40's TV: DuMont Television Set commercial from 1949

A Classic TV commercial for a Television set produced by DuMont Laboratories, founded by Allen B Du Mont. His company also started the DuMont Television Network, and their TV sets are widely regarded as among the finest.

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[mulroon02]

Do you have any clips of the DuMont show The Plainclothesman (1949-54) starring Ken Lynch?

[MattTheSaiyan]

@mulroon02 Sadly I don't have clips of "The Plainclothesman". It's a show I really want to see alot, but the 4 surviving episodes don't seem to circulate online much....

[DocWyoming]

wow, the "smart guy" actor was pretty horrible.

[MattTheSaiyan]

@DocWyoming It's live TV, and he's forgetting his lines. His work elsewhere is much better.

[eyeh8nbc]

Who owns the DuMont name right now? I always thought someone should bring back the DuMont network, and put an emphasis on quality programming with NO on-screen crap during shows and less than 10 minutes of commercial time per hour!

[MattTheSaiyan]

@eyeh8nbc I think the trouble is that DuMont was split with the TV-set making part going to one company, and the broadcasting division being spun-off a new company (what's left of the DuMont broadcasting division is now owned by News Corp. Not sure who owns what's left of the TV set division). I do agree though, a revivial of the old-style of TV network would be cool.

[fromthesidelines]

This is from an early DuMont series, "SCHOOL HOUSE", a Tuesday night [9pm(et)] comedy/variety showcase featuring "new talent" [including Wally Cox] that aired from January through April 1949, sponsored by DuMont Labs- when it ended, they sustained "THE MOREY AMSTERDAM SHOW" on Thursdays until October 1950. Kenny Delmar, who apperared as "Senator Claghorn" on Fred Allen's radio show at the time (as well as his announcer), was the "Teacher" {host}.

[ericinwisconsin]

@MattTheSaiyan Yep, it's the wonderful Wally Cox, later the voice of Underdog.

[SUPERDAVIDLEVINE]

very interesting I saw my First it ,47 age 3 we bught our first set may 51 an aderiam 17th very good apop set after 10yearsa new set was in order time for color prces went down it was asears I am nt sure who made it, it had a27 vac tube verticol chassie toook over 400 whats,oh the cat loved for it was so worm that was I believe 50 years ago tothis day seven years later it was replaced by a better sears, the cat did not love that mutch it was wood let themrest in peace

[DocWyoming]

@sergioalpert66 I know it's Underdog/Mr. Peepers.

[sergioalpert66]

@DocWyoming

That's comedian Wally Cox.."Mr. Peepers." Voice of "Underdog." Did lots of "Hollywood Squares" episodes. Died of a heart attack in 1973. Best friends with Marlon Brando.

[dog1929s]

wow wally cox einen frühesten, die ich je von ihm gesehen haben, danke

[tomservo56954]

@MattTheSaiyan (part III) CBS eventually acquired another TV/electronics maker, Hytron for around $18 million--paid in CBS stock. It turned into a fiasco of multi-million dollar losses (and similar stock value gains for the former owners) that went unnoticed by the public (not deliberately quashed, just buried under all the profits the TV network was earning). For the full story, read CBS: REFLECTIONS IN A BLOODSHOT EYE by Robert Metz.

[tomservo56954]

@MattTheSaiyan (part II) In the late 40's, when CBS began to challenge NBC for supremacy, it decided it wanted to have its own connected line of TVs, as NBC did with RCA Victor. A deal was bruted about where CBS would buy Dumont's set-making division. The price would have been somewhere between 10 and 20 million dollars. CBS passed on it, because Dumont wanted a cash payment.

(look for part III)

[tomservo56954]

@MattTheSaiyan After the Dumont network shut down in 1956, John Kluge bought the five stations the company owned, and used it form the Metromedia Group, producing shows for its own stations and syndicated to others (WONDERAMA, TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES, THE MERV GRIFFIN SHOW). Three decades later, Kluge sold his stations to Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. becoming the foundation of the Fox network. (look for part II)

[thegreatsolar]

dumont buh dumont uhhh duh duh duhhh pioneered

[SeberHusky]

DuMont...isn't that the same company that sells paint now?