All About Baby

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All About Baby
GenreChildren
StarringRuth Crowley
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
Production
ProducerWGN-TV
Running time15 minutes
Release
Original networkDuMont
Picture formatBlack-and-white
Audio formatMonaural
Original release1953 (1953) –
July 1955 (1955-07)

All About Baby was an early American daytime television children's series, which aired from October 1954 to July 1955 on several stations of the now-defunct DuMont Television Network, including flagship station WABD.

The host was Ruth Crowley, a nurse and childcare expert who had been writing an advice column under the name "Ann Landers" since 1943.[1] On the show, she offered advice to new mothers on how to care for their infant children.[2] The show went off the air just three weeks before Crowley died.

Produced by DuMont affiliate WGN-TV in Chicago, the series originally began as a local show in 1953. Sponsors included Swift Meats and Libby's Baby Food. Episodes aired in a 15-minute time-slot, as was often the case with US daytime series of the era.

Episode status[]

Although few recordings survive of daytime programs by DuMont stations, three episodes of All About Baby are held by the UCLA Film and Television Archive.[3][4][5] These episodes are from June/July 1955.

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References[]

  1. ^ Gudelunas, David (2007). Confidential to America: Newspaper Advice Columns and Sexual Education. Edison, NJ: Transaction. p. 234. ISBN 978-1-4128-0688-6.
  2. ^ Hyatt, Wesley (1997). The Encyclopedia of Daytime Television. Watson-Guptill Publications. p. 10. ISBN 978-0823083152. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
  3. ^ http://cinema.library.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?v1=5&ti=1,5&Search%5FArg=all%20about%20baby&SL=None&Search%5FCode=GKEY%5E&CNT=50&PID=NKSFVOlXAQyTay9H67FakuHktJAgH&SEQ=20140108200218&SID=1[dead link]
  4. ^ http://cinema.library.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?v1=6&ti=1,6&Search%5FArg=all%20about%20baby&SL=None&Search%5FCode=GKEY%5E&CNT=50&PID=NKSFVOlXAQyTay9H67FakuHktJAgH&SEQ=20140108200218&SID=1[dead link]
  5. ^ http://cinema.library.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?v1=7&ti=1,7&Search%5FArg=all%20about%20baby&SL=None&Search%5FCode=GKEY%5E&CNT=50&PID=NKSFVOlXAQyTay9H67FakuHktJAgH&SEQ=20140108200218&SID=1[dead link]

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

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