- Dark of Night
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Dark of Night Format Anthology Starring Various Country of origin 
United StatesProduction Running time 30 minutes Broadcast Original channel DuMont Original run October 3, 1952 – May 1, 1953 Dark of Night was an early American television series on the now-defunct DuMont Television Network which aired Fridays at 8:30pm EST from October 3, 1952 to May 1, 1953.
The series was a dramatic anthology which starred mostly unknown actors. Uniquely, each episode was filmed at a different location in the New York City area. According to Brooks and Marsh (1984), locations included a Coca-Cola bottling plant, Brentano's Book Store in Manhattan, a castle in New Jersey, and the American Red Cross Blood Bank.[1]
Contents
Episode status
Though most episodes of DuMont series were eventually destroyed, the UCLA Film and Television Archive has one episode of Dark of Night.[2]
See also
- List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network
- List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts
- 1952-53 United States network television schedule
References
- ^ Brooks, Tim & Marsh, Earle (1964). The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows (3rd ed.). New York: Ballantine. ISBN 0-345-31864-1.
- ^ "The DuMont Television Network". http://www.dumonthistory.tv/a5.html. Retrieved 2008-10-13.
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
- Black-and-white television programs
- 1950s American television series
- 1952 television series debuts
- 1953 television series endings
- United States television program stubs
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