Starring Elliot Lawrence No. of seasons 1 Running time 30 minutes Final episode date 5 February 1954 Number of seasons 1 Language English | Country of origin USA No. of episodes 20 First episode date 25 September 1953 Network DuMont Television Network Number of episodes 20 | |
Original network DuMont Television Network | ||
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Melody Street is an early American television series, hosted by Elliot Lawrence, which aired on the DuMont Television Network. The program aired Fridays at 8:30pm ET from September 25, 1953, to February 5, 1954. Each episode was 30 minutes long. One guest star was guitarist Tony Mottola.
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Criticism
Melody Street was hampered by a small budget, even by 1950s standards. Later-day critics, such as Castleman and Podrazik (1982), have cited Melody Street, among other DuMont series, as one of the reasons fewer and fewer viewers tuned in to the ailing DuMont Network. They stated Melody Street was, like several other DuMont programs during the 1953-1954 season, "doomed from the start by third-rate scripts and cheap production" and pointed out that the program "required the performers to lip-sync other people's records."
Reception
John Lester for the Long Island Star-Journal said the program "presents an attractive melange of musical numbers" and that the program had "initiative, ingenuity and imagination".
Episode status
Two complete episodes, January 1, 1954, and another 1954 episode, of the show survive at the UCLA Film and Television Archive, along with an excerpt from another episode.