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"Mary Kay and Johnny" (1947) More at IMDbPro »

• The first TV series to portray a couple sharing a bed.
  
  
• The first sitcom on US television. It would have been the world's first sitcom but the British series _Pinwright's Progress (1946)_ had been shown in the UK a year earlier.
  
  
• In December 1947 the show's sponsor, Anacin tried to find out if anyone was watching their show (TV ratings didn't yet exist). A test was devised offering a free mirror to the first 200 viewers who submitted comments about the show. Nearly 9,000 letters were received.
  
  
• This program aired over the DuMont Television Network at 9:00 pm EST on Tuesday nights in its first season.
  
  
• The final broadcast (over NBC) was on March 11, 1950.
  
  
• The series' archives were disposed of in 1975. As a result, only one episode remains fully intact today.
  
  

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