''Teen Time Tunes'' was a 1949 American television show broadcast on the now-defunct
DuMont Television Network
The DuMont Television Network (also the DuMont Network, DuMont Television, DuMont/Du Mont, or (incorrectly) Dumont ) was one of America's pioneer commercial television networks, rivaling NBC and CBS for the distinction of being first overall in ...
.
Broadcast History
The 15-minute weeknight show featured singer
Sue Bennett and the musical group The Alan Logan Trio. Bennett (known at the time as Sue Benjamin) later worked with
Kay Kyser
James Kern Kyser (June 18, 1905 – July 23, 1985), known as Kay Kyser, was an American bandleader and radio personality of the 1930s and 1940s.
Early years
Kyser was born in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, the son of pharmacists Emily Royster Kyser ...
and went on to appear on many other 1950s TV shows. The show aired from March 7 to July 5, 1949l, or March 14, 1949, to July 15, 1949.
In contrast to the title, the low-budget show featured mostly musical standards.
Episode status
As with most DuMont series, no episodes are known to exist.
See also
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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
Bibliography
*David Weinstein, ''The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television'' (Philadelphia:
Temple University Press
Temple University Press is a university press founded in 1969 that is part of Temple University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania). It is one of thirteen publishers to participate in the Knowledge Unlatched pilot, a global library consortium approach ...
, 2004)
*Alex McNeil, ''Total Television'', Fourth edition (New York:
Penguin Books
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, 1980)
*Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, ''The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows'', Third edition (New York:
Ballantine Books
Ballantine Books is a major American book publisher that is a subsidiary of German media conglomerate Bertelsmann. Ballantine was founded in 1952 by Ian Ballantine with his wife, Betty Ballantine. Ballantine was acquired by Random House in ...
, 1964) {{ISBN, 0-345-31864-1
External links
''Teen Time Tunes'' at IMDB
DuMont Television Network original programming
1949 American television series debuts
1949 American television series endings
Black-and-white American television shows
Lost television shows