Retro TV Shows

The Dick Van Dyke Show  was a US, TV  sitcom that aired from 1961, to 1966, with a total of 158 half-hour episodes over five seasons. The show starred Dick Van Dyke, Rose Marie, Morey Amsterdam, Larry Mathews, and Mary Tyler Moore. It based on the work and home life of television comedy writer Rob Petrie (Van Dyke). The series won 15 Emmy Awards. It was ranked at 20 on their list of the 60 Best Series.

I Love Lucy was a US, TV sitcom that aired from1951 to  1957, with a total of 180 half-hour episodes over six seasons. The show starred Lucille Ball, her real-life husband Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance, and William Frawley. It followed the life of Lucy Ricardo (Ball), a middle-class housewife in New York City.  After the series ended, a modified version continued for three more seasons from 1957 to 1960 called The Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Show. 

The Jack Benny Show a US, TV sitcom ran from 1950 to 1965.  Benny – played himself as a comic, vain, penny-pinching miser, insisting on remaining 39 years old on stage despite his actual age, and often playing the violin badly. Benny was known for his comic timing and the ability to cause laughter with a pregnant pause or a single expression, such as his signature exasperated "Well!" His radio and television programs, popular from 1932 until his death in 1974, were a major influence on the sitcom genre.

The High Chaparral a US, TV series, ran from 1967 to 1971. It's a western, action adventure set in the 1870s and revolves around "Big John" Cannon (Leif Erickson), a rancher living in the dry desert of the southern Arizona Territory, near the Mexican border.