Wrestling from Marigold is an American sports program broadcast from the Marigold Arena in Chicago which aired on the DuMont Television Network from Saturday, September 17, 1949, until March 1955. The show lasted for either 90 or 120 minutes, usually on Saturdays at 9pm ET, and continued to be broadcast on WGN-TV as a non-network show until 1957.
| Wrestling from Marigold | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Sports |
| Starring | Jack Brickhouse Vince Lloyd |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| Production | |
| Producer | Fred Kohler |
| Running time | 90/120 minutes |
| Original release | |
| Network | DuMont |
| Release | September 17, 1949 – March 1955 |
Overview edit
The show was broadcast live by WGN from Marigold in Chicago, produced by National Wrestling Alliance promoter Fred Kohler, with play-by-play by Jack Brickhouse. Vince Lloyd served as the announcer. Lloyd also did live commercials for such products as Aero Shave. This was the last network TV broadcast of wrestling in the US until Saturday Night's Main Event on NBC in 1985.[1]
Episode status edit
About 10 episodes of wrestling on DuMont are in the collection of the UCLA Film and Television Archive. Four are titled Pro Wrestling from Chicago and may be from this series. However, it is unclear if the others are from the Marigold in Chicago, or Wrestling from Columbia Park, or some other DuMont series.[2]
See also edit
- List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network
- List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts
- 1949-50 United States network television schedule
- Boxing from Jamaica Arena (September 1948 – 1949)
- Amateur Boxing Fight Club (September 1949 – 1950)
- Boxing from Eastern Parkway (May 1952-May 1954)
- Boxing from St. Nicholas Arena (1954-1956) last series to air on the DuMont network
- Saturday Night at the Garden (1950-1951)
References edit
Bibliography edit
- David Weinstein, The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004) ISBN 1-59213-245-6
- Alex McNeil, Total Television, Fourth edition (New York: Penguin Books, 1980) ISBN 0-14-024916-8
- Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows, Third edition (New York: Ballantine Books, 1964) ISBN 0-345-31864-1