The Jane Pickens Show
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The Jane Pickens Show is the title of an American musical television series which aired January 31, 1954 - September 5, 1954, on ABC[1] and a radio program broadcast on NBC from 1948 to 1949 and again from 1951 to 1957.
Episode status
The music program aired in 15-minute time slots and starred popular radio singer Jane Pickens with the backup vocal group The Vikings. The show was broadcast on Sundays, initially from 9:15 to 9:30 p.m. Eastern Time. In April 1954 it was moved to 6:30-6:45 p.m., and in July 1954 it was returned to its original time.[2]
Music programs aired in 15-minute time-slots were a common type of show on the then-"Big 4" U.S. networks, with many popular singers such as Dinah Shore, Eddie Fisher, Perry Como etc. doing such series. They typically ran for 12–13 minutes excluding the ads, and many accompanied the evening news, which in those days was also 15-minutes.[citation needed]
Four episodes are held by the UCLA Film and Television Archive.[3][4][5][6]
