The Hank McCune Show

The Hank McCune Show
GenreSitcom
Directed byCharles Maxwell
StarringHank McCune
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
Production
ProducersSamuel Z. Arkoff
Dick Farrell
Hank McCune
Camera setupSingle-camera
Running time25 minutes
Production companyUnited Television Productions
Original release
NetworkNBC
ReleaseSeptember 9 (1950-09-09) –
December 2, 1950 (1950-12-02)
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The Hank McCune Show is an American television sitcom. Filmed without a studio audience, the series is notable for being the first television program to incorporate a laugh track.[1]

The series began as a local program in New York in 1949.[2] NBC placed it on its national primetime schedule at the start of the 1950–51 season. It debuted at 7:00pm Eastern Time on September 9 and was cancelled three months later. It was briefly resurrected as a syndicated program in 1953–54,[3] but without a laugh track.[4]

  1. ^ Ingram, Billy (2002). TVparty!: Television's Untold Tales. Bonus Books, Inc. p. 17. ISBN 1-56625-184-2.
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  3. ^ The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows 1946 - Present by Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, Ballantine Books, 2003, p. 502, ISBN 0-345-45542-8
  4. ^ "Production," Broadcasting Telecasting, p. 37, http://americanradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1954/1954-01-04-BC.pdf