B&W NETWORK SERIES ORIGINATING OUTSIDE NY / LA

[gregg75]

The only ones I can think of are
"Jackie Gleason" from Miami Beach
"Bandstand" from Philadelphia
and "Meet The Press" and "Face The Nation" from D.C.

Were there others?

 

[bpatrick]

Tennessee Ernie Ford's ABC daytime show (1962-65)
originated in San Francisco. Don McNeill tried a primetime
version of "The Breakfast Club" called "Don McNeill's TV Club"
in the early '50s, a simulcast of "The Breakfast Club" in 1954-55,
and a Sunday-afternoon game show, "Take Two," in 1963...all
on ABC and all from Chicago.

 

[KeithE4]

The only ones I can think of are
"Jackie Gleason" from Miami Beach
"Bandstand" from Philadelphia
and "Meet The Press" and "Face The Nation" from D.C.

Were there others?

Many Dumont shows originated at WGN-TV Chicago. IIRC, some 1940s NBC soap operas were broadcast from WNBQ as well. Also, Kukla, Fran, & Ollie was Chicago-based, first from WBKB, later from WNBQ.

 

[gregg75]

Gleason must have really had some pull to get CBS to do the show from Miami. How did that come about? Was he living in Miami? He could have easily done the show from Kansas City or just about anywhere else.

 

[wbhist]

Gleason must have really had some pull to get CBS to do the show from Miami. How did that come about? Was he living in Miami? He could have easily done the show from Kansas City or just about anywhere else.

One word: Golf. Which he had become so addicted to that to him, New York had become, in his words, too "cold" and "wet." And for Gleason, who hated Hollywood with a passion (dating back to his ill-fated sojourn there in the early 1940's), moving his show in 1964 to CBS Television City was out of the question, out of the question (quoting one of his lines from one of the Classic 39 Honeymooners episodes). Also, Miami Beach offered various goodies to entice him to move himself and his entire entourage there. Plus, CBS's Miami affiliate of the time, WTVJ Channel 4, was enlisted to provide technical facilities.

 

[MattParker]

Kukla, Fran and Ollie (Chicago, NBC)
Soupy Sales (Detroit, ABC)
The Magic Land of Allakazam (Cincinnati, CBS)
The Sealtest Big Top (Philadelphia, CBS)
Action in the Afternoon (Philadelphia, CBS)
Paul Whiteman's TV Teen Club (Philadelphia, ABC)
Ruth Lyons 50/50 Club (Cincinnati, NBC)
Ding Dong School (Chicago, NBC)
Garroway At Large (Chicago, NBC)
Hawkins Falls (Chicago, NBC)
Welcome Travelers (Chicago, NBC)
The Jimmy Dean Show (Washington, CBS)

 

[landtuna]

Fully half of those shows listed I've never heard of, much less seen. I suspect they were syndicated.

 

[MattParker]

Wait, there's more...

Watch Mr. Wizard (Chicago, NBC)
Super Circus (Chicago, ABC)
Meet The Press (Washington, NBC)
The Johns Hopkins Science Review (Baltimore, Dumont)
The Paul Dixon Show (Cincinatti, CBS)
Georgetown University Forum (Washington, Dumont)
Wrestling from the Marigold (Chicago, Dumont)
Washington Exclusive (Washington, Dumont)
Concert Tonight (Chicago, Dumont)
Midwestern Hayride (Cincinatti, NBC)
The Adventures of Robin Hood (London, CBS)
The Adventures of Sir Lancelot (London, NBC)
The Buccaneers (London, NBC)
Ozark Jubilee (Springfield, MO, NBC)
David Brinkley's Journal (Washington, NBC)
Route 66 (Multiple locatons, CBS)

And ALL were network shows (a few had later lives in syndication).

 

[KeithE4]

Fully half of those shows listed I've never heard of, much less seen. I suspect they were syndicated.

They were all network shows. Some may have only been available in the east and/or midwest, either because the coast-to-coast lines weren't finished yet and kinescopes weren't available for some reason, or some stations just didn't clear them.

 

[Ultimajock]

Studs' Place (Chicago, NBC and ABC)

 

[classictvfan]

Here is another one:I Spy(Multiple Locations, NBC)

 

[Tim L]

Action In The Afternoon(1953-54) Short-Lived CBS series that was unique in that it was a daily live-action Western-From WCAU Philadelphia..One station I know of that carried this show was WKBN-27 Youngstown, Ohio..More Info here..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_in_the_Afternoon

 

[Cincinnati Kid]

That's Music (1958) ABC - Cincinnati

 

[bpatrick]

And probably anything with Dotty Mack came from Cincinnati.

I was surprised to see that "The Magic Land Of Allakazam" originated
in Cincinnati; I was always under the impression that Mark Wilson started
that show in Dallas, where he grew up, and I've seen a publicity shot of
him levitating wife Nani Darnell in front of the CBS Television City building.