Geographically Speaking

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Geographically Speaking
Genre Travel
Presented byZetta Wells
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons1
Production
Running time15 minutes
Original release
Network NBC
ReleaseJune 9, 1946 (1946-06-09) 
December 1946 (1946-12)

Geographically Speaking was an American travel series that debuted on June 9, 1946, on NBC, [1] and aired Sundays at 8:15 pm EST [2] immediately following the game show Face to Face .

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Originating at WNBT-TV in New York City, [3] the weekly 15-minute program was one of the first TV shows to have a regular sponsor, Bristol-Myers. [4] The show consisted of hostess Zetta Wells narrating her home movies of her trips with her husband Carveth Wells to unusual and exotic places. When she ran out of home movies, the series ended in December 1946. [5] The sponsor retained the time slot, replacing the show with Bristol-Myers Tele-Varieties . [6]

Episode status

No episode of the series is known to survive in any archive, as it was broadcast live and there was no way to record live TV until the development of kinescopes in 1947. Even then, only a few TV shows were recorded.[ citation needed ]

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References

  1. "B-M's 'Party Line' Gives It a full Hour on NBC". Variety. June 4, 1947. p. 30. Retrieved July 27, 2024.
  2. "New and Renewed on Television". Sponsor. December 1946. p. 18. Retrieved July 27, 2024.
  3. "CBS Peddling Video on "Come In Now" Pitch". Billboard. August 17, 1946. Retrieved 19 August 2017.
  4. Benson-Allott, Caetlin (April 6, 2021). The Stuff of Spectatorship: Material Cultures of Film and Television. Univ of California Press. p. 173. ISBN   978-0-520-30040-8 . Retrieved July 27, 2024.
  5. Brooks, Tim; Marsh, Earle F. (2009). The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows, 1946-Present. Random House Publishing Group. p. 525. ISBN   9780307483201 . Retrieved 19 August 2017.
  6. "Sight and Sound". Television Digest and FM Reports. December 14, 1946. p. 4. Retrieved July 27, 2024.