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Once Upon a Tune is a weekly half-hour American television series that aired on the DuMont Television Network, premiering on March 6, 1951 and running to May 15, 1951. The series presented original musical productions which were often satirical and tongue-in-cheek adaptations of either classic fairy tales or contemporary Broadway musicals.[1]
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Episode status
The Paley Center for Media holds kinescope copies of three episodes – one spoofing "Three Little Pigs",[2] one spoofing "Rapunzel",[3] and the third on a 57-minute kinescope film reel (also containing an episode of Mr. Dynamite).[4]
According to Edie Adams, an actress who worked at DuMont for several years, much of the network's programming archive was destroyed in the 1970s.[5]
See also
- List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network
- List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts
References
- ^ http://www.paleycenter.org/collection/item/?q=once+upon+a+tune&p=1&item=T85:0428
- ^ http://www.paleycenter.org/collection/item/?q=once+upon+a+tune&p=1&item=T85:0428
- ^ http://www.paleycenter.org/collection/item/?q=once+upon+a+tune&p=1&item=T85:0427
- ^ http://www.paleycenter.org/collection/item/?q=once+upon+a+tune&p=1&item=T86:1035
- ^ http://www.dumonthistory.tv/5.html
Bibliography
- David Weinstein, The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004) ISBN 1-59213-245-6
- Alex McNeil, Total Television, Fourth edition (New York: Penguin Books, 1980) ISBN 0-14-024916-8
- Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows, Third edition (New York: Ballantine Books, 1964) ISBN 0-345-31864-1
External links
Categories:- United States television program stubs
- Musical television series
- Satirical television programmes
- DuMont Television Network shows
- 1950s American television series
- 1951 television series debuts
- 1951 television series endings
- Black-and-white television programs
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