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==Programs/programmes== *''[[Amos & Andy]]'' (1951β1953) *''[[Author Meets the Critics]]'' (1947β1954) *''[[Bozo the Clown]]'' (1948βpresent) *''[[CafΓ© Continental]]'' (UK) (1947β1953) *''[[Candid Camera]]'' (1948βpresent) *''[[Cisco Kid]]'' (1950β1956) *''[[The Colgate Comedy Hour]]'' (1950-1955) *''[[Come Dancing]]'' (UK) (1949β1995) *''[[Dragnet (drama)|Dragnet]]'' (1951β1959) *''[[Gillette Cavalcade of Sports]]'' (1946β1960) *''[[Hallmark Hall of Fame]]'' (1951βpresent) *''[[Hawkins Falls]]'' (1950, 1951β1955) *''[[Howdy Doody]]'' (1947β1960) *''[[I Love Lucy]]'' (1951β1960) *''[[Juvenile Jury]]'' (1947β1954) *''[[Kaleidoscope (British TV series)|Kaleidoscope]]'' (UK) (1946β1953) *''[[Kraft Television Theater]]'' (1947β1958) *''[[Kukla, Fran and Ollie]]'' (1947β1957) *''[[Life with Elizabeth]]'' (1952β1955) *''[[Love of Life]]'' (1951β1980) *''[[Martin Kane, Private Eye]]'' (1949β1954) *''[[Meet the Press]]'' (1947βpresent) *''[[Muffin the Mule]]'' (UK) (1946β1955) *''[[Search for Tomorrow]]'' (1951β1986) *''[[Television Newsreel]]'' (UK) (1948β1954) *''[[The Ed Sullivan Show]]'' (1948β1971) *''[[The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show]]'' (1950β1958) *''[[The Goldbergs (broadcast series)|The Goldbergs]]'' (1949β1955) *''[[The Jack Benny Show]]'' (1950β1965) *''[[The Roy Rogers Show]]'' (1951β1957) *''[[The Texaco Star Theater]]'' (1948β1953) *''[[The Voice of Firestone]]'' (1949β1963) *''[[Truth or Consequences]]'' (1950β1988) *''[[What's My Line (1950)|What's My Line]]'' (1950β1967) *''[[Your Hit Parade]]'' (1950β1959) *''[[Your Show of Shows]]'' (1950β1954) ===Debuts=== *January 6 - ''[[Claudia (U.S. TV series)|Claudia]]'' on [[NBC]] (moved to [[CBS]] on March 31, 1952){{r|mcneil|page1=167}} *January 14 β ''[[Today (NBC program)|The Today Show]]'' on NBC (1952βpresent)<ref name="mcneil">McNeil, Alex (1996). ''Total Television''. Penguin Books USA, Inc. {{ISBN|0-14-02-4916-8}}.</ref> *March 1 β ''[[Death Valley Days]]'' in [[broadcast syndication|syndication]] (1952β1975) *June 19 β ''[[I've Got a Secret]]'' on CBS (1952β1967) *June 30 β the [[soap opera]] ''[[The Guiding Light]]'' (1952β2009) on CBS, which began on radio in 1937, becoming the longest-running regularly scheduled drama in television history *July 10 - The prime time version of ''[[A Date with Judy (television program)|A Date with Judy]]'' debuts on [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]. *September β the religious drama ''[[This Is the Life (TV series)|This Is the Life]]'' on [[DuMont Television Network|DuMont]], and ran until the late 1980s *September 19 β ''[[Adventures of Superman (TV series)|Adventures of Superman]]'' in syndication (1952β1958) *October 26 β ''[[Victory at Sea]]'' (1952β1953) on NBC, one of the first historic documentary series *October 3 β ''[[Our Miss Brooks]]'' (1952-1956) on CBS *November 1 β ''[[Hockey Night in Canada]]'' on [[CBC Television|CBC]] (1952βpresent) *November 6 β ''[[Biff Baker, U.S.A.]]'' on CBS (1952β1953) *November 8 β ''[[My Hero (U.S. TV series)|My Hero]]'' on NBC (1952β1953) *December 1 β ''[[The Abbott and Costello Show]]'' in syndication (1952β1954) *December 15 β ''[[Flower Pot Men]]'' on [[BBC|BBC Television]] (1952) *''[[American Bandstand]]'', originally called ''Bandstand'', as a local program in [[Philadelphia]] (1952β1989) *''[[Life Is Worth Living]]'' with Bishop [[Fulton J. Sheen]] on DuMont (1952β1955), then on [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] (1955β1957) *''[[My Little Margie]]'' (1952β1955), starring [[Gale Storm]] *''[[See It Now]]'', hosted by [[Edward R. Murrow]] *''[[The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet]]'' on ABC (1952β1966) *''[[The Ernie Kovacs Show]]'', where Kovacs explores the boundaries of television technology with his use of special effects (1952β1953) *''[[Meet the Masters]]'', a program about classical music, on NBC and [[WGN-TV]] *''[[This Is Your Life (American franchise)|This Is Your Life]]'' in the U.S. (1952β1961) *''[[Life with Elizabeth]]'', a sitcom featuring [[Betty White]] (1952β1955) ===Ending during 1952=== {| class="wikitable" ! Date || Show || Debut |- | February 23 |''[[A Date with Judy (television program)|A Date with Judy]]'' (daytime version) |rowspan="3"|1951 |- | March 27 |''[[The Bill Goodwin Show]]'' |- | April 11 |''[[Faye Emerson's Wonderful Town]]'' |- | April 24 |''[[Stop the Music (American TV series)|Stop the Music]]'' |1949 |- | June 30 |''Claudia'' |1952 |- | Unknown |''[[Picture Page]]'' (UK) |1946 |}
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