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Fun Quizzes > Television Quizzes > Classic TV Quiz! Best TV Series Of The 40s

Can You Name These 1940s TV Shows?

Let’s go back in time to the era before TV sets in every home had color. How many of these shows can you identify?

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Classic TV Quiz! Best TV Series Of The 40s

In the 1940s, television started, stopped, started again and then took off. In the process, the new medium turned on the lives of many people by connecting them to the rest of the world even more than newspapers or radio.

In this quiz, we feature some of the best TV shows of the 1940s. How many can you name?

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    Janet
    · 1mo ago

    11/16.
    Mostly guessing.

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      Curtis Calvarese
      · 3mo ago

      87 % (14 out of 16)

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        yvonnelawrenson
        · 4mo ago

        11/16 A few guesses knew the Lone Ranger but think most of them were American.

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          Bill
          · 4mo ago

          16/16

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            Kira Callaghan
            · 4mo ago

            16/16

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              MARK MORRALL
              · 5mo ago

              12 / 16 – 75% I haven`t seen most of them, however I do love The Lone Ranger, I didn` know it was a 1940`s show. Hi Ho Silver.

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