Monday, May 18, 2020

Forgotten TV: Dream Girl USA (1986)

 A weekly beauty pageant?

Yep, it happened, and unlike Chuck Barris' late 70's parody, The $1.98 Beauty Show, Dream Girl USA was a weekly version of the annual pageants that have moved off television in recent years and to online streaming.

Ken Howard (ex-The White Shadow) serves as host for this series, which lasted one calendar year. Veteran voice over announcer-actor Danny Dark, studio announcer for NBC at the time, was the announcer for this particular episode, but ABC studio announcer Ernie Anderson also worked on the show.

Here's a sample episode from November 1986, right around Thanksgiving or so.



As you could see, 20th Century Fox co-produced and distributed the series, but this was one of those cases where it wasn't readily available everywhere. I don't recall hearing of any auditions for the show in the home area, and I can't recall if it was picked up by a local station.

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