For many years the Nostalgia Television Network was a favorite on cable TV. Now, its back, as the 'Vintage Channel' of TV4U.Com, the 48 channel advertising supported IPTV network.
It can be also be reached directly at NTV Tele.Net.
Here you'll find great comedy, variety, drama, music, and talk from the 1940's and 50's (and a little bit of the 60's). All shows are available on demand, so you can watch what you want when you want to.
Morey Amsterdam, Ted Mack, Faye Emerson, Milton Berle, Dagmar, Jerry Lester, Pinky Lee, Arthur Murray, Mike Stokey, Arthur Godfrey, Fred Allen, Crusader Rabbit, and Kukla, Fran, and Ollie all reside here, just awaiting your visit.
Take a trip back to the very beginning of television and enjoy watch the very shows that created the foundation for commercial television.
Sunday, September 6, 2009
Saturday, September 5, 2009
Front Row Center A Major Part of the Golden Age of Television on TV4U.Com
General Electric was one of several appliance companies that were trying to use TV advertising to get the post war families to fill up their Levittown type homes with appliances large and small. GE sponsored many shows, but none more prestigeous than Front Row Center. Front Row Center was originally seen on the Dumont TV Network before moving over to the major networks. GE employed the talented Fletcher Markle to produce the shows. The productions were ambitious, such as F Scott Fitzgerald's Tender is the Night, which you can watch on TV4U.Com on its Arts Channel. Mercedes McCambridge and James Daly starred in this telecast, and similar names were always seen by the TV viewer.
Front Row Center is perhaps the least remembered of the Golden Age of Television dramatic anthologies, but a look at the product will cause the critics o revisit this hidden gem in the history of television.
THe Arts Channel is also found at TVS Tele.Net.
Front Row Center is perhaps the least remembered of the Golden Age of Television dramatic anthologies, but a look at the product will cause the critics o revisit this hidden gem in the history of television.
THe Arts Channel is also found at TVS Tele.Net.
Sunday, August 30, 2009
The Jazz Singer and Shalom Alecheim TV Specials Return to TV on TV4U.Com Arts Channel
The Jazz Singer was a wonderful novel, then a great movie with Al Jolson. A little known updated version was made in 1959 by Jerry Lewis, which you can watch on the Arts channel of TV4U.Com, the 48 channel IPTV network.
It can also be watched directly at TVSTele.Net.
It was the zenith of Jerry Lewis' career and he was at the stage that NBC had to indeluge him with the opportunity to do shows like this. Let's just say it's not MacBeth, but it is Jerry Lewis and the story is the story.
Much better is the treatment of a Sholom Alechiem story with Nancy Walker and Zero Mostel.
Alecheim was the "Jewish Mark Twain" who lives on in shows inspired by his stories such as Fiddler on the Roof.
Come for Jerry Lewis, but stay for Shalom Alecheim. It's entertainment, culture, and history....well worth while.
It can also be watched directly at TVSTele.Net.
It was the zenith of Jerry Lewis' career and he was at the stage that NBC had to indeluge him with the opportunity to do shows like this. Let's just say it's not MacBeth, but it is Jerry Lewis and the story is the story.
Much better is the treatment of a Sholom Alechiem story with Nancy Walker and Zero Mostel.
Alecheim was the "Jewish Mark Twain" who lives on in shows inspired by his stories such as Fiddler on the Roof.
Come for Jerry Lewis, but stay for Shalom Alecheim. It's entertainment, culture, and history....well worth while.
Saturday, July 11, 2009
Paul Newman and Jerry Lewis star in TV Gems
The TVS Television Network executives thought long and hard before they decided on the programming parameters of their 'Arts Channel'.
One important segment that we're painstakingly building is the Golden Age of Television shows that became such an important part of the country's entertainment fabric in the 1950's. It was through these experiments in the new medium of television that stars such as Paul Newman, James Dean, William Holden, Ernest Bornine, Rod Steiger, Charlton Heston, and Jack Lemmon learned their craft.
John Frankenhammer, Sidney Lumet, Paddy Cheyefsky, and many more made equally impressive starts on the other side of the camera.
Two offerings of special interest are in the present collection. Jerry Lewis sheds his comedic personna to reprise Al Jolson's role in The Jazz Singer, a TV special in the late 50's. Then, the great Paul Newman brings life to 'Bang The Drum Slowly', an episode of the U S Steel Hour.
Drop us a line with the shows that you'd like to see. We'll regularly be putting up these classics and will be happy to move your favorite to the 'front of the line'.
One important segment that we're painstakingly building is the Golden Age of Television shows that became such an important part of the country's entertainment fabric in the 1950's. It was through these experiments in the new medium of television that stars such as Paul Newman, James Dean, William Holden, Ernest Bornine, Rod Steiger, Charlton Heston, and Jack Lemmon learned their craft.
John Frankenhammer, Sidney Lumet, Paddy Cheyefsky, and many more made equally impressive starts on the other side of the camera.
Two offerings of special interest are in the present collection. Jerry Lewis sheds his comedic personna to reprise Al Jolson's role in The Jazz Singer, a TV special in the late 50's. Then, the great Paul Newman brings life to 'Bang The Drum Slowly', an episode of the U S Steel Hour.
Drop us a line with the shows that you'd like to see. We'll regularly be putting up these classics and will be happy to move your favorite to the 'front of the line'.
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