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Studio One (1948)
An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher Markle, who came to CBS from the CBC. Studio One, presented by Westinghouse, was one of the first of the anthology TV programs. The episodes were often abridged remakes of movies from years gone by and many future well-known television and movie actors appeared in the productions.
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3.6
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Author Meets the Critics
Author Meets the Critics was an American talk show which was broadcast by the National Broadcasting Company, American Broadcasting Company, and the DuMont Television Network. The series began as a mid-season replacement on NBC on April 4, 1948, but was transferred to ABC during 1949. The show was transferred back to NBC during 1951, and then to DuMont from January 10, 1952 to October 10, 1954.
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7.2
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Coke Time with Eddie Fisher (1953)
Coke Time with Eddie Fisher is an American musical variety television series starring singer Eddie Fisher which was broadcast by NBC on Wednesday nights in early prime time from 1953 to 1957. The program was aired from 7:30 to 7:45 p.m. Eastern Time on Wednesdays and Fridays, and was not seen during the summer months..
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8.0
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The Dotty Mack Show
The Dotty Mack Show is an American variety show originally broadcast on the now defunct DuMont Television Network in 1953, and on ABC from 1953 to 1956.
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7.4
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Major Dell Conway of the Flying Tigers
Major Dell Conway of the Flying Tigers was an early American television program broadcast on the now defunct DuMont Television Network.
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5.3
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Okay, Mother
Okay, Mother is an American daytime variety/game show hosted by Dennis James which originally aired on WABD in New York City in 1948. After receiving good ratings and largely positive reviews the show, originally titled Mothers Inc., aired nationally from 1 pm to 1:30 pm ET on the DuMont Television Network from Summer 1949 to July 6, 1951.
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6.8
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Thunderbolt the Wondercolt (1952)
Thunderbolt first appeared on TV as a puppet character on "Thunderbolt the Wondercolt," a 1952 kids' TV puppet show that was written, created, produced and the puppet manipulated by Bob Clampett. Like The Adventures of Bullwinkle and Rocky before it, this show was originally a puppet show (called "Time for Beany", 1950-1953), and became an animated cartoon. It is said that Albert Einstein never missed an episode of the puppet version of this show.
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6.3
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10
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Rebound (1952)
Rebound is an anthology television series which aired on both the ABC and on the DuMont networks. The series ran from February 8, 1952 to May 30, 1952 on ABC and from November 21, 1952 to January 16, 1953 on DuMont. The ABC series aired Fridays from 9 to 9:30pm ET, while the DuMont series aired Fridays from 8:30 to 9pm ET. The show was produced by Bing Crosby Enterprises and was the TV debut of Lee Marvin. The series was known as Counterpoint in syndication from 1955 to 1956.
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6.6
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Cosmopolitan Theatre (1951)
Cosmopolitan Theatre is an American anthology series which aired on the DuMont Television Network Tuesdays at 9pm ET from October 2, 1951 to December 25, 1951. The series consisted of live presentations of stories written for Cosmopolitan magazine, and was one of many TV series airing "tele-plays" at the time.
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6.3
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School House (1949)
School House is a musical comedy variety show, with Kenny Delmar presiding over a classroom of adult students, often famous guest stars, who perform variety acts. Ran on Tuesday nights on the Dumont network in 1949.
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40
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Ann and Harold (1938)
Ann and Harold is a very early BBC television programme, and ran for five episodes, all broadcast in 1938. It is known to be the world's first drama serial ever transmitted, and explained the trials of a couple named Ann and Harold respectively, and starred Ann Todd. Little else is known about this programme. No material exists of the show today, as it was aired live before any means of recording programmes existed. In fact, it is unknown if even any photographs survive of this programme.
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10
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The Armed Forces Hour (1951)
The Armed Forces Hour is an early American television program originally broadcast on NBC and later on the now defunct DuMont Television Network. The series ran from 1949 to 1951. Despite the title of the series, it was a half-hour program. The Armed Forces Hour was a television program "culled from the estimated 500 million feet of film" archived at the U.S. Department of Defense. Production was supervised by Major Robert Keim and Lieutenant Benjamin Greenberg. After a one-season run on NBC, the network cancelled the series in 1950. However, on February 4, 1951, the series started again on the DuMont Television Network, with the last DuMont episode airing on May 6, 1951.
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Country Style (1950)
Country Style was an American musical variety show on the DuMont Television Network from July 29 to November 25, 1950 on Saturday nights from 8–9 p.m. Eastern Time The setting was a small town bandstand on a Saturday night. Musical numbers, comedy vignettes and square dancing took place around the bandstand, where Alvy West and the Volunteer Firemens' Band played. The host was Peggy Ann Ellis. Regulars included Pat Adair, Bob Austin, Emily Barnes, Gordon Dilworth, and The Folk Dancers. As with most DuMont series, no episodes are known to survive.
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6.1
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Telecrime (1938)
Telecrime was a British drama series that aired on the BBC Television Service from 1938 to 1939 and in 1946. One of the first multi-episode drama series ever made, it is also one of the first television dramas written especially for television not adapted from theatre or radio. Having first aired for 5 episodes from 1938 to 1939, Telecrime returned in 1946, following the resumption of television after World War II, and aired as Telecrimes. A whodunit crime drama, Telecrime showed the viewer enough evidence to solve the crime themselves. Most episodes were written by Mileson Horton. All 17 episodes are lost. Aired live, their preservation was not technically possible at the time.
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6.0
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Love Story (1954)
Love Story is an early American television program which was broadcast on the now defunct DuMont Television Network.
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10
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Cavalcade of Bands (1950)
Cavalcade of Bands was an early-1950s American television series which aired on the now defunct DuMont Television Network.
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7.8
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The Gallery of Madame Liu-Tsong (1951)
The Gallery of Madame Liu-Tsong was an American television series which aired on the now defunct DuMont Television Network. It starred Chinese American silent film and talkie star Anna May Wong, who played a detective in a role written specifically for her. The Gallery of Madame Liu Tsong was the first U.S. television series starring an Asian-American series lead.
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10
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The Ilona Massey Show (1954)
The Ilona Massey Show was a DuMont Television Network variety show hosted by actress Ilona Massey and featuring musician Irving Fields. Massey sang on a set built to resemble a nightclub. The show aired Mondays from November 1, 1954 to January 3, 1955 for a total of 10 episodes.
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6.6
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Faraway Hill
Faraway Hill was the first soap opera broadcast on an American television network, running on the DuMont Television Network.
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7.7
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Hawkins Falls, Population 6200 (1950)
Hawkins Falls, Population 6200 is the first successful American television soap opera. Sponsored by Unilever's blue detergent, Surf, the program began as a one hour comedy-drama on June 17, 1950, and ran in prime time on the NBC network until October 12, 1950. On April 2, 1951, the series was moved to a fifteen-minute daytime slot, where it was retitled Hawkins Falls: A Television Novel, and developed into a soap opera format. Hawkins Falls ran until July 1, 1955, making it NBC's longest running soap opera until The Doctors exceeded it in 1967. The town of Hawkins Falls was patterned after the real-life town of Woodstock, Illinois.
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5.6
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The Plainclothesman (1949)
The Plainclothesman was an American crime drama series broadcast on the now defunct DuMont Television Network.
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7.8
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The Bob Crosby Show (1953)
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8.0
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The Hazel Scott Show (1950)
The Hazel Scott Show was an early American television program broadcast on the now defunct DuMont Television Network. The series ran during the summer of 1950, and is most notable for being the first U.S. network television series to be hosted by a African American woman.
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6.3
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Valiant Lady (1953)
Valiant Lady is an American soap opera which ran daily on CBS radio and television from October 12, 1953 to August 16, 1957 at 12:00 PM. The show's title was taken from a 1930s radio soap opera about a young woman struggling through life but is otherwise very different. Like many early soap operas, the show was broadcast live from CBS studios in New York City. The series was created by Adrian Spies; the head writer was Charles Elwyn.
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6.7
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The Dinah Shore Show (1951)
The Dinah Shore Show is an American variety show which was broadcast by NBC from November 1951 to January 1956, sponsored by General Motors' Chevrolet division. For most of the program's run, it aired from 7:30 to 7:45 Eastern Time on Tuesday and Thursday nights, rounding out the time slot which featured the network's regular evening newscast, which, like all such programs of the era, was then only 15 minutes in length.
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10
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The Music Show (1953)
The Music Show was an early American television program which was broadcast on the now defunct DuMont Television Network.
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60
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The Stranger (1954)
The Stranger was an early American television program broadcast on the now defunct DuMont Television Network. The series ran from 1954 to 1955, and was a drama starring Robert Carroll, who played a mysterious man who helped those in distress. The program, produced and distributed by DuMont, aired Friday at 9 PM on most DuMont affiliates. The series was produced and directed by Frank Telford, and was cancelled in 1955, as the DuMont Network began crumbling.
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6.2
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The Silver Theatre (1949)
The Silver Theatre is a television series that was broadcast on the CBS television network from 1949 to 1950. It was a live anthology series consisting of dramatic teleplays about romance. It was sponsored by the International Silver Company.
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7.7
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Mary Kay and Johnny (1947)
Mary Kay and Johnny is an American situation comedy starring real-life married couple Mary Kay Stearns and Johnny Stearns. It was the first sitcom broadcast on a network television in the United States. Mary Kay and Johnny initially aired live on the DuMont Television Network before moving to CBS and then NBC.
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The Al Morgan Show (1949)
The Al Morgan Show is an American variety program broadcast on the DuMont Television Network from 1949 to 1951. The series starred pianist and songwriter Al Morgan and featured the Billy Chandler Trio. The show aired Mondays at 8:30 pm ET. Unlike most DuMont offerings which were broadcast from the network's studios in New York City, the series was broadcast from WGN-TV in Chicago.
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The Alan Dale Show (1948)
The Alan Dale Show is an early American television program which ran on the DuMont Television Network in 1948, and then on CBS Television from 1950-1951.
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5.3
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Public Prosecutor (1947)
Public Prosecutor is a 26-episodes American television series produced in 1947–1948, and first aired in 1951.
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6.8
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Chesterfield Sound Off Time (1951)
A live comedy-variety series with rotating hosts Fred Allen and Bob Hope. The December 16, 1951 episode was preempted by "Dragnet: The Human Bomb", which was the pilot for the popular Dragnet series. The January 6, 1952 episode was the last for Sound Off Time and the series Dragnet premiered the next week in its time slot.
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10
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The Power of Women (1952)
The Power of Women was an early American television program broadcast on the DuMont Television Network. The series ran from July to November of 1952. This thirty-minute-long series was a public affairs program originally hosted by Vivien Kellems. Kellems would leave partway through the series' run.
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6.2
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The Johns Hopkins Science Review
The Johns Hopkins Science Review is a US television series about science that was produced at Johns Hopkins University from 1948-1955. Starting in 1950, the series aired on the DuMont Television Network until the network's demise in 1955. The series' creator was Lynn Poole, who wrote or co-wrote most of its episodes and acted as the on-camera host. In 2002, Patrick Lucanio and Gary Coville wrote that, "In retrospect, Lynn Poole created one of those unique series that allowed television to fulfill its idealized mission as both an educational and an entertainment medium." The original series was followed by three related series produced by Poole at Johns Hopkins University: Tomorrow, Tomorrow's Careers, and Johns Hopkins File 7. Johns Hopkins University ended its production of television series in 1960.
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Front Page Detective (1951)
A newspaper columnist who helps police solve especially difficult mysteries. The title derived from a popular mystery magazine of the same name.
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2.6
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Starlight (1936)
Starlight was an early British television programme, one of the first regular series to be broadcast by the BBC Television Service during the 1930s. Its first edition was broadcast on 3 November 1936 – the day after the service had officially begun – and it continued to be broadcast until the suspension of television for the duration of the Second World War during 1939. After the resumption of BBC television during 1946, Starlight was one of the few pre-war programmes to be reinstated, and it was broadcast for a further three years until 1949. A variety show, the programmes would feature comedians, singers, dancers and various other entertainment acts. One notable edition of the 1930s gave popular singer Gracie Fields her first ever television appearance. As with all other BBC programmes of the time, Starlight was transmitted live from the studios at Alexandra Palace. The shows were not recorded, and no material other than still photographs exists for the series now.
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7.3
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The Chevrolet Tele-Theatre (1948)
The Chevrolet Tele-Theatre is an American anthology series that aired live on NBC Mondays at 8 pm EST from September 27, 1948 to June 26, 1950. Guests who appeared on the series included Faye Emerson, Edward Everett Horton, Basil Rathbone, Nina Foch, and Boris Karloff.
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7.4
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Rocky King, Detective (1950)
Rocky King, Inside Detective is an American television series broadcast on the DuMont Television Network on Sundays at 9pm ET from January 15, 1950 to December 26, 1954. This series was one of DuMont's most popular programs, and was a live crime series set in New York City. The show not only kept Roscoe Karns from retirement, but cast him opposite his son, Todd Karns. The DuMont offices and corridors were used as sets. At the end of each program, King would exchange telephone small talk with his unseen wife Mabel and, after hanging up, say to no one in particular, "Great girl, that Mabel".
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6.9
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And the Day Will Be Bright
The Brighter Day is an American daytime soap opera which aired on CBS from January 4, 1954 to September 28, 1962. Originally created for NBC radio by Irna Phillips in 1948, the radio and television versions ran simultaneously from 1954-1956. Set in New Hope, Wisconsin, the series revolved around Reverend Richard Dennis and his four children, Althea, Patsy, Babby and Grayling. The Brighter Day was the first soap opera to air on network television with an explicitly religious theme. Another soap opera created by Phillips, The Guiding Light, initially had a religious theme as a radio show but dropped it by the time the series moved to television.
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6.6
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Muffin the Mule (1949)
Muffin the Mule is a puppet character in British television programmes for children. The original programmes featuring the character were presented by Annette Mills, sister of John Mills, and broadcast live by the BBC from their studios at Alexandra Palace from 1946 to 1952. Mills and the puppet continued with programmes that were broadcast until 1955, when Mills died. The series then transferred to ITV in 1956 and 1957. A modern animated version of Muffin appeared on the BBC in 2005. The original mule puppet was created in 1933 by Punch and Judy puppet maker Fred Tickner for husband-and-wife puppeteers Jan Bussell and Ann Hogarth to form part of a puppet circus for the Hogarth Puppet Theatre. The act was soon put away, and the puppet was not taken out again until 1946, when Bussell and Hogarth were working with presenter Annette Mills. Shes named the puppet mule "Muffin", and it first appeared on television in an edition of For The Children broadcast on 20 October 1946.
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40
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7.4
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Studio 57 (1954)
Studio 57 is an American anthology series that was broadcast on the now-defunct DuMont Television Network from September 1954 to September 1955, and in syndication from 1955 to 1956.
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5.5
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Johnny Jupiter (1953)
Johnny Jupiter is the name of two early American television programs featuring a combination of live action and hand puppets. The first version aired on the DuMont Television Network from March to June 1953. The second version aired on ABC from September 1953 to May 1954.
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7.0
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Stage 7 (1955)
Stage 7 is the title of a United States TV drama anthology series that aired in 1955. This program premiered in December 1954 with the title Your Favorite Playhouse with all episodes being repeats from other series. The program's 25 episodes showcased the talents of actors and actresses such as Charles Bronson, Edmond O'Brien, Gene Barry, Phyllis Coates, Frances Rafferty, Macdonald Carey, and Phyllis Thaxter. Some directing was done by Quinn Martin.
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6.7
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The Ed Wynn Show (1949)
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7.0
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Sherlock Holmes (1951)
Sherlock Holmes was a 1951 television series produced by the BBC featuring Alan Wheatley as Sherlock Holmes and Raymond Francis as Dr. Watson. This was the first series of Sherlock Holmes stories adapted for television.
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6.3
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The Adventures of Ellery Queen (1950)
The first TV adaptation of the adventures of super sleuth Ellery Queen, broadcast live from Hollywood. Queen was a mystery writer who assisted his father, a detective with the New York Police Department, in solving murders. Queen's methods were arcane and intellectual rather than action oriented, and he always astounded his father by arriving at a correction solution by purely deductive reasoning.
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Stump the Stars
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