December 13, 2021

What's on TV? Tuesday, December 15, 1959




I've mentioned before that sometimes the most interesting things are hidden in the details; I'd like to think that it's more than just an excuse to talk about things that only interest me, and we'll test that this week. For instance, you'll note that Walter Cronkite is off the noontime news this week, and John Daly is also missing from ABC's evening news. They're accompanying President Eisenhower on his trip to Europe and the Middle East, "the most extensive foreign tour ever undertaken by an American chief executive." And then there's Art Linkletter's guest on House Party, Dr. Carlton Williams. The topic of the day's show is the flouride controversy, and if you think this has to do with different ways of fighting tooth decay, then it's time to introduce you to the Communist plot to use fluoride as a mass tranquilizer. It's worth looking into further, but I'm not sure we're ready to drag the John Birch Society into this discussion. Maybe next week. As for this week, the listings are from the Minnesota State Edition.

 
-2- KTCA (Educ.)
 
    MORNING   
 
    8:30
SCIENCE—Grade 7
 
    9:00
SCIENCE—Grade 1
 
    9:30
SCIENCE—Grade 7
 
  10:00
ARTS AND THE ARTISTS
 
  10:30
SCIENCE—Grade 7
 
  11:00
CHILDREN GROWING III—Piers
 
  11:30
SCIENCE—Grade 7
 
  AFTERNOON 
 
    1:00
SCIENCE—Grade 7
 
    1:30
HISTORY WITH HERB HAKE
 
    2:00
SCIENCE—Grade 7
 
    2:30
TO BE ANNOUNCED
 
     EVENING    
 
    6:30
UNITED NATIONS REVIEW
 
    6:45
INDUSTRY ON PARADE
 
    7:00
ICE SKATING—Kirby
 
    7:30
FROM OUR HERITAGE
 
    8:00
STUDY OF THE FAR EAST
 
    8:30
SACRED SCRIPTURE—Religion
 
    9:00
SOCIOLOGY III—Johnson
 
    9:30
TWIN CITIES PROFILE
 
  10:00
HISTORY WITH HERB HAKE
 
  10:30
BRIEFING SESSION—Discussion
 
 
 
-3- KDAL (DULUTH) (CBS)
 
    MORNING   
 
    7:00
CONTINENTAL CLASSROOM
Physics: Ballistics
 
    7:30
CONTINENTAL CLASSROOM
Chemistry: Heavy Water
 
    8:00
NEWS—Hottelet
Allan Jackson substitutes
 
    8:15
CAPTAIN KANGAROO
 
    9:00
RED ROWE—Variety
 
    9:30
ON THE GO—Linkletter
 
  10:00
I LOVE LUCY
 
  10:30
DECEMBER BRIDE
 
  11:00
LOVE OF LIFE
 
  11:30
SEARCH FOR TOMORROW—Serial
 
  11:45
GUIDING LIGHT
 
  AFTERNOON 
 
  12:00
NEWS—Cronkite
Douglas Edwards substitutes this week
 
  12:05
TOWN AND COUNTRY—Becker
 
  12:30
AS THE WORLD TURNS—Serial
 
    1:00
FOR BETTER OR WORSE—Dr. James Peterson
 
    1:30
HOUSE PARTY
Guest: Dr. Carlton Williams
 
    2:00
MILLIONAIRE
 
    2:30
VERDICT IS YOURS
 
    3:00
BRIGHTER DAY
 
    3:15
SECRET STORM
 
    3:30
EDGE OF NIGHT
 
    4:00
LIFE OF RILEY—Comedy
 
    4:30
MY LITTLE MARGIE—Comedy
 
    5:00
BANDSTAND—Rassbach
 
    5:30
FRONTIER—Western
 
     EVENING    
 
    6:00
NEWS
 
    6:15
NEWS—Edwards
 
    6:30
QUICK DRAW McDRAW
 
    7:00
MANHUNT—Adventure
 
    7:30
DOBIE GILLIS—Comedy
 
    8:00
TIGHTROPE!
 
    8:30
RED SKELTON   COLOR 
Guest: Marie McDonald
 
    9:00
GARRY MOORE
Guests: Steve Lawrence, Johnny Carson
 
  10:00
NEWS, SPORTS
 
  10:15
MOVIE—Drama
“Passage Home” (English; 1956)
 
 
 
 3  KGLO (MASON CITY) (CBS)
 
    MORNING   
 
    8:00
NEWS—Hottelet
Allan Jackson substitutes
 
    8:15
CAPTAIN KANGAROO
 
    9:00
ELEMENTARY SPANISH
 
    9:30
ON THE GO—Linkletter
 
  10:00
I LOVE LUCY
 
  10:30
DECEMBER BRIDE
 
  11:00
LOVE OF LIFE
 
  11:30
SEARCH FOR TOMORROW—Serial
 
  11:45
GUIDING LIGHT
 
  AFTERNOON 
 
  12:00
NEWS
 
  12:30
AS THE WORLD TURNS—Serial
 
    1:00
FOR BETTER OR WORSE—Dr. James Peterson
 
    1:30
HOUSE PARTY
Guest: Dr. Carlton Williams
 
    2:00
MILLIONAIRE
 
    2:30
VERDICT IS YOURS
 
    3:00
BRIGHTER DAY
 
    3:15
SECRET STORM
 
    3:30
EDGE OF NIGHT
 
    4:00
BOB CAVANAUGH—Variety
 
    4:30
MY LITTLE MARGIE—Comedy
 
    5:00
BART’S CLUBHOUSE—Kids
 
    5:45
NEWS, MARKETS, WEATHER
 
     EVENING    
 
    6:15
NEWS—Edwards
 
    6:30
WHIRLYBIRDS—Adventure
 
    7:00
DENNIS O’KEEFE—Comedy
 
    7:30
DOBIE GILLIS—Comedy
 
    8:00
TIGHTROPE!
 
    8:30
RED SKELTON   COLOR 
Guest: Marie McDonald
 
    9:00
GARRY MOORE
Guests: Steve Lawrence, Johnny Carson
 
  10:00
NEWS, SPORTS
 
  10:30
MOVIE—Drama
“While New York Sleeps” (1938)
 
 
 
-4- WCCO (CBS)
 
    MORNING   
 
    7:00
CARTOONS—Siegfried
 
    8:00
NEWS—Hottelet
Allan Jackson substitutes
 
    8:15
CAPTAIN KANGAROO
 
    9:00
REUBEN K. YOUNGDAHL
 
    9:15
NEWS—WHAT’S NEW?
 
    9:30
ON THE GO—Linkletter
 
  10:00
I LOVE LUCY
 
  10:30
DECEMBER BRIDE
 
  11:00
LOVE OF LIFE
 
  11:30
SEARCH FOR TOMORROW—Serial
 
  11:45
GUIDING LIGHT
 
  AFTERNOON 
 
  12:00
NEWS
 
  12:15
TAKE FIVE—Randy Merriman
 
  12:20
WEATHER—Kraehling
 
  12:30
AS THE WORLD TURNS—Serial
 
    1:00
FOR BETTER OR WORSE—Dr. James Peterson
 
    1:30
HOUSE PARTY
Guest: Dr. Carlton Williams
 
    2:00
RANDY MERRIMAN—Variety
 
    2:30
VERDICT IS YOURS
 
    3:00
BRIGHTER DAY
 
    3:15
SECRET STORM
 
    3:30
EDGE OF NIGHT
 
    4:00
AROUND THE TOWN—Haeberle
 
    4:30
S.S. POPEYE—Kids
 
    4:50
BOZO THE CLOWN—Kids
 
    5:00
AXEL AND DOG—Clellan Card
 
    5:30
THREE STOOGES—Comedy
 
    5:55
SPORTS NEWS, WEATHER
 
     EVENING    
 
    6:15
NEWS—Edwards
 
    6:30
HUCKLEBERRY HOUND
 
    7:00
RESCUE 8—Adventure
 
    7:30
DOBIE GILLIS—Comedy
 
    8:00
TIGHTROPE!
 
    8:30
RED SKELTON   COLOR 
Guest: Marie McDonald
 
    9:00
GARRY MOORE
Guests: Steve Lawrence, Johnny Carson
 
  10:00
NEWS, SPORTS
 
  10:30
NIGHT COURT—Drama
 
  11:00
WEATHER—Don O’Brien
 
  11:05
MOVIE—Drama
“Crash Dive” (1943)
 
 
 
-5- KSTP (NBC)
 
    MORNING   
 
    6:00
CONTINENTAL CLASSROOM—Education
Physics: Parallel Circuits
 
    6:30
CONTINENTAL CLASSROOM—Education   COLOR 
Chemistry: Acid Constants
 
    7:00
TODAY—Garroway
Local news at 7:25 and 8:25
 
    9:00
DOUGH RE MI
 
    9:30
PLAY YOUR HUNCH—Quiz
 
  10:00
PRICE IS RIGHT—Cullen   COLOR 
 
  10:30
CONCENTRATION
 
  11:00
TRUTH OR CONSEQUNECES
 
  11:30
IT COULD BE YOU—Bill Leyden   COLOR 
 
  AFTERNOON 
 
  12:00
NEWS
 
  12:20
TREASURE CHEST—Quiz
 
    1:00
QUEEN FOR A DAY
 
    1:30
THIN MAN
 
    2:00
YOUNG DR MALONE
 
    2:30
FROM THESE ROOTS
 
    3:00
HOUSE ON HIGH STREET—Drama
 
    3:30
SPLIT PERSONALITY—Tom Poston
 
    4:00
TOPPER—Comedy
 
    4:30
MY LITTLE MARGIE—Comedy
 
    5:00
ROBIN HOOD—Adventure
 
    5:45
NEWS—Huntley, Brinkley
 
     EVENING    
 
    6:00
NEWS
 
    6:15
WEATHER SHOW—Morris
 
    6:30
LARAMIE—Western
 
    7:30
FIBBER McGEE AND MOLLY—Comedy
 
    8:00
ARTHUR MURRAY   COLOR 
Guests: Burgess Meredith, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Shelly Berman
 
    8:30
STARTIME—Drama   COLOR 
“Cindy’s Fella”
 
    9:30
THIS MAN DAWSON—Police
 
  10:00
NEWS, SPORTS
 
  10:30
HARBOR COMMAND—Police
 
  11:00
JACK PAAR—Variety
Guests: Charley Weaver, Genevieve
 
  12:00
NEWS—Krupp
 
 
 
-6- WDSM (DULUTH) (NBC)
 
    MORNING   
 
    7:00
TODAY—Garroway
Local news at 7:25 and 8:25
 
    9:00
DOUGH RE MI
 
    9:30
PLAY YOUR HUNCH—Quiz
 
  10:00
PRICE IS RIGHT—Cullen   COLOR 
 
  10:30
CONCENTRATION
 
  11:00
TRUTH OR CONSEQUNECES
 
  11:30
IT COULD BE YOU—Bill Leyden   COLOR 
 
  AFTERNOON 
 
  12:00
NEWS
 
  12:05
COMEDY TIME
 
  12:30
OUR MISS BROOKS—Comedy
 
    1:00
QUEEN FOR A DAY
 
    1:30
THIN MAN
 
    2:00
YOUNG DR MALONE
 
    2:30
FROM THESE ROOTS
 
    3:00
HOUSE ON HIGH STREET—Drama
 
    3:30
SPLIT PERSONALITY—Tom Poston
 
    4:00
CAPTAIN Q. AND POPEYE—Kids
 
     EVENING    
 
    6:00
NEWS
 
    6:15
NEWS—Huntley, Brinkley
 
    6:30
LARAMIE—Western
 
    7:30
FIBBER McGEE AND MOLLY—Comedy
 
    8:00
ARTHUR MURRAY   COLOR 
Guests: Burgess Meredith, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Shelly Berman
 
    8:30
STARTIME—Drama   COLOR 
“Cindy’s Fella”
 
    9:30
WICHITA TOWN—Western
 
  10:00
NEWS, SPORTS
 
  10:20
MACKENZIE’S RAIDERS
 
  10:50
SPORTS—Bob Junkert
 
  11:00
JACK PAAR—Variety
Guests: Charley Weaver, Genevieve
 
 
 
 6  KMMT (AUSTIN) (ABC)
 
    MORNING   
 
  11:00
THIS IS THE LIFE—Religion
 
  11:30
CARTOON CARNIVAL—Kids
 
  AFTERNOON 
 
  12:00
RESTLESS GUN—Western
 
  12:30
LOVE THAT BOB!—Comedy
 
    1:00
MUSIC BINGO—Quiz
 
    1:30
NEWS, WEATHER
 
    1:40
MATINEE WITH MARGE
 
    2:00
DAY IN COURT—Drama
 
    2:30
GAIL STORM—Comedy
 
    3:00
BEAT THE CLOCK—Games
 
    3:30
WHO DO YOU TRUST?—Quiz
 
    4:00
AMERICAN BANDSTAND
 
    5:30
RIN TIN TIN—Adventure
 
     EVENING    
 
    6:00
NEWS
 
    6:15
NEWS—John Daly
Don Goddard substitutes this week
 
    6:30
BRONCO—Western
 
    7:30
WYATT EARP—Western
 
    8:00
RIFLEMAN—Western
 
    8:30
PHILIP MARLOWE—Mystery
 
    9:00
ALCOA PRESENTS—Drama
“Father Image”
 
    9:30
KEEP TALKING—Comedy
 
  10:00
NEWS, SPORTS
 
  10:30
SHERLOCK HOLMES—Mystery
 
  11:00
PARIS PRECINCT—Police
 
  11:30
NEWS BRIEFS
 
 
 
 8  WKBT (LA CROSSE) (CBS)
 
    MORNING   
 
    9:30
ON THE GO—Linkletter
 
  10:00
I LOVE LUCY
 
  10:30
DECEMBER BRIDE
 
  11:00
LOVE OF LIFE
 
  11:30
SEARCH FOR TOMORROW—Serial
 
  11:45
GUIDING LIGHT
 
  AFTERNOON 
 
  12:00
NEWS—Cronkite
Douglas Edwards substitutes this week
 
  12:05
COLONEL FLACK—Comedy
 
  12:30
AS THE WORLD TURNS—Serial
 
    1:00
FOR BETTER OR WORSE—Dr. James Peterson
 
    1:30
HOUSE PARTY
Guest: Dr. Carlton Williams
 
    2:00
MILLIONAIRE
 
    2:30
VERDICT IS YOURS
 
    3:00
BRIGHTER DAY
 
    3:15
SECRET STORM
 
    3:30
EDGE OF NIGHT
 
    4:00
MOVIE—Western
“Round-up Time in Texas” (1937)
 
    5:00
FLIGHT—Drama
 
    5:30
RIN TIN TIN—Adventure
 
     EVENING    
 
    6:00
FARM DIGEST
 
    6:05
SPORTS, NEWS, WEATHER
 
    6:15
NEWS—Edwards
 
    6:30
COULEE CROSSROADS
 
    7:00
RIFLEMAN—Western
 
    7:30
WYATT EARP—Western
 
    8:00
TIGHTROPE!
 
    8:30
PETER GUNN—Mystery
 
    9:00
GARRY MOORE
Guests: Steve Lawrence, Johnny Carson
 
  10:00
NEWS, SPORTS
 
  10:20
SPORTS ALBUM
 
  10:30
LINEUP—Police
 
  11:30
CHARLEY WEAVER—Comedy
 
 
 
-9- KMSP (Ind.)
 
    MORNING   
 
  10:30
CHAPEL OF THE AIR—Religion
 
  10:40
NEWSBEAT—Lee, Parker
 
  11:00
MOVIE—Drama
“Child of Divorce” (1946)
 
  AFTERNOON 
 
  12:00
KARTOONTIME—Pegge and Dave
 
  12:30
CHUCK CARSON—Variety
 
    1:00
COMBAT SERGEANT—Drama
 
    1:30
MR. AND MRS. NORTH—Mystery
 
    2:00
MOVIE—Drama
“Grand Exit” (1935)
 
    4:00
IT’S A GREAT LIFE—Comedy
 
    4:30
I MARRIED JOAN—Comedy
 
    5:00
SUSIE—Comedy
 
    5:30
OUR MISS BROOKS—Comedy
 
     EVENING    
 
    6:00
LOONEY TUNERS CLUB—Lee
 
    6:30
SPORTS HOT SEAT—O’Neil
 
    7:00
CRUNCH AND DES—Adventure
 
    7:30
BISHOP SHEEN—Religion
 
    8:00
WRESTLING—Minneapolis
 
    9:00
HONEYMOONERS—Gleason
 
    9:30
KEEP TALKING—Comedy
 
  10:00
MOVIE—Comedy
“Bedtime Story” (1941)
 
  11:45
NEWS, SPORTS, WEATHER
 
  12:00
TV READER’S DIGEST—Drama
 
  12:30
NEWS
 
 
 
10 KROC (ROCHESTER) (NBC)
 
    MORNING   
 
    6:00
CONTINENTAL CLASSROOM—Education
Physics: Parallel Circuits
 
    6:30
CONTINENTAL CLASSROOM—Education   COLOR 
Chemistry: Acid Constants
 
    7:00
TODAY—Garroway
Local news at 7:25 and 8:25
 
    9:00
DOUGH RE MI
 
    9:30
PLAY YOUR HUNCH—Quiz
 
  10:00
PRICE IS RIGHT—Cullen   COLOR 
 
  10:30
CONCENTRATION
 
  11:00
TRUTH OR CONSEQUNECES
 
  11:30
IT COULD BE YOU—Bill Leyden   COLOR 
 
  AFTERNOON 
 
  12:00
NEWS
 
  12:15
CHANNEL 10 CALLING
 
  12:30
CHRISTOPHERS—Religion
 
    1:00
QUEEN FOR A DAY
 
    1:30
THIN MAN
 
    2:00
YOUNG DR MALONE
 
    2:30
FROM THESE ROOTS
 
    3:00
HOUSE ON HIGH STREET—Drama
 
    3:30
SPLIT PERSONALITY—Tom Poston
 
    4:00
WHAT’S NEW?—Don Perry
 
    4:30
CIRCUS BOY—Adventure
 
    5:00
THREE STOOGES—Comedy
 
    5:30
QUICK DRAW McGRAW
 
     EVENING    
 
    6:00
NEWS
 
    6:15
NEWS—Huntley, Brinkley
 
    6:30
LARAMIE—Western
 
    7:30
FIBBER McGEE AND MOLLY—Comedy
 
    8:00
ARTHUR MURRAY   COLOR 
Guests: Burgess Meredith, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Shelly Berman
 
    8:30
STARTIME—Drama   COLOR 
“Cindy’s Fella”
 
    9:30
JOHN NESBITT—Drama
 
  10:00
NEWS, SPORTS
 
  10:30
JACK PAAR—Variety
Guests: Charley Weaver, Genevieve
 
 
 
11 WTCN (ABC)
 
    MORNING   
 
    8:30
FILM FEATURE
 
    8:55
FARM NEWS—Stuart A. Lindman
 
    9:00
ROMPER ROOM—Miss June
 
    9:45
SHAPE UP—Louraine Larson
 
  10:00
MOVIE—Drama
“Wings for the Eagle” (1942)
 
  11:45
NEWS, WEATHER
 
  AFTERNOON 
 
  12:00
RESTLESS GUN—Western
 
  12:30
LOVE THAT BOB!—Comedy
 
    1:30
BURNS AND ALLEN—Comedy
 
    2:00
DAY IN COURT—Drama
 
    2:30
GAIL STORM—Comedy
 
    3:00
BEAT THE CLOCK—Games
 
    3:30
WHO DO YOU TRUST?—Quiz
 
    4:00
AMERICAN BANDSTAND
 
    5:00
CASEY JONES—Kids
 
    5:30
RIN TIN TIN—Adventure
 
     EVENING    
 
    6:00
UNION PACIFIC—Adventure
 
    6:30
BRONCO—Western
 
    7:30
WYATT EARP—Western
 
    8:00
RIFLEMAN—Western
 
    8:30
PHILIP MARLOWE—Mystery
 
    9:00
ALCOA PRESENTS—Drama
“Father Image”
 
    9:30
DENNIS O’KEEFE—Comedy
 
  10:00
NEWS, SPORTS
 
  11:25
FINAL NEWS ROUNDUP
 
  11:30
I LED THREE LIVES—Carlson
 
 
 
13 WEAU (EAU CLAIRE) (NBC)
 
    MORNING   
 
    6:00
CONTINENTAL CLASSROOM—Education
Physics: Parallel Circuits
 
    6:30
CONTINENTAL CLASSROOM—Education   COLOR 
Chemistry: Acid Constants
 
    7:00
TODAY—Garroway
Local news at 7:25 and 8:25
 
    9:00
DOUGH RE MI
 
    9:30
PLAY YOUR HUNCH—Quiz
 
  10:00
PRICE IS RIGHT—Cullen   COLOR 
 
  10:30
CONCENTRATION
 
  11:00
TRUTH OR CONSEQUNECES
 
  11:30
IT COULD BE YOU—Bill Leyden   COLOR 
 
  AFTERNOON 
 
  12:00
FILM FEATURE
 
  12:30
NEWS, MARKETS
 
    1:00
QUEEN FOR A DAY
 
    1:30
THIN MAN
 
    2:00
YOUNG DR MALONE
 
    2:30
FROM THESE ROOTS
 
    3:00
HOUSE ON HIGH STREET—Drama
 
    3:30
SPLIT PERSONALITY—Tom Poston
 
    4:00
FILM FEATURE
 
    4:30
CARTOONS—Kids
 
    5:00
FILM FEATURE
 
    5:30
BOOK BREAK
 
     EVENING    
 
    6:00
OUR LAND, OUR LIVING
 
    6:10
NEWS, WEATHER
 
    6:30
LARAMIE—Western
 
    7:30
ERNIE RECK SHOW—Music
 
    8:00
RIFLEMAN—Western
 
    8:30
STARTIME—Drama   COLOR 
“Cindy’s Fella”
 
    9:30
FIBBER McGEE AND MOLLY
 
  10:00
NEWS, SPORTS
 
  10:20
MOVIE—War Drama
“God Is My Co-Pilot” (1945)
 
  10:30
CHARLEY WEAVER—Comedy
 
  11:00
MOVIE—Mystery
“House in the Woods” (English; 1957)
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2 comments:

  1. It's my understanding that Red Skelton's show was occasionally broadcast in color from 1955 until 1965, when it went color every week.

    Skelton was said to have bee very enthusiastic abiut about color TV.

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    1. I've heard the same on both those points. With that red hair, I can understand why!

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