Genre: | Anthology series |
Country: | United States |
Language: | English |
Num Seasons: | 1 |
Num Episodes: | 7 |
Runtime: | 30 minutes |
Channel: | ABC |
Summer Fun is an American anthology television series that aired on ABC in the summer of 1966. The 30-minute episodes consisted of unsold television pilots.
The practice of television executives of ordering dozens of pilots for proposed television series each year – far more than their networks could possibly broadcast as series – created a sizable body of unsold pilots that had never aired.[1] Packaging these unsold pilots in anthology series and airing them during the summer provided television networks with a way of both providing fresh programming during the summer rerun season and recouping at least some of the expense of producing them.[1] Along with Preview Tonight, Summer Fun was one of two such series ABC aired in the summer of 1966,[1] and it consisted entirely of unsold pilots for situation comedies, some prepared for the 1965–66 and 1966–67 seasons and most shot in color.[2] Stars appearing in the series included Joan Blondell, Tom Ewell, Shelly Fabares, Celeste Holm, Bert Lahr, Basil Rathbone, and Jon Voight.[1]
Summer Fun ran for seven episodes over the course of seven consecutive weeks in the summer of 1966, airing on ABC from 8:00 to 8:30 p.m. Eastern Time on Friday evenings.[1] [2] It premiered on July 22,[1] [2] and its last episode aired on September 2.[1] [2]
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