| 词条 | December Bride |
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|show_name = December Bride |image = Mickey Rooney Spring Byington December Bride.JPG |caption = Lily (Spring Byington) helps guest star Mickey Rooney with a crap game set up as a trap for those who robbed his home. |genre = Sitcom |creator = Parke Levy |writer = Bill Davenport Lou Derman Arthur Julian Parke Levy Bob Schiller |director = William Asher Frederick de Cordova Jerry Thorpe |starring = Spring Byington Frances Rafferty Dean Miller Verna Felton Harry Morgan |theme_music_composer = Eliot Daniel |opentheme = |endtheme = |composer = Wilbur Hatch |country = USA |language = English |num_seasons = 5 |num_episodes = 156 |list_episodes = |executive_producer = |co_exec = |producer = Frederick de Cordova Parke Levy |company = Desilu Productions CBS Television Network |distributor = CBS Films |runtime = 30 mins. |channel = CBS |first_aired = October 4, 1954 |last_aired = May 7, 1959 |related = Pete and Gladys }} December Bride is an American sitcom that aired on the CBS television network from 1954 to 1959, adapted from the original CBS radio network series[1] that aired from June 1952 through September 1953. OverviewDecember Bride centered on the adventures of Lily Ruskin, a spry widow played by Spring Byington, who was not, in fact, a "December" (rather old) bride but very much desired to become one if the right man were to come along. Aiding Lily in her search for this prospective suitor were her daughter Ruth Henshaw (Frances Rafferty) and son-in-law Matt Henshaw (Dean Miller), and her close friend Hilda Crocker (character actress Verna Felton). A next-door neighbor, insurance agent Pete Porter (Harry Morgan), was frequently seen. Married miserably himself, according to his constant complaints about his unseen wife Gladys, he also envied Matt's positive relationship with Lily, as he despised his own mother-in-law. The pilot episode premiered on October 4, 1954, and involved Lily Ruskin moving in with her daughter and son-in-law. Most of the scenes filmed for the series took place in the Henshaws' living room. First-run episodes of December Bride aired on television for 5 seasons (1954-1959), sponsored by General Foods' Instant Maxwell House Coffee. During the first four seasons, the program was not shown in the summer, supplanted by "summer replacement" series (such as Ethel and Albert) but in its final year, repeat episodes were run in its timeslot during the summer months. On March 26, 1959, as the program wound down, Rory Calhoun, star of CBS's western series, The Texan, appeared as himself in the episode "Rory Calhoun, The Texan." Thanks in part to its following I Love Lucy, December Bride had high ratings its first four seasons[2] - #10 in 1954-1955, #6 in 1955-1956, #5 in 1956-1957 and #9 in 1957-1958. When CBS moved it to Thursdays in the fall of 1958, ratings fell dramatically and the series went off in 1959.[3] In 1960, a new series set around many of the same characters, Pete and Gladys, debuted; this new series focused on Pete Porter and his now-seen wife, Gladys. Hilda Crocker appeared in 23 episodes of the new series, which aired until 1962. After its production had ceased, CBS used repeat episodes to fill slots in its primetime programming. In July 1960, December Bride repeats were used to fill in for the second half of the Friday 9 pm Eastern timeslot vacated by Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse, running until the beginning of the fall 1960 schedule, and again as a temporary replacement on Thursday nights in April 1961. Additionally, repeats were shown on CBS as a daytime program from October 1959 until March 1961. The daytime repeats, and an attempt to syndicate the show, were ratings failures; it was this phenomenon that prompted Michael Dann, an executive at CBS, to use the concept of "hammocking:" inserting a weak or new series in-between two better-established shows to improve its viewership.[4] Cast
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OwnershipParke Levy, who created and wrote December Bride owned 50 percent of the program. Desilu and CBS owned 25 percent each.[5] Episodes{{Main|List of December Bride episodes}}{{:List of December Bride episodes}}CrewScript Supervisor was DaLonne Cooper[6] Notes1. ^{{cite book | last=Dunning |first=John |date=1998| title=On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-507678-3 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=EwtRbXNca0oC&dq=%22December+Bride,+situation+comedy%22&pg=PA196#v=onepage&f=false |page=196 |accessdate=29 April 2017 }} 2. ^{{cite book|last1=Shapiro|first1=Mitchell E.|last2=Jicha|first2=Tom|title=The Top 100 American Situation Comedies: An Objective Ranking|date=2015|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9781476623405|page=151|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b3vXCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA151&dq=%22December+Bride%22+radio&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwid_LuiwqPVAhVp2oMKHZ8GDkUQ6AEILjAB#v=onepage&q=%22December%20Bride%22%20radio&f=false|accessdate=25 July 2017|language=en}} 3. ^http://www.classictvhits.com/tvratings/index.htm 4. ^https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/31/business/media/michael-dann-tv-programmer-who-scheduled-horowitz-and-hillbillies-dies-at-94.html?_r=1 5. ^{{cite news|title='December Bride' Shifts to Vidpix; Desilu Producing|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ChsEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA7&dq=%22December+Bride%22+radio&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwid_LuiwqPVAhVp2oMKHZ8GDkUQ6AEIfzAP#v=onepage&q=%22December%20Bride%22%20radio&f=false|accessdate=25 July 2017|work=Billboard|date=February 27, 1954|page=7}} 6. ^Fred Sica Says He Was Defending Self in Row. (January 31, 1957). Los Angeles Times, p. 4. References
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