''Key to the Ages'' was the name of an American television series that was broadcast on the now-defunct
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 ...
between February and May 1955.
Hosted by Dr.
Theodore Low, the program aired from February 27 to May 22, 1955.
[Brooks, Tim; Marsh, Earle (2007). ''The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network Cable and TV Shows, 1946-Present'' (9th ed.). New York: Ballantine. pp. 925-926. .][McNeil, Alex (1996). ''Total Television'' (4th ed.), p. 411. New York: Penguin Books. ] This literary series originated from
WAAM-TV in Baltimore, and may have also aired on
ABC
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stations.
The series should not be confused with the similarly titled ''
Key to the Missing'', a documentary series which aired on DuMont from 1948-1949.
''Key to the Ages'' lasted only a few months on the air; just a little over one month after the program debuted, in April 1955, the DuMont Television Network began shutting down network operations. This made ''Key to the Ages'' one of the last DuMont Network programs. ''Key'' aired until May 22, 1955; DuMont itself ceased network operations in August 1956. None of the episodes are known to still exist.
See also
*
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
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, 2004)
*Alex McNeil, ''Total Television'', Fourth edition (New York:
Penguin Books
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, 1964) {{ISBN, 0-345-31864-1
External links
''Key to the Ages'' at IMDB
DuMont Television Network original programming
1955 American television series debuts
1955 American television series endings
1950s American television series
Black-and-white American television shows
Lost television shows