The program, produced and distributed from Cincinnati,[1] aired Monday at 10:45 pm on most DuMont affiliates until July 1953, when it moved to Tuesdays at 9:30 pm.
Originally titled Girl Alone, the program featured performer Dotty Macklip synching and dancing to popular 1950s songs. The name of the program was changed to The Dotty Mack Show in the summer of 1953 when she was joined by male performers Colin Male and Bob Braun.[2] The last DuMont show was on August 25, 1953.[1]
The series then moved to ABC, first on Saturdays at 8 pm, replacing a program of dance band remote broadcasts from Chicago and New York.[3] It ran opposite The Mickey Rooney Show: Hey, Mulligan on NBC and The Jackie Gleason Show on CBS, and then Mondays at 9 pm on ABC, where it remained until being canceled in September 1956.[4]
Hit Parade - Australian series with similar format
References
^ abMcNeil, Alex (1996). Total Television: the Comprehensive Guide to Programming from 1948 to the Present (4th ed.). New York, New York: Penguin Books USA, Inc. p. 233. ISBN0-14-02-4916-8.
