The TV sitcom Happy Days aired first-run on the
ABC network from January 15, 1974, to July 19, 1984, with a total of 255 half-hour episodes spanning
11 seasons. Created by Garry Marshall, it was one
of the most successful series of the 1970s.

Howdy Doody is a children’s television show broadcast on
the NBC television network from December 27, 1947, until
September 24, 1960.

Buffalo Bob Smith, Howdy Doody and Clarabell the clown,
originally played by Bob Keeshan, who went on to create
the children’s TV character Captain Kangaroo. 

1950s

The oil tycoon Blake Carrington (John Forsythe) prepares to
marry his former secretary, the beautiful and innocent Krystle
(Linda Evans), in the three-hour television movie that kicks
off the prime-time ABC soap opera Dynasty on January 12,
1981.