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Chicagoland Mystery Players was a TV series first shown in Chicago starting 1947, then picked up nationally by the DuMont Television Network and first aired on the network 18 September 1949. The network aired the show on Sundays at 8pm EST. It was one of several DuMont series that originally aired in a local TV market before being picked up nationally. Each live episode was 30 minutes long.
DuMont dropped the program during 1950, and it's unknown if it continued in Chicago for any time. The DuMont Network itself ceased broadcasting in 1956.
When the series aired in Chicago viewers were not given the solution to the crime, instead they were told to pick up the next days Chicago Tribune to find out.
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Episode status
No episodes of the series are known to have survived.
See also
- List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network
- List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts
- 1949-50 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:- 1940s American television series
- 1950s American television series
- 1947 television series debuts
- 1950 television series endings
- Black-and-white television programs
- DuMont Television Network shows
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