Paul Dixon, a midwesterner who resembled a cross between Fred Allen and Garry Moore, had a national TV career that never quite gelled into success for him outside Ohio.
“Paul Baby” (his nickname) started doing radio in Cincinnati in 1945 and moved to television four years later, where he did 13 hours on local TV weekly – his daily two-hour show and a three-hour extravaganza on Wednesday nights.
Part of the latter was used for a nighttime show Dixon did for ABC from August 1951 to September 1952.
Dixon went to DuMont in the fall of 1952 for this musical pantomime series with Wanda Lewis and Dotty Mack (born Dorothy Macaluso), broadcast from WCPO Cincinnati.
Around December 1952, Sis Pohlkamp (also known as Sis Camp) replaced Dotty Mack on the show through to September 1954, when the show ended its lip sync portion and started airing from New York City.
Dotty continued the lip-synching with her own weekly Dotty Mack Show.
When the DuMont run ended, Dixon returned to Cincinnati and had a long-running local talk/variety series.
He made one last attempt to spread his fame by syndicating the show in 1973 with singers Bonnie Lou and Connie Sharp, but it bombed.
Dixon died a year later, on 28 December 1974, aged 56.
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Paul Dixon Regulars
Wanda Lewis
Dotty Mack
Sis Pohlkamp (Sis Camp)
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Part of the latter was used for a nighttime show Dixon did for ABC from August 1951 to September 1952.
