Hopefully incomplete list of surviving 1948 US broadcasts (expanded)
Obviously, some of these series continued into 1949 or even into the 1950s. While in some cases episodes also exist from these years (such as a huge bunch of 1949 "The Morey Amsterdam Show" epiodes), they are not included as part of this series. If you want, I can do a 1949 list!
Held By Library of Congress:
Kraft Television Theatre - 5 episodes
The Bigelow Show - 4 episodes (one of which is also held by Paley)
Five-star revue (welcome aboard) - 3 episodes
Held by UCLA Film and Television Archive:
Armchair detective - 2 episodes
Going places with Uncle George - 2 episodes
Starlight Time - 1 episode
Eye witness - 1 episode
Theatre Guild plays - 1 episode
The Swift Show - 2 episodes
Admiral presents The Five star revue (welcome aboard) - Excepts (including Martin & Lewis appearance)
Lucky Pup - 3 episodes
Toast of the Town - Excerpt
Photographic Horizons - 1 episode
The Morey Amsterdam Show - 2 episodes
Held by Paley Center for Media:
Operation Success - 2 Episodes (a description of this DuMont series suggests that they really did air anything that moved back in 1948...in other sounds, it may be historically interesting, but must have been boring to viewers in 1948)
Armchair Detective - 1 episode (this was a local series aired on KTLA)
Yer Ole Buddy - 2 episodes (this local series aired on KTLA)
Puppet Playhouse Presets Howdy Doody - 2 episodes (famous "Howdy Doody for President" episode, plus the September 13 1948 episode)
NBC Symphony Orchestra with Arturo Toscanini - March 20 1948 episode, November 13 1948 episode, December 4 1948 episode (NBC series))
Channel Zero - 1 episode (local series aired on WPIX. Stars Zero Mostel)
Photographic Horizons - 1 or 2 episodes (The footage runs for 55 minutes and aired on a local DuMont affiliate)
Stop Me If You're Heart This One - Pilot (NBC, episode air date March 10, 1948)
The Bigelow Show - December 9 1948 episode (NBC)
Gems from the Ballet - September 12, 1948 (NBC)
Toast of the Town - December 19 1948 (CBS)
Swing Intro Sports - August 29 1948 episode (this series seems to have aired on a local DuMont affiliate)
The People's Platform - December 7 1948 (CBS, current affairs. The episode deals with inflation and wage increases)
Arthur Godfrey Time - rehearsal for first episode (in very bad condition with video loss and out-of-sync audio)
Philco Television Playhouse - December 12 1948 (incomplete, first 32 minutes only)
Studio One - December 12 1948 (episode title: "The Medium". They describe the episode as an adaptation of a Giancarlo Menotti opera) (CBS)
NOTE: This list is likely incomplete. For example, there's a thing called "Gay Nineties Revue" which has a surviving episode and is from 1948, and isn't on these lists.
Is there any surviving UK kinescopes from this year? What websites would have info on surviving content of UK origin?
EDIT: I did some more research....five 1948 episodes of "Chevrolet on Broadway" also survive, at the Library of Congress. They are from the following dates:
27 September 1948
4 October 1948
18 October 1948
1 November 1948
15 November 1948
The Museum of Broadcast Communications has a broadcast called "ABC Breakfast Club" from 1948. This wasn't a series, but a one-off special to see whether the concept would work on TV. It seems the experiment was a success, as over the next 12 months daytime TV programs increased in number considerably.
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