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''Life Begins at Eighty'' is an American panel discussion television series which aired from January 1950 to February 1956.


Broadcast history

The show first aired on
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on January 13, 1950, then on DuMont from March 21, 1952, to July 24, 1955, and finally on ABC. The last show was aired on ABC on February 25, 1956. In its ABC run, ''Life Begins at Eighty'' was aired opposite two
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, '' Appointment with Adventure'' on CBS and ''
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'' on
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. Prior to its television run, the show began on radio in 1948. The show was hosted by Jack Barry, and consisted of viewers at home writing questions for the octogenarian panel to answer. There were usually four panelists; the two permanent spots on the panel were given to Broadway actress Georgiana Carhart, and Fred Stein, cousin of writer and poet Gertrude Stein. ''Life Begins at Eighty'' was a spin-off of the popular panel discussion series '' Juvenile Jury'', in which young children answered questions from the viewers at home. The panels were combined in '' Wisdom of the Ages'', which ran on DuMont from December 1952 to June 1953. The series was parodied in a ''
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'' game show sketch starring Guy Smiley titled, ''Happiness Begins at 40''.


Episode status

One episode is in the collection of the
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, and two episodes are held in the J. Fred MacDonald collection at the
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.


See also

*
List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network This is a list of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network, which operated in the United States from 1942 to 1956. All regularly scheduled programs which were aired on the DuMont network are listed below, regardless of whether they origi ...
*
List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts The DuMont Television Network was launched in 1946 and ceased broadcasting in 1956. Allen DuMont, who created the network, preserved most of what it produced in kinescope format. By 1958, however, much of the library had been destroyed to recov ...


References

*David Weinstein, ''The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television'' (Philadelphia:
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, 2004) *Alex McNeil, ''Total Television'', Fourth edition (New York:
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, 1980) *Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, ''The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows'', Third edition (New York:
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, 1964)


External links


''Life Begins at Eighty'' at IMDB
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