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Retro: Boston/Providence/New Haven - Sunday, August 26, 1951

Source: New England Region TV Guide, with some info in regards to time shift added from Wikipedia
There was no CBS colorcasting this day - WNAC was on the CBS color network but did not take all their color offerings. I will be posting a weekday schedule with color programming listed sometime soon.

4 – WBZ Boston (NBC) – now a CBS O&O
10:30a Mr. Wizard – Educational; Don Herbert
11:00p Our Believing World – religion
11:30a Morning Mosaic – film
11:45a The Magic Clown – for youngsters
12:00p WBZ-TV Film Shorts
12:30p Back Porch Experts – Jerry O’Leary
01:00p Community Auditions – Gene Jones; Finalists: Charles McCarthy, team, Irish step dancers; Leslie Hamill, pianist; David Farmer, baton twirler; Joseph DeCotau, impressionist; Richard Murdock, Rene Miville, vocalists
01:30p Matinee Mosaic – film
02:00p Chance of a Lifetime – John Reed King (ABC, delayed from Wednesday @ 7:30p)
02:30p Stars Over Hollywood – film
03:00p Hopalong Cassidy – Bill Boyd
04:00p Meet the Press
04:30p Zoo Parade – from Chicago
05:00p Gabby Hayes Show (Premiere); story of Dr. DeLeon of the Confederates
05:30p You Asked for It – variety; Art Baker (DuMont)
06:00p WBZ-TV Feature – movie
07:30p Young Mr. Bobbin (premier) – Starring Jackie Kelk as Alexander Hawthorne Bobbin, an ambitious but confused novice in the business world; Nydia Westman as Aunt Bertie, Jane Seymour as Aunt Clara
08:00p American Inventory – documentary
08:30p Television Recital Hall – concert; Ruggiro Rucci, violinist, is the guest artist
09:00p Philco TV Playhouse – drama “Night of the Vulcan”, William Prince, Jerome Cowan, Polly Roles and Bruce Gordon
10:00p American Forum of the Air – “Should West Point be abolished?”; Sen. Wm. Benton (D-Conn.), Lowell Limpus, newspaper columnist and West Point alumnus
10:30p Jimmy Powers – Sports Interviews
10:45p The Family Handy Man – hints
11:00p T-Men in Action – drama “The Case of the Widow’s Last Love” (ABC , delayed from Monday @ 8p)
11:30p News of the Week in Review
11:45p Views of News in New England

6 – WNHC New Haven (ABC/CBS/DuMont/NBC) – moved to channel 8; now WTNH (ABC)
11:00a Ranger Joe – kid’s variety (ABC from Philadelphia)
11:15a Chester the Pup – cartoon; Drizzlepuss looks for and finds adventure
11:30a Mr. Wizard – Educational; Don Herbert (NBC)
12:00p Film Feature
01:00p Western Theater
02:00p Hopalong Cassidy – Bill Boyd
03:00p Film Shorts
04:00p Meet the Press – panel (NBC)
04:30p Chance of a Lifetime – John Reed King (ABC, delayed from Wednesday @ 7:30p)
05:00p The Trouble With Father – Stu Erwin (ABC, delayed from Saturday @ 7:30p)
05:30p Super Circus (ABC – last 30 minutes only)
06:00p General Electric Guest House – quiz; Edward Everett Horton, Gene Lockhart and his daughter June, Buck & Bubbles, William Gaxton, Sally Benson, and Mark Hanna (CBS, delayed from Sunday @ 9p – summer replacement show)
07:00p Summertime Revue – Betty George (ABC – summer replacement for “Paul Whiteman’s Goodyear Revue”)
07:30p Go Lucky – quiz; Jan Murray, mc; Nancy Chaffee, Johnny Johnson, guests (CBS – Summer replacement for “This is Show Business”, both sponsored by Lucky Strikes cigarettes)
08:00p Toast of the Town (Ed Sullivan) – variety; with Robert Alda and Isabel Bigley, vocalists of “Guys and Dolls”; Eddie Mayehoff, comedian; Bobby Sargent; the Christianis Troupe, juggling act; and buster Keaton, comedian (CBS)
09:00p Philco TV Playhouse – drama “Night of the Vulcan”, William Prince, Jerome Cowan, Polly Roles and Bruce Gordon (NBC)
10:00p Goodrich Celebrity Time – panel; Conrad Nagel, quizmaster, with Jane Wilson and Herman Hickman; vocalist Rose Marie and songwriter Johnny Mercer are the guests (CBS)
10:30p You Asked For It (DuMont)
11:00p Sunday News Special
11:15p Fireside Theater – drama
11:45p Twenty Questions – Bill Slater (DuMont)
12:15a News Bulletin – Latest Reports

7 – WNAC Boston (ABC/CBS/DuMont) – now WHDH (NBC)
11:15a Musicale – film
11:30a Flying Tigers – adventure
12:00p Ranger Joe – kid’s variety (ABC from Philadelphia)
12:15p Chester the Pup – cartoon
12:30p What’s My Line? – panel; John Daly, Arlene Francis, Hal Block and Bennett Cerf (CBS; delayed from Sunday @ 10:30p)
01:00p Life Begins at 80 – panel; Jack Barry – oldsters are quizzed on life’s problems (ABC; delayed from Sunday @ 10p)
01:30p Baseball – from Braves Field; Braves vs. Cards with Bump Hadley and Jim Britt describing the play-by-play
In case of baseball cancellation the following programs will be seen:
01:30p Pentagon: Washington – defense
02:00p WNAC-TV Film Shorts
02:30p Musical Playhouse – comedy
03:00p WNAC-TV Film Feature
04:00p Cavalcade of Bands – variety; Don Russell host to Gene Krupa and his Orchestra with vocalists Dodie O’Neill and Joe Tucker and pantomimist Chaz Chase (DuMont, delayed from Tuesday @ 9p)
05:00p Super Circus – Three Rings (ABC – live from Chicago)

06:00p The Plainclothesman “Appointment With Disaster” with Ken Lynch (DuMont, delayed from Wednesday @ 9:30p)
06:30p Ted Mack’s Family Hour – variety; Bert Lytell subs for Ted; Menda Lang; Andy Roberts, baritone; Jean Steel, vocalist (NBC, delayed from Tuesday @ 10p)
07:00p Gene Autry Show “The Double Switch” (CBS)
07:30p Go Lucky – quiz; Jan Murray, mc; Nancy Chaffee, Johnny Johnson, guests (CBS – Summer replacement for “This is Show Business”, both sponsored by Lucky Strikes cigarettes)
08:00p Toast of the Town (Ed Sullivan) – variety; with Robert Alda and Isabel Bigley, vocalists of “Guys and Dolls”; Eddie Mayehoff, comedian; Bobby Sargent; the Christianis Troupe, juggling act; and buster Keaton, comedian (CBS)
09:00p General Electric Guest House – quiz; Durward Kirby, host and quizmaster with Bill Callahan, dancer; Kirkwood and Goodman, singing comedians; Martin and Florenz, puppeteers; Ethel Waters and Lanny Ross, vocalists (CBS – Summer replacement for “The Fred Waring Show”)
10:00p Goodrich Celebrity Time – panel; Conrad Nagel, quizmaster, with Jane Wilson and Herman Hickman; vocalist Rose Marie and songwriter Johnny Mercer are the guests (CBS)
10:30p Price Television Theater – movie
12:00a Weather Service – reports
12:05a Camera Caravan of Sports

11 – WJAR Providence (ABC/CBS/DuMont/NBC) – moved to channel 10 (NBC)
12:00p Ranger Joe – kid’s variety (ABC from Philadelphia)
12:15p Chester the Pup – cartoon
12:30p Wild Bill Hickok – movie; starring Guy Madison and Andy Devine
01:00p TV Sports Page – Warren Walden
01:30p Baseball – from Braves Field; Braves vs. Cards with Bump Hadley and Jim Britt describing the play-by-play
In case of baseball cancellation the following programs will be seen:
01:00p Pentagon: Washington – defense
01:30p WJAR-TV Film Short
02:30p Charlie Wild, Private Detective (CBS until 6/27/51; moved to ABC in September 1951)
03:00p WJAR-TV Film Shorts
04:00p Meet the Press (NBC)
04:30p Zoo Parade (NBC)
05:00p Gabby Hayes Show (Premiere); story of Dr. DeLeon of the Confederates (NBC)
05:30p Chance of a Lifetime – John Reed King; Russell Arms and Liza Palmer, dancers and Dick Collier and Cindy Cameron, vocalists (ABC, delayed from Wednesday @ 7:30p)

06:00p Hopalong Cassidy – movie “Bar Twenty Justice” starring Bill Boyd
07:00p Leave It To the Girls – panel; Melville Cooper, British actor, is the male guest; with Eloise McElhorne, Florence Pritchett, Binnie Barnes and Eva Marie Saint (NBC)
07:30p Young Mr. Bobbin (premier) – Starring Jackie Kelk as Alexander Hawthorne Bobbin, an ambitious but confused novice in the business world; Nydia Westman as Aunt Bertie, Jane Seymour as Aunt Clara (NBC)
08:00p American Inventory – documentary (NBC)
08:30p Television Recital Hall – concert; Ruggiro Rucci, violinist, is the guest artist (NBC)
09:00p Philco TV Playhouse – drama “Night of the Vulcan”, William Prince, Jerome Cowan, Polly Roles and Bruce Gordon (NBC)
10:00p Goodrich Celebrity Time – panel; Conrad Nagel, quizmaster, with Jane Wilson and Herman Hickman; vocalist Rose Marie and songwriter Johnny Mercer are the guests (CBS)
10:30p Walter Covell Show – variety
10:45p WJAR-TV Feature Shorts
11:00p Feature Theater – movie
12:00a News Summary – reports
 
"Ted Mack's Family Hour" is a different show from his "Amateur Hour."
At the time it was "Amateur Hour" which aired Tuesdays at 10 on NBC;
"Family Hour" was on ABC Sunday 6-7 PM. Like "Amateur Hour," "Family
Hour" was originally a radio show hosted by Major Bowes; it aired on Sunday
mornings or early Sunday afternoons on CBS all through the '30s; I think that
version ended around 1941.
 
Thanks for the info. It's somewhat hard to track down info on some of these show, especially DuMont or summer replacement shows.
 
According to Shrp Sports.com, the old Boston Braves and the St. Louis Cardinals played a doubleheader that day (that would explain why WNAC-7 and WJAR-11 had scheduled baseball to run for four and a half hours).

Each team won one game.
 
I noticed that later in the week the Braves had games airing at 8:30p on weeknights. Was that the norm, or was it done for a 7:30p start time in St. Louis (Monday)/Chicago (Tuesday & Wednesday)? This particular Guide also had an article asking if there was too much baseball on TV, with lots of viewers complaining that they were missing their favorite shows.
 
MCarney said:
I noticed that later in the week the Braves had games airing at 8:30p on weeknights. Was that the norm, or was it done for a 7:30p start time in St. Louis (Monday)/Chicago (Tuesday & Wednesday)? This particular Guide also had an article asking if there was too much baseball on TV, with lots of viewers complaining that they were missing their favorite shows.

I wouldnt know about that, exactly, but I do know that Cleveland Indians Telecast Night Games in the same era started at 8 or 8:30PM, which seemed late to me..Based on May 1951, some night games started at 8:30..
 
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