Chicagoland Mystery Players

Chicagoland Mystery Players was a live television series first shown on local station WGN-TV in Chicago starting in 1949, then picked up by the DuMont Television Network and first aired on the network September 11, 1949. The 30-minute show aired on Sundays at 8pm ET.

Chicagoland Mystery Players
GenreMystery
Directed byErnest Lukas
StarringRobert Smith
Gordon Urquart
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
Production
Running time30 minutes
Release
Original networkWGN-TV (1947-50)
DuMont (1949-50)
Picture formatBlack-and-white
Audio formatMonaural
Original releaseSeptember 11, 1949 (1949-09-11) 
July 23, 1950 (1950-07-23)

The series was one of several on DuMont that began in a local TV market before being picked up nationally. DuMont dropped the program on July 23, 1950, and it is unknown if it continued in Chicago for any time.

When the series aired on WGN-TV in Chicago, viewers were not given the solution to the crime. Instead they were told to pick up the next day's Chicago Tribune to find out the solution to the mystery. WGN-TV was owned by the Tribune.

Episode status

No episodes of the series are known to have survived.

See also

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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