Wallace Maynard Cox was an American actor. He began his career as a standup comedian and then played the title character of the popular early U.S. television series Mister Peepers from 1952 to 1955. He also appeared as a character actor in over 20 films and dozens of television episodes. Cox was the voice of the animated canine superhero Underdog in the Underdog TV series.
Marion Lorne MacDougal or MacDougall, known professionally as Marion Lorne, was an American actress on stage, film, and television. After a career in theatre in New York and London, Lorne made her first film in 1951, and for the remainder of her life played small roles in films and television. Her recurring role as Aunt Clara in the comedy series Bewitched, between 1964 and her death in 1968, brought her widespread recognition, and she was posthumously awarded an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series.
Audrey Dalton is an Irish-born American retired actress who mostly worked in the United States during the Golden Age of Hollywood.
Hawkins Falls, Population 6200 is an American television soap opera that was broadcast in the 1950s, live from Chicago. Though it was not the first original (non-radio-derived) soap opera on American TV, it was the first to be successful, running for more than five years.
Reta Shaw was an American character actress known for playing strong, hard-edged, working women in film and on many of the most popular television programs of the 1960s and 1970s in the United States. She may be best remembered as the housekeeper, Martha Grant, on the television series The Ghost & Mrs. Muir and as the cook, Mrs. Brill, in the 1964 film Mary Poppins.
Martin Kane, Private Eye is an American crime drama radio and television series sponsored by United States Tobacco Company. It aired via radio from 1949 to 1952 and was simultaneously a television series on NBC from 1949 to 1954. It was the "earliest of successful cops-and-robbers series" on television.
The following is the 1952–53 network television schedule for the four major English language commercial broadcast networks in the United States. The schedule covers primetime hours from September 1952 through March 1953. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning series, new series, and series cancelled after the 1951–52 season.
Ruth Thane McDevitt was an American film, stage, radio, and television actress.
Patricia Paz Maria Medina was a British actress. She is perhaps best known for her roles in the films Phantom of the Rue Morgue (1954) and Mr. Arkadin (1955).
Hugh Sanders was an American actor, probably best known for playing the role of Dr. Reynolds in the movie To Kill a Mockingbird.
Gage Clarke was an American stage, television, and film character actor. The first half of his career was dedicated to the theatre, predominantly to Broadway productions, while television and film roles dominated his work during the latter half of his career. Among his memorable television roles is his portrayal of the fastidious school official "Mr. Bascomb" during the 1952–1953 broadcast season of the sitcom Mister Peepers starring Wally Cox. Clarke also performed in many other television series produced between 1949 and the early 1960s, most prominently Maverick and Gunsmoke, as well as in more than a dozen Hollywood features.
Sylvia Field was an American actress whose career encompassed performances on stage, screen, and TV. She was best known for playing the understanding Mrs. Martha Wilson on the television sitcom Dennis the Menace on CBS from 1959 to 1962.
Doc Corkle is an American sitcom that was broadcast on NBC Television from October 5 through October 19, 1952. The show was cancelled after 3 episodes and replaced by Mister Peepers. Insufficient ratings were reported to be the cause of the switch.
Everett Greenbaum was an American television and film writer and actor who contributed to such shows as The Andy Griffith Show, M*A*S*H, Love American Style, The Real McCoys, Sanford and Son, and The George Gobel Show. Greenbaum was a co-writer with Jim Fritzell of Mister Peepers an important early television show created by David Swift and starring Wally Cox. He wrote the Hollywood feature film Good Neighbor Sam, as well as a series of films starring Don Knotts that included The Shakiest Gun in the West, The Reluctant Astronaut, and The Ghost and Mr. Chicken.
Faye Emerson's Wonderful Town, also known as Wonderful Town, USA, is a half-hour variety television series that aired on CBS from June 16, 1951, to April 19, 1952, in which Faye Emerson visits various cities. Episodes of the program were also shown to American military personnel overseas via Kinescope.
Jacques Georges Aubuchon was an American actor who appeared in films, stage, and on television in the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.
Patricia Eloise Benoit was an American television and stage actress. She starred as the title character's eventual wife Nancy Remington in the 1950s TV series, Mister Peepers.
Boyd Higginson Turgeon, known professionally as Peter Turgeon, was an American film, television, and theatre actor. He was perhaps best known for playing the caustic and interfering passenger Marcus Rathbone in the 1970 film Airport.
Events in 1924 in animation.
