Jimmy Dean -Town & Country Time (1954)

(Courtesy: Kinevideo.Net) A fine example of the late Jimmy Dean's (b. 1928 - d. 2010) first TV series, produced by "hillbilly music" impresario Connie B. Gay at Byron Roudabush's Georgetown DC studios in 1954. Filmed in color, the show was distributed on black and white 16mm prints through Official Films.

In January 1955, a live five-days-a-week "Town and Country Time" series debuted from the studios of Channel-7, WMAL-TV, in Washington, DC, to be followed by a three-hour live weekly "Town and Country Jamboree" in October of 1955 from Turner Arena (aka Capitol Arena) 14th and W Sts, NW in DC.

Also shown here among the crew are Marvin Carroll and Herb Jones along with Mary Klick, Fiddlin' Buck Ryan. and comic relief by Quincy Snodgrass.

The full half-hour kinescope can be purchased on DVD from the Kinevideo.Net website along with a few additional surviving shows..

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