Retro: Iowa Sat, June 9, 1956

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from TV Guide-Iowa edition
Programs listed CST

2 WMT-CBS Cedar Rapids
3 KTVO-CBS/NBC Ottumwa
3* KGLO-CBS Mason City
4 WHBF-CBS/ABC Rock Island
5 WOI-Edu/ABC Ames
6 WOC-NBC/ABC Davenport
7 KWWL-NBC Waterloo
8 KRNT-CBS Des Moines
9 KCRG-ABC Cedar Rapids
13 WREX-CBS/ABC Rockford
13* WHO-NBC Des Moines
21 KQTV-NBC Fort Dodge
39 WTVO-NBC Rockford

Morning
7:00
8 Farm News

7:30
2-4-8 Captain Kangaroo
6 Cartoon Carnival

8:00
6-7-13* Pinky Lee (season finale, Howdy Doody airs here next week)

8:15
13 Cartoon

8:30
2-3-4-8-13 Mighty Mouse Playhouse
6-7-13* I Married Joan "Pop Retires"

9:00
2-4-8-13 Winky Dink
3-6-7-13* Fury

9:30
2 Hopalong Cassidy
3-4-8 Texas Rangers "Routh, Tough West"
6-13* Uncle Johnny Coons
13 Come & See

9:45
13 Film Short

10:00
2 Movie: TBA
3-4-13 Big Top (from Philly, ringmaster Jack Sterling welcomes the Cycling Dutch Atoms (high-wire cyclists), the Three Lesters (trampoline), the Peter Ivanov Group (horizontal bars), and Antonucci's Chimpanzees)
6-13* Captain Gallant "Twenty Fathoms Under the Desert"
8 Movie: TBA (listed as Western)

10:30
6-13* Winchell & Mahoney (season finale with guest Ruth Brown; Mr. Wizard moves here next week)

10:35
3* This I Believe

10:40
3* Farm Bureau

10:45
3* Industry on Parade

11:00
2-3*-4-8-13 Lone Ranger "Man of the House"
6 Comic Cutups
13* Your Pet Corner

11:30
2 TBA
3 Film Short
3* Adventures of Blinky
4 Flight Into Time
6 Make Believe
8 Sky King
13 Roundup RFD
13* Your Air Force Reporter

11:45
2 TV Almanac
13* Film Short

Afternoon
noon
4-6 Cartoon Carnival
5 General Delivery
8 Hopalong Cassidy Movie
13 Film Short

12:15
2-3-3*-4-13-13*-21 Baseball Preview (guest Cincinnati coach Frank McCormick)

12:25
2-3-3*-4-13-13*-21 Baseball: Brooklyn-Cincinnati (Dizzy Dean and Buddy Blattner call the action)

12:30
5 Big Picture

12:45
39 Industry on Parade

1:00
5 Remedial Reading
6 Movie: TBA (Western)
8 Farm News
39 Action in the Afternoon

2:00
6 Big Picture
8 Movie "Urubu"

2:30
3 Big Picture
5 Movie: TBA (Western)
6 Movie: TBA

3:00
3 Movie: TBA
13 VM Teen Time
13* Film Short
39 Cowboy G-Men

3:30
2 Sports
3* Triple Feature Movies "Wild Horse Stampede"/"Ambush Trail"/:Check Your Guns"
4 Movie "Outlaws of Sonora"
5 Kid Stuff
8 Don Bell's Teen Dance
13 Wild Bill Hickok

3:45
2 Film Short
13* Sen. Thomas Martin

4:00
6 What's Your Trouble?
13 Annie Oakley
13*-21-39 Movie: TBA

4:15
6 Pastor's Desk

4:30
2 Sky King
3 Roy Rogers Movie
4-5-9 Gabby Hayes
6 Our Good Earth
13 Saturday Serials
13* TBA
21 Fury

5:00
2 Lassie
4-7 Big Picture
5 Joe Palooka
6 Roy Rogers "The Kid from Silver City"
8 Do You Trust Your Wife?
9 Herb the Ranch Hand
13 Disneyland
13* Watch the Birdie
21 Mr. Wizard
39 Big Picture

5:30
2-3-4-8 Beat the Clock
6-7-13*-39 Big Surprise
21 Outdoors in Iowa

5:45
21 Mom's Night Out

Evening
6:00
2 Ramar of the Jungle
3 Gene Autry
4 Little Opry House
5 This Week in Pictures
6-7-13*-21-39 Perry Como (season finale with guests Kim Novak, Patti Page (who takes over the slot next week), Buddy Hackett, and Mickey Mantle)
8 Stories of the Century
9 News/Sports
13 Phil Silvers

6:30
2 My Friend Flicka
3 Deadline
4 Wyatt Earp
5 Ruggles
8 Steve Donovan
9 Theater of Stars
13 Jackie Gleason (based on the other Gleason listing, I assume this was Honeymooners)

7:00
2-3*-4-8-13 Two for the Money
3 TBA
5-9 Lawrence Welk (performing: Alice Lon, Jerry Burke, Larry Hooper, Buddy Merrill, and Dick Dale)
6-7-13*-21-39 Max Liebman Presents "Holiday" (c)

7:30
2 Susie
3*-4-8-13 It's Always Jan

8:00
2-3-3*-4-8-13 Gunsmoke
5-9 Chance of a Lifetime

8:30
2-3-3*-4-13 Damon Runyon "The Blind Mink"
5-9 Ozark Jubilee (guest Sonny James)
6-7-13*-21-39 Your Hit Parade (season finale, Adventure Theatre runs here next week)
8 Man Behind the Badge

9:00
2-3-3*-4-8 Jackie Gleason (Honeymooners)
6 Kit Carson
7 Bowling Time
13 TV Readers Digest
13* Count of Monte Cristo
21 Barn Dance
39 News

9:10
39 Wrestling

9:30
2 Highway Patrol
3-4-8 Stage Show (guests Jack Durant, and the Colts)
3* National Dairy Cattle Congress
6 Turning Point
13 Times Square Playhouse
13* Science Fiction Theater

10:00
2 It's Always Jan
3-3*-13* News
5-7 Wrestling
6 TV Readers Digest "The Man Who Dreamt Winners"
8-9 News/Weather/Sports
13 Movie "The Silver Queen"
39 Movie: TBA

10:15
3 Wrestling
3* Movie "Winter Carnival"
9 Movie "Courageous Mr. Penn"
13* Movie "Captive City"

10:20
8 The Whistler

10:30
2 News
4 Masquerade Party
6 Big Town "Vacation Story"
21 Movie: TBA

10:45
2 Movie "The Red House"

10:50
8 Movie "International Lady"

11:00
4-13 News
5 Movie: TBA
6 Les Paul & Mary Ford

11:05
6 Movie "Captive City"

11:15
3 Movie: TBA

 

[bpatrick]

The 1955-56 season was the year Gleason cut back to a
half-hour, doing the "classic 39" filmed "Honeymooners."
Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey's "Stage Show," which Gleason
produced, filled the other half-hour. Originally, the Dorseys
aired at 8 (ET), followed by Gleason; in February 1956 they
swapped timeslots, since the Dorseys weren't doing that
great in the ratings and allowing Perry Como to gain a foothold
for NBC. So in the summer of '56 Gleason was airing at 8 (EDT);
the Dorseys, at 8:30.

That fall, Gleason resumed his hour-long variety show but Como
had taken over dominance of the 8-9 slot; Gleason was off Saturday
nights from 1957-62, although he tried a couple of short-lived comebacks
in the interim (think "You're In The Picture").

 

[oldiesfan6479]

Programs listed CST
5:30
2-3-4-8 Beat the Clock
6-7-13*-39 Big Surprise
6:00
6-7-13*-21-39 Perry Como
6:30
13 Jackie Gleason
7:00
2-3*-4-8-13 Two for the Money
5-9 Lawrence Welk
6-7-13*-21-39 Max Liebman Presents "Holiday" (c)
7:30
3*-4-8-13 It's Always Jan
8:00
2-3-3*-4-8-13 Gunsmoke
5-9 Chance of a Lifetime
8:30
2-3-3*-4-13 Damon Runyon "The Blind Mink"
6-7-13*-21-39 Your Hit Parade

The above prime time shows all appear to be in pattern for CST (two hours
earlier than EDT).

Programs listed CST
8:30
5-9 Ozark Jubilee (ABC)
9:00
2-3-3*-4-8 Jackie Gleason (CBS)
9:30
3-4-8 Stage Show (CBS)

Is it possible that ABC and CBS both got Telco to reverse the lines into the
CST parts of the midwest at 8:30 (for ABC) and 9 (for CBS), which would
be when the Eastern feeds went dark for the night? The above matches
up with the left coast feed times (CST being one hour later than PDT).

Both Ozark and Dorsey would have been kinnies off of the live airings
three hours prior, but I suppose that's better than running a kinnie (and
a 16mm film for Gleason) a week or two late. A better question might be
why didn't these stations clear the shows live at 5:30/6/6:30?