anthology series
An anthology series is a radio, television, video game or film series that spans different genres and presents a different story and a different set of characters in each different episode, season, segment, or short. These usually have a dif ...
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The series, an anthology, ran from April to June of 1954. DuMont's ''Love Story'' is not to be confused with another dramatic anthology with the same name which ran on
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in the 1970s, or a game show also titled ''Love Story'' which aired on
CBS
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from 1955–1956.
''Love Story'' aired live on Tuesday nights at 9 pm EST on most DuMont affiliates.Brooks, Tim & Marsh, Earle (1964). ''The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows'' (3rd ed.). New York: Ballantine. The series was produced by David Lowe.McNeil, Alex. (1996) ''Total Television''. Fourth edition. New York: Penguin Books. .
Criticism
This series was hampered by a small budget and starred mostly lesser-known actors. Latter-day critics, such as Castleman and Podrazik (1982), have cited ''Love Story'', among other DuMont series, as one of the reasons fewer and fewer viewers tuned in to the ailing DuMont Network. They called the series "a simpering romance anthology" that, like several other DuMont programs during the 1953–1954 season was "doomed from the start by third-rate scripts and cheap production." The series did not last long, and the network itself began crumbling shortly thereafter.
*David Weinstein, ''The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television'' (Philadelphia:
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*Alex McNeil, ''Total Television'', Fourth edition (New York:
Penguin Books
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