![]() In 1954, he directed "The Mask," 15 one hour dramas. He also directed "Charlie Wild, Private Detective" for ABC, CBS and DuMont. We did it first and we did it just as, we may have done it better.īy 1951, Leonard Valenta was with the networks where he directed "Tales of Tomorrow" for ABC-TV. ![]() I thought that's old hat in Philadelphia. Because there were a lot of highly skilled techno-people with love in their hearts and they put on beautiful things and what I would see later on in New York, where I am now, brand new ideas, brand new shows. It's gonna go far and what a wonderful way for an actor to get a screen test and that's how narrow my little television mind was at that time, but it was all exciting. I thought, this is going to be a new industry. I saw this at that time as a marvelous potential. I think as for as acting is concerned, it was a learning process. ![]() Ernest Walling at W3XE" that was the Philco station at that time, and I think, the call letters were W3XE. But I did read that bulletin board avidly and one day I saw a sign that said, "anyone who's interested in television doing acting in it for nothing - they did say for nothing - please go to C and Tioga Streets and contact Mr. I was a freshman at Temple University in '41 and I was looking around for an assignment and who wanted a "freshie" in their show, the Templayers. Note the last one says "Chapter 9."Īnd the director for the TV soap, "The Guiding Light," said in a 1982 interview: How do we know? We have the original title graphics. However, there were at least nine programs (probably more). This series was reported to have six episodes. It was a daytime program and premiered on Monday, January 26, 1942. (Left to right) unidentified man and Leonard Valenta ![]() In fact, it was the first program to have a recurring story line. The series was also aired over NBC-TV, which at that time had only a handful of affiliates. Keep in mind that WPTZ started broadcasting as a commercial TV station in 1941. (Left to right) Technician & 3 actors (all unidentified)
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