- The Arthur Murray Party
Infobox Television
show_name = The Arthur Murray Party
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format =Variety show
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starring =Arthur Murray Kathryn Murray
country = USA
network = ABC, DuMont,CBS ,NBC
first_aired = 1950
last_aired = 1960
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imdb_id = 0042078"The Arthur Murray Party" was a
television variety show which ran from 1950 until 1960. It appeared on ABC for the first few months of its broadcast, then moved to theDuMont Television Network , ABC,CBS , DuMont, CBS,NBC , CBS, and finally NBC (in that order). The show was hosted by famousdancer s Arthur andKathryn Murray , and was basically one long advertisement for their chain ofdance studio s. Each week the couple performed a mystery dance, and the viewer who correctly identified the dance would receive two free lessons at a local studio.The show was set up like a large party, with Kathryn hosting a variety of guests, from sports stars to actors or musicians. Murray dance studio instructors would help Kathryn and Arthur to show their guests how to perform a particular
dance step . At the end of the show, the couple would perform aJohann Strauss waltz ."The Arthur Murray Party" is notable for being one of only four TV series -- the others were "
Down You Go ", "Pantomime Quiz ", and "The Original Amateur Hour " -- broadcast on all four major commercial networks in the 1950s during theGolden Age of Television . It may, in fact, be the only series which had a run on all four networks at least twice.External links
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