Program Playhouse is an anthology television series aired on the DuMont Television Network on Wednesdays from June 22 to September 14, 1949.
Overview Program Playhouse presented a variety of kinds of programs to determine how potential sponsors and audiences reacted to each one. Hands of Murder was a program that originated on this show.
Episodes As with most DuMont series, no episodes are known to exist.
Partial list of episodes The first program starred Ernest Truex as Caspar Milquetoast in "The Timid Soul". Others included
"Trouble, Inc." - Earl Hammond "Roscoe Karns and Inky Poo" - Roscoe Karns "The Hands of Murder"
See also List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts
References
Bibliography David Weinstein, The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004)
External links
DuMont historical website