Studio 57

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Studio 57
Studio57 logo.jpg
Title screenshot
Also known asHeinz Studio 57
Genre Anthology
Directed by David Butler
John Brahm
Herschel Daugherty
Peter Godfrey
Richard Irving
Phil Karlson
James Neilson
Ozzie Nelson
Don Weis
Presented by Joel Aldrich
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
Production
Camera setup Single-camera
Running time25 mins.
Original release
Network DuMont (1954–1955)
Syndication (1955–1956)
ReleaseSeptember 21, 1954 (1954-09-21) –
1958 (1958)

Studio 57 (also known as Heinz Studio 57) is an American anthology series that was broadcast on the now-defunct DuMont Television Network from September 1954 to July 1955, and in syndication from 1955 to 1958.

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Overview

The program was a filmed anthology television series sponsored by Heinz 57 and produced by Revue Studios. The program aired on the DuMont network from September 21, 1954, to July 26, 1955, [1] making it "one of the last regularly-scheduled series ever carried on the crumbling DuMont network". [2] (Only What's the Story and boxing matches aired on DuMont afterwards). Studio 57 aired in first-run syndication from September 1955 to 1958. [1]

The series was exported to Australia during the late 1950s under the title Whitehall Playhouse. Since some of the episodes shown there were DuMont-aired episodes, this makes Studio 57 the only DuMont show to be broadcast outside of North America. The series began airing in Australia in late 1956, during the first few months of television in that country, continuing for several years, and eventually including episodes of other American anthology series such as The Star and the Story .[ citation needed ]

Writers whose work was featured on the program included Ray Bradbury. [3]

Personnel

The series featured many established actors, including Carolyn Jones, Hugh O'Brian, Keye Luke, Natalie Wood, Craig Stevens, Marguerite Chapman, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Brian Keith, Rod Taylor, K. T. Stevens, Hugh Beaumont, Peter Graves, [4] Robert Armstrong, Jean Byron, Lon Chaney Jr., Andy Clyde, Charles Coburn, Olive Sturgess, Peter Lawford, Mike Connors, Jane Darwell, Joanne Dru, Vivi Janiss, Keenan Wynn, and DeForest Kelley.

Herschel Daugherty was the director, and Lawrence Kimble was the writer. [5]

Partial list of episodes

Critical response

Television historians Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh describe the scripts for Studio 57 as bland. Ailing DuMont lacked the budgets of CBS or NBC, and hence relied on cost-cutting measures, including hiring then-unknown actors to star in their series such as Hugh O'Brian and Natalie Wood. [2]

A review of the premiere episode in the trade publication Variety said that the episode "wasn't particularly well-written or too smoothly directed, and hence failed to conjure up suspense." [5] It also said that unnatural parts caused actors to struggle, and the "unperceptive histrionics promoted a cheapness that became connected with the entire show." [5]

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References

  1. 1 2 McNeil, Alex (1996). Total Television (4th ed.), p. 797. New York: Penguin Books. ISBN   0-14-024916-8
  2. 1 2 Brooks, Tim; Marsh, Earle (2007). The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network Cable and TV Shows, 1946-Present (9th ed.). New York: Ballantine. p. 1322. ISBN   978-0-345-49773-4.
  3. ↑ Eller, Jonathan R. (September 30, 2014). Ray Bradbury Unbound. University of Illinois Press. p. 99. ISBN   978-0-252-09663-1 . Retrieved February 18, 2023.
  4. ↑ Terrace, Vincent (January 10, 2014). Encyclopedia of Television Shows, 1925 through 2010, 2d ed. McFarland. p. 1030. ISBN   978-0-7864-8641-0 . Retrieved February 18, 2023.
  5. 1 2 3 "New Telepix Shows: Studio 57". Variety. September 29, 1954. p. 43. Retrieved September 9, 2023.
  6. ↑ "Studio 57". The Buffalo News. September 25, 1954. p. 25. Retrieved September 9, 2023– via Newspapers.com.
  7. ↑ Youngkin, Stephen D. (September 30, 2005). The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre. University Press of Kentucky. p. 489. ISBN   978-0-8131-2360-8 . Retrieved February 18, 2023.

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