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Presented by
  
Zetta Wells

Original language(s)
  
English

Running time
  
15 minutes

First episode date
  
9 June 1946

Network
  
NBC

Genre
  
Travel documentary

Country of origin
  
United States

No. of seasons
  
1

Original network
  
NBC

Final episode date
  
October 1947

Number of seasons
  
1

Language
  
English

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Geographically Speaking is an American travel series that debuted on June 9, 1946, on NBC, and aired Sundays at 8:15 pm EST immediately following the game show Face to Face.

The weekly 15-minute program was one of the first TV shows to have a regular sponsor, Bristol-Myers. The show consisted of hostess Zetta Wells narrating her 16mm home movies of her trips with her husband Carveth Wells to unusual and exotic places. When she ran out of home movies, the series ended in October 1947.

Zetta Wells later appeared as a contestant on Groucho Marx's You Bet Your Life, on TV November 28, 1957 (Season 8 Episode 10).

Episode status

No episode of the series is known to survive in any archive, as it was broadcast live and there was no way to record live TV until the development of kinescopes in 1947. Even then, only a few TV shows were recorded.

References

Geographically Speaking Wikipedia