The Wendy Barrie Show Explained

Alt Name:Inside Photoplay
Photoplay Time
Through Wendy's Window
Genre:Talk show
Presenter:Wendy Barrie
Country:United States
Language:English
Camera:Multi-camera
Runtime:30 mins.
(March 1949 - February 1950)
15 mins.
(February 1950 - September 1950)
Channel:ABC
Channel2:DuMont (January - July 1949)
Channel3:NBC
Channel4:WHIO-TV

The Wendy Barrie Show (also known as Inside Photoplay, Photoplay Time, Through Wendy's Window, and Who's Who With Wendy Barrie) is an American talk show hosted by Wendy Barrie, which aired from November 10, 1948, to September 27, 1950.

Broadcast history

The Wendy Barrie Show is notable as one of the first examples of a televised talk show. It aired separately on ABC, DuMont, and NBC, debuting on ABC on November 10, 1948 (Wednesday) at 8:30 pm ET as the sketch comedy Inside Photoplay before switching to Mondays in September–December 1949 as Photoplay Time, then becoming Through Wendy's Window in August–September 1950 The DuMont version aired from 2:30 to 3:00 pm ET from January 17, 1949 (Monday), to July 13, 1949 (Wednesday).

The NBC version debuted on February 21, 1950. It aired Tuesdays and Thursdays from 7:30 to 7:45 p.m. Eastern Time,[1] with the final episode airing on September 27, 1950. Martin Goodman was the producer, and Alan Neuman was the director.[1]

The series stars Wendy Barrie, a film and television actress with over 40 films to her credit.

According to the book What Women Watched: Daytime Television in the 1950s (University of Texas Press, 2005) by Marsha Cassidy, the DuMont daytime schedule beginning in January 1949 was:

Tri-State Network

In 1953, three television stations owned by Taft Broadcasting Company and Cox Communications formed the short-lived "Tri-State Network" to compete with entertainment programming produced by Crosley Broadcasting Corporation on Crosley television stations in the Cincinnati, Columbus, and Dayton, Ohio broadcast markets. On January 11, 1954, a new The Wendy Barrie Show premiered from the studios of WHIO-TV in Dayton, simulcast on Taft Broadcasting's WKRC-TV in Cincinnati and WTVN-TV (now WSYX) in Columbus.[2] Wendy Barrie's contract was terminated in October, 1954.[3]

Episode status

A DuMont episode survives on YouTube under the title The Wendy Barrie Show, and featuring guest Jack Shaindlin.

One DuMont episode from June 1949, under the title Who's Who With Wendy Barrie, is held in the J. Fred MacDonald collection at the Library of Congress.

An episode from the ABC run, dated October 17, 1949, and titled Photoplay Time, is in the collection of the UCLA Film and Television Archive.[4]

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Notes and References

  1. News: Debuts, Highlights, Changes . May 31, 2023 . Ross Reports on Television including The Television Index . February 19, 1950 . 1.
  2. News: . Form Regional Webs in 3 Wide TV Areas. Billboard. Page 6. December 12, 1953. January 20, 2017.
  3. News: . Wendy Barrie Exits Tri-State. Billboard. Page 5. October 30, 1954. January 20, 2017.
  4. http://cinema.library.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?Search_Arg=Photo-play+Time&Search_Code=GKEY%5E&SL=None&PID=FuLblGFf5TAPR9DUHkvhNMgPUcjJ&SEQ=20120502135358&CNT=50&HIST=1&SEARCH_FROM_TITLES_PAGE=Y UCLA Film and Television Archive database entry