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Broadway Open House is network television's first late-night comedy-variety series. It was telecast live on NBC from May 29, 1950, to August 24, 1951, airing weeknights from 11pm to midnight. One of the pioneering TV creations of NBC president Pat Weaver , it demonstrated the potential for late-night programming and led to the later ...
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Broadway Open House: Created by Sylvester L. Weaver Jr.. With Milton Delugg, Dagmar, Ray Malone, David Street. Television's first late night entertainment broadcast, presented live from New York. The show featured comedy, music, and a raucous audience every weekday night.
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- 1950-05-29
- Comedy, Music
- Milton Delugg, Dagmar, Ray Malone
Broadway Open House is network television's first late-night comedy-variety series. It was telecast live on NBC from May 29, 1950, to August 24, 1951, airing weeknights from 11pm to midnight.
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Dec 31, 2014 · The first regularly scheduled late-night entertainment program on television. It was the forerunner of "The tonight show" and was broadcast from 5/29/1950 to 8/24/1951. With Jerry Lester, Milton DeLugg, Dave Street, Dagmar, The Mellolarks, Fletcher Peck, etc. Includes some original commercials.
Broadway Open House, is network television's first late-night comedy-variety series. It was telecast live on NBC from May 29, 1950 to August 24, 1951, airing weeknights from 11pm to midnight.
Tex McCrary and wife Jinx Falkenburg host. Guests include folk singers The Weavers, vaudeville comics Smith and Dale, and trick golfer Jack Redmond. Milton DeLugg is bandleader, Wayne Howell the announcer, Bob Stanton does commercials, and Radcliffe Hall delivers a 5-minute newscast. Rate.
Broadway Open House was an informal late-night variety program – the forerunner of The Tonight Show and The Jack Paar Show – which opened locally on NBC in New York on 22 May 1950. Entertainers dropped in to perform at their leisure between other appearances.
