The series presented original musical productions which were often satirical and tongue-in-cheek adaptations of either classic fairy tales or contemporary Broadway musicals.
Bea Arthur made her TV debut on this series.
[1] The Paley Center for Media holds kinescope copies of three episodes – one spoofing "Three Little Pigs",[2] one spoofing "Rapunzel",[3] and the third on a 57-minute kinescope film reel.
(This latter reel also contains an episode of Mr. Dynamite, a TV series or pilot based on an earlier Hollywood movie of the same name based on a Dashiell Hammett story.
)[4] According to Edie Adams, an actress who worked at DuMont for several years, much of the network's programming archive was destroyed in the 1970s.