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TVTimes: Saturday 24 September 55 The Schedules Archive

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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