Life Begins at Eighty

Life Begins at Eighty is an American panel discussion series which aired from January 1950 to February 1956.

Life Begins at Eighty
GenrePanel show
Presented byJack Barry
Country of originUnited States
Original language(s)English
Production
Running time25 minutes
Release
Original networkNBC (1950-52)
DuMont (1952-55)
ABC (1955-56)
Picture formatBlack-and-white
Audio formatMonaural
Original releaseJanuary 13, 1950 –
February 25, 1956

Broadcast history

The show first aired on NBC on January 13, 1950, then on DuMont from March 21, 1952, to July 24, 1955, and finally on ABC. The last show was aired on ABC on February 25, 1956. In its ABC run, Life Begins at Eighty was aired opposite two anthology series, Appointment with Adventure on CBS and The Loretta Young Show on NBC. Prior to its television run, the show began on radio in 1948.

The show was hosted by Jack Barry, and consisted of viewers at home writing questions for the octogenarian panel to answer. There were usually four panelists; the two permanent spots on the panel were given to Broadway actress Georgiana Carhart, and Fred Stein, cousin of writer and poet Gertrude Stein.

Life Begins at Eighty was a spin-off of the popular panel discussion series Juvenile Jury, in which young children answered questions from the viewers at home. The panels were combined in Wisdom of the Ages, which ran on DuMont from December 1952 to June 1953.

The series was parodied in a Sesame Street game show sketch starring Guy Smiley titled, Happiness Begins at 40.

Episode status

One episode is in the collection of the Paley Center for Media, and two episodes are held in the J. Fred MacDonald collection at the Library of Congress.

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gollark: It's not very efficient to have one thing do both because being specialized means they can make specific optimizations.
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See also

Bibliography
  • David Weinstein, The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004) ISBN 1-59213-245-6
  • Alex McNeil, Total Television, Fourth edition (New York: Penguin Books, 1980) ISBN 0-14-024916-8
  • Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows, Third edition (New York: Ballantine Books, 1964) ISBN 0-345-31864-1
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