Most Viewed Year 1949

In postwar Vienna, Austria, Holly Martins, a writer of pulp Westerns, arrives penniless as a guest of his childhood chum Harry Lime, only to learn he...

When strongman Samson rejects the love of the beautiful Philistine woman Delilah, she seeks vengeance that brings horrible consequences they both...

It's Tulsa, Oklahoma at the start of the oil boom and Cherokee Lansing's rancher father is killed in a fight with the Tanner Oil Company. Cherokee...

The Wind in the Willows: Concise version of Kenneth Grahame's story of the same name. J. Thaddeus Toad, owner of Toad Hall, is prone to fads, such as...

Noriko is perfectly happy living at home with her widowed father, Shukichi, and has no plans to marry -- that is, until her aunt Masa convinces...

A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded bus. Desperate to right the wrong, he goes...

An illiterate stooge in a traveling medicine show wanders into a strange town and is picked up on a vagrancy charge. The town's corrupt officials...

A cat and her young owner get ready for School

it's the 1840s and a rural parish plagued by drinking and fighting gets a new vicar who has decided to instill law, order and fear of God into the...

Louisa May Alcott's autobiographical account of her life with her three sisters in Concord Mass in the 1860s. With their father fighting in the civil...

In 1840s New York, the uneventful and boring days of the daughter of a wealthy doctor come to an end when she meets a dashing poorer man — who...

Frank Bigelow is about to die, and he knows it. The accountant has been poisoned and has only 24 hours before the lethal concoction kills him....

A down-and-out student is hired to kill a wealthy woman. When someone else is suspected of the crime, the student taunts police until they realize...

Jour de Fête tells the story of an inept and easily-distracted French mailman who frequently interrupts his duties to converse with the local...

Three sailors wreak havoc as they search for love during a whirlwind 24-hour leave in New York City.

Roy Martin aka Roy Morgan is a burglar and former war-time Radio & Electronics Engineer who listens in to radio police calls, allowing him to stay...

When an unexploded WWII bomb is accidentally detonated in Pimlico, it reveals a treasure trove and documents proving that the region is in fact part...

Secret Service agents make a deal with a counterfeiting inmate to be released on early parole if he will help them recover some bogus moneymaking...

Members of the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division are fighting for their country amidst the rugged terrain of Bastogne, Belgium, in December 1944....

The Lone Ranger is an American western television series that ran from 1949 to 1957, starring Clayton Moore with Jay Silverheels as Tonto. The...

BAFTA presents awards for film, television and games, including children's entertainment, at a number of annual ceremonies across the UK and in Los...

Lights Out was an extremely popular American old-time radio program, an early example of a network series devoted mostly to horror and the...

A Woman to Remember is a soap opera which ran on the DuMont Television Network from February 21, 1949 to July 15, 1949. The show initially ran in...

An anthology series adapted from the radio program of the same name. Like the radio program, many scripts were adaptations of literary classics by...

Fireside Theater is an American anthology drama series that ran on NBC from 1949 to 1958, and was the first successful filmed series on American...

An annual awards ceremony honoring the best in U.S. prime time television programming as chosen by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.

Man Against Crime, one of the first television programs about private eyes, ran on CBS, the DuMont Television Network and NBC from October 7, 1949 to...

Hands of Murder was an American mystery/anthology series that aired on the DuMont Television Network.

The Silver Theatre is a television series that was broadcast on the CBS television network from 1949 to 1950. It was a live anthology series...

Martin Kane, Private Eye was an early radio series and television crime series sponsored by United States Tobacco Company.

The Voice of Firestone is a long-running radio and television program of classical music. The show featured leading singers in selections from opera...

Based on a popular radio series, each show tells a different reporter's Big Story, a true story selected from newspapers across the United States....

Your Show Time is an American anthology drama series that debuted as a midseason replacement on NBC Television in January 1949. Hosted and narrated...

Riley worked in an aircraft plant in California, but viewers usually saw him at home, cheerfully disrupting life with his malapropisms and ill timed...

The Plainclothesman was an American crime drama series broadcast on the now defunct DuMont Television Network.

Two children named Jim and Judy enter their television for adventures.