Runtime: | 15 mins. (NBC, CBS) 30 mins. (DuMont) |
Starring: | Ted Steele |
Country: | United States |
Network: | NBC (1948-49) DuMont (1949) CBS (1949-1950) |
The Ted Steele Show is the title of several television and radio programs that were hosted by bandleader Ted Steele (1917 - 1985).
Steele's programs were broadcast on three networks in three consecutive seasons: NBC September 29, 1948 - October 29, 1948; DuMont February 27, 1949 - July 12, 1949; CBS June 6, 1949 - April 28, 1950.[1] The NBC and CBS programs were 15 minutes long, while those on DuMont were 30 minutes.[2]
Other regular performers on the program included Helen Wood, Michael Rich, Nola Day, Marci Bryant and Charles Danford.[1]
Steele later presented local daytime TV shows under the same title, running from 2:30 to 5:30 p.m. ET, on WPIX-TV and WOR-TV, which hired Steele away from WPIX in July 1954.[3] The WPIX program was described in Billboard as "Live talent show, with Steele vocalizing and performing on several instruments, ork [orchestra] numbers, guests, news and sports round-ups, contest gimmicks."[4]
The final DuMont episode (July 12, 1949) is in the collection of the UCLA Film and Television Archive.
The Ted Steele Show was the title of a program Steele had on the Blue Network in 1942. A review in Billboards January 31, 1942, issue indicated that the 30-minute show featured a singing group and a "playet" by a guest in addition to Steel's performances.[5] He also did the Ted Steele Show on Mutual in the mid-1950s.[6]
In the late 1940s, Steele had a disc jockey program, The Ted Steele Show, on WMCA in New York City.[7] In 1940, he had a program with just his own name as the title, Ted Steele, on WFIL in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.[8] On that program, Steele played a Novachord synthesizer "as he kept up an entertaining stream of chatter."[8]