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Here’s a promotional spot for ABC’s Jane Wyman Presents, a half-hour daytime series consisting of repeats of anthology series Jane Wyman Presents The Fireside Theatre (also known as Jane Wyman Theatre or alternatively The Jane Wyman Show). The series premiered on ABC on Tuesday, January 2nd, 1962 at 2PM, replacing Number Please on its afternoon schedule. It later moved to 12PM, then 11AM, and finally to 2:30PM before leaving ABC’s daytime schedule in mid-September 1963.
Hank Simms is the promo announcer. “JANE WYMAN PRESENTS” was an MCA-TV “reissue” package of her 1955-’57 episodes (after she “took over” ‘FIRESIDE THEATER” in 1955).
Correction- Jane Wyman’s series lasted THREE seasons [through 1958].
These promos aired on ABC shows like “Maverick” as early as November, 1961 to promote the January, 1962 addition of “Jane Wyman Presents” to the ABC daytime schedule. The syndicated package was comprised of the 94 episodes from the 3 seasons of the “The Jane Wyman Show” that originally aired on NBC from 1955-1958 and were produced by Jane Wyman’s production company Lewman Productions (co-owned with MCA) at Republic Studios. “Jane Wyman Presents” also aired in ABC prime-time as a summer replacement series in 1963.