Country Style | |
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Starring | Peggy Ann Ellis (host) |
Country of origin | United States |
Production | |
Executive producers |
Owen Bradley Harold Bradley |
Running time | 60 minutes |
Original release | |
Network | DuMont |
Release | July 29 November 25, 1950 | –
Country Style is an American musical variety show on the DuMont Television Network from July 29, 1950, to November 25, 1950, [1] on Saturday nights from 8–9 p.m. Eastern Time. [2]
The setting was a small town bandstand on a Saturday night. Musical numbers, comedy vignettes and square dancing took place around the bandstand, where Alvy West and the Volunteer Firemen's Band played. [2] The host was Peggy Ann Ellis. [1] Regulars included Ray Smith, [3] Pat Adair, Bob Austin, Emily Barnes, Gordon Dilworth, and The Folk Dancers. [2]
As with most DuMont series, no episodes are known to survive.[ citation needed] This series should not be confused with the radio and TV series Country Style, USA (1957–60).
Jack Gould, in a review in The New York Times, wrote that, although some elements of the premiere episode were appealing, "the whole looked as if it had been put together by a summer aprentice group which had seen only the work of Oklahoma and Carousel." [4] He said that Dilworth "did very handily by some folk songs on the guitar" and that Ellis "was satisfactory" but she could have chosen better songs. [4]
During 1957, Jimmy Dean hosted Country Style, a daytime TV version of The Jimmy Dean Show, which aired on WTOP-TV in Washington, DC, on weekday mornings.[ citation needed]