Spin the Picture
Spin the Picture | |
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Genre | Game show |
Presented by | Kathi Norris Carl Caruso |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
Production | |
Running time | 60 minutes |
Release | |
Original network | DuMont Television Network |
Picture format | Black-and-white |
Audio format | Monaural |
Original release | 4 June 1949 4 February 1950 | –
Spin the Picture was an American game show which aired on the DuMont Television Network. The hosts telephoned home viewers to see if they could identify a famous person within a spinning photograph.
The show was originally called Cut at the premiere on 4 June 1949,[1] and was renamed Spin the Picture on 18 June.[2] The show was hosted by Kathi Norris and Carl Caruso and was on Saturdays at 8 pm ET. The final show was broadcast 4 February 1950. Norris was also the host of the DuMont daytime television show TV Shopper. Norris and Caruso were married from 1979 to Norris's death in 2005.
Episode status[]
No copies of this show are known to exist.
See also[]
- List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network
- List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts
- 1949-50 United States network television schedule
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
References[]
- ^ "Television (WABD 8 p.m.)". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (New York). 1949-06-04. p. 13. Retrieved 2017-05-09.
- ^ "Television (WABD 8 p.m.)". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (New York). 1949-06-18. p. 13. Retrieved 2017-05-09.
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Categories:
- American game shows
- DuMont Television Network original programming
- 1949 American television series debuts
- 1950 American television series endings
- 1940s American game shows
- 1950s American game shows
- Black-and-white American television shows
- Lost television shows