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Rental > Television: 2855 Films to Rent
Rawhide (TV Series) (1959- 1966)
- Feat. Clint Eastwood
- Clint Eastwood steals the show as Rowdy Yates in this 60's cattle–driving TV show.
Torchy The Battery Boy (TV Series) (1959)
- Children's TV series from the late 1950's with string puppets depicting the adventures of a boy doll who has a battery inside him and a lamp on his…
Untouchables, The (TV Series) (1959-1963)
- Feat. Robert Stack, Paul Picerni
- An iconic crime series that once baited controversy for its escalation of television violence, this pulled out the stops to authentically…
Invisible Man, The (TV Series) (H. G. Well's Invisible Man) (1958-1960)
- Feat. Tim Turner
- H.G Wells’ classic sci–fi premise is preserved in this superior television adaptation of science gone awry. Tim Turner plays the eponymous…
Quatermass and the Pit (TV Series) (1958)
- Dir. Nigel Kneale
Feat. Andre Morell, Cec Linder, Anthony Bushell
- The third in the landmark trilogy of serials involves Professor Quatermass in the excavation of an ancient alien–insect capsule in London, and…
Wanted Dead or Alive (TV Series) (1958)
- Feat. Steve McQueen
- Riding on the back of success in THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN, Steve McQueen lends his star charisma to this TV western series as bounty hunter Josh…
Whicker's World (TV Series) (1958-1994)
- Feat. Alan Whicker
- Fronted by one of the most celebrated social commentators and journalists of the 20th century, Alan Whicker's television masterpieces saw the polite…
Hancock's Half Hour (1957-1961)
- Feat. Tony Hancock, Sid James, Dick Emery…
- Tony Hancock's hilarious and influential 50s/ 60s sitcom:
On DVD, two compilations.
On Vol 1, the earliest surviving episodes, all from 1957:…
Have Gun, Will Travel (TV Series) (1957)
- Feat. Richard Boone, Hal Needham
- Popular classic Western series about the adventures of professional gunfighter Paladin and his manservant Hey Boy.
Leave It to Beaver (TV Series) (1957)
- Feat. Jerry Mathers, Hugh Beaumont, Barbara Billingsley
- One of the most beloved family sitcoms of its time set around the mischief–making exploits of young Theodore 'Beaver' Cleaver.