variety show
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on the DuMont Television Network from July 29 to November 25, 1950, on Saturday nights from 8–9 p.m.
Eastern Time
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The setting was a small town bandstand on a Saturday night. Musical numbers, comedy vignettes and square dancing took place around the bandstand, where Alvy West and the Volunteer Firemens’ Band played. The host was Peggy Ann Ellis. Regulars included Pat Adair, Bob Austin, Emily Barnes, Gordon Dilworth, and The Folk Dancers.
As with most DuMont series, no episodes are known to survive. This series should not be confused with the radio and TV series '' Country Style, USA'' (1957–60).
Jimmy Dean program
During 1957,
Jimmy Dean
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He became ...
hosted ''
Country Style
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'', a daytime TV version of ''The Jimmy Dean Show'', which aired on WTOP-TV in
Washington, DC
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, on weekday mornings.
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 ...
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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 recove ...
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1950-51 United States network television schedule
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Bibliography
*David Weinstein, ''The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television'' (Philadelphia:
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, 2004)
*Alex McNeil, ''Total Television'', Fourth edition (New York:
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