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''What's the Story'' is an American
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broadcast on the
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from July 25, 1951, to September 23, 1955, and aired in eleven different timeslots.Brooks, Tim & Marsh, Earle (1964). ''The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows'' (3rd ed.). New York: Ballantine. . Originally hosted by Walter Raney, he was replaced in September 1951 by Walter Kiernan, who hosted until June 20, 1953.
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took over from the following week until sometime in the Fall, when John McCaffery took the reins through the show’s end in 1955. The series is most notable for being the last regular series to air on the DuMont network, after the game show '' Have a Heart'' (ended June 14, 1955) and '' It's Alec Templeton Time'' (ended August 26, 1955). After the finale of ''What's the Story'' on September 23, DuMont aired only a few sporting events and ceased broadcasting altogether with the final broadcast of ''
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'' on August 6, 1956.


Gameplay

A panel of well-known newspaper
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s and/or other celebrities were asked to try to identify famous events from clues given by the moderator and his assistants.McNeil, Alex. ''Total Television''. Fourth Edition. New York: Penguin Books. . Among the regular panelists were Robert Sullivan of the ''
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'', Jimmy Cannon of the ''
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'', and Harriet Van Horne of the ''
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''. Sullivan later co-hosted the DuMont series '' Meet the Boss'' (1952–53).


Episode status

Although many DuMont shows survive at the
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, the
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, and Chicago’s
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, there are no copies of ''What’s the Story'' at any of these archives.Ingram, C. (2002)
"The DuMont Television Network Historical Web Site"
Retrieved January 22, 2007. Only one episode is known to exist, and is held in the J. Fred MacDonald collection at the
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. This episode (from January 14, 1954) features McCaffery, network founder Allen B. DuMont, and television pioneer Thomas T. Goldsmith discussing the future of
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.


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 origi ...
*
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 recov ...


References


Bibliography

* David Weinstein, ''The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television'' (Philadelphia:
Temple University Press Temple University Press is a university press founded in 1969 that is part of Temple University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania). It is one of thirteen publishers to participate in the Knowledge Unlatched pilot, a global library consortium approach ...
, 2004) * Alex McNeil, ''Total Television'', Fourth edition (New York:
Penguin Books Penguin Books Limited is a Germany, German-owned English publishing, publishing house. It was co-founded in 1935 by Allen Lane with his brothers Richard and John, as a line of the publishers the Bodley Head, only becoming a separate company the ...
, 1980) * Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, ''The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows'', Third edition (New York:
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, 1964)


External links

* {{IMDb title, id=0043245, title=What's the Story
DuMont historical website
1951 American television series debuts 1955 American television series endings 1950s American game shows Black-and-white American television shows DuMont Television Network original programming American English-language television shows