Country Style (American TV series)

Country Style is an American musical variety show on the DuMont Television Network from July 29, 1950, to November 25, 1950,^[1] on Saturday nights from 8–9 p.m. Eastern Time.^[2]

The setting was a small town bandstand on a Saturday night. Musical numbers, comedy vignettes and square dancing took place around the bandstand, where Alvy West and the Volunteer Firemen's Band played.^[2] The host was Peggy Ann Ellis.^[1] Regulars included Ray Smith,^[3] Pat Adair, Bob Austin, Emily Barnes, Gordon Dilworth, and The Folk Dancers.^[2]

As with most DuMont series, no episodes are known to survive.^{[citation needed]} This series should not be confused with the radio and TV series Country Style, USA (1957–60).

Jack Gould, in a review in The New York Times, wrote that, although some elements of the premiere episode were appealing, "the whole looked as if it had been put together by a summer aprentice group which had seen only the work of Oklahoma and Carousel."^[4] He said that Dilworth "did very handily by some folk songs on the guitar" and that Ellis "was satisfactory" but she could have chosen better songs.^[4]

During 1957, Jimmy Dean hosted Country Style, a daytime TV version of The Jimmy Dean Show, which aired on WTOP-TV in Washington, DC, on weekday mornings.^{[citation needed]}

• List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network
• List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts
• 1950-51 United States network television schedule

• David Weinstein, The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004) ISBN 1-59213-245-6

• Country Style at IMDb
• DuMont historical website

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