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The Wendy Barrie Show (also known as Inside Photoplay, Photoplay Time, Through Wendy's Window, and Who's Who With Wendy Barrie) is an American talk show hosted by Wendy Barrie, which aired from November 10, 1948, to September 27, 1950.
Broadcast history
The Wendy Barrie Show is notable as one of the first examples of a televised talk show. It aired separately on ABC, DuMont, and NBC, debuting on ABC on November 10, 1948 (Wednesday), at 8:30 pm ET as the sketch comedy Inside Photoplay before switching to Mondays in September–December 1949 as Photoplay Time, then becoming Through Wendy's Window in August–September 1950 The DuMont version aired from 2:30 to 3:00 pm ET from January 17, 1949 (Monday), to July 13, 1949 (Wednesday).
The NBC version debuted on February 21, 1950. It aired Tuesdays and Thursdays from 7:30 to 7:45 p.m. Eastern Time, with the final episode airing on September 27, 1950. Martin Goodman was the producer, and Alan Neuman was the director.
The series stars Wendy Barrie, a film and television actress with over 40 films to her credit.
According to the book What Women Watched: Daytime Television in the 1950s (University of Texas Press, 2005) by Marsha Cassidy, the DuMont daytime schedule beginning in January 1949 was:
10-10:30am Johnny Olson's Rumpus Room
10:30-11am Welcome, Neighbors
11am-12noon The Stan Shaw Show
12noon-12:15pm Amanda
12:15-12:30pm Man in the Street
12:30-12:45pm Camera Headlines
12:45-1pm Fashions in Song
1-1:30pm Okay, Mother
2:30-3pm Inside Photoplay (The Wendy Barrie Show)
3-3:15pm The Needle Shop
3:15-3:30pm Vincent Lopez Speaking (The Vincent Lopez Show)
= Tri-State Network
=In 1953, three television stations owned by Taft Broadcasting Company and Cox Communications formed the short-lived "Tri-State Network" to compete with entertainment programming produced by Crosley Broadcasting Corporation on Crosley television stations in the Cincinnati, Columbus, and Dayton, Ohio, broadcast markets. On January 11, 1954, a new The Wendy Barrie Show premiered from the studios of WHIO-TV in Dayton, simulcast on Taft Broadcasting's WKRC-TV in Cincinnati and WTVN-TV (now WSYX) in Columbus. Wendy Barrie's contract was terminated in October, 1954.
Episode status
A DuMont episode survives on YouTube under the title The Wendy Barrie Show, and featuring guest Jack Shaindlin.
One DuMont episode from June 1949, under the title Who's Who With Wendy Barrie, is held in the J. Fred MacDonald collection at the Library of Congress.
An episode from the ABC run, dated October 17, 1949, and titled Photoplay Time, is in the collection of the UCLA Film and Television Archive.
See also
The Adventures of Oky Doky (1948-1949 on DuMont)
Picture This (1948-1949 on NBC)
List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network
List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts
1949-50 United States network television schedule
References
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
The Wendy Barrie Show at IMDb
DuMont historical website, see Inside Photoplay entry
The Wendy Barrie Show on YouTube with guest Jack Shaindlin
Part Two of The Wendy Barrie Show with Shaindlin on YouTube
Part Three of The Wendy Barrie Show with Shaindlin on YouTube
Part Four of The Wendy Barrie Show with Shaindlin on YouTube
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