Welcome to Kinescope. A podcast dedicated to the history of live television from the 1940s to the early 1960s .

I'm your co-host john siuntres. together with Gabriel Hardman each week we'll look at the formative years of television before the invention of video tape. this era of TV helped start the careers of many famous actors writers directors and producers.

This week we look at Patterns, written by Rod Serling. Patterns debuted Jan12th 1955 and was a drama that looked at the backroom plotting in the corporate world of the post war 2 era.
Patterns was part of The Series Kraft television theater

Each week we will choose episodes of television available to watch for free at YouTube. Think of Kinescope as a video book club where we'll tell you a week in advance the subject of our next podcast discussion .

You can watch Patterns here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0SKlLb7ozY&t=196s

Like our subjects of discussion The Kinescope Podcast is performed live on the Word Balloon YouTube channel. If you wish to comment or ask us questions join us Every Thursday Night at 930pm Pacific, 1130pm central and 1230am Eastern

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Join Us Next week for Casino Royale. The first attempt to adapt the James Bond Adventures. From an Episode of CBS's action anthology series Climax performed live Oct 21st 1954 Starring Barry Nelson as Jimmy Bond and Peter Lorre as Enemy Agent, LeChife. Watch Casino Royale here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KVoU-9gzqU