Decades is showing these all this week, does anyone know if they plan to show any more rare episodes? For instance more of the Pert Kelton ones? (they showed a few of those 3 or 4 weeks ago) and maybe the color ones?

I think there are only a couple Pert Kelton sketches left that they haven't shown. Unfortunately, not many have survived.

I think there are only a couple Pert Kelton sketches left that they haven't shown. Unfortunately, not many have survived.

When you say “not many have survived” do you mean that they have been destroyed? I was under the impression that the rest are lost as in misplaced.

When you say “not many have survived” do you mean that they have been destroyed? I was under the impression that the rest are lost as in misplaced.

Probably around 95% of the kinescopes of Dumont Network programming were tossed into the East River at some point in the late 60s or early 70s. It's likely the missing Cavalcade of Stars episodes from the 1951-52 season, if they even still existed at that point, were tossed as well.

Since they were live shows, it's also possible they were never preserved at all.

Thank you. How ironic that those shows were tossed into the East River which like all rivers flows into a sewer (remember Ed Norton's job is that he works in the sewer, or as he put it one time, a Senior Supervisor in Subterranean Sanitation.)

Well, if those episodes were tossed into the East River than they are lost forever. What a shame.

Probably around 95% of the kinescopes of Dumont Network programming were tossed into the East River at some point in the late 60s or early 70s. It's likely the missing Cavalcade of Stars episodes from the 1951-52 season, if they even still existed at that point, were tossed as well.

Since they were live shows, it's also possible they were never preserved at all.

I know at least a few "CALVACADE OF STARS" episodes from Dumont survive because there used to be a website called TV4U.COM which had public domain episodes of vintage TV shows that you could watch online; and they had a few of the Dumont "CALVACADE OF STARS" episodes-without Honeymooners sketches though.