Cultural highlights of 1955

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Cultural highlights of 1955

Television: UK
What's My Line New shows
• Quatermass II (BBC from 22 October). Six-part science-fiction drama, later filmed.
• Sunday Night at the London Palladium (ATV from 25 September). Variety, hosted by Tommy Trinder, with the 'Beat the Clock' competition during the middle section.
• What's My Line? (BBC). Panel game, chaired by Eamonn Andrews, with Gilbert Harding, Lady Isobel Barnett, David Nixon and Barbara Kelly among regular panelists [right].

Television: US
New shows
• $64,000 Question (CBS, from 7 June). Quiz.
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents (CBS, from 2 October). Suspense drama, start of a 10-year run.
• The Bob Cummings Show (NBC, from 2 January).
• Captain Kangaroo (CBS, from 3 October). Children's morning series that runs until 1993.
• Gunsmoke (CBS, from 10 September). Western. Runs for the next 20 years to 1975; 640 episodes are produced.
• Honeymooners (from 1 October). Sitcom.
• The Lawrence Welk Show (ABC, from July 2). Music/variety.
• The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp . Western. Runs until 1961.
• The Millionaire (CBS, from 19 January).
• Queen for a Day (NBC, from 1 January). The most successful daytime TV programme in US history, transferred from radio.
• Rawhide. Western (with a young Clint Eastwood).
• You'll Never Get Rich (The Phil Silvers Show) (Nat Hiken for CBS). Military comedy with Sergeant Bilko.
• The Mickey Mouse Club (Walt Disney for ABC, from 3 October). Children's series that runs until 1959.

Drama
• Tennessee Williams: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Broadway, from 24 March).
• Arthur Miller: A View from the Bridge (Coronet Theatre, New York, from 29 September).

Print media
• Guinness Book of Records. First edition.

Other
• Howl, the poem by Allan Ginsburg ('I have seen the finest minds of my generation...') first read by the author at the North Beach Six Gallery, 3119 Fillmore Street, San Francisco.

Chronomedia 1955