One of the things you have to keep in mind when looking at this week's listings is that not all stations program continuously during their broadcast day. Therefore, as enjoyable as it might be, we should not assume that WABD's Johnny Olsen Rumpus Room runs for five hours. Ah well. Studio One's "Macbeth" stars Charlton Heston, who did a lot of live television before moving to the big screen. And WNHC's Ruth Lyons’ 50 Club is from the show's brief national run; I wrote about the storied Ruth Lyons here. It's fun how these little bits all eventually come together, isn't it?
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❷ WCBS (CBS)
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10:30
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Color—Mike and Buff
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11:00
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Margaret Arlen—Interviews
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11:30
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Strike It Rich—Warren Hull
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12:00
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The Egg and I—Comedy Series
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12:15
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Love of Life—Drama Series
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12:30
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Search for Tomorrow—Drama
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12:45
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Steve Allen Show—Variety
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1:00
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Eve Hunter Show—Ladies
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1:30
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Garry Moore Show
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2:00
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Left-Over Revue—Variety
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2:30
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First Hundred Years—Serial
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2:45
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Vanity Fair—Dorothy Dean
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3:30
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All Around Town—Wallace
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4:00
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Homemaker’s Exchange
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4:30
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Color—Mel Torme Show
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5:00
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Color—Movie Short
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5:15
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Gabby Hayes Show—Kids
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5:30
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Color—Whistling Wizard
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5:45
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Hoofbeats—Western Movie
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6:15
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The Real McKay—Variety
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6:30
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“Red Desert”—Movie
Early Show
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7:30
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CBS News—Douglas Edwards
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7:45
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Perry Como Show—Music
Guests: The Mills Brothers
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8:00
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Lux Video Theater—Drama
“The Twinkle in Her Eye”
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8:30
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Arthur Godfrey Talent Scouts
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9:00
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I Love Lucy—Comedy Series
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9:30
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It’s News to Me—Quiz
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10:00
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Studio One—Drama
“Macbeth”
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11:00
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Chronoscope—News Panel
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11:15
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News of Night—Allan Jackson
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11:25
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Sports of the Night—McKay
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11:30
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Late Show—Movie
“G.I. Honeymoon”
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❹ WNBT (NBC)
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10:30
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What’s Your Problem—B. Grover
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11:00
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Josephine McCarthy—Cooking
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11:30
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Footlights & Klieglights—Farrell
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11:45
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Date in Manhattan—Variety
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12:00
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Ruth Lyons’ 50 Club—Ladies
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12:30
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Date in Manhattan—Ed Herlihy
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2:30
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Movie Short—30 Minutes
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3:00
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Miss Susan—Drama Serial
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3:15
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Here’s Looking at You—Tips
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3:30
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Bert Parks Show—Variety
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4:00
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Kate Smith Hour—Variety
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5:00
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Hawkins Falls—TV Novel
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5:30
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Howdy Doody—Kids
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6:00
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Rootie Kazootie Club—Kids
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6:15
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Seeing Is Believing—Ben Grauer
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6:25
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News—Peter Roberts
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6:30
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Tex and Jinx—Interviews
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6:55
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Weather—Tex Antoine
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7:00
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Kukla, Fran and Ollie
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7:30
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Roberta Quinlan—Songs
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7:45
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Camel Caravan—John Cameron Swayze
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8:00
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Winchell & Mahoney Show
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8:30
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Voice of Firestone—Music
Guest: Thomas L. Thomas
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9:00
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Lights Out—Mystery Play
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9:30
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Robert Montgomery Presents
“I Wouldn’t Want to Be in Your Shoes”
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10:30
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Boston Blackie—Film Series
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11:00
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“Strange Mr. Gregory”—Movie
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12:00
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Mary Kay—TV Previews
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❺ WABD (Du Mont)
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10:05
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News; Morning Chapel
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10:30
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Kitchen Fare—Susan Adams
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11:00
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TV Shopper—Kathi Norris
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12:00
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For Your Information—Keane
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12:15
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News; Take the Break—D. Russell
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1:00
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Johnny Olsen Rumpus Room
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5:55
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News Bulletins
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6:00
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Don Winslow—Film Serial
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6:30
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Magic Cottage—Pat Meikle
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7:00
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Captain Video—Kid Serial
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7:30
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Date on Broadway—Music
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8:00
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Stage Entrance—Earl Wilson
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8:30
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Johns Hopkins Science Review
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9:00
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Wrestling—Columbia Park
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11:00
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Ring the Bell—Hal Tunis
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11:30
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Late News Bulletins
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-6- WNHC (Du Mont, NBC)
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10:30
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Fran Langford & Don Ameche
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11:30
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Strike It Rich—Warren Hull
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12:00
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Ruth Lyons’ 50 Club—Ladies
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12:15
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Love of Life—Drama Series
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12:30
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Search for Tomorrow—Drama
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12:45
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Nancy’s Kitchen
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1:30
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Garry Moore; Movie
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2:30
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First Hundred Years—Serial
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2:45
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Movie Short—15 Minutes
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3:00
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Miss Susan—Drama Serial
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3:15
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Here’s Looking at You—Tips
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3:30
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Bert Parks Show—Variety
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4:00
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Movie Short—15 Minutes
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4:15
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Kate Smith Hour—Variety
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4:30
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Movie Short—15 Minutes
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4:45
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Kate Smith Hour—Variety
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5:00
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Movie Short—15 Minutes
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5:15
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Time for Beany—Puppets
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5:30
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Howdy Doody—Kids
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6:00
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Fashions in Music
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6:25
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Weather Forecast—5 Minutes
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6:30
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World News Today—J. Burns
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6:45
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Sidewalk Interviews—J. Milne
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7:00
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Kukla, Fran and Ollie
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7:30
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Political Talk—Democrats
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7:45
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Camel Caravan—John Cameron Swayze
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8:00
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Lux Video Theater—Drama
“The Twinkle in Her Eye”
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8:30
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Voice of Firestone—Music
Guest: Thomas L. Thomas
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9:00
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I Love Lucy—Comedy Series
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9:30
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It’s News to Me—Quiz
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10:00
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Studio One—Drama
“Macbeth”
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11:00
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Schlitz Playhouse—Drama
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12:00
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Late News Bulletins
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❼ WJZ (ABC)
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9:30
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Ladies’ Daily; Movie
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10:45
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Kitchen Kapers—Tiny Ruffner
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11:30
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Dennis James Show—Variety
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12:00
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Fran Langford & Don Ameche
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1:00
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Dione Lucas—Cooking
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1:30
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Ed and Pegeen Fitzgerald
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2:00
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Claire Mann Show
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2:15
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Market Melodies—Syd Smith
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3:00
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Woody and Virginia Klose
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3:30
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Nancy Craig—Homemaking
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4:00
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Hollywood Movie Time—1 Hour
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5:00
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Uncle Lumpy’s Cabin—Kids
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5:30
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Tales of the Trail—Movie
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6:30
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Tom Corbett, Space Cadet
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6:45
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What’s Playing?—Previews
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7:00
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UP Fox News—Premiere
John Daly
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7:15
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Candid Camera—Allen Funt
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7:30
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Hollywood Screen Test
Arlene Francis, Somer Alberg, Jackie Collins
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8:00
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Amazing Mr. Malone—Play
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8:30
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Live Begins at 80—Jack Barry
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9:00
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Curtain Up—Movie
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10:00
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Bill Gwinn Show—Variety
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10:30
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Studs’ Place—Drama
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11:00
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Nightcap News—Premiere
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11:10
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Russ Hodges—Sports News
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11:20
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Film Short—30 Minutes
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❾ WOR (Ind.)
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10:30
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Telefax News—Newspaper
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12:30
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Screening The World; Movie
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2:00
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Meadows’ Beauty Forum
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2:30
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Nose for News—Pictures
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2:45
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Barbara Welles—Interviews
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3:00
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Sandy Smart’s Kitchen—Tips
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3:30
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TV Telephone Game
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4:00
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“Murder in Soho”—Movie
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5:00
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Buster Crabbe—In Person
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6:00
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Merry Mailman—Kids
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6:30
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9 Star Sports—Stan Lomax
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6:40
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Weather—Frank Forrester
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6:45
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News—John Wingate
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7:00
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“Roll Along, Cowboy”—Movie
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7:30
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Press Conference—Panel
Guest: Rudolph Halley
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8:00
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“The Last Journey”—Movie
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9:00
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News—John Wingate
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9:05
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Boxing—St. Nicholas Arena
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11:00
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“Pin-Up Wife”—Film
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⓫ WPIX (Ind.)
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10:45
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The Living Blackboard
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12:00
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Movies At Noon
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1:00
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News; Matinee Movie
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2:30
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Ted Steele Show—Variety
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5:00
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Wally Jackson—Variety
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5:30
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“Sonora Stagecoach”—Movie
Six Gun Playhouse
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6:30
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News—Tillman; Weatherman
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6:45
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Jimmy Powers—Sports News
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7:00
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News—John K.M. McCaffery
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7:15
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“Suspense”—Movie
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8:15
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Viz-Quiz—Jack McCarthy
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8:25
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News—John Tillman
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8:30
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Record Breakers—Ed Newman
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9:00
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Columbia-Penn—Football Film
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10:00
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Telepix News—Tillman
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10:10
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Tomorrow’s News—Tillman
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10:15
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Weatherman—Joe Bolton
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10:20
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“Behind the Mask”—Movie
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11:45
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News and Weather Roundup
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⓭ WATV (Ind.)
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12:00
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Coffee Club—Interviews
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12:30
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Stepping Out
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1:00
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Science Lesson
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1:30
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Shop, Look & Cook—Ruth Bean
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2:00
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Movie
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3:30
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Musical Jackpot—Quiz
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4:00
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Western Roundup—Movie
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5:00
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Junior Frolics—Uncle Fred
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5:30
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Adventure Theater—Movie
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5:50
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WATV Picture News
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6:00
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Hollywood Playhouse—Film
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7:00
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“Terrors on Horseback”—Movie
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8:00
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TV Council—Educational
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8:30
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“Man Who Worked Miracles”—Movie
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10:00
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Western Feature Movie
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11:00
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“Double Trouble”—Movie
Stardust Theater
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12:15
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WATV Picture News
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Hello again.
ReplyDeleteI come to you today with the Chicago edition of TV Forecast, which ultimately merged with the many local TV Guides to form the national magazine a few years afterwards.
The networks were still setting up at this point (the coast-to-coast coaxial cable had only just been hooked up), so "national" shows were few and far between.
There were some shows which matched up between New York and Chicago; here are a few from Monday:
- Did the New York edition have loglines for episodes? The Chicago magazine did - and my Olde DVD Wall is coming through for me in unexpected ways.
On NBC (Channel 5 here), at 8 pm there's Lights Out presenting "The Deal", with Tom Ewell selling his wife to the Devil - and then trying to void the sale; it's a morality play with an uplifting ending (sort of).
By the way, the Devil is played here by Joseph Wiseman (pre-Dr. No), with an assist from Martin Gabel, while the wife is played by a young Anne Bancroft (then known as Anne Marno - but that's another story ...).
I've got that show on DVD; regrettably, I don't have the one that follows, Robert Montgomery Presents "I Wouldn't Be In Your Shoes", from a classic Cornell Woolrich story; on the lookout for that one ...
Earlier that evening on ABC, there's Hollywood Screen Test, a talent show hosted by Neil Hamilton (yes, Batfans, Commissioner Gordon himself (eventually, anyway)), with an assist from Arlene Francis (Mrs. Martin Gabel, op cit.).
- Later that same evening, I was pleased to see that the ABC network picked up Studs' Place from our own Channel 7, with Studs Terkel, Win Stracke, Chet Roble, and Bev Younger.
I'm caught in a time bind today, so I have to stand down momentarily; back with more later (I hope).
An epochal time in TV when there were no shows to syndicate and run as reruns! Imagine WPIX without any "Honeymooners" episodes...
ReplyDeleteWas Ruth Bean of "Stop, Look, And Cook" related to Orson Bean?
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