Crooked contracts, bribery, shady characters. In 1951, millions tuned in to watch the Kefauver organized crime hearings, showing the power of television.

Lauren Chapin, whose sweet-tempered, if wise-beyond-her-years portrayal of Kathy “Kitten” Anderson on the beloved 1950s TV sitcom Father Knows Best put her in the same child-star stratosphere as Jerry ...

Life wasn't always easy for the actress, who played Kathy "Kitten" Anderson for six seasons. By Mike Barnes Senior Editor Lauren Chapin, who portrayed the precocious Kathy “Kitten” Anderson on the ...

A few years after World War II, television burst upon the American scene with great speed. We bought an RCA in 1952, and the novelty of seeing TV pictures in our home caught everyone’s fancy but not ...

Television has always been more than an escape for me. Growing up in the 1990s and early 2000s on the South Side of Chicago, I was always thrilled to see women and girls who looked like me and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Before streaming platforms, endless scrolling, and binge drops, “must-watch” TV meant scheduling your entire night around a single ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. What’s striking about these early sitcoms is how foundational they were. Many of the storytelling rhythms, character archetypes ...

Before television became crowded with formats and genres, it learned how to make people laugh—with the history of classic TV serving as proof. In the 1950s, sitcoms weren’t just another category of ...

As World War II came to an end, families looked for ways to start over. Emboldened by the GI Bill's provisions for home loans, they moved out of the cities in droves for newly developed suburban ...

Here's a look at all of the shows that have been canceled in 2026 so far, including 'The Abandons' and 'Sherri' Jordana Comiter is an Associate Editor on the Evergreen team at PEOPLE. She has been ...