Premiere year

1951 premieres

46 American shows premiered in 1951. Sorted by premiere date where the day is recorded; shows known only by year are listed at the end.

46 shows

Premiere	Show	Network	Seasons	Episodes	Genre
Jan 21	With This Ring	DuMont	—	8	—
Mar 3	Watch Mr. Wizard	NBC	6	547	—
Mar 6	Once Upon a Tune	DuMont	—	—	—
Mar 12	Miss Susan	NBC	1	218	Soap opera
Apr 5	Ford Festival	NBC	1	65	—
Apr 5	The Range Rider	CBS	3	79	Western
Apr 15	The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok	Syndication	8	113	Western
Apr 19	Casey, Crime Photographer	CBS	2	57	—
May 11	It's News to Me	CBS	3	17	Panel game
May 30	Down You Go	DuMont, NBC	—	—	Panel game
Jun 6	Shadow of the Cloak	DuMont	—	36	—
Jun 7	Racket Squad	CBS	3	98	Police procedural
Jun 16	Faye Emerson's Wonderful Town	CBS	1	42	—
Jun 20	Curtain Call	ABC	1	15	—
Jun 25	What's the Story	DuMont	4	—	—
Jun 25	Who's Whose	CBS	1	1	—
Jul 6	Front Page Detective	DuMont	1	46	Drama
Aug 3	Tales of Tomorrow	ABC	2	85	Science fiction
Aug 3	The Ad-Libbers	CBS	—	5	Game show
Aug 11	The Adventures of Kit Carson	Syndication	4	103	Western
Aug 27	The Gallery of Madame Liu-Tsong	DuMont	1	10	—
Aug 29	Young Mr. Bobbin	NBC	—	—	Sitcom
Sep 3	Search for Tomorrow	NBC, CBS	35	9,130	Soap opera
Sep 6	Crawford Mystery Theatre	DuMont	—	26	—
Sep 8	The Adventures of Boston Blackie	Syndication	2	58	Detective
Sep 11	The Bill Goodwin Show	NBC	1	—	—
Sep 16	Sky King	NBC	4	72	—
Sep 19	Crime Syndicated	CBS	—	—	Anthology
Sep 24	Love of Life	CBS	29	7,316	Soap opera
Sep 24	The Amazing Mr. Malone	ABC	1	13	Detective
Sep 27	Gruen Playhouse	ABC	2	—	Drama
Sep 30	The Red Skelton Show	NBC	20	672	—
Oct 2	Cosmopolitan Theatre	DuMont	1	13	Anthology
Oct 3	Celanese Theater	ABC	—	20	—
Oct 5	Schlitz Playhouse of Stars	CBS	8	377	Anthology
Oct 14	Goodyear Television Playhouse	NBC	6	144	Anthology
Oct 15	I Love Lucy	CBS	6	181	Sitcom
Nov 4	Byline	ABC	—	—	Anthology
Nov 18	See It NowNews program	CBS	—	—	Documentary
Nov 27	The Dinah Shore Show	NBC	—	—	Variety show
Dec 5	The Name's the Same	ABC	4	140	Panel game
Dec 16	Dragnet	NBC	8	276	Police procedural
Dec 24	Hallmark Hall of Fame	NBC	63	255	Drama
Dec 30	The Roy Rogers Show	NBC	6	100	Western
—	Captain Z-Ro	KRON-TV	—	77	Science fiction
Dec 31	The Big Payoff	NBC, CBS	9	—	Game show

Finales

Shows that ended in 1951

Show	Network	Years	Seasons	Years on air
Small Fry Club	DuMont	1947–1951	4	5
Okay, Mother	WNYW	1948–1951	3	4
The Al Morgan Show	DuMont	1949–1951	2	3
Hands of Murder	DuMont	1949–1951	—	3
Dangerous Assignment	NBC	1950–1951	1	2
The Nash Airflyte Theater	CBS	1950–1951	1	2
Eloise Salutes the Stars	DuMont	1950–1951	1	2
Penthouse Party	ABC	1950–1951	1	2
Somerset Maugham TV Theatre	CBS	1950–1951	3	2
The Bigelow Theatre	CBS	1950–1951	—	2
Our Secret Weapon: The Truth	DuMont	1950–1951	—	2
Prudential Family Playhouse	CBS	1950–1951	1	2
Visit with the Armed Forces	DuMont	1950–1951	—	2