platt
Green Acres (1965-71) starring Eddie Albert & Eva Gabor
The Tammy Grimes Show (ABC)(fall 1966)
The Jean Arthur Show (fall 1966) co-starring Ron Harper
The Hero (Talent Assoc./NBC)(fall 1966) Richard Mulligan, Mariette Hartley
Run, Buddy, Run (Talent Assoc./CBS)(fall 1966) starring Jack Sheldon
The Double Life of Henry Phyfe (1966) starring Red Buttons
The Rounders (comedy western) (1966-67) Patrick Wayne, Ron Hayes, Chill Wills
The Pruitts Of Southampton (1966-67) starring Phyllis Diller
Occasional Wife (1966-67) starring Michael Callan
Love On A Rooftop (1966-67) starring Pete Duel & Judy Carne
Pistols 'n' Petticoats (comedy western) (1966-67) starring Ann Sheridan
It's About Time (1966-67) starring Frank Aletter, Jack Mullaney, Imogene Coca, Joe E. Ross
Hey Landlord (UA/NBC) (1966-67) starring Will Hutchins 
  Rango (comedy western) (ABC) (early 1967) Tim Conway
Mr. Terrific (Univ/CBS) (Early 1967) starring Stephen Strimpell
Captain Nice (Buck Henry/NBC) (Early 1967) starring William Daniels
He & She (1967-68) starring Richard Benjamin, Paula Prentiss
Accidental Family (1967-68) starring Jerry Van Dyke Lois Nettleton
Good Morning World (CBS)(1967-68) starring Joby Baker & Ronnie Schell
The Second Hundred Years (Screen Gems/ABC) (1967-68) Monte Markham, Arthur O'Connell
The Mothers-in-Law (1967-69) starring Eve Arden & Kaye Ballard
The Ugliest Girl in Town (1968-69) starring Peter Kastner
Blondie (1968-69) starring Patricia Harty, Will Hutchins, Jim Backus
That's Life (NBC)(1968-69) (comedy/music)
The Ghost and Mrs Muir (1968-70) starring Hope Lange, Edward Mulhare
The Good Guys (Talent Assoc/CBS) (1968-70) starring Bob Denver, Herb Edelman
Julia (1968-71) starring Diahann Carroll
The Doris Day Show (CBS)(1968-73) co-starring Denver Pyle
Here's Lucy (1968-74) starring Lucille Ball & Gale Gordon
The Queen And I (1969) starring Larry Storch
The Debbie Reynolds Show (1969-70)
The Governor and JJ (1969-70) starring Dan Dailey & Julie Sommars
Mr Deed Goes To Town (1969-70) starring Monte Markham
My World and Welcome To It (1969-70) starring William Windom
The Bill Cosby Show (NBC)(1969-71) Bill Cosby (before "The Cosby Show")
To Rome With Love (1969-71) starring John Forsythe
The Courtship of Eddie's Father (MGM/ABC)(1969-72) starring Bill Bixby
Room 222 (TCF/ABC)(1969-74) starring Lloyd Haynes

1970's

The Headmaster (CBS)(Fall 1970)/ The New Andy Griffith Show (CBS)(Early 1971)
Nancy (NBC)(1970-71) starring Renne Jarrett, Celeste Holm
Barefoot In The Park (1970-71) starring Scoey Mitchill  & Tracy Reed
Arnie (TCF/CBS)(1970-72) starring Herschel Bernardi, Sue Ane Langdon
The Chicago Teddy Bears (fall 1971) starring Dean Jones
Funny Face (CBS)(fall 1971)/ The Sandy Duncan Show (CBS)(fall 1972)
Getting Together (1971-72) starring Bobby Sherman
The Good Life (Screen Gems/NBC)(1971-72) starring Larry Hagman, Donna Mills
The Partners (Universal/NBC)(1971-72) starring Don Adams, Rupert Crosse
The Smith Family (1971-72) Henry Fonda, Janet Blair, Darleen Carr, Ron Howard
The Jimmy Stewart Show (1971-72) starring James Stewart & Julie Adams
The New Dick Van Dyke Show (1971-74) starring Dick Van Dyke & Hope Lange
The Don Rickles Show (Sheldon Leonard/CBS)(early 1972) starring Don Rickles & Louise Sorel
Bridget Loves Bernie (1972-73) starring David Birney & Meredith Baxter
The Super (ABC)(Summer 1972) Richard S. Castellano
The Corner Bar (ABC)(Summer 1972) Gabriel Dell (Summer 1973) Anne Meara, Eugene Roche
Anna And The King (TCF/CBS)(Fall 1972) starring Yul Brynner & Samantha Eggar
The Paul Lynde Show (1972-73) starring Paul Lynde & Elizabeth Allen
Temperatures Rising starring James Whitmore (1972-3) Paul Lynde (1973-4)
The Little People (NBC) (1972-3) The Brian Keith Show (NBC) (1973-4)
Maude (Norman Lear-Bud Yorkin/CBS)(1972-78) starring Beatrice Arthur
Here We Go Again (early 1973) starring Larry Hagman, Diane Baker, Dick Gautier, Nita Talbot
A Touch of Grace (ABC)(early 1973) starring Shirley Booth, J. Pat O'Malley
Love Thy Neighbor (ABC) (Summer 1973) starring Harrison Page, Janet MacLachlan, Ron Masak, Joyce Bulifant
Thicker Than Water (ABC) (Summer 1973) starring Julie Harris, Richard Long
Calucci's Department (CBS)(fall 1973) starring James Coco
Adam's Rib (MGM/ABC)(fall 1973) starring Ken Howard & Blythe Danner
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (fall 1973) Robert Urich, Anne Archer, David Spielberg, Anita Gillette
Diana (Talent Assoc./NBC)(fall 1973) starring Diana Rigg
Roll Out! (TCF/CBS)(fall 1973) starring Stu Gillium
The Girl with Something Extra (Screen Gems/NBC)(1973-74) starring Sally Field, John Davidson
Needles and Pins (Screen Gems/David Gerber/NBC)(1973-74) starring Norman Fell
Lotsa Luck (Persky-Denoff/NBC)(1973-74) starring Dom DeLuise
Dusty's Trail (comedy western) (1973-74) starring Bob Denver
Friends and Lovers (MTM/CBS) (1974-75) starring Paul Sand
Paper Moon (ABC) (1974-75) starring Christopher Connelly and Jodie Foster
The Texas Wheelers (MTM/ABC)(fall 1974, summer 1975) starring Jack Elam
Hot l Baltimore (Norman Lear/CBS)(early 1975)
Karen (TCF/CBS)(early 1975) starring Karen Valentine
The Bob Crane Show (MTM/NBC)(spring 1975) starring Bob Crane and Trisha Hart
We'll Get By (CBS) (spring 1975) starring Paul Sorvino and Mitzi Hoag
Big Eddie (CBS) (fall 1975) starring Sheldon Leonard and Sheree North
The Montefuscos (NBC) (fall 1975) starring Joseph Sirola and Naomi Stevens
Fay (NBC) (fall 1975) starring Lee Grant
Joe and Sons (CBS)(1975-76) starring Richard Castellano
On The Rocks (ABC)(1975-76) starring Jose Perez
Phyllis (MTM/CBS)(1975-77) starring Cloris Leachman
Popi (CBS)(early 1976) starring Hector Elizondo
The Nancy Walker Show (Norman Lear/ABC)(fall 1976) starring Nancy Walker
The Jeffersons ( Norman Lear/CBS)(1975-85) starring Sherman Hemsley
The Practice (NBC)(1976-77) starring Danny Thomas, David Spielberg
Holmes And Yoyo (ABC)(1976-77) starring Richard B.Shull & John Schuck
The Tony Randall Show (MTM-ABC/CBS)(1976-78) starring Tony Randall
Blansky's Beauties (Paramount/ABC)(early 1977) starring Nancy Walker
The Betty White Show (MTM/CBS)(1977-78) co-starring John Hillerman
Fish (ABC)(1977-78) starring Abe Vigoda
Szysznyk(Paramount/CBS)(1977-78) starring Ned Beatty
Hanging In (CBS) (summer 1979) starring Bill Macy
Struck by Lightning (CBS) (fall 1979) starring Jack Elam and Jeffrey Kramer
Detective School: First Floor Up (ABC)(Summer/Fall 1979) starring James Gregory
A New Kind of Family (ABC)(1979-80) starring Eileen Brennan
The Associates (Paramount/ABC)(1979-80) starring Wilfrid Hyde-White
Turnabout (1979) starring John Schuck & Sharon Gless
House Calls (1979-82) starring Wayne Rogers, Lynn Redgrave, Sharon Gless
Benson (1979-86) starring Robert Guillaume (guide by Jorge Galindo)
Stockyard Channing in Just Friends (CBS) (Spring/Summer 1979)

1980's
The Stockyard Channing Show (CBS) (Spring/Summer 1980)
Goodtime Girls (CBS)(1980) starring Francine Tacker, Lorna Patterson, Annie Potts, Georgia Engel
Semi-Tough (ABC)(Summer 1980) starring Bruce McGill, David Hasselhoff
Nobody's Perfect (UK:"Hart of the Yard")(ABC)(Summer 1980) starring Ron Moody & Cassie Yates
The Life and Times of Eddie Roberts (L.A.T.E.R.) (1980) starring Renny Temple
Checking In (CBS) (spring 1981) starring Marla Gibbs
Harper Valley P.T.A. (1981-82) starring Barbara Eden
Best of the West (1981-82) starring Joel Higgins, Carlene Watkins, Tom Ewell
Private Benjamin (1981-83) starring Lorna Patterson, Eileen Brennan
Newhart (1982-90) starring Bob Newhart, Mary Frann, Tom Poston, Julia Duffy
9 To 5 (1982-83) Rita Moreno (1986-88) Sally Struthers
Jennifer Slept Here (1983-84) starring Ann Jillian
A.K.A Pablo (ABC)(Spring 1984) starring Paul Rodriquez
Shaping Up (ABC)(Spring 1984) starring Leslie Nielsen
1st & Ten (1984-91) starring Delta Burke, O.J. Simpson, Shannon Tweed et al.
Sara (NBC)(1985) starring Geena Davis
Small Wonder (1985-89) starring Dick Christie, Marla Pennington, Jerry Supiran
My Sister Sam (1986-88) starring Pam Dawber
Starting From Scratch (syndicated) (1988-89) Connie Stevens, Nita Talbot, Bill Dily
Brand New Life (1989-90) starring Barbara Eden


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