Frontier Theatre

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Frontier Theatre
StarringVarious
Country of originUnited States
Production
Running time60 minutes
Release
Original network DuMont
Original releaseMay 1950 (1950-05) 
September 1950 (1950-09)

Frontier Theatre was an early American weekly television film series, featuring Westerns, that aired on the now defunct DuMont Television Network. This hour-long summer series ran from May to September 1950. The program aired Saturday nights from 6:30pm to 7:30pm ET on DuMont affiliates which carried the program. [1]

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Episode status

As with most DuMont network programs, no episodes are known to survive.

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References

  1. McNeil, Alex (1996). Total Television (4th ed.). New York: Penguin Books. ISBN   0-14-024916-8.

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