The Wendy Barrie Show

The Wendy Barrie Show
220px Barrie in NBC publicity photo (1950) inscribed "Wendy Barrie, called Television's No. 1 interviewer, meets the great and near-great on her show, Tuesdays and Thursdays on NBC Television"
Also known as	''Inside Photoplay Photoplay Time Through Wendy's Window''
Genre	Talk show
Presented by	Wendy Barrie
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
Production
Camera setup	Multi-camera
Running time	30 mins. (March 1949–February 1950) 15 mins. (February 1950–September 1950)
Release
Original network	ABC DuMont (January–July 1949) NBC
Picture format	Black-and-white
Audio format	Monaural
Original release	November 10, 1948 (1948-11-10) – September 27, 1950 (1950-09-27)
External links
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The Wendy Barrie Show (also known as Inside Photoplay, Photoplay Time, Through Wendy's Window, and Who's Who With Wendy Barrie) is an American talk show hosted by Wendy Barrie which aired from November 10, 1948 to September 27, 1950.

Broadcast history

The Wendy Barrie Show is notable as one of the first examples of a televised talk show. It aired separately on ABC, DuMont, and NBC, debuting on ABC on November 10, 1948 (Wednesday) at 8:30 p.m. ET as the sketch comedy Inside Photoplay before switching to Mondays in September-December 1949 as Photoplay Time, then becoming Through Wendy's Window in August-September 1950 The DuMont version aired from 2:30 to 3:00 pm ET from January 17, 1949 (Monday) to July 13, 1949 (Wednesday). The NBC version aired Tuesdays and Thursdays, with the final episode airing on September 27, 1950.

The series stars Wendy Barrie, a film and television actress with over 40 films to her credit.

According to the book What Women Watched: Daytime Television in the 1950s (University of Texas Press, 2005) by Marsha Cassidy, the DuMont daytime schedule beginning in January 1949 was:

• 10-10:30am Johnny Olson's Rumpus Room
• 10:30-11am Welcome, Neighbors
• 11am-12noon The Stan Shaw Show
• 12noon-12:15pm Amanda
• 12:15-12:30pm Man in the Street
• 12:30-12:45pm Camera Headlines
• 12:45-1pm Fashions in Song
• 1-1:30pm Okay, Mother
• 2:30-3pm Inside Photoplay (The Wendy Barrie Show)
• 3-3:15pm The Needle Shop
• 3:15-3:30pm Vincent Lopez Speaking (The Vincent Lopez Show)

Episode status

A DuMont episode survives on YouTube under the title The Wendy Barrie Show, and featuring guest Jack Shaindlin.

One DuMont episode from June 1949, under the title Who's Who With Wendy Barrie, is held in the J. Fred MacDonald collection at the Library of Congress.

An episode from the ABC run, dated October 17, 1949 and titled Photoplay Time, is in the collection of the UCLA Film and Television Archive.

See also

• The Adventures of Oky Doky (1948-1949 on DuMont)
• Picture This (1948-1949 on NBC)
• List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network
• List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts
• 1949-50 United States network television schedule

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

External links

• The Wendy Barrie Show at IMDb
• DuMont historical website, see Inside Photoplay entry
• The Wendy Barrie Show on YouTube with guest Jack Shaindlin
• Part Two of The Wendy Barrie Show with Shaindlin on YouTube
• Part Three of The Wendy Barrie Show with Shaindlin on YouTube
• Part Four of The Wendy Barrie Show with Shaindlin on YouTube