''Tonight on Broadway'' is a weekly television show that ran from 1948 to 1950 on the
CBS Television
CBS Broadcasting Inc., commonly shortened to CBS, the abbreviation of its former legal name Columbia Broadcasting System, is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the CBS Entertainmen ...
network. It premiered on April 6, 1948 and was the first program to be broadcast over the newly formed CBS network.
The show, which was developed by Martin A. Gosch, aired excerpts from
Broadway shows live from the theaters in which they were playing, giving viewers a behind-the-scenes perspective.
[ The show was hosted by John Mason Brown, who was the president of the New York Drama Critics' Circle.
The first show, on April 6, 1948, featured the original Broadway cast of the musical '' Lend an Ear''. The last episode was '' High Button Shoes'', on April 20, 1948.]
See also
* 1948-49 United States network television schedule
* 1949-50 United States network television schedule
References
External links
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CBS original programming
1948 American television series debuts
1950 American television series endings
American television talk shows
Black-and-white American television shows
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