1956 ABC, CBS, NBC FALL SCHEDULES (SUN-TUE)

[gregg75]

This year was chosen because the Dumont network had expired in August. (year end ranking).

SUNDAY
7:00
ABC You Asked For It
CBS Lassie (#24)
NBC Tales Of The 77th Bengal Lancers (fiction regiment of Indian Army)???
7:30
ABC Original Amateur Hour (Ted Mack)
CBS Jack Benny (#10)
NBC Circus Boy
8:00
CBS Ed Sullivan (#2)
NBC Steve Allen
8:30
ABC Press Conference (Meet The Press clone)
9:00
ABC Omnibus (science, arts, humanities)
CBS Genreal Electric Theater (#3)
NBC Goodyear Playhouse
9:30
CBS Alfred Hitchcock (#6)
10:00
CBS $64,000 Question (#22 tie)
NBC Loretta Young Show
10:30
ABC local
CBS What's My Line (#26)
NBC National Bowling Championships

MONDAY
7:00
ABC Kukla, Fran & Ollie
CBS & NBC local
7:15
ABC John Daly And The News
CBS Douglas Edwards And The News
7:30
ABC Bold Journey (travel)
CBS Adventures Of Robin Hood
NBC Golden Touch Of Frankie Carle (music/variety)
7:45
NBC Huntley - Brinkley Report
8:00
ABC Danny Thomas (formerly Make Room For Daddy)
CBS George Burns & Gracie Allen (#28)
NBC Adventures Of Sir Lancelot (British series, the round table)
8:30
ABC Voice Of Firestone (classical music)
CBS Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts (#12)
NBC Stanley (starring Buddy Hackett, Carol Burnette, voice of Paul Lynde)
9:00
ABC Life Is Worth Living (moral issues of the day)
CBS I Love Lucy (#1) (highlights this season: "Off To Florida (hatchet lady)"
"Deep-Sea Fishing" "Desert Island" "Lucy & The Loving Cup" "Lucy & Superman"
"Lucy Moves To The Country" "Lucy Raises Chickens" "Building A Bar-B-Q"
"Country Club Dance (Barbara Eden)" "Lucy Raises Tulips")
NBC Medic (medical drama)
********Looks like lack of competition really helped Lucy!!!!!
9:30
ABC Lawrence Welk's Top Tunes And New Talent
CBS December Bride (#5) (sitcom, looking for love) Lucy leadin must have helped a big lot
NBC Robert Montgomery Presents (a few shows cast daughter Elizabeth)
10:00
CBS Studio One (drama plays/shows)
10:30
ABC & NBC local
TUESDAY
7:00
ABC Kukla, Fran & Ollie
CBS & NBC local
7:15
ABC John Daly And The News
CBS Douglas Edwards And The News
7:30
ABC Cheyenne
CBS Name That Tune (#30)
NBC Jonatha Winters Show
7:45
NBC Huntley - Brinkely Report
8:00
CBS Phil Silvers Show (#22 tie)
NBC The Big Suprise (quiz show)
8:30
ABC Life And Legend Of Wyatt Earp (#18)
CBS The Brothers (sitcom)
NBC Noah's Ark (???)
9:00
ABC Broken Arrow (western)
CBS Herb Shriner Show (variety)
NBC Jane Wyman Show (drama)
9:30
ABC Du Pont Theatre (plays,dramas,re-enactments)
CBS Red Skelton (#15)
NBC Armstrong Circle Theatre (various dramas)
10:00
ABC It's Polka Time (yes)
CBS $64,000 Question (#4)
10:30
ABC local
CBS Do You Trust Your Wife (game show)
NBC Break The $250,000 Bank (quiz show, contestants returned each week for more $)

In spite of "Polka Time" ABC seems to be quie competitive with the big 2.

 

[Prais]

Polka Music was "hot" in 1956. Really.
That show originated att WBKB in Chicago, with Stan Wolowic and the Polka Chips. (I have a couple of albums).

Life is Worth Living w/Bishop Sheen was Mondays on your sched. I think they put it against Milton Berle. too, and was quite successful.

 

[Hal Erickson]

You have question marks accopanying NOAH'S ARK.
This was a comedy-drama series about an elderly veterinarian, his young assistant and a pretty nurse. It was filmed in color--and produced by Jack Webb!

 

[bpatrick]

Bishop Sheen was on against Berle when DuMont carried
"Life Is Worth Living." On Tuesday nights in the fall of 1956,
ABC was alternating "Cheyenne" and an anthology series called
"Conflict" from 7:30-8:30, and Berle was nowhere to be seen.

I'm sure you've all heard Berle's mischievous references to the
good bishop, calling him "Uncle Fultie" and saying things like,
"We both work for the same boss--Sky Chief" (a reference to
God in Sheen's case, a brand of Texaco gasoline in Berle's).
And even Sheen once said, when he found out he was going to
be on against Berle, "Now I can't watch my favorite show."