The Arthur Murray Party

Infobox Television
show_name = The Arthur Murray Party


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format = Variety show
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starring = Arthur Murray
Kathryn Murray
country = USA
network = ABC, DuMont, CBS, NBC
first_aired = 1950
last_aired = 1960
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imdb_id = 0042078

"The Arthur Murray Party" was a television variety show which ran from 1950 until 1960. It appeared on ABC for the first few months of its broadcast, then moved to the DuMont Television Network, ABC, CBS, DuMont, CBS, NBC, CBS, and finally NBC (in that order). The show was hosted by famous dancers Arthur and Kathryn Murray, and was basically one long advertisement for their chain of dance studios. Each week the couple performed a mystery dance, and the viewer who correctly identified the dance would receive two free lessons at a local studio.

The show was set up like a large party, with Kathryn hosting a variety of guests, from sports stars to actors or musicians. Murray dance studio instructors would help Kathryn and Arthur to show their guests how to perform a particular dance step. At the end of the show, the couple would perform a Johann Strauss waltz.

"The Arthur Murray Party" is notable for being one of only four TV series -- the others were "Down You Go", "Pantomime Quiz", and "The Original Amateur Hour" -- broadcast on all four major commercial networks in the 1950s during the Golden Age of Television. It may, in fact, be the only series which had a run on all four networks at least twice.

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