Kaye entered the world of television in 1956 through the CBS show See It Now with Edward R. Murrow.

In 1956 As the World Turns and The Edge of Night, both produced by Procter & Gamble Productions, debuted as the first half-hour soap operas on CBS Television.

** MGM's classic film The Wizard of Oz makes its NBC debut after being telecast on CBS since 1956.

In 1956, Burr auditioned for the role of District Attorney Hamilton Burger in Perry Mason, a new courtroom drama based on the highly successful novels written and created by Erle Stanley Gardner that was to air on CBS.

In 1956, Steve Bosustow secured a CBS contract for UPA to produce a television series ( The Gerald McBoing Boing Show, 1956-57 ) that brought new talent to the studio, and a brand new energy emerged under the supervision of Bobe Cannon.

CBS Television first used the Ampex VRX-1000 Mark IV at its Television City studios in Hollywood on November 30, 1956 to play a delayed broadcast of Douglas Edwards and the News from New York City to the Pacific Time Zone.

It debuted on CBS on April 2, 1956, and ran as a live broadcast on that network until November 28, 1975 ; the series then moved to ABC, where it aired from December 1, 1975, until December 28, 1984.

* CBS Television Studios through CBS Television Distribution ( television syndication rights, 1956 – present ).

* September 3 – The Price Is Right ( 1956 – 1965 ) ( The series returned seven years later on CBS, in its current form ).

* July 7-High Finance, hosted by Dennis James, on CBS ( 1956 )

* September 29 – The Gale Storm Show premieres on CBS ( 1956 – 1960 )

From 1940 to 1956, Autry had a huge hit with a weekly show on CBS Radio, Gene Autry's Melody Ranch.

By then, Berle and his audience had probably burned out on each other, and Buick had even dropped sponsorship of the show at the beginning of the 1955 – 1956 season ( opting to sponsor Jackie Gleason's half-hour filmed edition of The Honeymooners ), after ratings fell dramatically during the 1954 – 1955 as well ( the higher ratings of his 1955 – 56 competition, The Phil Silvers Show on CBS, didn't help Berle, either ); though Berle would remain one of the nation's beloved entertainers, overall, the show that made him a superstar was clearly spent for steam and fresh ideas, and two subsequent attempts at television comebacks hosting his own show lasted barely a year each.

The success of that television appearance led Gleason to produce a weekly variety program, Stage Show, hosted by the brothers on CBS from 1954 to 1956.

He hosted and occasionally starred in his Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater on CBS from 1956 – 1961, and his final anthology series, The Dick Powell Show on NBC from 1961 through 1963: after his death, the series continued through the end of its second season ( as The Dick Powell Theater ), with guest hosts.

On December 31, 1956, the Lombardo band did their first New Year's TV special on CBS ; the program ( and Lombardo's 20 subsequent New Year's Eve TV shows ) would include a live segment from Times Square ( long the focal point of America's New Year's Eve celebrations ) showcasing the arrival of the New Year.

CBS secured the licensing rights to Diercks's material via Norddeutscher Rundfunk ( NWDR had split in 1956 into NDR and WDR ), and brought it on air on May 14, 1961, ten days prior to the German broadcast of the same material.

CBS goes on air with the first videotape delayed broadcast, Douglas Edwards and The News, on November 30, 1956, from Los Angeles, California, using the Ampex Mark IV.

After just one season, Gleason and CBS agreed to cancel The Honeymooners, which aired its 39th and last original episode on September 22, 1956.

In the UK, the series premiered on ATV London, on Sunday 25 September 1955 the US premiere was on Monday 26 September 1955 by CBS, ATV Midlands began the series on Friday 17 February 1956, the series had a staggered start across the other regions from 1956-1961 as the ITV regional stations came on-air for the first time in the UK.

In 1956 the theme song was released on Parlophone records by Dick James with Stephen James and his chums and Ron Goodwin's Orchestra and reached number 14 in the UK charts ( 78rpm single: R. 4117 / 45rpm single: MSP6199 ), and by PYE records as a 78rpm single by Gary Miller with Tony Osbourne orchestra and the Beryl Stott chorus ( PYE N. 15020 ) and reached number 10 on the UK charts, versions by Frankie Laine ( CBS Coronet ), Nelson Riddle and his Orchestra ( Capitol ), Alan Dale ( Coral ), Joe Reisman's orchestra and chorus ( RCA Victor ) and Ronnie Ronaldo ( Colombia ) were also issued.

Sapphire films were commissioned to make four other series by Lew Grade, The Adventures of Sir Lancelot ( 1956 / 57 ) ( broadcast by NBC on Monday nights at 8. 00pm ), The Bucaneers ( 1956 / 57 ) ( broadcast by CBS on Saturday nights at 7. 30pm ), Sword of Freedom ( 1957 / 58 ), and The Four Just Men ( 1958 / 59 ).

In 1956 Life magazine reported, " Wearing white pajamas and a yellow gnomelike cap, Brâncuși today hobbles about his studio tenderly caring for and communing with the silent host of fish birds, heads, and endless columns which he created.

In 1956, about one year after Young's death, the Cy Young Award was created.

It became a United Nations specialized agency in 1947, and the International Telegraph and Telephone Consultative Committee ( CCITT, from ) was created in 1956.

* 1956 – The Indian states Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, and Mysore state are formally created under the States Reorganisation Act.

The character was created by Romano Scarpa, and first appeared in a story published on February 10, 1956.

On 1 March 1956, the GDR formally created its Nationale Volksarmee ( NVA ) ( National People's Army ), and the VP-See became the Verwaltung Seestreitkräfte der NVA ( Maritime Forces Administration of the NVA ) with about 10, 000 men.

His cartoons regularly appeared in The New Yorker, and he also created a syndicated comic strip, Out of This World, which ran in 1956.

The current French Regions date from 1956 and were created by gathering Departements together.

For the 1956 ( 29th ) Academy Awards, a competitive Academy Award of Merit, known as the Best Foreign Language Film Award, was created for non-English speaking films, and has been given annually since then.

A separate category for non-English-language films was created in 1956.

In 1956, John J. Graham created an abstraction of an eleven-feathered peacock logo for American broadcaster NBC.

In the biography of her father, The Story of Walt Disney ( Henry Holt, 1956 ), Diane Disney Miller explains that the first complete storyboards were created for the 1933 Disney short Three Little Pigs.

Glomgold was originally created in 1956 by the legendary Scrooge McDuck artist and creator Carl Barks, the creator of much of the Duck universe.

Glomgold was created by Carl Barks and first appeared in The Second-Richest Duck, first published in September 1956.

President Kennedy also added to the responsibilities of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board ( PFIAB ), originally created by President Eisenhower in 1956.

The first order of the new regime was Provisional Constitutional Act No. 1, signed by Minh, formally suspending the 1956 constitution created by Diệm.

In 1956, Diệm created a rubber stamp unicameral legislature, the National Assembly.

Based out of Cherat and Attock, the SSG was created in 1956 with active support from U. S. Special Operations Forces.

The resulting 1956 legislation created the Highway Trust Fund that accelerated construction of the Interstate Highway System.

One organized pseudo-guerrilla unit, however, was created in December 1956 by the French DST domestic intelligence agency.

In 1956, the Norwalk Youth Symphony was created, and younger musicians often were invited to be part of the orchestra.

Off-Broadway shows, performers, and creative staff are eligible for awards from the New York Drama Critics ' Circle Award, the Outer Circle Critics Award, the Drama Desk Award, the Obie Award ( presented since 1956 by The Village Voice ), the Lucille Lortel Award ( created in 1985 by the League of Off-Broadway Theatres & Producers ), and the Drama League Award.

In 1956, Samuel Shenton, a signwriter by trade, created the International Flat Earth Society as a successor to the Universal Zetetic Society and ran it as " organizing secretary " from his home in Dover, in Britain.