Retro from 'way back: Atlanta Saturday, October 20, 1951

[bpatrick]

From the Atlanta Constitution. The market had just gotten
its third station about three weeks earlier.

WSB Ch. 2 (NBC)

10:45 "Mystery Mountain"
11 AM Woody Willow (local Howdy Doody-
type puppet show)
12 N Mr. Wizard
12:30 Movie: "Feud Maker"
1:30 Ted Husing (football preview)
1:45 NCAA Football: Yale vs. Cornell
4:15 Scores (time approximate)
4:30 Wild Bill Hickok
5 PM "Mystery Mountain"
5:30 Nature Of Things
5:45 Bob Considine (news commentator and
uncle of My Three Sons' Tim Considine)
6 PM Football Scores
6:15 Laurel And Hardy
6:30 "Mystery Mountain" (I'd love to know what
this was)
6:45 Cartoons
7 PM American Youth Forum
7:30 One Man's Family
8 PM Martha Raye
9 PM Your Show Of Shows (Sid Caesar)
10:30 Your Hit Parade
11 PM Wrestling From Hollywood
12 M News And Sign Off

WAGA Ch. 5 (CBS/DuMont)

10:45 Film Short
11 AM Fashion Magic
11:30 Smilin' Ed McConnell
12 N Big Top
1 PM TV Ranch
2 PM Western Feature
3 PM School Of The Air
3:30 All-Girl Wrestling
4 PM WAGA's Wild West Theater
5 PM Wrestling
6 PM Fifth Quarter
6:30 Old American Barn Dance
7 PM Crusade In The Pacific
7:30 Beat The Clock
8 PM Ken Murray
9 PM Faye Emerson
9:30 The Show Goes On
10 PM Cosmopolitan Theater
11 PM News And Dancing Party
12 M Sign Off

WLTV Ch. 8 (now WXIA Ch. 11--at the
time, the newest station in Atlanta) (ABC)

10:30 Hollywood Junior Circus
11 AM Foodini The Great
11:30 A Date With Judy
12 N TBA
12:30 Faith Baldwin's Theater Of Romance
1 PM Sign Off
4 PM 24 Hours Of Progress
4:30 Movie: "Swiss Miss" (Laurel and Hardy)
5:30 Movie: "Swiss Family Robinson"
7 PM Soap Box Theater
7:30 Bill Gwinn (a minor singer)
8 PM Paul Whiteman's Teen Club (imagine a
'20s bandleader hosting a talent show
for kids, but don't knock it...Bobby Rydell
made his debut on this show, and Dick Clark
was the announcer)
9 PM Movie: "City Without Men"
10:30 Movie: "Meeting At Midnight" (Charlie Chan)
11:30 Songtime
12 M Personal Appearance Theater (aired on ABC
at 7 PM)
12:30 Sign Off

 

[mleach]

8 PM Paul Whiteman's Teen Club (imagine a
'20s bandleader hosting a talent show
for kids, but don't knock it...Bobby Rydell
made his debut on this show, and Dick Clark
was the announcer)

From what I understand, kines of this still exist to this day !!

However don't expect to see Teen Club anytime soon on the web as Dick Clark, well Dick Clark Productions actually have been cracking down on sites such as Youtube for allowing people to upload their programs and considering this show features Dick Clark, I believe it would be a safe bet to say that his production company, chances are would have this pulled as well. Just last week they managed to get one clip taken off. Was it some classic performance from American Bandstand? Was it a clip of the $25,000 Pyramid? Or was it something from Dick's long forgotten program from the 70's "Dick Clark's Live Wednesday"? Well no, it was a 15 second clip from the 60s of the legal ID for Philadelphia's WFIL-TV !!!

A few years ago I remember reading somewhere where Dick Clark Productions went after another site where someone posted a clip from his New Year's Rockin Eve from the early 80s. Not a musical performace rather but a few seconds where Dick was counting down to midnight. I also have noticed that last year's return of Dick to that program, his first public appearance since his stroke, I have yet to see any of those clips online either. I assume Dick Clark Productions took care of that too.

I can understand the Dick Clark people cracking down on people uploading the many musical performaces that Dick showcased over the years.They should. Dittos with Pyramid, Donnie & Marie, the Elvis bio he was behind of, etc..

But a legal ID? A few seconds of Dick saying "happy New Year? Sounds like another Disney here.

 

[bpatrick]

A thought occurred to me after my original post on this
topic, concerning Paul Whiteman. I don't know how many
of you have ever heard of him; as I briefly mentioned, he
was a '20s-era bandleader. Some of his proteges included
George Gershwin and Bing Crosby. So the idea of his hosting
a teen-oriented talent-variety show some thirty years later
sounds about as ludicrous as Lawrence Welk doing the same
thing (which he did, from 1956-59, it was called Lawrence
Welk's Top Tunes and New Talent, where "Cho" Feeney and
Jack Imel got their breaks).

But Whiteman, unlike Welk, made a conscious effort to keep
up with the times; he once said that "the way to stay young
is to stay around young people." He admitted being a fan of
the Beatles, and before his death in 1967 he told a reporter
that if he had it to do over again, he'd let his hair grow long
and form a rock group.

It might be fun to see kines of Whiteman's show, just to see
how much (if at all) he was in the vanguard of the coming rock
'n' roll revolution.

 

[FreddyE1977]

You had to go this far back to find a schedule with no Braves Baseball, eh?

I can't imagine folks in Atlanta sitting through a Yale-Cornell football game these days!
Oliver Hardy certainly seemed to be getting a lot of airtime in his hometown!
And even at this early date, Atlanta seemed to be the World Capital of TV Wrestling!

 

[bpatrick]

I get the joke about the Braves; actually, they
didn't move from Milwaukee to Atlanta until 1966.
I think they were still in Boston in 1951 (somebody
correct me on this).

It looks like Channel 2 was carrying the Laurel
and Hardy shorts, while Channel 8 (11 now) had one of
their full-length movies. Sounds like he was as
visible as Andy Griffith is in Greensboro, since his
hometown, Mt. Airy, is only about 50 miles away.

 

[bk77]

But Whiteman, unlike Welk, made a conscious effort to keep
up with the times; he once said that "the way to stay young
is to stay around young people." He admitted being a fan of
the Beatles, and before his death in 1967 he told a reporter
that if he had it to do over again, he'd let his hair grow long
and form a rock group.

It might be fun to see kines of Whiteman's show, just to see
how much (if at all) he was in the vanguard of the coming rock
'n' roll revolution.

Whiteman from what I remember reading about was also a fan of the Monkees, Rolling Stones, and even Elvis Presley. I agree it would be fun to see kines of this but if Dick Clark's production company does indeed hold the rights to this ( and considering Dick Clark Productions pretty much own everything the Dick has ever done so its quite possible ), I doubt we will ever see them. Yeah, mleach was right, Dick Clark is almost as bad as Disney when it comes to this sort of thing.

BTW, Whiteman wasn't the only bandleader, music star from the 40s to embraced rock, I believe Perry Como was a fan as well. His show from the 50s had quite a few rock stars on that too.

 

[FreddyE1977]

Yes, the Braves were in Boston until 1953, I believe.
Then they moved to Milwaukee untill '66, when they moved to Atlanta.
The St. Louis Browns moved to Baltimore and became the Orioles
around the same time that the Braves left Boston.

In '51, I think there would have still been a minor league team
called the Atlanta Crackers playing there.

 

[bpatrick]

The Crackers were indeed in Atlanta in '51; they were
part of the Southern Association, and while I never saw
them play either live or on television, my dad used to watch
them when he'd visit his relatives in Atlanta (WAGA carried their
games for years). When the Braves were perennial cellar-dwellers
in the '70s and '80s, the Constitution sports pages would
occasionally have letters from people wanting the Crackers
back.

The first time the Atlanta Braves ever appeared on national
television, BTW, was a Monday-night game on NBC in 1966 and
(naturally, considering the era) the Braves lost (10-6 to the
Dodgers). (NBC didn't have regular Monday-night baseball at
the time, but they did want to show Atlanta's first home game.)