The show, slated to air Tuesdays at 7pm ET, and starring Zero Mostel and
Joey Faye
Joey Faye (born Joseph Antony Palladino, July 12, 1909 or 1910 or 1902– April 26, 1997) was an American comedian and actor.
Born in New York City, he gained fame as a comic in vaudeville and claimed that he created two of vaudeville's more renow ...
, only lasted two episodes, October 19 and October 26, 1948. Mostel claimed he had been promised a live audience, but the available studio was too small to hold an audience. The setting was a radio station, a set at the Wanamaker Studios.
The 1948 show is not to be confused with a 15-minute show in 1951–52, also called ''Off the Record'', aired from DuMont station
WTTG
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in Washington, DC. This latter show, hosted by Art Lamb and Aletha Agee, featured singers lip-synching to current pop songs, and is on YouTube.1951–52 episode on YouTube /ref>
Preservation status
As with most DuMont series, no episodes are known to exist.
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 ...
*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:
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