Teenage Book Club was a primetime television series on the American Broadcasting Company

American Broadcasting Company

The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...

 which premiered on 27 August 1948. It was a discussion program about books for teenagers which aired Fridays at 8:00pm ET.

Production history

The series was a huge failure, lasted just two months. In fact, very few of ABC's shows during this time made much of an impact, with only Break the Bank

Break the Bank (1948)

Break the Bank is an American quiz show which aired variously on Mutual Radio and ABC, CBS and NBC television from 1945 to 1957.-Radio:Sponsored by Vicks, the series began on radio October 20, 1945, heard Saturdays on Mutual until April 13, 1946. Initially, it featured different hosts each week,...

making enough impact to be mentioned in several history books.