Gale Storm

Gale Storm

Josephine Owaissa Cottle, known professionally as Gale Storm, was an American actress and singer who starred in two popular television programs of the 1950s, My Little Margie and The Gale Storm Show. Six of her songs were top ten hits. Storm's greatest success was a cover version of "I Hear You Knockin'," which hit #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1955. When Storm was 17, two of her teachers urged her to enter a contest on Gateway to Hollywood, broadcast from the CBS Radio studios in Hollywood. First prize was a one-year contract with a movie studio. She won and was immediately given the stage name Gale Storm. Her performing partner (and future husband), Lee Bonnell from South Bend, Indiana, became known as Terry Belmont. Storm had a role in the radio version of Big Town. After winning the contest in 1940, Storm made several films for the RKO Radio Pictures studio. Her first was Tom Brown's School Days, playing opposite Jimmy Lydon and Freddie Bartholomew. She worked steadily in low-budget films released during this period. In 1941, she sang in several soundies, three-minute musicals produced for "movie jukeboxes". She acted and sang in Monogram Pictures' Frankie Darro series, and played ingénue roles in other Monogram features with the East Side Kids, Edgar Kennedy, and the Three Stooges, most notably in the film Swing Parade of 1946. Monogram had always relied on established actors with reputations, but in Gale Storm, the studio finally had a star of its own. She played the lead in the studio's most elaborate productions, both musical and dramatic. She shared top billing in Monogram's Cosmo Jones, Crime Smasher, opposite Edgar Kennedy, Richard Cromwell, and Frank Graham in the role of Jones, a character derived from network radio. Storm starred in a number of films, including the romantic comedies G.I. Honeymoon and It Happened on Fifth Avenue, the Western Stampede, and the 1950 film-noir dramas The Underworld Story and Between Midnight and Dawn. U.S. audiences warmed to Storm and her fan mail increased. She performed in more than three dozen motion pictures for Monogram, experience which made possible her success in other media. In the 1950s, she made singing appearances on such television variety programs as The Pat Boone Chevy Showroom. In 1950, Storm made her television debut in Hollywood Premiere Theatre on ABC. From 1952 to 1955, she starred in My Little Margie, with former silent film actor Charles Farrell as her father. The series began as a summer replacement for I Love Lucy on CBS, but ran for 126 episodes on NBC and then CBS. The series was broadcast on CBS Radio from December 1952 to August 1955 with the same actors. Her popularity was capitalized on when she served as hostess of the NBC Comedy Hour in the winter of 1956. That year, she starred in another situation comedy, The Gale Storm Show (Oh! Susanna), featuring another silent movie star, ZaSu Pitts. The show ran for 143 episodes on CBS and ABC between 1956 and 1960. Storm appeared regularly on other television programs in the 1950s and 1960s. She was both a panelist and a "mystery guest" on CBS's What's My Line?

  • Title: Gale Storm
  • Popularity: 5.851
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1922-04-05
  • Place of Birth: Bloomington, Texas, USA
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  • Also Known As: Gail Storm, Josephine Owaissa Cottle
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Gale Storm Movies

  • 1949
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    Abandoned

    Abandoned

    6.2 1949 HD

    A Los Angeles newspaperman seeks a woman's sister and finds a black-market baby ring.

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  • 1943
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    Revenge of the Zombies

    Revenge of the Zombies

    5.2 1943 HD

    When Dr. Von Altermann's wife Lila dies mysteriously at his spooky mansion her relations suspect murder. They also suspect the doctor is turning her...

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  • 1950
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    The Underworld Story

    The Underworld Story

    6.1 1950 HD

    A blacklisted reporter brings his shady ways to a small-town newspaper after being fired from a big city daily.

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  • 1940
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    Tom Brown's School Days

    Tom Brown's School Days

    7.2 1940 HD

    When private tutor Thomas Arnold (Sir Cedric Hardwicke) becomes headmaster at Rugby, a boy's preparatory school in England, he puts into place a...

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  • 1950
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    Between Midnight and Dawn

    Between Midnight and Dawn

    5.8 1950 HD

    Rocky and Dan, war buddies, are prowl car cops on night duty. Dan is a cynic who views all lawbreakers as scum; Rocky feels more lenient. Both are...

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  • 1946
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    Swing Parade of 1946

    Swing Parade of 1946

    4.2 1946 HD

    A struggling young singer falls for a nightclub owner whose father, a millionaire, is trying to shut it down.

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  • 1950
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    The Kid from Texas

    The Kid from Texas

    5.3 1950 HD

    Billy the Kid becomes embroiled in Lincoln County, NM, land wars. When rancher who gave him a break is killed by rival henchman, Billy vows revenge....

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  • 1947
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    It Happened on Fifth Avenue

    It Happened on Fifth Avenue

    7.1 1947 HD

    A New Yorker hobo moves into a mansion and along the way he gathers friends to live in the house with him. Before he knows it, he is living with the...

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  • 1941
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    Gambling Daughters

    Gambling Daughters

    5 1941 HD

    A couple of rich girls at a private boarding school find themselves mixed up in gambling and blackmail, and must steal from their parents to pay...

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  • 1949
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    Stampede

    Stampede

    5.5 1949 HD

    In 1887 Arizona, in the context of the settler-vs-cattleman struggle, two rancher brothers fall in-love with the same settler girl while crooked...

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  • 1942
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    Foreign Agent

    Foreign Agent

    4 1942 HD

    Hollywood starlet foils an Axis plot to sabotage the L.A. infrastructure.

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  • 1943
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    Campus Rhythm

    Campus Rhythm

    4.5 1943 HD

    Radio singer Joan Abbott, known as the "Crunchy-Wunchy Thrush", does not want to renew her contract with the cereal sponsor, as she wants to go to...

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  • 1951
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    Rim of the Wheel

    Rim of the Wheel

    1 1951 HD

    A story about slowing down the pace of life and putting faith and family first.

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  • 1942
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    Smart Alecks

    Smart Alecks

    6 1942 HD

    Danny helps to capture a wanted criminal and receives a $200 reward. However, he has a falling out with the gang when they believe he should share...

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  • 1941
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    Red River Valley

    Red River Valley

    7.7 1941 HD

    To bring water to their valley, ranchers have raised money to build a dam. When that money is stolen, Allison suggests the ranchers sell their stock...

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  • 1951
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    Al Jennings of Oklahoma

    Al Jennings of Oklahoma

    5 1951 HD

    Bank robber serves his time in prison, tries to go straight.

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  • 1942
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    He Plays Gin Rummy

    He Plays Gin Rummy

    1 1942 HD

    Soundies short film in which Gale Storm and Iris Dawn are frustrated by their men only wanting to play gin rummy.

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  • 1942
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    Man from Cheyenne

    Man from Cheyenne

    7.5 1942 HD

    Roy is a government man assigned to a case of cattle rustling in the part of the country where he grew up, unaware that the leader of the gang is a...

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  • 1940
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    One Crowded Night

    One Crowded Night

    4 1940 HD

    The future of a group of strangely connected lives is determined on one crucial night at a dinky motel in the desert.

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  • 1943
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    Glamour Girl

    Glamour Girl

    1 1943 HD

    A Soundie with Gale Storm.

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  • 1941
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    Penthouse Serenade

    Penthouse Serenade

    1 1941 HD

    A Soundie with Johnny Downs and Gale Storm.

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  • 1941
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    Let's Get Away from It All

    Let's Get Away from It All

    1 1941 HD

    A Soundie with Johnny Downs with Gale Storm.

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  • 1943
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    I'm a Shy Guy

    I'm a Shy Guy

    1 1943 HD

    A Soundie with Gale Storm and Ray Shultis.

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  • 1941
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    I Know Somebody Who Loves You

    I Know Somebody Who Loves You

    1 1941 HD

    A Soundie with Gale Storm with The Fashionaires.

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  • 1943
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    Cosmo Jones, Crime Smasher

    Cosmo Jones, Crime Smasher

    4 1943 HD

    Cosmo Jones, a correspondence-school detective from a small town, comes to the big city to offer his services to the police. He happens by where a...

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  • 1941
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    The Merry-Go-Roundup

    The Merry-Go-Roundup

    1 1941 HD

    A Soundie featuring Gale Storm and the Dorn Brothers and Mary with The Palladium Handicap Girls.

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  • 1942
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    Freckles Comes Home

    Freckles Comes Home

    5 1942 HD

    Freckles Winslow comes home from college and the sheriff accuses him of murder, gangsters put him on the spot, and his girl friend, Jane, falls in...

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  • 1950
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    Curtain Call at Cactus Creek

    Curtain Call at Cactus Creek

    6.3 1950 HD

    Traveling entertainer gets mixed up with bank robbers.

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  • 1941
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    Uncle Joe

    Uncle Joe

    6 1941 HD

    A pretty Chicago teenager (Gale Storm), who's being courted by an older man, is sent by her worried parents to live with her uncle on his Iowa farm.

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  • 1943
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    Where Are Your Children?

    Where Are Your Children?

    4 1943 HD

    Judy Wilson (Gale Storm), feeling neglected because both of her parents are working in defense plants, meets and falls in love with Danny Chester...

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  • 1943
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    Nearly Eighteen

    Nearly Eighteen

    5 1943 HD

    A singer pretends to be younger so she can enter a music school.

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  • 1941
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    City of Missing Girls

    City of Missing Girls

    4.1 1941 HD

    A female reporter goes undercover to investigate the series of mysterious disappearances of young women, who were all linked to a local drama school.

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  • 1945
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    Sunbonnet Sue

    Sunbonnet Sue

    5 1945 HD

    Set in New York's Lower East Side during the Gay '90s, this lively low-budget musical follows the exploits of a feisty and talented saloon owner's...

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  • 1941
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    Let's Go Collegiate

    Let's Go Collegiate

    5 1941 HD

    Rawley University is about to receive a star athlete who could give it the first championship rowing team it's ever had. Unfortunately, he gets...

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  • 1951
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    The Texas Rangers

    The Texas Rangers

    5.714 1951 HD

    It's 1874 and the Texas Rangers have been reorganized. But Sam Bass has assembled a group of notorious outlaws into a gang the Rangers are unable to...

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  • 1948
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    The Dude Goes West

    The Dude Goes West

    5.8 1948 HD

    Daniel Bone is aiming for success. A Brooklyn gunsmith by trade, he figures the place to be is where the guns are. So off he goes into the West and...

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  • 1941
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    Jesse James at Bay

    Jesse James at Bay

    5 1941 HD

    When Jesse learns that Krager is cheating settlers, he and his gang rob trains to obtain money for them to purchase their land. Krager, finding a...

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  • 1942
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    Rhythm Parade

    Rhythm Parade

    1 1942 HD

    A nightclub performer, jealous about the talents of an aspiring singer, tries to sabotage her chances at a professional career.

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  • 1941
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    Saddlemates

    Saddlemates

    1 1941 HD

    The Three Mesquiteers, as army scouts, soothe hostilities between the Army and Indians after both have been riled by someone with a hidden agenda - a...

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  • 1942
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    Lure of the Islands

    Lure of the Islands

    1 1942 HD

    Tana, a voluptuous half-caste girl of the South Seas, falls in love with FBI agent Wally and wishes to marry him and leave the island. Wally, with...

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  • 1945
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    Forever Yours

    Forever Yours

    1 1945 HD

    A young woman who has been stricken with infantile paralysis gives up hope and is trying to "will herself" to die. A doctor who has been conducting...

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  • 1945
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    G.I. Honeymoon

    G.I. Honeymoon

    1 1945 HD

    In this romantic comedy, set during WW II, an newlywed army couple are unable to consummate their marriage, as on their wedding night the husband is...

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  • 1952
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    Woman of the North Country

    Woman of the North Country

    4.5 1952 HD

    In 1890 Minnesota Christine Powell is the scheming head of the Powell dynasty, the richest mining empire of the era. But the Powell mine deposits are...

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  • 1954
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    How to Go Places

    How to Go Places

    1 1954 HD

    Actress Gale Storm and family take a road trip in their Chevrolet and review the do's and don'ts of auto traveling.

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  • 1948
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    Walk a Crooked Mile

    Walk a Crooked Mile

    5.8 1948 HD

    A security leak is found at a Southern California atomic plant. The authorities stand in fear that the information leaked would go to a hostile...

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  • 1984
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    Murder, She Wrote

    Murder, She Wrote

    7.6 1984 HD

    An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.

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  • 1963
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    Burke's Law

    Burke's Law

    6 1963 HD

    Burke's Law is an American detective series that ran on ABC from 1963 to 1965 and was revived on CBS in the 1990s. The show starred Gene Barry as...

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  • 1950
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    The Colgate Comedy Hour

    The Colgate Comedy Hour

    7 1950 HD

    The Colgate Comedy Hour is an American comedy-musical variety series that aired live on the NBC network from 1950 to 1955. The show starred many...

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  • 1952
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    My Little Margie

    My Little Margie

    3 1952 HD

    My Little Margie is an American situation comedy starring Gale Storm and Charles Farrell that alternated between CBS and NBC from 1952 to 1955.

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  • 1956
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    The Gale Storm Show

    The Gale Storm Show

    5.5 1956 HD

    The Gale Storm Show is an American sitcom starring Gale Storm. The series premiered on September 29, 1956, and ran until 1960 for 143 half-hour...

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  • 1956
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    The Dinah Shore Chevy Show

    The Dinah Shore Chevy Show

    5.3 1956 HD

    The Dinah Shore Chevy Show is an American variety series hosted by Dinah Shore, and broadcast on NBC from October 1956 to June 1963. The series was...

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  • 1950
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    Robert Montgomery Presents

    Robert Montgomery Presents

    5.167 1950 HD

    Robert Montgomery Presents is an American dramatic television series which was produced by NBC from January 30, 1950 until June 24, 1957. The live...

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  • 1955
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    Celebrity Playhouse

    Celebrity Playhouse

    1 1955 HD

    Celebrity Playhouse is an American drama series that aired on NBC from September 1955, to June 1956.

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  • 1952
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    The Ford Television Theatre

    The Ford Television Theatre

    7 1952 HD

    This show started in New York City, with Broadway actors and actresses. It then moved to Hollywood, California, where Hollywood actors and actresses...

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  • 1956
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    The NBC Comedy Hour

    The NBC Comedy Hour

    1 1956 HD

    The NBC Comedy Hour was a comedy show that ran on NBC in the first half of 1956, intended to be a replacement for The Colgate Comedy Hour. Leo...

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  • 1961
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    The Mike Douglas Show

    The Mike Douglas Show

    5.143 1961 HD

    The Mike Douglas Show is an American daytime television talk show hosted by Mike Douglas that originally aired only in the Cleveland area during much...

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  • 1952
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    This Is Your Life

    This Is Your Life

    6.556 1952 HD

    This Is Your Life is an American television documentary series broadcast on NBC, originally hosted by its producer, Ralph Edwards from 1952 to 1961....

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  • 1977
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    The Love Boat

    The Love Boat

    6.295 1977 HD

    Passengers who search for romantic nights aboard a beautiful ship travelling to tropical or mysterious countries, decide to pass their vacation...

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  • 1950
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    The Bob Hope Show

    The Bob Hope Show

    7 1950 HD

    The Bob Hope Show hosted by Bob Hope, debuted on April 9, 1950. During the 1952-1953 season, NBC rotated with other variety shows in a Sunday night...

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  • 1948
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    The Ed Sullivan Show

    The Ed Sullivan Show

    6.667 1948 HD

    The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by...

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  • 1963
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    Burke's Law

    Burke's Law

    6 1963 HD

    Burke's Law is an American detective series that ran on ABC from 1963 to 1965 and was revived on CBS in the 1990s. The show starred Gene Barry as...

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  • 1977
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    The Love Boat

    The Love Boat

    6.295 1977 HD

    Passengers who search for romantic nights aboard a beautiful ship travelling to tropical or mysterious countries, decide to pass their vacation...

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  • 1950
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    What's My Line?

    What's My Line?

    6.7 1950 HD

    Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while blindfolded, their identity - by asking only "yes" or...

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  • 1954
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    The Wonderful World of Disney

    The Wonderful World of Disney

    7.607 1954 HD

    Walt Disney Productions has produced an anthology television series under several different titles since 1954. The original version of the series...

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  • 1950
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    What's My Line?

    What's My Line?

    6.7 1950 HD

    Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while blindfolded, their identity - by asking only "yes" or...

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