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1. My memories of DuMont. Captain Video, on at 7 p.m. Al Hodge was Captain Video. After the show went off the air,

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Wed Jun 26, 2024, 08:58 AM

Jun 2024

he was typecast and couldn't get a job in entertainment. When he died, he was working as a security guard.

2. The kid next door won a pair of roller skates off a Sunday morning kid's show..

3. Seeing Alan DuMont's yacht in Rumson, N.J. It was BIG then. Today it would look like a canoe next to today's super-yachts. Rumson is where Springsteen lived for a while.

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On this day, June 26, 1942, the DuMont Television Network began operation. [View all] mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2024 OP

My memories of DuMont. Captain Video, on at 7 p.m. Al Hodge was Captain Video. After the show went off the air, 3Hotdogs Jun 2024 #1