Subgenre Sampler
Television > Classics: 302 Films to Buy & Rent
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV Series) (1955-1962)
- Dir. Alfred Hitchcock, various
Feat. Vera Miles, Ralph Meeker, John Forsythe…
- Pre–dating THE TWILIGHT ZONE by some years, the Master of Suspense created this iconic television series featuring self–contained tales…
Gunsmoke (TV Series) (1955)
- Feat. James Arness
- James Arness plays Marshal Matt Dillon protecting Dodge City from roaming gunslingers in this seminal TV show – the Grandaddy of TV…
Honeymooners, The (TV Series) (The Color Honeymooners; The Jackie Gleason Show) (1955-1956)
- Feat. Jackie Gleason
- This Jackie Gleason sitcom from the 1950s is the saga of a not–so–newly–wed couple who lived in a run down apartment.
"The…
Quatermass II (TV Series) (1955)
- Dir. Rudolph Cartier
Feat. John Robinson
- Professor Quatermass returns (this time palyed by John Robinson) in Nigel Kneale's popular sci–fi serial of the 1950s.
The six–part…
Sergeant Bilko (TV Series) (The Phil Silvers Show) (1955-1959)
- Feat. Phil Silvers, Harvey Lembeck
- Three–disc compilation of 18 episodes from the classic US sitcom about an irresponsible, gambling conman of a staff sergeant at a US Army base…
Davy Crockett - King of the Wild Frontier (1954)
- Dir. Norman Foster
Feat. Fess Parker, Buddy Ebsen, William Bakewell…
- TV version of the quintessential American story, which created such a phenomenal interest when screened that it was released in a movie version. Fess…
Father Knows Best (TV Series) (1954-1960)
- Dir. Peter Tewksbury
Feat. Sarah Selby, Jane Wyatt, Billy Gray
- Cloying sitcom bathed in the idealised glow of 50's apple–pie America, centred on a suburban family and their typically patriarchal upbringing.…
Lassie (TV Series) (1954-1974)
- Feat. Jon Provost, Tommy Rettig
- A representative selection of episodes from the long–running US series depicting the adventures of a rather intelligent collie dog with a…
Commando Cody: Sky Marshall of the Universe (1953)
- Feat. Aline Towne, Gregory Gaye, Judd Holdren
- Black–and–white TV series following the adventures of masked super–scientist Commando Cody, who is recruited by the U.S. government…
Quatermass Experiment, The (TV Series) (1953)
- Dir. Rudolph Cartier
Feat. Reginald Tate, Isabel Dean
- The seminal serial (in six parts) by award–winning writer Nigel Kneale that laid the foundations of British Sci–Fi TV..
This first…