Retro:Boston/New England Saturday, May 11, 1957-Part 1 (Channels 2-9)

[Tim L]

Yet another of the "endless" Retro Schedule posts..this from the New England TV Guide..There were 14 stations listed
I'll do Channels 10-55 in another post..This TV Guide is one of the recent reprints-And I've seen few Boston Schedules-Peter George and Joe Gallant might enjoy this..

2 WGBH Educ. Boston (Cambridge)

8:30PM Boston University Arts Conference (Only program listed all day)

4 WBZ NBC Boston

6:45 Cartoons
7AM Rex Trailer's BoomTown
8AM Critter Corner
8:15 Kit Carson
8:45 BoomTown
9:15 BoomTown-Western Tales
9:30 BoomTown (how it was listed)
10AM Howdy Doody
10:30 Buffalo Bill Jr.
11AM Fury
11:30 Captain Gallant
Noon News, Weather
12:15 Adventures In Science
12:30 True Story (week delay-Regularly on NBC at 12 Noon Saturdays)
1PM Bengal Lancers
1:30 Lookin At Sports-Egan
2PM Baseball Washington Senators at Boston Red Sox-Bob Murphy (Rained out- made up the next day as part of a doubleheader-Red Sox won game 1 10-0 Senators won game 2 6-2)
4:30 Range Rider
5PM Roy Rogers (NBC 6:30 Sunday)
5:30 Movie-Bordertown 1935
7PM You Asked For It (ABC)
7:30 People Are Funny
8PM Perry Como-COLOR
9PM Mr. Broadway-SPECIAL/COLOR-Story of George M. Cohan
10:30 Your Hit Parade
11PM News
11:15 Movie-Confessions Of A Nazi Spy-1939

6 WCSH NBC Portland, Me.

8:40 Off To Adventure
9AM Kaleidoscope
10AM Looney Tunes
10:30 Gumby-NBC
11AM Laurel And Hardy
11:30 Trouble With Father
Noon True Story
12:30 Detective's Diary
1PM Bowling-Chicago
2PM Movie-(1) The Steel Trap 1952 (2) The Red Dragon 1945
5PM Dance Party-Frazer
5:30 Mobile-Prof. Karas
6PM Popeye
6:30 Wyatt Earp-ABC
7PM State Trooper
7:30 People Are Funny
8PM Perry Como-COLOR
9PM Mr. Broadway-SPECIAL/COLOR-Story of George M. Cohan
10:30 Your Hit Parade
11PM News
11:15 Wrestling-Texas

7 WNAC ABC-CBS Boston

6:55 Cartoons
8AM Cartoons
9AM Mighty Mouse-CBS (10:30 Saturday)
9:30 Cartoons
10AM Captain Kangaroo-CBS (9:30 Saturday)
11AM Cartoons
11:30 Texas Rangers
Noon-Big Top-CBS
1PM Lone Ranger-CBS
1:30 Movie-Gung Ho-1943
3:30 Movie-Mystery In Mexico
4:30 Bold Journey
5PM Movie-Jesse James At Bay
6PM Disneyland-ABC (Wed. 7:30)
7PM Bob Cummings-CBS (Thurs. 8PM)
7:30 Buccaneers
8PM Jackie Gleason (7 carried a half hour)
8:30 Combat Sergeant
9PM Oh Susanna!-Gale Storm
9:30 SRO Playhouse-RETURN (Schlitz Playhouse Reruns)
10PM Gunsmoke
10:30 Jim Bowie
11PM News
11:05 San Francisco Beat
11:35 Movie-KIng Kong 1933

*8* WNHC ABC CBS New Haven, Conn.

8:50 News
9AM Movie-Phanton Plainsman
10AM Texas Rangers
10:30 Adventures In Sports
11AM Cartoons
11:30 Buffalo Bill Jr.
Noon-Circus Time-Paul Winchell
1PM Bowling Time
2PM Baseball-Dodgers-Brroklyn at New York Giants-Giants won 6-5
4:30 Big Picture-Army
5PM Sky King
5:30 Wild Bill Hickock
6PM Scotland Yard
6:30 Annie Oakley
7PM Death Valley Days
7:30 Oh Susanna-CBS (Sat. 9PM)
8PM Jackie Gleason-CBS
9PM Lawrence Welk-ABC
10PM Golden Playhouse-Anthology
10:30 Code 3
11PM Adventures In Sports
11:15 Movie-A Girl In Every Port

8 WMTW ABC-CBS Poland Spring, Me.

11AM Susan's Show-CBS
11:30 Little Rascals
Noon Big Top-CBS
1PM Movie-Neath Canadian Skies
1:45 Big Picture
2:15 Baseball-Milwaukee Braves at St. Louis Cardinals (St. Louis won 8-7)
5PM To Be Announced
5:30 Power Glass Fishing
6PM Circus Time-Winchell
7PM 1957 Fashion Review-SPECIAL
7:30 Bold Journey
8PM Movie-The Rustlers
9PM Lawrence Welk-ABC
10PM Gunsmoke-CBS
10:30 Ozark Jubilee-Red Foley
11PM News
11:10 Movie-The Lonesome Trail

9 WMUR ABC CBS Manchester, NH

3PM Movie-Passport to Heaven
4:30 New Horizons
5PM Living Word
5:15 Off To Adventure
5:30 Mobile-Prof. Karas
6PM Film Short
6:10 Building America-Documentary
6:40 News-Tom Power
6:45 Transition-Industry
7PM Big Picture
7:30 Rock And Roll-SPECIAL-Alan Freed-With Andy Williams, Ivory Joe Hunter, Lavern Baxter, Charlie Gracie
8PM ABC Movie-Eureka Stockade-1949 Australian Part of ABC's "Famous Film Festival"
9PM Lawrence Welk
10PM Your TV Theater
10:30 Mrs. America Pageant-SPECIAL
11:30 Wrestling-Texas

 

[bpatrick]

"Mr. Broadway," IIRC, starred Mickey Rooney.
It should not be confused with a series called
"Mr. Broadway" that aired on CBS in 1964; in
that one, Craig ("Peter Gunn") Stevens played
a Broadway PR agent. What dramatic tension
that was supposed to produce, nobody knows;
at any rate, the show failed to survive the 1964-
65 season.

I also find it somewhat ironic that Alan Freed's
show aired at the same time that, a year later,
Dick Clark's "Beechnut Show" would air (until
1960, in fact). Of the two, I think a good argument
could be made that Freed's show featured more
authentic rock 'n' roll, but Clark's was obviously
more successful since, as we all know, he presented
more family-friendly performers like Pat Boone, Bobby
Darin, Frankie Avalon, and Connie Francis.

 

[Corky Marlowe]

8PM Perry Como-COLOR
I have seen several listings from 1957-58 where some NBC shows are indicated to be in color, usually variety shows like Como, Dinah Shore and Steve Allen. Were these shows in color every week at that time, or did they just do it during sweeps weeks? I was always under the impression that "Bonanza" was the first weekly network series to air in color, in the fall of 1959.

Speaking of early colorcasts, some time ago I saw one of those "Greatest TV Moments" clip shows, and it showed the final episode of "Howdy Doody" in which Clarabelle spoke his only 2 words ("Goodbye, Kids"). I was surprised to see that was in color! (I think it happened in 1960.)

 

[bpatrick]

"Bonanza" was the first dramatic series to
air in color; NBC had a number of variety and game
shows in color every week or weekday prior to
1959; Perry Como, Steve Allen, Dinah Shore,
"The Price Is Right," "Masquerade Party," and
even the daytime "Matinee Theater" were among
them.