Starring Alan DaleJanie Ford Picture format Black-and-white First episode date 10 August 1948 Genre Music | Country of origin United States Audio format Monaural Stereo Final episode date 16 January 1951 Language English | |
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Original network DuMont (1948)CBS (1950-1951) Similar Arthur Godfrey's Talent Sc, Captain Video and His Video, The Original Amateur, Texaco Star Theatre, The Jackie Gleason Show | ||
The Alan Dale Show is an early American television program which ran on the DuMont Television Network in 1948, and then on CBS Television from 1950-1951.
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Broadcast history
The Alan Dale Show was a musical variety show starring singers Alan Dale and Janie Ford and set in a record store. The program, produced and distributed by DuMont, premiered August 10, 1948 and aired Tuesday nights from 7:00-7:15 pm ET on most DuMont affiliates.
The network cancelled the series after a few months, but the series continued locally on DuMont's New York station WABD until March 1949. This show was reportedly the first DuMont series to use kinescopes for network broadcast.
In 1950, Alan Dale would go on to host a series on CBS which bore the same name as the DuMont series. From June to November 1950, the new Alan Dale Show aired on Friday nights at 11pm ET. Janie Ford did not star in the CBS version, which would change to a weekly evening program by December of the year. The CBS version of The Alan Dale Show was cancelled on January 16, 1951.
Episode status
One June 1948 episode of the DuMont version, when it was still a local show on DuMont flagship station WABD, is held in the J. Fred MacDonald collection at the Library of Congress.