Let There Be Stars is a variety television series that was broadcast on ABC in 1949, the first program to originate in Hollywood for a major TV network.
[2] It was a high-budget show for its time, and used new production techniques such as "Teleparencies", transparencies which could be displayed in the background, faded in or out or dissolved, and changed on the fly.
The idea of the program was to highlight up-and-coming actors and actresses who had been found by a talent scout working to cast new performers in Broadway shows.
Variety magazine praised the premiere episode in a review, but the program's success did not last.
[1] The show's September 21, 1949, premiere on the west coast was recorded via kinescope to be shown in New York on October 16.