October 17, 2022

What's on TV? Monday, October 22, 1951




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?

 
 WCBS (CBS)
 
   10:30
Color—Mike and Buff
 
   11:00
Margaret ArlenInterviews
       
   11:30
Strike It RichWarren Hull
 
   12:00
The Egg and IComedy Series
 
   12:15
Love of LifeDrama Series
 
   12:30
Search for TomorrowDrama
 
   12:45
Steve Allen ShowVariety
 
     1:00
Eve Hunter ShowLadies
 
     1:30
Garry Moore Show
 
     2:00
Left-Over RevueVariety
 
     2:30
First Hundred Years—Serial
 
     2:45
Vanity Fair—Dorothy Dean
 
     3:30
All Around Town—Wallace
 
     4:00
Homemaker’s Exchange
 
     4:30
Color—Mel Torme Show
 
     5:00
Color—Movie Short
 
     5:15
Gabby Hayes Show—Kids
 
     5:30
Color—Whistling Wizard
 
     5:45
Hoofbeats—Western Movie
 
     6:15
The Real McKay—Variety
 
     6:30
“Red Desert”—Movie
Early Show
 
     7:30
CBS News—Douglas Edwards
 
     7:45
Perry Como Show—Music
Guests: The Mills Brothers
 
     8:00
Lux Video Theater—Drama
“The Twinkle in Her Eye”
 
     8:30
Arthur Godfrey Talent Scouts
 
     9:00
I Love Lucy—Comedy Series
 
     9:30
It’s News to Me—Quiz
 
   10:00
Studio One—Drama
“Macbeth”
 
   11:00
Chronoscope—News Panel
 
   11:15
News of Night—Allan Jackson
 
   11:25
Sports of the Night—McKay
 
   11:30
Late Show—Movie
“G.I. Honeymoon”
 
 
 
 WNBT (NBC)
 
   10:30
What’s Your ProblemB. Grover
 
   11:00
Josephine McCarthyCooking
       
   11:30
Footlights & KlieglightsFarrell
 
   11:45
Date in ManhattanVariety
 
   12:00
Ruth Lyons’ 50 ClubLadies
 
   12:30
Date in Manhattan—Ed Herlihy
 
     2:30
Movie Short—30 Minutes
 
     3:00
Miss Susan—Drama Serial
 
     3:15
Here’s Looking at You—Tips
 
     3:30
Bert Parks Show—Variety
 
     4:00
Kate Smith Hour—Variety
 
     5:00
Hawkins Falls—TV Novel
 
     5:30
Howdy Doody—Kids
 
     6:00
Rootie Kazootie Club—Kids
 
     6:15
Seeing Is Believing—Ben Grauer
 
     6:25
News—Peter Roberts
 
     6:30
Tex and Jinx—Interviews
 
     6:55
Weather—Tex Antoine
 
     7:00
Kukla, Fran and Ollie
 
     7:30
Roberta Quinlan—Songs
 
     7:45
Camel Caravan—John Cameron Swayze
 
     8:00
Winchell & Mahoney Show
 
     8:30
Voice of Firestone—Music
Guest: Thomas L. Thomas
 
     9:00
Lights Out—Mystery Play
 
     9:30
Robert Montgomery Presents
“I Wouldn’t Want to Be in Your Shoes”
 
   10:30
Boston Blackie—Film Series
 
   11:00
“Strange Mr. Gregory”—Movie
 
   12:00
Mary Kay—TV Previews
 
 
 
 WABD (Du Mont)
 
   10:05
News; Morning Chapel
 
   10:30
Kitchen FareSusan Adams
 
   11:00
TV ShopperKathi Norris
 
   12:00
For Your InformationKeane
 
   12:15
News; Take the BreakD. Russell
 
     1:00
Johnny Olsen Rumpus Room
 
     5:55
News Bulletins
 
     6:00
Don Winslow—Film Serial
 
     6:30
Magic Cottage—Pat Meikle
 
     7:00
Captain Video—Kid Serial
 
     7:30
Date on Broadway—Music
 
     8:00
Stage Entrance—Earl Wilson
 
     8:30
Johns Hopkins Science Review
 
     9:00
Wrestling—Columbia Park
 
   11:00
Ring the Bell—Hal Tunis
 
   11:30
Late News Bulletins
 
 
 
-6- WNHC (Du Mont, NBC)
 
   10:30
Fran Langford & Don Ameche
       
   11:30
Strike It Rich—Warren Hull
 
   12:00
Ruth Lyons’ 50 ClubLadies
 
   12:15
Love of LifeDrama Series
 
   12:30
Search for TomorrowDrama
 
   12:45
Nancy’s Kitchen
 
     1:30
Garry Moore; Movie
 
     2:30
First Hundred Years—Serial
 
     2:45
Movie Short—15 Minutes
 
     3:00
Miss Susan—Drama Serial
 
     3:15
Here’s Looking at You—Tips
 
     3:30
Bert Parks Show—Variety
 
     4:00
Movie Short—15 Minutes
 
     4:15
Kate Smith Hour—Variety
 
     4:30
Movie Short—15 Minutes
 
     4:45
Kate Smith Hour—Variety
 
     5:00
Movie Short—15 Minutes
 
     5:15
Time for Beany—Puppets
 
     5:30
Howdy Doody—Kids
 
     6:00
Fashions in Music
 
     6:25
Weather Forecast—5 Minutes
 
     6:30
World News Today—J. Burns
 
     6:45
Sidewalk Interviews—J. Milne
 
     7:00
Kukla, Fran and Ollie
 
     7:30
Political Talk—Democrats
 
     7:45
Camel Caravan—John Cameron Swayze
 
     8:00
Lux Video Theater—Drama
“The Twinkle in Her Eye”
 
     8:30
Voice of Firestone—Music
Guest: Thomas L. Thomas
 
     9:00
I Love Lucy—Comedy Series
 
     9:30
It’s News to Me—Quiz
 
   10:00
Studio One—Drama
“Macbeth”
 
   11:00
Schlitz Playhouse—Drama
 
   12:00
Late News Bulletins
 
 
 
 WJZ (ABC)
 
     9:30
Ladies’ Daily; Movie
 
   10:45
Kitchen KapersTiny Ruffner
       
   11:30
Dennis James ShowVariety
 
   12:00
Fran Langford & Don Ameche
 
     1:00
Dione LucasCooking
 
     1:30
Ed and Pegeen Fitzgerald
 
     2:00
Claire Mann Show
 
     2:15
Market Melodies—Syd Smith
 
     3:00
Woody and Virginia Klose
 
     3:30
Nancy Craig—Homemaking
 
     4:00
Hollywood Movie Time—1 Hour
 
     5:00
Uncle Lumpy’s Cabin—Kids
 
     5:30
Tales of the Trail—Movie
 
     6:30
Tom Corbett, Space Cadet
 
     6:45
What’s Playing?—Previews
 
     7:00
UP Fox News—Premiere
John Daly
 
     7:15
Candid Camera—Allen Funt
 
     7:30
Hollywood Screen Test
Arlene Francis, Somer Alberg, Jackie Collins
 
     8:00
Amazing Mr. Malone—Play
 
     8:30
Live Begins at 80—Jack Barry
 
     9:00
Curtain Up—Movie
 
   10:00
Bill Gwinn Show—Variety
 
   10:30
Studs’ Place—Drama
 
   11:00
Nightcap News—Premiere
 
   11:10
Russ Hodges—Sports News
 
   11:20
Film Short—30 Minutes
 
 
 
 WOR (Ind.)
 
   10:30
Telefax NewsNewspaper
 
   12:30
Screening The World; Movie
 
     2:00
Meadows’ Beauty Forum
 
     2:30
Nose for News—Pictures
 
     2:45
Barbara Welles—Interviews
 
     3:00
Sandy Smart’s Kitchen—Tips
 
     3:30
TV Telephone Game
 
     4:00
“Murder in Soho”—Movie
 
     5:00
Buster Crabbe—In Person
 
     6:00
Merry Mailman—Kids
 
     6:30
9 Star Sports—Stan Lomax
 
     6:40
Weather—Frank Forrester
 
     6:45
News—John Wingate
 
     7:00
“Roll Along, Cowboy”—Movie
 
     7:30
Press Conference—Panel
Guest: Rudolph Halley
 
     8:00
“The Last Journey”—Movie
 
     9:00
News—John Wingate
 
     9:05
Boxing—St. Nicholas Arena
 
   11:00
“Pin-Up Wife”—Film
 
 
 
 WPIX (Ind.)
 
   10:45
The Living Blackboard
 
   12:00
Movies At Noon
 
     1:00
News; Matinee Movie
 
     2:30
Ted Steele Show—Variety
 
     5:00
Wally Jackson—Variety
 
     5:30
“Sonora Stagecoach”—Movie
Six Gun Playhouse
 
     6:30
News—Tillman; Weatherman
 
     6:45
Jimmy Powers—Sports News
 
     7:00
News—John K.M. McCaffery
 
     7:15
“Suspense”—Movie
 
     8:15
Viz-Quiz—Jack McCarthy
 
     8:25
News—John Tillman
 
     8:30
Record Breakers—Ed Newman
 
     9:00
Columbia-Penn—Football Film
 
   10:00
Telepix News—Tillman
 
   10:10
Tomorrow’s News—Tillman
 
   10:15
Weatherman—Joe Bolton
 
   10:20
“Behind the Mask”—Movie
 
   11:45
News and Weather Roundup
 
 
 
 WATV (Ind.)
 
   12:00
Coffee ClubInterviews
 
   12:30
Stepping Out
 
     1:00
Science Lesson
 
     1:30
Shop, Look & CookRuth Bean
 
     2:00
Movie
 
     3:30
Musical Jackpot—Quiz
 
     4:00
Western Roundup—Movie
 
     5:00
Junior Frolics—Uncle Fred
 
     5:30
Adventure Theater—Movie
 
     5:50
WATV Picture News
 
     6:00
Hollywood Playhouse—Film
 
     7:00
“Terrors on Horseback”—Movie
 
     8:00
TV Council—Educational
 
     8:30
“Man Who Worked Miracles”—Movie
 
   10:00
Western Feature Movie
 
   11:00
“Double Trouble”—Movie
Stardust Theater
 
   12:15
WATV Picture News

x TV  

3 comments:

  1. Hello again.
    I 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).

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  2. An epochal time in TV when there were no shows to syndicate and run as reruns! Imagine WPIX without any "Honeymooners" episodes...

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  3. Was Ruth Bean of "Stop, Look, And Cook" related to Orson Bean?

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