Lamp Unto My Feet


Lamp Unto My Feet was an American ecumenical religious program that was produced by CBS Television and broadcast from 1948 to 1979 on Sunday mornings.

Overview

The program used a combination of drama, music, and dance to explore the histories, cultures and theological philosophies of the Protestant, Catholic and Jewish faiths.
In 1979 this program and another long-running CBS religious series, Look Up and Live, were combined to form a new show called For Our Times, sponsored by the National Council of Churches, New York Board of Rabbis, and U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.

Guest Stars

Notable guest stars included Mahalia Jackson, Kim Hunter, Luther Adler, Edward Mulhare, Arthur Hill,Eydie Gorme,The Ink Spots, and Aline MacMahon.

In popular culture

The show was satirized on a 1976 episode of SCTV as 'Match Onto My Feet', with Joe Flaherty as Father John Duffy attending a Passover celebration of the Dithers family that ends up a disaster due to the misbehavior of the children, disagreements about the family business, and a misapplication of the rites by the family patriarch, Sid Dithers.