Retro:Cleveland Sunday, January 3, 1954

[TimL]

Source: Canton, Ohio Repository

WNBK 4 (NBC)


Morning

8:45 Norman Vincent Peale
9AM Frontiers Of Faith
9:30 Sunday School
10AM Mr. Wizard
10:30 American Inventory
11AM American Forum
11:30 Nature Of Things
11:45 Magic Clown

Afternoon

Noon Captain Glenn-Kids
12:30 Sunday Matinee
1:30 First Run Theater (No Movie titles)
3PM TechniScience
3:30 Kukla/Fran/Ollie
4PM Excursion
4:30 Zoo Parade
5PM Hall Of Fame (Presumably Hallmark)

Evening
6PM Meet The Press
6:30 Roy Rogers
7PM Paul Winchell
7:30 Mr. Peepers
8PM Colgate Comedy Hour
9PM TV Playhouse
9:30 March Of Dimes
10PM Letter to Loretta (Loretta Young)
10:30 Man Against Crime
11PM Matinee Theater

WEWS 5 (CBS)

Morning

11AM The Pastor
11:15 Person Can Do
11:30 Cartoon Show
11:45 Captain Hartz-syndicated

Afternoon

Noon Gene Carroll-Amateur Show
1PM Polka Parade
1:30 Airflyte Theater (Movie)
3PM Year Of Crisis-Edward R. Murrow
4PM Juvenile Jury-Jack Barry
4:30 Fun with Charades-Local Game Show I believe
5PM Omnibus

Evening

6:30 You Are There-Walter Cronkite
7PM Range Rider-Syn. (Instead Of Quiz Kids)
7:30 Private Secretary (Jack Benny Alternate weeks)
8PM Toast Of The Town-Ed Sullivan
9PM Bing Crosby-His first TV Special-Guest Jack Benny
9:30 Man Behind The Badge-Drama
10PM Foreign Intrigue-Syndicated
10:30 What's My Line?-Mystery Guest New York City Mayor Robert Wagner
11PM Sunday News
11:15 The Web-Drama
11:45 Sunday Nite Theater (Movie)


WXEL 8 (Dumont/ABC)

Morning

11:30 Christophers
11:45 Star Babes (What it apparently says)

Afternoon

Noon Faith For Today
12:30 TV Travel
1PM Big Picture
1:30 This Is The Life
2PM Encore Theater (Movie)
4PM Ohio Story-15 minute Documentaries shown on stations all across Ohio
4:15 Ward Workshop
4:30 Prescription
5PM Super Circus-ABC (Live from Chicago)

Evening
6PM Paul Hartman Show-Sitcom-ABC..Better known to most of us as "Emmett Clark" from Andy Griffith/Mayberry RFD
6:30 George Jessel-ABC
7PM You Asked For It-ABC
7:30 TV Teen Club-Paul Whiteman-ABC Broadcast from Philadelphia
8PM Nature Of Government-ABC
Apparently an educational series hosted by one Mortimer J. Adler..ABC was showing this as a public service with cooperation from National Educational Television (NET)

8:30 Congressional Preview-Probably ABC
9PM Walter Winchell-ABC (DuMont-Rocky King)
9:15 Orchid Award-ABC
9:30 Plainclothesman-DuMont
10PM Film Shorts
10:30 Peter Potter (Jukebox Jury)-ABC
11PM Shadow Theater (Movie)





<P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by TimL on 06/23/05 04:46 PM.</FONT></P>

 

[KMRichards]

> 8PM Nature Of Government-ABC
> Apparently an educational series hosted by one Mortimer J.
> Adler..ABC was showing this as a public service with
> cooperation from National Educational Television (NET)

I don't remember NET existing as early as 1954?
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[TimL]

Re: Early NET

> > 8PM Nature Of Government-ABC
> > Apparently an educational series hosted by one Mortimer J.
>
> > Adler..ABC was showing this as a public service with
> > cooperation from National Educational Television (NET)
>
> I don't remember NET existing as early as 1954?


I didnt remember NET being around that early either. Here is a link to an article that appears to be about the above program..and the series it was contained in


http://radicalacademy.com/adlervideos.htm

Also..Courtesy of the Museum of Broadcast Communications, An article about the History of NET..


http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/N/htmlN/nationaleduc/nationaleduc.htm





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[Braves2005]

> Source: Canton, Ohio Repository
>

>

> 7PM Range Rider-Syn.(Instead of Lassie..Though for a time
> later in the 1950's or early 60's Channel 5 would carry
> Lassie Sundays at 7 even though WJW 8 was CBS)
>
Lassie did not premiere on CBS until the fall of 1954.
>
>
>
>

 

[bpatrick]

> > 8PM Nature Of Government-ABC
> > Apparently an educational series hosted by one Mortimer J.
>
> > Adler..ABC was showing this as a public service with
> > cooperation from National Educational Television (NET)
>
> I don't remember NET existing as early as 1954?
>
NET began in 1952.

I also should identify Mortimer Adler (1902-2001). He was
a professor of philosophy who spent most of his career at
the University of Chicago, where he specialized in the
philosophy of law and government. He also helped compile
the "Great Books" series, but his most famous work--still
in print--was "How To Read A Book," published in 1943.

 

[BobbyNBC10]

Re: Early NET

> >
> >
> > I don't remember NET existing as early as 1954?
>
>
> I didnt remember NET being around that early either. Here
> is a link to an article that appears to be about the above
> program..and the series it was contained in
>
>
>The oldest Educational/public Tv station in the US in KUHT-TV 8-Houston,TX followed by WKAR-TV 23 Michigan State University Television, East Lansing,MI. Educational TV would boom in the 1960's and 1970's with UHF growth, PBS forming and the rise of Mr. Rogers and Sesame Street.

As mentioned before, WKAR began on Channel 60 in January,1954,then moved to Channel 10 as WMSB and time-shared with WILX-TV NBC 10 in Jackson,MI and then WKAR returned on UHF 23 in 9/1972 as WILX-TV went solo on 10.

 

[TimL]

> > Source: Canton, Ohio Repository
> >
>
> >
>
> > 7PM Range Rider-Syn.(Instead of Lassie..Though for a time
> > later in the 1950's or early 60's Channel 5 would carry
> > Lassie Sundays at 7 even though WJW 8 was CBS)
> >
> Lassie did not premiere on CBS until the fall of 1954.
> >
> >
> >
> >


Thanks Braves2005. I had forgotten Lassie did not begin till fall 1954. I made a correction in the original post though It looks as if Quiz Kids either changed times or was canceled before January 1954. So I am not sure If I am right even now.

 

[bpatrick]

> > > Source: Canton, Ohio Repository
> > >
> >
> > >
> >
> > > 7PM Range Rider-Syn.(Instead of Lassie..Though for a
> time
> > > later in the 1950's or early 60's Channel 5 would carry
> > > Lassie Sundays at 7 even though WJW 8 was CBS)
> > >
> > Lassie did not premiere on CBS until the fall of 1954.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
>
>
> Thanks Braves2005. I had forgotten Lassie did not begin
> till fall 1954. I made a correction in the original post
> though It looks as if Quiz Kids either changed times or was
> canceled before January 1954. So I am not sure If I am
> right even now.
>
According to Castleman and Podrazik's "The TV Schedule Book,"
Quiz Kids aired on CBS Sundays at 7 in the summer of 1953.
In the fall, the sitcom Life With Father premiered at that time,
and was still on the air through the 1953-54 season. Quiz Kids
got one final run, January-September 1956, Thursdays at 10:30
on CBS.

 

[Joseph_Gallant]

Tim Lones takes us back to Cleveland on Sunday, January 3rd, 1954:

> WNBK 4 (NBC)

> Afternoon
> 3:30 Kukla/Fran/Ollie

"Kukla, Fran, and Ollie" had left NBC's weeknight schedule in June of 1952, and from then until mid-1954, aired only once a week on Sundays.

The show moved that Fall to ABC, as that network was willing to give the Kuklapolitans a five-nights-a-week (7-7:15 P.M. ET) slot.

> 4:30 Zoo Parade

Broadcast as a live remote from Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo, the host of this program was a young Marlin Perkins, who was the zoo's executive driector. Perkins is better known for his over two decades (1963-85) as host of "Wild Kingdom", which was filmed on-location all over the world.

> Evening
> 6PM Meet The Press

"Meet The Press" ran in this time slot until 1965, when it was moved to an early-afternoon slot on Sundays, and eventually, a Sunday morning timeslot.

> WEWS 5 (CBS)
> Afternoon
> 3PM Year Of Crisis-Edward R. Murrow

Every year in the 1950's around January 1st, CBS News would summon most of it's foreign correspondents back to New York where they, along with some correspondents brought-in from Washington and other U.S. bureaus, would join Murrow for a discussion of the year just past and a look at the year ahead.

> Evening
> 10:30 What's My Line?-Mystery Guest New York City Mayor
> Robert Wagner

Unless this episode was pre-filmed, I doubt that the name of the "mystery guest" would get into TV listings, for obvious reasons. Dorothy Kilgallen would probably have found out!!

> 11PM Sunday News

I believe it was network, as for many years, CBS ran a fifteen-minute newscast Sunday nights from 11 to 11:15 P.M. ET. Eventually, I believe they did two feeds, the first at 11 ET and the second at 11:15 (and later 11:30) ET.

For most of the 1950's, Walter Cronkite anchored this newscast, which was known as the "Sunday News Special". Wasn't it the only weekend newscast on network television for much of the fifties??

When did WEWS become the ABC affiliate and WXEL/WJW join CBS?? Was it before or after the collapse of DuMont??

 

[TimL]

Re:What's My Line Mystery Guests/WEWS-WJW switch

> > Evening
> > 10:30 What's My Line?-Mystery Guest New York City Mayor
> > Robert Wagner
>
> Unless this episode was pre-filmed, I doubt that the name of
> the "mystery guest" would get into TV listings, for obvious
> reasons. Dorothy Kilgallen would probably have found out!!

There is a website known as the "Big 4 Goodson-Todman Game Show Index". It lists all panels, Celebrity guests, etc. Of the Four major Prime Time G-T games: What's My Line, Password, To Tell The Truth and I've Got a Secret. I go to this site for any additional Information on these shows not in a TV Guide or Newspaper listing.



http://www.kinescopes.com/G_T_big4.html

> When did WEWS become the ABC affiliate and WXEL/WJW join
> CBS?? Was it before or after the collapse of DuMont??



In researching other TV related Newspaper artticles, I came across the fact that Channel 8 became CBS and 5 ABC officially May 1, 1955. 1954-55 was the last or next to last season DuMont tried to do full Prime Time programming..

Tim Lones
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[KMRichards]

Re:What's My Line Mystery Guests/WEWS-WJW switch

> There is a website known as the "Big 4 Goodson-Todman Game
> Show Index". It lists all panels, Celebrity guests, etc.
> Of the Four major Prime Time G-T games: What's My Line,
> Password, To Tell The Truth and I've Got a Secret. I go to
> this site for any additional Information on these shows not
> in a TV Guide or Newspaper listing.

Tim, to avoid this kind of confusion, perhaps in the future you could mention when you've added material not in the original cited source?
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[bpatrick]

Re:What's My Line Mystery Guests/WEWS-WJW switch

> > There is a website known as the "Big 4 Goodson-Todman Game
>
> > Show Index". It lists all panels, Celebrity guests, etc.
>
> > Of the Four major Prime Time G-T games: What's My Line,
> > Password, To Tell The Truth and I've Got a Secret. I go
> to
> > this site for any additional Information on these shows
> not
> > in a TV Guide or Newspaper listing.
>
> Tim, to avoid this kind of confusion, perhaps in the future
> you could mention when you've added material not in the
> original cited source?
>
I have to agree with our moderator on this one. I have
Gil Fates' book about What's My Line?, in which he lists
all the Mystery Guests, panelists, and guest panelists who
ever appeared on the show, and Mayor Wagner was the Mystery
Guest on January 3, 1954.

My next question, which I was going to ask in this posting,
was whether or not someone leaked to the
newspapers that Wagner was going to be on Line that week. Fates
said it happened a couple of times: Walter Winchell once printed
that Van Johnson was going to be Mystery Guest one week, and Irv
Kupcinet did the same thing re Tony Curtis. Both, Fates surmised,
got their information from some overzealous person, perhaps a
publicist, perhaps the columnists' assistants.

But the odds of that happening were almost incalculable. Most
celebrities enjoyed the chance to stump the panel.

So now we're clear.

BTW, a bit of irony. Fates mentions that after Bennett Cerf
died, his widow, Phyllis, remarried, and to whom? Former
mayor Robert Wagner.<P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by bpatrick on 06/25/05 09:39 PM.</FONT></P>

 

[TimL]

Re:What's My Line Mystery Guests/WEWS-WJW switch

>> >
> I have to agree with our moderator on this one. I have
> Gil Fates' book about What's My Line?, in which he lists
> all the Mystery Guests, panelists, and guest panelists who
> ever appeared on the show, and Mayor Wagner was the Mystery
> Guest on January 3, 1954.
>
> My next question, which I was going to ask in this posting,
> was whether or not someone leaked to the
> newspapers that Wagner was going to be on Line that week.
> Fates
> said it happened a couple of times: Walter Winchell once
> printed
> that Van Johnson was going to be Mystery Guest one week, and
> Irv
> Kupcinet did the same thing re Tony Curtis. Both, Fates
> surmised,
> got their information from some overzealous person, perhaps
> a
> publicist, perhaps the columnists' assistants.
>
> But the odds of that happening were almost incalculable.
> Most
> celebrities enjoyed the chance to stump the panel.
>
> So now we're clear.

to KM and BPatrick..
I absolutely understand the point on this..many times I will quote and give credit to other sources..Here it slipped my mind plus I figured there are places to check this information out if one chose to. Here on out I will remember to quote all secondary sources..
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