August 12, 2019

What's on TV? Tuesday, August 12, 1958

We're back in Ohio this week, but another part of the state. Instead of Cincinnati, the focus in this issue is Cleveland, with its own set of quirks and local personalities. I quite enjoyed going through this issue; hopefully you'll find some of your favorites here.


 3  KYW (CLEVELAND) (NBC)

   MORNING    

    7:00
TODAY—Garroway

    9:00
MOVIE—Comedy
Cash on the Line: “The Big Shot” (1937)

  10:25
WINDOW—Women

  10:30
TREASURE HUNT

  11:00
PRICE IS RIGHT

  11:30
TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES—Stunts

 AFTERNOON  

  12:00
TIC TAC DOUGH—Quiz

  12:30
IT COULD BE YOU—Bill Leyden  COLOR 

    1:00
MOVIE—Drama
“Magnetic Monster” (1953)

    2:45
NEWS—Pete French

    3:00
TODAY IS OURS

    3:30
FROM THESE ROOTS

    4:00
QUEEN FOR DAY

    4:45
MODERN ROMANCES

    5:00
SCIENCE FICTION THEATER

    5:30
POPEYE—Kids

    EVENING    

    6:00
MOVIE—Melodrama (1951)
Six O’Clock Adventure: “The Thing”
The movie will be interrupted at 6:55 P.M. for a five-minute newscast.

    8:00
INVESTIGATOR  COLOR 

    9:00
DOTTO—Quiz

    9:30
STATE TROOPER—Police

  10:00
CALIFORNIANS

  10:30
HONEYMOONERS—Gleason

  11:00
NEWS—Pete French

  11:10
WEATHER—Joe Finan

  11:15
SPORTS—Bob Neal

  11:20
MOVIE—Drama
“And One Was Beautiful” (1940)

For anyone who thinks a five-minute newscast in the middle of a movie is strange, let me ask you this: have you watched a program on MeTV lately, or Charge, or MyTV, or the other subchannels? Five minutes of commercials are nothing. At least this way you might be getting something useful.


 5  WEWS (CLEVELAND) (ABC)

   MORNING    

    8:25
NEWS—Bill Prentice

    8:30
RED RILEY—Kids

    8:55
NEWS—Tom Haley

    9:00
ROMPER ROOM—Kids

    9:30
PAIGE PALMER—Women

  10:30
BEULAH—Comedy

  11:00
STU ERWIN—Comedy

  11:30
CAPT. PENNY—Kids

 AFTERNOON  

  12:00
NEWS—Court Stanton

  12:05
NOON SHOW—Kids

  12:50
DOROTHY FULDHEIM

    1:00
ONE O’CLOCK CLUB—Variety

    2:00
OUR MISS BROOKS—Comedy

    2:30
MY LITTLE MARGIE—Comedy

    3:00
AMERICAN BANDSTAND—Music

    3:30
WHO DO YOU TRUST?

    4:00
AMERICAN BANDSTAND—Music

    5:00
SIR LANCELOT

    5:30
MICKEY MOUSE CLUB

    EVENING     

    6:00
CAPT. PENNY—Kids

    6:30
NEWS—Dorothy Fuldheim

    6:45
NEWS—Tom Field

    6:55
WEATHER—Sylvia Simmons

    7:00
KIT CARSON—Western

    7:30
CHEYENNE—Western

    8:30
WYATT EARP—Western

    9:00
BROKEN ARROW—Western

    9:30
PANTOMIME QUIZ
Guests: Mickey Shaughnessy, Elaine Stewart, Dick Van Dyke

  10:00
DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS—Drama

  10:30
CODE 3—Police

  11:00
NEWS—Tom Field

  11:15
JACK PAAR—Variety

    1:00
NEWS—Bill Prentice

The great Dorothy Fuldheim is generally credited with being the first woman in the United States to anchor a television news broadcast as well to host her own television show. You can read more about her colorful life and career here.


 8  WJW (CLEVELAND) (CBS)

   MORNING    

    7:30
REX HUMBARD—Religion

    8:00
NEWS—Hoffman

    8:10
MR. BANJO—Kids

    9:00
AMOS ‘N’ ANDY—Comedy

    9:30
BEAT THE CLOCK—Games

  10:00
FOR LOVE OR MONEY

  10:30
SUSIE—Comedy

  11:00
ARTHUR GODFREY

  11:30
DOTTO—Quiz

 AFTERNOON  

  12:00
LOVE OF LIFE—Serial

  12:30
SEARCH FOR TOMORROW

  12:45
GUIDING LIGHT—Serial

    1:00
MOVIE—Comedy
“A Very Young Lady” (1941)

    2:20
NEWS—Jim Doney

    2:30
HOUSE PARTY

    3:00
LIFE WITH ELIZABETH

    3:30
VERDICT IS YOURS

    4:00
BRIGHTER DAY—Serial

    4:15
SECRET STORM

    4:30
EDGE OF NIGHT—Serial

    5:00
AS THE WORLD TURNS

    5:30
MOVIE—Drama
“The Man in the Trunk” (1942)

    EVENING     

    7:00
CITY CAMERA—News

    7:15
NEWS—Doug Edwards

    7:30
NAME THAT TUNE

    8:00
MR. ADAMS AND EVE

    8:30
MEDIC—Drama

    9:00
TO TELL THE TRUTH

    9:30
SPOTLIGHT PLAYHOUSE

  10:00
BID ‘N’ BUY

  10:30
TARGET—Drama

  11:00
NEWS—Warren Guthrie

  11:10
PRESS BOX—John Fitzgerald

  11:15
WEATHER—Scotty Armstrong

  11:20
MOVIE—Comedy
“People Are Funny” (1945)

Bid 'n' Buy sounds like an early version of HSN, doesn't it? According to this week's editorial, it's part of TV's summer season, aka The Silly Season, and the rules are nigh impossible to understand. It was hosted by Bert Parks; after all, the Miss America pageant is only one night a year, and you have to have something to do the rest of the time, right?


12 WICU (ERIE, PA) (ABC-NBC)

   MORNING   

    7:00
TODAY—Garroway

    9:00
MOVIE—To Be Announced

  10:00
DOUGH RE MI—Quiz

  10:30
TREASURE HUNT

  11:00
PRICE IS RIGHT

  11:30
TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES—Stunts

 AFTERNOON  

  12:00
TIC TAC DOUGH—Quiz

  12:30
IT COULD BE YOU—Bill Leyden  COLOR 

    1:00
MOVIE—Drama
“Jane Eyre,” Part 2 (1944)

    2:00
LUCKY PARTNERS—Quiz

    2:30
HAGGIS BAGGIS  COLOR 

    3:00
TODAY IS OURS

    3:30
FROM THESE ROOTS

    4:00
QUEEN FOR DAY

    4:45
MODERN ROMANCES

    5:00
SIR LANCELOT

    5:30
MICKEY MOUSE CLUB

    EVENING     

    6:00
CARTOON CORNER

    6:30
NEWS, SPORTS, WEATHER

    6:45
NEWS—Huntley, Brinkley

    7:00
SUGARFOOT—Western

    8:00
INVESTIGATOR  COLOR 

    9:00
DOTTO—Quiz

    9:30
BOB CUMMINGS—Comedy

  10:00
CALIFORNIANS

  10:30
BROKEN ARROW—Western

  11:00
NEWS, SPORTS, WEATHER

  11:30
JACK PAAR—Variety

Looks funny to see Jack Paar on next to CBS programs, doesn't it?


21 WFMJ (YOUNGSTOWN) (NBC)

   MORNING   

    7:00
TODAY—Garroway

  10:00
DOUGH RE MI—Quiz

  10:30
TREASURE HUNT

  11:00
PRICE IS RIGHT

  11:30
TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES—Stunts

 AFTERNOON  

  12:00
TIC TAC DOUGH—Quiz

  12:30
IT COULD BE YOU—Bill Leyden  COLOR 

    1:15
KITCHEN CORNER—Mariner

    2:00
LUCKY PARTNERS—Quiz

    2:30
HAGGIS BAGGIS  COLOR 

    3:00
TODAY IS OURS

    3:30
FROM THESE ROOTS

    4:00
QUEEN FOR DAY

    4:45
MODERN ROMANCES

    5:00
FUN HOUSE GANG—Kids

    5:45
POPEYE—Kids

    EVENING     

    6:30
NEWS, SPORTS, WEATHER

    6:45
NEWS—Huntley, Brinkley

    7:00
KIT CARSON—Western

    7:30
WIN WITH A WINNER—Quiz

    8:00
INVESTIGATOR  COLOR 

    9:00
DOTTO—Quiz

    9:30
BOB CUMMINGS—Comedy

  10:00
CALIFORNIANS

  10:30
CHARLIE CHAN—Mystery

  11:00
NEWS, SPORTS, WEATHER

  11:20
JACK PAAR—Variety

I'm not entirely sure why Today runs for three hours on WFMJ (perhaps Garroway guru Jodie Peeler knows?), but I checked every day of the week to make sure this wasn't some kind of typo, and it wasn't.


27 WKBN (YOUNGSTOWN) (CBS)

   MORNING   

    8:30
MOVIE—Adventure
“Canal Zone” (1942)

  10:00
FOR LOVE OR MONEY

  10:30
PLAY YOUR HUNCH

  11:00
ARTHUR GODFREY

  11:30
DOTTO—Quiz

 AFTERNOON  

  12:00
LOVE OF LIFE—Serial

  12:30
MOVIE—Romance
“The Astonished Heart” (1950)

    1:45
FASHIONS—Esther Sontag

    2:00
BEAT THE CLOCK—Games

    2:30
HOUSE PARTY

    3:00
BIG PAYOFF—Quiz

    3:30
CARTOON CLASSICS

    4:00
BRIGHTER DAY—Serial

    4:15
SECRET STORM

    4:30
SERIAL THEATER—Drama

    5:15
COL. BLEEP—Adventure

    EVENING    

    6:00
MY LITTLE MARGIE—Comedy

    6:30
NEWS, SPORTS, WEATHER

    6:45
NEWS—Doug Edwards

    7:00
HEART OF THE CITY—Drama

    7:30
NAME THAT TUNE

    8:00
MR. ADAMS AND EVE

    8:30
SAN FRANCISCO BEAT—Police

    9:00
TO TELL THE TRUTH

    9:30
STATE TROOPER—Police

  10:00
BID ‘N’ BUY

  10:30
STUDIO 57—Drama

  11:00
NEWS—Warren Guthrie

  11:20
MOVIE—Comedy
“Two Mugs from Brooklyn”

Mr. Adams and Eve, as we were constantly reminded in the opening credits, is a series about the private lives of husband-and-wife actors, played by husband-and-wife actors: Howard Duff and Ida Lupino. Fortunately, their marriage lasted longer than the series.


35 WSEE (ERIE, PA) (CBS)

   MORNING   

    9:55
DAILY WORD—Religion

  10:00
FOR LOVE OR MONEY

  10:30
PLAY YOUR HUNCH

  11:00
ARTHUR GODFREY

  11:30
DOTTO—Quiz

 AFTERNOON  

  12:00
LOVE OF LIFE—Serial

  12:30
SEARCH FOR TOMORROW

  12:45
GUIDING LIGHT—Serial

    1:00
HY YAPLE—Women

    1:30
AS THE WORLD TURNS

    2:00
BEAT THE CLOCK—Games

    2:30
HOUSE PARTY

    3:00
BIG PAYOFF—Quiz

    3:30
VERDICT IS YOURS

    4:00
BRIGHTER DAY—Serial

    4:15
SECRET STORM

    4:30
EDGE OF NIGHT—Serial

    5:00
MOVIE—Western
“Desert Justice”

    EVENING     

    6:00
POPEYE—Kids

    6:30
NEWS, SPORTS, WEATHER

    6:45
NEWS—Doug Edwards

    7:00
HAWKEYE—Adventure

    7:30
NAME THAT TUNE

    8:00
MR. ADAMS AND EVE

    8:30
KEEP TALKING—Game

    9:00
TO TELL THE TRUTH

    9:30
SPOTLIGHT PLAYHOUSE

  10:00
BID ‘N’ BUY

  10:30
STAGE 7—Drama

  11:00
NEWS, SPORTS, WEATHER

  11:15
MOVIE—Drama
“I, the Jury” (1953)

For the life of me, I can't understand why I, the Jury, the movie based on Mickey Spillane's first Mike Hammer novel, is classified as "Drama" rather than "Mystery." It's got a private detective, a femme fatale, a murder to solve, and plenty of violence. What more do you need?


45 WKST (YOUNGSTOWN) (ABC)

 AFTERNOON  

    3:00
AMERICAN BANDSTAND—Music

    3:30
WHO DO YOU TRUST?

    4:00
AMERICAN BANDSTAND—Music

    5:00
SIR LANCELOT

    5:30
MICKEY MOUSE CLUB

    EVENING    

    6:00
IT’S FUN TO REDUCE

    6:15
NEWS, SPORTS

    6:30
MOLLY GOLDBERG—Comedy

    7:00
MOVIE QUIZ

    7:15
NEWS—John Daly

    7:30
CHEYENNE—Western

    8:30
OUR MISS BROOKS—Comedy

    9:00
BROKEN ARROW—Western

    9:30
PANTOMIME QUIZ
Guests: Mickey Shaughnessy, Elaine Stewart, Dick Van Dyke

  10:00
HARNESS RACE—Yonkers

  10:30
MOVIE—Drama
“Outside these Walls” (1939)

I don't know what the idea was of cutting American Bandstand in half, with Who Do You Trust? in the middle. It doesn't seem to me as if the two programs share the same audience. Johnny Carson hosts Who Do You Trust?, and I think Ed McMahon might have become the announcer by this time.


49 WAKR (AKRON) (ABC)

  AFTERNOON  

    1:00
MOVIE—Drama
“Dragonwyck” (1946)

    3:00
AMERICAN BANDSTAND—Music

    3:30
WHO DO YOU TRUST?

    4:00
AMERICAN BANDSTAND—Music

    4:30
MOVIE—Mystery
“Dead Reckoning” (1947)

    EVENING    

    6:00
LOONEY TUNES—Cartoons

    6:40
SPORTS, WEATHER, NEWS

    7:15
NEWS—John Daly

    7:30
MOVIE—Drama
“Lloyds of London” (1936)

    9:30
MOVIE—Mystery
“While New York Sleeps” (1938)

  10:00
SHERLOCK HOLMES—Mystery

  10:30
MOVIE—Comedy
“Reunion in Vienna” (1933)

Speaking of mysteries (as we were a couple of stations ago), this version of Sherlock Holmes is, I believe, the one that features Ronald Howard (son of Leslie) as Holmes. Not great, but not bad either. And yes, it is a mystery. TV  

6 comments:

  1. "Jane Eyre, Part 2" sounds like something that would be produced today.

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  2. I'll try to do this in order, but I won't guarantee anything …

    - 1958 was smack in the middle of my Chicago-TV childhood (DOB: 9/30/50).
    I've got the Chicago edition (all three commercial nets, an independent, an educational station, plus the two Rockford locals for spice); since all the network stations are network-owned, they have to carry what the mother ship sends out - most of the time, anyway.
    That's obviously not the case in Cleveland this year; start with Channel 3, owned by Westinghouse and affiliated with NBC, which bypasses much of the network programming just on this night (I can just imagine what some of the other nights must look like).
    Odd, that you noticed Jack Paar on a split station in Erie, while seeming not to notice that in Cleveland he's on the ABC station, Channel 5.
    For that matter, Ch3 isn't even carrying Huntley-Brinkley at the dinner hour (all they have is a 6-minute interrupt of "The Thing" - whaa…).
    Before I started writing this, I looked up the Cleveland station histories at Wikipedia, which explain (?) much of this.

    - From History:
    At this point in the '50s, the ABC network had almost no daytime programming at all.
    American Bandstand, Who Do You Trust?, Fun At Five, and The Mickey Mouse Club were the whole slate (and also remember that ABC was affiliate-strapped in '58).
    The whole story behind the schedule is even more complicated than the Cleveland station business, op cit.
    By the bye, the nets and their stations in '58 weren't all that knowledgeable about audience makeup; all that mattered then was how many people watched (Demographics didn't assert its malformed self until the mid-'60s at the earliest).

    - Your guess is as good as mine about why TVG classed "I, The Jury" as Drama rather than Mystery; it always seemed to me that those categories were often kind of arbitrary.
    FWIW, it is a fact that for many years, the Mystery Writers of America denied membership to Mickey Spillane, due to the nature of his writings, but that's most likely coincidence …
    (In later years, the MWA, at the behest of my friend Max Allan Collins, relented somewhat, to the extent of giving Mickey the Grand Master Award - but that's probably another coincidence …)

    - Incredible Coincidence Dept.:
    In the color section, there's a story about the forthcoming cast changes on Lassie.
    One of the new hires is June Lockhart as Timmy's mom; the story notes that she's the daughter of character great Gene Lockhart (the judge from "Miracle On 34th Street", among many others), and that she's got a five-year-old daughter named Anne.
    Fast-forward to last night (Sunday the 11th), on the generally awful reboot of To Tell The Truth.
    One of the spots is about a songwriter who's been penning hits for pop stars going back to the early '60s.
    Two men and a attractive older woman.
    Weird Al Yankovic is on the panel, and he has to disqualify himself because he knows the songwriter.
    Well, they play the round, the songwriter IDs himself, and then the other guy and the woman are in a second round wherein one of them is a vocal coach for non-singing actors in movies.
    The guy turns out to be the vocal coach - and then the attractive older woman IDs herself as Anne Lockhart, op cit.
    If my math is correct, Anne Lockhart is now 66 (about three years younger than I am).
    If my math is still correct, mother June Lockhart, who's still around (and still takes an occasional TV part), is now 93.
    God love 'em both.

    Hope you're gonna look up "No Time At All", op cit. from Saturday (Gee, I love to do that!).

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  3. Tom Haley could not have been doing a newscast or anything on WEWS. He was always at Channel 3 (and when it was 4).
    Who Do You Trust? originally aired at 4:30 following a 90 minute American Bandstand. ABC then moved it to 3:30 to encourage Bandstand viewers to stick around. Later. Beat the Clock would take over the 3:00 slot and AB would air from 4 to 5:30.
    WEWS carried the Tonight Show from 1957 until some time in 1965.

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  4. Maybe WFMJ was off-the-air (or ran test patterns) for the 9-10 A.M. hour, or stayed with the network feed and rebroadcast the first hour of "Today" on tape from 9 to 10 A.M. (which very few Eastern time zone stations ever did). I believe that by 1958, NBC taped the first hour and ran it in the Central (at 8 A.M. local), Mountain (7 A.M. local) and Pacific (6 A.M. local) time zones, with the second hour airing live at 8 A.M. Eastern, 7 A.M. Central, 6 A.M. Mountain and on tape at 7 A.M. Pacific.

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  5. The August 12th airing of "Dotto" would turn out to be the final edition of prime-time version (which was on NBC).

    The final edition of the daytime version of "Dotto" aired there days later, on August 15th over CBS.

    That week, allegations from former stand-by contestant Edward Hilgemier surfaced, claiming that Marie Winn (a college freshman who many years later wrote the best-seller "The Plug-In Drug") had been given answers to questions and puzzles she was asked on the show (the object of "Dotto" was to answer questions which allowed dots to be connected on a puzzle; you'd win if you could guess the person or object depicted in that puzzle).

    By the end of the day on August 15th, both CBS and NBC had cancelled the respective daytime and nighttime versions of "Dotto".

    Once "Dotto" got the axe, former "Twenty-One" contestant Herb Stempel told the newspapers that both he and the contestant who beat him, Charles VanDoren, had ahead of time been given the questions asked on the show and their answers.

    This marked the beginning of the Quiz Show Scandal; by November, all of the prime-time big-money game shows ("Dotto", "twenty-One", "$64,000 Question", etc.) were cancel;led by the networks.

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  6. KYW Cleveland was owned by Group W/Westinghouse.

    The other Group W station then affiliated with NBC, WBZ in Boston, also declined to clear Jack Paar's "Tonight Show". Likewise, Channel 5 in Boston station cleared Paar once that station went on-the-air in November of 1957.

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