My annual lookback at what the networks were doing
fifty years ago. From Castleman and Podrazik's "The
TV Schedule Book" and Wesley Hyatt's "Encyclopedia
Of Daytime Television." Times are Eastern; new shows
in CAPS.
MON ABC 7 PM (Local)
7:30 The Cheyenne Show (Cheyenne/Bronco/
Sugarfoot)
8:30 SURFSIDE 6
9:30 Adventures In Paradise
10:30 Peter Gunn (taken from NBC)
11 PM (Local)
CBS 7 PM (Local, although some stations air
"Douglas Edwards With The News"
at 7:15)
7:30 To Tell The Truth
8 PM PETE AND GLADYS
8:30 BRINGING UP BUDDY
9 PM Danny Thomas Show
9:30 ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW
10 PM Hennesey
10:30 PRESIDENTIAL COUNTDOWN
11 PM (Local)
NBC 7 PM (Local, although some stations air "The Huntley-
Brinkley Report" at 7:15)
7:30 Riverboat
8:30 Tales Of Wells Fargo
9 PM KLONDIKE
9:30 DANTE
10 PM BARBARA STANWYCK SHOW
10:30 Jackpot Bowling Starring Milton Berle
11 PM (Local)
11:15 Jack Paar Show
1 AM (Local)
TUE ABC 7 PM EXPEDITION
7:30 BUGS BUNNY
8 PM The Rifleman
8:30 Wyatt Earp
9 PM STAGECOACH WEST
10 PM Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond
10:30 (Local)
CBS 7 PM (Local)
8 PM Father Knows Best (begins three years of primetime
reruns, two years on CBS and one on ABC)
8:30 Dobie Gillis
9 PM TOM EWELL SHOW
9:30 Red Skelton Show
10 PM Garry Moore Show
11 PM (Local)
NBC 7 PM (Local)
7:30 Laramie
8:30 Alfred Hitchcock Presents (taken from CBS)
9 PM THRILLER (Boris Karloff hosts these mildly-scary dramas)
10 PM NBC Specials
11 PM (Local)
11:15 Jack Paar Show
1 AM (Local)
WED ABC 7 PM (Local)
7:30 HONG KONG
8:30 Ozzie And Harriet
9 PM Hawaiian Eye
10 PM Naked City (after a year's hiatus, the show returns with
Paul Burke and Horace McMahon replacing James Franciscus
and John McIntire)
11 PM (Local)
CBS 7 PM (Local)
7:30 THE AQUANAUTS
8:30 Wanted: Dead Or Alive
9 PM MY SISTER EILEEN
9:30 I've Got A Secret
10 PM U.S. Steel Hour/Armstrong Circle Theater (the last of the
great drama anthologies of the '50s)
11 PM (Local)
NBC 7 PM (Local)
7:30 Wagon Train (star Ward Bond will not live to finish the season,
and John McIntire will replace him)
8:30 The Price Is Right (Bill Cullen version)
9 PM Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall
10 PM PETER LOVES MARY (Peter Lind Hayes and Mary Healy in a sitcom)
10:30 (Local)
11:15 Jack Paar Show
1 AM (Local)
THU ABC 7 PM (Local)
7:30 GUESTWARD HO!
8 PM Donna Reed Show
8:30 The Real McCoys
9 PM MY THREE SONS (some would argue that is the first, best era of the
show, with William Frawley as Bub and Tim Considine as eldest son
Mike--better than the Uncle Charley/Ernie years on CBS)
9:30 The Untouchables
10:30 Take A Good Look (Ernie Kovacs' gonzo game show)
11 PM (Local)
CBS 7 PM (Local)
7:30 THE WITNESS (recreations of trials and hearings--on the first show,
Telly Savalas, with hair, plays gangster Lucky Luciano)
8:30 Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater
9 PM ANGEL (sort of "I Love Lucy" in reverse--here, the bride is foreign,
being from France, but scatterbrained nonetheless; I had a big
crush on star Annie Farge)
9:30 Ann Sothern Show
10 PM Person To Person (Charles Collingwood has replaced Edward R. Murrow
and seems much more at home interviewing celebrities.)
10:30 DuPont Show With June Allyson (a married couple in separate shows,
same night, same network--Ms. Allyson was married to Dick Powell)
11 PM (Local)
NBC 7 PM (Local)
7:30 THE OUTLAWS
8:30 Bat Masterson
9 PM Bachelor Father (will move to ABC for a final season in fall 1961)
9:30 The Ford Show Starring Tennessee Ernie Ford
10 PM The Groucho Show (new name for "You Bet Your Life," in its final season--
Groucho will host "Tell It To Groucho" for a few weeks on CBS in 1962)
10:30 (Local)
11:15 Jack Paar Show
1 AM (Local)
FRI ABC 7 PM (Local)
7:30 Matty's Funday Funnies
8 PM HARRIGAN AND SON (bad enough that this sitcom about father-and-son
lawyers is sandwiched between two animated shows, but star Pat O'Brien
will swear off series TV when he learns of this show's replacement: "The
Hathaways," with the Marquis Chimps)
8:30 THE FLINTSTONES
9 PM 77 Sunset Strip
10 PM Robert Taylor In The Detectives
10:30 THE LAW AND MR. JONES (James Whitmore as a principled lawyer,
appropriately named Abraham Lincoln Jones. The show attracts a cult
following but is not renewed; however, ABC makes new episodes as a
midseason replacement in 1962.)
11 PM (Local)
CBS 7 PM (Local)
7:30 Rawhide
8:30 ROUTE 66 (Martin Milner and George Maharis do their bit to make the
Corvette a household word.)
9:30 MR. GARLUND (Also called "The Garlund Touch," this drama is about a
thirtysomething multimillionaire who made his fortune under mysterious
circumstances. Kam Tong takes temporary leave from "Have Gun, Will
Travel" to play his manservant. This show will be replaced on January
20, 1961, by the infamous Jackie Gleason game show, "You're In The
Picture".)
10 PM Twilight Zone
10:30 Eyewitness To History
11 PM (Local)
NBC 7 PM (Local)
7:30 DAN RAVEN
8:30 THE WESTERNER (a western that anticipates the work of Sam Peckinpah)
9 PM Bell Telephone Hour/NBC Specials
10 PM MICHAEL SHAYNE
11 PM (Local)
11:15 The Best Of Paar (reruns)
1 AM (Local)
MON-FRI
ABC 11 AM MORNING COURT ("Day In Court" spinoff with one of TV's first
female judges, Georgianna Hardy)
11:30 Love That Bob
12 N The Texan
12:30 Queen For A Day (taken from NBC, as "The Price Is Right" and "Let's
Make A Deal" will be in later years)
1 PM About Faces ("Dragnet"'s Ben Alexander is asking people to identify people
from their pasts, but watch for the show's announcer--Tom Kennedy)
1:30 (Local)
2 PM Day In Court
2:30 ROAD TO REALITY (classified as a soap, but not really--it's more like
psychiatric group therapy)
3 PM Beat The Clock (Bud Collyer)
3:30 Who Do You Trust? (Johnny Carson)
4 PM American Bandstand
5:30 Rin Tin Tin (M,F)/Rocky And His Friends (Tu,Th)/Lone Ranger (W)
6 PM John Daly And The News (some stations may schedule at 6:15, 6:30,
or 6:45)
6:15 (Local)
CBS 8 AM CBS Morning News With Richard Hottelet
8:15 Captain Kangaroo
9 AM (Local)
10 AM December Bride (reruns)
10:30 Video Village (Jack Narz, and later Monty Hall, is the "mayor")
11 AM I Love Lucy (reruns)
11:30 Clear Horizon (then-timely soap about an astronaut and his wife--
this show will be canceled, then return in early 1962 to replace
the game show "Your Surprise Package")
12 N Love Of Life
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1 PM CBS News (Ron Cochran)
1:05 (Local)
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Full Circle (soap that provides a break for the future Mrs. Cary
Grant, Dyan Cannon)
2:30 Art Linkletter's House Party
3 PM The Millionaire (reruns)
3:30 The Verdict Is Yours
replace him.)
4 PM Brighter Day
4:15 Secret Storm
4:30 Edge Of Night
5 PM (Local)
6:45 Local or Douglas Edwards With The News
NBC 6 AM Continental Classroom
7 AM Today (Dave Garroway)
9 AM (Local)
10 AM Dough Re Mi (and you thought all Gene Rayburn did
was "Match Game")
10:30 Play Your Hunch (Merv Griffin, two years away from
his first talk show)
11 AM The Price Is Right (Bill Cullen)
11:30 Concentration (Hugh Downs, also announcing for
Jack Paar)
12 N Truth Or Consequences (Bob Barker)
12:30 It Could Be You (Bill Leyden)
12:55 NBC News (Ray Scherer)
1 PM (Local)
2 PM CHARGE ACCOUNT (Jan Murray hosts a game in which
contestants try to place letters on a 4x4 grid in such
a way as to make as many three- and four-letter words
as possible. The bonus round is similar to "Sale Of The
Century," as the winner gets to buy prizes at greatly
reduced prices.)
2:30 Loretta Young Theater (reruns)
3 PM Young Dr. Malone
3:30 From These Roots (these were the first two NBC soaps
to last more than a few months)
4 PM Make Room For Daddy ("The Danny Thomas Show" reverts
to its original title for daytime reruns.)
4:30 HERE'S HOLLYWOOD (in-home visits with the stars--hosts
Dean Miller and Joanne Jordan are soon replaced by Jack
Linkletter and Helen O'Connell)
5 PM (Local)
6:45 Local or Huntley-Brinkley Report
SAT ABC 12 N Lunch With Soupy Sales
12:30 (Local)
2 PM COLLEGE FOOTBALL KICKOFF
2:15 NCAA Football
4:45 COLLEGE FOOTBALL SCOREBOARD
5 PM All Star Golf
6 PM (Local)
7:30 THE ROARING TWENTIES
8:30 Leave It To Beaver
9 PM Lawrence Welk Show
10 PM Fight Of The Week
10:45 MAKE THAT SPARE
11 PM (Local)
CBS 10 AM Captain Kangaroo
11 AM MAGIC LAND OF ALLAKAZAM
11:30 Mighty Mouse Playhouse
12 N Sky King (reruns)
12:30 CBS Saturday News With Robert Trout
1 PM (Local)
7:30 Perry Mason
8:30 CHECKMATE (watch for pre-"Family Affair"
Sebastian Cabot and pre-"The Virginian"
Doug McClure)
9:30 Have Gun, Will Travel (Lisa Lu steps in as
Paladin's new servant, Hey Girl)
10 PM Gunsmoke (last season of half-hour shows)
10:30 (Local)
NBC 10 AM SHARI LEWIS SHOW
10:30 KING LEONARDO AND HIS SHORT SUBJECTS
11 AM Fury (reruns)
11:30 Lone Ranger (reruns)
12 N True Story (an unusual programming move--a
drama anthology on Saturdays at noon, although
there was one on radio called "Stars Over Hollywood"--
reruns)
12:30 Detective's Diary (Mark Saber reruns)
1 PM Watch Mr. Wizard
1:30 (Local)
2 PM NBA Basketball (in season)
4:30 Bowling Stars
5 PM Captain Gallant (reruns)
5:30 NBC SATURDAY PROM (Merv Griffin hosts this
"American Bandstand" wannabe, but the producers
don't seem to be in tune (sorry) with rock 'n' roll,
at least at first; the first show features Anita Bryant,
Conway Twitty, and Johnny and the Hurricanes. Later
shows fare better, with guests like Bobby Vee, Tony Bennett,
Neil Sedaka, Brook Benton, Fats Domino, Sam Cooke, the Bill
Black Combo, Brian Hyland, and Dion.)
6 PM (Local)
7:30 Bonanza (next season it will move to Sunday and begin its
climb to number one)
8:30 THE TALL MAN
9 PM The Deputy (one of Henry Fonda's two less-than-stellar-hit
series; the other is "The Smith Family" in the early '70s)
9:30 THE CAMPAIGN AND THE CANDIDATES
10:30 (Local)
SUN ABC 12 N Matty's Funday Funnies
12:30 Rocky And His Friends
1 PM DIRECTIONS
1:30 College News Conference ("Issues And Answers"
will replace it on Nov. 27.)
2 PM Greatest Sports Thrills
3 PM Championship Bridge
3:30 AFL FOOTBALL
6:30 Walt Disney Presents (last year on ABC, but Disney
will later buy the network)
7:30 Maverick (James Garner has left in a salary dispute,
but Roger Moore is coming in as cousin Beau.)
8:30 Lawman
9 PM The Rebel
9:30 THE ISLANDERS
10:30 WALTER WINCHELL SHOW (Winchell's second attempt
at an Ed Sullivan-type show is no more successful
than his first in 1956. From now on, he'll be better known
as narrator on "The Untouchables".)
11 PM (Local)
CBS 10 AM Lamp Unto My Feet
10:30 Look Up And Live
11 AM The UN In Action
11:30 Camera Three
12 N CBS Television Workshop
12:55 CBS News (Harry Reasoner)
1 PM (Local)
1:45 Pro Football Kickoff
2 PM NFL Football
5 PM Original Amateur Hour (after years of kicking
around the networks, Ted Mack's show finally
finds a permanent home, airing Sunday afternoons
on CBS for the next ten years)
5:30 GE College Bowl (Allen Ludden)
6 PM Face The Nation
6:30 The Twentieth Century (Walter Cronkite)
7 PM Lassie
7:30 Dennis The Menace
8 PM Ed Sullivan Show
9 PM GE Theater (Ronald Reagan hosts)
9:30 Jack Benny Program (Jack finally goes weekly and
will do so until 1965. The last season is on NBC,
after Jim Aubrey tells him, "you're through".)
10 PM Candid Camera (Allen Funt also finally finds a stable
home; Arthur Godfrey co-hosts in the 1960-61 season,
followed by Durward Kirby (1961-66) and Bess Myerson
(1966-67).)
10:30 What's My Line? (John Daly)
11 PM CBS News (Walter Cronkite)
11:15 (Local)
NBC 1:30 Frontiers Of Faith
2 PM NFL Football
5 PM CELEBRITY GOLF (Harry Von Zell does play-by-play;
this show reruns on the Golf Channel)
5:30 Chet Huntley Reporting
"Omnibus" takes over the 5-6 PM slot on Nov. 13.
6 PM Meet The Press
6:30 People Are Funny (Art Linkletter, reruns)
7 PM Shirley Temple Show
8 PM NATIONAL VELVET
8:30 TAB HUNTER SHOW (he plays a swinging bachelor
cartoonist who draws a strip called "Bachelor At Large")
9 PM Dinah Shore Chevy Show
10 PM Loretta Young Show
10:30 This Is Your Life (Ralph Edwards will put the big book away
after this season, but will bring it back in 1971.)
11 PM (Local)
fifty years ago. From Castleman and Podrazik's "The
TV Schedule Book" and Wesley Hyatt's "Encyclopedia
Of Daytime Television." Times are Eastern; new shows
in CAPS.
MON ABC 7 PM (Local)
7:30 The Cheyenne Show (Cheyenne/Bronco/
Sugarfoot)
8:30 SURFSIDE 6
9:30 Adventures In Paradise
10:30 Peter Gunn (taken from NBC)
11 PM (Local)
CBS 7 PM (Local, although some stations air
"Douglas Edwards With The News"
at 7:15)
7:30 To Tell The Truth
8 PM PETE AND GLADYS
8:30 BRINGING UP BUDDY
9 PM Danny Thomas Show
9:30 ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW
10 PM Hennesey
10:30 PRESIDENTIAL COUNTDOWN
11 PM (Local)
NBC 7 PM (Local, although some stations air "The Huntley-
Brinkley Report" at 7:15)
7:30 Riverboat
8:30 Tales Of Wells Fargo
9 PM KLONDIKE
9:30 DANTE
10 PM BARBARA STANWYCK SHOW
10:30 Jackpot Bowling Starring Milton Berle
11 PM (Local)
11:15 Jack Paar Show
1 AM (Local)
TUE ABC 7 PM EXPEDITION
7:30 BUGS BUNNY
8 PM The Rifleman
8:30 Wyatt Earp
9 PM STAGECOACH WEST
10 PM Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond
10:30 (Local)
CBS 7 PM (Local)
8 PM Father Knows Best (begins three years of primetime
reruns, two years on CBS and one on ABC)
8:30 Dobie Gillis
9 PM TOM EWELL SHOW
9:30 Red Skelton Show
10 PM Garry Moore Show
11 PM (Local)
NBC 7 PM (Local)
7:30 Laramie
8:30 Alfred Hitchcock Presents (taken from CBS)
9 PM THRILLER (Boris Karloff hosts these mildly-scary dramas)
10 PM NBC Specials
11 PM (Local)
11:15 Jack Paar Show
1 AM (Local)
WED ABC 7 PM (Local)
7:30 HONG KONG
8:30 Ozzie And Harriet
9 PM Hawaiian Eye
10 PM Naked City (after a year's hiatus, the show returns with
Paul Burke and Horace McMahon replacing James Franciscus
and John McIntire)
11 PM (Local)
CBS 7 PM (Local)
7:30 THE AQUANAUTS
8:30 Wanted: Dead Or Alive
9 PM MY SISTER EILEEN
9:30 I've Got A Secret
10 PM U.S. Steel Hour/Armstrong Circle Theater (the last of the
great drama anthologies of the '50s)
11 PM (Local)
NBC 7 PM (Local)
7:30 Wagon Train (star Ward Bond will not live to finish the season,
and John McIntire will replace him)
8:30 The Price Is Right (Bill Cullen version)
9 PM Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall
10 PM PETER LOVES MARY (Peter Lind Hayes and Mary Healy in a sitcom)
10:30 (Local)
11:15 Jack Paar Show
1 AM (Local)
THU ABC 7 PM (Local)
7:30 GUESTWARD HO!
8 PM Donna Reed Show
8:30 The Real McCoys
9 PM MY THREE SONS (some would argue that is the first, best era of the
show, with William Frawley as Bub and Tim Considine as eldest son
Mike--better than the Uncle Charley/Ernie years on CBS)
9:30 The Untouchables
10:30 Take A Good Look (Ernie Kovacs' gonzo game show)
11 PM (Local)
CBS 7 PM (Local)
7:30 THE WITNESS (recreations of trials and hearings--on the first show,
Telly Savalas, with hair, plays gangster Lucky Luciano)
8:30 Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater
9 PM ANGEL (sort of "I Love Lucy" in reverse--here, the bride is foreign,
being from France, but scatterbrained nonetheless; I had a big
crush on star Annie Farge)
9:30 Ann Sothern Show
10 PM Person To Person (Charles Collingwood has replaced Edward R. Murrow
and seems much more at home interviewing celebrities.)
10:30 DuPont Show With June Allyson (a married couple in separate shows,
same night, same network--Ms. Allyson was married to Dick Powell)
11 PM (Local)
NBC 7 PM (Local)
7:30 THE OUTLAWS
8:30 Bat Masterson
9 PM Bachelor Father (will move to ABC for a final season in fall 1961)
9:30 The Ford Show Starring Tennessee Ernie Ford
10 PM The Groucho Show (new name for "You Bet Your Life," in its final season--
Groucho will host "Tell It To Groucho" for a few weeks on CBS in 1962)
10:30 (Local)
11:15 Jack Paar Show
1 AM (Local)
FRI ABC 7 PM (Local)
7:30 Matty's Funday Funnies
8 PM HARRIGAN AND SON (bad enough that this sitcom about father-and-son
lawyers is sandwiched between two animated shows, but star Pat O'Brien
will swear off series TV when he learns of this show's replacement: "The
Hathaways," with the Marquis Chimps)
8:30 THE FLINTSTONES
9 PM 77 Sunset Strip
10 PM Robert Taylor In The Detectives
10:30 THE LAW AND MR. JONES (James Whitmore as a principled lawyer,
appropriately named Abraham Lincoln Jones. The show attracts a cult
following but is not renewed; however, ABC makes new episodes as a
midseason replacement in 1962.)
11 PM (Local)
CBS 7 PM (Local)
7:30 Rawhide
8:30 ROUTE 66 (Martin Milner and George Maharis do their bit to make the
Corvette a household word.)
9:30 MR. GARLUND (Also called "The Garlund Touch," this drama is about a
thirtysomething multimillionaire who made his fortune under mysterious
circumstances. Kam Tong takes temporary leave from "Have Gun, Will
Travel" to play his manservant. This show will be replaced on January
20, 1961, by the infamous Jackie Gleason game show, "You're In The
Picture".)
10 PM Twilight Zone
10:30 Eyewitness To History
11 PM (Local)
NBC 7 PM (Local)
7:30 DAN RAVEN
8:30 THE WESTERNER (a western that anticipates the work of Sam Peckinpah)
9 PM Bell Telephone Hour/NBC Specials
10 PM MICHAEL SHAYNE
11 PM (Local)
11:15 The Best Of Paar (reruns)
1 AM (Local)
MON-FRI
ABC 11 AM MORNING COURT ("Day In Court" spinoff with one of TV's first
female judges, Georgianna Hardy)
11:30 Love That Bob
12 N The Texan
12:30 Queen For A Day (taken from NBC, as "The Price Is Right" and "Let's
Make A Deal" will be in later years)
1 PM About Faces ("Dragnet"'s Ben Alexander is asking people to identify people
from their pasts, but watch for the show's announcer--Tom Kennedy)
1:30 (Local)
2 PM Day In Court
2:30 ROAD TO REALITY (classified as a soap, but not really--it's more like
psychiatric group therapy)
3 PM Beat The Clock (Bud Collyer)
3:30 Who Do You Trust? (Johnny Carson)
4 PM American Bandstand
5:30 Rin Tin Tin (M,F)/Rocky And His Friends (Tu,Th)/Lone Ranger (W)
6 PM John Daly And The News (some stations may schedule at 6:15, 6:30,
or 6:45)
6:15 (Local)
CBS 8 AM CBS Morning News With Richard Hottelet
8:15 Captain Kangaroo
9 AM (Local)
10 AM December Bride (reruns)
10:30 Video Village (Jack Narz, and later Monty Hall, is the "mayor")
11 AM I Love Lucy (reruns)
11:30 Clear Horizon (then-timely soap about an astronaut and his wife--
this show will be canceled, then return in early 1962 to replace
the game show "Your Surprise Package")
12 N Love Of Life
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1 PM CBS News (Ron Cochran)
1:05 (Local)
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Full Circle (soap that provides a break for the future Mrs. Cary
Grant, Dyan Cannon)
2:30 Art Linkletter's House Party
3 PM The Millionaire (reruns)
3:30 The Verdict Is Yours
replace him.)
4 PM Brighter Day
4:15 Secret Storm
4:30 Edge Of Night
5 PM (Local)
6:45 Local or Douglas Edwards With The News
NBC 6 AM Continental Classroom
7 AM Today (Dave Garroway)
9 AM (Local)
10 AM Dough Re Mi (and you thought all Gene Rayburn did
was "Match Game")
10:30 Play Your Hunch (Merv Griffin, two years away from
his first talk show)
11 AM The Price Is Right (Bill Cullen)
11:30 Concentration (Hugh Downs, also announcing for
Jack Paar)
12 N Truth Or Consequences (Bob Barker)
12:30 It Could Be You (Bill Leyden)
12:55 NBC News (Ray Scherer)
1 PM (Local)
2 PM CHARGE ACCOUNT (Jan Murray hosts a game in which
contestants try to place letters on a 4x4 grid in such
a way as to make as many three- and four-letter words
as possible. The bonus round is similar to "Sale Of The
Century," as the winner gets to buy prizes at greatly
reduced prices.)
2:30 Loretta Young Theater (reruns)
3 PM Young Dr. Malone
3:30 From These Roots (these were the first two NBC soaps
to last more than a few months)
4 PM Make Room For Daddy ("The Danny Thomas Show" reverts
to its original title for daytime reruns.)
4:30 HERE'S HOLLYWOOD (in-home visits with the stars--hosts
Dean Miller and Joanne Jordan are soon replaced by Jack
Linkletter and Helen O'Connell)
5 PM (Local)
6:45 Local or Huntley-Brinkley Report
SAT ABC 12 N Lunch With Soupy Sales
12:30 (Local)
2 PM COLLEGE FOOTBALL KICKOFF
2:15 NCAA Football
4:45 COLLEGE FOOTBALL SCOREBOARD
5 PM All Star Golf
6 PM (Local)
7:30 THE ROARING TWENTIES
8:30 Leave It To Beaver
9 PM Lawrence Welk Show
10 PM Fight Of The Week
10:45 MAKE THAT SPARE
11 PM (Local)
CBS 10 AM Captain Kangaroo
11 AM MAGIC LAND OF ALLAKAZAM
11:30 Mighty Mouse Playhouse
12 N Sky King (reruns)
12:30 CBS Saturday News With Robert Trout
1 PM (Local)
7:30 Perry Mason
8:30 CHECKMATE (watch for pre-"Family Affair"
Sebastian Cabot and pre-"The Virginian"
Doug McClure)
9:30 Have Gun, Will Travel (Lisa Lu steps in as
Paladin's new servant, Hey Girl)
10 PM Gunsmoke (last season of half-hour shows)
10:30 (Local)
NBC 10 AM SHARI LEWIS SHOW
10:30 KING LEONARDO AND HIS SHORT SUBJECTS
11 AM Fury (reruns)
11:30 Lone Ranger (reruns)
12 N True Story (an unusual programming move--a
drama anthology on Saturdays at noon, although
there was one on radio called "Stars Over Hollywood"--
reruns)
12:30 Detective's Diary (Mark Saber reruns)
1 PM Watch Mr. Wizard
1:30 (Local)
2 PM NBA Basketball (in season)
4:30 Bowling Stars
5 PM Captain Gallant (reruns)
5:30 NBC SATURDAY PROM (Merv Griffin hosts this
"American Bandstand" wannabe, but the producers
don't seem to be in tune (sorry) with rock 'n' roll,
at least at first; the first show features Anita Bryant,
Conway Twitty, and Johnny and the Hurricanes. Later
shows fare better, with guests like Bobby Vee, Tony Bennett,
Neil Sedaka, Brook Benton, Fats Domino, Sam Cooke, the Bill
Black Combo, Brian Hyland, and Dion.)
6 PM (Local)
7:30 Bonanza (next season it will move to Sunday and begin its
climb to number one)
8:30 THE TALL MAN
9 PM The Deputy (one of Henry Fonda's two less-than-stellar-hit
series; the other is "The Smith Family" in the early '70s)
9:30 THE CAMPAIGN AND THE CANDIDATES
10:30 (Local)
SUN ABC 12 N Matty's Funday Funnies
12:30 Rocky And His Friends
1 PM DIRECTIONS
1:30 College News Conference ("Issues And Answers"
will replace it on Nov. 27.)
2 PM Greatest Sports Thrills
3 PM Championship Bridge
3:30 AFL FOOTBALL
6:30 Walt Disney Presents (last year on ABC, but Disney
will later buy the network)
7:30 Maverick (James Garner has left in a salary dispute,
but Roger Moore is coming in as cousin Beau.)
8:30 Lawman
9 PM The Rebel
9:30 THE ISLANDERS
10:30 WALTER WINCHELL SHOW (Winchell's second attempt
at an Ed Sullivan-type show is no more successful
than his first in 1956. From now on, he'll be better known
as narrator on "The Untouchables".)
11 PM (Local)
CBS 10 AM Lamp Unto My Feet
10:30 Look Up And Live
11 AM The UN In Action
11:30 Camera Three
12 N CBS Television Workshop
12:55 CBS News (Harry Reasoner)
1 PM (Local)
1:45 Pro Football Kickoff
2 PM NFL Football
5 PM Original Amateur Hour (after years of kicking
around the networks, Ted Mack's show finally
finds a permanent home, airing Sunday afternoons
on CBS for the next ten years)
5:30 GE College Bowl (Allen Ludden)
6 PM Face The Nation
6:30 The Twentieth Century (Walter Cronkite)
7 PM Lassie
7:30 Dennis The Menace
8 PM Ed Sullivan Show
9 PM GE Theater (Ronald Reagan hosts)
9:30 Jack Benny Program (Jack finally goes weekly and
will do so until 1965. The last season is on NBC,
after Jim Aubrey tells him, "you're through".)
10 PM Candid Camera (Allen Funt also finally finds a stable
home; Arthur Godfrey co-hosts in the 1960-61 season,
followed by Durward Kirby (1961-66) and Bess Myerson
(1966-67).)
10:30 What's My Line? (John Daly)
11 PM CBS News (Walter Cronkite)
11:15 (Local)
NBC 1:30 Frontiers Of Faith
2 PM NFL Football
5 PM CELEBRITY GOLF (Harry Von Zell does play-by-play;
this show reruns on the Golf Channel)
5:30 Chet Huntley Reporting
"Omnibus" takes over the 5-6 PM slot on Nov. 13.
6 PM Meet The Press
6:30 People Are Funny (Art Linkletter, reruns)
7 PM Shirley Temple Show
8 PM NATIONAL VELVET
8:30 TAB HUNTER SHOW (he plays a swinging bachelor
cartoonist who draws a strip called "Bachelor At Large")
9 PM Dinah Shore Chevy Show
10 PM Loretta Young Show
10:30 This Is Your Life (Ralph Edwards will put the big book away
after this season, but will bring it back in 1971.)
11 PM (Local)
