The Ted Steele Show
| The Ted Steele Show | |
|---|---|
| Starring | Ted Steele |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Production | |
| Running time | 15 mins. |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel |
NBC (1948-49) DuMont (1949) |
| Picture format | Black-and-white |
| Audio format | Monaural |
| Original run | September 29, 1948 – July 12, 1949 |
The Ted Steele Show is a 15-minute musical variety show which aired on the now defunct DuMont Television Network from February 27 to July 12, 1949. Each episode was hosted by bandleader Ted Steele (1917–1985), who appeared on many programs during the early days of television.
A previous version of the show aired on NBC on Wednesdays at 8:30pm and then Fridays at 9pm ET during the 1948-1949 television season, with the first show airing September 29, 1948.
Steele later presented local daytime TV shows under the same title, running from 2:30 to 5:30pm ET, on WPIX-TV and WOR-TV, which hired Steele away from WPIX in July 1954.[1]
Episode status
The final DuMont episode (July 12, 1949) is in the collection of the UCLA Film and Television Archive.
See also
- List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network
- List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts
- 1948-49 United States network television schedule
References
Bibliography
- David Weinstein, The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004) ISBN 1-59213-245-6
- Alex McNeil, Total Television, Fourth edition (New York: Penguin Books, 1980) ISBN 0-14-024916-8
- Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows, Third edition (New York: Ballantine Books, 1964) ISBN 0-345-31864-1