WGBH, Channel 2 (Educ.)
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Evening
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06:15p
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Compass Rose
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06:30p
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News (Louis
Lyons)
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06:45p
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Backgrounds
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07:00p
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Briefing Session
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07:30p
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The Constitution in Action
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08:00p
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Redman’s America
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08:30p
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The Presidency Perspective
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09:00p
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Boston Symphony Orchestra (special)
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10:45p
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News, Sports,
Weather (local)
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It's not surprising that WGBH, the famed Boston public station, would broadcast the Boston Symphony Orchestra. I wonder how often this was done on a regular basis? In Minneapolis, we didn't televise the Minnesota Orchestra, but they were on radio every week.
We didn't usually know who the guest on This Is Your Life would be, but this week it's a rerun, so we know that the surprise honoree is newsman Lowell Thomas. According to the always-reliable Wikipedia, Thomas "displayed obvious anger and embarrassment" at being surprised by host Ralph Edwards.
WBZ, Channel 4 (NBC)
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Morning
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06:30a
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Sign On Seminar
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06:45a
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Daily Almanac
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07:00a
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Today
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09:00a
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News at Nine
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09:30a
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Truth or Consequences
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10:00a
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Dough Re Mi
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10:30a
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Play Your Hunch
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11:00a
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The Price is Right (color)
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11:30a
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Concentration
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Afternoon
|
||
12:00p
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News (Jack
Chase)
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12:15p
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Big Brother
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12:30p
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Movie – “He
Stayed for Breakfast”
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02:20p
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News (Leo
Egan)
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02:30p
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Loretta Young
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03:00p
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Young Dr. Malone
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03:30p
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From These Roots
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04:00p
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The Thin Man
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04:30p
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Yancy Derringer
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05:00p
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Movie – “My
Reputation”
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Evening
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||
06:30p
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News, Weather
(local)
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06:45p
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The Huntley-Brinkley
Report
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07:00p
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U.S. Border Patrol
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07:30p
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Wagon Train
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08:30p
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The Price is Right (color)
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09:00p
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Happy
|
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09:30p
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Tate
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10:00p
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This Is Your Life (guest Lowell Thomas)
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10:30p
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Johnny Midnight
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11:00p
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News, Weather
(local)
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11:15p
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Movie Double
Feature – “The Ghost and Mrs. Muir”, “Man Wanted”
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WHDH, Channel 5 (ABC, CBS, NBC)
|
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Morning
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||
06:30a
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Cartoons
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07:00a
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Big Mac
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07:30a
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Captain Bob (color)
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08:30a
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Ding Dong School
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08:45a
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Teddy Bear Cartoons
|
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09:00a
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Romper Room (color)
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|
10:00a
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News (local)
(color)
|
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10:15a
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We Believe (color)
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10:30a
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Damon Runyon Theater
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11:00a
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Cameo Theater (color)
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Afternoon
|
||
12:00p
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The Restless Gun
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12:30p
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Farm and Home (color)
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01:00p
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About Faces
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01:30p
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Way of Life
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02:00p
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Day in Court
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02:30p
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Gale Storm
|
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03:00p
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Beat the Clock
|
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03:30p
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Who Do You Trust?
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04:00p
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American Bandstand
|
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05:00p
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Bozo the Clown (color)
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05:30p
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My Friend Flicka
|
|
Evening
|
||
06:00p
|
Dateline Boston
|
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06:30p
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Burns and Allen
|
|
07:00p
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Douglas Edwards with the News
|
|
07:15p
|
News, Sports
(local) (color)
|
|
07:25p
|
Weather
(local) (color)
|
|
07:30p
|
Music for a Summer Night
|
|
08:30p
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The Nelson Family
|
|
09:00p
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Hawaiian Eye
|
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10:00p
|
The Wednesday Night Fights (Rodriguez vs. Atkins)
|
|
10:30p
|
Sports (Curt
Gowdy)
|
|
11:00p
|
News, Weather
(local)
|
|
11:15p
|
Jack Paar Tonight
|
|
Music for a Summer Night was ABC's attempt to appease fans of the long-running Voice of Firestone after having cancelled the show for low ratings. Appeasing the fans, but also Congressional leaders who were talking about an investigation into the ratings system, to see if it really served the viewers' interests.
WCSH, Channel 6 (Portland, ME) (NBC)
|
||
Morning
|
||
06:20a
|
Farm Report
|
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06:30a
|
Sunrise Semester
|
|
07:00a
|
Today
|
|
09:00a
|
Romper Room (Miss Connie)
|
|
09:30a
|
The Life of Riley
|
|
10:00a
|
Dough Re Mi
|
|
10:30a
|
Play Your Hunch
|
|
11:00a
|
The Price is Right (color)
|
|
11:30a
|
Concentration
|
|
Afternoon
|
||
12:00p
|
Truth or Consequences
|
|
12:30p
|
It Could Be You (color)
|
|
01:00p
|
Weekdays on Six
|
|
02:00p
|
Queen for a Day
|
|
02:30p
|
Loretta Young
|
|
03:00p
|
Young Dr. Malone
|
|
03:30p
|
From These Roots
|
|
04:00p
|
The Thin Man
|
|
04:30p
|
Yancy Derringer
|
|
05:00p
|
Popeye
|
|
05:30p
|
Robin Hood
|
|
Evening
|
||
06:00p
|
Phil Silvers
|
|
06:30p
|
News, Sports,
Weather (local)
|
|
07:00p
|
Brave Stallion (aka Fury)
|
|
07:30p
|
Wagon Train
|
|
08:30p
|
The Price is Right (color)
|
|
09:00p
|
Happy
|
|
09:30p
|
Tate
|
|
10:00p
|
This Is Your Life (guest Lowell Thomas)
|
|
10:30p
|
People Are Funny
|
|
11:00p
|
News, Weather
(local)
|
|
11:15p
|
Jack Paar Tonight
|
|
It's interesting that People Are Funny, Art Linkletter's long-running vehicle, comes immediately after This Is Your Life; Linkletter and Ralph Edwards were, in real life, not the best of friends. They each had accused the other of taking credit for ideas they claimed as their own, and there was something about Edwards' personality that ground on Linkletter. For a man known as one of the sunniest personalities in television, Linkletter made no bones of the fact that he did not care for Ralph Edwards.
WNAC, Channel 7 (NBC)
|
||
Morning
|
||
07:00a
|
Laurel and Hardy
|
|
08:00a
|
Captain Kangaroo
|
|
09:00a
|
Morning Star Time
|
|
10:00a
|
My Little Margie
|
|
10:30a
|
I Married Joan
|
|
11:00a
|
I Love Lucy
|
|
11:30a
|
December Bride
|
|
Afternoon
|
||
12:00p
|
Love of Life
|
|
12:30p
|
Search for Tomorrow
|
|
12:45p
|
The Guiding Light
|
|
01:00p
|
Louise Morgan
|
|
01:30p
|
As the World Turns
|
|
02:00p
|
Topper
|
|
02:30p
|
House Party
|
|
03:00p
|
The Millionaire
|
|
03:30p
|
The Verdict is Yours
|
|
04:00p
|
The Brighter Day
|
|
04:15p
|
The Secret Storm
|
|
04:30p
|
Movie –
“Action in Arabia”
|
|
Evening
|
||
06:15p
|
News (Roy
Leonard)
|
|
06:30p
|
Movie –
“Together Again”
|
|
08:30p
|
Men Into Space
|
|
09:00p
|
The Millionaire
|
|
09:30p
|
I’ve Got a Secret (guest Johnny Carson)
|
|
10:00p
|
Armstrong Circle Theater
|
|
11:00p
|
News, Weather
(local)
|
|
11:15p
|
Movie Double
Feature – “Of Mice and Men”, “Girls’ School”
|
|
I remember when Laurel and Hardy became regular viewing on Channel 4 in Minneapolis, and it's in the TV Guides of the era that we see the same thing happening throughout the country. Both Stan and Ollie and The Three Stooges had much to owe television for their comebacks into the American consciousness.
WMTW, Channel 8 (Portland) (ABC)
|
||
Morning
|
||
10:00a
|
Farmer Al Falfa
|
|
10:30a
|
Movie – “Emma”
|
|
Afternoon
|
||
12:00p
|
The Restless Gun
|
|
12:30p
|
Love That Bob!
|
|
01:00p
|
About Faces
|
|
01:30p
|
Film Drama
|
|
02:00p
|
Day in Court
|
|
02:30p
|
Gale Storm
|
|
03:00p
|
Beat the Clock
|
|
03:30p
|
Who Do You Trust?
|
|
04:00p
|
American Bandstand
|
|
05:30p
|
My Friend Flicka
|
|
Evening
|
||
06:00p
|
Movie – “A
Yank at Oxford” Part 2
|
|
07:20p
|
News, Weather
(local)
|
|
07:30p
|
Songs for a Summer Night
|
|
08:30p
|
High Road
|
|
09:00p
|
Hawaiian Eye
|
|
10:00p
|
The Wednesday Night Fights (Rodriguez vs. Atkins)
|
|
10:45p
|
Golf
|
|
11:00p
|
News, Weather
(local)
|
|
11:15p
|
Movie – “Lady
Scarface”
|
|
The 6pm movie, A Yank at Oxford, reminds me of how often networks and local stations used to split movies into two parts; I think you see that a couple of times in today's listings alone. Nowadays, when we've become so accustomed to having movies presented uncut and without commercial interruption, it's hard to fathom sitting down to watch something that was not only cut up with ads, but only ran an hour or so in the first place, leaving you to watch the rest the next day. At least with serials, you had a cliffhanger ending.
WMUR, Channel 9 (Manchester, NH) (ABC)
|
||
Morning
|
||
10:00a
|
Cartoons
|
|
10:50a
|
Movie –
“Whispering Footsteps”
|
|
11:30a
|
News (Gus
Bernier)
|
|
Afternoon
|
||
12:00p
|
The Restless Gun
|
|
12:30p
|
Country Store
|
|
01:00p
|
About Faces
|
|
01:30p
|
Janet Dean
|
|
02:00p
|
Day in Court
|
|
02:30p
|
Gale Storm
|
|
03:00p
|
Beat the Clock
|
|
03:30p
|
Who Do You Trust?
|
|
04:00p
|
American Bandstand
|
|
05:00p
|
Popeye
|
|
Evening
|
||
06:00p
|
Captain Grief
|
|
06:30p
|
News, Sports,
Weather (local)
|
|
06:45p
|
Shopping for Fashions
|
|
07:00p
|
Country Folk
|
|
07:30p
|
Movie –
“Tomorrow We Live”
|
|
09:00p
|
All-Star Theater
|
|
09:30p
|
Racket Squad
|
|
10:00p
|
The Wednesday Night Fights (Rodriguez vs. Atkins)
|
|
10:45p
|
Sports Feature
|
|
11:00p
|
News, Weather
(local)
|
|
11:05p
|
Movie –
“Judgment Deferred”
|
|
As I was typing this up I had to look twice to make sure I'd gotten the name of the show correct - Captain Grief. Most of the time when you run across a program with the word "Captain" in its title, it turns out to be a kids' show, and although it isn't the case here, you have to wonder what a kids' show named Captain Grief would have been like. "Today Captain Grief reads the story of "Garfield the Cat Gets Feline Leukemia"?
WJAR, Channel 10 (Providence) (ABC,
NBC)
|
||
Morning
|
||
07:00a
|
Today
|
|
09:00a
|
Movie – “Edge
of Darkness” part 1
|
|
10:30a
|
Play Your Hunch
|
|
11:00a
|
The Price is Right (color)
|
|
11:30a
|
Concentration
|
|
Afternoon
|
||
12:00p
|
Truth or Consequences
|
|
12:30p
|
It Could Be You (color)
|
|
01:00p
|
Movie – “Second
Fiddle”
|
|
02:30p
|
Loretta Young
|
|
03:00p
|
Young Dr. Malone
|
|
03:30p
|
From These Roots
|
|
04:00p
|
The Thin Man
|
|
04:30p
|
Yancy Derringer
|
|
05:00p
|
Movie – “The
Yearling” part 2
|
|
Evening
|
||
06:30p
|
News, Weather
(local)
|
|
07:00p
|
Lock Up
|
|
07:30p
|
Wagon Train
|
|
08:30p
|
The Price is Right (color)
|
|
09:00p
|
Happy
|
|
09:30p
|
Tate
|
|
10:00p
|
This Is Your Life (guest Lowell Thomas)
|
|
10:30p
|
People Are Funny
|
|
11:00p
|
News, Weather
(local)
|
|
11:15p
|
Jack Paar Tonight
|
|
Yes, I knew there was another example of two-part movies here - two of them, in fact. We have Edge of Darkness beginning at 9am, and The Yearling concluding at 5pm. In-between it's a perfectly serviceable lineup, including Macdonald Carey's lawyer show Lock Up, in which he plays real-life attorney Herb Maris, a corporate lawyer who occasionally took on cases of people unjustly accused of crimes.
WENH, Channel 11 (Durham, NH) (Educ.)
|
||
Evening
|
||
06:00p
|
Classical
Music
|
|
06:25p
|
Events
|
|
06:30p
|
News (Louis
Lyons)
|
|
06:45p
|
Backgrounds
|
|
07:00p
|
The Friendly Giant
|
|
07:15p
|
Off to Adventure
|
|
07:30p
|
Reading Out Loud
|
|
08:00p
|
Commonwealth of Nations
|
|
08:30p
|
The Presidency Perspective
|
|
09:00p
|
Boston Symphony Orchestra (special)
|
|
I don't think WENH was up and running the last time we visited New England for one of these looks. I remember, in the four years I lived in Maine, having seen many a Doctor Who episode on the station.
WPRO, Channel 12 (Providence) (CBS)
|
||
Morning
|
||
07:00a
|
Popeye
|
|
07:30a
|
Storytime
|
|
08:00a
|
News (Dave Mohr)
|
|
08:15a
|
Captain Kangaroo
|
|
09:00a
|
Romper Room (Miss Bonnie)
|
|
09:30a
|
Movie – “A
Strange Adventure”
|
|
10:45a
|
News (Stuart/Mohr)
|
|
11:00a
|
I Love Lucy
|
|
11:30a
|
December Bride
|
|
Afternoon
|
||
12:00p
|
Love of Life
|
|
12:30p
|
Search for Tomorrow
|
|
12:45p
|
The Guiding Light
|
|
01:00p
|
Medic
|
|
01:30p
|
As the World Turns
|
|
02:00p
|
The Life of Riley
|
|
02:30p
|
House Party
|
|
03:00p
|
The Millionaire
|
|
03:30p
|
The Verdict is Yours
|
|
04:00p
|
The Brighter Day
|
|
04:15p
|
The Secret Storm
|
|
04:30p
|
The Edge of Night
|
|
05:00p
|
Cartoons
|
|
05:30p
|
Salty Brine’s Shack
|
|
Evening
|
||
06:30p
|
News, Sports,
Weather (local)
|
|
06:45p
|
Douglas Edwards with the News
|
|
07:00p
|
Movie – “The
Gallant Legion”
|
|
08:30p
|
Men Into Space
|
|
09:00p
|
The Millionaire
|
|
09:30p
|
I’ve Got a Secret (guest Johnny Carson)
|
|
10:00p
|
Armstrong Circle Theater
|
|
11:00p
|
News, Weather
(local)
|
|
11:15p
|
Movie – “A
Yank at Oxford” Part 2
|
|
No, you're not seeing things - another station with a two-part showing of A Yank at Oxford. It stars Robert Taylor, Vivian Leigh, Maureen O'Sullivan, Lionel Barrymore and Edmund Gwynn. No wonder so many stations showed it.
WGAN, Channel 13 (Portland) (CBS)
|
||
Morning
|
||
08:00a
|
News
|
|
08:15a
|
Captain Kangaroo
|
|
09:00a
|
Movie – TBA
|
|
10:00a
|
Red Rowe
|
|
10:30a
|
On the Go
|
|
11:00a
|
I Love Lucy
|
|
11:30a
|
December Bride
|
|
Afternoon
|
||
12:00p
|
Love of Life
|
|
12:30p
|
Search for Tomorrow
|
|
12:45p
|
The Guiding Light
|
|
01:00p
|
Way of Life
|
|
01:30p
|
As the World Turns
|
|
02:00p
|
Full Circle
|
|
02:30p
|
House Party
|
|
03:00p
|
The Millionaire
|
|
03:30p
|
The Verdict is Yours
|
|
04:00p
|
The Brighter Day
|
|
04:15p
|
The Secret Storm
|
|
04:30p
|
The Edge of Night
|
|
05:00p
|
The Three Stooges
|
|
05:30p
|
Rocky Jones
|
|
Evening
|
||
06:00p
|
Jim Bowie
|
|
06:30p
|
News, Sports,
Weather (local)
|
|
06:45p
|
Douglas Edwards with the News
|
|
07:00p
|
Cannonball
|
|
07:30p
|
Reckoning
|
|
08:30p
|
Men Into Space
|
|
09:00p
|
The Millionaire
|
|
09:30p
|
I’ve Got a Secret (guest Johnny Carson)
|
|
10:00p
|
Armstrong Circle Theater
|
|
11:00p
|
News, Weather
(local)
|
|
11:15p
|
Movie – “We Go
Fast”
|
|
We Go Fast sounds like film noir, doesn't it? Made in 1941, it probably is. And while the NBC affiliates (and others) carry Jack Paar's version of Tonight, we also get a glimpse of the future at 9:30, as the guest with a secret on I've Got a Secret is the future of late-night talk, Johnny Carson. All we need now is Steve Allen popping up somewhere, and we've got the history of Tonight in a nutshell. TV
It is true that Lowell Thomas took a dim view of the proceedings on THIS IS YOUR LIFE. Ralph Edwards said years later that Thomas called it a "sinister conspiracy" on the air! I remember reading about Thomas' reaction in one of Kermit Schafer's blooper books too. "Lowell Thomas, you're going to enjoy seeing all of your friends we have gathered here tonight." Thomas: "I doubt it!"
ReplyDeleteSome while back, I believe I might have mentioned a popular Chicago radio personality named Roy Leonard, who was a mainstay at WGN radio and TV from the '60s through the early 2000's.
ReplyDeleteSugar Roy (as he was called because of his easy-going on-air manner) came to Chicago circa 1966, after starting out in Boston - which is how I know that WNAC's 6:15 newscaster is the same guy.
I'll guess that Roy Leonard was pretty popular in Boston back in '60, but in Chicago he became a local institution - and even now, several years after his passing, he still evokes fond memories.
His son, Kelly Leonard, has been creative director at The Second City, the legendary Chicago comedy improve theater, for many years now.
Because I'm too lazy to start this twice, here's a comment about your Ernie Kovacs post from Saturday:
Take A Good Look was an example of quid pro quo: in exchange for doing this "panel quiz", the Consolidated Cigar Company gave Ernie Kovacs one week per month to do his own specials, with no interference by either themselves or the ABC network.
Each week, Kovacs got to do one of his silent commercials for Dutch Masters cigars, which Consolidated's boss, Jack Mogulescu, loved.
As part of the same deal, Edie Adams became the singing spokeswoman for Muriel, another Consolidated brand (after Kovacs's death, that deal continued for several more years).
I noted that TAGL aired in Boston on Saturday; its regular network timeslot was Thursday at 10:30, after The Untouchables but many ABC affiliates delayed TAGL to other nights, as was the case here. In many of the surviving TAGL shows, Kovacs makes mocking reference to when (or if) viewers might be seeing whatever show he was doing that night.
The sad fact, as verified by several biographies, is that Kovacs simply couldn't handle money.
What he didn't spend, he gambled away... mainly to friends, who didn't sweat him for repayment, but the IRS wasn't nearly as accommodating.
That he didn't get to do his own feature film, as opposed to taking acting jobs in other people's movies - well, if he hadn't been killed ...
.