''Meet Your Congress'' was a public affairs TV series on
NBC
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and 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 show premiered on NBC on July 1, 1949, airing Saturdays at 8pm ET. The DuMont series aired from July 8, 1953, until July 4, 1954.
DuMont historical website
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Moderator Blair Moody
Arthur Edson Blair Moody (February 13, 1902 – July 20, 1954), known as Blair Moody, was a journalist and Democratic U.S. Senator from the state of Michigan.
Background
Moody was born in New Haven, Connecticut, the son of Arthur Edson Blair Moo ...
(1902-1954), who hosted the radio and TV versions from 1946 to 1952, died of pneumonia and heart problems on July 20, 1954.
Episode status
As with most DuMont series, no episodes are known to 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 ...
* 1949-50 United States network television schedule
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
''Meet Your Congress'' at IMDB
NBC original programming
DuMont Television Network original programming
1949 American television series debuts
1954 American television series endings
Black-and-white American television shows
DuMont news programming