Love Story (DuMont TV series)

This article is about the 1954 American television series. For other television series named Love Story, see Love Story (disambiguation)#Television.
Love Story
Created by David Lowe
Starring Beatrice Straight
Basil Rathbone
Arthur O'Connell
Mildred Natwick
Leslie Nielsen
Country of origin United States
Production
Running time 30 minutes
Release
Original network DuMont
Picture format Black-and-white
Audio format Monaural
Original release April 20, 1954 (1954-04-20) – June 29, 1954 (1954-06-29)

Love Story is an early American television program which was broadcast on the now defunct DuMont Television Network.

This show should not be confused with NBC's dramatic anthology series Love Story, which aired during the 1973-1974 television season.

Broadcast history

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 NBC in the 1970s, or a game show also titled Love Story which aired on CBS from 1955-1956.

Love Story aired live on Tuesday nights at 9 pm EST on most DuMont affiliates.[1] The series was produced by David Lowe.[2]

Criticism

This series was hampered by a small budget and starred mostly lesser-known actors. Later-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 into 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."[3] The series did not last long, and the network itself began crumbling shortly thereafter.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Brooks, Tim & Marsh, Earle (1964). The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows (3rd ed.). New York: Ballantine. ISBN 0-345-31864-1
  2. ↑ McNeil, Alex. (1996) Total Television. Fourth edition. New York: Penguin Books. ISBN 0-14-024916-8.
  3. ↑ Castleman, Harry; Walter J. Podrazik (1982). Watching TV: Four Decades of American Television. New York: McGraw-Hill. p. 87. ISBN 0-07-010269-4.

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