What were some TV shows in the 1950s or earlier that had women with stereotypical roles of housewives?
In 1947 RCA mass produced a 7 inch TV and 170,000 of them sold. By 1949, 1 million sets had been sold. As the Fifties progressed the post-war boom included both babies and TV. In 1950 there are about 10 million sets in the U.S. As TV became more commonly available, people were enthralled. This was much better than radio. You became very popular, very quickly if your family had a TV. And people would linger outside the windows of stores that sold this new wonder – hoping to catch a glimpse of the future. The first thing you need to know about the early days of TV is that there wasn’t much of it. Mostly, in the afternoons and evenings. The earliest TV shows were really radio and vaudeville moving to a new medium. Some of these were quite successful. I Love Lucy and Gunsmoke come to mind. Variety Shows populated the early years which gave many a vaudevillian comedian a chance to show off sight gags that radio wouldn’t permit. 1953 the FCC had settled on the technical specifications for co
