1953

1 Ella Mae Morse Cow Cow Boogie
2 The Sword and the Rose. Tells the story of Mary Tudor and her troubled path to true love.
3 "Make Room For Daddy" / "The Danny Thomas Show" Boomers longest running situation comedy in US television history .
4 Kelly Tires BF Goodrich competes What a unique ad, the view of the horse and stately building imples a great deal about the tire.
5 Kaiser Darrin Look like a fun car for a date.
6 Kaiser 2door Carolina. Here is the car you drive when the dating is done.
7 Rob Roy, the Highland Rogue After the 1715 defeat of the clans, Rob Roy escapes. Accurate enough to explain the conflicts of the time.
8 Flying -A- That A makes me thin of Autolite How many times did you dad apply this stuff? Did we put this stuff on baseball gloves too?
9 Hot Point Washer and dryer, moms life is getting so easy.
10 Disney's Peter Pan If Disney makes a film someone is making a lunch box! Last Disney animated film distributed by RKO.
11 Del Monte Round Up All that good eating.
12 Buick Skylark The Buick Berle Show starring Milton Berle with Carol Channing Maria Riva Remember when the Skylark looked like this? If I hit the lottery I am finding one and buying it, if my wife OK's it that is.
13 Cheese Twists Boy I would be asking mom to buy some of that, look how happy the chef is just to make it.
14 Racer Now here is a toy that has lost none of its charm for me.
15 Pepsi Commercial Cola wars?
16 Polaroid Land Camera Did you think that Tom Corbett couldn't use this, or am I just a space cadet?
17 Kiss Me Kate Musical version of The Taming of the Shrew.
18 Dog Club Dog Food. All right were you spoiled enough to have a dog, if you didn't clean up after it did you at lest feed it?
19 Bomb Drill Some of us handled this better than others. Look at the kid in the back just grabbing a snooze.
20 Popeye jack in the Box / Did you have the bubble pipe? The first cartoon in the series would be released in 1933 and 20 years later we find Popeye heavily merchandised.
21 Mad Magazine In the summer of 1953, success was apparent. After nine bi-monthly issues, Mad became a monthly with the April, 1954 issue.
22 The Crowning Ceremony On 2nd June 1953, the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II took place.
23 Eisenhower and Nixon Our men for Inauguration Day.
24 Playboy first issue / Marilyn Monroe Subject of future president.
25 7 Up "The all Family Drink". 7 & 7 might break up that family bowling outing.
26 Speaking of Merchandising Three Stooges How about some Sooges selling candy and a toy?
27 Roy Rogers and Dale Evans sell Kool Aid. What no cigarettes?
28 "Topper" Cosmo Topper, and the ghosts only he could see.
29 Queen for a Day / if you are miserable. Awful story gets voted for by studio audience. / husbands had left them or died and how their mother was ill and how the roof on their home was collapsing, etc.
30 1 Package makes two quarts. Kool Aid If you add that much water.
31 Cadillac Eldorado Remember the nieghbors came out to see the new car?
32 "Private Secretary" Ann Sothern Secretary to handsome talent agent keeps getting messed up in his private life.
33 Speedy Gonzales Speedy first appeared in Cat-Tails for Two,
34 World's Smallest Kites. When that didn't work out they started and internet business! Yahoo!
35 Lucy Goes to the Hospital Lucy Has a Baby! At the time this episode aired, it was the most watched TV show ever. It beat out Queen Elizabeth's coronation and Eisenhower's inauguration.
36 TV Guide tells us all about it. Lucy's baby that is. Vitameatavegamin
37 I wanted Sugar Smacks But I was too scared of the clown to buy them.
38 Fahrenheit 451 Presents a future where all books are banned.
39 1953 Corvette The need for speeding tickets. Blue flame engine.
40 Elvis / The King of Rock and Roll 1953 recording "thats when your Heartaches Begin".
41 Sugar Smacks Well if you didn't like the clown how about a seal and a stage coach?
42 Alka Seltzer Time A 15 minute radio show popular tunes and Alka Seltzer jingles.
43 After Delivering the gifts. Ray Bolger "The Scarecrow" has a Christmas show for us. A relaxing smoke, hey how about a drink too, and where is Ms. Claus right now?
44 Mr. Potato Head / Top ten toys. Guess what Santa has in his bag.
45 Andy Griffith What it was was Football.
46 Dizzy Gillespie "The Ambassador of Jazz"
47 Rocky Marciano Jersey Joe Walcott rematch.
48 Polaroid Jerry Lewis Jack Paar
49 From Here To Eternity Burt Lancaster Deborah Kerr
50 The Caddy Dean Martin That's Amore
51 1953 Nash Healey Check those fender lines and the hood scoop!
52 The Glenn Miller Story Chattanooga Choo Choo Jimmy Stewart June Allyson
53 Eartha Kitt Santa Baby

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