Country of origin United States Final episode date March 1955 Genre Sports Audio format Monaural | Original language(s) English Running time 90/120 minutes First episode date 17 September 1949 Language English Picture format Black and white | |
Starring Jack BrickhouseVince Lloyd | ||
Wrestling From Marigold is an American sports program broadcast from the Marigold Arena in Chicago which aired on the DuMont Television Network from Saturday, September 17, 1949 until March 1955. The show was either 90 or 120 minutes, usually on Saturdays at 9pm ET, and continued to be broadcast on WGN-TV as a non-network show until 1957.
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Overview
The show was broadcast live by WGN from Marigold in Chicago, produced by National Wrestling Alliance promoter Fred Kohler, with play-by-play by Jack Brickhouse and Vince Lloyd as announcer. Lloyd also did live commercials for products such as Aero Shave. This was the last network TV broadcast of wrestling in the US until Saturday Night's Main Event on NBC in 1985.
Episode status
About 10 episodes of wrestling on DuMont are in the collection of the UCLA Film and Television Archive. Four are titled Pro Wrestling From Chicago and may be from this series. However, it is unclear if the others are from the Marigold in Chicago, or Wrestling From Columbia Park, or some other DuMont series.