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Retro: Oregon State, Fri. August 29th, 1958

Source: TV Guide (#282)

CHANNELS
2 KOTI Klamath Falls CBS
4 KPIC Roseburg NBC
5 KBES Medford CBS
6 KOIN-TV Portland CBS
7 KOAC Corvallis EDU/NET
8 KGW-TV Portland ABC
12 KPTV Portland NBC
13 KVAL Eugene NBC

8/29/1958-FRI

7:30
8 Cartooners' Club
12 Breadbasket, U.S.A.

8AM
6 For Love or Money
8 Romper Room
12 Dough Re Mi

8:30
6 Play Your Hunch
12 Treasure Hunt

9AM
6 Arthur Godfrey
Actor Tony Randall winds up his stint as substitute host for vacationing Arthur Godfrey. For the next two weeks country singer Ferlin Husky will be host. Regulars: Louise O'Brien, Alan Copeland and the Honey Dreamers.
8 Telescope
12 13 Price is Right

9:30
6 Dotto
12 13 Concentration (just started on Monday 8/25)

10AM
4 12 13 Tic Tac Dough
6 Love of Life
Tom Craythorne makes a startling admission.
8 Movie
Telerama Movie: 'Huddle.' (1932) On their arrival at Yale, two freshmen, opposites in character and upbringing, begin a rivalry which lasts the four years. Ramon Novarro, Madge Evans, Ralph Graves.

10:30
4 12 13 It Could Be You (Color)
Color on 12 and 13 only.
6 Search for Tomorrow

10:45
6 Guiding Light

11AM
2 5 6 CBS News-Cronkite
4 13 Truth or Consequences
12 Stage 12

11:05
2 5 Cartoons
6 Hi Neighbor

11:15
2 5 Play Your Hunch (last 15 minutes)

11:30
2 5 6 As the World Turns
4 12 13 Haggis Baggis (Color)
Color on 12 and 13 only.
8 Workshop

Noon
2 5 6 Beat the Clock
4 12 13 Today is Ours
8 Town & Country

12:15
8 Farm Newsreel

12:30
2 5 6 House Party
Artist Charles Schulz, originator of the 'Peanuts' comic strip, is today's guest. Host: Art Linkletter.
4 12 13 From These Roots
8 Wunda Wunda

1PM
2 5 6 The Big Payoff
4 12 13 Queen for a Day
8 Susie

1:30
2 5 6 Verdict is Yours
8 Janet Dean

1:45
4 12 13 Modern Romances
A murder is committed. Joanne Linville, Mark Roberts, Melville Ruick.

2PM
2 5 6 Brighter Day
4 13 Movie
Variety Film Fair: 'Hurricane at Pilgrim Hill.' (1953) An old busybody from way out West, visiting his daughter in a tradition-bound Massachusetts town, challenges the snobbery of the town's citizens. Virginia Grey, Cecil Kellaway.
8 Trouble with Father
Stu writes a thesis on good neighbor policies with South America, and Senor Renaldo, an ambassador of goodwill, comes to town to visit.
12 Movie
Afternoon Theater: 'Polo Joe.' (1936) Visiting his millionaire aunt, a young man discovers that the suburban set is mad about polo. Unfortunately horses make him sneeze, but when an attractive girl turns up he brags about being an international polo star. Joe E. Brown, Carol Hughes, Skeets Gallagher.

2:15
2 5 6 Secret Storm
Pauline and Myra speak candidly.

2:30
2 5 6 Edge of Night
8 Who Do You Trust?

3PM
2 Variety
5 Homemakers Intermission
6 KOIN Kitchen
8 American Bandstand
Tony Mammarella winds up two weeks as acting host. Dick Clark returns Monday.

3:15
12 Geri's Home Journal

3:30
5 Devotions
6 Movie
Armchair Theater: 'Scarlet Dawn.' (1932) At the outbreak of the Russian Revolution, a prince is captured and sent back to his estate under guard. Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
12 Ruff & Reddy
In today's cartoon adventure, Ruff is kidnapped by Harry Safari, the hunter.

3:35
5 Cartoons

3:45
2 5 Search for Tomorrow
4 13 Off to Market

4PM
2 5 Dotto
4 13 Big Roundup
8 Heck Harper
12 Fury
Joey and Peewee are barred from swimming in their usual place when the new owner of the Rocking Y Ranch dams up one of his streams.

4:30
2 Chaplain's Corner
5 To Be Announced
6 Mr. Moon
12 High Time

4:35
2 Uncle Bill

4:45
6 Red Dunning

5PM
2 5 News
4 13 Sports Club
6 Cartoon Time
'The Cocky Bantam.'
8 Buccaneers
Learning that Dan Tempest is away from New Providence, Calico Jack returns. With help of plantation owner Van Brugh, he plans to hijack the Sultana's valuable cargo. Brian Rawlinson.

5:15
2 5 6 News-Douglas Edwards
7 Uncle Wonder's Workshop (notice what little programming KOAC carried in their first year)

5:30
2 Industry on Parade
4 13 Cartoons
5 Film Feature
6 Boing Boing
Cartoons: 'Ballet Oop,' 'Dusty in the Five-cent Nickel' and 'Christopher Crumpet.' Bill Goodwin narrates.
7 Film Topics
8 Mickey Mouse Club
1. Mouseketeers: Guests for Talent Roundup Day are the Ramon Littee Accordion Band of Fullerton, Cal. 2. Annette serial: 'The Hayride.' 3. 'There's Music Everywhere,' with Jimmie Dodd.
12 Suspense Unlimited

5:45
2 Sports Highlights
4 13 News

5:55
12 Weather, News

6PM
2 4 5 12 13 Boxing
Don Jordan, Los Angeles, welterweight vs. Lahouari Godih, Algiers, lightweight, 10 rounds. Jimmy Powers reports from Madison Square Garden, New York. Jordan is 37-11 with 14 KOs, Godih is 51-4 with 12 KOs. These are two good, fast-moving boxers. Jordan, who made his TV debut a few weeks ago with an upset win over Isaac Logart, is the harder puncher; but Godih is a better boxer. Hordan has won 10 of his last 11. He holds wins over Joe Miceli, Lauro Salas, Paddy De Marco and Orlandos Zulueta. Godih, the former French champion, has lost but one of his last 22 fights-to Johnny Busso. He has defeated Damasco Collazo, Larry Baker and Hoacine Khalfi.
6 News
7 Tempest in a Test Tube
8 Sports Club-Elroy Hirsch
Tonight's program is devoted to skin diving, showing films of Bill Edwards and Dittie Frazier emphasizing safety in the sport. Edwards visits host Elroy Hirsch to narrate the films and give special tips on skin diving.

6:30
6 Destiny
Joseph Cotten in 'High Green Wall,' Charles Jackson's adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's 'The Man Who Liked Dickens.' A disillusioned businessman joins an expedition into the Amazon and gets lost in the jungle. He stumbles onto the dwelling of McMaster, a sinister half-caste whose greatest joy is having the works of Charles Dickens read to him.
7 Renaissance Music
8 News-Richard Ross

6:45
4 13 Political Talk
12 Fight Beat-Bud Palmer

6:50
2 Sportsman
4 13 Sports Album
5 Pill Box

6:55
5 Sports Roundup

7PM
2 5 6 Phil Silvers
'Bilko Goes to Monte Carlo.' After much research and hard work, Bilko finally comes up with a system for breaking the bank at Monte Carlo. He tries to persuade his buddies to sponsor his trip to Monaco. Harvey Lembeck, Maurice Gosfield, Paul Ford, Marcel Hillaire.
4 Film Feature
7 Psychology
8 Jim Bowie
A chimpanzee who's been trained to climb in windows and steal, picks Jim Bowie as his victim. Bowie starts a search for the animal and his owner, and finds he's not the only one looking for them. Last show of the series.
12 Jefferson Drum
'The Outlaw.' On the open prairie Jefferson Drum finds a young girl who is dressed as a boy. He takes her back to Jubilee and learns that her name is Kate Sparks. Although he tries to win the girl's confidence, he can't learn anything else from her until an outlaw is brought through town on his way to be hanged. Jeff Richards, Robert J. Stevenson.
13 Let's Go Fishing

7:15
13 Golfer's Guide

7:30
2 5 Sea Hunt
4 12 13 Paper Saints
SPECIAL: Does the Mafia, an Italian Secret Society, mastermind organized crime in America? This 30-minute program explores that question. It chronicles the history of the Mafia, with its roots in Sicily, and of major crime in the U.S. The live narration is by Frank McGee, of NBC's Washington news staff. There are interviews with law-enforcement leaders, including Los Angeles Police Chief William H. Parker, Chicago Crime Commission Director Virgil Peterson and Federal Narcotics Division and New York City crime-fighting officials. Among past and present underworld figures seen in newsreel clips are Albert and Tony Anastasia, Vito Genovese, Frank Costello, WIllie Moretti, Joe Adonis, Tony Accardo, Lucky Luciano, Al Capone, 'Legs' Diamond, John Dillinger and Vincent Gigante. There are also sequences showing the late Sicilian bandit Salvatore Giuliano.
6 Schlitz Playhouse
Edmond O'Brien in 'The Town That Slept with the Lights On.' Ace photographer Jim Reardon is sent to a town that has been terrorized by a killer, to report the story for a news syndicate. In the town, Reardon finds that the people are convinced they know who the killer is. Edmond O'Brien, Robert Middleton.
7 Un Review
8 Rin Tin Tin
'Rusty's Remedy.' Lt. Rip Masters and Rusty find a staring, unkempt man at Salt River and take him back to Fort Apache. There they learn that the man is a former army major who resigned because he feels responsible for leading his unit into an ambush. Jim L. Brown, Lee Aaker.

8PM
2 5 6 Undercurrent
'After the Fact.' A woman decides to murder her jealous husband. Needing an accomplice, she approaches a man who desperately needs money. Helen Lawson: Tina Carver.
4 13 Highway Patrol
Dan Mathews receives a phone call from a hysterical young woman telling him she has killed a man. Rushing to the scene, Dan learns the woman has struck her victim, a 'wanted' thief, in self-defense. Broderick Crawford.
8 To Be Announced
12 M Squad
Lt. Ballinger uses a unique decoy to trap a psychopathic killer who murders to music. Bethel Leslie.

8:30
2 5 Target-Adolphe Menjou
4 12 13 Thin Man
'The Saucer People.' A scientist friend tells Nick and Nora that he has just been in a flying saucer. Suspicious, Nick investigates a cult which is trying to arouse interest in flying saucers. Peter Lawford, Phyllis Kirk.
6 Personal Appearance
Phyllis Kirk in 'The Waiting Home.' Barbara and Peter Hunter are not disturbed by the fact that the honeymoon house they have chosen in Bermuda has been the scene of accidents to a good many tenants before them. But when Barbara's photographer husband has to leave on an assignment, she begins to regret moving into the house. Barbara: Phyllis Kirk. Pete: Paul Langton.
8 Movie
Big Show: 'The Valley of Decision.' (1945) A girl who works as a maid for a pioneer steel-family falls in love with one of the sons. Greer Garson, Gregory Peck.

9PM
2 Paris Precinct
4 13 Movie
Front Row Center: 'Night Freight.' (11955) The owner of a short-line railroad comes into conflict with the owner of a truck line, who fears the railroad will take away his business. Forrest Tucker, Barbara Britton.
5 Harbor Command
6 Sheriff of Cochise
12 Mike Hammer
'Beautiful, Blue and Deadly.' Mike Hammer comes upon a beautiful female racketeer who attempts to use a foreign racing car for her criminal purposes. Darren McGavin.

9:30
2 State Trooper
5 I Spy
6 Trackdown
Ranger Hoby Gilman arrests a young man who has killed another man in an argument. Then Gilman learns that the prisoner's father is the judge, and insists that the judge must preside at the trial and determine the fate of his son. Robert Culp.
12 Medic
What might happen if a H-bomb attack occurs is shown tonight.

10PM
2 Harbor Command
5 To Be Announced
6 News-Chuck Foster
12 Movie
Movie 12: 'Crime School.' (1938) The warden of a reformatory tries to regenerate a bunch of tough kids. Humphrey Bogart, Billy Halop.

10:05
6 Wrestling-Portland

10:30
2 5 8 News
4 13 Maverick

10:35
2 5 Movie
'20 Mule Team.' (1940) Adventures of a tough mule-skinner on the wagon train around Death Valley at the turn of the century. Wallace Beery.

10:40
8 Movie
Ch. 8 Playhouse: 'The Prizefighter and the Lady.' (1933) An ex-prizefighter, now a promoter, discovers a promising boxer in a New York speakeasy. He persuades the young man to give up his job as a bouncer, and gets him a match. Myrna Loy, Walter Huston.

11:05
6 News

11:10
6 Movie
Showtime on Six: 'Intrigue.' (1947) A man becomes involved in the smuggling of food which was originally meant for the hungry people of China. George Raft, June Havoc.

11:30
4 13 News
 
That boxing match at 6PM must've been syndicated. 'Highway Patrol', another syndicated program ran in prime time. A really great series!
 
Looking at the special about the Mafia...Vincent Gigante became quite well-known many years later during his murder and racketeering trial. Hoping to be ruled incompetent to stand trial, he took to doing things like walking around in a bathrobe and talking to himself. The New York tabloids soon dubbed him "The Oddfather".
 
KOTI/KBES were primary CBS affiliates, but did carry programming from all four networks. Perhaps they took the NBC line since a boxing match would get a lot of viewers.
 
I take it KVAL channel 13 didn't sign on until 9 AM and KPIC/channel 4 didn't sign on until 10 AM as NBC had programming going between 8 and 10 and KPTV/channel 12 cleared all four shows (13 clearing two). Also presuming that channel 12's airing of Ruff & Reddy at 3:30 PM is a tape or kinescope delay from the previous Saturday morning.
 
And *no* one aired Today with Dave Garroway. Just a year before KPIC/KVAL were signing on at 11AM.
I think NBC aired baseball on Saturday 8/23, so no Ruff & Reddy. The preemption to 3:30 Friday kind of reminds me of what stations do nowadays when their E/I programs are preempted. Except they usually put them on Sundays or the next Saturday.
 
Doesn't look like any of the NBCs ran the Tonight show, either. Would have thought tape-delay for the West Coast had fired up by August of 1958, but it seems not.
 
Jack Paar aired on KPIC/KVAL, but apparently not this night. Portland did NOT clear it. If I don't lose the bid, there's yet *another* Oregon TVG I might get next week. It's from December 1958. Too bad I don't have any from the '60s, to see when Portland finally cleared the Tonight Show, and whether it was late in Jack Paar's run or when Johnny Carson took over in 1962. KGW swapped affiliations with KPTV in April 1959 and is still an NBC station almost 60 years later.
 
The late August 1958 primetime network schedule here bore little resemblance to the summer 1958 nighttime schedule. (per Wikipedia) By late August, I'm just going to have to assume things were in a state of flux in general in the last few weeks of the 57-58 season, so I'm not even going to try to make sense of it.

The daytime scheduling pattern was easier to discern but still all over the map it seems. Not only did Today not make the cut, neither did Captain Kangaroo or anything that aired before 10 AM in the east.

The NBC stations ran the morning schedule two hours behind the Eastern pattern.When it came to the hour long break for the Central time zone noon lunch hour. (1 PM ET), NBC skipped brunch in the west and took the live feed from New York. Truth or Consequences aired at 2 PM Eastern, and 11 AM Pacific time here.

CBS ran two hours behind pattern for the Eastern time zone for the whole day. Arthur Godfrey ran at 11 AM ET, it ran here at 9 AM Pacific. Edge of Night ran at 4:30 ET, it ran here at 2:30 PT.

And the pattern for ABC: one hour behind Eastern. There is only one ABC affiliate here, Portland's KGW-TV channel 8, so it's harder to know if this was the pattern for the entire Pacific time zone, but American Bandstand ran at 3 PM here, while in the east it ran at 4 PM ET. There was no ABC daytime programming for the 1957-58 season before 3:30 Eastern and Who Do You Trust, which aired here at 2:30 Pacific.
 
The NBC stations ran the morning schedule two hours behind the Eastern pattern.When it came to the hour long break for the Central time zone noon lunch hour. (1 PM ET), NBC skipped brunch in the west......CBS ran two hours behind pattern for the Eastern time zone for the whole day......And the pattern for ABC: one hour behind Eastern.

Everything aired here one hour earlier than in Cali, because Oregon was not on DST. NBC and CBS being "two hours behind the Eastern pattern" is correct, because the west coast feeds out of L.A. were one hour behind ET (or in the CT time pattern). ABC then ran a "clock time" daytime, where a 4:00 ET show aired at 4:00 CT and 4:00 PT. (MST? Don't ask!)

CBS News with Douglas Edwards at 5:15 PST was the 6:15 PT west coast feed on tape from TV City.

The NBC boxing broadcast at 6:00 PM PST was the "Gillette Cavalcade of Sports" which aired at 10:00 ET--so it aired LIVE! in Oregon.


Gee, I hope Florida knows what it's getting into, if they con Congress into letting them stay on DST year-round! In the winter, prime time (8-11 PM ET) will be on from 9 PM-midnight. Your late local news at 12 AM. Network evening newses at 7:30. Today Show (and the other two) will air 8-10 AM.
 
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