Created by David Lowe Running time 30 minutes Picture format Black-and-white Final episode date 29 June 1954 Program creator David Lowe Audio format Monaural | Country of origin United States Original network DuMont First episode date 20 April 1954 Network DuMont Television Network Language English | |
Starring Beatrice Straight
Basil Rathbone
Arthur O'Connell
Mildred Natwick
Leslie Nielsen | ||
Love Story is an early American television program which was broadcast on the now defunct DuMont Television Network.
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This show should not be confused with NBC's dramatic anthology series Love Story, which aired during the 1973-1974 television season.
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Broadcast history
The series, an anthology, ran from April to June of 1954. DuMont's Love Story is not to be confused with another dramatic anthology with the same name which ran on NBC in the 1970s, or a game show also titled Love Story which aired on CBS from 1955-1956.
Love Story aired live on Tuesday nights at 9 pm EST on most DuMont affiliates. The series was produced by David Lowe.
Criticism
This series was hampered by a small budget and starred mostly lesser-known actors. Latter-day critics, such as Castleman and Podrazik (1982), have cited Love Story, among other DuMont series, as one of the reasons fewer and fewer viewers tuned in to the ailing DuMont Network. They called the series "a simpering romance anthology" that, like several other DuMont programs during the 1953-1954 season was "doomed from the start by third-rate scripts and cheap production." The series did not last long, and the network itself began crumbling shortly thereafter.