Warner Bros. Presents (1955)

Genre

anthology series

Country

United States

Rating

8.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This is a 1950s anthology series that served as a TV home for three shows including a new Western and adaptations of classic Warner Bros movies. It is notable as the first television program made by Warner Bros and for launching the first hour-long Western series on TV.

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What happens

Warner Bros. Presents is the umbrella title for three series that were telecast as part of the 1955–56 season on ABC: Cheyenne, a new Western series that originated on Presents, and two based on classic Warner Bros motion picture properties, becoming Casablanca and Kings Row. The series ran from September 13, 1955, until September 4, 1956, or September 11, 1956. While neither a critical nor popular success, this wheel series is an historically important program. Perhaps most significantly, it is the first television program of any kind made by Warner Bros. It was also the original home of Cheyenne, the first hour-long television Western series and the first wholly original television series produced by a major Hollywood studio. It also allowed ABC, then a junior player in American television, to secure its first advertising contracts with commercial giants General Electric and tobacco company Liggett & Myers. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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