All About Baby

All About Baby was an early American daytime television children's series, which aired from October 1954 to July 1955 on several stations of the now-defunct DuMont Television Network, including flagship station WABD.

All About Baby
GenreChildren
StarringRuth Crowley
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
Production
ProducerWGN-TV
Running time15 minutes
Release
Original networkDuMont
Picture formatBlack-and-white
Audio formatMonaural
Original release1953 (local)
October 15, 1954 (network) –
July 1955 (1955-07)

The host was Ruth Crowley, a nurse and childcare expert who had been writing an advice column under the name "Ann Landers" since 1943.[1] On the show, she offered advice to new mothers on how to care for their infant children.[2] The show went off the air just three weeks before Crowley died.

Produced by DuMont affiliate WGN-TV in Chicago, the series originally began as a local show in 1953. Sponsors included Swift Meats and Libby's Baby Food. Episodes aired in a 15-minute time-slot, as was often the case with US daytime series of the era.

Episode status

Although few recordings survive of daytime programs by DuMont stations, three episodes of All About Baby are held by the UCLA Film and Television Archive.[3][4][5] These episodes are from June/July 1955.

See also

References
  1. Gudelunas, David (2007). Confidential to America: Newspaper Advice Columns and Sexual Education. Edison, NJ: Transaction. p. 234. ISBN 978-1-4128-0688-6.
  2. Hyatt, Wesley (1997). The Encyclopedia of Daytime Television. Watson-Guptill Publications. p. 10. ISBN 978-0823083152. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
  3. http://cinema.library.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?v1=5&ti=1,5&Search%5FArg=all%20about%20baby&SL=None&Search%5FCode=GKEY%5E&CNT=50&PID=NKSFVOlXAQyTay9H67FakuHktJAgH&SEQ=20140108200218&SID=1%5B%5D
  4. http://cinema.library.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?v1=6&ti=1,6&Search%5FArg=all%20about%20baby&SL=None&Search%5FCode=GKEY%5E&CNT=50&PID=NKSFVOlXAQyTay9H67FakuHktJAgH&SEQ=20140108200218&SID=1%5B%5D
  5. http://cinema.library.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?v1=7&ti=1,7&Search%5FArg=all%20about%20baby&SL=None&Search%5FCode=GKEY%5E&CNT=50&PID=NKSFVOlXAQyTay9H67FakuHktJAgH&SEQ=20140108200218&SID=1%5B%5D

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
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