TITEL: Texaco Star Theatre ADA-230
ROLLER: Adams, Don
ENGRAVER: Kilcoyne, James
ISSUE: Stock Rolled 2010
DETAILS: DA-227
Art Work: Paul Conner
CENTS: 300
NICKELS: 10 (Sold Out)
DIMES: 10 (Sold Out)
QUARTERS: 0
HALVES: 0
DOLLARS: 0
SETS: 0
Texaco Star Theatre is an American comedy-variety show, broadcast on radio from 1938 to 1948 and telecast from 1948 to 1956. It was one of the first successful examples of American television broadcasting, remembered as the show that gave Milton Berle the nickname “Mr. Television”.
It originated in the late 1930s with a popular radio comedy series starring Ed Wynn. The classic 1940–44 program, hosted by radio’s Fred Allen, was followed by a radio series on ABC (the former NBC Blue) in the spring of 1948. When Texaco (now Chevron Corporation) first took it to television on NBC on June 8, 1948, the show had a huge cultural impact.
Texaco Star Theater is an American comedy-variety show, broadcast on radio from 1938 to 1949 and telecast from 1948 to 1956. It was one of the first successful examples of American television broadcasting, remembered as the show that gave Milton Berle the nickname “Mr. Television”.
The classic 1940–44 version of the program, hosted by radio’s Fred Allen, was followed by a radio series on ABC (the former NBC Blue) in the spring of 1948. When Texaco (now Chevron Corporation) first took it to television on NBC on June 8, 1948, the show had a huge cultural impact.
