From TV Guide, Kentucky Edition. This was TV Guide's
10th anniversary issue as a national magazine; on the
cover was Lucille Ball, which is somehow appropriate
since an infant Desi Arnaz Jr. was on the first national cover,
April 3, 1953.
WAVE Ch. 3 Louisville (NBC)
7:45 Light Time
8 AM Mr. Magoo
8:30 Jeff's Collie
9 AM Cartoon Carnival
9:30 Ruff And Reddy (c)
10 AM Shari Lewis (c)
10:30 King Leonardo (c)
11 AM Fury
11:30 Farming With Jack Crowner
12:30 Exploring (Maureen O'Sullivan narrates the Grimm's
fairy tale "The Three Golden Keys," Jack Washington
sings Puerto Rican songs, the Ritts Puppets explain
the binary system of counting, host Albert Hibbs talks
about DNA, secret codes used during World War II) (c)
1:30 Top Star Bowling (Don Carter meets the winner of the
Dick Hoover-Bill Tucker match.)
2:30 Youth Speaks
3 PM Northwest Passage (c)
3:30 Sports International (the West Indies International Water
Skiing Championships; surboating, surfboarding, and bodysurfing
from Australia) (c)
5 PM Bellarmine Debate (championship round of the Bellarmine College
Debate Tournament, live; the topic is "Resolved: The Non-Communist
Nations of the World Should Establish an Economic Community")
6:10 Tomorrow's Champions (amateur boxing)
6:35 Weather, News, Sports
7 PM Kentucky Afield (c)
7:30 Sam Benedict
8:30 True Adventure (c)
9 PM NBC Movie: "Night And The City" (Richard Widmark as a small-time
operator who sees a chance to make it big by managing a wrestler,
from '50.)
11 PM The Outlaws
12 M Movie: "Twelve O'Clock High" (from '49, the series would debut on ABC
in the fall of '64)
WLW-T Ch. 5 Cincinnati (NBC)
7:30 Farm Front
8 AM Mr. Hop (c)
9 AM Ruff And Reddy (c)
9:30 Signal Three (c)
10 AM Shari Lewis (c)
10:30 King Leonardo (c)
11 AM Fury
11:30 Make Room For Daddy
12 N Mr. Wizard
12:30 Exploring (c)
1:30 House Hunting
1:45 TBA
2 PM Bullwinkle (delay from Sun 5:30 PM) (c)
2:30 All Star Golf (Bill Collins vs. Cary Middlecoff)
3:30 Sports International (c)
5 PM Sea Hunt
5:30 Wild Cargo (c)
6 PM NBC News (Sander Vanocur)
6:15 News, Sports
6:30 Midwestern Hayride (c)
7:30 Sam Benedict
8:30 Joey Bishop (a show based around real-life 16-year-old
opera singer Betty Santora) (c)
9 PM NBC Movie: "Night And The City"
11 PM News, Weather
11:20 Movie: "A Bullet Is Waiting" (c)
WCPO Ch. 9 Cincinnati (CBS)
7:30 Know Your World
7:50 Farm News (Bob Shreve)
8 AM Jewish Hour
8:30 Play It Safe
9 AM Captain Kangaroo
10 AM The Alvin Show
10:30 Mighty Mouse
11 AM Rin Tin Tin
11:30 Roy Rogers
12 N Sky King
12:30 Reading Room (for the 54th anniversary of Robert E.
Peary's reaching the North Pole, his daughter Marie
Peary Stafford discusses her father's expeditions and
her book about him, "Discoverer of the North Pole," with
schoolchildren from Hyde Park, NY)
1 PM Best Of Groucho (Groucho's special guest is Gilda Gray,
inventor of the shimmy dance.)
1:30 Movies: "Night Of Terror" (Bela Lugosi) and "Frankenstein"
(Boris Karloff)
3:30 All Star Wrestling
4:30 Star Performance
5 PM The Masters (third round, and only an hour of coverage)
6 PM Ensign O'Toole (pre-empted on Ch. 5, delay from Sun 7 PM)
6:30 Bronco
7:30 Jackie Gleason (guest: comedian Johnny Morgan)
8:30 The Defenders
9:30 Have Gun, Will Travel
10 PM Gunsmoke
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Checkmate
12:30 Movie: "Boom Town" (classic Gable, Tracy, and Claudette
Colbert, from '46)
WHAS Ch. 11 Louisville (CBS)
8 AM Cartoon Circus
9 AM Captain Kangaroo
10 AM The Alvin Show
10:30 Mighty Mouse
11 AM Rin Tin Tin
11:30 Roy Rogers
12 N Sky King
12:30 Reading Room
1 PM CBS News (Robert Trout)
1:30 Cartoon Circus
2 PM Movie: "Captain January" (Shirley Temple)
3:15 Magic Moments In Sports
3:30 Bowling
4:30 Hi-Varieties
5 PM The Masters (third round)
6 PM Hi-Varieties (split into two half-hours today only)
6:30 Bold Journey
7 PM Keyhole (a tour of the Los Angeles Sheriff's Academy) (c)
7:30 Jackie Gleason
8:30 The Defenders
9:30 Have Gun, Will Travel
10 PM Gunsmoke
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:25 Movie: "Variety Time" (Jack Paar acts as host for a series of
clips featuring music and comedy acts, from '48)
WKRC Ch. 12 Cincinnati (ABC)
9 AM Asbury Hymn Time
9:30 Kids Kartoons
10 AM Dick Tracy (animated)
10:30 Sheena, Queen Of The Jungle
11 AM Cartoonville (soon to change its name to "Cartoonies," this
is the show's debut; Paul Winchell and Jerry Mahoney introduce
animated characters Goodie the Gremlin, Sheriff Saddle Head,
and Scat Skit)
11:30 Beany And Cecil
12 N Bugs Bunny
12:30 Magic Land Of Allakazam
1 PM Movie: "King Of The Jungle" (Buster Crabbe as a man raised by
lions in Africa, then brought to the U.S. as a circus attraction,
from '33)
2:30 Challenge Golf (Arnold Palmer and Gary Player vs. Joe Campbell
and Dave Ragan Jr.)
3:30 Wrestling Champions
4:30 Championship Bridge (George Foerstner and Harry Harkavy vs.
Alvin Landy and Olive Peterson)
5 PM Wide World Of Sports (England's Grand National Steeplechase,
Women's National AAU Indoor Swimming Championships)
6:30 Divorce Court
7:30 The Gallant Men
8:30 Hootenanny (debut, from the University of Michigan: the Limeliters,
Bud and Travis, Bonnie Dobson, Bob Gibson; Jack Linkletter hosts)
9 PM Lawrence Welk (the Music Makers salute spring)
10 PM Boxing: Joe DeNucci vs. Joey Archer, middleweights, 10 rounds,
from Boston Garden
10:45 Make That Spare (Andy Marzich meets the winner of the Ed Bourdase-
Pat Patterson match, time approximate)
11 PM News, Weather
11:20 Movie: "Above And Beyond" (the story of the Enola Gay, the plane
which dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, and especially pilot
Paul Tibbets (sp?), from '53)
WLEX Ch. 18 Lexington (NBC/CBS)
9 AM Pathways To God
9:30 Ruff And Reddy (c)
10 AM Shari Lewis (c)
10:30 King Leonardo (c)
11 AM Fury
11:30 Make Room For Daddy
12 N Mr. Wizard
12:30 Exploring (c)
1:30 Safety Corner
2 PM Leisure
2:30 Country Music
3 PM Porter Wagoner
3:30 Sports International (c)
5 PM The Masters (third round)
6 PM Today At Keeneland (Wayne Bell reports today's races.) (c)
6:30 International Showtime (from the Tivoli Gardens in Copenhagen:
juggler Raspini, comedy cyclists the Marchitas, acrobats the
Bragazzis, ventriloquists Fred and Angela Roby, the Codrelli
Clowns, NBC, delay from Fri 7:30 PM)
7:30 Sam Benedict
8:30 Joey Bishop (c)
9 PM NBC Movie: "Night And The City"
11 PM News, Weather, Sports (c)
11:15 Movie: "Plunderers Of Painted Flats"
WKYT Ch. 27 Lexington (ABC/CBS)
9 AM Captain Kangaroo
10 AM Three Stooges
10:30 Mighty Mouse
11 AM Cartoonville
11:30 Beany And Cecil
12 N Tobacco News And Views
12:30 Magic Land Of Allakazam
1 PM My Friend Flicka
1:30 School Salute (Nick Clooney welcomes students
from Powell County High School.)
2:30 Challenge Golf
3:30 Top Star Bowling (Glenn Allison meets the winner of
the Therm Gibson-Dick Agee match.)
4:30 Communism: R.M.E.
5 PM Wide World Of Sports
6:30 Red Skelton (guests: Amanda Blake, Bobby Rydell,
CBS, delay from Tue 8:30 PM)
7:30 The Gallant Men
8:30 Today At Keeneland (J.B. Faulconer reports on today's races.)
9 PM Lawrence Welk
10 PM Boxing (see Ch. 12)
10:45 Make That Spare (time approximate)
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:15 Movie: "You Can't Cheat An Honest Man" (W.C. Fields, Edgar
Bergen, Charlie McCarthy, from '39--note: Fields and Charlie
carried on a "feud" on Bergen's radio show, some of which has
become classic; for instance: FIELDS: Is it true your father was
a gateleg table? CHARLIE: If it is, your father was under it! (referring
to Fields' drinking))
WLKY Ch. 32 Louisville (ABC)
11 AM Cartoonville
11:30 Beany And Cecil
12 N Bugs Bunny
12:30 Magic Land Of Allakazam
1 PM My Friend Flicka
1:30 Armed Forces Time
2 PM Pastors' Round Table
2:30 Challenge Golf
3:30 Air Force Story
4 PM Dance Party (Bill Bennett)
5 PM Wide World Of Sports
6:30 For Your Information
7 PM Holiday (travelogue)
7:30 The Gallant Men
8:30 Hootenanny
9 PM Lawrence Welk
10 PM Boxing (see Ch. 12)
10:45 Make That Spare (time approximate)
11 PM News (Pete French)
11:15 Movie: "Flaxy Martin"
10th anniversary issue as a national magazine; on the
cover was Lucille Ball, which is somehow appropriate
since an infant Desi Arnaz Jr. was on the first national cover,
April 3, 1953.
WAVE Ch. 3 Louisville (NBC)
7:45 Light Time
8 AM Mr. Magoo
8:30 Jeff's Collie
9 AM Cartoon Carnival
9:30 Ruff And Reddy (c)
10 AM Shari Lewis (c)
10:30 King Leonardo (c)
11 AM Fury
11:30 Farming With Jack Crowner
12:30 Exploring (Maureen O'Sullivan narrates the Grimm's
fairy tale "The Three Golden Keys," Jack Washington
sings Puerto Rican songs, the Ritts Puppets explain
the binary system of counting, host Albert Hibbs talks
about DNA, secret codes used during World War II) (c)
1:30 Top Star Bowling (Don Carter meets the winner of the
Dick Hoover-Bill Tucker match.)
2:30 Youth Speaks
3 PM Northwest Passage (c)
3:30 Sports International (the West Indies International Water
Skiing Championships; surboating, surfboarding, and bodysurfing
from Australia) (c)
5 PM Bellarmine Debate (championship round of the Bellarmine College
Debate Tournament, live; the topic is "Resolved: The Non-Communist
Nations of the World Should Establish an Economic Community")
6:10 Tomorrow's Champions (amateur boxing)
6:35 Weather, News, Sports
7 PM Kentucky Afield (c)
7:30 Sam Benedict
8:30 True Adventure (c)
9 PM NBC Movie: "Night And The City" (Richard Widmark as a small-time
operator who sees a chance to make it big by managing a wrestler,
from '50.)
11 PM The Outlaws
12 M Movie: "Twelve O'Clock High" (from '49, the series would debut on ABC
in the fall of '64)
WLW-T Ch. 5 Cincinnati (NBC)
7:30 Farm Front
8 AM Mr. Hop (c)
9 AM Ruff And Reddy (c)
9:30 Signal Three (c)
10 AM Shari Lewis (c)
10:30 King Leonardo (c)
11 AM Fury
11:30 Make Room For Daddy
12 N Mr. Wizard
12:30 Exploring (c)
1:30 House Hunting
1:45 TBA
2 PM Bullwinkle (delay from Sun 5:30 PM) (c)
2:30 All Star Golf (Bill Collins vs. Cary Middlecoff)
3:30 Sports International (c)
5 PM Sea Hunt
5:30 Wild Cargo (c)
6 PM NBC News (Sander Vanocur)
6:15 News, Sports
6:30 Midwestern Hayride (c)
7:30 Sam Benedict
8:30 Joey Bishop (a show based around real-life 16-year-old
opera singer Betty Santora) (c)
9 PM NBC Movie: "Night And The City"
11 PM News, Weather
11:20 Movie: "A Bullet Is Waiting" (c)
WCPO Ch. 9 Cincinnati (CBS)
7:30 Know Your World
7:50 Farm News (Bob Shreve)
8 AM Jewish Hour
8:30 Play It Safe
9 AM Captain Kangaroo
10 AM The Alvin Show
10:30 Mighty Mouse
11 AM Rin Tin Tin
11:30 Roy Rogers
12 N Sky King
12:30 Reading Room (for the 54th anniversary of Robert E.
Peary's reaching the North Pole, his daughter Marie
Peary Stafford discusses her father's expeditions and
her book about him, "Discoverer of the North Pole," with
schoolchildren from Hyde Park, NY)
1 PM Best Of Groucho (Groucho's special guest is Gilda Gray,
inventor of the shimmy dance.)
1:30 Movies: "Night Of Terror" (Bela Lugosi) and "Frankenstein"
(Boris Karloff)
3:30 All Star Wrestling
4:30 Star Performance
5 PM The Masters (third round, and only an hour of coverage)
6 PM Ensign O'Toole (pre-empted on Ch. 5, delay from Sun 7 PM)
6:30 Bronco
7:30 Jackie Gleason (guest: comedian Johnny Morgan)
8:30 The Defenders
9:30 Have Gun, Will Travel
10 PM Gunsmoke
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Checkmate
12:30 Movie: "Boom Town" (classic Gable, Tracy, and Claudette
Colbert, from '46)
WHAS Ch. 11 Louisville (CBS)
8 AM Cartoon Circus
9 AM Captain Kangaroo
10 AM The Alvin Show
10:30 Mighty Mouse
11 AM Rin Tin Tin
11:30 Roy Rogers
12 N Sky King
12:30 Reading Room
1 PM CBS News (Robert Trout)
1:30 Cartoon Circus
2 PM Movie: "Captain January" (Shirley Temple)
3:15 Magic Moments In Sports
3:30 Bowling
4:30 Hi-Varieties
5 PM The Masters (third round)
6 PM Hi-Varieties (split into two half-hours today only)
6:30 Bold Journey
7 PM Keyhole (a tour of the Los Angeles Sheriff's Academy) (c)
7:30 Jackie Gleason
8:30 The Defenders
9:30 Have Gun, Will Travel
10 PM Gunsmoke
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:25 Movie: "Variety Time" (Jack Paar acts as host for a series of
clips featuring music and comedy acts, from '48)
WKRC Ch. 12 Cincinnati (ABC)
9 AM Asbury Hymn Time
9:30 Kids Kartoons
10 AM Dick Tracy (animated)
10:30 Sheena, Queen Of The Jungle
11 AM Cartoonville (soon to change its name to "Cartoonies," this
is the show's debut; Paul Winchell and Jerry Mahoney introduce
animated characters Goodie the Gremlin, Sheriff Saddle Head,
and Scat Skit)
11:30 Beany And Cecil
12 N Bugs Bunny
12:30 Magic Land Of Allakazam
1 PM Movie: "King Of The Jungle" (Buster Crabbe as a man raised by
lions in Africa, then brought to the U.S. as a circus attraction,
from '33)
2:30 Challenge Golf (Arnold Palmer and Gary Player vs. Joe Campbell
and Dave Ragan Jr.)
3:30 Wrestling Champions
4:30 Championship Bridge (George Foerstner and Harry Harkavy vs.
Alvin Landy and Olive Peterson)
5 PM Wide World Of Sports (England's Grand National Steeplechase,
Women's National AAU Indoor Swimming Championships)
6:30 Divorce Court
7:30 The Gallant Men
8:30 Hootenanny (debut, from the University of Michigan: the Limeliters,
Bud and Travis, Bonnie Dobson, Bob Gibson; Jack Linkletter hosts)
9 PM Lawrence Welk (the Music Makers salute spring)
10 PM Boxing: Joe DeNucci vs. Joey Archer, middleweights, 10 rounds,
from Boston Garden
10:45 Make That Spare (Andy Marzich meets the winner of the Ed Bourdase-
Pat Patterson match, time approximate)
11 PM News, Weather
11:20 Movie: "Above And Beyond" (the story of the Enola Gay, the plane
which dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, and especially pilot
Paul Tibbets (sp?), from '53)
WLEX Ch. 18 Lexington (NBC/CBS)
9 AM Pathways To God
9:30 Ruff And Reddy (c)
10 AM Shari Lewis (c)
10:30 King Leonardo (c)
11 AM Fury
11:30 Make Room For Daddy
12 N Mr. Wizard
12:30 Exploring (c)
1:30 Safety Corner
2 PM Leisure
2:30 Country Music
3 PM Porter Wagoner
3:30 Sports International (c)
5 PM The Masters (third round)
6 PM Today At Keeneland (Wayne Bell reports today's races.) (c)
6:30 International Showtime (from the Tivoli Gardens in Copenhagen:
juggler Raspini, comedy cyclists the Marchitas, acrobats the
Bragazzis, ventriloquists Fred and Angela Roby, the Codrelli
Clowns, NBC, delay from Fri 7:30 PM)
7:30 Sam Benedict
8:30 Joey Bishop (c)
9 PM NBC Movie: "Night And The City"
11 PM News, Weather, Sports (c)
11:15 Movie: "Plunderers Of Painted Flats"
WKYT Ch. 27 Lexington (ABC/CBS)
9 AM Captain Kangaroo
10 AM Three Stooges
10:30 Mighty Mouse
11 AM Cartoonville
11:30 Beany And Cecil
12 N Tobacco News And Views
12:30 Magic Land Of Allakazam
1 PM My Friend Flicka
1:30 School Salute (Nick Clooney welcomes students
from Powell County High School.)
2:30 Challenge Golf
3:30 Top Star Bowling (Glenn Allison meets the winner of
the Therm Gibson-Dick Agee match.)
4:30 Communism: R.M.E.
5 PM Wide World Of Sports
6:30 Red Skelton (guests: Amanda Blake, Bobby Rydell,
CBS, delay from Tue 8:30 PM)
7:30 The Gallant Men
8:30 Today At Keeneland (J.B. Faulconer reports on today's races.)
9 PM Lawrence Welk
10 PM Boxing (see Ch. 12)
10:45 Make That Spare (time approximate)
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:15 Movie: "You Can't Cheat An Honest Man" (W.C. Fields, Edgar
Bergen, Charlie McCarthy, from '39--note: Fields and Charlie
carried on a "feud" on Bergen's radio show, some of which has
become classic; for instance: FIELDS: Is it true your father was
a gateleg table? CHARLIE: If it is, your father was under it! (referring
to Fields' drinking))
WLKY Ch. 32 Louisville (ABC)
11 AM Cartoonville
11:30 Beany And Cecil
12 N Bugs Bunny
12:30 Magic Land Of Allakazam
1 PM My Friend Flicka
1:30 Armed Forces Time
2 PM Pastors' Round Table
2:30 Challenge Golf
3:30 Air Force Story
4 PM Dance Party (Bill Bennett)
5 PM Wide World Of Sports
6:30 For Your Information
7 PM Holiday (travelogue)
7:30 The Gallant Men
8:30 Hootenanny
9 PM Lawrence Welk
10 PM Boxing (see Ch. 12)
10:45 Make That Spare (time approximate)
11 PM News (Pete French)
11:15 Movie: "Flaxy Martin"