Premiere year

1949 premieres

45 American shows premiered in 1949. Sorted by premiere date where the day is recorded; shows known only by year are listed at the end.

45 shows

Premiere	Show	Network	Seasons	Episodes	Genre
Jan 6	Suspense	ABC	6	260	Anthology
Jan 11	Stand By for Crime	ABC	1	2	Crime
Jan 12	Arthur Godfrey and His Friends	CBS	10	—	—
Jan 18	The School House	DuMont	—	14	—
Jan 21	Your Show Time	NBC	1	26	Anthology
Jan 28	The Admiral Broadway Revue	DuMont	—	19	Variety show
Feb 21	A Woman to Remember	DuMont	—	—	Soap opera
Mar 7	The Vincent Lopez Show	CBS, DuMont	—	—	—
Mar 15	And Everything Nice	DuMont	1	—	Documentary
Mar 25	Front Row Center	DuMont	—	—	—
Mar 26	Think Fast	ABC	—	—	Game show
Apr 5	Fireside Theater	NBC	7	268	Drama
Apr 21	The Morey Amsterdam Show	CBS	3	82	Sitcom
May 5	Crusade in Europe	ABC	—	—	Documentary
May 8	Wesley	CBS	—	—	Sitcom
Jun 4	Spin the Picture	DuMont	—	—	Game show
Jun 6	It Pays to Be Ignorant	CBS, NBC	3	—	—
Jun 22	Program Playhouse	DuMont	1	13	Anthology
Jun 27	Captain Video and His Video Rangers	DuMont	—	—	Science fiction
Jul 1	Mama	CBS	8	336	Sitcom
Jul 4	Colgate Theatre	NBC	—	50	Anthology
Jul 7	They're Off	DuMont	—	7	Game show
Aug 7	Ruthie on the Telephone	CBS	1	2	Comedy
Aug 24	Hands of Murder	DuMont	—	—	—
Sep 2	The Al Morgan Show	DuMont	2	—	Variety show
Sep 9	The Family Genius	DuMont	—	4	Sitcom
Sep 13	Uptown Jubilee	CBS	1	5	Variety show
Sep 15	The Lone Ranger	ABC	5	221	Western
Sep 16	The Big Story	NBC	9	349	Anthology
Sep 19	Your Witness	ABC	1	16	—
Sep 21	Boris Karloff Presents	ABC	1	13	—
Sep 22	The Ed Wynn Show	CBS	1	39	—
Sep 29	The Front Page	CBS	1	18	—
Oct 7	Fishing and Hunting Club	DuMont	—	—	Sport
Oct 7	Man Against Crime	CBS	5	122	Police procedural
Oct 12	Jerks of All Trades	ABC	—	1	—
Nov 3	The Ruggles	ABC	3	137	Sitcom
Nov 6	Paul Whiteman's Goodyear Revue	ABC	—	—	Variety show
Dec 4	Mysteries of Chinatown	ABC	—	48	—
—	Hopalong Cassidy	Syndication	2	52	Western
—	Martin Kane, Private Eye	NBC	—	—	Crime fiction
—	Studs' Place	WENR	—	—	—
—	The Hank McCune Show	NBC	1	6	Sitcom
—	Time for Beany	Paramount Television Network	—	—	—
—	Wrestling From Marigold	DuMont	—	—	—

Finales

Shows that ended in 1949

Show	Network	Years	Seasons	Years on air
Television Screen Magazine	NBC	1946–1949	—	4
Americana	NBC	1947–1949	2	3
Elder Michaux	WTTG	1948–1949	—	2
Fashions on Parade	DuMont	1948–1949	1	2
Quizzing the News	ABC	1948–1949	1	2
Scoreboard	DuMont	1948–1949	1	2
The Adventures of Oky Doky	DuMont	1948–1949	—	2