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Retro: Detroit/Toledo/Lansing Sat, Aug 11, 1956

from TV Guide-Detroit edition

WJBK 2-CBS Detroit
7:50 Meditations
7:55 On the Farm Front
8:00 Michigan State University
8:30 Farmland USA
9:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:30 Mighty Mouse
10:00 Cartoons
10:30 Texas Rangers "Bandits of El Dorado"
11:00 Big Top
noon Lone Ranger "Billy the Great"
12:30 Saturday Showtime "The Great Mike"
1:30 Golf (Demaret)
1:45 Sports (Smith)
2:00 Baseball: White Sox-Tigers (commentators Van Patrick/Mel Ott)
4:30 Movie: TBA (listed as drama)
5:00 Sagebrush Shorty
6:00 Sports Mirror (Drees)
6:30 Beat the Clock
7:00 Jackie Gleason (Honeymooners)
7:30 Stage Show (guests Gene Baylos and Sonny Howard)
8:00 Two for the Money
8:30 Russ Morgan (guest Rusty Draper)
9:00 Gunsmoke
9:30 Crunch & Des "Reelistic Viewpoint"
10:00 Big Town "Train Wreck"
10:30 Hollywood Spotlight "A Mother's Duty"
11:00 News
11:15 Weather
11:20 Les Paul & Mary Ford
11:25 Nightwatch Theater "The More the Merrier"/"Blonde for a Day"
2:15 Weather/Meditations

WWJ 4-NBC Detroit
7:50 News
8:00 Industry on Parade
8:15 City Affairs (Eberly)
8:30 Mr. Twinky Presents
9:00 Howdy Doody
9:30 I Married Joan "Superstition"
10:00 Fury "Search for Joey"
10:30 Uncle Johnny Coons
11:00 Captain Gallant "The Dagger of Judah"
11:30 Mr. Wizard
noon Cartoon Express
1:00 Jimmy Wakely
2:00 Stars on Parade
4:00 Colorland (c)
5:00 Topper "The Wedding"
5:30 Roy Rogers
6:00 Hobbies in Action "Radio Ham Field Day" (c/Booth; Motor City Radio Club members set up and operate their equipment at a riverfront park in River Rouge)
6:15 Monte Woolley "Queen of Spades"
6:30 Down You Go
7:00 Tony Bennett (premiere; guests June Valli, Ben Blue, the Three Goetschis, and Harvey Stone)
8:00 People are Funny
8:30 Festival of Stars "Double Trouble"
9:30 Adventure Theater "Falstaff's Fur Coat"
10:00 Saturday Show "The Colonel and His Son"
10:30 Ina Ray Hutton
11:00 News
11:15 Weather
11:20 Texas Wrestling
12:20 News

WJIM 6-NBC/CBS/ABC Lansing
9:00 Howdy Doody
9:30 TBA
10:00 Fury "Search for Joey"
10:30 Uncle Johnny Coons
11:00 Big Top
noon Texas Rangers
12:30 Captain Gallant
1:00 Lone Ranger "Trapped"
1:30 Lassie
2:00 Baseball: White Sox-Tigers
5:00 Disneyland "Survival in Nature"
6:00 Bob Cummings "The Sheik"
6:30 Celebrity Playhouse "The Twelve Year Secret"
7:00 Tony Bennett (premiere)
8:00 This is Your Life (Roy Rogers is profiled)
8:30 Festival of Stars "Double Trouble"
9:30 Adventure Theater "Falstaff's Fur Coat"
10:00 Playhouse of Stars "Repercussion"
10:30 Science-Fiction Theater
11:00 Movie: TBA

WXYZ 7-ABC Detroit
9:00 America on Parade
9:30 Crusade for Christ
10:00 Laurel & Hardy
10:30 Captain Flint
11:30 Ramar of the Jungle "Jungle Vengeance"
noon Ed McKenzie
2:00 Roundup Time "Red River Range"/"Gun Danger"
4:00 Milky's Party "Riders of the Black Hills"
6:00 Wild Bill Hickok "Cry Wolf"
6:30 Ozark Jubilee (a 2-parter tonight, with Bobby Lord pinch-hitting for Red Foley in part 1)
7:00 Convention City (John Daly presents a half-hour tour of TV facilities at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, which started 2 days later)
7:30 Ozark Jubilee (part 2, guest hosted by Sonny James)
8:00 Lawrence Welk
9:00 Masquerade Party
9:30 Jumbo Theater
10:00 Secret File USA
10:30 The Explorers "Into the Wilds of New Zealand" (Denver Museum of Natural History director Dr. Alfred Bailey shows films of his expedition in NZ)
11:00 Main Attraction Movie "Secret People"

CKLW 9-CBC/DuMont Windsor
12:25pm Billboard
12:30 Man to Man
12:45 Cartoons
1:00 Saturday Matinee "North from the Lone Star"/"Charlie Chan's Letter Cruise"/"Saps at Sea"
4:30 Texas Musical Harts
5:00 Wild Bill Hickok
5:30 Happy's Matinee "Law of the Pampas"
6:30 Space Ranger "Escape Into Space"
7:00 Temple Baptist Church
7:30 Greatest Fights (Baer v Galento/Loughran v Braddock)
8:00 Country Hoedown
8:30 Million Dollar Movie "Mrs. Mike"
10:00 News/Weather
10:15 Yesterday's Newsreel
10:30 Mr. & Mrs. North "Reunion"
11:00 Movie Date "Lucky Nick Cain"

WSPD 13-NBC/CBS/ABC Toledo
9:00 Mr. Wizard
9:30 Fury "Search for Joey"
10:00 Sky King "The Porcelain Lion"
10:30 Texas Rangers "Bandits of El Dorado"
11:00 Big Top
noon Roy Rogers
12:30 Annie Oakley "Sharp Shooting Annie"
1:00 Film Featurette
1:45 Sports Views
2:00 Baseball: White Sox-Tigers
4:30 Film Featurette
5:00 Captain Gallant "The Lady from Zagora"
5:30 Wild Bill Hickok "Wild White Horse"
6:00 Death Valley Days "11,000 Miners Can't Be Wrong"
6:30 Beat the Clock
7:00 Jackie Gleason (Honeymooners)
7:30 Stage Show
8:00 Two for the Money
8:30 Russ Morgan
9:00 Gunsmoke
9:30 Wyatt Earp "Wise Calf"
10:00 Crunch & Des "Fifty-Four, Forty and Fight"
10:30 Director's Playhouse
11:00 Dollar a Second
11:30 Wrestling (listings didn't indicate source)
12:30 News

WTVS 56-Edu Detroit
no scheduled programming
 
Thank God for DVDs, so we can look at so many of these great TV shows and movies today. Today's technology has turned the TV set into merely hardware that we personally program with millions of items.
 
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