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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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    Curtis Calvarese
    2 months ago

    87 % (14 out of 16)

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      3 months ago

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

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        3 months ago

        16/16

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          3 months ago

          16/16

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            4 months 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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