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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
8:15 Michigan State Conservation
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 (Van Patrick/Mel Ott)
4:30 Movie: TBA (listed as a drama, and 30 min)
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 Baylas 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/Meditation

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 (he tackles some of Edison's experiments)
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/Motor City Radio Club members set up and operate portable 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 with 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 Wrestling (Texas)
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 honored; paying tribute are his wife Dale Evans, Trigger, and Bullet)
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"
4:00 Milky's Party
6:00 Wild Bill Hickok "Cry Wolf"
6:30 Ozark Jubilee (split in two tonight due to a special on the Democratic National Convention, which would start on Monday...Tamp's Bobby Lord subs for a vactioning Red Foley)
7:00 Convention City (John Daly goes behind the scenes of ABC's coverage of the DNC)
7:30 Ozard Jubilee (pt 2, hosted by Sonny James)
8:00 Lawrence Welk
9:00 Masquerade Party
9:30 Jumbo Theater
10:00 Secret File USA
10:30 Explorers "Into the Wilds of New Zealand" (Denver Museum of Natural History director Dr. Alfred Bailey shows films of his expedition in the Land of the Wooly Cloud)
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 Murder 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-Galento/Loughran-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
2:00 Baseball: White Sox-Tigers
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
9:30 Wyatt Earp "Wise Calf"
10:00 Crunch & Des "Fifty-Four, Forty and Fight"
10:30 Directors' Playhouse
11:00 Dollar a Second
11:30 Wrestling (source not listed)
12:30 News

WTVS 56-Edu Detroit
No programming on weekends
 
Did Channel 13 carry "Gunsmoke"? I notice you have
Russ Morgan listed as a half-hour on Channel 2, followed
by "Gunsmoke," but Morgan as an hour on Channel 13. His
show was a half-hour, from 9:30-10 (EDT), and Michigan and
Ohio appear to have been on either EST or CDT (same thing,
just depends on what the locality called it, the way most of
Indiana referred to EST in the summer when it was an hour
behind EDT).
 
Based on listings from 2 Ohio Newspapers via Newspaperarchive.com..The Mansfield News-Journal and The Sandusky Register-Star, Russ Morgan was a half-hour at 8:30 and Gunsmoke was aired at 9PM on WSPD-TV 13..
 
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