Reviewer:
The_Emperor_Of_Television -
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April 28, 2012
Subject:
Yes, because there's more to classic TV than sitcoms and westerns
The banner that pops-up is annoying, and the digital compression is heavy.
Nevertheless, I found this interesting as an example of educational TV from the 1950s. The small budget doesn't matter as the subject matter doesn't require fancy props or staging.
Very basic TV, but as said, hardly a problem.
Many episodes of this series were preserved by the Johns Hopkins university, which is great considering this show aired before the idea of preserving TV shows was really taken seriously by the networks.
This show had started on CBS before moving to the long-defunct DuMont Television Network. Excluding a few filmed shows, It is one of only three DuMont series for which a large number of episodes survive (the others being the comedy-variety series "The Morey Amsterdam Show", and the religious "Life is Worth Living". Crime drama "Rocky King, Dectective" seems to have a fair amount surviving episodes as well)
Of note is the WAAM ID fragment at the end. According to my 2 minutes of research, the station was an ABC affiliate at the time, carried a secondary affiliation with DuMont, and became a CBS affiliate in the mid-1990s. The callsign of the station was changed to WJZ-TV in 1957.