Melody Street

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Melody Street
Starring Elliot Lawrence
Country of originUnited States
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes20
Production
Running time30 minutes
Original release
Network DuMont Television Network
ReleaseSeptember 25, 1953 (1953-09-25) –
February 5, 1954 (1954-02-05)

Melody Street is an American television series that aired on the DuMont Television Network. [1] The program aired Fridays from September 23, 1953, to February 5, 1954. It initially was broadcast on Wednesdays from 8:30 to 9 p.m. Eastern Time. In November 1953 it was moved to Fridays from 8:30 to 9 p.m. E. T.

Contents

Initial host Allan Brown was succeeded by Elliot Lawrence. Guitarist Tony Mottola was the host for the show's final month. Regulars on the show ere Lyn Gibbs, Joe Buwen, and Roberta McDonald. [2]

Criticism

Melody Street was hampered by a small budget, even by 1950s standards. Later-day critics, such as Castleman and Podrazik (1982), have cited Melody Street, among other DuMont series, as one of the reasons fewer and fewer viewers tuned in to the ailing DuMont Network. They stated Melody Street was, like several other DuMont programs during the 1953–1954 season, "doomed from the start by third-rate scripts and cheap production" and pointed out that the program "required the performers to lip-sync other people's records." [3]

Reception

John Lester for the Long Island Star-Journal said the program "presents an attractive melange of musical numbers" and that the program had "initiative, ingenuity and imagination". [4]

Episode status

Two complete episodes, January 1, 1954, and another 1954 episode, of the show survive at the UCLA Film and Television Archive, along with an excerpt from another episode.[ citation needed ]

See also

References

  1. ↑ McNeil, Alex (1996). Total Television: the Comprehensive Guide to Programming from 1948 to the Present (4th ed.). New York, New York: Penguin Books USA, Inc. p. 541. ISBN   0-14-02-4916-8.
  2. ↑ Brooks, Tim; Marsh, Earle (1999). The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows 1946-Present (7th ed.). New York: The Ballentine Publishing Group. p. 653. ISBN   0-345-42923-0.
  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.
  4. ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on September 24, 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

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