As I mentioned yesterday, you'll have to wait until Monday for our latest installment of "This Week in TV Guide," but I think you'll find it worth the wait. In the meantime, you didn't think I'd leave you alone and lost, did you?
The video below comes from another great YouTube channel, that of RwDt09. (One of these days, I'm going to have to start putting these on the sidebar.) The title is pretty self-explanatory: "21 New Shows of Fall TV 1955." Watch, then we'll discuss.
Aside from the sheer pleasure of watching, let's think about the shows that were new in 1955: Alfred Hitchcock Presents. The Honeymooners. Gunsmoke. Cheyenne. Wyatt Earp. Phil Silvers. Perry Como. (Not to mention The Big Surprise, a game show hosted by Mike Wallace. Mike Wallace!) Now, you know me well enough by now that I'm not given to grand pronouncements, so I'm not going to say that this must have been the greatest freshman class of television shows in history. Rather, I'll challenge you: name the season that was better. Your turn. TV