Source: TV Guide
CHANNELS
2 KFEQ St. Joseph [ABC, CBS]
4 WDAF Kansas City [NBC]
5 KCMO Kansas City [CBS]
6 KMOS Sedalia, MO [ABC]
9 KMBC Kansas City [ABC]
13 WIBW Topeka, KS [CBS, ABC]
7:30
5 Movie
"Git Along Little Dogies." [1937] Gene Autry.
8AM
13 Cartoons
8:30
2 5 13 Captain Kangaroo
4 Cartoon Carnival
9AM
4 Howdy Doody
9:30
2 5 13 Mighty Mouse
4 Ruff and Reddy
9 Farm Hour
10AM
2 5 13 Heckle and Jeckle
Cartoons: 1. "Hypnotized." 2. "The Golden Hen." 3. "Growing Pains."
4 Fury
"The Lost Herd." During a severe drought, a herd of wild horses has gone far north in search of water. Bobby Diamond.
9 Escape into Space
SPECIAL: This hour-long play for children, written by Gilbert Sanders, is presented by the Fantasy Footlighters, a unit of the Community Children's Theater. It deals with a little boy who joins a circus, takes a rocket trip to Saturn and meets a host of space creatures. Toby Abernathy.
[Little Rascals will not be seen.]
10:30
2 13 Robin Hood
"The Bagpiper." Duncan of Stoneykirk returns to Sherwood Forest to participate in a contest.
4 Circus Boy
"The Tumbling Crown." A performer who left the circus when his young bride met with an accident returns and attempts to pick up where he left off. Tom Brown.
5 Junior Auction
11AM
2 Movie
Saturday Show: "Western Pacific Agent." [1950] The story of a vicious young train-robber. Kent Taylor.
4 Farmer Al Falfa
5 Cartoonland
9 Comiclub
13 Junior Auction
11:30
4 Detective's Diary
"Dead Man's Hand." Police have found that fingerprints in certain burglarized houses match those of a man who is dead. Donald Gray.
5 Postmark Mid-America
13 Cartoons
11:45
5 One Way to Safety
12PM
4 Mr. Wizard
"Overtones of Sound." Mr. Wizard [Don Herbert] and Betty Sue learn why a violin does not sound like a trumpet.
5 Cowboy G-Men
"Empty Mail Bags." Pat and Stoney are assigned to investigate a mail-fraud ring and locate two missing postal inspectors.
9 Uncle Al
13 News, Weather, Sports
12:15
2 6 13 Baseball
The Philadelphia Phillies play the Cincinnati Reds at Crosley Field, Cincinnati. Dizzy Dean and Buddy Blattner report. In the pre-game bull session Frank Thomas and Johnny Temple of Cincinnati swap baseball questions and opinions.
12:30
4 Sports Film
5 Farm Reporter
9 Talent Sprouts
12:45
4 Dugout Chatter
5 Industry on Parade
12:55
4 Baseball
The Kansas City Athletes meet the Cleveland Indians at Municipal Stadium, Cleveland. Merle Harmon reports.
1PM
5 Movie
"Sunset Serenade." [1942] Roy Rogers.
9 Movies
Circle Nine Movie Time: 1. "The Throwback." 2. "Old Chisholm Trail." [1943]
1:50
5 News-Joe Kramer
2PM
5 Movie
Gold Award Theater: "The Secret Fury." [1950] The desire for revenge instigates a strange plot to ruin the life of a noted pianist. Robert Ryan, Claudette Colbert.
2:50
6 Baseball Quiz-Hopkins
3PM
2 13 Wood Memorial
The Wood Memorial Stakes, $75,000 added, mile and an eight, three-year-olds, carrying 126 pounds. Jack Drees, Chris Schenkel and Ted Atkinson report from Jamaica [NY] Race Course.
6 9 Wrestling-Chicago
3:25
4 Baseball Scoreboard
3:30
2 Big Picture
4 Hawkeye
"False Faces." A gang of desperadoes uses the Mingo tribe masks and begins raiding trappers. John Hart.
13 Movie
Saturday Movie: "Split Second." [1953] Escaped prisoners hold hostages in a Nevada bomb-testing area. Stephen McNally.
4PM
2 Let's Dance
Students from Plattsburg, MO High are Daun Ford's guests today.
4 TV Teentown
Today's guests are students from Washington High, Kansas City, Kan. Lee Rodgers and Gene Boomer co-host.
5 Robin Hood
"The Charm Peddler." Friar Tuck convinces Robin that a seemingly harmless peddler is actually causing a great deal of suffering.
6 Big Picture-Army
9 Rocky Jones
"The Forbidden Moon," chapter 2. Professor Newton saves Yarra when she becomes a victim of radiation on the Forbidden Moon.
4:30
5 Lone Ranger
"The Tarnished Star." The Lone Ranger and Tonto decide to help the new marshal of Peaceful Valley apprehend a band of bank robbers.
6 Sherlock Holmes
9 Overseas Adventure
"Blackmail." Michael Powers steals a story from Patricia Bennett and is marked for death. James Daly.
5PM
2 Rodeo
SPECIAL: The Texas Championship Rodeo is seen in a one-hour telecast from Municipal Stadium, Lubbock, TX. The competitors include Jim Shoulders, Benny Reynolds and Willard Combs. [I Spy and Restoration are pre-empted.]
4 Movie
Western Theater: "The Iron Mountain Trail."
5 Profile
Jim Newman and his guest discuss camping at a boys' ranch.
6 Church and Home Hour
9 Bowling-Sam Molen
13 Big Picture
5:30
5 Mid-America Newsreel
6 Life With Elizabeth
13 Industry on Parade
5:45
13 Your Question, Please
6PM
2 13 News
4 Jeff's Collie
"Blind Soldier." The Bartons, a middle-aged couple, come to the Miller farm and try to buy Lassie.
5 Twentieth Century
"Submarine." The history of undersea navigation is shown through drawings of some ancient submarines and film footage showing the subs of both World Wars and the latest nuclear-powered craft. Walter Cronkite is the narrator.
6 Circle 6 Ranch
9 Three Musketeers
"Tower of the Legend." D'Artagnan and his friends are discharged from the Musketeers for having publicly insulated Sasquinet. Jeffrey Stone.
6:15
2 Here's Allen-Farm News
13 Aspect-Tornado
SPECIAL: Ralph Titus is narrator on this 15-minute monthly public-service program. Today's topic is tornadoes, and there are films of a tornado in El Dorado, KS, and of weather-forecasting devices.
6:30
2 Paris Precinct
"Moulin Ridge." The body of a woman is found floating in the Seine. Louis Jordan.
4 People Are Funny
1. Miss North Carolina and Miss South Carolina compete in a contest of judgment. 2. A man and wife are matched in a test of car-driving ability. Art Linkletter is the host.
5 13 Perry Mason
"The Case of the Calendar Girl." In order to complete a job, a building contractor is forced to have shady dealings with a political racketeer. Later the racketeer is found dead, and the contractor is accused of murder. He retains Perry Mason as his attorney. Raymond Burr.
6 9 Dick Clark
Guests are singer Fabian, Roy Hamilton, Gary Stites and Neil Sedaka.
7PM
2 9 Jubilee U.S.A.-Red Foley
Red Foley's guests are singers Ray Price and Warner Mack.
4 Perry Como
COLOR: Perry welcomes singers Julie London and Bobby Darin, comedian Lou Carter and Art Wall Jr., winner of this year's Masters Golf Tournament.
6 Circle 6 Ranch
7:30
5 Wanted-Dead or Alive
Josh Randall is forced to kill a youth in self-defense and finds himself the target of an unusual vengeance. Steve McQueen.
6 Jubilee U.S.A.
See 7PM.
13 Charlie Chan
"Hamlet in Flames." Chan's son helps his father uncover the mystery of a rare first edition.
8PM
2 5 13 Face of Danger
DEBUT: First in a series of half-hour mystery and adventure dramas seen previously on other series. Tonight: Thomas Mitchell in "Web of Circumstance." For years, a bank teller has been stealing small sums of money. His object is to leave his nagging wife and sail to an island in the South Pacific.
4 Black Saddle
Rancher Lon Jessup is charge with robbery and murder by two Chicago detectives. Jessup tells Clay Culhane that he was involved in a robbery but had nothing to do with a murder.
6 9 Dancing Party-Lawrence Welk
Musical highlights include "Lullaby," written by Lawrence Welk, "Make Room for Joy" and "Waltz of the Flowers." Alice Lon, the Lennon Sisters, Sparklers.
8:30
2 5 13 Have Gun, Will Travel
"Alaska." An old fur-trapping friend of Paladin's becomes embroiled in a claims dispute in Alaska. Paladin journeys north and learns that the man's life has been threatened. Richard Boone.
4 Cimarron City
Gary Merrill and June Lockhart in "Medicine Man." Joshua Newton, an ex-Army doctor, arrives in Cimarron City with his wife Emily. Newton, who was accused of malpractice by his commanding officer, wants to make a new life for himself. But men who knew him in the Army arrive in town and make trouble for him.
9PM
2 5 13 Gunsmoke
Deputy Jake Harbin of Baker City sets up an ambush and almost kills Lee Prentice, who's wanted for murder. Prentice appeals to Marshal Dillon, claiming that he acted in self-defense and is not a murderer. James Arness, Dennis Weaver.
6 9 Sammy Kaye
This 30-minute musical program returns to this time period. Highlights: "Best Things in Life are Free," "Younger Than Springtime," "Mary Lou," "Side by Side," "Fascination," "Goody, Goody," "Over the Rainbow" and "Take Me Out to the Ball Game."
9:30
2 Wrestling
4 D.A.'s Man
An attractive blonde acts as the bait when her two partners try to shake down a wealthy playboy. When the harried victim appeals to the D.A., Shannon is assigned to act as the next dupe in the extortion scheme. John Compton.
5 Mike Hammer
"For Sale: Deathbed-Used." Mike Hammer hunts for a psychopathic knife-killer who has already claimed three victims. Darren McGavin.
6 Central Missouri College
"Pan-American Day in Mexico." Students from the seventh grade of the college laboratory school depict events that take place in Mexico on this festive day. Part of the program is in Spanish. Clive Cooper and Mrs. Marita Peck co-host.
9 Movie
Shock!: "The Mystery of Edwin Drood." [1935] The chorimaster of a cathedral is in love with a girl who takes singing lessons from him. Claude Rains.
13 New York Confidental
"The Assassin." A junior executive on Wall Street leads a dangerous double life. Lee Tracy.
10PM
4 Bowling-Kansas City
5 Movie
Million Dollar Movie: "Corvette K-255." [1943] During World War II, the crew of a British corvette in the North Atlantic is menaced by the enemy. Randolph Scott, Ella Raines.
6 13 News, Weather, Sports
10:30
2 Movie
Maryville Movie: "Don Juan Quilligan." [1945] A barge captain's love for his deceased mother involves him in bigamy and murder. William Bendix.
13 Movie-Double Feature
Movietime, U.S.A.: 1. "Fort Apache." [1948] An arrogant colonel's policies create trouble with the Apaches. John Wayne, Shirley Temple, Henry Fonda. 2. "Tramp, Tramp, Tramp." [1942] Two men, rejected by the Army, form their own Home Defense Army. Jackie Gleason, Bruce Bennett.
11PM
9 Movie
Saturday Movie: "Mr. and Mrs. Smith." [1941] To their surprise, a young couple discover that their marriage is void. Carole Lombard.
11:15
4 News
11:20
4 Movie
Saturday Cinema: "Casablanca." [1942] A cafe owner in Casablanca unexpectedly encounters his former love and her husband, who is fleeing the Nazis. Humphrey Bogart.
12:15
5 News
12:25
5 Movie
Witching Hour: "The Hidden Hand." Time approximate. A lunatic escapes from an asylum and returns home. Craig Stevens.
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CHANNELS
2 KFEQ St. Joseph [ABC, CBS]
4 WDAF Kansas City [NBC]
5 KCMO Kansas City [CBS]
6 KMOS Sedalia, MO [ABC]
9 KMBC Kansas City [ABC]
13 WIBW Topeka, KS [CBS, ABC]
7:30
5 Movie
"Git Along Little Dogies." [1937] Gene Autry.
8AM
13 Cartoons
8:30
2 5 13 Captain Kangaroo
4 Cartoon Carnival
9AM
4 Howdy Doody
9:30
2 5 13 Mighty Mouse
4 Ruff and Reddy
9 Farm Hour
10AM
2 5 13 Heckle and Jeckle
Cartoons: 1. "Hypnotized." 2. "The Golden Hen." 3. "Growing Pains."
4 Fury
"The Lost Herd." During a severe drought, a herd of wild horses has gone far north in search of water. Bobby Diamond.
9 Escape into Space
SPECIAL: This hour-long play for children, written by Gilbert Sanders, is presented by the Fantasy Footlighters, a unit of the Community Children's Theater. It deals with a little boy who joins a circus, takes a rocket trip to Saturn and meets a host of space creatures. Toby Abernathy.
[Little Rascals will not be seen.]
10:30
2 13 Robin Hood
"The Bagpiper." Duncan of Stoneykirk returns to Sherwood Forest to participate in a contest.
4 Circus Boy
"The Tumbling Crown." A performer who left the circus when his young bride met with an accident returns and attempts to pick up where he left off. Tom Brown.
5 Junior Auction
11AM
2 Movie
Saturday Show: "Western Pacific Agent." [1950] The story of a vicious young train-robber. Kent Taylor.
4 Farmer Al Falfa
5 Cartoonland
9 Comiclub
13 Junior Auction
11:30
4 Detective's Diary
"Dead Man's Hand." Police have found that fingerprints in certain burglarized houses match those of a man who is dead. Donald Gray.
5 Postmark Mid-America
13 Cartoons
11:45
5 One Way to Safety
12PM
4 Mr. Wizard
"Overtones of Sound." Mr. Wizard [Don Herbert] and Betty Sue learn why a violin does not sound like a trumpet.
5 Cowboy G-Men
"Empty Mail Bags." Pat and Stoney are assigned to investigate a mail-fraud ring and locate two missing postal inspectors.
9 Uncle Al
13 News, Weather, Sports
12:15
2 6 13 Baseball
The Philadelphia Phillies play the Cincinnati Reds at Crosley Field, Cincinnati. Dizzy Dean and Buddy Blattner report. In the pre-game bull session Frank Thomas and Johnny Temple of Cincinnati swap baseball questions and opinions.
12:30
4 Sports Film
5 Farm Reporter
9 Talent Sprouts
12:45
4 Dugout Chatter
5 Industry on Parade
12:55
4 Baseball
The Kansas City Athletes meet the Cleveland Indians at Municipal Stadium, Cleveland. Merle Harmon reports.
1PM
5 Movie
"Sunset Serenade." [1942] Roy Rogers.
9 Movies
Circle Nine Movie Time: 1. "The Throwback." 2. "Old Chisholm Trail." [1943]
1:50
5 News-Joe Kramer
2PM
5 Movie
Gold Award Theater: "The Secret Fury." [1950] The desire for revenge instigates a strange plot to ruin the life of a noted pianist. Robert Ryan, Claudette Colbert.
2:50
6 Baseball Quiz-Hopkins
3PM
2 13 Wood Memorial
The Wood Memorial Stakes, $75,000 added, mile and an eight, three-year-olds, carrying 126 pounds. Jack Drees, Chris Schenkel and Ted Atkinson report from Jamaica [NY] Race Course.
6 9 Wrestling-Chicago
3:25
4 Baseball Scoreboard
3:30
2 Big Picture
4 Hawkeye
"False Faces." A gang of desperadoes uses the Mingo tribe masks and begins raiding trappers. John Hart.
13 Movie
Saturday Movie: "Split Second." [1953] Escaped prisoners hold hostages in a Nevada bomb-testing area. Stephen McNally.
4PM
2 Let's Dance
Students from Plattsburg, MO High are Daun Ford's guests today.
4 TV Teentown
Today's guests are students from Washington High, Kansas City, Kan. Lee Rodgers and Gene Boomer co-host.
5 Robin Hood
"The Charm Peddler." Friar Tuck convinces Robin that a seemingly harmless peddler is actually causing a great deal of suffering.
6 Big Picture-Army
9 Rocky Jones
"The Forbidden Moon," chapter 2. Professor Newton saves Yarra when she becomes a victim of radiation on the Forbidden Moon.
4:30
5 Lone Ranger
"The Tarnished Star." The Lone Ranger and Tonto decide to help the new marshal of Peaceful Valley apprehend a band of bank robbers.
6 Sherlock Holmes
9 Overseas Adventure
"Blackmail." Michael Powers steals a story from Patricia Bennett and is marked for death. James Daly.
5PM
2 Rodeo
SPECIAL: The Texas Championship Rodeo is seen in a one-hour telecast from Municipal Stadium, Lubbock, TX. The competitors include Jim Shoulders, Benny Reynolds and Willard Combs. [I Spy and Restoration are pre-empted.]
4 Movie
Western Theater: "The Iron Mountain Trail."
5 Profile
Jim Newman and his guest discuss camping at a boys' ranch.
6 Church and Home Hour
9 Bowling-Sam Molen
13 Big Picture
5:30
5 Mid-America Newsreel
6 Life With Elizabeth
13 Industry on Parade
5:45
13 Your Question, Please
6PM
2 13 News
4 Jeff's Collie
"Blind Soldier." The Bartons, a middle-aged couple, come to the Miller farm and try to buy Lassie.
5 Twentieth Century
"Submarine." The history of undersea navigation is shown through drawings of some ancient submarines and film footage showing the subs of both World Wars and the latest nuclear-powered craft. Walter Cronkite is the narrator.
6 Circle 6 Ranch
9 Three Musketeers
"Tower of the Legend." D'Artagnan and his friends are discharged from the Musketeers for having publicly insulated Sasquinet. Jeffrey Stone.
6:15
2 Here's Allen-Farm News
13 Aspect-Tornado
SPECIAL: Ralph Titus is narrator on this 15-minute monthly public-service program. Today's topic is tornadoes, and there are films of a tornado in El Dorado, KS, and of weather-forecasting devices.
6:30
2 Paris Precinct
"Moulin Ridge." The body of a woman is found floating in the Seine. Louis Jordan.
4 People Are Funny
1. Miss North Carolina and Miss South Carolina compete in a contest of judgment. 2. A man and wife are matched in a test of car-driving ability. Art Linkletter is the host.
5 13 Perry Mason
"The Case of the Calendar Girl." In order to complete a job, a building contractor is forced to have shady dealings with a political racketeer. Later the racketeer is found dead, and the contractor is accused of murder. He retains Perry Mason as his attorney. Raymond Burr.
6 9 Dick Clark
Guests are singer Fabian, Roy Hamilton, Gary Stites and Neil Sedaka.
7PM
2 9 Jubilee U.S.A.-Red Foley
Red Foley's guests are singers Ray Price and Warner Mack.
4 Perry Como
COLOR: Perry welcomes singers Julie London and Bobby Darin, comedian Lou Carter and Art Wall Jr., winner of this year's Masters Golf Tournament.
6 Circle 6 Ranch
7:30
5 Wanted-Dead or Alive
Josh Randall is forced to kill a youth in self-defense and finds himself the target of an unusual vengeance. Steve McQueen.
6 Jubilee U.S.A.
See 7PM.
13 Charlie Chan
"Hamlet in Flames." Chan's son helps his father uncover the mystery of a rare first edition.
8PM
2 5 13 Face of Danger
DEBUT: First in a series of half-hour mystery and adventure dramas seen previously on other series. Tonight: Thomas Mitchell in "Web of Circumstance." For years, a bank teller has been stealing small sums of money. His object is to leave his nagging wife and sail to an island in the South Pacific.
4 Black Saddle
Rancher Lon Jessup is charge with robbery and murder by two Chicago detectives. Jessup tells Clay Culhane that he was involved in a robbery but had nothing to do with a murder.
6 9 Dancing Party-Lawrence Welk
Musical highlights include "Lullaby," written by Lawrence Welk, "Make Room for Joy" and "Waltz of the Flowers." Alice Lon, the Lennon Sisters, Sparklers.
8:30
2 5 13 Have Gun, Will Travel
"Alaska." An old fur-trapping friend of Paladin's becomes embroiled in a claims dispute in Alaska. Paladin journeys north and learns that the man's life has been threatened. Richard Boone.
4 Cimarron City
Gary Merrill and June Lockhart in "Medicine Man." Joshua Newton, an ex-Army doctor, arrives in Cimarron City with his wife Emily. Newton, who was accused of malpractice by his commanding officer, wants to make a new life for himself. But men who knew him in the Army arrive in town and make trouble for him.
9PM
2 5 13 Gunsmoke
Deputy Jake Harbin of Baker City sets up an ambush and almost kills Lee Prentice, who's wanted for murder. Prentice appeals to Marshal Dillon, claiming that he acted in self-defense and is not a murderer. James Arness, Dennis Weaver.
6 9 Sammy Kaye
This 30-minute musical program returns to this time period. Highlights: "Best Things in Life are Free," "Younger Than Springtime," "Mary Lou," "Side by Side," "Fascination," "Goody, Goody," "Over the Rainbow" and "Take Me Out to the Ball Game."
9:30
2 Wrestling
4 D.A.'s Man
An attractive blonde acts as the bait when her two partners try to shake down a wealthy playboy. When the harried victim appeals to the D.A., Shannon is assigned to act as the next dupe in the extortion scheme. John Compton.
5 Mike Hammer
"For Sale: Deathbed-Used." Mike Hammer hunts for a psychopathic knife-killer who has already claimed three victims. Darren McGavin.
6 Central Missouri College
"Pan-American Day in Mexico." Students from the seventh grade of the college laboratory school depict events that take place in Mexico on this festive day. Part of the program is in Spanish. Clive Cooper and Mrs. Marita Peck co-host.
9 Movie
Shock!: "The Mystery of Edwin Drood." [1935] The chorimaster of a cathedral is in love with a girl who takes singing lessons from him. Claude Rains.
13 New York Confidental
"The Assassin." A junior executive on Wall Street leads a dangerous double life. Lee Tracy.
10PM
4 Bowling-Kansas City
5 Movie
Million Dollar Movie: "Corvette K-255." [1943] During World War II, the crew of a British corvette in the North Atlantic is menaced by the enemy. Randolph Scott, Ella Raines.
6 13 News, Weather, Sports
10:30
2 Movie
Maryville Movie: "Don Juan Quilligan." [1945] A barge captain's love for his deceased mother involves him in bigamy and murder. William Bendix.
13 Movie-Double Feature
Movietime, U.S.A.: 1. "Fort Apache." [1948] An arrogant colonel's policies create trouble with the Apaches. John Wayne, Shirley Temple, Henry Fonda. 2. "Tramp, Tramp, Tramp." [1942] Two men, rejected by the Army, form their own Home Defense Army. Jackie Gleason, Bruce Bennett.
11PM
9 Movie
Saturday Movie: "Mr. and Mrs. Smith." [1941] To their surprise, a young couple discover that their marriage is void. Carole Lombard.
11:15
4 News
11:20
4 Movie
Saturday Cinema: "Casablanca." [1942] A cafe owner in Casablanca unexpectedly encounters his former love and her husband, who is fleeing the Nazis. Humphrey Bogart.
12:15
5 News
12:25
5 Movie
Witching Hour: "The Hidden Hand." Time approximate. A lunatic escapes from an asylum and returns home. Craig Stevens.
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