Fireside Theatre

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Fireside Theatre
Also known as	Jane Wyman Presents the Fireside Theatre Jane Wyman Theatre The Jane Wyman Show Jane Wyman Presents
Genre	Anthology drama
Written by	Ray Bradbury Blake Edwards William Froug Kathleen Hite Quinn Martin Madelyn Pugh Gene Roddenberry Rod Serling Aaron Spelling
Directed by	William Asher Fred Coe Blake Edwards Robert Florey John Ford Sidney Lanfield Allen H. Miner Ozzie Nelson Oscar Rudolph Robert Stevenson Jacques Tourneur Don Weis
Presented by	Frank Wisbar (1952–1953) Gene Raymond (1953–1955) Jane Wyman (1955–1958)
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	10
No. of episodes	361(268/93) (list of episodes)
Production
Producers	William Asher Jack Bernhard John Houseman Quinn Martin John Reinhardt William P. Rousseau Frank Wisbar Eva Wolas Jane Wyman
Camera setup	Single-camera
Running time	30 mins
Production companies	General Television Enterprises Hal Roach Studios Lewman Productions/Revue Studios (1955–58)
Original release
Network	NBC
Release	April 5, 1949 (1949-04-05) – May 22, 1958 (1958-05-22)[citation needed]
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Fireside Theatre (later known as Jane Wyman Presents the Fireside Theatre, Jane Wyman Theatre, The Jane Wyman Show and Jane Wyman Presents) is an American anthology drama series that ran on NBC from 1949 to 1958, and was the first successful filmed series on American television. Early episodes (1949-1955) were low-budget and often based on public domain stories. While the series was dismissed by critics, it remained among the top ten most popular shows for most of this period. For the 8th season (1955–1956) Jane Wyman became the host and producer making it only the second filmed prime time network drama anthology to be hosted by a woman. Later episodes (1955–1958) were written by important freelance television writers such as Rod Serling, Aaron Spelling and Gene Roddenberry. It predates the other major pioneer of filmed television production in America, I Love Lucy, by two years.