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Our Miss Brooks s03e28 Madison Mascot

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Original Air Date—20 May 1955
Mr. Conklin tries to publicize the school's mascot.

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Our Miss Brooks s03e29 The Big Jump

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Original Air Date—27 May 1955
Principal Osgood agrees to jump from the top of the high school into a fireman's net as a publicity stunt, but gets cold feet as the hour for his leap nears. He fakes an injury, then tries to convince the male teachers to take his place. When they all develop mysterious maladies, it's up to Miss Brooks to uphold the faculty's honor.

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Red River Valley (1936)

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One of Gene Autry's early Republic westerns, the film has plenty of action and songs by Autry and Burdette, along with other musical novelty acts. Gene and his friend Frog help the valley's irrigation company solve the mystery of who's behind the terror tactics of those fighting the dam.

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Andy Griffith Show s04e13 Barney and the Cave Rescue

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Original Air Date—6 January 1964
After Andy and Helen go exploring in a cave, it collapses behind them. They find another way out, but hear on the radio that Barney has mobilized the town to rescue them. They go back into the cave to save Barney from becoming a laughingstock.

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Andy Griffith Show s03e18 The Loaded Goat

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Original Air Date—28 January 1963
A local construction crew is blasting for an underpass near Mayberry. The rumor is that the mayor wants to bring the highway past his brother's gas station. A farmer brings his goat uptown to experience his weekly shopping trip, and partly because of the blasting making the goat nervous. The goat frees itself from a bench on main street and wanders into a storeroom. The goat eats a half of a case of dynamite. Andy and Barney treat the goat with kid gloves and place him in Otis's cell. The fun starts when Otis lets himself into the locked jail using his own key and kicks the goat out of "his" cell.

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Andy Griffith Show s03e21 Opie and the Spoiled Kid

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Original Air Date—18 February 1963
Opie's friend Arnold seems to have it all--a new bike, fat allowance, and plenty of leisure time. When the pressure's on, though, Opie learns that these assets are actually Arnold's greatest weakness

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Andy Griffith Show s03e26 Andy's English Valet

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Original Air Date—25 March 1963
When cultures clash, cars crash, and Andy's home becomes his castle as he engages the employment of a bicycle-touring Englishman who must work off an unfortunately-earned debt.

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Andy Griffith Show s03e28 The Rivals

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Original Air Date—8 April 1963
When Opie feels too shy to ask classmate Karen to the movies, Thelma Lou tries to boost Opie's confidence--but destroys Barney's along the way. Can Andy realign this skewed love quadrangle?

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Adventures of Dr Fu Manchu s01e09 Death Ships of Dr. Fu Manchu

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Original Air Date—29 October 1956
Dr. Fu Manchu has stolen a deadly collection of germ cultures from a laboratory in San Francisco, and plans to smuggle them through the port of Hong Kong.

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Andy Griffith Show s03e30 Dogs, Dogs, Dogs

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Original Air Date—22 April 1963
It's pandemonium when the courthouse is invaded by eleven stray dogs. They boys have do find out what to do with them before a state investigator arrives to do an audit.

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Adventures of Dr Fu Manchu s01e01 Prisoner of Dr. Fu Manchu

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Original Air Date—3 September 1956
Dr. Fu Manchu has poisoned the renowned Dr. Hu Yan, who is to appear at a conference of the nations of the world, and replaced him with an impostor who will disrupt the conference's goal--a plan for world peace.

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Front Page Detective - Seven Seas to Danger (1951)

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Original Air Date—1952
While researching a human interest story on the waterfront, David Chase stumbles upon a smuggling operation and is shot for his troubles.

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Bugsy Siegel - Unsolved

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TV pilot from the 1950's. Based somewhat on the real-life murder of criminal Benjamin 'Bugsy' Siegel.

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Bonanza s01e25 Escape to Ponderosa

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Original Air Date—5 March 1960
Adam is bushwhacked by three men, who turn out to have deserted from the army. When Ben pursues them, he is hindered by a Captain Bolton, who is also after the three men.

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Stories of the Century s01e21 The Doolin Gang

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Original Air Date—10 June 1954
Railroad detective Matt Clark roams the west, tracking down outlaws and bandits who are preying on the railroad.

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Stories of the Century s01e16 Black Bart

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Original Air Date—6 May 1954
Railroad detective Matt Clark roams the west, tracking down outlaws and bandits who are preying on the railroad. Jim Davis

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Dragnet s02e07 The Big .22 Rifle for Christmas

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Original Air Date—18 December 1952
Friday and Smith search for a missing boy. The first sign that the case is serious is when blood is found. Further probing reveals the boy's parents had purchased him a .22-caliber rifle for Christmas -- and the weapon is missing, removed from its wrapped package.

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Annie Oakley s01e23 Sharpshooting Annie

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Original Air Date—12 June 1954

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Dennis the Menace s02e12 The Christmas Horse

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Original Air Date—25 December 1960

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Fibber McGee and Molly s01e04 The Big Dance

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Original Air Date—6 October 1959
Fibber is disappointed when he's not selected to organize the lodge's annual dance, but gets his chance when his constant second-guessing causes the committee chairman to resign in a huff. His efforts to save money on the dance hall, decorations and entertainment nearly result in disaster, especially when the Governor and his wife decide to attend

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Annie Oakley s01e13 The Hardrock Trail

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Gene Autry Show s01e26 Double Barreled Vengenance

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21 April 1951
Gene turns outlaw to find out who is robbing the stagecoaches.

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Bat Masterson s01e04 Stampede At Tent City

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Original Air Date—29 October 1958
A old flame of Bat's asks him to rescue her current beau, accused of murder and shackled to a tree by a lynch mob led by the slain man's brother.

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Mister Ed - U.S. Savings Bonds

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1964
This presentation encourages people to buy U.S. savings bonds.

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Restless Gun (aka The Six Shooter)

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1957
The Restless Gun was based on the old time radio series "The Six Shooter"

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Colgate Comedy Hour s04e28 Abbott and Costello

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4/18/1954
Host: Bud Abbott and Lou Costello.
Guest Stars: Jane Russell, Rhonda Fleming, Connie Haines, Beryl Davis, Tony Martinez, Jack Shea, Baby Mistin, Dick Parks, Mike Ross, Frank Richards, Ken Mayer, and Al Goodman and his Orchestra.

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Red Skelton Show

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The Red Skelton Show was an American variety show that was a television staple for almost two decades, from the early 1950s through the early 1970s. It was second to Gunsmoke (1955-1975) and third to The Ed Sullivan Show (1948–1971) in the ratings during that time.

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Adventures of Ellery Queen s03e06 Buck Fever (1952)

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The first television series, produced by the DuMont Television Network, ran from 1950 to 1952 and aired first on DuMont and later on ABC.

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Adventures of Ellery Queen s01e24 Man who Enjoyed Death

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The first television series, produced by the DuMont Television Network, ran from 1950 to 1952.

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Sergeant Preston Of The Yukon s02e18 Scourge of the Wilderness

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An Indian Chief declares war on a lumber camp that has been set up on the tribes land. 11 January 1957

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Petticoat Junction s01e06 Please Buy My Violets

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Original Air Date—29 October 1963
Uncle Joe spends Kate's money to buy cases of lousy men and women's cologne to make a fast buck reselling it. The money was intended to put screens in the hotel that will keep mosquitoes from chasing away paying guests, so Kate has to find a way to get money for cologne no one wants before she doesn't have any guests left.

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Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp s01e01 Mr. Earp Becomes a Marshal (1955)

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Initially resistant to becoming a lawman, Wyatt Earp has a change of heart after seeing the sheriff of Ellsworth, Kansas murdered in cold blood by the inebriated brother of town scourge Ben Thompson.

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Make Room For Daddy s03e02 Little League (1955)

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Rusty wants to play little league baseball, but he fails his try-out with his neighborhood team, the Giants. Danny, who owns a vacant lot on which the Giants want to play their games, makes a deal to allow Rusty to play and Danny to be the coach. However, Rusty's team loses due to his very poor play.

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Sheriff of Cochise s01e23 Bank Robbery

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Sheriff Morgan is convinced that a clever pair of bank robbers will hit the Bisbee National Bank twice in the same week when they learn a large army payroll is being kept in the vault for safekeeping.

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Sheriff of Cochise s01e19 Lynching Party

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The Sheriff must protect a suspected murderer from an angry mob who will stop at nothing to kill him.

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Sheriff of Cochise s01e32 Husband and Wife

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Peterson's daughter, Ellen, ran off and got married to Jess Stiles, a rodeo performer. However, Jess is already married to another woman.

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Sherlock Holmes s01ep02 The Case of Lady Beryl

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Original Air Date—25 October 1954
Lady Beryl confesses to a murder that was committed at her home, but Sherlock Holmes is convinced that she is innocent.

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Grand Ole Opry - April 28 1956

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Guests include: Buddy Ebsen, Chet Atkins, Collins Kids, The Jordanaires, June Carter, Flatt and Scruggs, Minnie Pearl

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Sheriff of Cochise s01e10 The Red-Haired Visitor

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A fugitive wanted for murder dyes his hair and plans to hide out at a desert resort until the heat dies down. He kills an automobile mechanic to keep his identity a secret and Sheriff Morgan arrests the mechanic's spiteful brother-in-law by mistake.

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Bonanza s02e06 Denver McKee

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Ranchers are being killed, cattle stolen, and retired U.S. Deputy Marshall Denver Mckee leads various posses after the suspects but never seems to be able to find them. In the meantime, Mckee seems to have plenty of money to take care of his gorgeous daughter back home from schooling in the East.

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Lights Out s04e08 I Spy

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Mr. and Mrs. Potts are an eccentric elderly couple. The rooms of their house are filled with husband Henry's collections of practically everything--including caskets. There's even one in the living room--containing the body of a survey taker from the newspaper who came by last week. Today, a new survery taker arrives asking questions about the missing man whom she replaced.

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Dragnet s02e14 The Big Seventeen

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Upper middle-class teenagers in Los Angeles are going crazy. They trash a movie theater, beating up the manager and pushing a young man through a plate glass window. Sergeant Friday must get to the bottom of what is causing this to happen.

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The Life Of Riley s01e01 Tonsils 10-04-49

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Riley worked in an aircraft plant in California, but viewers usually saw him at home, cheerfully disrupting life with his malapropisms and ill timed intervention into minor problems. His stock answer to every turn of fate became a catch phrase: 'What a revoltin' development this is!"

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The Price is Right - 01-27-60

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The original version of an American icon, "The Price is Right" rewarded contestants with valuable prizes for their ability to price items.

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Death Valley Days s02e06 Dear Teacher

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Original Air Date—24 November 1953
New schoolteacher arrives, keeps unruly students in line with her sweet demeanor and sharpshooting skills. One vindictive female student and some town busybodies try to get her run out of town.

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Wagon Train s06e34 Alias Bill Hawks

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Original Air Date—15 May 1963
Bill Hawks travels to a desert town to visit an old friend, an Indian who has a ranch there. However, upon arriving on his friend's property, he discovers that it is under the control of the local townspeople, who are drilling for water, and that his friend is nowhere to be seen. The townspeople are unwilling to give him any information, and in fact display outright hostility to him, leading Hawks to suspect that his friend may be in danger or even dead.

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26 Men s01e01 The Recruit

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Original Air Date—15 October 1957
The newspaper editor of Wilcox asks the Rangers for help, and two of them are dispatched to the town. However, when they get there they find the editor has been lynched and is hanging from a tree.

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Bonanza s01e29 Bitter Water

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A neighboring rancher, Andy, is good friends with Ben, but his son (Todd) wants to sell their land for mining operations which will spoil the water rights agreement that Andy and Ben made years ago.

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Howdy Doody 10/1/1952

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An episode of "Howdy Doody" from the 1st of October, 1952.

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Dick Van Dyke Show s02e01 Never Name a Duck

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Original Air Date—26 September 1962
Mel brings a box of toys from last weeks show. Rob takes two baby ducks home and doesn't want anyone to see them because they will fall in love with them.

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Jack Benny s07e05 Jack's Maxwell Is Stolen

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Original Air Date—18 November 1956
Jack panics when Rochester informs him that his Maxwell automobile has been stolen from his garage and they immediately race to the opulent Beverly Hills police station where the dispatcher plays Elvis Presley and Lawrence Welk records between making police calls. The police discover the crooks have returned the car and apprehend one of the perpetrators who broke his toe kicking the car's tire.

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Jack Benny s12e17 Ghost Town Western Sketch

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Original Air Date—11 February 1962
Jack and Gisele are returning from a show in Phoenix and get lost. They stumble into a café in what appears to be a Western ghost town and ask directions. While they sup on peanut butter sandwiches, the owner spins a story from the town's history, where a black-hearted villain called Tombstone Harry tries to force a beautiful saloon girl to marry him, or he'll foreclose on her mortgage. A black-garbed hero, the Cactus Kid, attempts to stop the villain.

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Fibber McGee and Molly s01e6 The Courtship

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Original Air Date—20 October 1959
After attending a lecture on relationships, Hazel convinces Molly that their husbands aren't spending enough quality, romantic time with them. Fibber and Roy decide they can survive quite well without women in their life and set up their own household in the McGee home without feminine interference and soon regret their actions.

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Fibber McGee and Molly s01e03 The Good Neighbor

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Original Air Date—29 September 1959
On the fifth anniversary of the McGees and the Norris' becoming neighbors, instead of celebrating Fibber and Roy have a falling out over who owns an apple tree that grows between their houses. Their argument results in acrimony, surveyors, goats and a courtroom battle.

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Fibber MCGee And Molly s01e01 The Trailer

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After discovering that their car can't hold all the luggage they've packed for vacation, Fibber decides to buy a trailer for their trip. A silver-tongued salesman convinces McGee to buy the most expensive model on the lot and, after Molly finds out the cost, Fibber is forced into the role of salesman to get rid of the white elephant.

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Hollywood: The Fabulous Era (Henry Fonda TV Special) (1962)

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This one hour TV special tells the story of Hollywood from the advent of sound up to the modern day.

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Petticoat Junction s01e01 Spur Line To Shady Rest

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Andy Griffith Show - High Noon in Mayberry

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Andy Griffith Show - Barneys First Car

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Andy Griffith Show - A Wife For Andy

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Andy Griffith Show - The Bighouse

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Andy Griffith Show - The Big House
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Andy Griffith Show - The Robbery

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Andy Griffith Show - The Robbery
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Bob Hope Chevy Show - 28Dec1956

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Bob Hope Chevy Show (1956)
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Jack Benny Program s04e07 Liberace Show

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Original Air Date—17 January 1954
Jack visits the home of Liberace, but even he isn't ready for the outrageous extravagance he sees there.

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