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The Hank McCune Show is an American television sitcom. Filmed without a studio audience, the series is notable for being the first television program to incorporate a laugh track. [1] The series began as a local Los Angeles program in 1949.
- Sitcom
The Hank McCune Show: With Hank McCune, Larry Keating, Charles Maxwell, Florence Bates. Hank McCune portrays himself as the host of a TV variety show. Each week Hank and his supporting put on a show with innumerable mishaps and predicaments.
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- Hank Mccune, Larry Keating, Charles Maxwell
Hank McCune was born on 1 March 1917 in Kansas City, Missouri, USA. He was an actor and producer, known for Wetbacks (1956), A Life at Stake (1955) and The Hank McCune Show (1949). He died on 16 May 2005 in Bend, Oregon, USA.
- Actor, Producer, Writer
- March 1, 1917
- Hank McCune
- May 16, 2005
The Hank McCune Show began locally in New York in 1949. The show went national on NBC, briefly, in 1950. Former radio comedian McCune portrayed a television variety show host named after himself.
Sep 26, 2016 · BBC. The history of ‘the laugh track’ says much about what the makers of television thought of their audiences, writes Jennifer Keishin Armstrong. Charley Douglass didn’t like the laughter he was...
Hank McCune is a forgotten name in TV comedy. His TV series, The Hank McCune Show, however, has found its way into the history books. This filmed series was the very first to use a laugh track.
Hank is in Atlantic City for a Peter Paul candy company convention. He has wacky run-ins with lifeguards, beauty contest types, and members of a mystical brotherhood staying at the hotel. He also manages to cancel the reservations of all the Peter Paul convention attendees.
