Serving Through Science

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| creator = Encyclopædia Britannica

| starring = Dr. Miller McClintock

| country = United States

| network = DuMont

| first_aired = {{start date|1945|5}}

| last_aired = {{end date|1947|5|27}}

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Serving Through Science was "the first regular science-related network series"{{cite book|last1=LaFollette|first1=Marcel Chotkowski|title=Science on American Television: A History|date=2013|publisher=University of Chicago Press|isbn=9780226922010|pages=9–10|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YvSg8WBHIS4C&dq=%22Serving+Through+Science%22&pg=PA9|accessdate=29 August 2017|language=en}} and the first educational television series broadcast in the United States.

The series premiered on the DuMont Television Network in May 1945, and was shown Tuesdays at 9 pm ET.{{cite web |title=Television in Review |url=https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-Television-Magazine/Television-1945-06.pdf |website=www.americanradiohistory.com |access-date=19 June 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230311030410/https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Television-Magazine/Television-1945-06.pdf |archive-date=2023-03-11 |page=28 |language=en |date=June 1945 |quote=U.S. Rubber Co. last month began a series of weekly half-hour programs titled 'Serving through Science'. |url-status=live}} The weekly program starred Dr. Miller McClintock showing short films produced by Encyclopædia Britannica, and was sponsored by U. S. Rubber.

The last show aired May 27, 1947.

The series' name was also a slogan used by the sponsor in its advertising.{{cite magazine|title=(United States Rubber Company ad)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dUgEAAAAMBAJ&dq=%22Serving+Through+Science%22&pg=PA70|accessdate=29 August 2017|magazine=Life|date=June 18, 1945|page=70}}