The most hits television show was I love Lucy was the top rated show of the decade. mickey mouse club was a total big hit.Kids everywhere was watching this show.The Disney Amusement park in Anaheim,California opened the gates on July 17,1985 18 attractions. The jungle cruise, tomorrow land Autopia, Mr. toad's wild ride and the mark Twaiin was some of the attractions they opened with. The famous Marilyn Monroe was an actress and model. She was very popular in the fifties. We remeber her as an amazing woman, actress and model. she was envied by many girls and women. She starred in variety's of famous movies such as: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953), The Seven Year Itch (1955) and etc. She died of an overdose of sleeping pills in 1962. In american memory the postwar in 1950's had an acquired an idyllic luster. They played return of 1950's tv shows such as Leave It To Beaver and Father Knows Best leave today's viewers with an impression of unadulterment family bliss. T he baby boomers look back nostagically to these years that marked their early childhood experiences. The show I Love Lucy broke new ground by including a Cuban American character (Ricky Ricardo, played by bandleader DESI ARNAZ) and dealing with LUCILLE BALL's pregnancy, though Lucy was never filmed from the waist down while she was pregnant. Forty-four million Americans tuned in to welcome her newborn son to the show.
Through shows such as Leave It to Beaver, THE DONNA REED SHOW, and Father Knows Best, television created an idyllic view of what the perfect family life should look like, though few actual families could live up to the ideal.
Through shows such as Leave It to Beaver, THE DONNA REED SHOW, and Father Knows Best, television created an idyllic view of what the perfect family life should look like, though few actual families could live up to the ideal.
FACTS ABOUT HOWDY DOODY SHOW
- The Howdy Doody Show, the first children's program to run five days a week, helped the young NBC network grow exponentially during the 1950's.]
- For 13 years, starting in 1947 and ending in 1960, The Howdy Doody Show was a true TV phenomenon. Remember Clarabell, Chief Thunderthud, Princess Summerfall Winterspring and the evil and cantankerous Phineas T. Bluster.
FACTS ABOUT HAPPY DAYS:
- It didn't start airing until 1974, but the television show Happy Days portrayed the carefree '50s through the antics of characters named Potsie, Chachi, and Fonzie (above).
FACTS ABOUT I LOVE LUCY
- Lucille Ball's new baby brought 44 million viewers to the show and graced the cover of the first national issue of TV Guide in 1953. TV Guide soon became the most popular periodical in the country.
- Americans loved situation comedies sitcoms. In the 1950's, I Love Lucy topped the ratings charts.