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Better Living TV Theater

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Country of origin
  
United States

First episode date
  
21 June 1953

Genre
  
Documentary film

Running time
  
30 minutes

Final episode date
  
29 August 1954

Language
  
English

Starring
  
Fischer Black (moderator)

Original network
  
ABC (1953) DuMont (1954)

Original release
  
June 21, 1953 – August 29, 1954

Better Living TV Theater was an early American television program originally broadcast on ABC and later on the now defunct DuMont Television Network. The documentary series, featuring moderator Fischer Black, ran from 1953 to 1954. The ABC version was a summer replacement series which aired on Sunday afternoons. The final ABC broadcast occurred on August 16, 1953.

On April 21, 1954, the DuMont Network began to air the series in prime time. Better Living TV Theater aired on Wednesday nights at 10:30 pm EST, until June, when the program was moved to Sunday nights. The final broadcast was on August 29, 1954.

Episode status

One episode of this series survives at the Paley Center for Media.

References

Better Living TV Theater Wikipedia