TV Shows released in 1959

Riverboat

78/100

Grey Holden wins a river boat in a poker game, which he then pilots, along with his crew, in various adventures along the Mississippi River. This action series is set in the nineteenth century.

Men Into Space

81/100

The adventures of Colonel Ed McCauley, head of the American space program. He battles saboteurs, budget cuts, defective equipment and other problems in outer space.

The Detectives

80/100

Captain Matt Holbrook leads a squad of brave and tough detectives in a large, unnamed city. Instead of leading personal lives, they spend all of their time tracking murderers, thieves, ... See full summary »

The Soupy Sales Show

83/100

Saturday morning comedy for all ages brought to you by comic Soupy Sales and his friends Black Tooth, White Fang and Pookie. Largely one-set production relied heavily on cuts to old film ... See full summary »

The Third Man

83/100

Harry Lime makes money dealing art and solves crime to save his life.

Bourbon Street Beat

80/100

A former New Orleans cop partners with an Ivy League lawyer to open up a private detective agency with offices on the city's famed Bourbon Street.

Mr. Squiggle and Friends

85/100

Mr. Squiggle is a marionette with a pencil for a nose, who visits his friends from his home at 93 Crater Crescent on the Moon, flying in his pet rocket (named Rocket).

The DuPont Show with June Allyson

88/100

Home Run Derby

86/100

A series of filmed home run contests between two sluggers of the late 1950s/early 1960s, one National Leaguer, one American Leaguer. The batters had to swing at every pitch in the strike ... See full summary »

Tightrope

85/100

Mike Connors played an unnamed police undercover Agent who infiltrated organized crime to expose the leaders and their plots. His name changed with each episode in order to protect him. ... See full summary »

Johnny Ringo

74/100

Ex-gunfighter Johnny Ringo is now the sheriff of a small Western town, and attempts to keep the peace with the aid of his deputy, Cully, and his girl, Laura Thomas.

The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre

84/100

Mystery crime stories with sometimes different cops and many now famous faces.

Obras maestras del terror

71/100

An anthology of three Edgar Allan Poe stories--"The Case of Mr. Valdemar," "The Cask of Amontillado" and "The Tell-Tale Heart."

Sunday Showcase

46/100

A show featuring various specials. Some specials were comedy, and others were serious drama by famous authors.

Matty's Funnies with Beany and Cecil

76/100

The Best of Mr. Peabody & Sherman

82/100

The time traveling misadventures of a genius dog and his adopted son.

Shotgun Slade

75/100

A late entry in the television Western boom of the late 1950s. Shotgun Slade was unlike other show heroes. He wasn't a Marshal, Sheriff, or gunfighter for hire, but Slade was a private ... See full summary »

Lock Up

80/100

Cases taken from the files and case histories of renowned Philadelphia defense attorney Herbert L. Maris.

Noggin the Nog

83/100

"In the Lands of the North, where the black rocks stand guard against the cold sea, in the dark night that is very long, the men of the North Lands sit by their great log fires, and they tell a tale..."

The Four Just Men

84/100

Four men - a British politician, an American journalist in Paris, a lawyer in the US and a Roman hotelier - band together to fight injustice wherever they find it.