''It's Alec Templeton Time'' was an early American
television program
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broadcast on the now-defunct
DuMont Television Network
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. The series ran during the summer of 1955. It was a musical program hosted by blind
satirist
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and musician
Alec Templeton
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. The program, produced and distributed by DuMont, aired on Friday nights on most DuMont affiliates.
[Brooks, Tim & Marsh, Earle (1964). ''The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows'' (3rd ed.). New York: Ballantine. .]
''It's Alec Templeton Time'' has the distinction of being one of the last programs to air on the dying DuMont Television Network, along with ''
Have a Heart'' (ended June 14, 1955), ''
What's the Story
''What's the Story'' is an American television panel show broadcast on the DuMont Television Network from July 25, 1951, to September 23, 1955, and aired in eleven different timeslots.Brooks, Tim & Marsh, Earle (1964). ''The Complete Directory to ...
'' (ended September 23, 1955) and ''
Boxing from St. Nicholas Arena
''Boxing from St. Nicholas Arena'' was an American sports program originally broadcast on NBC from 1946 to 1948, and later on the now-defunct DuMont Television Network from 1954 to 1956.
Broadcast history
Before having their own program, boxing ...
'' (ended August 6, 1956). The struggling network was already beginning to shut down network operations before ''It's Alec Templeton Time'' even aired its first episode, and
Paramount Pictures
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would take control of DuMont during the summer; as a result, the series' run was brief, and did not last past the summer months.
Episode status
As is the case with most DuMont programs, nothing remains of the series today.
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 recove ...
References
Bibliography
*David Weinstein, ''The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television'' (Philadelphia:
Temple University Press
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, 2004)
*Alex McNeil, ''Total Television'', Fourth edition (New York:
Penguin Books
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, 1964)
External links
*{{IMDb title, id=0324855, title=It's Alec Templeton Time
DuMont historical website DuMont Television Network original programming
1955 American television series debuts
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1950s American television series
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