List of shows from the network era explained

The following article consist of shows that aired during the network era of American television from the early 1950s to the mid 1980s.^[1]

1950s

• Dennis the Menace
• The Ed Sullivan Show^[2]
• The Lawrence Welk Show

1960s

• Batman^[3]
• The Beverly Hillbillies^{[4] [2]}
• Bewitched^[5]
• Dark Shadows^[6]
• The Fugitive^[2]
• General Hospital^[7]
• Green Acres^[8]
• The Green Hornet^[3]
• Hee Haw
• Hulabaloo
• I Dream of Jeannie^[5]
• Julia
• The Patty Duke Show^[3]
• Shindig!
• Star Trek^[9]
• The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson

1970s

• All in the Family^[4]
• Charlie's Angels^[8]
• Columbo^[2]
• Dallas^{[10] [2]}
• Fantasy Island^[8]
• Happy Days^[4]
• The Jeffersons^[11]
• Laverne and Shirley^[4]
• The Love Boat^[8]
• McCloud^[2]
• The Midnight Special
• Monday Night Football^[10]
• The Rockfield Files^[10]
• Roots^{[2] [11]}
• Soul Train^{[12] [11]}
• Three's Company^[8]

1980s

• The Cosby Show^[4]
• Late Night with David Letterman^[12]

Notes and References

1. https://www.jstor.org/stable/40375904 What Is U.S. Television Now? on JSTOR
2. https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_New_York_Times_Guide_to_Essential_Kn/-BIGv9vIoqcC?hl=en&gbpv=1 The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge, Second Edition - Google Books (ch."Television Programming in the Network Era")
3. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/373229 Project MUSE - Batman versus The Green Hornet
4. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Blockbuster_TV/1ikUCgAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0 Blockbuster TV - Google Books
5. https://culturalanalytics.org/article/11045-visual-style-in-two-network-era-sitcoms Visual Style in Two Network Era Sitcoms|Published in Journal of Cultural Analytics
6. https://www.google.com/books/edition/TV_Sound_in_the_Network_Era_1952_1984/9B9nzwEACAAJ?hl=en TV Sound in the Network Era, 1952-1984 - Google Books
7. https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv11cw6v0 Her Stories: Daytime Soap Opera and US Television History on JSTOR
8. https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_Companion_to_the_History_of_American_B/ODVmDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1 A Companion to the History of American Broadcasting - Google Books (ch."The Classic Network Era in Television, 1950s-1970s")
9. https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1525/9780520940604-toc/html NBC: America’s Network - De Gruyter
10. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/9781118646151.ch4 The Classic Network Era in Television 1950s–1970s - A Companion to the History of American Broadcasting - Wiley Online Library
11. https://www.amazon.com/Black-TV-Groundbreaking-Television-Black-ish/dp/076248151X Black TV: Five Decades of Groundbreaking Television from Soul Train to Black-ish and Beyond on Amazon.com
12. https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2021/03/50-years-of-haw-welk-and-soul/ 50 Years of Haw, Welk, and Soul|The Saturday Evening Post