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The Children's Doctor

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Presented by
  
Dr. Lendon Smith, M.D.

Original network
  
ABC

Final episode date
  
August 1969

Language
  
English

Country of origin
  
United States

First episode date
  
April 1967

Genre
  
Talk show

Running time
  
5 minutes (3.5 minus commercials)

Original release
  
April 1967 – August 1969

The Children's Doctor is an American daytime medical and parental advice program that ran on ABC for 3 years, from April 1967 to August 1969.

Contents

Series background

The program was hosted by Dr. Lendon Smith M.D., who gave advice everyday on topics ranging from how to discipline children to proper nutrition and would feature young children and their parents in his shows. Each program would begin with Dr. Smith saying "Hello. Today I'd like to talk about..." before going into the topic of the day. Smith taped a total of 10 segments in two hours.

Schedule

When it debuted, it aired at 10:55 am, but in the Winter of 1968 it was moved to 2:55 pm where it would be paired with another ABC program, The Baby Game. It would later be shuffled two more times, to 1:55 pm in the Summer of 1968 and to 12:55PM in the Winter of 1969 (in both cases following Funny You Should Ask), where it remained until it was cancelled in August of that year.

References

The Children's Doctor Wikipedia


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