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The Bigelow Theatre (1950)

The Bigelow Theatre poster
Genre
anthology series
Country
United States
Length
1 season, 12 episodes
Rating
6.7 of 10 from 3 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This anthology series from 1950 presents different short plays in each episode. It originally aired on CBS and DuMont and was sponsored by a carpet company.

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What happens

The Bigelow Theatre (also known as Bigelow-Sanford Theater and as Hollywood Half Hour and Marquee Theater in syndication) is an American anthology series originally broadcast on CBS Television and on the DuMont Television Network. This series is not to be confused with the similarly named The Bigelow Show, a musical variety program which aired on NBC and CBS in the late 1940s. The series was sponsored by the Bigelow-Sanford Carpet Company. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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