Walt Disney (center) with the Mouseketeers

The Mickey Mouse Club is an variety television show created for children by Walt
Disney Productions that aired on  ABC –TV from Monday October 3, 1955 to 1959. It featured a regular but ever changing cast of young performers. The show was hosted
by songwriter Jimmie Dodd (below). The main cast members were called Mouseketeers who performed in a variety of musical and dance numbers.

Jimmie Dodd

 

Peanuts is a syndicated daily and Sunday comic strip written and illustrated
by Charles M. Schulz (above), which ran from Sunday October 2, 1950, to
February 13, 2000, continuing in reruns afterward. The strip is considered
to be one of the most popular and influential in the history of the medium,
with 17,897 strips published in all. Schulz died February 12, 2000.

Hazel is a Screen Gems television sitcom series the follows the life a fictional live-
in maid named Hazel Burke (Shirley Booth) and her employers, the Baxters. The
five-season, 154-episode series aired in primetime from Thursday September 28,
1961 until September 5, 1966. The first four seasons aired on NBC-TV and were sponsored by the Ford Motor Company. The show was based on a popular single
panel comic strip (below) by cartoonist Ted Key that appeared in the Saturday
Evening Post.

The Beatles is a animated television series featuring the adventures of the
popular rock band of the same name. It ran on ABC from Saturday September
25, 1965 and ended on September 7, 1969 for a total of 39 episodes. The
series was a historical milestone as the first weekly television series to
feature animated versions of real, living people.

The Addams Family is a 30-minute ABC television series, shot in black and white,
that aired for two seasons from September 18, 1964 to April 8, 1966. The show
was based on the characters in Charles Addams’ New Yorker panel cartoons
(below) which were first published in 1938.