Most Viewed Year 1949

In postwar Vienna, Austria, Holly Martins, a writer of pulp Westerns, arrives penniless as a guest of his childhood chum Harry Lime, only to learn he...

A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded bus. Desperate to right the wrong, he goes...

A bump on the head sends Hank Martin, 1905 auto mechanic, to Arthurian England, 528 A.D., where he is befriended by Sir Sagramore le Desirous and...

The Wind in the Willows: Concise version of Kenneth Grahame's story of the same name. J. Thaddeus Toad, owner of Toad Hall, is prone to fads, such as...

Secret Service agents make a deal with a counterfeiting inmate to be released on early parole if he will help them recover some bogus moneymaking...

When strongman Samson rejects the love of the beautiful Philistine woman Delilah, she seeks vengeance that brings horrible consequences they both...

A young idealistic doctor works at his father's clinic in a small and seedy district. During the war, he contracts syphilis from the blood of a...

Cleve Marshall, an assistant district attorney, falls for Thelma Jordon, a mysterious woman with a troubled past. When Thelma becomes a suspect in...

After a beautiful but unsophisticated girl is seduced by a worldly piano player and gives up her out-of-wedlock baby, her guilt compels her to kidnap...

Noriko is perfectly happy living at home with her widowed father, Shukichi, and has no plans to marry -- that is, until her aunt Masa convinces...

A hypnotist uses his powers for revenge against King Louis XV's court.

A woman's attempted murder of her uncaring husband results in everyday quarrels in the lives of Adam and Amanda, a pair of happily married lawyers...

After surviving a murder attempt, an auto magnate goes into hiding so his wife can pay for the crime.

In 1887 Arizona, in the context of the settler-vs-cattleman struggle, two rancher brothers fall in-love with the same settler girl while crooked...

Louisa May Alcott's autobiographical account of her life with her three sisters in Concord Mass in the 1860s. With their father fighting in the civil...

A man of humble beginnings and honest intentions rises to power by nefarious means. Along for the wild ride are an earnest reporter, a heretofore...

The ambitious son of an accomplished race driver struggles to outrun his father's legacy and achieve his own successes.

Washington Irving's tale of Ichabod Crane and the headless horseman is brought to life, narrated by Bing Crosby.

Two narcotics agents go after a gang of murderous drug dealers who use ships docking at the New York harbor to smuggle in their contraband.

Jane, a housewife, is confronted during her daily chores by Dennis, her married lover with whom she has had a long affair. Dennis tells Jane that he...

An anthology series adapted from the radio program of the same name. Like the radio program, many scripts were adaptations of literary classics by...

A Woman to Remember is a soap opera which ran on the DuMont Television Network from February 21, 1949 to July 15, 1949. The show initially ran in...

BAFTA presents awards for film, television and games, including children's entertainment, at a number of annual ceremonies across the UK and in Los...

Riley worked in an aircraft plant in California, but viewers usually saw him at home, cheerfully disrupting life with his malapropisms and ill timed...

An annual awards ceremony honoring the best in U.S. prime time television programming as chosen by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.

The Silver Theatre is a television series that was broadcast on the CBS television network from 1949 to 1950. It was a live anthology series...

Fireside Theater is an American anthology drama series that ran on NBC from 1949 to 1958, and was the first successful filmed series on American...

Man Against Crime, one of the first television programs about private eyes, ran on CBS, the DuMont Television Network and NBC from October 7, 1949 to...

The Lone Ranger is an American western television series that ran from 1949 to 1957, starring Clayton Moore with Jay Silverheels as Tonto. The...

Martin Kane, Private Eye was an early radio series and television crime series sponsored by United States Tobacco Company.

Starring Boris Karloff (also known as The Boris Karloff Mystery Playhouse) is an American radio and television anthology series broadcast for 13...

Lights Out was an extremely popular American old-time radio program, an early example of a network series devoted mostly to horror and the...

Family Affairs was the first television serial broadcast by BBC Television.

Based on a popular radio series, each show tells a different reporter's Big Story, a true story selected from newspapers across the United States....

The Clock is a 30-minute American anthology television series based upon the American Broadcasting Company radio series which ran from 1946–48....

The Plainclothesman was an American crime drama series broadcast on the now defunct DuMont Television Network.

Your Show Time is an American anthology drama series that debuted as a midseason replacement on NBC Television in January 1949. Hosted and narrated...

Wesley is an early American sitcom that aired live on CBS from May 8, 1949 to August 30, 1949.