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With
only one commercial company broadcasting on weekdays and one on
weekends, the TVTimes has no need to print a production credit at
the end of a particular listing, as it would spend the bulk of its
later life doing.
There
is an argument (false and hollow) that viewers don't care who
produced a programme. But for historians of television, this
can be a matter of some importance. Was this programme, for
instance, the first American import seen on commercial TV in the
UK? Was it an ATV production? Or was it a mid-Atlantic
ITC programme, designed to be shown on both sides of the pond?
At
this point in the life of the TVTimes, they don't feel the need to
tell us.
Editor's
note: 'My Hero' was first shown earlier in the fifties on
NBC in America and was a US programme. Being shot on film,
it was more expensive to produce but easier to export.
Whilst it was not the first US programme to air on UK commercial
TV ('Dragnet' gets that honour), it was the first sitcom, beating
"I Love Lucy" which aired the following evening.

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