Editing Mary Kay and Johnny (section)

==Broadcast history==
The first 15-minute episode debuted on the [[DuMont Television Network]] on Tuesday, November 18, 1947.<ref name="ill">{{cite book|last1=Landay|first1=Lori|title=I Love Lucy|date=2010|publisher=Wayne State University Press|location=Michigan, Detroit|isbn=978-0814335734|page=69|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZwX7qqzVeF0C&dq=%22Mary+Kay+and+Johnny%22&pg=PT79|accessdate=22 September 2017|language=en}}</ref> The Stearnses created and wrote all the scripts. The program was broadcast live, most of the action taking place on a set representing the New York City apartment of the title characters, a young married couple.

''Mary Kay and Johnny'' was the first program to show a couple sharing a bed, and the first series to show a woman's pregnancy on television:<ref>[http://www.snopes.com/radiotv/tv/marykay.htm snopes.com/radiotv Snopes.com: "Early to Bed"]</ref> Mary Kay became pregnant in 1948 and after unsuccessfully trying to hide her pregnancy, the producers wrote it into the show. On December 31, 1948, the Stearns' weeks-old son Christopher appeared on the show and became a character.

After a year on DuMont, the show moved to [[CBS]] for half a year, much of the time being broadcast every weeknight, then ran for another year each Saturday night on [[NBC]], where it debuted on October 10, 1948.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Hawes|first1=William|title=Live Television Drama, 1946–1951|date=2001|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9781476608495|page=245|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l8z-CgAAQBAJ&dq=%22Mary+Kay+and+Johnny%22&pg=PA245|accessdate=22 September 2017|language=en}}</ref> It broadcast the final episode on March 11, 1950.