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Faye Emerson's Wonderful Town
Faye Emerson's Wonderful Town, also known as Wonderful Town, USA, is a 42-episode live half-hour variety television series which aired on CBS from June 16, 1951, to April 12, 1952, in which Faye Emerson visits various cities, mostly in the United States, to focus on the different kinds of music associated with each location.
Premise.
"Wonderful Town" is one of several 1950s series in which Emerson, called the "first lady of television,"
his body being switched with a local Aboriginal (as outlined in the book "The Tom Thomson Mystery" by Canadian judge William T. Little).
- Born: Faye Emerson, American talk show host, credited at "The First Lady of Television" for her talk and variety shows including "Faye Emerson's Wonderful Town" and "Author Meets the Critics", in Elizabeth, Louisiana (d. 1983); J. F. Powers, American writer, author of the novels "Morte d'Urban" and "Wheat that Springeth