Marge and Jeff

Marge and Jeff
Format	Sitcom
Starring	Marge Greene Jess Cain
Country of origin	United States
Production
Running time	15 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	DuMont
Original run	September 21, 1953 – September 24, 1954

Marge and Jeff was an early American sitcom broadcast on the DuMont Television Network during the 1953-1954 television season.

Broadcast history

The main claim to fame of this series is the fact that, unlike many other American sitcoms of the 1950s, it appeared every weekday at 7:15 pm EST, after Captain Video and His Video Rangers during its original run. The show starred and was written by Marge Greene. Each episode was 15 minutes long.

Episode status

Most episodes of the show were destroyed after the DuMont Network ceased to exist in 1956. However, at least 20 episodes exist at the UCLA Film and Television Archive. UCLA records show that the show probably never had a commercial sponsor and instead featured public service announcements. The existing episodes survived because it directly followed Captain Video which was regularly kinescoped, with Marge and Jeff apparently preserved on the same 30-minute reel of film^{[citation needed]}.

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
• Mack & Myer for Hire (another "daily" sitcom)
• The Trouble with Tracy (another "daily" sitcom)
• I Married Joan (similar 1950s sitcom)

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

• Marge and Jeff at the Internet Movie Database
• DuMont historical website