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Coles Dumont Television – Television the Way It Use To Be: The Dumont TV Network’s Inventive Shows at Bayshore Shopping Centre in Ottawa, ON
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Television the Way It Used to Be: The Dumont TV Network's Inventive Shows highlights the live, original series broadcast on that network from the mid-1940s to the mid-1950s. Details on innovative anthologies like Hands of Murder and Dark of Night are included along with several other forgotten shows such as Program Playhouse – one of the first series of TV pilots for viewers to select which could be made into a series; Shadow of the Cloak , the first spy series on television; and The Gallery of Madame Lio-Tsung , the first series to feature a female lead character of Asian-American descent. Other notable series in the book are obscure situation comedies like The Laytons , Family Genius , and The O'Neills ; soap operas including Highway to the Stars and One Woman's Experience; talent shows - The Original Amateur Hour and a talent series for pets titled Pets on Trial ; musical comedies such as Flight to Rhythm and Once Upon a Tune ; and series that were the precursors to today's Antiques Roadshow and Shark Tank .
This book is also the only one about the DuMont Television Network that details Dumont pilots that never became a series – a game show to be hosted by Dennis James called The Lady or the Tiger , a variety show titled Carnival , and two anthologies – Climax and Frederic March Theatre as well as other unsold pilots.
Television the Way It Used to Be recounts the many ways DuMont made low-cost, innovative television shows throughout its years as a broadcast network.
Richard Irvin has written several books about television history including Forgotten Laughs , Spinning Laughter , and Comedy Archaeology – all from BearManor Media.
Television the Way It Used to Be: The Dumont TV Network's Inventive Shows highlights the live, original series broadcast on that network from the mid-1940s to the mid-1950s. Details on innovative anthologies like Hands of Murder and Dark of Night are included along with several other forgotten shows such as Program Playhouse – one of the first series of TV pilots for viewers to select which could be made into a series; Shadow of the Cloak , the first spy series on television; and The Gallery of Madame Lio-Tsung , the first series to feature a female lead character of Asian-American descent. Other notable series in the book are obscure situation comedies like The Laytons , Family Genius , and The O'Neills ; soap operas including Highway to the Stars and One Woman's Experience; talent shows - The Original Amateur Hour and a talent series for pets titled Pets on Trial ; musical comedies such as Flight to Rhythm and Once Upon a Tune ; and series that were the precursors to today's Antiques Roadshow and Shark Tank .
This book is also the only one about the DuMont Television Network that details Dumont pilots that never became a series – a game show to be hosted by Dennis James called The Lady or the Tiger , a variety show titled Carnival , and two anthologies – Climax and Frederic March Theatre as well as other unsold pilots.
Television the Way It Used to Be recounts the many ways DuMont made low-cost, innovative television shows throughout its years as a broadcast network.
Richard Irvin has written several books about television history including Forgotten Laughs , Spinning Laughter , and Comedy Archaeology – all from BearManor Media.
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