Lamp Unto My Feet

Lamp Unto My Feet
Lamp Unto My Feet
Genre	Religious anthology
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
Production
Camera setup	Single-camera
Running time	60 minutes
Release
Original network	CBS Television
Picture format	Black-and-white; Color
Audio format	Monaural
Original release	21 November 1948 –; 21 January 1979

Lamp Unto My Feet was an American ecumenical religious program that was produced by CBS Television and broadcast from 1948 to 1979 on Sunday mornings.^[1] The title comes from Psalms 119: "Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path."

Overview[]

The program used a combination of drama, music, and dance to explore the histories, cultures and theological philosophies of the Protestant, Catholic and Jewish faiths.^[2]^[3]

In 1979 this program and another long-running CBS religious series, Look Up and Live, were combined to form a new show called For Our Times (April 28, 1979 to 1988), sponsored by the National Council of Churches, New York Board of Rabbis, and U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.^[4]

Guest stars[]

Notable guest stars included Mahalia Jackson, Kim Hunter, Luther Adler, Edward Mulhare, Arthur Hill, Eydie Gorme, The Ink Spots, and Aline MacMahon.

In popular culture[]

The show was satirized on a 1976 episode of SCTV as Match Onto My Feet, with Joe Flaherty as Father John Duffy attending a Passover celebration of the Dithers family that ends up a disaster due to the misbehavior of the children, disagreements about the family business, and a misapplication of the rites by the family patriarch, Sid Dithers (Eugene Levy).

References[]

^ "George Crothers, 89, Television Producer". The New York Times. December 7, 1998. Retrieved 2009-03-08.
^ "Lamp unto my feet - 1949-12-25 - The Christmas story". Moving Image Collections, Library of Congress. Retrieved 2009-03-08.^{[dead link]}
^ Shulman, Arthur; Youman, Roger (1966). How Sweet It Was — Television: A Pictorial Commentary (PDF). New York: Bonanza Books, a division of Crown Publishers, Inc., by arrangement with Shorecrest, Inc. p. 487. ISBN 978-0517081358. OCLC 36258864.
^ TV Guide Guide to TV. Barnes and Nobel. 2004. p. 377. ISBN 978-0-7607-5634-8.

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[1] "George Crothers, 89, Television Producer". The New York Times. December 7, 1998. Retrieved 2009-03-08.

[2] "Lamp unto my feet - 1949-12-25 - The Christmas story". Moving Image Collections, Library of Congress. Retrieved 2009-03-08.^{[dead link]}

[3] Shulman, Arthur; Youman, Roger (1966). How Sweet It Was — Television: A Pictorial Commentary (PDF). New York: Bonanza Books, a division of Crown Publishers, Inc., by arrangement with Shorecrest, Inc. p. 487. ISBN 978-0517081358. OCLC 36258864.

[4] TV Guide Guide to TV. Barnes and Nobel. 2004. p. 377. ISBN 978-0-7607-5634-8.

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