Wisdom of the Ages

For the comic book, see Highland Laddie (comic book) § Wisdom of the Ages.
Wisdom of the Ages
Publicity shot
GenrePanel show
Presented byJack Barry
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
Production
Running time23-25 minutes
Original release
NetworkDuMont
ReleaseDecember 16, 1952 (1952-12-16) –
June 30, 1953 (1953-06-30)

Wisdom of the Ages is a panel show aired on the DuMont Television Network from December 16, 1952, to June 30, 1953. The show combined the ideas of Juvenile Jury and Life Begins at Eighty, with a combined panel of youth and the elderly. Wisdom of the Ages aired Tuesdays at 9:30pm ET, and replaced Quick on the Draw which ended December 9, 1952.[citation needed]

The show was hosted by Jack Barry, and was a production of Barry & Enright Productions. Viewers submitted often-amusing questions or problems to be discussed by five panelists from different age groups – under 20 (Ronnie Mulluzzo, age 8), 20-40 (Marcia Van Dyke, age 28), 40-60 (Leo Cherne, age 40), 60-80 (Mrs. H. V. Kaltenborn, age 64), and over 80 years old (Thomas Clark, age 82).[1]

Episode status

An episode from June 16, 1953, survives at the UCLA Film and Television Archive.[2]

See also

References

  1. ^ Brooks, Tim and Marsh, Earle, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows 1946 – Present, page 689, Ballantine Books, 1979
  2. ^ UCLA Library

Bibliography

  • David Weinstein, The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004) ISBN 1-59213-245-6
  • Alex McNeil, Total Television, Fourth edition (New York: Penguin Books, 1980) ISBN 0-14-024916-8
  • Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows, Third edition (New York: Ballantine Books, 1964) ISBN 0-345-31864-1