What's the Story
| What's the Story | |
|---|---|
| Presented by | Walter Raney (1951) Walter Kiernan (1951-1953) Al Capp (1953) John McCaffery (1953-1955) |
| Starring | Harriet Van Horne Jimmy Cannon Robert Sullivan Bosley Crowther Porthos The Dog |
| Country of origin | United States |
| No. of seasons | 4 |
| Production | |
| Running time | 25 mins. |
| Original release | |
| Network | DuMont |
| Release | June 25, 1951 – September 23, 1955 |
What's the Story is an American
Originally hosted by Walter Raney, he was replaced in September 1951 by Walter Kiernan, who hosted until June 20, 1953. Al Capp took over from the following week until sometime in the Fall, when John McCaffery took the reins through the show’s end in 1955.
The series is most notable for being the last regular series to air on the DuMont network, after the game show
Gameplay
A panel of well-known newspaper
Episode status
Although many DuMont shows survive at the UCLA Film and Television Archive, the Paley Center for Media, and Chicago’s Museum of Broadcast Communications, there are no copies of What’s the Story at any of these archives.[3]
Only one episode is known to exist, and is held in the J. Fred MacDonald collection at the
See also
- List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network
- List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts
References
- ^ ISBN 0-345-31864-1.
- ISBN 0-14-024916-8.
- ^ Ingram, C. (2002). "The DuMont Television Network Historical Web Site". Retrieved January 22, 2007.
Bibliography
- David Weinstein, The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television (Philadelphia: ISBN 1-59213-245-6
- Alex McNeil, Total Television, Fourth edition (New York: ISBN 0-14-024916-8
- Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows, Third edition (New York: ISBN 0-345-31864-1
