''Tales of the Red Caboose'' was a short-lived
primetime television
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series that aired on the
American Broadcasting Company
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television network, premiering October 29, 1948 and running until January 14, 1949.
Synopsis
The 15-minute series, sponsored by
Lionel Trains
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, was broadcast on ABC television on Fridays at 7:30 to 7:45pm ET from October 29, 1948 to January 14, 1949. The narrator, Don Magee, told railroad lore as model trains raced around railroad tracks.
The series was popular enough for a December 1948 Emerson TV advertisement to state that children entertained by television were "thrilled to the Tales of the Red Caboose."
Advertisement, ''The Sunday Star'' (Washington, DC), December 5, 1948, page D-14
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Preservation status
No recordings of the program are known to survive.
See also
*''The Roar of the Rails
''The Roar of the Rails'' is an American children's television series that aired on CBS from October to December 1948, and in October to December 1949. Each episode is 15 minutes long and includes commercials for the toy manufacturer A. C. Gilbert ...
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*''The Magic Clown
''The Magic Clown'' is an NBC TV series which ran from 1949 to 1954. The final NBC broadcast was on June 27, 1954. The show then moved to WABD where it stayed until 1958. After that, it was renamed ''Bonomo, The Magic Clown'' and was broadcast on ...
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* 1948-49 United States network television schedule
References
External links
''Tales of the Red Caboose'' at IMDB
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Black-and-white American television shows
American children's adventure television series
1948 American television series debuts
1949 American television series endings
American Broadcasting Company original programming
Television series about rail transport
Toy trains