Spin the Picture

Spin the Picture was an American game show which aired on the DuMont Television Network. The hosts telephoned home viewers to see if they could identify a famous person within a spinning photograph.

Spin the Picture
GenreGame show
Presented byKathi Norris
Carl Caruso
Country of origin United States
Original languageEnglish
Production
Running time60 minutes
Release
Original networkDuMont Television Network
Picture formatBlack-and-white
Audio formatMonaural
Original release4 June 1949 (1949-06-04) –
4 February 1950 (1950-02-04)

The show was originally called Cut at the premiere on 4 June 1949,[1] and was renamed Spin the Picture on 18 June.[2] The show was hosted by Kathi Norris and Carl Caruso and was on Saturdays at 8 pm ET. The final show was broadcast 4 February 1950. Norris was also the host of the DuMont daytime television show TV Shopper. Norris and Caruso were married from 1979 to Norris's death in 2005.

Episode status

No copies of this show are known to exist.

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

References
  1. "Television (WABD 8 p.m.)". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (New York). 1949-06-04. p. 13. Retrieved 2017-05-09.
  2. "Television (WABD 8 p.m.)". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (New York). 1949-06-18. p. 13. Retrieved 2017-05-09.
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