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'''''Love Story''''' was an early American [[television program]] which was broadcast on the now defunct [[DuMont Television Network]].
 
==Broadcast history==
'''''Love Story''''' was an early American [[television program]] which was broadcast on the now defunct [[DuMont Television Network]]. The series, an anthology, ran from April to June of [[1954 in television|1954]]. DuMont's ''Love Story'' is not to be confused with another dramatic anthology with the same name which ran on [[NBC]] in the 1970s, or a game show also titled ''Love Story'' which aired on [[CBS]] from 1955-1956.
 
''Love Story'' aired live on Tuesday nights at 9 ([[Eastern Standard Time]]) on most DuMont affiliates.<ref name="BrooksMarsh">Brooks, Tim & Marsh, Earle (1964). ''The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows'' (3rd ed.). New York: Ballantine. ISBN 0-345-31864-1</ref> The series was produced by [[David Lowe (producer)|David Lowe]].<ref name="McNeil">McNeil, Alex. (1996) ''Total Television''. Fourth edition. New York: Penguin Books. ISBN 0-14-024916-8.</ref>
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This series was hampered by a small budget and starred mostly lesser-known actors. Later-day critics, such as Castleman and Podrazik (1982), have cited ''Love Story'', among other DuMont series, as one of the reasons fewer and fewer viewers tuned in to the ailing DuMont Network. They called the series "a simpering romance anthology" that, like several other DuMont programs during the 1953-1954 season was "doomed from the start by third-rate scripts and cheap production."<ref name="CP">{{cite book| last = Castleman| first = Harry| authorlink = | coauthors = Walter J. Podrazik| title = Watching TV: Four Decades of American Television| publisher = McGraw-Hill| date = 1982| location = New York| pages = 87| url = | doi = | id = | isbn = 0-07-010269-4}}</ref> The series did not last long, and the network itself began crumbling shortly thereafter.
 
==FootnotesSee also==
*[[List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network]]
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*[[List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts]]
 
==References==
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* McNeil, Alex. ''Total Television''. Fourth edition. New York: Penguin Books. ISBN 0-14-024916-8.
 
* Brooks, Tim & Marsh, Earle (1964). ''The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows'' (3rd ed.). New York: Ballantine. ISBN 0-345-31864-1.
==Bibliography==
*David Weinstein, ''The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television'' (Philadelphia: [[Temple University Press]], 2004)
*Alex McNeil, Alex. ''Total Television''., Fourth edition. (New York: [[Penguin Books.]], 1980) ISBN 0-14-024916-8.
*Tim Brooks, Timand &Earle Marsh, Earle (1964). ''The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows'', (3rdThird ed.).edition (New York: [[Ballantine. Books]], 1964) ISBN 0-345-31864-1.
 
==External links==