Debuting
- Bonanza (first weekly TV series broadcast completely in color)
- Hawaiian Eye
- The Twilight Zone (first round of shows. Rod Serling’s program would run til 1964, then return in 1985 and in 2002.)
- The Bell Telephone Hour
Ending
- Your Hit Parade (Debuted in 1935 on radio, moved to television in 1950)
- Dragnet(first round of shows, running from 1952 – 1959. It would return with Jack Webb and Henry Morgan as Sgt. Joe Friday and Officer Bill Gannon in 1967 and would run until 1970).
- Mickey Mouse Club (1955 – 1959. This show also would return, in 1977 as the New Mickey Mouse Club.)