Television Obscurities » CBS Television Quiz http://www.tvobscurities.com Keeping Obscure TV From Fading Away Forever Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:30:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Frances Buss (1917-2010) http://www.tvobscurities.com/2010/02/frances-buss-buch-1917-2010/ http://www.tvobscurities.com/2010/02/frances-buss-buch-1917-2010/#comments Mon, 01 Feb 2010 23:55:46 +0000 RGJ http://www.tvobscurities.com/?p=5563
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    • ]]>     Frances Buss Buch, the first female director at CBS, passed away on January 19th at the age of 92 according to The Archive of American Television. She joined CBS in 1941 and acted as scorekeeper on CBS Television Quiz from July of that year to May of 1942 (a status guide for the series can be found here). She was part of the CBS team that covered the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941. According to her “She Made It” profile at the Paley Center for Media, Buch became the first female director in 1944 at the behest of Worthington Miner. Among the programs she directed during her career were Missus Goes A-Shopping, It’s a Gift and The Whistling Wizard. On June 25th, 1951 she directed the very first network color broadcast using the CBS Color System. Buch retired 1954. A five-part interview conducted in 2005 can be found at the Archive of American Television website. Here’s the first part:

    Obituaries can be found at the Asheville Citizen-Times and The Wall Street Journal.

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    • ]]>     You can read more about the CBS Television Quiz in my Television Programs in 1941 article. In short, the hour-long quiz show premiered on Wednesday, July 2nd, 1941 (the day after commercial broadcasting officially began) and ran from 8:30-9:30PM. Gil Fates served as host and Frances Buss as scorekeeper. It was moved around two during its run and cut down to 55 minutes and later 50 minutes. It’s unlikely any footage from the series exists, given that it was broadcast before it became possible to record live television. Pictures could exist, however, and I’d love to see any.

    Season One: 1941-1942
     
    Ep. # Airdate Status
    1. 07/02/1941  
    2. 07/09/1941  
    3. 07/16/1941  
    4. 07/23/1941  
    5. 07/30/1941  
    6. 08/06/1941  
    7. 08/13/1941  
    8. 08/20/1941  
    9. 08/27/1941  
    10. 09/03/1941  
    11. 09/10/1941  
    12. 09/17/1941  
    13. 09/24/1941  
    14. 10/02/1941  
    15. 10/09/1941  
    16. 10/16/1941  
    17. 10/23/1941  
    18. 10/30/1941  
    19. 11/06/1941  
    20. 11/13/1941  
    21. 11/20/1941  
    22. 11/27/1941  
    23. 12/04/1941  
    24. 12/11/1941  
    25. 12/18/1941  
    26. 12/25/1941  
    27. 01/08/1942  
    28. 01/15/1942  
    29. 01/22/1942  
    30. 01/29/1942  
    31. 02/02/1942  
    32. 02/09/1942  
    33. 02/16/1942  
    34. 02/23/1942  
    35. 03/02/1942  
    36. 03/09/1942  
    37. 03/16/1942  
    38. 03/23/1942  
    39. 03/30/1942  
    40. 04/06/1942  
    41. 04/13/1942  
    42. 04/20/1942  
    43. 04/27/1942  
    44. 05/04/1942  
    45. 05/11/1942  
    46. 05/18/1942  
    47. 05/25/1942  

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