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Retro: Kansas City, Wed. April 22nd, 1959

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crainbebo

Source: TV Guide

CHANNELS
2 KFEQ St. Joseph, MO [ABC, CBS]
4 WDAF Kansas City [NBC]
5 KCMO Kansas City [CBS]
6 KMOS Sedalia, MO [ABC, now PBS]
9 KMBC Kansas City [ABC]
13 WIBW Topeka, KS [CBS, ABC]

6:30AM
4 Continental Classroom

6:55
5 Farm Facts

7AM
4 Today-Dave Garroway
Guests are actor Hal Holbrook and Robert Dahl, author of "Breakdown."
5 News-Richard C. Hottelet

7:15
5 Captain Kangaroo

8AM
2 5 13 News

8:10
5 Take Five-Mark Stevens

8:15
2 13 Captain Kangaroo
5 Moment of Mediation

8:20
5 Cartoonland

8:30
5 Jimmy Dean
9 Romper Room

9AM
2 13 Morning Playhouse
4 Health, Safety, Science 5 [telecourse]
5 Life of Riley

9:30
2 5 13 Arthur Godfrey
4 Treasure Hunt
9 Daily Word

9:35
9 General Science 9 [telecourse]-Galey
The digestion of food is discussed.

10AM
2 5 13 I Love Lucy
4 Price is Right
9 Whizzo's Wonderland

10:30
2 My Little Margie
"Countless Margie." Margie and one of Vern's prospective clients go to a health sanitarium and then proceed to switch identities. Gale Storm.
4 Concentration
5 13 Top Dollar

11AM
2 5 13 Love of Life
4 Tic Tac Dough
9 Susie
"Tangled Web." When Susie tells a "little white lie," many complications result. Ann Sothern, Don Porter.

11:30
2 Cartoon Capers
4 It Could Be You-Bill Leyden
5 Search for Tomorrow
9 Happy Home
1. How to make dress hangers and driftwood centerpieces.
2. Fashions for matrons are presented.
13 Science Scope

11:45
5 Guiding Light

11:50
6 Sermonette

11:55
6 Program Highlights

Noon
2 5 13 News
4 High-Noon Cartoons
6 9 George Hamilton IV

12:05
5 World History 10-Workman [telecourse]
"Imperialistic Interests of the Major Powers" is Mrs. Workman's topic. [were these for the schools to use, since there was no such thing as KCPT 19 at that time?]

12:10
2 13 Markets and Weather

12:20
2 You And Your Home
1. Doris Bebee presents shopping tips.
2. Mrs. Hickman shows a display of china dolls.
3. Marge gives facts on freezing, with special emphasis on steaks.
4. Recipe: shrimp dip.
4 News

12:30
4 Accent
1. Kay King ties bridal-shower gifts.
2. Pat Stelmach designs an Italian supper table.
3. Recipe: jellied strawberry cup.
5 13 As The World Turns
6 9 Play Your hunch

1PM
2 13 Jimmy Dean
4 Queen For A Day
5 Take Five
6 9 Music Bingo

1:05
5 Garden Party-Bob Sanders

1:30
2 5 13 House Party
4 Haggis Baggis [COLOR]
6 Janet Dean
9 Follow That Man
"The Day They Kidnapped Santa Claus." Two people cause the disappearance of the Mission's Santa Claus on Christmas Eve.

2PM
2 This is The Life
4 Young Dr. Malone
5 13 Big Payoff
6 9 Day in Court

2:30
2 5 13 Verdict is Yours
4 From These Roots
6 9 Gale Storm

3PM
2 Sacred Heart
4 Truth or Consequences [COLOR]
5 Brighter Day
6 Duffy's Tavern
9 Amos 'N' Andy
13 Industry on Parade

3:15
2 5 13 Secret Storm

3:30
2 John Nesbitt
"Hole in The Wall." Italian partisans of World War II help a village find its self-respect. Christopher Dark.
4 County Fair-Bert Parks
5 Edge of Night
6 9 13 Who Do You Trust?

4PM
2 Cousin Freddie [local?]
4 People's Choice
"Sock and The People's Pageant." Councilman Sock Miller stages a centennial pageant in an effort to put New City on the map. Jackie Cooper.
5 Movie: Early Show: 1. Looney Tunes [COLOR]. 2. "Don't Bet on Blondes" [1935] The operator of a gambling concern decides to go into the insurance business. Warren William, Claire Dodd, William Gargan.
6 9 13 American Bandstand

4:30
4 Movie: Afternoon Film Theater: 1. Serial: "Jungle Drums of Africa," part 10. 2. "Nancy Drew, Trouble Shooter." [1939] A teenager accompanies her father on a mission to save an old friend from a murder charge. Bonita Granville.
6 TV Teentime-Don Collins
9 Bandstand-John Bilyeu
Raytown [Mo.] High students are guests.

5PM
2 Movie: Pony Express Trails: 1. "Beyond the Sacramento," part 1. Bill Elliott. 2. Pet Day with Dr. Velflick.
6 9 Wild Bill Hickok
"Masquerade at Moccasin Ridge." A traveling emporium is disrupted when crooks learn that one of their men has hidden plates for counterfeit money on the premises. Guy Madison.
13 WIB's Fun Time

5:30
6 9 Mickey Mouse Club
13 Gordon Eliot

5:40
5 Take Five [what was Take Five? Local?]

5:45
5 News-Douglas Edwards
13 Sports, Weather

5:50
2 Outdoors-Don Burley

6PM and later will be written up tomorrow

-crainbebo
 
Here's 6PM and later

CHANNELS
2 KFEQ St. Joseph, MO [ABC, CBS]
4 WDAF Kansas City [NBC]
5 KCMO Kansas City [CBS]
6 KMOS Sedalia, MO [ABC, now PBS]
9 KMBC Kansas City [ABC]
13 WIBW Topeka, KS [CBS, ABC]

6PM
2 Weather-Larry Rice
4 5 13 News
6 Cartoon Capers
9 Sky King
"The Plastic Ghost." Sky King and Penny see a distress signal coming from a ghost town. Kirby Grant.

6:05
2 Today's Markets [farm?]

6:10
2 News-Frank Smith
4 5 Sports

6:15
2 13 News-Douglas Edwards
4 News-Huntley, Brinkley

6:20
5 Weather-Bill Yearout

6:25
5 5-Star Personality COLOR
6 News-Don Collins

6:30
2 Annie Oakley
"Sugarfoot Sue." When a 10-year-old girl tells Tagg the truth about a dangerous situation, he's convinced she's just daydreaming. Gail Davis.
4 Wagon Train
"The Clara Duncan Story." The fiancee and the father of Claude Soriano, a missing artist, are on their way west to find him. Scout Flint McCullough and a newspaperman discover a painting by Soriano which leads them to believe that the artist's life is in danger. Ward Bond.
5 Badge 714
A woman reports that her husband is missing.
6 9 Lawrence Welk
Singer Jackie Graham is a guest. Musical highlights include "Lullaby of Broadway" and "Three Little Fishies."
13 Playhouse 7
"The Bequest" stars James Whitmore and Margaret Hayes. The life of a small-town newspaper editor is disrupted when his wife is bequeathed a fortune by a notorious playboy.

7PM
2 5 13 Keep Talking

7:30
2 5 13 Trackdown
Pearl Madson agrees to go away with a traveling salesman, even though her father violently opposes the plan. But the salesman is found dead before Pearl can leave with him. Robert Culp.
4 Price is Right COLOR
Emcee Bill Cullen announces the winner of the Convertible Showcase.
6 9 Ozzie and Harriet
"Always a Bridegroom." Dave and a girl friend are invited to dinner by a young married couple. Ozzie immediately jumps to the conclusion that the newlyweds are planning to convince Dave of the joys of wedded bliss.

8PM
2 5 13 Millionaire
"Millionaire Karl Miller." A young Czech girl vanished shortly after she arrived in America. Many years later, her father receives a check for a million dollars and uses it to search for her. Marvin Miller, John Carradine.
4 Kraft Music Hall [AKA Milton Berle]
Comedienne Martha Raye returns to join Milton in a sketch about Frances and Sidney Schlump. It is the Schlump's wedding anniversary, but they are too poor to celebrate properly.
6 9 Donna Reed Show
"Do You Trust Your Child?" Donna pinch hits for Alex, delivering a speech at a PTA meeting. Her speech about the parent-child relationship is such a success that parents begin to call her for advice. Carl Betz, Shelley Fabares.

8:30
2 5 13 I've Got a Secret
Actress Jeanne Crain brings a secret for the panel to guess. The panel includes Bill Cullen, Henry Morgan and Betsy Palmer. Garry Moore is emcee. Jeanne Crain's appearance was postponed from last week.
4 Bat Masterson
"Man of Action." Bat travels to Junction, N.M., to order some new clothes from his tailor Oliver Jenkins. Masterson finds Oliver very busy with his new duties as head of a special citizens' committee. The committee is attempting to get rid of Jess Hobart, a man who runs the town strictly for his own behalf. Gene Barry.
6 Fabrics in Fashions
9 Accused
Borden Kane, a veteran of World War 2, is accused of murder. The victim was the man responsible for the killing of Kane's brother in a Nazi prison camp. Borden Kane: James Edwards.

8:45
6 Soiree Musicale

9PM
2 Mike Hammer
"Final Curtain." Mike is attracted to a beautiful redhead. When two other redheads are murdered, she begs Mike to protect her. Darren McGavin.
4 This is Your Life
5 U.S. Steel Hour
Richard Boone and Jeff Donnell in "Little Tin God." Stan Koski, a patient in a tuberculosis sanitarium, is chiefly responsible for the high morale of his fellow patients and the hospital staff. Only one patient remains aloof and contemptuous of Koski's efforts to divert his fellow patients. Stan Koski: Richard Boone.
6 9 Boxing-Chicago
Ellsworth "Spider" Webb, Chicago, vs. Neal Rivers, Las Vegas, Nev., middle-weights, 10 rounds. Jack Drees reports from Chicago Stadium.
13 Guy Lombardo
Guy's guests are the Beachcombers who do "Hawaiian War Chant." Bill Flannigan plays "April in Portugal."

9:30
2 Pat Boone
Pat's guest is actor David Wayne.
4 Highway Patrol
Thieves cover their robbery escapes with a time bomb that explodes and diverts attention. Broderick Crawford.
13 Music Theater DEBUT
Singers Bill Hayes and Florence Henderson are hosts for a series of 30-minute dramas. Well-known songs of the present and past are woven into the stories and sung by the guest performers. This week Genevieve and Jackie Cooper star in "A Nice Place to Hide." Marie, a young French exchange student working in a small Midwest library, saves a hobo from the police.

9:45
6 Industry on Parade
9 Bettye Miller

10PM
2 4 6 9 13 News, Weather, Sports
5 Mackenzie's Raiders
A rancher threatens to reduce the territorial domination of a Southwestern Texas cattle baron. Richard Carlson.

10:15
2 Movie Time: "Danger Island" [1939] Mr. Moto, the little oriental detective, sets out to catch a band of diamond smugglers in Puerto Rico. Peter Lorre. [followed by sign off]
4 Jack Paar
Jack's guests are singers Bob Carroll and Jean Darling, who was a member of the "Our Gang" comedies cast, and comedian Johnny Myhers.
6 Missouri U. Farm Report [sign off afterwards...early for 1959. Interesting how 6 didn't show a movie or something afterwards]

10:30
5 News
9 Wrestling-Kansas City
13 Movietime, U.S.A.: "Gildersleeve on Broadway." [1943] Gildersleeve goes to a convention where he becomes entangled with a wealthy widow. Harold Peary, Billie Burke. [followed by sign-off]

10:35
5 Movie: "The Purple Plain" [1954] A pilot's plane crashes into the Burmese jungle during World War II. He and two other men try to fight their way back to the base. Gregory Peck.

11:30
9 Star and the Story
"The Creative Impulse" by Somerset Maugham stars Judith Anderson as a novelist, whose books are financially unsuccessful.

12AM
4 News-Nick Huston [followed by sign-off]
9 Daily Word [followed by sign-off]

12:30
5 News

12:35
5 Movie: "Don't Bet on Blondes." [followed by sign-off]

-crainbebo
 
Odd that none of the ABC stations carried "Beat The Clock"
at 3 PM. That was its time slot from 1958 to early 1961.
 
Odd that none of the ABC stations carried "Beat The Clock"
at 3 PM. That was its time slot from 1958 to early 1961.
Click to expand...

I believe KMOS received ABC programming from an off-air feed of KMBC, so if KMBC didn't carry an ABC show, KMOS couldn't carry it, either.
 
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