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Hold That Camera (1950)
 Episode Guide compiled by The Classic TV Archive
with contributions by: Rina Fox [Updated March 2017]
references:
TV Guide / Library of Congress (telnet://locis.loc.gov)
Internet Movie Database (https://us.imdb.com)
UCLA Film and Television Archive/ Writers Guild of America (wga)

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HOLD THAT CAMERA
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DuMont
Produced by West Hooker, Ted Kneeland

US Game show turned Variety show 1950 16 episodes x 30 min (27-Aug-1950 to 15-Dec-1950)

Host Jimmy Blaine
Host Kyle MacDonnell

Trivia: A game show that turned into a variety show after a few episodes.
Originally hosted by Jimmy Blaine. Miss Television 1948, Kyle MacDonnell took over the M.C. duties.

Four players compete: two home viewers and two studio contestants. The viewer whose voice is
amplified over the telephone directs his partner through a series of shenanigans; the other
team competes in the same manner. The team who took the least amount of time to perform
win merchandize prizes

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[01] Hold That Camera  [Premiere]
27Aug1950 WABD Sun 7:30pm
Jimmy Blaine M.C.

[02] Hold That Camera
03Sep1950 WABD Sun 7:30pm
Jimmy Blaine M.C.

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*Moves to Fridays at 8:30pm.
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.[03] Hold That Camera
08Sep1950 WABD Fri 8:30pm
Jimmy Blaine M.C.

[04] Hold That Camera
15Sep1950 WABD Fri 8:30pm
Jimmy Blaine M.C.

[05] Hold That Camera
22Sep1950 WABD Fri 8:30pm
Jimmy Blaine M.C.

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Series changes hosts and venue and changes to Variety show from Game show.
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[06] Hold That Camera
29Sep1950 WABD Fri 8:30pm
Host Kyle MacDonnell
guests
Peter Donald
Maria Neglia

[07] Hold That Camera
06Oct1950 WABD Fri 8:30pm
Host Kyle MacDonnell
guest
Joey Adams

[08] Hold That Camera
13Oct1950 WABD Fri 8:30pm
Host Kyle MacDonnell
guest
Georgie Price

[09] Hold That Camera
20Oct1950 WABD Fri 8:30pm
Host Kyle MacDonnell
guests
Dick Haymes
John Sebastian
Kirkwood and Goodman

[10] Hold That Camera
27Oct1950 WABD Fri 8:30pm
Host Kyle MacDonnell
guests
Wally Brown
Tito Guizar
Sujata and Asoka

[11] Hold That Camera
03Nov1950 WABD Fri 8:30pm
Host Kyle MacDonnell
guests
Alan Dale
Al Bernie
Charles Tranum
Cindy Heller
dance duo Blair and Dean
Kyle sings "It Had to Be You" and "Say It Isn’t So."

[12] Hold That Camera
10Nov1950 WABD Fri 8:30pm
Host Kyle MacDonnell
guests
Billy Vine
Clark Dennis

[13] Hold That Camera
17Nov1950 WABD Fri 8:30pm
Host Kyle MacDonnell
guests
George De Witt
Jerry Wayne
Warner and McGuire

[14] Hold That Camera
https://www.tvobscurities.com/2015/02/surviving-kyle-macdonnell-programs/
24Nov1950 WABD Fri 8:30pm
Host Kyle MacDonnell
guests
Roscoe Karns of "Rocky King, Inside Detective"
singer Larry Douglas
Austrian ballerina Evee Lynn
Ving Merlin and his Orchestra
Kyle sings "The Best Things in Life Are Free" and "I'm in the Mood for Love."

[15] Hold That Camera
01Dec1950 WABD Fri 8:30pm
Host Kyle MacDonnell
guests
Paul Judson
Johnny Coy
Fay MacKenzie
Lenny Kent
and Russ Emery.

[16] Hold That Camera [Final show of the series]
08Dec1950 WABD Fri 8:30pm
Host Kyle MacDonnell
guests
Andy and Della Russell

"This Is It" with Buddy Lester, Condos and Brandow and Nancy Reid,
premieres in this timeslot December 15, 1950. [Brooklyn Daily Eagle]

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