''Better Living TV Theater'' is an American television documentary program originally broadcast on
ABC
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and later on the
DuMont Television Network
The DuMont Television Network (also known as the DuMont Network, DuMont Television, simply DuMont/Du Mont, or (incorrectly) Dumont ) was one of America's pioneer commercial television networks, rivaling NBC and CBS for the distinction of being ...
. The documentary series, featuring moderator Fischer Black, debuted on June 20, 1953. The ABC version was a summer replacement series which aired on Sunday afternoons. The final ABC broadcast occurred on August 16, 1953.
[McNeil, Alex (1980). ''Total Television'' (4th ed.). New York: Penguin Books. .]
On April 21, 1954, the DuMont Network began to air the series in
prime time
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. ''Better Living TV Theater'' aired on Wednesday nights at 10:30 pm EST, until June, when the program was moved to Sunday nights. The final broadcast was on August 29, 1954.
[Brooks, Tim & Marsh, Earle (1964). ''The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows'' (3rd ed.). New York: Ballantine. .]
Episode status
One episode of this series survives at the
Paley Center for Media
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.
See also
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List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network
This is a list of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network, which operated in the United States from 1942 to 1956. All regularly scheduled programs which were aired on the DuMont network are listed below, regardless of whether they orig ...
*
List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts
The DuMont Television Network was launched in 1946 and ceased broadcasting in 1956. Allen DuMont, who created the network, preserved most of what it produced in kinescope format. By 1958, however, much of the library had been destroyed to recover ...
References
Bibliography
*David Weinstein, ''The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television'' (Philadelphia:
Temple University Press
Temple University Press is a university press founded in 1969 that is part of Temple University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania). It is one of thirteen publishers to participate in the Knowledge Unlatched pilot, a global library consortium approach t ...
, 2004)
External links
*{{IMDb title, id=0046581, title=Better Living TV Theater
DuMont historical website
DuMont Television Network original programming
American Broadcasting Company original programming
Black-and-white American television shows
American English-language television shows
1953 American television series debuts
1954 American television series endings