Texaco Star Theater (1948)
- Genre
- comedy
- Country
- United States
- Length
- 8 seasons, 7 episodes
- Rating
- 7.5 of 10 from 6 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
This comedy-variety series features skits, music, and celebrity guests. Milton Berle hosts, bringing his broad physical humor and quick jokes to a live studio audience.
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What happens
Texaco Star Theater is an American comedy-variety show, broadcast on radio from 1938 to 1949 and telecast from 1948 to 1956. It was one of the first successful examples of American television broadcasting, remembered as the show that gave Milton Berle the nickname "Mr. Television", and helping propel the sales of Televisions in the 1950s. The classic 1940–1944 version of the program, hosted by radio's Fred Allen, was followed by a radio series on ABC (the former NBC Blue) in the spring of 1948. When Texaco (now Chevron Corporation) first took it to television on NBC on June 8, 1948, the show had a huge cultural impact. Once Texaco ended its sponsorship in 1953, the show became known as The Buick-Berle Show under new sponsor Buick, changing to The Milton Berle Show for its final season. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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