The World Is Yours is an early television series, making its debut on June 26, 1951, on several stations of the CBS television network in the eastern United States.[1] This half-hour daytime program (4:30-5:30 p.m., EDT) was hosted from New York by naturalist and author Ivan T. Sanderson, and was broadcast Monday through Friday.
Mr. Sanderson's assistant was "Patty Painter" (Patricia Stinnette) a model and CBS employee who had posed for on-camera tests of CBS's color television system since 1946.[2] The producer-director for the show was Frances Buss. The first episode of the series was sponsored by General Mills and included commercials for Betty Crocker cake mixes.[3]
The World Is Yours was broadcast in the CBS field-sequential color system that was incompatible with existing black and white television sets, on which no picture would be visible. Only a small number of prototype color television sets existed on which the program could be seen. It was last broadcast on September 14, 1951.