Most Viewed Year 1952

In 1927 Hollywood, a silent film production company and cast make a difficult transition to sound.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Gene Kelly

At the start of the First World War, in the middle of Africa’s nowhere, a gin soaked riverboat captain is persuaded by a strong-willed...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Humphrey Bogart

Told in flashback form, the film traces the rise and fall of a tough, ambitious Hollywood producer, Jonathan Shields, as seen through the eyes of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kirk Douglas

When elderly pensioner Umberto Domenico Ferrari returns to his boarding house from a protest calling for a hike in old-age pensions, his landlady...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Carlo Battisti

Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takashi Shimura

Will Kane, the sheriff of a small town in New Mexico, learns a notorious outlaw he put in jail has been freed, and will be arriving on the noon...

Genre: Western

Cast: Gary Cooper

Jed, an airline pilot, is resting in a hotel when he notices Nell, a young woman babysitting for a wealthy couple. As Jed gets to know Nell better he...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Widmark

Burt Lancaster plays a pirate with a taste for intrigue and acrobatics who involves himself in the goings on of a revolution in the Caribbean in the...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Burt Lancaster

Young Robin Hood, in love with Maid Marian, enters an archery contest with his father at the King's palace. On the way home his father is murdered by...

Genre: Action

Cast: Richard Todd

Husband-and-wife scientists (Peter Graves, Andrea King) pick up a pie-in-the-sky TV message supposedly from Mars.

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Peter Graves

A nightclub singer enlists her brother-in-law to track down her husband's killer.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Rita Hayworth

To ensure a full profitable season, circus manager Brad Braden engages The Great Sebastian, though this moves his girlfriend Holly from her hard-won...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Betty Hutton

An American man returns to the village of his birth in Ireland, where he finds love and conflict.

Genre: Romance

Cast: John Wayne

Eddie Miller struggles with his hatred of women, he's especially bothered by seeing women with their lovers. He starts a killing spree as a sniper by...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Arthur Franz

At the end of the 19th century, during a ball in Joinville, on the outskirts of Paris, Georges, a former delinquent working as a carpenter, meets...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Simone Signoret

A wealthy, self-absorbed Rome socialite is racked by guilt over the death of her young son. As a way of dealing with her grief and finding meaning in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ingrid Bergman

An ex-convict sets out to uncover who framed him for an armored car robbery.

Genre: Crime

Cast: John Payne

Jeff Elliot is an American GI investigating a black market gang in Munich.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Gene Kelly

George Bernard Shaw’s breezy, delightful dramatization of this classic fable—about a Christian slave who pulls a thorn from a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Victor Mature

In Italy, small-town newlyweds Wanda and Ivan Cavalli embark on their honeymoon in the big city of Rome. Ivan dutifully wants to keep appointments...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Alberto Sordi

German daily news program, the oldest still existing program on German television.

Genre: News

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Four Star Playhouse is an American television anthology series that ran from 1952 to 1956, sponsored in its first bi-weekly season by The Singer...

Genre: Drama

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Omnibus is an American, commercially sponsored, educational television series.

Genre: Talk

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This Is Your Life is an American television documentary series broadcast on NBC, originally hosted by its producer, Ralph Edwards from 1952 to 1961....

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ralph Edwards

Hopalong Cassidy was television's first western program. The series aired on NBC and stared William Boyd as the cowboy Hopalong Cassidy.

Genre: Western

Cast: Edgar Buchanan

Bud and Lou are unemployed actors living in Mr. Fields’ boarding house. Lou’s girlfriend Hillary lives across the hall. Many situations...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bud Abbott

My Little Margie is an American situation comedy starring Gale Storm and Charles Farrell that alternated between CBS and NBC from 1952 to 1955.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Gale Storm

Announcer: "The Adventures of Superman. Faster than a speeding bullet! More powerful than a locomotive! Able to leap tall buildings at a single...

Genre: Action & Adventure

Cast: George Reeves

Death Valley Days is an American radio and television anthology series featuring true stories of the old American West, particularly the Death Valley...

Genre: Western

Cast: Dale Robertson

Guiding Light is an American television soap opera that is credited by the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest-running television drama in...

Genre: Soap

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A panel tries to determine a contestant's secret: something that is unusual, amazing, embarrassing, or humorous about that person.

Genre: Reality

Cast: Steve Allen

Mr. & Mrs. North is an American comedy/mystery television series that aired on CBS from October 3, 1952 to May 25, 1954. The series centers on Jerry...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Richard Denning

This show started in New York City, with Broadway actors and actresses. It then moved to Hollywood, California, where Hollywood actors and actresses...

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Today is a daily American morning television show that airs on NBC. The program debuted on January 14, 1952. It was the first of its genre on...

Genre: News

Cast: Al Roker

Gang Busters is a 30 minute television series, hosted by Chester Morris, that aired on NBC from March 20 to Oct. 23, 1952. The series dramatized FBI...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Chester Morris

Cavalcade of America is an anthology drama series that was sponsored by the DuPont Company, although it occasionally presented a musical, such as an...

Genre: Drama

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30 minute anthology seriies

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Cast: Charles Bronson

The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet is an American sitcom, airing on ABC from October 3, 1952 through March 26, 1966, starring the real life Nelson...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ozzie Nelson

I Married Joan is an American sitcom that aired on NBC from 1952 to 1955. It starred veteran vaudeville, film, and radio comedienne-comedy actress...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Joan Davis

Terry and the Pirates is a short-lived American adventure series based on Milton Caniff's popular comic strip, was telecast from June 26, 1953 to...

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Cast: John Baer