Early television in the 1950s was a freewheeling frontier of both live and taped offerings mostly dominated by comedies, game shows, kids programs, and westerns like "I Love Lucy," "The $64,000 ...

Seeing a modern flat-screen television on display reminded me of our family’s first TV set. Daddy bought a secondhand GE table model, with a 10-inch screen, in 1951. What a marvel of modern electronic ...