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Retro: Cleveland, OH, Sun. Sep 2nd, 1956

Source: TV Guide

CHANNELS
3 KYW Cleveland [NBC]
5 WEWS Cleveland [ABC]
8 WJW Cleveland [CBS]
21 WFMJ Youngstown, OH [NBC]
27 WKBN Youngstown [CBS/ABC]
49 WAKR Akron, OH [ABC]

8:45AM
8 Town Hall

8:55
5 News-Ron Penfound

9AM
5 Prayer Meeting
Rev. Don Benedict, founder of Inner City Protestant Parish, is leader for the Labor Sunday program. The theme will be "The Bread of Your Hands."

9:15
3 Faces of Israel
8 Christophers

9:30
3 Spirituals-Mary Holt
5 Religion
MISSION AT MID-CENTURY: "Window on the Sky," relates the work of the missionaries among the Najavo Indian tribes in the Southwest.
8 Faith for Today
A young college student is preparing his term paper using the theme: "Why College Students are Hopeful [or Doubtful] About the Future." Pastor Fagel gives him the help he needs.
27 Christophers

10AM
3 The Answer
5 Western Theater
"Colorado Kid." [1937, Bob Steele]
8 Lamp Unto My Feet
Dr. Lyman Bryson and his guest, Dr. Franklin Clark Fry, religious leader, discuss man's attitude toward labor.
27 This Is Life
If a man walks out on his family can he ever find his way back to their love and forgiveness? Forrest Taylor.

10:30
3 TV Sunday School
8 27 Look Up and Live

11AM
3 Norman V. Peale
5 Christophers
Gregory Ratoff, noted producer and director, Prof. James Meehan of New York's Hunter College, and the Iona College Quartet appear on today's program. The subject discussed is the importance of the classroom.
8 Eye on New York
As guest emcee, Jim McKay recalls a sea disaster of two decades ago, the burning of the Morro Castle. The ship was a luxury liner on a return trip from Havana to New York. The fire, which hit the ship off the New Jersey coast, took 134 lives.
27 Western Theater
"Gunfire" [1950] A desperado impersonates the reformed outlaw Frank James, but leads a life of banditry. Don Barry, Robert Lowery.

11:15
3 Pat Patterson

11:30
3 Christophers [were these different churches? I see this program on 3, 5, 8 and 27 Youngstown]
5 Bobo the Hobo
Bobo tells the story of "The Elves and King Cotton."
8 Camera Three
Today's show includes dramatizations of humorous love scenes from the works of Shakespeare, Noel Coward and Oscar Wilde. James McAndrew hosts.

11:45
5 Find a Hobby
Silversmithing is the hobby featured for today.

Noon
3 The Way
5 Gene Carroll
8 27 Let's Take a Trip
Pud, Ginger and Sonny Fox go for a ride on a Coast Guard buoy tender. This ship patrols New York City's harbor to service the buoys used as channel markers,

12:30
3 Camerama
5 Faith for Today
See 9:30, Ch. 8.
8 27 Wild Bill Hickok
"Wrestling Story." In order to stop a planned bank robbery, Wild Bill persuades Jingles to challenge a champion wrestler. Guy Madison.

1PM
3 Movie
"Rendezvous With Annie." [1946] A homesick GI arranges a flight home from London with Air Force buddies who are sworn to secrecy about his being AWOL. When his wife subsequently has a baby he is at a loss to explain to others how he became a parent. Eddie Albert.
5 Movie
"Who Killed Doc Robin." [1948] An eccentric scientist disappears after a mysterious explosion. Virginia Grey.
8 Looney Tunes
27 Oral Roberts
49 Feature Film

1:30
8 Sacred Heart
21 Children's Hour
27 Roy Rogers
"Romance of the Range." Roy is foreman of a ranch managed by a supposedly respectable citizen, but who in reality is the leader of a bandit gang. Rogers leads a fight against the gang.

1:45
8 News

2PM
5 Warm Up
8 Movie
"Vogues of 1938." In the pageant of beautiful girls, music, and fashions, a socialite turns fashion model and her fiance tries to close the business down. Joan Bennett.
21 Faith for Today

2:10
5 Dugout Interviews

2:25
5 27 Baseball
Jim Britt and Ken Coleman report the action from Comiskey Park in Chicago where the Cleveland Indians meet the White Sox.

2:30
3 Movie
"The Dark Command" [1940] The citizens of a Kansas town are terrorized by a band of guerillas. Claire Trevor, John Wayne.
21 Christophers
49 Oral Roberts

2:45
21 Industry on Parade
1. Laboratory research projects by high school students. 2. How bouillon cubes are molded. 3. How motor boating is brought within the budgets of middle-class income families. 4. The largest power-shovel in the world.

3PM
21 All Star Theater
49 Sunday Theater

3:30
3 21 Youth Wants to Know
8 This is Life
When George Medford tries to get out of debt by setting fire to his store, he finds that he must answer to more than the law.

4PM
3 Catholic Hour
8 My Friend Flicka
21 Froniters of Faith

4:30
3 21 American Forum
8 Lassie
The Miller farm welcomes a visitor from Japan. Gramps and Jeff are dismayed to find they must wage a stiff battle against community intolerance.
Tommy Rettig, Lassie, Jan Clayton.
49 College Press

5PM
3 Zoo Parade
COLOR-Marlin Perkins and Jim Hurlbut show more films taken on their African safari. The subject of today's show is "South Africa."
8 Face the Nation
Today's guest is Walter Reuther, president of the United Auto Workers and vice-president of the CIO-AFL. Stuart Novins moderates from Washington.
49 Going Places

5:20
5 Scoreboard
Paul Wilcox follows up on the Indians' game with the complete report of happenings in the major leagues.

5:30
5 Public Service [film?]
8 News-Sevareid
21 That We May See

5:45
21 Telerama

I will cover the evening listings later tonight or tomorrow.

-crainbebo
 
The Christophers was a syndicated program that was provided free to any station to air..

Gene Carroll was normally on for an hour, but was only 30 minutes this day likely because of the Ball Game..
 
6PM and later...

6PM
3 Meet the Press
Secretary of Labor James P. Mitchell faces the panel: William Hines of the Washington Star, Roscoe Drummond of the N.Y. Herald Tribune, Marquis Childs of the St-Louis Post Dispatch and Edwin Lahey of the Chicago Daily News. Ned Brooks moderates from Washington.
5 Kit Carson
"Bullets of Mystery." Six men, marked for death by a notorious bandit are put under Carson's protection. Bill Williams.
8 Telephone Time
"Time Bomb." John Nesbitt narrates the true story of a man's desperate race to develop a synthetic insulin for his diabetic wife in Japanese-occupied Shanghai. Victor Saxl: Steven Geray.
21 Kit Carson
"The Secret Sheriff." The U.S. Marshal sends Carson and El Toro out to help the sheriff of Poker Ridge. The two arrive to find the frontier town overrun by a gang of outlaws. Bill Williams.
49 Movie
"Rip Roaring Buckaroo." Tom Tyler is the star of today's frontier freature.

6:30
3 21 Roy Rogers
"Knockout." Roy tries to get information about the connection between a boxing trainer and a gang of criminals.
8 You are There
We are present at the "Fall of Ft. Sumter," April 12, 1861. Walter Cronkite and his news staff are stationed in the guardroom at Ft. Sumter, at the southern gun battery on the Charleston waterfront, and at the crucial cabinet meeting with President Lincoln.
27 Disneyland
Though tonight's show is dedicated to sports and sportsmanship, the slant might be a little strange. "The Goofy Sports Story" stars that unique canine athlete Goofy in five cartoons.

7PM
3 21 Topper
"George's Old Flame." Cosmo is planning to play Cupid for a young lady and a movie star. But George Kerby finds out that the girl is an old flame of his. Anne Jeffreys.
5 Range Rider
An Indian tribe threatens to go on the warpath because a new land survey excludes a certain area from their reservation that is rich in copper ore.
8 49 You Asked for It
1. A visit with the prison chaplain at San Quentin Penitentiary. 2. Shark hunters at Miami, FL. 3. Money that grows on trees. Art Baker is host.

7:30
3 21 Frontier
"Captivity of Joe Long." A trapper is captured by a band of hostile Indians. They want the trapper to pay to his Great White Father to end the drought. Joe Long: Jan Merlin.
5 49 Film Festival
Rex Harrison and Lilli Palmer in "Notorious Gentleman." [1946, English] Expelled from Oxford, playboy Vivian Kenway goes on a prolonged spree, is stranded in Vienna and agrees to marry an Austrian girl so she can escape the Nazis. Once home again, however, Kenway falls in love with another girl. Donald Woods hosts.
8 Private Secretary
"The Little Caesar of Bleecker Street." Susie tries to help an embittered 10-year-old boy. Ann Southern.

8PM
3 21 Steve Allen
Steve's guests include songstress Georgia Gibbs, singer Steve Lawrence and dancers Bambi Linn and Rod Alexander.
8 27 Ed Sullivan
Highlighting tonight's guest list are comedienne Kaye Ballard; popular vocalist Kay Armen; violinist Maria Neglia; champion baton twirler Carolyn Willis.

9PM
3 21 Alcoa Hour
COLOR-James Daly and Joanne Woodward star in "The Girls in Chapter One," by Elihu Winer. Vernon Elder, a famous author, returns to his home town in the Midwest. His one-time neighbors, friends and even relatives welcome him home with mixed emotions, for they, and the town, were the target of contempt in many of his books. Featured in a leading role is Madge Evans, former movie star.
5 Amateur Hour-Ted Mack
8 G.E. Theater
"The Night Goes On" stars Rosalind Russell. Living on her brother's ranch in Mexico, an embittered spinster takes a fancy to a young ranch hand. But he doesn't return her affection, and she plots revenge.
27 Celebrity Theater
49 Movie
"Saraband." [1949] Story of the unhappy wife of George Louis of the Hanover line which took over the British throne. Set in Germany in the 17th Century. Stewart Granger, Francoise Rosay.

9:30
8 27 Alfred Hitchcock
Tom Ewell plays a dual role in "The Case of Mr. Pelham." A highly successful businessman discovers that friends and associates have seen him and even spoken to him, in places where he has never been. Albert Pelham: Tom Ewell.

10PM
3 21 Loretta Young
"The Question," stars Loretta Young as a feminine psychologist. One question leads her to research on one of life's innermost secrets. The answer she finds causes a drastic change in her life. Craig Stevens.
5 Foreign Intrigue
8 27 $64,000 Challenge
Mrs. Ida May Sherburne and Mrs. P. Marion McGann face the $8,000 question on horse racing. Bible expert Mrs. Catherine Kreitzer and her challenger Frank Medley face the first question. Sonny Fox emcees.

10:30
3 Bowling-Chicago
Tom Hennessey of St. Louis, MO, meets the winner of the Fazio vs. Gibson match. "Whispering" Joe Wilson reports from Chicago.
5 Bill Randle
8 27 What's My Line?
21 Ethel Barrymore
49 Movie
"Trigger Fingers." [1939] An investigator disguises himself as a gypsy while trying to track down rustlers. Tim McCoy. [sign off afterwards]

11PM
3 News-Tom Field
5 Movie
"Red Planet Mars." [1952] With the help of a hydrogen tube developed by the Nazi war criminal, an American couple establish contact with Mars. Peter Graves.
8 27 News-Walter Cronkite
21 News, Sports

11:10
3 Movie
"Silent Raiders" [1954] A seven-man American patrol team invades the French coast during World War II. Richard Bartlett.
8 Sports
21 Theater [sign off afterwards]
27 Movie
"Of Mice and Men." [1940] John Steinbeck's gripping story of a strange alliance between a man of brains and his half-wit friend with the strength of Hercules. Burgess Meredith, Lon Chaney, Jr. [sign off afterwards]

11:25
8 Movie
"Story of Two Orphans." Film based on the novel by Alexander Dumas. [sign off afterwards]

12:30
3 News-Tom Field [sign off afterwards]
5 News-Randy Culver [sign off afterwards]

-crainbebo
 
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