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What's on TV: Sunday, December 17, 1961

Well, it occurs to me that we haven't looked at a Sunday listing lately, and I couldn't find the last time we'd done one from the 1961-62 season, so here we are. This is a genuine Twin Cities issue, without the outstate stations; you also won't see anything from KTCA, the educational channel, since back then Channel 2 didn't broadcast over the weekend. We certainly aren't lacking in programs of interest, though.



 4  WCCO (CBS)
Morning
    8:00 SACRED HEART—Religion
    8:15 DAVEY AND GOLIATH—Religion
    8:30 LIGHT TIME—Religion
    8:45 CHRISTIAN SCIENCE—Religion
    9:00 BUSINESS AND FINANCE
    9:30 CIMARRON CITY—Western
  10:30 BOZO THE CLOWN—Children
  11:15 WORLD OF AVIATION—Booen
  11:30 NEWS—Dean Montgomery
  11:45 BOWLERAMA—Don Dahl
Afternoon
  12:45 PRO FOOTBALL KICKOFFLast show of the series.
    1:00 PRO FOOTBALL—Vikings vs. BearsLast regularly scheduled game of the season.
    3:45 FOOTBALL FOLLOW UPLast regularly scheduled show of the season.
    4:00 AMATEUR HOUR—Ted Mack
    4:30 G-E COLLEGE BOWL—Quiz North Dakota vs. Bates
    5:00 TWENTIETH CENTURY
    5:30 MISTER ED—Comedy
Evening
    6:00 LASSIE—Drama
    6:30 DENNIS THE MENACE—Comedy
    7:00 ED SULLIVAN—VarietyGuests: Louis Armstrong and his band, Duke Ellington, Paul Anka, Walter Chiari and Barbara Cook, Wayne and Shuster, the Baird Puppets, Corbett Monica 
    8:00 G.E. THEATER“Tippy-Top”
    8:30 JACK BENNY—Comedy
    9:00 CANDID CAMERA—Durward Kirby
    9:30 WHAT’S MY LINE?—Panel Guest: Martin Gabel
  10:00 NEWS—Dean Montgomery
  10:15 WEATHER—Bud Kraehling
  10:20 SPORTS—Dick Enroth
  10:30 BOWLING BONANZA—Merriman
Oscar winner Red Buttons stars in the half-hour musical "Tippy-Top" on G.E. Theater at 8:00 p.m., as the "imaginary" friend of a lonely boy named Randy, played by Ronny Howard. Mark Sandrich Jr, who co-wrote the musical's book along with Sidney Michaels, is the son of Mark Sandrich Sr., who produced and directed Holiday Inn, among many successful musicals. A little seasonal linkage there.


 5  KSTP (NBC)
Morning
    7:30 FAR HORIZONS—Education
    8:00 BIBLE STORY TIME--Religion
    8:30 ADVENTURES IN AFRICA
    8:45 CHRISTOPHERS—Religion
    9:00 QUIZ A CATHOLIC—Religion
    9:30 ETERNAL LIGHT—Religion
  10:00 BIG PICTURE—Army
  10:30 THIS IS THE LIFE—Religion
  11:00 AMERICAN ADVENTURE
  11:30 MOVIE—Western“Pioneer Trail” (1941)
Afternoon
  12:30 BUILDERS’ SHOWCASE
    1:00 PRO FOOTBALL—Steelers vs. CardinalsLast regularly scheduled game of the season.
    3:30 ORGAN MUSIC
    3:45 PATTERNS IN MUSIC   COLOR Time Approximate.Joined in progress. Last show of the season.
    4:00 WISDOM—Conversation
    4:30 CHET HUNTLEY—News Analysis
    5:00 MEET THE PRESS—Interview   COLOR Guest: George Meany
    5:30 1, 2, 3, GO!—Children
Evening
    6:00 BULLWINKLE—Cartoons   COLOR 
    6:30 WALT DISNEY’S WORLD   COLOR 
    7:30 CAR 54—Comedy
    8:00 BONANZA—Western   COLOR 
    9:00 DU PONT SHOW—Drama   COLOR “Trick or Treason”
  10:00 NEWS—John MacDougall
  10:15 WEATHER—Pete Evanston
  10:20 SPORTS—Al Tighe
  10:30 CAMEO THEATER—Drama   COLOR “The Man Without a Country”
  11:30 FAMOUS PLAYHOUSE”Next Stop Bethlehem”
"Trick or Treason," the episode on Du Point Show of the Week, sounds as if it should have been shown around Halloween, but in reality it's a World War II espionage story, starring  Monique Van Vooren  about how the Allies fooled the Germans into expecting the D-Day landing at the wrong place.


 9  KMSP (ABC)
Morning
  10:30 JIM BOWIE—Adventure
  11:00 ORAL ROBERTS—Religion
  11:30 SUSIE—Comedy
Afternoon
  12:00 SILENT SERVICE—Drama
  12:30 SOUL’S HARBOR—Religion
    1:00 BOWLING QUEENS—Tattler
    1:30 MY LITTLE MARGIE—Comedy
    2:00 FOOTBALL WITH TONY PARKERLast regularly scheduled show.
    2:30 PRO FOOTBALL—Titans vs. TexansLast regularly scheduled game.
    5:30 MAVERICK—Western
Evening
    6:30 FOLLOW THE SUN—Drama
    7:30 LAWMAN—Western
    8:00 BUS STOP—Drama
    9:00 ADVENTURES IN PARADISE
  10:00 NEWS—Bob Allard
  10:15 MAN WHO WAS THERE—Grim
  10:30 MOVIE—Drama“Come to the Stable” (1949)
I couldn't imagine a program today called Bowling Queens, could you?


11 WTCN (Ind.)
Morning
    9:45 BUSINESS TOPICS
  10:00 FAITH FOR TODAY—Religion
  10:30 FARM FORUM—Agriculture
  11:00 CHURCH SERVICE—Protestant
Afternoon
  12:00 HOUSE DETECTIVE—Jim Wiley
    1:00 EXECUTIVE REPORT—Discussion
    1:30 MINNESOTA FORUM—Debate
    2:30 MOVIE—Drama “Desperate Journey” (1942)
    4:00 MOVIE—Comedy“Go West, Young Man” (1936)
    5:45 DR. HAROLD DEUTSCH
Evening
    6:00 BOLD JOURNEY—Travel
    6:30 GREAT MUSIC—Chicago
    7:30 PLAY OF THE WEEK—Drama“Henry IV, Part I”
    9:30 NEWS—Jack Huston
    9:45 WEATHER—Stuart A. Lindman
    9:50 SPORTS—Buetel, Horner
  10:00 MOVIE—DramaSelect Theater: “Going My Way” (1944)“News Roundup” follows at the conclusion of the movie.
Interestingly enough, "Henry IV, Part 1," on the NTA  syndicated Play of the Week, is not a British import, but a production from the Phoenix Theatre in New York. According to this site , its original airing, in 1960, faced some stiff competition: it was shown on September 26, opposite the first Kennedy-Nixon debate. TV  

This week in TV Guide: December 16, 1961

This week's cover story is on Richard Chamberlain, star of NBC's new hit medical drama Dr. Kildare, based on the long-running movie and radio series. The emphasis of the unbylined article is that Chamberlain is not only down-to-earth, he's more interested in becoming a true actor than cashing in on a pretty face. In fact, watching co-star Massey recently, he was heard to comment, "How I wish I had his face!" (As you can tell from Massey's photo on the cover, a face like that—full of integrity and gravitas—will keep an actor in business for a long time, as indeed it does for Massey.)

His co-stars love working with him; Suzanne Pleshette says he's not impressed with himself, that he "listens instead of just worrying about which is his good side." Anne Francis adds that "He has dignity and a sense of integrity, both as an actor and as a person." And producer Herbert Hirschman says that his secret is a simple one: "He has not only the talent but the willingness to learn how to develop it."

Chamberlain doesn't feel like a star; part of it, he thinks, is because he plays a doctor. "I mean, I'm not a rock 'n' roll singer or a private eye or anything like that." He appreciates his success, but doesn't want to be stereotyped by Kildare; two or three years, fine, but "they pick up a new face in this business, use it, wear it out in a hurry and discard it." Besides acting, he's also studying music, and his teacher says he is "completely dedicated to making himself as good as he can be, considering the equipment he has been given." It's those qualities that have kept Richard Chamberlain in the business for a long time as well.

Around the dial

It's the last edition of "Around the Dial" before Christmas, so let's see what kind of shiny things might be under our classic TV Christmas tree!

It's Volume 1, Number 11 of The Twilight Zone Magazine on tap this week at Twilight Zone Vortex, and among the features, Gahan Wilson reviews John Waters' Polyester, Tom Seligson interviews Wes Craven, and it's Part Eleven of Marc Scott Zicree's essential TZ episode guide.

In a related development, David has another installment of "The Unshakeables" at Comfort TV: this one is Rod Serling's seminal 1955 teleplay Patterns , as presented on Kraft Television Theatre. So large was the impact of this live broadcast that it was restaged again a month later—remember, this was the era of live TV.

Speaking of sci-fi: proof that truth can be, if not stranger, at least more fantastic than fiction, is shown at The Federalist, where Howard Chang and Jordan Lorence look back at the Christmas Eve, 1968, broadcast of Apollo 8, and how it was a " Christmas miracle for a weary world ."

At Bob Crane: Life & Legacy, Carol recalls the wonderfully surrealistic Hollywood Palace Christmas show of 1965 in which the entire cast of Hogan's Heroes, in character, appear as guests with their "boss," host Bing Crosby, whose production company was responsible for Hogan. Yours truly is quoted in a very nice article.
Martin Grams  reviews Side by Side: Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis on TV and Radio, a new book by Michael Hayde, that takes a look at a part of the duo's legacy that isn't often discussed: their work on radio. I have Hayde's very good book on Dragnet; this one should be equally interesting.
At Television Obscurities, Robert answers a reader's question about the 1973-74 program The Burt Reynolds Late Show , which aired in place of the Saturday Tonight Show reruns in the days before Saturday Night Live took over the timeslot. Talk about obscure; I have no memory of this, although seeing as how this was during my exile in The World's Worst Town™, we would have gotten a local movie in that timeslot instead. But I'm in a good mood now, so don't get me started with those memories!

Finally, a blog note: we're now on Twitter, so be sure and follow us here ; as I continue to build up the feed, look for exclusives you won't see here, as well as links to more classic TV goodies.  TV  

The untold stories of history, as seen on TV

There's a scene in the classic Yuletide movie The Bishop's Wife—the original version, with Cary Grant, Loretta Young and David Niven—in which Grant's character, an angel, explains to a history professor (Monty Wolley) the significance of a seemingly unimportant old coin. It's a coin that Julius Caesar minted to honor Cleopatra, Grant says, and Caesar's jealous wife ordered all copies of the coin destroyed; this particular coin is the only one that survived. Grant point to the professor (and I'm paraphrasing here) is that these untold stories are what make up history, and he's right. The headlines may tell us what happened, but oftentimes it's these little moments that make history real, that bring it to life.

Case in point is this video from the Archive of American Television, a product of the  Academy of Television Arts & Sciences , and let me take a moment here to put in a plug for the Archive's YouTube channel, which is a veritable oral history of television. Click on one of these videos, and I can almost guarantee that two hours later you'll still be pursuing a thread of interviews, each one more interesting than you could possibly have imagined, valuable not only to a humble television historian such as yours truly, but to anyone interested in television of any era.

What we have here is a segment from a longer interview with Max Schindler , veteran news director at NBC. He's talking about his role in the coverage of John F. Kennedy's assassination and funeral, and in just a little over eight minutes he provides several such moments of untold history, none more fascinating than his final anecdote, one dealing with the arrival of Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base, carrying the late President Kennedy and the very-much alive President Lyndon Johnson. Listen to the story of Johnson's departure from the plane to face the cameras for the first time as president.*


*Here is a link to the scene that Schindler describes. 

It's that untold story, told to Schindler by LBJ, that you won't read in most history books. And yet, as Jim Lehrer says in another of the Academy's interviews , everyone has stories like this; and it is these stories, taken together, that form the mosaic that is history. It lives, it breathes, it jumps off the page and the screen. It becomes the story of us, the story of humanity—and that is how history lives forever. TV  

What's on TV? Tuesday, December 16, 1958

We're 10 days out from Christmas, and we do have a couple of seasonal shows on tap tonight; Songs of Christmas on KTCA at 6:00 p.m. (I wonder if high school choirs are even allowed to sing sacred carols anymore?), and The Christmas Gift at 9:00 p.m. on WCCO. Never fear, though; there's plenty more to watch. In case you hadn't guessed, we're in Minnesota this week.



 2  KTCA (Educ.)
Afternoon
    1:05 HEALTH AND FITNESS
    1:30 SCIENCE—1st Grade
    2:00 SCIENCE—7th Grade
    2:30 HEALTH AND FITNESS
    2:45 AS TEACHERS TEACH
    5:00 MAGIC DOORWAYS—Education
    5:15 FIGNEWTON’S NEWSPAPER
    5:30 CHILDREN’S CORNER
Evening
    6:00 SONGS OF CHRISTMAS—MusicSouthwest High School Choir
    6:30 TETE-A-TETE—Education
    7:00 COMPASS—Education   DEBUT 
    7:30 CRIMINAL MAN—Education
    8:00 MIDDLE EAST STUDY
    8:30 HUMAN GEOGRAPHY—Education
    9:00 U. OF MINNESOTA
    9:30 HUMAN BEHAVIOR—Education
  10:00 MUSIC AND MAN
  10:30 NEW DIMENSIONS IN LEARNING—Education   DEBUT 
I have no idea whether or not Fignewton's Newspaper is spelled correctly—I'd have spelled it Fig Newton—but in the absence of irrefutable evidence, I'm going with the way it is in the issue. Just so you all know.


 3  KDAL (Duluth) (CBS)
Morning
    8:00 CAPTAIN KANGAROO—Kids
    8:45 NEWS—Stuart Novins
    9:00 FOR LOVE OR MONEY
    9:30 PLAY YOUR HUNCH
  10:00 ARTHUR GODFREY
  10:30 TOP DOLLAR
  11:00 LOVE OF LIFE
  11:30 SEARCH FOR TOMORROW
  11:45 GUIDING LIGHT—Serial
Afternoon
  12:00 NEWS—Walter Cronkite
  12:05 TOWN AND COUNTRY—Becker
  12:30 AS THE WORLD TURNS
    1:00 JIMMY DEANGuest: Eileen Barton
    1:30 HOUSE PARTYGuest: Fernando Lamas
    2:00 BIG PAYOFF—Quiz
    2:30 VERDICT IS YOURS
    3:00 BRIGHTER DAY
    3:15 SECRET STORM
    3:30 EDGE OF NIGHT
    4:00 TV HOUR OF STARS—Drama
    5:00 BANDSTAND—Jim Rassbach
    5:30 ADVENTURE TIME
Evening
    6:00 NEWS
    6:15 NEWS—Doug Edwards
    6:30 WHERE WE STAND   SPECIAL 
    7:30 WOODY WOODPECKER—Cartoons
    8:00 RIFLEMAN
    8:30 RED SKELTON—Comedy
    9:00 GARRY MOORE—Variety Guests: Helen Traubel, Dorothy Collins, Wally Cox, Varel and Bailly
  10:00 NEWS
  10:15 MOVIE—Adventure“Run for the Sun” (1946)
Fernando Lamas is Art Linkletter's guest on House Party, and I'll bet he looks marvelous.


 3  KGLO (Mason City, IA) (CBS)
Morning
    8:00 CAPTAIN KANGAROO—Kids
    8:45 NEWS—Stuart Novins
    9:00 FOR LOVE OR MONEY
    9:30 PLAY YOUR HUNCH
  10:00 ARTHUR GODFREY
  10:30 TOP DOLLAR
  11:00 LOVE OF LIFE
  11:30 SEARCH FOR TOMORROW
  11:45 GUIDING LIGHT—Serial
Afternoon
  12:00 NEWS
  12:30 AS THE WORLD TURNS
    1:00 JIMMY DEANGuest: Eileen Barton
    1:30 HOUSE PARTYGuest: Fernando Lamas
    2:00 BIG PAYOFF—Quiz
    2:30 VERDICT IS YOURS
    3:00 BRIGHTER DAY
    3:15 SECRET STORM
    3:30 EDGE OF NIGHT
    4:00 BOB CAVANAUGH—Variety
    5:00 BART’S CLUBHOUSE—Kids
    5:30 TIME OUT FOR TEENS
    5:45 NEWS—Doug Edwards
Evening
    6:00 FARM REPORTER—Al Heinz
    6:05 SPORTS, NEWS, WEATHER
    6:30 JEFF’S COLLIE—Drama
    7:00 TEXAN—Western
    7:30 TO TELL THE TRUTHGuest panelist: Jackie Cooper
    8:00 ARTHUR GODFREY
    8:30 RED SKELTON—Comedy
    9:00 GARRY MOORE—Variety Guests: Helen Traubel, Dorothy Collins, Wally Cox, Varel and Bailly
  10:00 NEWS
  10:30 BADGE 714—Jack Webb
  11:00 READ FASTER—Education
Singer Eileen Barton, Jimmy Dean's guest, is best known for her hit, " If I Knew You Were Comin' I'd've Baked a Cake ."


 4  WCCO (CBS)
Morning
    7:00 CARTOONS—Siegfried
    8:00 CAPTAIN KANGAROO—Kids
    8:45 REUBEN K. YOUNGDAHL
    8:55 NEWS—Dean Montgomery
    9:00 FOR LOVE OR MONEY
    9:30 PLAY YOUR HUNCH
  10:00 ARTHUR GODFREY
  10:30 TOP DOLLAR
  11:00 LOVE OF LIFE
  11:30 SEARCH FOR TOMORROW
  11:45 GUIDING LIGHT—Serial
Afternoon
  12:00 NEWS
  12:15 TAKE FIVE—Cedric Adams
  12:20 WEATHER—Kraehling
  12:30 AS THE WORLD TURNS
    1:00 JIMMY DEANGuest: Eileen Barton
    1:30 HOUSE PARTYGuest: Fernando Lamas
    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 COMMODORE CAPPY—Kids
    5:00 AXEL AND DOG—Clellan Card
    5:30 POPEYE CLUBHOUSE—Kids
    5:55 WEATHER, NEWS, SPORTS
Evening
    6:15 NEWS—Doug Edwards
    6:30 HUCKLEBERRY HOUND
    7:00 NEW YORK CONFIDENTIAL
    7:30 TO TELL THE TRUTHGuest panelist: Jackie Cooper
    8:00 ARTHUR GODFREY
    8:30 RED SKELTON—Comedy
    9:00 CHRISTMAS GIFT—Musical   SPECIAL 
  10:00 NEWS, SPORTS
  10:30 PAROLE—Police
  11:00 MOVIE—Drama“Street of Missing Men” (1939)
I'd never heard of Parole; it's a rather unusual example of a reality series, involving real criminals pleading their cases before real parole boards. I don't think I've ever heard of such a thing on television, and frankly I'm surprised someone hasn't thought of this since. Perhaps they could use some of the convicts arrested in Cops.


 5  KSTP (NBC)
Morning
    6:05 DAVID STONE—Variety
    6:30 CONTINENTAL CLASSROOM—Education“Surface Tension”
    7:00 TODAY—GarrowayLocal news at 7:25 and 8:25 A.M.
    9:00 DOUGH-RE-MI
    9:30 TREASURE HUNT
  10:00 PRICE IS RIGHT
  10:30 CONCENTRATION
  11:00 TIC TAC DOUGH
  11:30 IT COULD BE YOU
Afternoon
  12:00 NEWS
  12:20 TREASURE CHEST—Hutton
    1:00 TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES—Stunts   COLOR 
    1:30 HAGGIS BAGGIS—Quiz   COLOR 
    2:00 TODAY IS OURS
    2:30 FROM THESE ROOTS—Serial
    3:00 QUEEN FOR A DAY
    3:30 COUNTY FAIR—Parks
    4:00 MY LITTLE MARGIE—Comedy
    4:30 HAWKEYE—Adventure
    5:00 SHERWOOD FOREST—Adventure
    5:45 NEWS—Huntley, Brinkley
Evening
    6:00 NEWS
    6:20 YOU SHOULD KNOW—Quiz
    6:30 DRAGNET—Jack Webb
    7:00 GEORGE GOBEL   COLOR Guests: Tennessee Ernie Ford, Jo Stafford, Rose Bowl Queen Pamela Prather and court
    8:00 GEORGE BURNS—Comedy   SPECIAL Guest: Eddie Fisher
    8:30 BOB CUMMINGS—Comedy
    9:00 CALIFORNIANS—Western
    9:30 STATE TROOPER—Police
  10:00 NEWS, SPORTS
  10:30 BADGE 714—Jack Webb
  11:00 JACK PAAR—Variety Guest: Sheila Guyse
  12:00 NEWS
I'm not positive, but I believe Sherwood Forest is the alternate title to The Adventures of Robin Hood, starring Richard Greene. Of course, we know that Badge 714 is the syndicated title of Dragnet. Interesting, isn't it, that we get to see both Dragnet and 714 on KSTP tonight? Kind of like getting to see Gunsmoke and Marshal Dillon on Saturday night on WCCO.


 6  WDSM (Duluth) (NBC)
Morning
    6:30 CONTINENTAL CLASSROOM—Education“Surface Tension”
    7:00 TODAY—GarrowayLocal news at 7:25 and 8:25 A.M.
    9:00 DOUGH-RE-MI
    9:30 TREASURE HUNT
  10:00 PRICE IS RIGHT
  10:30 CONCENTRATION
  11:00 TIC TAC DOUGH
  11:30 IT COULD BE YOU
Afternoon
  12:00 NEWS
  12:05 MOVIE—Comedy“A Night at the Ritz” (1935) Part 1.
    1:00 TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES—Stunts   COLOR 
    1:30 HAGGIS BAGGIS—Quiz   COLOR 
    2:00 TODAY IS OURS
    2:30 FROM THESE ROOTS—Serial
    3:00 QUEEN FOR A DAY
    3:30 COUNTY FAIR—Parks
    4:00 POPEYE—Cartoons
    5:25 BRAVE EAGLE—Western
Evening
    6:00 NEWS
    6:15 NEWS—Huntley, Brinkley
    6:30 TUGBOAT ANNIE—Comedy
    7:00 GEORGE GOBEL   COLOR Guests: Tennessee Ernie Ford, Jo Stafford, Rose Bowl Queen Pamela Prather and court
    8:00 GEORGE BURNS—Comedy   SPECIAL Guest: Eddie Fisher
    8:30 BOB CUMMINGS—Comedy
    9:00 CALIFORNIANS—Western
    9:30 BUCKSKIN—Western
  10:00 NEWS
  10:15 BOOTS AND SADDLES—Western
  10:45 JACK PAAR—Variety Guest: Sheila Guyse
I alluded to this on Saturday, but Eddie Fisher, who guests with George Burns at 8:00, alternates with George Gobel in the 7:00 timeslot. This is Eddie's week off, but not really.


 6  KMMT (Austin) (ABC)
Morning
  10:30 THIS IS THE LIFE—Religion
  11:00 DAY IN COURT—Drama
  11:30 PETER LIND HAYESGuests: The Playmates
Afternoon
  12:30 MOTHER’S DAY—Contest
    1:00 LIBERACE—VarietyGuest: Joan O’Brien
    1:30 NEWS, WEATHER
    1:40 MATINEE WITH MARGE
    2:00 MUSIC BINGO—Quiz
    2:30 THIS IS ALICE—Comedy
    3:00 BEAT THE CLOCK—Collyer
    3:30 WHO DO YOU TRUST?—Quiz
    4:00 AMERICAN BANDSTANDGuests: De John Sisters
    5:30 ADVENTURE TIME
Evening
    6:00 NEWS
    6:15 NEWS—Don Goddard
    6:30 CHEYENNE—Western
    7:30 WYATT EARP—Western
    8:00 RIFLEMAN
    8:30 NAKED CITY—Police
    9:00 CONFESSION—Interview
    9:30 DICK POWELL—Drama
  10:00 NEWS
  10:15 NEWS—John Daly
  10:30 TV HOUR OF STARS—Drama
Like Parole, Confession was a television series that featured real-life criminals. In this case, it involved advertising executive and Episcopal priest Jack Wyatt interviewing various criminals and then talking to experts in an effort to discover the root causes of crime. To the classic TV historian, its main claim to fame is that when it was cancelled in 1959, it was replaced by Alcoa Presents, also known as One Step Beyond.


 8  WKBT (LaCrosse) (CBS)
Morning
  10:00 ARTHUR GODFREY
  10:30 TOP DOLLAR
  11:00 LOVE OF LIFE
  11:30 SEARCH FOR TOMORROW
  11:45 FILM SHORT
Afternoon
  12:00 TEN FOR SURVIVAL—Education
  12:30 CELEBRITY PLAYHOUSE—Drama
    1:00 JIMMY DEANGuest: Eileen Barton
    1:30 HOUSE PARTYGuest: Fernando Lamas
    2:00 BIG PAYOFF—Quiz
    2:30 VERDICT IS YOURS
    3:00 BRIGHTER DAY
    3:15 SECRET STORM
    3:30 EDGE OF NIGHT
    4:00 MOVIE—Western “Colorado” (1940)
    5:00 BRAVE EAGLE—Western
    5:30 JET JACKSON—Adventure
Evening
    6:00 FARM DIGEST—Martin
    6:05 SPORTS, NEWS, WEATHER
    6:30 COULEE CROSSROADS
    7:00 RIFLEMAN—Western
    7:30 WYATT EARP—Western
    8:00 ARTHUR GODFREY
    8:30 TARGET—Adolphe Menjou
    9:00 GARRY MOORE—Variety Guests: Helen Traubel, Dorothy Collins, Wally Cox, Varel and Bailly
  10:00 NEWS
  10:20 ROUGH RIDERS—Western
  10:50 WRESTLING—Chicago
I don't know much about the Chicago wrestling program, although this bout could have been telecast on the show at some point in time; it's a woman's match that includes a wrestler with the unlikely name of Yulie Brynner. Yulie Brynner was billed as the "World's Ugliest Woman," which I'm in no position to disagree with. Needless to say, Yulie Brynner is bald.


 9  KMSP (Ind.)
Afternoon
    1:55 CHAPEL OF THE AIR—Religion
    2:00 MOVIE—Comedy “The Belles of St. Trinian’s” (English; 1954)
    3:30 BINGO—Joe Cooper
    4:30 TV HOUR OF STARS—Drama
    5:30 OUR MISS BROOKS—Comedy
Evening
    6:00 LOONEY TUNERS CLUB
    6:30 JET JACKSON—Adventure
    7:00 MAN CALLED X—Adventure
    7:30 MAN BEHIND THE BADGE
    8:00 WRESTLING—Minneapolis
    9:00 MOVIE—Drama“All Quiet on the Western Front” (1930)
  10:30 NEWS—David Lee
  10:45 SPORTS—Tony Parker
  10:50 OPEN HOUSE—Mel Jass
  11:55 NEWS
In all likelihood, the wrestling program at 8:00 is the same All-Star Wrestling program that moved to WTCN when KMSP became the ABC affiliate. If that's the case, it's hosted by Minnesota Broadcasting Hall of Fame member Marty O'Neill , who was the voice of wrestling here for decades before being replaced by the legendary Mean Gene Okerlund .


10 KROC (Rochester) (NBC)
Morning
    6:30 CONTINENTAL CLASSROOM—Education“Surface Tension”
    7:00 TODAY—GarrowayLocal news at 7:25 and 8:25 A.M.
    9:00 DOUGH-RE-MI
    9:30 TREASURE HUNT
  10:00 PRICE IS RIGHT
  10:30 CONCENTRATION
  11:00 TIC TAC DOUGH
  11:30 IT COULD BE YOU
Afternoon
  12:00 NEWS
  12:15 CHANNEL 10 CALLING
  12:30 FILM FEATURE
    1:00 TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES—Stunts   COLOR 
    1:30 HAGGIS BAGGIS—Quiz   COLOR 
    2:00 TODAY IS OURS
    2:30 FROM THESE ROOTS—Serial
    3:00 QUEEN FOR A DAY
    3:30 COUNTY FAIR—Parks
    4:00 WHAT’S NEW?—Don Perry
    4:30 MEET YOUR SCHOOLS
    5:00 TEXAS RANGERS—Western
    5:30 WOODY WOODPECKER—Cartoons
Evening
    6:00 NEWS
    6:15 NEWS—Huntley, Brinkley
    6:30 DRAGNET—Jack Webb
    7:00 GEORGE GOBEL   COLOR Guests: Tennessee Ernie Ford, Jo Stafford, Rose Bowl Queen Pamela Prather and court
    8:00 JOHN NESBITT—Drama
    8:30 BOB CUMMINGS—Comedy
    9:00 CALIFORNIANS—Western
    9:30 MEDIC—Drama
  10:00 NEWS, SPORTS
  10:30 JACK PAAR—Variety Guest: Sheila Guyse
Sheila Guyse, one of Jack Paar's guests tonight, was (according to the always-reliable Wikipedia ) an black singer-actress who could have rivaled Dorothy Dandridge had she been given more visibility in the movies. She was popular in the 1940s and 50s; I wonder what stage her career was at when she appeared on Tonight?


11 WTCN (ABC)
Morning
    9:00 FILM SHORT
    9:20 FARM NEWS—Stuart A. Lindman
    9:30 ROMPER ROOM—Miss Kay
  10:20 TOP PLAYS—Drama
  10:55 MARK STEVENS
  11:00 DAY IN COURT—Drama
  11:30 PETER LIND HAYESGuests: The Playmates
Afternoon
  12:30 MOTHER’S DAY—Contest
    1:00 LIBERACE—VarietyGuest: Joan O’Brien
    1:30 MARK STEVENS
    1:35 BURNS AND ALLEN—Comedy
    2:00 MUSIC BINGO—Quiz
    2:30 AMOS ‘N’ ANDY—Comedy
    2:55 MARK STEVENS
    3:00 BEAT THE CLOCK—Collyer
    3:30 WHO DO YOU TRUST?—Quiz
    4:00 AMERICAN BANDSTANDGuests: De John Sisters
    5:30 ADVENTURE TIME
Evening
    6:00 NEWS
    6:30 CHEYENNE—Western
    7:30 WYATT EARP—Western
    8:00 RIFLEMAN
    8:30 NAKED CITY—Police
    9:00 TUGBOAT ANNIE—Comedy
    9:30 NEWS—Chick McCuen
    9:45 MOVIE—Drama“The Square Ring” (English; 1953)
The Square Ring, a British boxing movie, features a cast including one Joan Collins, a painfully young 20 year-old.


13 WEAU (Eau Claire) (NBC)
Morning
    6:30 CONTINENTAL CLASSROOM—Education“Surface Tension”
    7:00 TODAY—GarrowayLocal news at 7:25 and 8:25 A.M.
    9:00 DOUGH-RE-MI
    9:30 TREASURE HUNT
  10:00 PRICE IS RIGHT
  10:30 CONCENTRATION
  11:00 TIC TAC DOUGH
  11:30 IT COULD BE YOU
Afternoon
  12:00 EXTENSION DIVISION
  12:15 SCIENCE FICTION THEATER
  12:45 MARKETS, NEWS
    1:00 TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES—Stunts   COLOR 
    1:30 HAGGIS BAGGIS—Quiz   COLOR 
    2:00 TODAY IS OURS
    2:30 FROM THESE ROOTS—Serial
    3:00 QUEEN FOR A DAY
    3:30 COUNTY FAIR—Parks
    4:00 FILM FEATURE
    4:30 CARTOONS—Kids
    5:00 TELETALE—Education
    5:15 FILM SHORT
    5:30 BOOK BREAK
    5:45 FILM SHORT
Evening
    6:00 OUR LAND, OUR LIVING
    6:10 WEATHER, NEWS
    6:30 DRAGNET—Jack Webb
    7:00 GEORGE GOBEL   COLOR Guests: Tennessee Ernie Ford, Jo Stafford, Rose Bowl Queen Pamela Prather and court
    8:00 WYATT EARP—Western
    8:30 TARGET—Adolphe Menjou
    9:00 BOB CUMMINGS—Comedy
    9:30 NEW YORK CONFIDENTIAL
  10:00 NEWS, SPORTS
  10:30 COLT .45—Western
  11:00 MOVIE—Drama “The Sign of the Ram” (1948)
Adolphe Menjou hosted Target, an anthology series produced by Ziv for syndication. Interestingly, in 1951 he appeared in a movie called The Tall Target, which has nothing to do with the show. He was nominated for an Oscar in 1931 for The Front Page. TV  

What's on TV? Tuesday, December 15, 1958

We're 10 days out from Christmas, and we do have a couple of seasonal shows on tap tonight; Songs of Christmas on KTCA at 6:00 p.m. (I wonder if high school choirs are even allowed to sing sacred carols anymore?), and The Christmas Gift at 9:00 p.m. on WCCO. Never fear, though; there's plenty more to watch. In case you hadn't guessed, we're in Minnesota this week.



 2  KTCA (Educ.)
Afternoon
    1:05 HEALTH AND FITNESS
    1:30 SCIENCE—1st Grade
    2:00 SCIENCE—7th Grade
    2:30 HEALTH AND FITNESS
    2:45 AS TEACHERS TEACH
    5:00 MAGIC DOORWAYS—Education
    5:15 FIGNEWTON’S NEWSPAPER
    5:30 CHILDREN’S CORNER
Evening
    6:00 SONGS OF CHRISTMAS—MusicSouthwest High School Choir
    6:30 TETE-A-TETE—Education
    7:00 COMPASS—Education   DEBUT 
    7:30 CRIMINAL MAN—Education
    8:00 MIDDLE EAST STUDY
    8:30 HUMAN GEOGRAPHY—Education
    9:00 U. OF MINNESOTA
    9:30 HUMAN BEHAVIOR—Education
  10:00 MUSIC AND MAN
  10:30 NEW DIMENSIONS IN LEARNING—Education   DEBUT 
I have no idea whether or not Fignewton's Newspaper is spelled correctly—I'd have spelled it Fig Newton—but in the absence of irrefutable evidence, I'm going with the way it is in the issue. Just so you all know.


 3  KDAL (Duluth) (CBS)
Morning
    8:00 CAPTAIN KANGAROO—Kids
    8:45 NEWS—Stuart Novins
    9:00 FOR LOVE OR MONEY
    9:30 PLAY YOUR HUNCH
  10:00 ARTHUR GODFREY
  10:30 TOP DOLLAR
  11:00 LOVE OF LIFE
  11:30 SEARCH FOR TOMORROW
  11:45 GUIDING LIGHT—Serial
Afternoon
  12:00 NEWS—Walter Cronkite
  12:05 TOWN AND COUNTRY—Becker
  12:30 AS THE WORLD TURNS
    1:00 JIMMY DEANGuest: Eileen Barton
    1:30 HOUSE PARTYGuest: Fernando Lamas
    2:00 BIG PAYOFF—Quiz
    2:30 VERDICT IS YOURS
    3:00 BRIGHTER DAY
    3:15 SECRET STORM
    3:30 EDGE OF NIGHT
    4:00 TV HOUR OF STARS—Drama
    5:00 BANDSTAND—Jim Rassbach
    5:30 ADVENTURE TIME
Evening
    6:00 NEWS
    6:15 NEWS—Doug Edwards
    6:30 WHERE WE STAND   SPECIAL 
    7:30 WOODY WOODPECKER—Cartoons
    8:00 RIFLEMAN
    8:30 RED SKELTON—Comedy
    9:00 GARRY MOORE—Variety Guests: Helen Traubel, Dorothy Collins, Wally Cox, Varel and Bailly
  10:00 NEWS
  10:15 MOVIE—Adventure“Run for the Sun” (1946)
Fernando Lamas is Art Linkletter's guest on House Party, and I'll bet he looks marvelous.


 3  KGLO (Mason City, IA) (CBS)
Morning
    8:00 CAPTAIN KANGAROO—Kids
    8:45 NEWS—Stuart Novins
    9:00 FOR LOVE OR MONEY
    9:30 PLAY YOUR HUNCH
  10:00 ARTHUR GODFREY
  10:30 TOP DOLLAR
  11:00 LOVE OF LIFE
  11:30 SEARCH FOR TOMORROW
  11:45 GUIDING LIGHT—Serial
Afternoon
  12:00 NEWS
  12:30 AS THE WORLD TURNS
    1:00 JIMMY DEANGuest: Eileen Barton
    1:30 HOUSE PARTYGuest: Fernando Lamas
    2:00 BIG PAYOFF—Quiz
    2:30 VERDICT IS YOURS
    3:00 BRIGHTER DAY
    3:15 SECRET STORM
    3:30 EDGE OF NIGHT
    4:00 BOB CAVANAUGH—Variety
    5:00 BART’S CLUBHOUSE—Kids
    5:30 TIME OUT FOR TEENS
    5:45 NEWS—Doug Edwards
Evening
    6:00 FARM REPORTER—Al Heinz
    6:05 SPORTS, NEWS, WEATHER
    6:30 JEFF’S COLLIE—Drama
    7:00 TEXAN—Western
    7:30 TO TELL THE TRUTHGuest panelist: Jackie Cooper
    8:00 ARTHUR GODFREY
    8:30 RED SKELTON—Comedy
    9:00 GARRY MOORE—Variety Guests: Helen Traubel, Dorothy Collins, Wally Cox, Varel and Bailly
  10:00 NEWS
  10:30 BADGE 714—Jack Webb
  11:00 READ FASTER—Education
Singer Eileen Barton, Jimmy Dean's guest, is best known for her hit, " If I Knew You Were Comin' I'd've Baked a Cake ."


 4  WCCO (CBS)
Morning
    7:00 CARTOONS—Siegfried
    8:00 CAPTAIN KANGAROO—Kids
    8:45 REUBEN K. YOUNGDAHL
    8:55 NEWS—Dean Montgomery
    9:00 FOR LOVE OR MONEY
    9:30 PLAY YOUR HUNCH
  10:00 ARTHUR GODFREY
  10:30 TOP DOLLAR
  11:00 LOVE OF LIFE
  11:30 SEARCH FOR TOMORROW
  11:45 GUIDING LIGHT—Serial
Afternoon
  12:00 NEWS
  12:15 TAKE FIVE—Cedric Adams
  12:20 WEATHER—Kraehling
  12:30 AS THE WORLD TURNS
    1:00 JIMMY DEANGuest: Eileen Barton
    1:30 HOUSE PARTYGuest: Fernando Lamas
    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 COMMODORE CAPPY—Kids
    5:00 AXEL AND DOG—Clellan Card
    5:30 POPEYE CLUBHOUSE—Kids
    5:55 WEATHER, NEWS, SPORTS
Evening
    6:15 NEWS—Doug Edwards
    6:30 HUCKLEBERRY HOUND
    7:00 NEW YORK CONFIDENTIAL
    7:30 TO TELL THE TRUTHGuest panelist: Jackie Cooper
    8:00 ARTHUR GODFREY
    8:30 RED SKELTON—Comedy
    9:00 CHRISTMAS GIFT—Musical   SPECIAL 
  10:00 NEWS, SPORTS
  10:30 PAROLE—Police
  11:00 MOVIE—Drama“Street of Missing Men” (1939)
I'd never heard of Parole; it's a rather unusual example of a reality series, involving real criminals pleading their cases before real parole boards. I don't think I've ever heard of such a thing on television, and frankly I'm surprised someone hasn't thought of this since. Perhaps they could use some of the convicts arrested in Cops.


 5  KSTP (NBC)
Morning
    6:05 DAVID STONE—Variety
    6:30 CONTINENTAL CLASSROOM—Education“Surface Tension”
    7:00 TODAY—GarrowayLocal news at 7:25 and 8:25 A.M.
    9:00 DOUGH-RE-MI
    9:30 TREASURE HUNT
  10:00 PRICE IS RIGHT
  10:30 CONCENTRATION
  11:00 TIC TAC DOUGH
  11:30 IT COULD BE YOU
Afternoon
  12:00 NEWS
  12:20 TREASURE CHEST—Hutton
    1:00 TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES—Stunts   COLOR 
    1:30 HAGGIS BAGGIS—Quiz   COLOR 
    2:00 TODAY IS OURS
    2:30 FROM THESE ROOTS—Serial
    3:00 QUEEN FOR A DAY
    3:30 COUNTY FAIR—Parks
    4:00 MY LITTLE MARGIE—Comedy
    4:30 HAWKEYE—Adventure
    5:00 SHERWOOD FOREST—Adventure
    5:45 NEWS—Huntley, Brinkley
Evening
    6:00 NEWS
    6:20 YOU SHOULD KNOW—Quiz
    6:30 DRAGNET—Jack Webb
    7:00 GEORGE GOBEL   COLOR Guests: Tennessee Ernie Ford, Jo Stafford, Rose Bowl Queen Pamela Prather and court
    8:00 GEORGE BURNS—Comedy   SPECIAL Guest: Eddie Fisher
    8:30 BOB CUMMINGS—Comedy
    9:00 CALIFORNIANS—Western
    9:30 STATE TROOPER—Police
  10:00 NEWS, SPORTS
  10:30 BADGE 714—Jack Webb
  11:00 JACK PAAR—Variety Guest: Sheila Guyse
  12:00 NEWS
I'm not positive, but I believe Sherwood Forest is the alternate title to The Adventures of Robin Hood, starring Richard Greene. Of course, we know that Badge 714 is the syndicated title of Dragnet. Interesting, isn't it, that we get to see both Dragnet and 714 on KSTP tonight? Kind of like getting to see Gunsmoke and Marshal Dillon on Saturday night on WCCO.


 6  WDSM (Duluth) (NBC)
Morning
    6:30 CONTINENTAL CLASSROOM—Education“Surface Tension”
    7:00 TODAY—GarrowayLocal news at 7:25 and 8:25 A.M.
    9:00 DOUGH-RE-MI
    9:30 TREASURE HUNT
  10:00 PRICE IS RIGHT
  10:30 CONCENTRATION
  11:00 TIC TAC DOUGH
  11:30 IT COULD BE YOU
Afternoon
  12:00 NEWS
  12:05 MOVIE—Comedy“A Night at the Ritz” (1935) Part 1.
    1:00 TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES—Stunts   COLOR 
    1:30 HAGGIS BAGGIS—Quiz   COLOR 
    2:00 TODAY IS OURS
    2:30 FROM THESE ROOTS—Serial
    3:00 QUEEN FOR A DAY
    3:30 COUNTY FAIR—Parks
    4:00 POPEYE—Cartoons
    5:25 BRAVE EAGLE—Western
Evening
    6:00 NEWS
    6:15 NEWS—Huntley, Brinkley
    6:30 TUGBOAT ANNIE—Comedy
    7:00 GEORGE GOBEL   COLOR Guests: Tennessee Ernie Ford, Jo Stafford, Rose Bowl Queen Pamela Prather and court
    8:00 GEORGE BURNS—Comedy   SPECIAL Guest: Eddie Fisher
    8:30 BOB CUMMINGS—Comedy
    9:00 CALIFORNIANS—Western
    9:30 BUCKSKIN—Western
  10:00 NEWS
  10:15 BOOTS AND SADDLES—Western
  10:45 JACK PAAR—Variety Guest: Sheila Guyse
I alluded to this on Saturday, but Eddie Fisher, who guests with George Burns at 8:00, alternates with George Gobel in the 7:00 timeslot. This is Eddie's week off, but not really.


 6  KMMT (Austin) (ABC)
Morning
  10:30 THIS IS THE LIFE—Religion
  11:00 DAY IN COURT—Drama
  11:30 PETER LIND HAYESGuests: The Playmates
Afternoon
  12:30 MOTHER’S DAY—Contest
    1:00 LIBERACE—VarietyGuest: Joan O’Brien
    1:30 NEWS, WEATHER
    1:40 MATINEE WITH MARGE
    2:00 MUSIC BINGO—Quiz
    2:30 THIS IS ALICE—Comedy
    3:00 BEAT THE CLOCK—Collyer
    3:30 WHO DO YOU TRUST?—Quiz
    4:00 AMERICAN BANDSTANDGuests: De John Sisters
    5:30 ADVENTURE TIME
Evening
    6:00 NEWS
    6:15 NEWS—Don Goddard
    6:30 CHEYENNE—Western
    7:30 WYATT EARP—Western
    8:00 RIFLEMAN
    8:30 NAKED CITY—Police
    9:00 CONFESSION—Interview
    9:30 DICK POWELL—Drama
  10:00 NEWS
  10:15 NEWS—John Daly
  10:30 TV HOUR OF STARS—Drama
Like Parole, Confession was a television series that featured real-life criminals. In this case, it involved advertising executive and Episcopal priest Jack Wyatt interviewing various criminals and then talking to experts in an effort to discover the root causes of crime. To the classic TV historian, its main claim to fame is that when it was cancelled in 1959, it was replaced by Alcoa Presents, also known as One Step Beyond.


 8  WKBT (LaCrosse) (CBS)
Morning
  10:00 ARTHUR GODFREY
  10:30 TOP DOLLAR
  11:00 LOVE OF LIFE
  11:30 SEARCH FOR TOMORROW
  11:45 FILM SHORT
Afternoon
  12:00 TEN FOR SURVIVAL—Education
  12:30 CELEBRITY PLAYHOUSE—Drama
    1:00 JIMMY DEANGuest: Eileen Barton
    1:30 HOUSE PARTYGuest: Fernando Lamas
    2:00 BIG PAYOFF—Quiz
    2:30 VERDICT IS YOURS
    3:00 BRIGHTER DAY
    3:15 SECRET STORM
    3:30 EDGE OF NIGHT
    4:00 MOVIE—Western “Colorado” (1940)
    5:00 BRAVE EAGLE—Western
    5:30 JET JACKSON—Adventure
Evening
    6:00 FARM DIGEST—Martin
    6:05 SPORTS, NEWS, WEATHER
    6:30 COULEE CROSSROADS
    7:00 RIFLEMAN—Western
    7:30 WYATT EARP—Western
    8:00 ARTHUR GODFREY
    8:30 TARGET—Adolphe Menjou
    9:00 GARRY MOORE—Variety Guests: Helen Traubel, Dorothy Collins, Wally Cox, Varel and Bailly
  10:00 NEWS
  10:20 ROUGH RIDERS—Western
  10:50 WRESTLING—Chicago
I don't know much about the Chicago wrestling program, although this bout could have been telecast on the show at some point in time; it's a woman's match that includes a wrestler with the unlikely name of Yulie Brynner. Yulie Brynner was billed as the "World's Ugliest Woman," which I'm in no position to disagree with. Needless to say, Yulie Brynner is bald.


 9  KMSP (Ind.)
Afternoon
    1:55 CHAPEL OF THE AIR—Religion
    2:00 MOVIE—Comedy “The Belles of St. Trinian’s” (English; 1954)
    3:30 BINGO—Joe Cooper
    4:30 TV HOUR OF STARS—Drama
    5:30 OUR MISS BROOKS—Comedy
Evening
    6:00 LOONEY TUNERS CLUB
    6:30 JET JACKSON—Adventure
    7:00 MAN CALLED X—Adventure
    7:30 MAN BEHIND THE BADGE
    8:00 WRESTLING—Minneapolis
    9:00 MOVIE—Drama“All Quiet on the Western Front” (1930)
  10:30 NEWS—David Lee
  10:45 SPORTS—Tony Parker
  10:50 OPEN HOUSE—Mel Jass
  11:55 NEWS
In all likelihood, the wrestling program at 8:00 is the same All-Star Wrestling program that moved to WTCN when KMSP became the ABC affiliate. If that's the case, it's hosted by Minnesota Broadcasting Hall of Fame member Marty O'Neill , who was the voice of wrestling here for decades before being replaced by the legendary Mean Gene Okerlund .


10 KROC (Rochester) (NBC)
Morning
    6:30 CONTINENTAL CLASSROOM—Education“Surface Tension”
    7:00 TODAY—GarrowayLocal news at 7:25 and 8:25 A.M.
    9:00 DOUGH-RE-MI
    9:30 TREASURE HUNT
  10:00 PRICE IS RIGHT
  10:30 CONCENTRATION
  11:00 TIC TAC DOUGH
  11:30 IT COULD BE YOU
Afternoon
  12:00 NEWS
  12:15 CHANNEL 10 CALLING
  12:30 FILM FEATURE
    1:00 TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES—Stunts   COLOR 
    1:30 HAGGIS BAGGIS—Quiz   COLOR 
    2:00 TODAY IS OURS
    2:30 FROM THESE ROOTS—Serial
    3:00 QUEEN FOR A DAY
    3:30 COUNTY FAIR—Parks
    4:00 WHAT’S NEW?—Don Perry
    4:30 MEET YOUR SCHOOLS
    5:00 TEXAS RANGERS—Western
    5:30 WOODY WOODPECKER—Cartoons
Evening
    6:00 NEWS
    6:15 NEWS—Huntley, Brinkley
    6:30 DRAGNET—Jack Webb
    7:00 GEORGE GOBEL   COLOR Guests: Tennessee Ernie Ford, Jo Stafford, Rose Bowl Queen Pamela Prather and court
    8:00 JOHN NESBITT—Drama
    8:30 BOB CUMMINGS—Comedy
    9:00 CALIFORNIANS—Western
    9:30 MEDIC—Drama
  10:00 NEWS, SPORTS
  10:30 JACK PAAR—Variety Guest: Sheila Guyse
Sheila Guyse, one of Jack Paar's guests tonight, was (according to the always-reliable Wikipedia ) an black singer-actress who could have rivaled Dorothy Dandridge had she been given more visibility in the movies. She was popular in the 1940s and 50s; I wonder what stage her career was at when she appeared on Tonight?


11 WTCN (ABC)
Morning
    9:00 FILM SHORT
    9:20 FARM NEWS—Stuart A. Lindman
    9:30 ROMPER ROOM—Miss Kay
  10:20 TOP PLAYS—Drama
  10:55 MARK STEVENS
  11:00 DAY IN COURT—Drama
  11:30 PETER LIND HAYESGuests: The Playmates
Afternoon
  12:30 MOTHER’S DAY—Contest
    1:00 LIBERACE—VarietyGuest: Joan O’Brien
    1:30 MARK STEVENS
    1:35 BURNS AND ALLEN—Comedy
    2:00 MUSIC BINGO—Quiz
    2:30 AMOS ‘N’ ANDY—Comedy
    2:55 MARK STEVENS
    3:00 BEAT THE CLOCK—Collyer
    3:30 WHO DO YOU TRUST?—Quiz
    4:00 AMERICAN BANDSTANDGuests: De John Sisters
    5:30 ADVENTURE TIME
Evening
    6:00 NEWS
    6:30 CHEYENNE—Western
    7:30 WYATT EARP—Western
    8:00 RIFLEMAN
    8:30 NAKED CITY—Police
    9:00 TUGBOAT ANNIE—Comedy
    9:30 NEWS—Chick McCuen
    9:45 MOVIE—Drama“The Square Ring” (English; 1953)
The Square Ring, a British boxing movie, features a cast including one Joan Collins, a painfully young 20 year-old.


13 WEAU (Eau Claire) (NBC)
Morning
    6:30 CONTINENTAL CLASSROOM—Education“Surface Tension”
    7:00 TODAY—GarrowayLocal news at 7:25 and 8:25 A.M.
    9:00 DOUGH-RE-MI
    9:30 TREASURE HUNT
  10:00 PRICE IS RIGHT
  10:30 CONCENTRATION
  11:00 TIC TAC DOUGH
  11:30 IT COULD BE YOU
Afternoon
  12:00 EXTENSION DIVISION
  12:15 SCIENCE FICTION THEATER
  12:45 MARKETS, NEWS
    1:00 TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES—Stunts   COLOR 
    1:30 HAGGIS BAGGIS—Quiz   COLOR 
    2:00 TODAY IS OURS
    2:30 FROM THESE ROOTS—Serial
    3:00 QUEEN FOR A DAY
    3:30 COUNTY FAIR—Parks
    4:00 FILM FEATURE
    4:30 CARTOONS—Kids
    5:00 TELETALE—Education
    5:15 FILM SHORT
    5:30 BOOK BREAK
    5:45 FILM SHORT
Evening
    6:00 OUR LAND, OUR LIVING
    6:10 WEATHER, NEWS
    6:30 DRAGNET—Jack Webb
    7:00 GEORGE GOBEL   COLOR Guests: Tennessee Ernie Ford, Jo Stafford, Rose Bowl Queen Pamela Prather and court
    8:00 WYATT EARP—Western
    8:30 TARGET—Adolphe Menjou
    9:00 BOB CUMMINGS—Comedy
    9:30 NEW YORK CONFIDENTIAL
  10:00 NEWS, SPORTS
  10:30 COLT .45—Western
  11:00 MOVIE—Drama “The Sign of the Ram” (1948)
Adolphe Menjou hosted Target, an anthology series produced by Ziv for syndication. Interestingly, in 1951 he appeared in a movie called The Tall Target, which has nothing to do with the show. He was nominated for an Oscar in 1931 for The Front Page. TV  

This week in TV Guide: December 13, 1958

The greatest newsman of the time, Edward R. Murrow, has an article this week about "How TV Can Help Us Survive." If you've read  The Electronic Mirror,  you know that I have a section in which various public figures discuss television's role in shaping American culture and strengthening the public good, and Murrow's article, adapted from a speech he gave to the Radio-Television News Directors Association, belongs squarely in that category. Murrow starts out with a  provocative comment regarding radio and television: "I am seized with an abiding fear regarding what these two instruments are doing to our society, our culture and our heritage." His comments strike precisely at what I've been saying and writing all these years, about television's role as a time capsule preserving a historical record.

Our history will be what we make it. And if there are any historians about 50 or 100 years from now, and there should be preserved the kinescopes for one week of all three networks, they will there find recorded in black and white, or color, evidence of decadence, escapism and insulation from the realities of the world in which we live.

Here Murrow, as have many before and after him, is attacking the relentless drone of entertainment at the expense of education and information. "If this state of affairs continues, we may alter an advertising slogan to read: 'Look Now, Pay Later.' For surely we shall pay for using this most powerful instrument of communication to insulate the citizenry from the hard and demanding realities which must be faced if we are to survive." And he means that literally.

Murrow gives the public credit for being "more reasonable, restrained and more mature" than programmers think. Those programmers are fearful men; they fear controversy, they fear pressure, they fear giving offense, they fear the loss of profit. They are not content, Murrow says, to be "half safe." And in doing so, they create their own precedent and tradition, and it is not a positive one.

What should they do? They should editorialize, confident that the public will recognize it as "an effort to illuminate, [not] agitate." They should present the news, in a format and with enough time for important stories to be told in-depth, and for some stories to be told at all. And they should put their duty to the public ahead of financial consideration; here Murrow cites a recent speech by President Eisenhower on the possibility of war between the Soviet Union and Communist China. NBC and CBS both delayed the broadcast for 75 minutes, presumably in order not to preempt profitable programs. "That hour-and-15 minute delay, by the way, is about twice the time required for an ICBM to travel from the Soviet Union to major targets in the United States." Concludes Murrow, "It is difficult to believe that this decision was made by men who love, respect, and understand news."

Murrow goes on to criticize television's desire to find the lowest common denominator—in other words, the largest possible audience. "This instrument can teach, it can illuminate; yes, and it can even inspire," but doing that requires effort. He suggests that advertisers, who at this point control most of the television schedule, to give one or two of their programs back to the networks—they'll still put up the money for sponsoring it, but will exercise no editorial control over the contents. He thinks of it as a tithe, a way of giving back, of being responsible.

In conclusion, Murrow emphasizes the threat facing the United States; we are now "in competition with malignant forces of evil who are using every instrument at their command to empty the minds of their subjects, and fill those minds with slogans, determination, and faith in the future." If we continue as we are, we are protecting the public from realizing the threat that we face. "We are currently wealthy, fat, comfortable and complacent. We have currently a built-in allergy to unpleasant or disturbing information." We must be determined to use television as a weapon in this fight against complacency, against ignorance, against dullness, against the enemy abroad. Quoting Stonewall Jackson (which he certainly wouldn't be allowed to do today, Jackson being a Confederate general), Murrow says, "When war comes, you must draw the sword and throw away the scabbard." The trouble with television, he says, is that "it is rusting in the scabbard—during a battle for survival."

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You'll notice how Murrow, regardless of what his political preference might have been, consistently uses the language of an American, i.e. "we" and "us." There is no sense of neutrality, no attempt to remain somehow above any kind of partiality. We see another example of this on Tuesday at 6:30, when CBS presents Where We Stand, an examination of how the United States measures up to the Soviet Union in terms of armaments, economics, and education. The guests include a glittering array of experts, including retired General  Matthew Ridgway , Air Force General  Bernard Schriever , Rear Admiral  John Hayward , NASA boss T. Keith Glennan, and Harvard economists Sumner Slichter and Abram Bergson. It's an impressive array of CBS correspondents as well, including Walter Cronkite as host, plus familiar names like George Herman, Howard K. Smith, and Richard C. Hottelet.

There's a question asked in the first line of the Close-Up, "How does our strength compare with the U.S.S.R.'s." I'm always struck, in watching the television coverage of JFK's assassination, how often various reporters refer to "our" president, "our" nation, "our" ambassador to Vietnam. How the times have, in fact, changed. Not to say that today's media is neutral, you understand...

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Sunday afternoon at 4:00 p.m., NBC Opera Theatre presents the eighth annual broadcast of "America's Favorite Christmas Opera,"* Amahl and the Night Visitors, with Kirk Jordan now assuming the role of Amahl. Following a break for Meet the Press and Chet Huntley Reporting, NBC's back with more Yuletide cheer in the form of Hallmark Hall of Fame's production of "Christmas Tree," a series of vignettes using song, dance, and skating, with an all-star cast including Ralph Bellamy, Carol Channing, Maurice Evans, Tom Poston, Cyril Ritchard, William Shatner, and Jessica Tandy. Later Sunday night, at 8:30 p.m., WTCN presents a half hour of Christmas music by a nurses' choir. There are similar local music programs scattered throughout the week; WTCN, in fact, has another on Monday.

*Also, at the time, America's only Christmas opera.

Tuesday, WCCO carries "A Christmas Gift" (9:00 p.m.), a local production hosted by Cedric Adams , featuring the songs and melodies of the Christmas season. On Wednesday, Lawrence Welk's Plymouth Show (his Saturday show was sponsored by Dodge) includes seasonal songs like "Christmas in Killarney," "Rudolph, the Red-nosed Reindeer," and "Silver Bells," with Alice Lon, the Lennon Sisters, and others (6:30 p.m., ABC). It's also simulcast on 1280 AM for those who'd like to enjoy the experience in stereo. And at 9:00 p.m., CBS's U.S. Steel Hour presents "One Red Rose for Christmas," starring Helen Hayes and Patty Duke.

The way the issues fell in this year's review (November 27 straight to December 13), if feels as if we're missing a whole week of Yuletide treats. But don't worry—I have a feeling we'll be making up for lost time next week.

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There's plenty of sports on tap this week, including the first and only staging of the Blue Grass Bowl in Louisville (Saturday, 1:00 p.m., ABC), featuring Oklahoma State and Florida State, two college football teams with not nearly the high profile that they have today. (Oklahoma State won 15-6, by the way.) The most notable thing about that game, according to the always-reliable Wikipedia, is that it marks the national debut of Howard Cosell.  Saturday's also the return of college basketball; unlike today's saturation coverage, college hoops didn't tip off on TV until near the end of the year, when conference play took center stage. Among the games on tap Saturday is one that wouldn't cut the mustard today, I suspect—a local matchup between Hamline, my alma mater, and Augsburg, from the Minneapolis Auditorium. (8:00 p.m., KMSP)

On Sunday, an interesting football choice. CBS is scheduled to carry the Lions-Bears game from Chicago at 1:00 p.m., but at the same time there's a note that if the Eastern Conference championship hasn't been decided, the network might instead carry the game between the Cleveland Browns and New York Giants at Yankee Stadium. As it happens, the conference crown hasn't been decided, and the Browns-Giants game (yes, those two teams were good back then) becomes an instant classic, with Giants kicker (and future announcer) Pat Summerall booting the winning field goal that enables the Giants to tie the Browns for the conference title, meaning the two will meet again the following week in a playoff game to determine the winner. The Giants win that game as well, which sets up the Greatest Game Ever Played, the sudden-death championship game against the Baltimore Colts, a story for another day.

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What else? Monday night gives us a couple of shows we wouldn't see today; Voice of Firestone (8:00 p.m., ABC) has "A Salute to Tchaikovsky" with the Ballet Russe De Monte Carlo, while KTCA's Modern Philosophy presents "Existentialism, II." At 8:30 p.m., CBS's Desilu Playhouse has "The Day the Phone Rang," starring Eddie Albert as an Italian immigrant trying to win a plumbing bid but instead finding himself mixed up with the Mafia. And on Small World (10:30 p.m., WCCO), the aforementioned Edward R. Murrow interviews pianist Arthur Rubinstein , poet Archibald MacLeish , and Policy literary official Antoni Słonimski . Come to think of it, you wouldn't see that on TV anymore, either.

Peter Lind Hayes has always been one of my favorites, with his friendly personality and exceedingly dry sense of humor. He, along with his wife, Mary Healy, have a M-F variety show on ABC at 11:30 a.m.; Tuesday, his guests include the trio The Playmates . (By the way, if you're not familiar with the brand of humor that Peter Lind Hayes and Mary Healy bring, here's a commercial for the show. ) Remaining in the variety vein, one of the most popular comedians of the time is George Gobel, and his show alternates every other week with Eddie Fisher's; this week, Lonesome George's guests are Tennessee Ernie Ford, Jo Stafford, and Pamela Prather, the Rose Bowl queen, and her court. (7:00 p.m., NBC)

Wednesday is Kraft Music Hall night, and this season's host is Milton Berle, his first major television series since Texaco Star Theater. Mr. Television is already becoming history; next season, Perry Como will take over Music Hall and lead it to its greatest success. Tonight, however, Uncle Miltie welcomes Eydie Gorme and Ken Carpenter. (8:00 p.m., NBC) Later on, it's This Is Your Life (9:00 p.m., NBC), with this week's honoree listed only as "a man who was active in all phases of the movie industry during its early days." That man, according to the episode guide, is Coy Watson Jr. , silent movie pioneer, who is honored along with his wife, Goldie.

The spotlight for Thursday is "The Hasty Heart," on the DuPont Show of the Month. (8:30 p.m., CBS), starring Don Murray, Jackie Cooper, and Barbara Bel Geddes. The story takes place at a World War II convalescent ward, and it's a reminder of how "present" the war still was in popular culture; it's not at all uncommon to see stories, particularly in dramatic anthology series, that take place either in World War II or Korea. For viewers (as well as many actors), these weren't period pieces—WWII had ended but thirteen years before.

Finally, Friday brings us Jackie Gleason's half-hour program (7:30 p.,m., CBS), a musical tribute to the Dorsey brothers, referred to here as "the late Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey"—well, Jimmy had died last year, and Tommy only the year before. By the way, this was perhaps the least successful of Gleason's several series, save perhaps You're in the Picture; it's lacking most all of Gleason's most famous creations, including The Honeymooners, and it fails to last the full season. And Edward R. Murrow is back again, this time with his famous Person to Person (9:30 p.m., CBS). Murrow's guests are Gene Kelly and Ivy Baker Priest, the Treasurer of the United States—and mother of Pat Priest of The Munsters. But I bet you all knew that. TV  

Around the dial

At bare-bones e-zine, Jack's latest Hitchcock Project looks at the fourth season episode at " And the Desert Shall Blossom, " Bernard C. Schoenfeld's delightful adaptation of Loren Good's short story, starring William Demarest, Roscoe Ates, and Ben Johnson.

John raises (and answers) an interesting question over at Cult TV Blog: what are the similarities between Doctor Who's Cybermen and The Avengers' Cybernauts? Regardless of the answer, one thing remains certain: "technology can be dangerous," as we seem to be reminded on an almost daily basis.

In the mood for a little test? Check out the Alternate TV Series Title Game over at Classic Film and TV Café. Readers are pretty quick with the answers though, so be sure you make your own guesses before you get to the comments.

Another star of classic television has been lost with the death of Ken Berry last week, but at The Horn Section, Hal proves that such artists are never really lost, with an appreciation of  Berry's abundant television career.

If you've been keeping up with Some Polish American Guy and Dan's look at BJ and the Bear, you'll want to read his overall recap of the series . You'll also want to listen to yours truly with Dan on the latest episode of Eventually Supertrain, as we continue our stroll through the very good single-season WB detective series Bourbon Street Beat (along with other great segments).

At Television's New Frontier: the 1960s, it's time to visit one of the seminal (not to mention subversive) programs of the era, none other than Rocky and His Friends , which was renamed The Bullwinkle Show during the year. I've always loved this show, and I really should think about this more: it's perhaps one of the greatest examples of television's ability to act as a time capsule, considering the various topics the show satirized. It really says a great deal about what was topical at the time.

You'll want to check out Kliph Nesteroff's interview with TV veteran Saul Turteltaub at Classic Television Showbiz, where you'll read about The Shari Lewis Show, as well as more details from a fascinating life.

Finally, if you've been reading about the demented fools out there with their attacks on A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, and if you're wondering whether or not there's any hope left for civilization, take a moment to read this essay by Herbie J. Pilato  on why this kind of thing is B. as in B, and S. as in S. Thanks, Herbie.  TV  

TV Guide and the space race

SOURCE: CBSEver since I was a kid, I've been fascinated by the space program, particularly manned spaceflight. It is, therefore, a pleasure to present to you Tom Rednour, who's in the process of doing some terrific research on how the space race played out in the pages of TV Guide. I think you'll enjoy the fruits of his work, including the excellent illustrations. Take it away, Tom!

What's on TV? Friday, December 3, 1965

One of the things about going back and forth in the 1960s is seeing the evolution of color television. As you can see in today's listing, most of the color programming still belongs to NBC (not surprising given their relationship with RCA), although Hogan's Heroes is and always was broadcast in color, and The Farmer's Daughter has made the transition for its final season. Other nights do offer more colorcasts; Andy Griffith, Lucy, My Favorite Martian, and The Hollywood Palace to name just a few. Yet when you look at last week, everything is in color. Next week, almost everything will be in black-and-white. Keeps me alert, anyway. At least we know this week's listings come from the Minnesota State Edition.



 2  KTCA (EDUC.)
Morning
    9:15 CLASSROOM
Afternoon
    5:00 KINDERGARTEN—Education
    5:30 INQUIRY—Panel
Evening
    6:00 FRENCH—Rydell
    6:50 ANTHROPOLOGY—Hoebel
    7:40 MODERN LITERATURE—Haley
    8:30 COLLEGE OF ST. CATHERINE—Conversation
    9:00 Molière—Renaud
  10:00 BIOLOGY—Skjegstad


 3  KDAL (DULUTH) (CBS)
Morning
    7:35 FARM AND HOME
    7:45 TREETOP HOUSE—Becker
    8:00 CAPTAIN KANGAROO
    9:00 I LOVE LUCY—Comedy
    9:30 McCOYS—Comedy
  10:00 ANDY GRIFFITH—Comedy
  10:30 DICK VAN DYKE—Comedy
  11:00 LOVE OF LIFE
  11:25 NEWS
  11:30 SEARCH FOR TOMORROW—Serial
  11:45 GUIDING LIGHT—Serial
Afternoon
  12:00 TOWN AND COUNTRY—Becker
  12:30 AS THE WORLD TURNS—Serial
    1:00 PASSWORDCelebrities: Peter Falk, Joanna Barnes
    1:30 HOUSE PARTYGuest: Bruce Tegner
    2:00 TO TELL THE TRUTH—Panel
    2:25 NEWS—Edwards
    2:30 EDGE OF NIGHT—Serial
    3:00 SECRET STORM—Serial
    3:30 NEVER TOO YOUNG—Serial
    4:00 WHERE THE ACTION ISGuests: Freddie and the Dreamers, Glen Campbell
    4:30 SUPERMAN—Adventure
    5:00 LEAVE IT TO BEAVER—Comedy
    5:30 NEWS—Cronkite
Evening
    6:00 NEWS
    6:30 WILD, WILD WEST—Adventure
    7:30 HOGAN’S HEROES—Comedy   COLOR 
    8:00 GOMER PYLE, USMC—Comedy
    8:30 JOHN FORSYTHE—Comedy
    9:00 TRIALS OF O’BRIEN—Drama
  10:00 NEWS
  10:15 ROARING 20’s—Drama
  11:15 CHANNEL 3 THEATER—Drama


 4  WCCO (CBS)
Morning
    6:00 SUNRISE SEMESTER—Education
    6:30 SIEGFRIED—Children
    7:00 AXEL AND DEPUTY DAWG
    7:30 CLANCY AND COMPANY
    8:00 CAPTAIN KANGAROO
    9:00 DR. REUBEN K. YOUNGDAHL
    9:05 NEWS—Dean Montgomery
    9:10 MIKE DOUGLASCo-host: Mel Torme. Guests: Arlene Dahl, Totie Fields
  10:00 ANDY GRIFFITH—Comedy
  10:30 DICK VAN DYKE—Comedy
  11:00 LOVE OF LIFE
  11:25 NEWS
  11:30 SEARCH FOR TOMORROW—Serial
  11:45 GUIDING LIGHT—Serial
Afternoon
  12:00 NEWS
  12:15 SOMETHING SPECIAL
  12:25 WEATHER—Bud Kraehling
  12:30 AS THE WORLD TURNS—Serial
    1:00 PASSWORDCelebrities: Peter Falk, Joanna Barnes
    1:30 HOUSE PARTYGuest: Bruce Tegner
    2:00 TO TELL THE TRUTH—Panel
    2:25 NEWS—Edwards
    2:30 EDGE OF NIGHT—Serial
    3:00 SECRET STORM—Serial
    3:30 I LOVE LUCY—Comedy
    4:00 MOVIE—Melodrama“The Return of the Fly” (1959)
    5:30 NEWS—Cronkite
Evening
    6:00 NEWS
    6:20 DIRECTION—Religion
    6:25 WEATHER—Don O’Brien
    6:30 WILD, WILD WEST—Adventure
    7:30 HOGAN’S HEROES—Comedy   COLOR 
    8:00 GOMER PYLE, USMC—Comedy
    8:30 SMOTHERS BROTHERS—Comedy
    9:00 TRIALS OF O’BRIEN—Drama
  10:00 NEWS
  10:30 MOVIE—Western   COLOR “The Tall T” (1957)
  12:00 SPORTS—Hal Scott
  12:10 MOVIE—Mystery “Charlie Chan in City of Darkness” (1940)


 5  KSTP (NBC)
Morning
    6:00 CONTINENTAL CLASSROOM
    6:30 CITY AND COUNTRY   COLOR 
    7:00 TODAY   COLOR Guests: Fleury D’Antonakis, Judith Crist
    9:00 FRACTURED PHRASES—Game   COLOR Contestants: Shari Lewis, Paul Anka
    9:25 NEWS—Newman
    9:30 CONCENTRATION—Game
  10:00 MORNING STAR—Serial   COLOR 
  10:30 PARADISE BAY—Serial   COLOR 
  11:00 JEOPARDY—Game   COLOR 
  11:30 LET’S PLAY POST OFFICE—Game   COLOR 
  11:55 NEWS—McGee
Afternoon
  12:00 NEWS AND WEATHER   COLOR 
  12:15 DIALING FOR DOLLARS—Game   COLOR 
  12:30 LET’S MAKE A DEAL—Game   COLOR 
  12:55 NEWS—Kalber
    1:00 DAYS OF OUR LIVES—Serial   COLOR 
    1:30 DOCTORS
    2:00 ANOTHER WORLD—Serial
    2:30 YOU DON’T SAY!—Game   COLOR Celebrities: Marty Ingels Laraine Day
    3:00 MATCH GAME   COLOR Celebrities: Dr. Joyce Brothers, Henry Morgan
    3:25 NEWS
    3:30 DIALING FOR DOLLARS—Game   COLOR 
    4:30 LLOYD THAXTON   COLOR 
    5:25 DOCTOR’S HOUSE CALL—Fox
    5:30 NEWS—Chet Huntley, David Brinkley   COLOR 
Evening
    6:00 NEWS   COLOR 
    6:30 CAMP RUNAMUCK—Comedy   COLOR 
    7:00 HANK—Comedy   COLOR 
    7:30 CONVOY—Drama
    8:30 MR. ROBERTS   COLOR 
    9:00 MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E.—Adventure   COLOR 
  10:00 NEWS   COLOR 
  10:30 JOHNNY CARSON   COLOR Guest: Kaye Ballard
  12:15 MOVIE—Melodrama “The Astounding She-Monster” (1957)


 6  WDSM (DULUTH) (NBC)
Morning
    7:00 TODAY   COLOR Guests: Fleury D’Antonakis, Judith Crist
    9:00 FRACTURED PHRASES—Game   COLOR Contestants: Shari Lewis, Paul Anka
    9:25 NEWS—Newman
    9:30 CONCENTRATION—Game
  10:00 MORNING STAR—Serial   COLOR 
  10:30 PARADISE BAY—Serial   COLOR 
  11:00 JEOPARDY—Game   COLOR 
  11:30 LET’S PLAY POST OFFICE—Game   COLOR 
  11:55 NEWS—McGee
Afternoon
  12:00 BEN CASEY—Drama
    1:00 DAYS OF OUR LIVES—Serial   COLOR 
    1:30 DOCTORS
    2:00 ANOTHER WORLD—Serial
    2:30 YOU DON’T SAY!—Game   COLOR Celebrities: Marty Ingels, Laraine Day
    3:00 MATCH GAME   COLOR Celebrities: Dr. Joyce Brothers, Henry Morgan
    3:25 NEWS
    3:30 GENERAL HOSPITAL—Serial
    4:00 LET’S MAKE A DEAL—Game
    4:25 BOZO AND HIS PALS   COLOR 
    5:30 NEWS, ROCKY TELLER   COLOR 
Evening
    6:00 NEWS—Huntley, Brinkley   COLOR 
    6:30 CAMP RUNAMUCK—Comedy   COLOR 
    7:00 HANK—Comedy   COLOR 
    7:30 COMBAT!—Drama
    8:30 MR. ROBERTS   COLOR 
    9:00 MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E.—Adventure   COLOR 
  10:00 NEWS   COLOR 
  10:20 JOHNNY CARSON   COLOR Guest: Kaye Ballard


 6  KMMT (AUSTIN) (ABC)
Morning
  10:00 YOUNG SET—Discussion
  11:00 DONNA REED—Comedy
  11:30 FATHER KNOWS BEST—Comedy
Afternoon
  12:00 BEN CASEY—Drama
    1:00 NURSES—Serial
    1:30 A TIME FOR US—Serial
    1:55 NEWS—Marlene Sanders
    2:00 GENERAL HOSPITAL—Serial
    2:30 YOUNG MARRIEDS—Serial
    3:00 NEVER TOO YOUNG—Serial
    3:30 WHERE THE ACTION ISGuests: Herman’s Hermits, Steve Alaimo
    4:00 CAPTAIN ATOM—Children “Thunder over Sangaland”
    5:30 RIFLEMAN—Western
Evening
    6:00 NEWS—Peter Jennings
    6:10 NEWS, SPORTS, WEATHER
    6:30 FLINTSTONES—Cartoon   COLOR 
    7:00 TAMMY—Comedy   COLOR 
    7:30 ADDAMS FAMILY—Comedy
    8:00 HONEY WEST—Mystery
    8:30 FARMER’S DAUGHTER   COLOR 
    9:00 JIMMY DEAN—Variety Guests: Eileen Farrell, Chet Atkins, Norm Crosby, Boots Randolph, Don Gibson, Floyd Cramer
  10:00 NEWS
  10:30 UNTOUCHABLES—Drama
  11:30 NEWS


 7  KCMT (ALEXANDRIA) (NBC, ABC)
Morning
    7:00 TODAY   COLOR Guests: Fleury D’Antonakis, Judith Crist
    9:00 FRACTURED PHRASES—Game   COLOR Contestants: Shari Lewis, Paul Anka
    9:25 NEWS—Newman
    9:30 CONCENTRATION—Game
  10:00 MORNING STAR—Serial   COLOR 
  10:30 PARADISE BAY—Serial   COLOR 
  11:00 JEOPARDY—Game   COLOR 
  11:30 LET’S PLAY POST OFFICE—Game   COLOR 
  11:55 NEWS—McGee
Afternoon
  12:00 NEWS
  12:20 TRADING POST—John Haaven
  12:30 LET’S MAKE A DEAL—Game   COLOR 
  12:55 NEWS—Kalber
    1:00 DAYS OF OUR LIVES—Serial   COLOR 
    1:30 DOCTORS
    2:00 ANOTHER WORLD—Serial
    2:30 YOU DON’T SAY!—Game   COLOR Celebrities: Marty Ingels Laraine Day
    3:00 MATCH GAME   COLOR Celebrities: Dr. Joyce Brothers, Henry Morgan
    3:25 NEWS
    3:30 GENERAL HOSPITAL—Serial
    4:00 FATHER KNOWS BEST—Comedy
    4:30 SHENANIGANS—Children
    5:00 YOGI BEAR—Cartoons
    5:30 NEWS—Chet Huntley, David Brinkley   COLOR 
Evening
    6:00 NEWS
    6:30 CAMP RUNAMUCK—Comedy   COLOR 
    7:00 PLEASE DON’T EAT THE DAISIES—Comedy
    7:30 CONVOY—Drama
    8:30 MR. ROBERTS   COLOR 
    9:00 MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E.—Adventure   COLOR 
  10:00 NEWS
  10:30 HISTORY OF PRO FOOTBALL   SPECIAL 
  11:30 TRAILS WEST


 8  WDSE (DULUTH) (EDUC.)
Morning
    9:15 CLASSROOM
Afternoon
    5:00 KINDERGARTEN—Education
    5:30 CONVERSATIONAL GERMAN
Evening
    6:00 BIG PICTURE—Army
    6:30 WHAT’S NEW—Children
    7:00 INQUIRY—Discussion
    7:30 ANTIQUES—Art
    8:00 PROFILE—Discussion
    8:30 COLLEGE OF ST. CATHERINE—Conversation
    9:00 IRREGULAR VERB TO LOVE   SPECIAL 


 8  WKBT (LA CROSSE) (CBS)
Morning
    7:30 NEWS—Mike Wallace
    7:55 NEWS
    8:00 CAPTAIN KANGAROO
    9:00 I LOVE LUCY—Comedy
    9:30 McCOYS—Comedy
  10:00 ANDY GRIFFITH—Comedy
  10:30 DICK VAN DYKE—Comedy
  11:00 LOVE OF LIFE
  11:25 NEWS
  11:30 SEARCH FOR TOMORROW—Serial
  11:45 GUIDING LIGHT—Serial
Afternoon
  12:00 NEWS
  12:30 AS THE WORLD TURNS—Serial
    1:00 PASSWORDCelebrities: Peter Falk, Joanna Barnes
    1:30 HOUSE PARTYGuest: Bruce Tegner
    2:00 TO TELL THE TRUTH—Panel
    2:25 NEWS—Edwards
    2:30 EDGE OF NIGHT—Serial
    3:00 SECRET STORM—Serial
    3:30 GENERAL HOSPITAL—Serial
    4:00 YOUNG MARRIEDS—Serial
    4:30 MICKEY MOUSE CLUB—Children
    5:00 RIFLEMAN—Western
    5:30 NEWS—Cronkite
Evening
    6:00 NEWS
    6:30 WILD, WILD WEST—Adventure
    7:30 HOGAN’S HEROES—Comedy   COLOR 
    8:00 GOMER PYLE, USMC—Comedy
    8:30 SMOTHERS BROTHERS—Comedy
    9:00 FUGITIVE—Drama
  10:00 NEWS
  10:25 FILM SHORT
  10:30 MOVIE—Drama “King of the Khyber Rifles”


 9  KMSP (ABC)
Morning
    7:30 MY LITTLE MARGIE—Comedy
    8:00 RILEY ‘ROUND THE TOWN
    8:30 GRANDPA KEN—Children
    9:00 ROMPER ROOM—Miss Betty
  10:00 YOUNG SET—Discussion
  11:00 ELEVENTH HOUR—Drama
Afternoon
  12:00 BEN CASEY—Drama
    1:00 NURSES—Serial
    1:30 A TIME FOR US—Serial  
    1:55 NEWS—Marlene Sanders
    2:00 GENERAL HOSPITAL—Serial
    2:30 YOUNG MARRIEDS—Serial
    3:00 NEVER TOO YOUNG—Serial
    3:30 WHERE THE ACTION ISGuests: Herman’s Hermits, Steve Alaimo
    4:00 SOUPY SALES—Comedy
    4:30 DENNIS THE MENACE—Comedy
    5:00 NEWS—Peter Jennings
    5:15 NEWS AND WEATHER
    5:30 LEAVE IT TO BEAVER—Comedy
Evening
    6:00 WOODY WOODPECKER   COLOR 
    6:30 FLINTSTONES—Cartoon   COLOR 
    7:00 TAMMY—Comedy   COLOR 
    7:30 ADDAMS FAMILY—Comedy
    8:00 HONEY WEST—Mystery
    8:30 FARMER’S DAUGHTER   COLOR 
    9:00 JIMMY DEAN—Variety Guests: Eileen Farrell, Chet Atkins, Norm Crosby, Boots Randolph, Don Gibson, Floyd Cramer
  10:00 NEWS
  10:30 MOVIE—Drama “Deadline U.S.A.” (1952)


11 WTCN (IND.)
Morning
    9:15 NEWS
    9:30 MOVIE—Drama“The Strange Case of Clara Deane” (1932)
  10:30 NEWS—Gil Amundson
  11:00 DONNA REED—Comedy
  11:30 FATHER KNOWS BEST—Comedy
Afternoon
  12:00 LUNCH WITH CASEY—Children
  12:45 KING AND ODIE—Cartoons
    1:00 MOVIE—Mystery“The Glass Key” (1935)
    2:45 MEL’S NOTEBOOK—Interview
    3:00 GIRL TALK—Panel
    3:30 BACHELOR FATHER—Comedy
    4:00 POPEYE AND PETE—Children
    4:30 CASEY AND ROUNDHOUSE
    4:45 MAGILLA GORILLA   COLOR 
    5:15 ROCKY AND FRIENDS   COLOR 
    5:30 HAVE GUN—WILL TRAVEL
Evening
    6:00 RIFLEMAN—Western
    6:30 BOLD JOURNEY—Travel
    7:00 WILD CARGO—Travel
    7:30 TRUE ADVENTURE   COLOR 
    8:00 COLLEGE HOCKEY—Gophers   RETURN Michigan Tech vs. Minnesota
    9:30 NEWS, WEATHER, SPORTS
  10:00 MOVIE—Drama “I Wanted Wings” (1941)
  12:00 AMOS ‘N’ ANDY—Comedy Time approximate.


13 WEAU (EAU CLAIRE) (NBC)
Morning
    7:00 TODAY   COLOR Guests: Fleury D’Antonakis, Judith Crist
    9:00 FRACTURED PHRASES—Game   COLOR Contestants: Shari Lewis, Paul Anka
    9:25 NEWS—Newman
    9:30 CONCENTRATION—Game
  10:00 MORNING STAR—Serial   COLOR 
  10:30 PARADISE BAY—Serial   COLOR 
  11:00 JEOPARDY—Game   COLOR 
  11:30 LET’S PLAY POST OFFICE—Game   COLOR 
  11:55 NEWS—McGee
Afternoon
  12:00 FARM AND HOME—Children
  12:30 LET’S MAKE A DEAL—Game   COLOR 
  12:55 NEWS—Kalber
    1:00 DAYS OF OUR LIVES—Serial   COLOR 
    1:30 DOCTORS
    2:00 ANOTHER WORLD—Serial
    2:30 YOU DON’T SAY!—Game   COLOR Celebrities: Marty Ingels Laraine Day
    3:00 MATCH GAME   COLOR Celebrities: Dr. Joyce Brothers, Henry Morgan
    3:25 NEWS
    3:30 FATHER KNOWS BEST—Comedy
    4:00 SCHOOL REPORTER—Eau Claire
    4:30 LLOYD THAXTON—Variety
    5:30 NEWS—Chet Huntley, David Brinkley   COLOR 
Evening
    6:00 NEWS
    6:30 CAMP RUNAMUCK—Comedy   COLOR 
    7:00 DONNA REED—Comedy
    7:30 CONVOY—Drama
    8:30 MR. ROBERTS   COLOR 
    9:00 MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E.—Adventure   COLOR 
  10:00 NEWS
  10:30 MOVIE—Drama“The Purple Gang” (1959)

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