Concert Tonight

Concert Tonight
Format	Music
Starring	Rafael Kubelik (1953-54) Fritz Reiner (1954-55)
Country of origin	United States
Production
Running time	60 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	DuMont
Original run	December 30, 1953 – April 6, 1955

Concert Tonight was an American television series which aired on the now-defunct DuMont Television Network.

Broadcast history

Concert Tonight first aired from 30 December 1953 to 31 March 1954, then was brought back from 15 September 1954 to 6 April 1955. During the 1954-55 season, Concert Tonight aired Wednesdays at 9 pm EST.

DuMont broadcast many music-based programs, including this one, which featured the Chicago Symphony performing an hour of music. The series was broadcast from DuMont affiliate WGN-TV in Chicago.

Episode status

One episode survives at the UCLA Film and Television Archive. Edie Adams, an actress and singer who worked at DuMont before the network ceased broadcasting during 1956, claimed that so little value was given to DuMont's programs that in the late 1970s they were loaded onto three trucks and dumped into Upper New York Bay.^[1]

See also

• List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network
• List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts
• 1953-54 United States network television schedule
• 1954-55 United States network television schedule

References

1. ^ DuMont historical website, channel 5

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

• Concert Tonight at IMDB
• DuMont historical website