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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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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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    · 1mo ago

    11/16.
    Mostly guessing.

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    · 3mo ago

    87 % (14 out of 16)

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    · 4mo ago

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

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    · 4mo ago

    16/16

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    · 4mo ago

    16/16

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    · 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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