Saturday Night at the Garden

Saturday Night at the Garden
Genre	Sports
Presented by	Curt Gowdy Don Dunphy
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
Production
Running time	120/150 minutes
Original release
Network	DuMont
Release	October 7, 1950 (1950-10-07) – March 31, 1951 (1951-03-31)

Saturday Night at the Garden is an American sports series broadcast by the DuMont Television Network from October 7, 1950, to March 31, 1951. The program aired sports, primarily basketball, horse show, rodeo, and boxing live from Madison Square Garden in New York City. ^[1] The program aired Saturday nights at 9 pm ET and was 120 to 150 minutes long. The series was hosted by sportscaster Curt Gowdy and long time boxing blow-by-blow announcer Don Dunphy.

Episode status

As with most DuMont series, no episodes are known to exist. Some episodes may exist under the title Boxing with Dennis James at the UCLA Film and Television Archive.

See also

• List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network
• List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts
• 1950-51 United States network television schedule
• Boxing From Jamaica Arena (September 1948 – 1949)
• Amateur Boxing Fight Club (September 1949 – 1950)
• Boxing From Sunnyside Gardens (September 1949 – 1950)
• Wrestling From Marigold (September 1949 – 1955)
• Boxing From Eastern Parkway (May 1952-May 1954)
• Boxing From St. Nicholas Arena (1954-1956)

References

1. Brooks, Tim; Marsh, Earle (1988). The complete directory to prime time network TV shows, 1946-present. Ballantine Books. p. 689. ISBN   978-0-345-35610-9 . Retrieved February 13, 2024.

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

External links

• Saturday Night at the Garden at IMDb
• DuMont historical website Archived February 14, 2022, at the Wayback Machine