List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts

Still from Captain Video and His Video Rangers, one of DuMont's most popular (and fondly-remembered) programs.

The DuMont Television Network was launched in 1946 and ceased broadcasting in 1956. Allen DuMont, who created the network, preserved most of what it produced in kinescope format; however, many of these were destroyed around 1958 in order to recover the silver content.^[1]

By the 1970s, however, the DuMont archive was considered worthless – so much so that all remaining kinescopes and videotapes were loaded into three trucks and dumped into Upper New York Bay.^[2][3] Since then, there has been extensive research on which DuMont programs have episodes extant.

Due to the possibilities that various unknown collectors may be in possession of programs and/or episodes not listed here, and that the sources below may actually hold more than what is listed (for example, through a mislabeled film can), this list is very likely incomplete.

For a list of program series aired on DuMont, see List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network.

Held by the UCLA Film and Television Archive

• The Admiral Broadway Revue – One episode (March 4, 1949)
• A.N.T.A. Album of 1955 – Special shown on March 28, 1955
• Boxing From Eastern Parkway – 30 episodes, ranging from December 1, 1952 to October 26, 1953
• Boxing From St. Nicholas Arena – Five episodes (including August 6, 1956 finale, the last program aired on DuMont)
• Boxing With Dennis James – Three episodes from 1950
• Captain Video and His Video Rangers – 24 episodes, ranging from at least 1949-1953
• Cavalcade of Stars – 15 episodes, ranging from September 1949 to October 26, 1951
• Champagne and Orchids – Two episodes (with guests Eric Thorsen and Yul Brenner)
• Charlie Wild, Private Detective – Two episodes (including May 6, 1952; UCLA has another 13 episodes from the CBS and ABC eras)
• Colonel Humphrey Flack – 12 episodes, ranging from October 14, 1953 to February 9, 1954
• Concert Tonight – One episode from 1954
• Dark of Night – One episode (January 30, 1953)
• Doorway to Fame – Two episodes (March 30 and April 1949)
• Front Row Center – One episode from 1949
• Georgetown University Forum – One episode (December 13, 1951)
• The Goldbergs – 71 restored episodes, including DuMont, available on DVD^[4]
• The Growing Paynes – One episode from 1949
• Gruen Playhouse – Two episodes (May 22 and June 19, 1952)
• Guide Right – 18 episodes
• International Playhouse – 12 episodes (although not all can be confirmed as DuMont episodes)
• Jimmy Hughes, Rookie Cop – One episode (network premiere from May 8, 1953)
• The Johns Hopkins Science Review – Three episodes (1951; October 7, 1952; and 1953), one of which features Wernher von Braun
• Joseph Schildkraut Presents – One episode (November 18, 1953); another six episodes, ranging from December 4, 1951 to April 23, 1952, are from the earlier ABC series Personal Appearance Theatre, which also featured Schildkraut and may have been shown on DuMont stations
• Kids and Company – One episode (series finale from June 1, 1952), one of the very few surviving daytime DuMont broadcasts; while host Johnny Olson states that the program is going on a ten-week hiatus, he and the crew (appearing onstage) nonetheless sing Auld Lang Syne
• Life Is Worth Living – Four episodes (October 1951 and three from 1955)
• The Magic Cottage – Two episodes (1950 and February 27, 1954)
• Marge and Jeff – 27 episodes (ranging from September 28, 1953 to September 1, 1954), 1 excerpt (May 20, 1954)
• Melody Street – Two episodes (including January 1, 1954), 1 excerpt
• The Morey Amsterdam Show – 48 episodes, ranging from November 21, 1949 to August 31, 1950
• Newsweek Views the News (also known as Newsweek Analysis) – Two episodes (February 27 and April 17, 1950)
• Not for Publication – 12 episodes, including shows ranging from May 13, 1951 to April 15, 1952
• The Original Amateur Hour – Three episodes, 1 excerpt
• Pantomime Quiz – Two episodes, plus a larger amount of CBS-aired episodes^[5]
• Passaic: Birthplace of Television and the DuMont Story (early television movie) – Live television play aired November 14, 1951
• The Paul Dixon Show – One episode (network premiere from September 29, 1952)
• Pulse of the City – Three episodes from 1953
• Rocky King, Inside Detective – 37 episodes, ranging from 1951–1954
• Star Time – Four episodes (November 21 and 28, 1950 plus January 16 and February 6, 1951), 1 excerpt
• The Ted Steele Show – One episode (series finale from July 12, 1949)
• This Is Music – Two episodes (1951 and April 1952)
• The Vincent Lopez Show – One episode from 1950
• Window on the World – One episode (March 25, 1949)
• Wisdom of the Ages – One episode (June 16, 1953)
• You Asked for It – Two episodes (#8 and #31)

Held by the Paley Center for Media

• Adlai Stevenson Speech from Salt Lake City – Telecast of a speech by US presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson^[6]
• The Admiral Broadway Revue – 18 episodes of the 19-show run, including the January 28 premiere and June 3 finale
• And Everything Nice – One episode from 1949
• Better Living TV Theater - One episode ("From Every Mountain Top"^[7])
• The Big Issue (aka Keep Posted) – One episode ("Peace in the Middle East", aired November 2, 1952)
• Blind Date – One episode (August 25, 1953)
• Cavalcade of Stars – 17 episodes, possibly more (the Paley Center has several further Cavalcade kinescopes, for which the exact content is unclear)
• Charlie Wild, Private Detective – Four episodes, possibly five
• Colonel Humphrey Flack – Two episodes
• Court of Current Issues – 14-minute fragment (March 3, 1949)
• Dollar a Second – One episode
• The Ernie Kovacs Show/The Ernie Kovacs Rehearsal – One episode (March 21, 1955); although only airing on flagship station WABD, at least one major historian considers it a DuMont program since the network intended to broadcast it nationally, a plan that came just months before the network's collapse
• Flight to Rhythm – Two episodes (May 15, 1949)
• The Growing Paynes – Four episodes, possibly five
• Guide Right – Two episodes (including August 14, 1953)
• Hold That Camera – One episode (December 1, 1950)
• The Johns Hopkins Science Review – Eight episodes, ranging from September 18, 1951 to February 2, 1953 (plus one marked as "series finale")
• Kids and Company – Two episodes (March 25 and June 7, 1952 {the former erroneously stated as being from 1951})
• Life Begins at Eighty – One episode
• Life Is Worth Living – Unknown number
• The Magic Cottage – One episode (December 28, 1950)
• Marge and Jeff – Four episodes from 1954
• The Morey Amsterdam Show – Two episodes (April 28 and June 9, 1949; features Art Carney in a supporting role)
• New York Times Youth Forum – One episode (September 27, 1952)
• Once Upon a Tune – Three episodes from 1951, including May 8 (a rare example of satirical programming from DuMont)
• Opera Cameos – Eight episodes, including December 13, 1953 and March 12, 1955
• Operation Success – Two episodes from 1948
• Photographic Horizons – One episode (August 25, 1948)
• Rocky King, Inside Detective – Seven episodes, including November 15, 1953
• Stop the Play – One episode
• Swing Into Sports – One episode (August 29, 1948)
• This Is Music – Two episodes
• Possibly one episode each of Famous Jury Trials^[8] and Small Fry Club^[9] (this is unconfirmed)

Held by the Museum of Broadcast Communications

• The Admiral Broadway Revue – One episode
• The Adventures of Ellery Queen – One episode
• Captain Video and His Video Rangers – Two episodes
• Cavalcade of Stars – One episode
• Don McNeill's Breakfast Club – Two episodes
• The Johns Hopkins Science Review – One episode
• Kids and Company – One episode
• Life Is Worth Living – Five episodes
• Miss U.S. Television Grand Finals – Special aired September 30, 1950
• The Morey Amsterdam Show – Five episodes
• Public Prosecutor – One episode
• Rocky King, Inside Detective – One episode
• Sense and Nonsense – One episode (February 19, 1954); sources indicate that this was a local series aired on WABD
• Sports Showcase – One episode
• They Stand Accused – One episode
• Tom Corbett, Space Cadet – One episode
• Twenty Questions – One episode (January 18, 1952)
• Washington Journal – One episode (unknown; possibly this is an episode of Washington Report [1951] or Washington Exclusive [1953], both broadcast by DuMont)

Held by the Internet Archive

• The Adventures of Ellery Queen – Four episodes (December 21, 1950 plus March 29, May 10, and November 8, 1951)
• The Arthur Murray Show – Half an episode (October 22, 1950)
• Captain Video and His Video Rangers – Three episodes (one from 1949, two from the 1950s)
• Cavalcade of Stars – One episode from 1950, hosted by Jerry Lester (although it has been suggested that it is a collection of skits from two episodes)
• Flash Gordon – One episode (March 18, 1955)
• Front Page Detective – One episode (March 16, 1951)
• Hold That Camera – One episode (December 1, 1950)
• The Johns Hopkins Science Review – Two episodes (January 7 and February 18, 1952)
• Kids and Company – One episode (series finale from June 1, 1952)
• Life Is Worth Living – One episode, discussing angels (according to comments on the upload, not a typical episode)
• Miss U.S. Television Grand Finals – Special aired September 30, 1950
• The Morey Amsterdam Show – One episode (September 21 or 28, 1950)
• Okay, Mother – One episode (July 18, 1950)
• The Old American Barn Dance – Five episodes from Summer 1953
• On Your Way – One episode (January 1954)
• Public Prosecutor – Two episodes from 1951 ("The Man who Wasn't There" and "The Comic-Strip Murder")
• Rocky King, Inside Detective – Four episodes (July 13 and August 31, 1952; 1953; and "One Minute for Murder")
• The School House – One episode (March 22, 1949)
• Sense and Nonsense – One episode (February 19, 1954)
• Steve Randall (aka Hollywood Off Beat) – One episode (September 11, 1952)
• They Stand Accused – One episode (late 1954)
• Tom Corbett, Space Cadet – One episode (network finale from May 22, 1954)
• Twenty Questions – One episode (January 18, 1952)
• You Asked for It – Five episodes from 1951 (February 8, April 5, April 12 or 19, April 26, July or so, and a general episode)

Held by TV4U

• The Admiral Broadway Revue – One episode
• Captain Video and His Video Rangers – One episode
• The Cases of Eddie Drake – One episode
• Cavalcade of Stars – One episode
• Don McNeill's Breakfast Club – One episode
• Front Page Detective – One episode
• Hold That Camera – One episode (December 1, 1950)
• The Morey Amsterdam Show – One episode
• Okay, Mother – One episode (July 18, 1950)
• Rebound (ABC, Feb-May 1952, DuMont November 1952-January 1953) aka Counterpoint in syndication – One episode
• Rocky King, Inside Detective – One episode
• Sense and Nonsense – One episode (February 19, 1954)
• Star Time – One episode
• Tom Corbett, Space Cadet – One episode
• Twenty Questions – One episode (January 18, 1952)

Held by others

• Fashions on Parade – Two episodes at MacDonald and Associates film archive in Chicago
• The Johns Hopkins Science Review – Entire series (186 episodes) held by Johns Hopkins University, most of which are DuMont episodes
• Life Is Worth Living – Unknown number held by The Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen Foundation, possibly complete run
• Off the Record – One episode (October 18, 1951) from WTTG with Art Lamb and Aletha Agee at YouTube^[10]
• This Is the Life – One episode (September 9, 1952 premiere) at YouTube
• Tom Corbett, Space Cadet – Unknown number held by Wade Williams Productions
• The Wendy Barrie Show – One episode at YouTube featuring Jack Shaindlin as guest
• What's the Story – One episode (December 1953) at MacDonald and Associates
• Other shows at YouTube/Google Video.
• Archivist Ira Gallen has an unknown number of DuMont network broadcasts.
• WWE has footage of DuMont wrestling matches held in the New York/Washington D.C. area (including footage from Madison Square Garden III among other wrestling footage from this period, most notably featuring Gorgeous George).
• More DuMont-era wrestling footage has turned up with a collector in Japan.

References

1. ^ REMINISCING: Day in Court, Winchell-Mahoney Time - DuMont Shows: Not to Be Seen Again, ROGER M. GRACE, Metropolitan News-Enterprise, May 29, 2003
2. ^ Adams, Edie (March 1996). "Television/Video Preservation Study: Los Angeles Public Hearing". National Film Preservation Board. Library of Congress. http://www.loc.gov/film/hrng96la.html. Retrieved 2007-09-24. 
3. ^ DuMont historical website, Channel 5
4. ^ UCLA Film and Television Archive: The Goldbergs DVD
5. ^ http://cinema.library.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?Search_Arg=pantomime+quiz&Search_Code=GKEY%5E&SL=None&PID=6zSxK7lrSVf0PWKi0eSbmWi31ggC&SEQ=20120313003915&CNT=50&HIST=1&SEARCH_FROM_TITLES_PAGE=Y
6. ^ http://www.paleycenter.org/collection/item/?q=du&p=2&item=T85:0497
7. ^ http://www.paleycenter.org/collection/item/?q=Better+Living+TV+Theatre&f=all&c=tv&advanced=1&p=1&item=B:54680
8. ^ http://www.paleycenter.org/collection/item/?q=famous+jury+trials&p=1&item=B:24273
9. ^ http://www.paleycenter.org/collection/item/?q=Small+Fry+Club&p=1&item=B:12187
10. ^ Billboard (November 24, 1951 issue, page 14) via Google Books

External links

Unless otherwise noted, all links are to the Internet Archive.

• DuMont kinescopes at TV4U
• Kinescopes of DuMont program The Adventures of Ellery Queen: "The Hanging Acrobat" (December 21, 1950), "Man Who Enjoyed Death" (March 29, 1951), "Death Spins a Wheel" (May 10, 1951), "Murder to Music" (November 8, 1951)
• Kinescope of DuMont program The Arthur Murray Show (October 22, 1950)
• Kinescopes of DuMont program Captain Video and His Video Rangers: 1949 episode, 1950s episode #1, 1950s episode #2
• Kinescope of DuMont program Cavalcade of Stars, hosted by Jerry Lester (1950)
• Kinescope of DuMont program Flash Gordon: "Struggle to the End" (March 18, 1955)
• Kinescope of DuMont program Front Page Detective: "Alibi for Suicide" (March 16, 1951)
• Kinescope of DuMont program Hold That Camera (December 1, 1950)
• Kinescopes of DuMont program The Johns Hopkins Science Review: "A Visit to our Studio" (January 7, 1952), "Usefulness of Useless Knowledge" (February 18, 1952)
• Kinescope of DuMont program Kids and Company (June 1, 1952)
• Kinescope of DuMont program Life Is Worth Living: "Angels"
• Kinescope of DuMont program Miss U.S. Television Grand Finals (September 30, 1950)
• Kinescope of DuMont program The Morey Amsterdam Show (September 21 or 28, 1950)
• Kinescope of DuMont program Off the Record (October 18, 1951) on YouTube
• Kinescope of DuMont program Okay Mother (July 18, 1950)
• Kinescopes of DuMont program The Old American Barn Dance (Summer 1953)
• Kinescope of DuMont program On Your Way (January 1954)
• Kinescopes of DuMont program Public Prosecutor: "The Man who Wasn't There" (1951), "The Comic-Strip Murder" (1951)
• Kinescopes of DuMont program Rocky King: Detective: "Murder Scores a Knockout" (July 13, 1952), "The Hermit's Cat" (August 31, 1952), "Murder, PH.D." (1953), "One Minute for Murder"
• Kinescope of DuMont program School House (March 22, 1949)
• Kinescope of DuMont program Sense and Nonsense (February 19, 1954)
• Kinescope of DuMont program Steve Randall: "The Trial" (September 11, 1952)
• Kinescope of DuMont program They Stand Accused: "The Johnny Roberts Story" (late 1954)
• Kinescope of DuMont program This Is the Life/The Fisher Family (September 9, 1952) on YouTube
• Kinescope of DuMont program Tom Corbett: Space Cadet: "Runaway Rocket" (May 22, 1954)
• Kinescope of DuMont program Twenty Questions (January 18, 1952) on YouTube
• Kinescope of DuMont program The Wendy Barrie Show with Jack Shaindlin on YouTube: parts 1, 2, 3, and 4
• Kinescopes of DuMont program You Asked for It: February 8, 1951; April 5, 1951; April 1951; April 26, 1951; July (or so) 1951; 1951 episode