From Castleman and Podrazik, "The TV Schedule Book"
(new shows in CAPS)
MONDAY ABC 7:30 Cheyenne
8:30 The Rifleman
9 PM STONEY BURKE (Jack Lord)
10 PM Ben Casey
11 PM ABC News Final (Murphy Martin)
11:10 (Local)
CBS 7:30 To Tell The Truth
8 PM I've Got A Secret
8:30 THE LUCY SHOW
9 PM Danny Thomas Show
9:30 Andy Griffith Show
10 PM THE NEW LORETTA YOUNG SHOW (here she's a widowed
magazine writer, one of whose kids is played by Dack Rambo)
10:30 Stump The Stars (new name for "Pantomime Quiz," with Pat
Harrington Jr. hosting until December, when creator/original
host Mike Stokey returns)
11 PM (Local)
NBC 7:30 IT'S A MAN'S WORLD (Ted Bessell is one of a group of college kids
living on a houseboat in a college town situated on a river)
8:30 SAINTS AND SINNERS
9:30 The Price Is Right
10 PM David Brinkley's Journal
10:30 (Local)
11:15 Tonight Show (Johnny Carson begins 30 years as host
on Oct. 1)
1 AM (Local)
TUESDAY ABC 7:30 COMBAT!
8:30 Hawaiian Eye
9:30 The Untouchables
10:30 Bell And Howell Close-Up
11 PM ABC News Final
11:10 (Local)
CBS 7:30 Marshal Dillon (the half-hour "Gunsmoke"s)
8 PM LLOYD BRIDGES SHOW (Bridges plays a reporter who
imagines himself to be the protagonist)
8:30 Red Skelton Hour (this is the year he expands to an hour)
9:30 Jack Benny Program (the first time in nearly three decades that
Jack's show wasn't broadcast on Sunday, but his ratings take
a decided upturn in the new timeslot, having dropped out of the top thirty in 1961-62 against the
competition of "Bonanza")
10 PM Garry Moore Show
11 PM (Local)
NBC 7:30 Laramie
8:30 EMPIRE (forerunner of the primetime soaps of the '80s with Richard Egan
as Jim Redigo, foreman of a ranch so big he has to inspect it in a private plane)
9:30 Dick Powell Show (Powell will pass away on Jan. 1, 1963, and guest hosts will
finish the season)
10:30 Chet Huntley Reporting
11 PM (Local)
11:15 Tonight Show
1 AM (Local)
WEDNESDAY ABC 7:30 Wagon Train (new network, where it will last until 1965)
8:30 GOING MY WAY (Bing Crosby and Barry Fitzgerald weren't available but Gene
Kelly and Leo G. Carroll aren't too bad--watch, too, for Dick York)
9:30 OUR MAN HIGGINS (Stanley Holloway--in no way to be confused with Sterling
Holloway--in a TV version of a radio show called "It's Higgins, Sir," wherein he
plays a valet)
10 PM Naked City
11 PM ABC News Final
11:10 (Local)
CBS 7:30 CBS Reports/CBS News Specials
8:30 Dobie Gillis
9 PM BEVERLY HILLBILLIES (not since "The $64,000 Question" does a new show rise to
#1 so quickly--by Thanksgiving)
9:30 Dick Van Dyke Show
10 PM U.S. Steel Hour/Armstrong Circle Theater (Armstrong
Carpet will drop this show to sponsor Danny Kaye the next year)
11 PM (Local)
NBC 7:30 THE VIRGINIAN (an unprecedented 90 minutes, but its popularity sparks a fad for 90-minute
shows, including "Wagon Train" the following year)
9 PM Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall
10 PM THE ELEVENTH HOUR (psychiatrists are marked as the next doctor-show craze, but neither
this nor ABC's "Breaking Point" the following year ever really catch on)
11 PM (Local)
11:15 Tonight Show
1 AM (Local)
THURSDAY ABC 7:30 Ozzie And Harriet
8 PM Donna Reed Show
8:30 Leave It To Beaver (its last season, and with Jerry Mathers gaining weight and becoming
more self-conscious, Tony Dow gets more airtime)
9 PM My Three Sons
9:30 McHALE'S NAVY
10 PM Alcoa Premiere/Fred Astaire Presenting
11 PM ABC News Final
11:10 (Local)
CBS 7:30 Mister Ed
8 PM Perry Mason (moved from Saturday to accommodate Jackie Gleason's return to Saturday nights)
9 PM THE NURSES (another medical angle that ABC will later adopt as a daytime soap)
10 PM Alfred Hitchcock Hour (first year in the expanded format)
11 PM (Local)
NBC 7:30 WIDE COUNTRY
8:30 Dr. Kildare
9:30 Hazel
10 PM ANDY WILLIAMS SHOW
11 PM (Local)
11:15 Tonight Show
1 AM (Local)
FRIDAY ABC 7:30 THE GALLANT MEN
8:30 The Flintstones
9 PM I'M DICKENS, HE'S FENSTER (Marty Ingels and John Astin, as construction workers, worked
a lot like Laurel and Hardy--Stan Laurel, in fact, was a big fan
of the show and often sent in story ideas)
9:30 77 Sunset Strip
10:30 (Local)
11 PM ABC News Final
11:10 (Local)
CBS 7:30 Rawhide
8:30 Route 66
9:30 FAIR EXCHANGE (two World War II Army buddies, one American, one English, "exchange" daughters for a
year; watch for Judy Carne as the English daughter--this show develops
a cult following and is cut to 30 minutes in the spring of 1963 but doesn't
make it to a second season)
10:30 Eyewitness
11 PM (Local)
NBC 7:30 International Showtime
8:30 Sing Along With Mitch
9:30 DON'T CALL ME CHARLIE (the main character is an Army veterinarian; the
"Charlie" of the title is his commanding officer, Col. U. Charles Barker--watch for Alan Napier and
Arte Johnson on this one)
10 PM JACK PAAR SHOW (essentially the same as his version of "The Tonight Show"--
watch for Richard Nixon playing the piano and some great bits by Mike Nichols
and Elaine May)
11 PM (Local)
11:15 Tonight Show
1 AM (Local)
MON-FRI DAYTIME
ABC 11 AM Tennessee Ernie Ford Show
11:30 Yours For A Song
12 N Jane Wyman Presents (reruns)
12:30 Camouflage (replaced by "Father Knows Best" reruns on Nov. 19)
12:55 News (Alex Dreier)
1 PM (Local)
2 PM Day In Court
2:30 Seven Keys
3 PM Queen For A Day
3:30 Who Do You Trust? (Woody Woodbury becomes the new host Sept. 10)
4 PM American Bandstand (start of its final year as a daily show)
4:30 DISCOVERY '62
4:55 American Newsstand (Roger Sharp)
5 PM (Local)
6 PM ABC Evening Report (Ron Cochran, affiliates have the choice of six feeds
through 7:15)
CBS 8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM (Local)
10 AM Calendar (Harry Reasoner, Mary Fickett)
10:30 I Love Lucy (reruns--CBS will depend on reruns in the
mornings until September 1972)
11 AM Real McCoys (reruns)
11:30 Pete And Gladys (reruns)
12 N Love Of Life
12:25 News (Harry Reasoner)
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1 PM College Of The Air (I suspect this was the feed time and that the affiliates
carried it in the early morning, as they did "Sunrise Semester")
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Password
2:30 Art Linkletter's House Party
3 PM The Millionaire (reruns)
3:30 To Tell The Truth
3:55 News (Douglas Edwards)
4 PM Secret Storm
4:30 Edge Of Night
5 PM (Local)
6:45 CBS Evening News With Walter Cronkite (some stations carry at 7:15)
NBC 6 AM Continental Classroom
7 AM Today (Hugh Downs takes over as host)
9 AM (Local)
10 AM Say When!
10:25 News (Edwin Newman)
10:30 Play Your Hunch (Robert Q. Lewis replaces Merv Griffin, who's getting his first
talk show)
11 AM The Price Is Right (both the daytime and primetime versions will move to ABC in '63)
11:30 Concentration
12 N Your First Impression
12:30 Truth Or Consequences
12:55 News (Ray Scherer)
1 PM (Local)
2 PM MERV GRIFFIN SHOW
2:55 News (Floyd Kalber)
3 PM Loretta Young Theater (reruns)
3:30 Young Dr. Malone
4 PM Make Room For Daddy (reruns)
4:30 Here's Hollywood
4:55 News (Sander Vanocur)
5 PM (Local)
6:45 Huntley-Brinkley Report (some stations air this at 7:15)
SATURDAY ABC 11 AM Make A Face (this game has no better luck with kids than it did with adults)
11:30 Top Cat
12 N Bugs Bunny Show
12:30 Magic Land Of Allakazam (new network, switch from tape to film)
1 PM My Friend Flicka (reruns)
1:30 (Local)
5 PM Wide World Of Sports
6:30 (Local)
7 PM Beany And Cecil
7:30 ROY ROGERS AND DALE EVANS SHOW (variety)
8:30 MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON (Fess Parker is no Jimmy Stewart)
9 PM Lawrence Welk Show
10 PM Fight Of The Week
10:45 Make That Spare
11 PM (Local)
CBS 9 AM Captain Kangaroo (reruns)
10 AM The Alvin Show
10:30 Mighty Mouse Playhouse
11 AM Rin Tin Tin (reruns)
11:30 Roy Rogers Show (reruns)
12 N Sky King (reruns)
12:30 READING ROOM (New York-area schoolkids discuss a book they were assigned to
read with its author)
1 PM CBS Saturday News (Robert Trout)
1:30 (Local)
1:45 College Football Kickoff
2 PM NCAA College Football
4:45 NCAA Scoreboard (time approximate)
5 PM (Local)
7:30 JACKIE GLEASON SHOW (originally, "Jackie Gleason's American Scene Magazine")
8:30 The Defenders
9:30 Have Gun, Will Travel
10 PM Gunsmoke
11 PM (Local)
NBC 9:30 Ruff And Reddy Show
10 AM Shari Lewis Show
10:30 King Leonardo
11 AM Fury (reruns)
11:30 MAGIC MIDWAY
12 N Make Room For Daddy (reruns)
12:30 EXPLORING
1:30 Watch Mr. Wizard
2 PM (Local)
5 PM NFL FOOTBALL HIGHLIGHTS
5:30 Captain Gallant (reruns)
6 PM NBC Saturday Report (Sander Vanocur)
6:15 (Local)
7:30 SAM BENEDICT (NBC tries to fill the lawyer-show gap
left by "Perry Mason"'s move to Thursday with Edmond
O'Brien in the title role--doesn't work)
8:30 The New Joey Bishop Show (Joey switches from a PR agent
to a talk-show host--he gets areal talk show on ABC in 1967)
9 PM NBC Saturday Night At The Movies
11 PM (Local, exact time depends on when the movie ends)
SUNDAY ABC 1:30 INSIDE POLITICS
2 PM Directions '63
2:30 Adlai Stevenson Reports/Editor's Choice
3 PM Issues And Answers
3:30 AFL Football
6:15 All Pro Scoreboard (time approximate)
6:30 Winston Churchill: The Valiant Years (reruns)
7 PM Father Knows Best (reruns)
7:30 THE JETSONS
8 PM ABC Sunday Night Movie
10 PM Voice Of Firestone (after a three-year hiatus, popular
demand--especially from some government officials--
brings this back for one final season)
10:30 Howard K. Smith: News And Comment
11 PM (Local)
CBS 10 AM Lamp Unto My Feet
10:30 Look Up And Live
11 AM Camera Three
11:30 (Local)
12:30 CBS WASHINGTON REPORT ("Face The Nation" will return
for good in September 1963)
1 PM (Local)
1:45 NFL Countdown To Kickoff
2 PM NFL Football
5 PM Original Amateur Hour (time approximate)
5:30 GE College Bowl
6 PM The Twentieth Century
6:30 Password (the scheduling of this show one hour after "College
Bowl" led Jim Aubrey to give Allen Ludden the choice of doing
one or the other, but not both--he chose "Password," which
paid more (what with a daily daytime version and bills from his
first wife's death from cancer); Robert Earle became the new
host of "College Bowl" this year and would host it through the 1963-70
NBC run)
7 PM Lassie
7:30 Dennis The Menace
8 PM Ed Sullivan Show
9 PM Real McCoys (new network and without Kathy Nolan,
leaving only Grandpa, Luke, and Pepino)
9:30 GE True (Jack Webb narrates these stories taken from "True" magazine)
10 PM Candid Camera
10:30 What's My Line?
11 PM News (Eric Sevareid)
11:15 (Local)
NBC 1:30 Frontiers Of Faith
2 PM (Local)
4:30 This Is NBC News
5 PM Update
5:30 Bullwinkle Show
6 PM Meet The Press
6:30 McKEEVER AND THE COLONEL (sitcom set at a military school)
7 PM ENSIGN O'TOOLE
7:30 Walt Disney's Wonderful World Of Color
8:30 Car 54, Where Are You?
9 PM Bonanza
10 PM DuPont Show Of The Week/Dinah Shore Show
11 PM (Local)
(new shows in CAPS)
MONDAY ABC 7:30 Cheyenne
8:30 The Rifleman
9 PM STONEY BURKE (Jack Lord)
10 PM Ben Casey
11 PM ABC News Final (Murphy Martin)
11:10 (Local)
CBS 7:30 To Tell The Truth
8 PM I've Got A Secret
8:30 THE LUCY SHOW
9 PM Danny Thomas Show
9:30 Andy Griffith Show
10 PM THE NEW LORETTA YOUNG SHOW (here she's a widowed
magazine writer, one of whose kids is played by Dack Rambo)
10:30 Stump The Stars (new name for "Pantomime Quiz," with Pat
Harrington Jr. hosting until December, when creator/original
host Mike Stokey returns)
11 PM (Local)
NBC 7:30 IT'S A MAN'S WORLD (Ted Bessell is one of a group of college kids
living on a houseboat in a college town situated on a river)
8:30 SAINTS AND SINNERS
9:30 The Price Is Right
10 PM David Brinkley's Journal
10:30 (Local)
11:15 Tonight Show (Johnny Carson begins 30 years as host
on Oct. 1)
1 AM (Local)
TUESDAY ABC 7:30 COMBAT!
8:30 Hawaiian Eye
9:30 The Untouchables
10:30 Bell And Howell Close-Up
11 PM ABC News Final
11:10 (Local)
CBS 7:30 Marshal Dillon (the half-hour "Gunsmoke"s)
8 PM LLOYD BRIDGES SHOW (Bridges plays a reporter who
imagines himself to be the protagonist)
8:30 Red Skelton Hour (this is the year he expands to an hour)
9:30 Jack Benny Program (the first time in nearly three decades that
Jack's show wasn't broadcast on Sunday, but his ratings take
a decided upturn in the new timeslot, having dropped out of the top thirty in 1961-62 against the
competition of "Bonanza")
10 PM Garry Moore Show
11 PM (Local)
NBC 7:30 Laramie
8:30 EMPIRE (forerunner of the primetime soaps of the '80s with Richard Egan
as Jim Redigo, foreman of a ranch so big he has to inspect it in a private plane)
9:30 Dick Powell Show (Powell will pass away on Jan. 1, 1963, and guest hosts will
finish the season)
10:30 Chet Huntley Reporting
11 PM (Local)
11:15 Tonight Show
1 AM (Local)
WEDNESDAY ABC 7:30 Wagon Train (new network, where it will last until 1965)
8:30 GOING MY WAY (Bing Crosby and Barry Fitzgerald weren't available but Gene
Kelly and Leo G. Carroll aren't too bad--watch, too, for Dick York)
9:30 OUR MAN HIGGINS (Stanley Holloway--in no way to be confused with Sterling
Holloway--in a TV version of a radio show called "It's Higgins, Sir," wherein he
plays a valet)
10 PM Naked City
11 PM ABC News Final
11:10 (Local)
CBS 7:30 CBS Reports/CBS News Specials
8:30 Dobie Gillis
9 PM BEVERLY HILLBILLIES (not since "The $64,000 Question" does a new show rise to
#1 so quickly--by Thanksgiving)
9:30 Dick Van Dyke Show
10 PM U.S. Steel Hour/Armstrong Circle Theater (Armstrong
Carpet will drop this show to sponsor Danny Kaye the next year)
11 PM (Local)
NBC 7:30 THE VIRGINIAN (an unprecedented 90 minutes, but its popularity sparks a fad for 90-minute
shows, including "Wagon Train" the following year)
9 PM Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall
10 PM THE ELEVENTH HOUR (psychiatrists are marked as the next doctor-show craze, but neither
this nor ABC's "Breaking Point" the following year ever really catch on)
11 PM (Local)
11:15 Tonight Show
1 AM (Local)
THURSDAY ABC 7:30 Ozzie And Harriet
8 PM Donna Reed Show
8:30 Leave It To Beaver (its last season, and with Jerry Mathers gaining weight and becoming
more self-conscious, Tony Dow gets more airtime)
9 PM My Three Sons
9:30 McHALE'S NAVY
10 PM Alcoa Premiere/Fred Astaire Presenting
11 PM ABC News Final
11:10 (Local)
CBS 7:30 Mister Ed
8 PM Perry Mason (moved from Saturday to accommodate Jackie Gleason's return to Saturday nights)
9 PM THE NURSES (another medical angle that ABC will later adopt as a daytime soap)
10 PM Alfred Hitchcock Hour (first year in the expanded format)
11 PM (Local)
NBC 7:30 WIDE COUNTRY
8:30 Dr. Kildare
9:30 Hazel
10 PM ANDY WILLIAMS SHOW
11 PM (Local)
11:15 Tonight Show
1 AM (Local)
FRIDAY ABC 7:30 THE GALLANT MEN
8:30 The Flintstones
9 PM I'M DICKENS, HE'S FENSTER (Marty Ingels and John Astin, as construction workers, worked
a lot like Laurel and Hardy--Stan Laurel, in fact, was a big fan
of the show and often sent in story ideas)
9:30 77 Sunset Strip
10:30 (Local)
11 PM ABC News Final
11:10 (Local)
CBS 7:30 Rawhide
8:30 Route 66
9:30 FAIR EXCHANGE (two World War II Army buddies, one American, one English, "exchange" daughters for a
year; watch for Judy Carne as the English daughter--this show develops
a cult following and is cut to 30 minutes in the spring of 1963 but doesn't
make it to a second season)
10:30 Eyewitness
11 PM (Local)
NBC 7:30 International Showtime
8:30 Sing Along With Mitch
9:30 DON'T CALL ME CHARLIE (the main character is an Army veterinarian; the
"Charlie" of the title is his commanding officer, Col. U. Charles Barker--watch for Alan Napier and
Arte Johnson on this one)
10 PM JACK PAAR SHOW (essentially the same as his version of "The Tonight Show"--
watch for Richard Nixon playing the piano and some great bits by Mike Nichols
and Elaine May)
11 PM (Local)
11:15 Tonight Show
1 AM (Local)
MON-FRI DAYTIME
ABC 11 AM Tennessee Ernie Ford Show
11:30 Yours For A Song
12 N Jane Wyman Presents (reruns)
12:30 Camouflage (replaced by "Father Knows Best" reruns on Nov. 19)
12:55 News (Alex Dreier)
1 PM (Local)
2 PM Day In Court
2:30 Seven Keys
3 PM Queen For A Day
3:30 Who Do You Trust? (Woody Woodbury becomes the new host Sept. 10)
4 PM American Bandstand (start of its final year as a daily show)
4:30 DISCOVERY '62
4:55 American Newsstand (Roger Sharp)
5 PM (Local)
6 PM ABC Evening Report (Ron Cochran, affiliates have the choice of six feeds
through 7:15)
CBS 8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM (Local)
10 AM Calendar (Harry Reasoner, Mary Fickett)
10:30 I Love Lucy (reruns--CBS will depend on reruns in the
mornings until September 1972)
11 AM Real McCoys (reruns)
11:30 Pete And Gladys (reruns)
12 N Love Of Life
12:25 News (Harry Reasoner)
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1 PM College Of The Air (I suspect this was the feed time and that the affiliates
carried it in the early morning, as they did "Sunrise Semester")
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Password
2:30 Art Linkletter's House Party
3 PM The Millionaire (reruns)
3:30 To Tell The Truth
3:55 News (Douglas Edwards)
4 PM Secret Storm
4:30 Edge Of Night
5 PM (Local)
6:45 CBS Evening News With Walter Cronkite (some stations carry at 7:15)
NBC 6 AM Continental Classroom
7 AM Today (Hugh Downs takes over as host)
9 AM (Local)
10 AM Say When!
10:25 News (Edwin Newman)
10:30 Play Your Hunch (Robert Q. Lewis replaces Merv Griffin, who's getting his first
talk show)
11 AM The Price Is Right (both the daytime and primetime versions will move to ABC in '63)
11:30 Concentration
12 N Your First Impression
12:30 Truth Or Consequences
12:55 News (Ray Scherer)
1 PM (Local)
2 PM MERV GRIFFIN SHOW
2:55 News (Floyd Kalber)
3 PM Loretta Young Theater (reruns)
3:30 Young Dr. Malone
4 PM Make Room For Daddy (reruns)
4:30 Here's Hollywood
4:55 News (Sander Vanocur)
5 PM (Local)
6:45 Huntley-Brinkley Report (some stations air this at 7:15)
SATURDAY ABC 11 AM Make A Face (this game has no better luck with kids than it did with adults)
11:30 Top Cat
12 N Bugs Bunny Show
12:30 Magic Land Of Allakazam (new network, switch from tape to film)
1 PM My Friend Flicka (reruns)
1:30 (Local)
5 PM Wide World Of Sports
6:30 (Local)
7 PM Beany And Cecil
7:30 ROY ROGERS AND DALE EVANS SHOW (variety)
8:30 MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON (Fess Parker is no Jimmy Stewart)
9 PM Lawrence Welk Show
10 PM Fight Of The Week
10:45 Make That Spare
11 PM (Local)
CBS 9 AM Captain Kangaroo (reruns)
10 AM The Alvin Show
10:30 Mighty Mouse Playhouse
11 AM Rin Tin Tin (reruns)
11:30 Roy Rogers Show (reruns)
12 N Sky King (reruns)
12:30 READING ROOM (New York-area schoolkids discuss a book they were assigned to
read with its author)
1 PM CBS Saturday News (Robert Trout)
1:30 (Local)
1:45 College Football Kickoff
2 PM NCAA College Football
4:45 NCAA Scoreboard (time approximate)
5 PM (Local)
7:30 JACKIE GLEASON SHOW (originally, "Jackie Gleason's American Scene Magazine")
8:30 The Defenders
9:30 Have Gun, Will Travel
10 PM Gunsmoke
11 PM (Local)
NBC 9:30 Ruff And Reddy Show
10 AM Shari Lewis Show
10:30 King Leonardo
11 AM Fury (reruns)
11:30 MAGIC MIDWAY
12 N Make Room For Daddy (reruns)
12:30 EXPLORING
1:30 Watch Mr. Wizard
2 PM (Local)
5 PM NFL FOOTBALL HIGHLIGHTS
5:30 Captain Gallant (reruns)
6 PM NBC Saturday Report (Sander Vanocur)
6:15 (Local)
7:30 SAM BENEDICT (NBC tries to fill the lawyer-show gap
left by "Perry Mason"'s move to Thursday with Edmond
O'Brien in the title role--doesn't work)
8:30 The New Joey Bishop Show (Joey switches from a PR agent
to a talk-show host--he gets areal talk show on ABC in 1967)
9 PM NBC Saturday Night At The Movies
11 PM (Local, exact time depends on when the movie ends)
SUNDAY ABC 1:30 INSIDE POLITICS
2 PM Directions '63
2:30 Adlai Stevenson Reports/Editor's Choice
3 PM Issues And Answers
3:30 AFL Football
6:15 All Pro Scoreboard (time approximate)
6:30 Winston Churchill: The Valiant Years (reruns)
7 PM Father Knows Best (reruns)
7:30 THE JETSONS
8 PM ABC Sunday Night Movie
10 PM Voice Of Firestone (after a three-year hiatus, popular
demand--especially from some government officials--
brings this back for one final season)
10:30 Howard K. Smith: News And Comment
11 PM (Local)
CBS 10 AM Lamp Unto My Feet
10:30 Look Up And Live
11 AM Camera Three
11:30 (Local)
12:30 CBS WASHINGTON REPORT ("Face The Nation" will return
for good in September 1963)
1 PM (Local)
1:45 NFL Countdown To Kickoff
2 PM NFL Football
5 PM Original Amateur Hour (time approximate)
5:30 GE College Bowl
6 PM The Twentieth Century
6:30 Password (the scheduling of this show one hour after "College
Bowl" led Jim Aubrey to give Allen Ludden the choice of doing
one or the other, but not both--he chose "Password," which
paid more (what with a daily daytime version and bills from his
first wife's death from cancer); Robert Earle became the new
host of "College Bowl" this year and would host it through the 1963-70
NBC run)
7 PM Lassie
7:30 Dennis The Menace
8 PM Ed Sullivan Show
9 PM Real McCoys (new network and without Kathy Nolan,
leaving only Grandpa, Luke, and Pepino)
9:30 GE True (Jack Webb narrates these stories taken from "True" magazine)
10 PM Candid Camera
10:30 What's My Line?
11 PM News (Eric Sevareid)
11:15 (Local)
NBC 1:30 Frontiers Of Faith
2 PM (Local)
4:30 This Is NBC News
5 PM Update
5:30 Bullwinkle Show
6 PM Meet The Press
6:30 McKEEVER AND THE COLONEL (sitcom set at a military school)
7 PM ENSIGN O'TOOLE
7:30 Walt Disney's Wonderful World Of Color
8:30 Car 54, Where Are You?
9 PM Bonanza
10 PM DuPont Show Of The Week/Dinah Shore Show
11 PM (Local)