| My Hero | |
|---|---|
 Promotional photo for the show, 1952 | |
| Genre | Situation comedy |
| Directed by | Leslie Goodwins Oscar Randolph Robert Cummings |
| Starring | Bob Cummings |
| Composer(s) | Leon Klatzkin |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 33 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Don W. Sharpe |
| Producer(s) | Robert Cummings Mort Greene Edmund Beloin |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Official Films |
| Release | |
| Original network | NBC |
| Original release | November 8, 1952 – June 20, 1953 |
My Hero is an American television sitcom that aired on NBC on Saturday nights from November 8, 1952, to June 20, 1953, under the sponsorship of Dunhill cigarettes. It was also shown in Melbourne, Australia, on ABV-2 during 1956/1957.
The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American English-language commercial terrestrial television network that is a flagship property of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast. The network is headquartered at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City, with additional major offices near Los Angeles, Chicago and Philadelphia. The network is one of the Big Three television networks. NBC is sometimes referred to as the "Peacock Network", in reference to its stylized peacock logo, introduced in 1956 to promote the company's innovations in early color broadcasting. It became the network's official emblem in 1979.
Dunhill is a British brand of cigarettes, currently owned and manufactured by British American Tobacco. The brand is named after the English tobacconist and inventor Alfred Dunhill.
ABV is the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's television station in Melbourne, Victoria. The station began broadcasting on 19 November 1956 and is transmitted throughout the state via a network of relay transmitters. ABV was the second television station founded in Victoria after the first, HSV-7, which opened two weeks earlier, on 4 November. The studios are located in Southbank with the transmitter at Mount Dandenong.
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The series appears to have entered the public domain, with several episodes viewable on the Internet Archive. Most of these episodes are syndication copies which run about 24 minutes; The original broadcasts had featured a somewhat elaborate opening sequence involving well-dressed people entering a theater, including a sponsor I.D. (as can be seen on the episode The Big Crush), and this elaborate opening sequence was replaced with a very short (for the 1950s) opening sequence for syndicated repeats, resulting in a shorter running time.
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