Mary Kay and Johnny
Format	Sitcom
Created by	Mary Kay Stearns and Johnny Stearns
Starring	Mary Kay Stearns Johnny Stearns Howard Thomas Nydia Westman Christopher William Stearns
Country of origin	United States
No. of episodes	About 300
Production
Running time	15 minutes per episode (1947-1948, 1949) 30 minutes per episode (1948-1949, 1950)
Broadcast
Original channel	DuMont, CBS, NBC
Original run	November 18, 1947 – March 11, 1950
External links
IMDb profile

Mary Kay and Johnny was the first situation comedy broadcast on network television in the United States, and the first television program to show a couple sharing a bed.^[1] A sitcom or situation comedy is a genre of comedy performance originally devised for radio but today typically found on television. ... Nydia Eileen Westman (b. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... The DuMont Television Network was the worlds first commercial television network, beginning operation in the United States in 1946. ... This article is about the broadcast network. ... This article is about the television network. ... is the 322nd day of the year (323rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... See also: 1946 in television, other events of 1947, 1948 in television and the list of years in television. // Events January 30 – The FCC rejects CBS color television system. ... is the 70th day of the year (71st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... See also: 1949 in television, other events of 1950, 1951 in television and the list of years in television. // Events February 12 - European Broadcasting Union (EBU) inaugurated. ... This article is about a genre of comedy. ... A television network is a distribution network for television content whereby a central operation provides programming for many television stations. ...

Network runs

Mary Kay and Johnny debuted on the DuMont Television Network on Tuesday, November 18, 1947. The 15-minute-long weekly sitcom starred real-life married couple Mary Kay Stearns and Johnny Stearns. The Stearnses created and wrote all the scripts for the show. The program was broadcast live, most of the action taking place on a set representing the New York City apartment of the title characters, a young married couple. The DuMont Television Network was the worlds first commercial television network, beginning operation in the United States in 1946. ... is the 322nd day of the year (323rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... See also: 1946 in television, other events of 1947, 1948 in television and the list of years in television. // Events January 30 – The FCC rejects CBS color television system. ... Live television refers to television broadcasts of events or performances on a delay of between zero and fifteen seconds, rather than from video recordings or film. ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ...

After a year on DuMont, the show moved to CBS for half a year, much of the time being broadcast every weeknight, and then ran for one more year each Saturday night on NBC, which broadcast the final episode on March 11, 1950. This article is about the broadcast network. ... This article is about the television network. ... is the 70th day of the year (71st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... See also: 1949 in television, other events of 1950, 1951 in television and the list of years in television. // Events February 12 - European Broadcasting Union (EBU) inaugurated. ...

In 1948, Mary Kay became pregnant in real-life. After unsuccessfully trying to hide it, the show's producers wrote her pregnancy into the show. On December 31, 1948, the Stearnses' son Christopher, less than one month old, appeared on the show and became a character. is the 365th day of the year (366th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the 1948 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Lost episodes

Before 1948, Mary Kay and Johnny was broadcast live and not recorded. In early 1948, still broadcast live, the show was also recorded on kinescopes so that it could be shown, with some delay, on the West Coast. The entire series from then until 1950 was recorded in this way. Many episodes survived in full as late as 1975. The show was in syndication on many NBC and CBS affiliates, especially on the West Coast.^{[citation needed]} In the late 1970s, ABC and CBS discarded their copies of the program.^{[citation needed]} The fate of the NBC episodes is unknown. Fragments of the show's last few episodes survive, most on 16-mm film; these are not commercially available, though TV Land used a clip in an episode of Inside TV Land called "Taboo TV".^{[citation needed]} See also: 1947 in television, other events of 1948, 1949 in television and the list of years in television. // Events January 5 - BBC Television Newsreel first broadcast. ... Kinescope (IPA: ) originally referred to the cathode ray tube used in television monitors. ... See: West Coast of the United States West Coast, New Zealand West Coast, Tasmania This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Super 16 redirects here. ... TV Land (originally Nick-at-Nites TV Land) is an American cable television network which first started transmissions on April 29, 1996. ...

Remaining Episodes

It has been discovered that the show had 214 episodes. Which only seconds and minutes are still surviving. Among the few shots are:

• A few seconds of the Pilot. It appears to be in very bad shape.
• Episode 54 , which is the episode that has Johnny outside the hospital waiting room waiting for the news of his son.
• Episode 59, which has the couples baby brought home from the hospital.
• Episode 80, in which the characters get into a wacky plot. Seconds only from the beginning.
• Epidode 214, in which the family moves on on from their life in their apartment.

See also

• Lost episode

The term Lost Episode is something of a misnomer used to describe an episode of a television series that for any number of reasons was not aired in its original chronological place and later publicly released. ...

Footnotes

References

• Brooks, Tim; and Earle Marsh (2003). The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows, 1946–Present, 8th ed., New York: Ballantine Books. ISBN 0-345-45542-8. 

External links

• Mary Kay and Johnny at the Internet Movie Database