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60 Minutes is a pioneering television newsmagazine on United States television, which has run on CBS News since 1968. The long-running program, made successful by noted producer Don Hewitt, has won eleven Peabody Awards, and set the style for a reporter-centered news magazine. The show has had numerous successes and controversies and had a profound effect on those interviewed and investigated by its producers. As of 2004, the program and its contributors have won a total of 78 Emmy Awards, including a Lifetime Achievement Award presented in 2003 to creator Hewitt, and it is one of the oldest surviving investigative journalism shows on television. ...more on Wikipedia about "60 Minutes"

All in the Family is a popular and acclaimed American situation comedy that was originally broadcast on the CBS television network from January 12, 1971 until April 8, 1979, when the final original episode aired. In September 1979, the show was retooled and given a new name, Archie Bunker's Place. With that title, the sitcom lasted another four years, finally ending its run in 1983. ...more on Wikipedia about "All in the Family"

American Idol is the US version of British TV hit show Pop Idol. American Idol is featured on the Fox Network in the United States, and other versions of the show are broadcast on CTV in Canada ( Canadian Idol), and Australian Idol on Ten Network in Australia. Pop Idol/American Idol was created by Simon Fuller (creator of the Spice Girls and S Club 7) and Simon Cowell, the latter being one of the judges on both Pop Idol and American Idol. American Idol is a singing talent contest in which viewers can call in and vote on contestants to determine the best "undiscovered" young singer in the United States, with the winner receiving a major record deal, although many runners-up — most of the top twelve of each season — have achieved enough fame and popularity to sign record deals of their own. See List of American Idol contestants ...more on Wikipedia about "American Idol"

Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts (also known as Talent Scouts) was a television variety show which ran on CBS from 1948 until 1958. It starred Arthur Godfrey, who was also hosting Arthur Godfrey and His Friends at the same time. ...more on Wikipedia about "Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts"

Bonanza was an American western/ cowboy television program, the first regularly broadcast American television program to be filmed in color. It aired on NBC from September 12, 1959 through January 16, 1973. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bonanza"

Cheers was a long-running American situation comedy produced by Charles-Burrows-Charles Productions in association with Paramount Television for NBC. The show was set in the eponymous Cheers bar (both the show and the bar are named after the toast "Cheers") in Boston, Massachusetts, where a group of locals met to drink and generally have fun. The show's theme song was written and performed by Gary Portnoy with its famous refrain, "where everybody knows your name" that also became the show's tagline. The character Frasier Crane ( Kelsey Grammer) later starred in his own successful show, Frasier, after Cheers ended. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cheers"

Dallas was a long-running primetime television soap opera about the Ewings, a wealthy Texas oil family. It aired on the CBS network from April 2, 1978, to May 3, 1991. It was broadcast around the world, and is probably the most famous and successful American soap opera outside of the U.S. ...more on Wikipedia about "Dallas (TV series)" shortopedia moments.

Dynasty was an American primetime television soap opera that aired on ABC from January 12, 1981 to May 10, 1989. The series revolved around the Carringtons, a wealthy oil family living in Denver, Colorado. ...more on Wikipedia about "Dynasty (TV series)"

ER is a long-running serial drama created by novelist Michael Crichton and set primarily in the emergency room of a fictitious teaching hospital in Chicago, Illinois. Its first episode aired on NBC in the United States on Monday, September 19 1994. It is made by the production company Amblin Entertainment. The show is produced and co-written by John Wells. ...more on Wikipedia about "ER (TV series)"

Friends was a long-running American television sitcom centered on the lives of a group of six twenty-somethings (eventually thirty-somethings) consisting of three men and three women living in New York City. ...more on Wikipedia about "Friends"

Gunsmoke was a long-running old-time radio and television Western drama program set in Dodge City, Kansas during the settlement of the American West. ...more on Wikipedia about "Gunsmoke"

Happy Days is a popular United States television sitcom that originally aired between 1974 and 1984 on the ABC television network. It presented an idealized version of life in late 1950s and early 1960s America. ...more on Wikipedia about "Happy Days"

Home Improvement was an American television sitcom starring actor/comedian Tim Allen, and loosely based on his stand-up comedy routine. Beginning in 1991, the show ran for eight seasons on ABC, culminating in 1999, 204 episodes later. It is currently in national syndication on cable television stations such as TBS in the US, and can be seen on digital channels ABC1 and the Disney Channel in the UK. ...more on Wikipedia about "Home Improvement"

I Love Lucy is a classic and the most popular American sitcom from the 1950s, starring comedian Lucille Ball, her husband Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance and William Frawley. The series ran from October 15, 1951 to May, 1957 on CBS (180 episodes, including the "lost" Christmas episode). This show was ranked #2 on TV Guide's top 50 greatest shows of all time in 2002, behind the show Seinfeld and ahead of The Honeymooners. The program was filmed at Desilu, the production studio jointly owned by Ball and Arnaz. ...more on Wikipedia about "I Love Lucy"

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Laverne & Shirley was a popular American television situation comedy which ran on ABC from 1976 to 1983. It starred Penny Marshall as Laverne De Fazio and Cindy Williams as Shirley Feeney, roommates who, as the series began, worked in a Milwaukee brewery in the late 1950s. It was a spinoff of Happy Days, as the two lead characters were originally introduced on that show as acquaintances of Fonzie. ...more on Wikipedia about "Laverne & Shirley"

Marcus Welby, M.D. was a popular medical drama that aired on ABC from late September 1969 to May 1976. The producers of the show were David Victor and David J. O'Connell. It starred Robert Young as Marcus Welby, James Brolin as Dr. Steven Kiley, and Elena Verdugo as secretary Consuelo Lopez. ...more on Wikipedia about "Marcus Welby, M.D."

Roseanne was an American sitcom which aired on ABC from 1988 to 1997, starring the stand-up comedian Roseanne Barr. The show's working title, and the title of its pilot episode, was Life and Stuff. ...more on Wikipedia about "Roseanne"

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In was a United States comedy television show broadcast for 140 episodes from January 22, 1968 through 1973 over the NBC network. It replaced The Man from U.N.C.L.E. in this time slot (Mondays 8:00 PM). ...more on Wikipedia about "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In"

Seinfeld is a television sitcom which ran from July 5, 1989, to May 14, 1998. One of the most popular and influential TV programs of the 1990s, it epitomizes the self-obsessed and ironic culture of the decade. In 2002, TV Guide released a list of the top 50 greatest shows of all time and ranked Seinfeld #1. The show was created by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld. It stars Jerry Seinfeld playing " Jerry Seinfeld", a character named after and based largely on himself, and is set predominantly in an apartment block in Manhattan's Upper West Side. It features an eclectic cast of characters, mainly Jerry's friends and acquaintances such as Elaine Benes ( Julia Louis-Dreyfus), George Costanza ( Jason Alexander) and Cosmo Kramer ( Michael Richards). It was produced by Castle-Rock Entertainment (then helmed by actor-producer Rob Reiner) and distributed by Columbia Pictures Television (now Sony Pictures Television). ...more on Wikipedia about "Seinfeld"

Texaco Star Theater, a comedy-variety show (radio, 1940-49; television, 1949-56), was one of the first hugely successful examples of U.S. television broadcasting. Remembered best as the show that made a household name and "Mr. Television" out of Milton Berle, the show's root was radio---first in the classic 1940-44 version hosted by radio titan Fred Allen and, later, in a new version brought to ABC (the former NBC Blue) in the spring of 1948, before Texaco first took it to television on NBC that June 8. And it would be on television that the show made its greatest pop culture impact, if not necessarily its best artistic impact. ...more on Wikipedia about "Texaco Star Theater"

The $64,000 Question was a popular United States television game show from 1955-1958; The $64,000 Challenge (1956-1958) was its popular spinoff show. ...more on Wikipedia about "The 64,000 Dollar Question"

The Andy Griffith Show was an American television series that aired from 1960 to 1968. The series was an immediate hit with its audience, and still enjoys success in syndication. Its whistled theme song (by Earle Hagen and Herbert Spencer) is quickly identified by a significant proportion of the public. ...more on Wikipedia about "The Andy Griffith Show"

The Beverly Hillbillies is a TV sitcom about a hillbilly who strikes oil while hunting on his land, near the fictional Bugtussle, and moves his family to Beverly Hills, California, with the resultant wealth. A Filmways production, it aired on CBS from September 26, 1962 to September 7, 1971. Despite its being panned by critics, the series shot to the top of the Nielsen Ratings shortly after its premiere and stayed there for several seasons. It was high in the ratings throughout most of its run. ...more on Wikipedia about "The Beverly Hillbillies"

Wagon Train was a television series on NBC from 1957 to 1965. ...more on Wikipedia about "Wagon Train"

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? is a television game show which offers very large cash prizes for correctly answering successive multiple-choice questions of increasing difficulty. The maximum cash prize (in the original UK version) is one million pounds. ...more on Wikipedia about "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?"

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