Love Story (DuMont TV series)
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Love Story was an early American television program
Television program
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 which was broadcast on the now defunct DuMont Television Network
DuMont Television Network
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Broadcast history

The series, an anthology, ran from April to June of 1954
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. DuMont's Love Story is not to be confused with another dramatic anthology with the same name which ran on NBC
NBC
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 in the 1970s, or a game show also titled Love Story which aired on CBS
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 from 1955-1956.

Love Story aired live on Tuesday nights at 9 pm EST
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 on most DuMont affiliates. The series was produced by David Lowe
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Criticism

This series was hampered by a small budget and starred mostly lesser-known actors. Later-day critics, such as Castleman and Podrazik (1982), have cited Love Story, among other DuMont series, as one of the reasons fewer and fewer viewers tuned in to the ailing DuMont Network. They called the series "a simpering romance anthology" that, like several other DuMont programs during the 1953-1954 season was "doomed from the start by third-rate scripts and cheap production." The series did not last long, and the network itself began crumbling shortly thereafter.

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