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Retro: Boston - Saturday, June 7, 1958

Source – Boston Globe, Saturday, June 7, 1958
Note: The Globe did not list color programming in the listings itself but would note it in the “Highlights” column

2 – WGBH Boston (Educational)
No programming scheduled

4 – WBZ Boston (NBC)
06:45a Film Funnies
07:00p Rex Trailer (Boomtown)
10:00a Howdy Doody
10:30a Ruff and Reddy
11:00a Fury
11:30a Andy’s Gang
12:00p News, Weather
12:15p Bob Emery (Big Brother)
01:00p Feature Film “My Wild Irish Rose”
02:30p True Story
03:00p Detective’s Diary
03:30p Wrestling – “Killer” Kowalski vs. Sammy Berg; midget bout – Chief Little Beaver vs. Sky Low Low; Pat O’Connor vs. “Tiger” Tasker; tag match – The Sharpe Brothers vs. Red Lyons and Emile Dupree
04:45p Record Shop Hop – Janice Harper, who’s popular record is “Bon Voyage”, guest
05:15p Boston Movietime – “Luck of the Irish”
06:45p News, Weather
07:00p Highway Patrol
07:30p People Are Funny – a contestant sent to Forth Worth to cash a check written on a watermelon returns to report on his success or failure
08:00p Perry Como – Eydie Gorme, Richard Rogers, Paul Anka, Bob Crosby, guests (color)
09:00p Spike Jones – Spike and his pals start “Club Oasis” Summer Series. Helen Grayco, in songs, with the Band That Plays For Fun. Satire on Shirley Temple’s Storybook, finale satire
09:30p Turning Point “Fastest Gun in the West”
10:00p The Original Amateur Hour
10:30p Your Hit Parade – Virginia Gibson, Alan Copeland, Tommy Leonetti, Jill Corey in final show of the Summer (color)
11:00p News
11:15p Double Feature “Battle Taxi” and “Over the Goal”

5 – WHDH Boston (ABC) – all studio programming in color
10:00a Hopalong Cassidy
11:00a Heckle and Jeckle (from CBS)
11:30a “Last Out”, Thomas Mitchell (from CBS)
12:00p Off to Adventure
01:00p “Border Bandits”
01:45p Mass. Day (Gov. Furcolo attending festivities at Fenway Park)
02:00p Baseball – Red Sox vs. Chicago White Sox
04:45p Sports Corner
05:00p Texas Rangers
05:30p Lone Ranger
06:00p Brave Eagle
06:30p Country Jubilee (delayed from Saturday @ 8p)
07:00p News, Weather, Sports (color)
07:30p Dick Clark Show – screen star Janet Leigh, guest; with Tony Bennett, Jody Reynolds and The Hearts
08:00p Boston Ballroom (color)
09:00p Lawrence Welk – with the Lennon Sisters and solos by individual band members
10:00p Movie “The Steel Helmet”
11:45p I Spy

7 – WNAC Boston (CBS)
06:55a Children’s Theater
09:30a Captain Kangaroo
10:30a Mighty Mouse
11:00a Cartoon Carnival
11:30a Kit Carson
12:00p Bowling Hour
01:00p Lone Ranger
01:30p Double Feature – “Rogue River” and “Gambler’s Choice”
04:30p Belmont Stakes (re-run on video tape)
05:00p Bishop Sheen – topic: Angels
05:30p Air Power “Battle of Britain”
06:00p Movie “Pearl-Handed Guns”
06:30p The Great Gildersleeve
07:00p Lassie (delayed from Sunday @ 7p)
07:30p Perry Mason “The Case of the Prodigal Parent”
08:30p Top Dollar
09:00p Gale Storm
09:30p Have Gun-Will Travel – Paladin is hired by the mayor of Silver Flat, Nev., to hunt down a man accused of murdering the sheriff
10:00p Gunsmoke – Marshal Matt Dillon tries to avert trouble when a gamble falls in love with a girl despite a brutal teamster’s threat to kill anyone who associates with her
10:30p The Honeymooners “Alice and the Blond”
11:00p News
11:15p Double Feature “The Dark Corner” and “Submarine Alert”

9 – WMUR Manchester (ABC)
04:30p Martin Eden
06:00p Brave Eagle
06:30p The Goldbergs
07:00p Jewels of Brandenberg
08:30p Target
09:00p Lawrence Welk
10:00p Billy Graham
11:00p Movie “Showtime”

10 – WJAR Providence (NBC/ABC)
07:45a Junior World
08:00a Mr. Wizard
08:30a Avenging Rider
09:30a Hippity Hop
09:45a Once Upon a Time
10:00a Howdy Doody
10:30a Ruff and Reddy
11:00a Fury
11:30a Andy’s Gang
12:00p True Story
12:30p Detective’s Diary
01:00p Wild Wild West
03:30p Wrestling
05:00p Bold Journey
05:30p Dick Clark Show (ABC, delayed from Saturday @ 7:30p)
06:00p Maverick (ABC, delayed from Sunday @ 7:30p)
07:00p Tombstone Territory
07:30p People Are Funny
08:00p Perry Como (color)
09:00p Spike Jones
09:30p Turning Point
10:00p The Original Amateur Hour
10:30p News
10:40p Movie “Suspicion”

12 – WPRO Providence (CBS/ABC)
09:30a Captain Kangaroo
10:30a Mighty Mouse
11:00a Heckle and Jeckle
11:30a “Last Out”, Thomas Mitchell
12:00p Jimmy Dean
01:00p Lone Ranger
01:30p Space and Science
02:00p Double Feature – “April Showers” and “Murder on Waterfront”
04:00p 20th Century Fox
04:30p Belmont Stakes (re-run on video tape)
05:00p Kingdom of the Sea
05:30p Circus Boy (ABC, delayed from Thursday @ 7:30p)
06:00p Sugarfoot (ABC, delayed from Tuesday @ 7:30p)
07:00p Harbor Patrol
07:30p Perry Mason
08:30p Top Dollar
09:00p Gale Storm
09:30p Have Gun-Will Travel
10:00p Gunsmoke
10:30p Sea Hunt
11:00p News
11:10p Movie “Objective Burma”
 
Maureen Carney takes us back to June 7th said:
4 – WBZ Boston (NBC)

03:30p Wrestling – “Killer” Kowalski vs. Sammy Berg; midget bout – Chief Little Beaver vs. Sky Low Low; Pat O’Connor vs. “Tiger” Tasker; tag match – The Sharpe Brothers vs. Red Lyons and Emile Dupree

Didn't WBZ-4 produce a wrestling show in it's studio during the mid-to-late 1950's???

04:45p Record Shop Hop – Janice Harper, who’s popular record is “Bon Voyage”, guest

I thought I once heard somewhere that the late Dave Maynard first came to WBZ to work on the TV side for a "record hop" type show, but when it was cancelled, a DJ slot at WBZ-1030 had opened up and that Maynard went there for many years.
 
Noticing Rex Trailer's "Boomtown" was three hours long. Similarly KYW-TV 3 starting Cleveland ran Barnaby (with Later co-host Woodrow) 2 to 2 and a half hours Saturday Mornings (mostly 8-10 or 7:30-10) from 1960-69 or so..

Story I read recently:
Rex Trailer came to Boston from Philadelphia in 1956..He originally had a choice of either KYW Cleveland or WBZ Boston. Of course, he chose WBZ which makes one wonder how the KYW history would have been rewritten had he chose Cleveland..
 
Joseph_Gallant said:
I thought I once heard somewhere that the late Dave Maynard first came to WBZ to work on the TV side for a "record hop" type show, but when it was cancelled, a DJ slot at WBZ-1030 had opened up and that Maynard went there for many years.

Just by accident I found a bit about this in the Globe Radio & TV column dated March 9, 1958:

"Early in April Ch. 4 will have a new Saturday afternoon record hop on the air from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. on a weekly basis. Dave Maynard will act as host and emcee, interviewing personalities in the world of music."

It goes on to mention Dave's education at Emerson College and his masters from Boston University, and "radio work" (no stations given).
 
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