- Operation Success
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Operation Success Format Public affairs Starring Bob Pfeiffer Country of origin 
United StatesProduction Running time 30 minutes Broadcast Original channel DuMont Original run September 21, 1948 – June 16, 1949 Operation Success was a prime time public affairs television program broadcast on the now-defunct DuMont Television Network.
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Broadcast history
The program aired from September 1948 to June 1949, Tuesdays at 8pm EST, opposite Texaco Star Theater with Milton Berle. Each 30-minute episode was hosted by Bob Pfeiffer, who was also the announcer for some episodes of Captain Video. The series consisted of host Bob Pfeiffer and others interviewing disabled war veterans and then asking viewers to come forward with job offers. The proram claimed to of found jobs for one-hundred-percent of the veterans.
Episode status
Two episodes are in the collection of the Paley Center for Media.
See also
- List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network
- List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts
- 1948-49 United States network television schedule
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
Categories:- DuMont Television Network shows
- 1948 television series debuts
- 1949 television series endings
- 1940s American television series
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