In the Kelvinator Kitchen

In the Kelvinator Kitchen was a NBC Television Network series which aired from 21 May 1947 to 30 June 1948.[1] The series was a cooking show sponsored by Kelvinator,[2] and the appliances used on the show were from that company.[3]

In the Kelvinator Kitchen
GenreCooking
StarringAlma Kitchell (host)
Ray Forrest (announcer)
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
Production
Camera setupMulti-camera
Running time15 minutes
Release
Original networkNBC
Picture formatBlack-and-white
Audio formatMonaural
Original release21 May 1947 (1947-05-21) –
30 June 1948 (1948-06-30)

In her book Encyclopedia of Kitchen History, Mary Ellen Snodgrass cited the program as "the first commercial network series and first televised cooking show on the air."[4] Another cooking program, I Love to Eat, was actually the first of its kind, having debuted on NBC on August 30, 1946. [5]

Alma Kitchell (1893-1996) was the host, and Ray Forrest the announcer, on this series. Each episode was 15 minutes long and aired Wednesdays at 8:30pm ET.[6]

The program originated in the studios of WNBT-TV.[7]

A review in the May 17, 1947, issue of the trade publication Billboard called the show "an unpretentious program with sustained commercial impact."[8]

Episode status

No footage of the show is known to survive.

A description of the show appears in the August 30, 1947, issue of The New Yorker magazine. In the article, Robert Rice chronicles one week of TV set owner Harry Dubin's viewing when TV was still a relative novelty, with fewer than 200,000 TV sets in use throughout the country.

References
  1. Brooks, Tim & Marsh, Earle (1979). The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows: 1946-Present. Ballantine Books. ISBN 0-345-25525-9. P. 284.
  2. Terrace, Vincent (2011). Encyclopedia of Television Shows, 1925 through 2010 (2nd ed.). Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. p. 501. ISBN 978-0-7864-6477-7.
  3. Bjelskou, Peter (2014). Branded Women in U.S. Television: When People Become Corporations. Lexington Books. p. 29. ISBN 9780739187944. Retrieved 14 September 2017.
  4. Snodgrass, Mary Ellen (2004). Encyclopedia of Kitchen History. Routledge. ISBN 9781135455729. Retrieved 15 September 2017.
  5. Prud'homme, Alex (2016). The French Chef in America: Julia Child's Second Act. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. ISBN 9780385351768. Retrieved 1 September 2017.
  6. IMDB entry
  7. Schilling, Jim Von (2013). The Magic Window: American Television ,1939-1953. Routledge. p. 89. ISBN 9781136398605. Retrieved 14 September 2017.
  8. "Kelvinator Kitchen". Billboard. May 17, 1947. p. 16. Retrieved 15 September 2017.

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