Colgate Theatre is a 30-minute dramatic television anthology series telecast on NBC

NBC

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 in 1949

1949 in television

The year 1949 in television involved some significant events.Below is a list of television-related events in 1949.-Events:*January 3 – Colgate Theatre premieres on NBC....

 and 1958

1958 in television

The year 1958 in television involved some significant events.Below is a list of television-related events in 1958.-Events:*January 14 – TWW, the first ITV franchise for South Wales and West of England, went on the air....

 for a total of 50 episodes. The first edition, a live anthology, was telecast on Sunday nights at 8:30pm(et) through the summer of 1950. The second series [Tuesdays, 9:30pm(et)] consisted of filmed pilot episodes of unsold series, and was a last-minute replacement for the game show Dotto

Dotto

Dotto is an American television quiz show which aired on CBS from January 6 to August 15, 1958 and was hosted by Jack Narz. Although it quickly became the highest-rated daytime game show on television, its end came when it became the unexpected first casualty – and ignition – of the...

, which was literally yanked off the air in August 1958, due to accusations that it was rigged. It served as a stop gap for the sponsor until The George Burns Show

George Burns

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premiered on October 14, 1958.

Selected Episodes

• Mr. and Mrs. North
  Mr. and Mrs. North
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  (4 July 1949)
• Vic and Sade
  Vic and Sade
  Vic and Sade was an American radio program created and written by Paul Rhymer. It was regularly broadcast on radio from 1932 to 1944, then intermittently until 1946, and was briefly adapted to television in 1949 and again in 1957....
  
  : Part 1 (11 July 1949)
• Vic and Sade: Part 2 (18 July 1949)
• Vic and Sade: Part 3 (25 July 1949)
• O'Brien (13 November 1949)
• Adventures of a Model (19 August 1958)
• Tonight in Havana (2 September 1958)
• Strange Counsel [Mr. Tutt] (9 September 1958)
• The Fountain of Youth
  The Fountain of Youth (film)
  The Fountain of Youth is a 1956 TV pilot for a proposed Desilu TV series which was never produced, and was subsequently televised once, on September 16, 1958 for NBC's Colgate Theatre...
  
  (16 September 1958)
• MacGreedy's Woman (23 September 1958)
• Welcome to Washington [The Claudette Colbert Show] (30 September 1958)
• If You Knew Tomorrow (7 October 1958)