Retro:Cleveland/Akron/Youngstown Saturday, December 1, 1956

[Tim L]

Source:TV Guide Cleveland Edition

Saturday, December 1, 1956:

3 KYW-NBC

7:30 This Land Is Ours
8:30 Nuts and Bolts-Mr. Rivitz (Jay Miltner)-WPTZ/WRCV-3 Philadelphia had a similar character called Mr. Rivets in 1954-56

9:30 Teachers Meeting-Cleveland Schools
10AM Howdy Doody
10:30 Sheena of the Jungle
11AM Fury
11:30 Buffalo Bill Jr.
Noon Roy Rogers
12:30 Duke Jenkins-Music
1PM Football Preview
1:15 Army/Navy College Football-Lindsey Nelson/Red Grange
4:45 Football Scoreboard
5PM 77th Bengal Lancers
5:30 Ramar of the Jungle
6PM Bowling-Chicago
7PM Racket Squad
7:30 People Are Funny-Art Linkletter
8PM Perry Como-COLOR Carol Channing, Nat King Cole
9PM Caesar's Hour
10PM George Gobel-Guest Angela Lansbury
10:30 Your Hit Parade
11PM News-Tom Field
11:05 Movie-Johnny Come Lately-1943
12:30 News-Tom Field

5 WEWS-ABC

8:55 News-Ron Penfound
9AM Fun Farm
10AM Story of TV
10:30 Friendly Giant
10:45 Toyland Express
11AM Mr. Lollipops-Joe Berg
11:30 Toyland Express
11:45 Learn To Draw-Jon Gnagy
Noon Double Feature Western Movie
2PM Bandstand-Phil McLean Patty Rowe
4PM Movie-Kansas Terrors-1939
5PM Movie-Call of the Mesquiteers-1938
6PM Kit Carson
6:30 Gene Autry
7PM Old Dutch Revue-Johnny Andrews
7:30 Famous Film Festival-Hamlet Part One (Sir Laurence Olivier)
9PM Lawrence Welk
10PM Masquerade Party
10:30 Police Call
11PM I Spy-Anthology about spying and espionage
11:30 Conrad Nagel Theater
Midnight Movie-A Matter of Murder
1AM News-Randy Culver

8 WJW CBS

8:30 Movie-Six-Gun Man
9:30 Captain Kangaroo
10:30 Mighty Mouse
11AM Looney Tunes
11:30 Texas Rangers
Noon Big Top
1PM Lone Ranger
1:30 Humbard Family
2PM Science Sermons-Likely from Moody Bible Institute
2:30 Animal Fair
3PM Teen Press-Maggie Wulff
3:30 Salute-Documentary
4PM Movie-Six-Gun Man (Repeat from 8:30)
5PM Sky King
5:30 Captain Midnight
6PM Hopalong Cassidy
6:30 Annie Oakley
7PM Beat The Clock-Bud Collyer
7:30 Buccaneers
8PM Jackie Gleason
9AM Oh Susanna
9:30 Hey, Jeannie
10PM Gunsmoke
10:30 Frontier
11PM News-Warren Guthrie
11:10 Sports-John Fitzgerald
11:15 Movie-I Am The Law-1938
12:45 Movie-Love From A Stranger-1947

21 WFMJ-Youngstown NBC

10AM Howdy Doody
10:30 I Married Joan
11AM Fury
11:30 Cowboy Theater-Monty Hall
1PM To Be Announced
1:15 Army-Navy Football
5PM Funhouse Gang
6:15 Jungle Jim
6:45 Hollywood Backstage
7PM Rumpus Room
7:30 People Are Funny-Art Linkletter
8PM Perry Como-COLOR Carol Channing, Nat King Cole
9PM Caesar;s Hour
10PM George Gobel-Guest Angela Lansbury
10:30 Your Hit Parade
11PM News
11:15 Movie-The Secret People-1952

27 WKBN-Youngstown CBS/ABC

9:30 Captain Kangaroo
10:15 Toyland Express
10:30 Cartoon Classics
11AM Western Movie
Noon Big Top
1PM Movie-The Old Barn Dance
2PM Movie-Fighting Pioneers
3PM Movie-The Quitter-1934
4PM Western Movie
5PM Bowling Champs
6PM Uncovered
6:30 News
7PM Ozzie And Harriet-ABC
7:30 Buccaneers
8PM Jackie Gleason
9AM Lawrence Welk-ABC
10PM Gunsmoke
10:30 Ford Theater
11PM Polka Party
Midnight Wrestling Time

49 WAKR-Akron ABC

12:30 Movie-Cowboy Holiday-1934
1:30 Humbard Family
2PM Mr. and Mrs. North
2:30 Akron University
3PM Movie-I Met My Love Again-1938
4PM Movie-Gentleman From Texas-1946
6PM Movie-Musical
7PM Grand Ole Opry
7:30 Famous Film Festival-Hamlet Part One (Sir Laurence Olivier)
9PM Lawrence Welk
10PM Movie-More Than A Secretary-1936
11:30 Movie-Fall Guy-1947

 

[bpatrick]

Monty Hall and "Cowboy Theater" don't sound like a match
made in Heaven, but Monty hadn't been in the U.S. long and
probably needed the job. NBC billed him as a cowboy from the
Canadian prairie country (he's from Manitoba), but somehow
I suspect his cowpoke skills left quite a bit to be desired.

The audience would get its first good look (sorry, Ernie Kovacs,
wherever you are) at Monty when he subbed for Jack Barry on
"Twenty-One" in the summer of 1958. Soon afterwards came
"Video Village" (replacing Jack Narz) and then, of course, "Let's
Make A Deal."

 

[Tim L]

Monty Hall and "Cowboy Theater" don't sound like a match
made in Heaven, but Monty hadn't been in the U.S. long and
probably needed the job. NBC billed him as a cowboy from the
Canadian prairie country (he's from Manitoba), but somehow
I suspect his cowpoke skills left quite a bit to be desired.

The audience would get its first good look (sorry, Ernie Kovacs,
wherever you are) at Monty when he subbed for Jack Barry on
"Twenty-One" in the summer of 1958. Soon afterwards came
"Video Village" (replacing Jack Narz) and then, of course, "Let's
Make A Deal."

Monty was a guest on Stu Shostak's Internet Radio Show several weeks back and they had a good laugh about "Cowboy Theater" as I recall. I had'nt any idea it was on the NBC Network, rather than just locally in New York..

 

[johnbasalla]

I'd like to see some 1962-1965 listings from WEWS-TV5. During those years they did live educational programs for the Cleveland Public Schools in the morning (10-11am or so, I think). I'd like to know how they were listed. They may have had programs on 3 and 8 too, I don't know.

 

[Tim L]

I'd like to see some 1962-1965 listings from WEWS-TV5. During those years they did live educational programs for the Cleveland Public Schools in the morning (10-11am or so, I think). I'd like to know how they were listed. They may have had programs on 3 and 8 too, I don't know.

John:
I would suggest that you check out my vintage TV Blog:

http://clevelandclassicmedia.blogspot.com/

In the top left hand corner is a search engine-type "WEWS 1962" (without quotes) or any year and you should come up with posts that have listings on them. I believe they did "Cleveland Classroom" 10:45-11AM when they did carry it, Channel 3 had "TV Classroom" for a while..