Starring Anna May Wong No. of episodes 10 Original network DuMont Final episode date 21 November 1951 Number of seasons 1 Cast Anna May Wong | Country of origin United States Running time 30 minutes First episode date 27 August 1951 Network DuMont Television Network Number of episodes 10 | |
Original release August 27 – November 21, 1951 Similar Mr T and Tina, All‑American Girl, The Barbara Stanwyck, Adventures in Paradise, The Life and Legend o | ||
The Gallery of Madame Liu-Tsong is an American television series which aired on the now defunct DuMont Television Network. It starred Chinese American silent film and talkie star Anna May Wong, who played a detective in a role written specifically for her. The Gallery of Madame Liu Tsong was the first U.S. television series starring an Asian-American series lead.
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Broadcast history
Wong's character was a dealer in Chinese art whose career involved her in detective work and international intrigue. The ten half-hour episodes aired during prime time, on Wednesdays at 9:00pm ET. Though there were plans for a second season, DuMont canceled the show in 1952. No copies of the show or its scripts are known to exist.
Preservation status
Like most DuMont programs, no known episodes of The Gallery of Madame Liu-Tsong exist today, the majority of the network's footage having been dumped into the Hudson River upon closure. Although a few kinescope episodes of various DuMont series survive at Chicago's Museum of Broadcast Communications, New York's Paley Center for Media, and the UCLA Film and Television Archive, there are no copies of The Gallery of Madame Liu-Tsong in these archives.
In 1996, early television actress Edie Adams testified at a hearing in front of a panel of the Library of Congress on the preservation of American television and video. Adams stated that, by the 1970s, little value was given to the DuMont film archive, and that all the remaining kinescopes of DuMont series were loaded into three trucks and dumped into Upper New York Bay.