Summer Fun (TV series)
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| Summer Fun | |
|---|---|
 Newspaper advertisement for the premiere on July 22, 1966 | |
| Genre | Anthology series |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 7 |
| Production | |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Original release | |
| Network | ABC |
| Release | July 22 – September 2, 1966 |
Summer Fun is an American anthology television series that aired on ABC in the summer of 1966. The 30-minute episodes consisted of unsold television pilots.
The practice of television executives of ordering dozens of pilots for proposed television series each year – far more than their networks could possibly broadcast as series – created a sizable body of unsold pilots that had never aired.[1] Packaging these unsold pilots in anthology series and airing them during the summer provided television networks with a way of both providing fresh programming during the summer rerun season and recouping at least some of the expense of producing them.[1] Along with Preview Tonight, Summer Fun was one of two such series ABC aired in the summer of 1966,[1] and it consisted entirely of unsold pilots for situation comedies, some prepared for the 1965–66 and 1966–67 seasons and most shot in color.[2] Stars appearing in the series included Joan Blondell, Tom Ewell, Shelley Fabares, Celeste Holm, Bert Lahr, Basil Rathbone, and Jon Voight.[1]