WIDE WIDE WORLD {SERIES PREMIERE} (TV)
Summary
The premiere in this series of documentary programs hosted by Dave Garroway, featuring live interviews and presentations from various locations throughout the country. This live program looks at a "typical Sunday in autumn" in dozens of locations across the United States, utilizing seventy-three television cameras, 41,000 miles of telephone lines, and 1,800 technicians. Activities include a visit to the New Jersey countryside and Princeton University; a cable car ride in San Francisco; a flight over the junction of the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers; and visits to the Community Pier in Gloucester, Massachusetts, a steel plant in Cleveland, a cornfield in Nebraska, a state fair in Texas, a speedboat event in Nevada, an underwater ballet in Florida, and the Grand Canyon. Includes commercials.
Details
- NETWORK: NBC
- DATE: October 16, 1955 4:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 1:03:21
- COLOR/B&W: B&W
- CATALOG ID: T79:0486
- GENRE: Variety
- SUBJECT HEADING: Cable cars; Cleveland, Ohio; Fairs; Grand Canyon; Massachusetts; Motorboat racing; New Jersey; New York City - Description; Princeton University, Princeton, N.J.; San Francisco, Calif.; Sports; Swimming; Synchronized swimming; Texas - Fairs; U S - Cities and towns; U S - Description and travel
- SERIES RUN: NBC - TV series, 1955-1958
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Barry Wood … Executive Producer
- Herbert Sussan … Producer
- Gene Jones … Associate Producer
- Dick Schneider … Director
- Saul Levitt … Writer
- David Broekman … Music by
- Dave Garroway … Host
- Maurice Evans
- Clifton Fadiman
- Bill Fitzgerald
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Michael Redgrave
- Jim Robinson
- The Rockettes
- Romney Wheeler