The Alan Dale Show: Difference between revisions

''The Alan Dale Show'' was a [[musical film|musical]] [[variety show]] starring singers [[Alan Dale (singer)|Alan Dale]] and [[Janie Ford]] and set in a record store. The program, produced and distributed by DuMont, premiered August 10, 1948 and aired Tuesday nights from 7:00-7:15 pm EST on most DuMont affiliates. The network cancelled the series after a few months, but the series continued locally on DuMont's New York station [[WNYW|WABD]] until March 1949.<ref name="BM">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> This show was reportedly the first DuMont series to use kinescopes for network broadcast.<ref>[http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&biw=&bih=&q=alan+dale+show+first+kinescope&gbv=2&oq=alan+dale+show+first+kinescope&gs_l=heirloom-hp.3...1048.8757.0.9264.32.29.1.0.0.0.210.2205.24j4j1.29.0...0.0...1c.1.SadPZQg07q8 Robert Shagawat, ''TV Recording Origins'' p. 34]</ref>