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Better Living TV Theater (1953)

Better Living TV Theater poster
Genre
documentary
Country
United States
Rating
10.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A documentary series with a moderator that looked at different topics. It first aired on Sunday afternoons on ABC and later moved to Wednesdays and then Sundays on the DuMont Network.

informationaleducationalnarrative-drivenhistoricalcalmdatedfactualmoderate-paced

What happens

Better Living TV Theater is an American television documentary program originally broadcast on ABC and later on the DuMont Television Network. The documentary series, featuring moderator Fischer Black, debuted on June 20, 1953. The ABC version was a summer replacement series which aired on Sunday afternoons. The final ABC broadcast occurred on August 16, 1953. On April 21, 1954, the DuMont Network began to air the series in prime time. Better Living TV Theater aired on Wednesday nights at 10:30 pm EST, until June, when the program was moved to Sunday nights. The final broadcast was on August 29, 1954. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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