Love Story (DuMont TV series)

Love Story
Format Anthology
Created by David Lowe
Country of origin  United States
Production
Running time 30 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel DuMont
Original run April 20, 1954 – June 29, 1954

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

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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 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."[3] The series did not last long, and the network itself began crumbling shortly thereafter.

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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. pp. 87. ISBN 0-07-010269-4. 

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