Mary Kay and Johnny was probably the first
situation comedy broadcast on
television. It debuted on the
Dumont network in the
USA on Tuesday,
November 18,
1947. The fifteen minute long weekly sitcom starred Johnny Stearns and Mary Kay Stearns, actors who were married in real life. The Stearns also created and wrote all the scripts for the show. The program was broadcast live; most of the action took place on a set representing the
New York City apartment of the title characters, a young married couple.
After a year on Dumont the show moved to CBS for half a year (much of the time being broadcast every week night), and then ran for one more year each Saturday night on NBC, which broadcast the final episode on March 11, 1950.
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