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A Hot Dog Program

1996 American documentary film

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ138333548 ↗
Source-derived summary

A Hot Dog Program is a 1996 documentary film which explores the history, food culture, and regional variety of hot dogs in the United States of America. It was produced, directed, and narrated by Rick Sebak. It premiered on PBS on June 30, 1996.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “A Hot Dog Program” as 1996 American documentary film. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Program, American and documentary.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1996—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Program, American and documentary providing the first useful test.
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Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q138333548. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1996.

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This entry incorporates text from “A Hot Dog Program” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.