Source: TV Guide, Lake Erie Edition
Channels - 4/5/8 had no bullets. 27/49/73 were in a small square box with a different font.
4 WNBK Cleveland NBC (now WKYC ch 3), NBC Building
5 WEWS Cleveland CBS, WEWS Building
8 WXEL Cleveland ABC/DuMont (now WJW, Fox), 1630 Euclid Ave
27 WKBN Youngstown CBS/ABC/DuMont, Midlothian Blvd
49 WAKR Akron ABC, 853 Copley Rd.
73 WFMJ Youngstown NBC, Boardman St.
1/31/1954 - Sunday
8:45
4 Norman V. Peale
Dr. and Mrs. Peale offer advice.
9AM
4 The Catholic Hour
Dramatization of problem facing young people today. Devotion service from Trinity Lutheran Church, Long Island City, by the Rev. Herman J. Rippe, pastor of the church, will preside. Sermon by the Rev. Dr. Alfred O. Fuerbringer, president of Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, 'Fear Yields to Faith.' The children's choir of the Lutheran elementary schools in metropolitan New York will sing 'O Jesus, King Most Wonderful, 'Ye Watchers and Ye Holy Ones,' and 'Give Ear unto Me.'
9:30
4 TV Sunday School
9:55
5 News
10AM
4 Film Fill
5 Lamp Unto My Feet
10:30
4 American Inventory
'Soldiers of Lead,' a salute to the printing industry. Ben Grauer is host with guests William Walling, chairman of the Executive Committee of the Printing Industry of America, George Macy, and Theodore Waller.
5 Look Up and Live
Dr. Walter K. Kerr, of Marvin Methodist Church at Tyler, Texas returns to discuss, 'Waste Baskets.' Sings this week are Betty Cox and the Mariners, emcee is Al Hodge.
10:45
8 The Christophers
11AM
4 American Forum
'What Can the Taxpayer Expect in 1954?' Representative Noah M. Mason (Rep., Ill.) and Herman P. Eberharter, (Dem, Pa.) of the House Ways and Means Committee.
5 The Pastor
8 Talent Parade
11:15
5 The Christophers
11:30
4 Nature of Things
5 Barker Bill
27 Western Theater
11:45
4 Industry on Parade
5 Captain Hartz
8 Star Babes
Viola Schoulin and youngsters.
Noon
4 Captain Midnight
5 Gene Carroll
TV Guide gives a talent cup, to the winner of this show.
8 Faith for Today
12:30
4 Film Fill
8 The Big Picture (Army film)
27 Contest Carnival
73 Movie-'Rolling Home' (1946, with Jean Parker)
1PM
4 Who Said That
5 Polka Parade
8 27 Elmer Davis
1:15
8 Film Shorts
27 The Christophers
1:30
4 Movie-'A Guy Could Change' (1946, with Allan Lane and Jane Frazee)
5 Movie-'Alaska Patrol'
Starring Richard Travis and Helen Westcott. A melodrama about the activities of a Naval Intelligence Officer who impersonates an international spy. (1949)
8 This is the Life
Story of a jet fighter pilot who returns from the war crippled and in a wheelchair. He is cheery in optimism until he learns he will never walk again and that his fiancee is in love with another.
2PM
8 Movie-'Pot of Gold'
Jimmy Stewart and Paulette Goddard star. Musical comedy of a radio quiz program. A dance band practices their programs on the roof of a boarding house. Horace Heidt provides the music. (1941)
27 Movie-Feature
73 American Inventory
2:30
73 The American Forum
3PM
4 Adventures in Egineering
H.G. Schiller of the Illuminating Engineers Society will discuss illuminating. Guest student from one of Cleveland's high schools.
5 University Circle
27 Youth Takes a Stand
73 President's Week
3:30
4 73 Kukla, Fran and Ollie
5 Behind the Law
27 Man of the Week
4PM
4 73 Excursion
Dr. Seuss takes you for a ride as he discusses 'Modern Art on Horseback,' with a married couple. Burgess Meredith plays the husband. The famous comic illustrator, and author of the '5,000 Fingers of Dr. T,' takes a look at the different ways different artists represent a horse. Some visiting art students assist him in this.
8 Ohio Story
'Mother Molly.' The story of an imported cow, and the beginning of the dairy industry in Ohio.
27 This is the Life
49 Talent Sprouts
4:10
8 Red Cross Briefcase
Garde Chambers, Cleveland representative of the Red Cross in a new series of programs designed to clear up some of the rumors and misinformation that have floated around concerning the Red Cross.
4:25
8 News
4:30
4 Zoo Parade
The story of how animals adapt themselves to their natural surroundings.
5 Fun with Charades
The Wadsworth Footlighters vs. Roadway Express of Akron.
8 27 Prescription for Living
Warren Guthrie and Dr. Leon Schiff of Cincinnati discuss the stomach.
49 Sunday with the Stars
73 World of Parade
4:45
49 Portraits in Melody
5PM
4 73 Hall of Fame
'The Lone Star,' the story of Sam Houston of Texas. Sam Houston goes to Mexican Territory at the suggestion of President Andrew Jackson. He becomes involved in the cause of Texas independence in opposition to Stephen Austin, who believes Texas can gain autonomy under Mexican rule.
5 27 Omnibus
The first American performance of the opera 'Sleeping Beauty,' originally composed as a marionette show. Arnold Schulman has adapted the story for American audiences. It opens with a puppet sequence in an enchanted forest. Fairies and elves are summed to present their gifts to a newborn princess. A witch arrives and casts a spell in which at 21 the princess will fall asleep and be awakened only by April. This all comes true in the course of the story, and yes, April turns out to be a prince. Also excerpts from the film, 'The Conquering of Everest' will be shown. Sir Edmund Hilliary, George Lawe and Charles Evans will be on hand.
8 49 Super Circus
(1) Tate's Comedy Canines. (2) Franklin & Astrid, hand balancing. (3) Jack Gwynne, magician, doing the Arabian tent myster. (4) Miss Mickey King, aerial web act. (5) Clown Skit.
6PM
4 Meet the Press
Guest: Senator John W. Bricker (R-OH) proponent of the controversial bill to limit the treaty-making powers of the President.
8 The Paul Hartman Show
Albie tries to prove to this family that he really does enjoy 'The Finer Things of Life.'
49 Cowboy G-Man
73 That We May See
6:15
73 What's Your Trouble
6:30
4 73 Roy Rogers
'Ride in The Death Wagon.' Roy tracks down the desperados who are out to steal $100,000 intended for a clinic for the crippled.
5 27 You Are There
From her dungeon cell in the Conciergerie, Marie Antoinette and her maid reveal their thoughts and actions to Walter Cronkite's on-the-spot newscasters.
8 George Jessel Show
Singers Burl Ives and Eleanor Steber are guests in a program dedicated to American singers.
49 Mr. and Mrs. North
7PM
4 73 Paul Winchell Show
5 Range Rider
8 You Asked for It
(1) Daredevil twins on horseback. (2) A cannonball juggler. (3) A speedphoto againstcrime. (4) A one-arm drummer. (5) Flying saucers.
27 U.S. Steel Hour
49 News-Jack Fitzgibbons
7:15
49 Our Town
7:3
4 73 Mr. Peepers
Marge tries to convince Wes that it's his duty to attend a parent-teachers meeting.
5 Private Secretary
Susie does some casting for her boss's play, 'The Little Monster,' and comes up with a precocious little boy. Danny Richards Jr. plays the youngster.
8 49 TV Teen Club
8PM
4 73 Comedy Hour
Star Eddie Cantor celebrates his 62nd birthday, with Groucho Marx, Wally Cox, singer Connie Russell, dancer Billy Daniels, and Ricky Vera, boy comic. Also,Eddie's daughter Marilyn will appear. Wally Cox appears as the passenger in the famous 'Maxie the Taxie' vehicle.
5 27 Toast of the Town-Ed Sullivan
Guests: Richard Tucker, tenor from the Met, Andre Segovia, guitarist, Judith Anderson, actress. The West Point Glee Club, Three Rudelles, novelty act, St. Paul Ice Carnival, and Patti Page.
8 49 The Mask
In addition to the regulars, Garry Merill and William Prince, Gaby Rodgers and Wayne Carson will be in the cast. After the death of a rich old lady, Walter Guilfoyle (Garry Merrill) takes over the reading of her will, and finds himself enmeshed in a murder.
9PM
4 73 Playhouse
'The Brownstone,' by N. Richard Nash. Starring Kim Stanley as a girl who tries to shut herself away from the world.
5 Fred Waring
Fred introduces to television a young concert singer, Wynne Miller. The theme of the program is 'Love and the Heart.' Songs include 'I Love You,' 'Hooray for Love,' Heart of My Heart,' "All Of A Sudden My Heart Sings,' 'So in Love' and 'So Beats My Heart.'
8 49 Walter Winchell
Gossip, hot tips and predictions.
27 The Ray Bolger Show
9:15
8 49 Jane Pickens
Perennial favorite, Jane singers her songs for everyone.
9:30
5 27 Man Behind the Badge
Tonite's man behind the badge is a woman, Judge Mildred Lillie of Domestic Relations Court in Los Angeles. Judge Lillie intervened in the case of a young married couple who were seeking a divorce even though it was obvious that they still loved each other.
8 Plainclothesman
Aware of a romance between her roommate and her fiance, a girl plots revenge on the roommate.
49 Peter Potter
10PM
4 73 Letter to Loretta
'The Hollywood Story.' A small-town girl goes to Hollywood in search of a movie career, and gets a job in a dress shop. William Bishop, George O'Hanlon, Jacqueline deWit.
5 Foreign Intrigue
Anne Preville comes to suspect that a series of apparently unrelated fires have been set by subversive agents in order to disrupt the Western aid program.
8 Industry for America
27 The Web
49 Break the Bank
10:30
4 73 Man Against Crime
Mike Barnett is assigned to trace a series of robberies that have occurred in apartments while the lady of the house was at the Salon deCharles beauty salon.
5 What's My Line
John Daly as moderator for Arlene Francis, Dorothy Kilgallen, Bennett Cerf and Steve Allen. Bennett Cerf will not be on this show for several weeks; this week the one and only Victor Borge subs for the publisher.
8 Peter Potter
27 Red Skelton
49 This is the Life
11PM
4 Movie-'Women in War'
Starring Elsie Janis, Wendy Barrie and Patric Knowles. This story deals with a socialite playgirl who is recruited into war nursing service in order to escape a prison sentence. She goes through tough assignments and falls in love with an air force officer. (Followed by late news. This movie was from 1940.)
5 Don Hollenbeck-News
8 Movie-'Flesh and Blood'
Richard Todd, and Joan Greenwood star. A young doctor sees his sister die giving birth to his best friend's child. (1951)
27 Movie-To Be Announced
49 News-Sports-Weather
73 Movie-'Fear in the Night' (must be the DeForest Kelley movie from 1947 - his first movie role actually, some 19 years before playing 'Bones' McCoy on 'Star Trek')
11:15
5 The Web
A demented man plots an attempt on the life of the lawyer who won an acquittal for the drive of the car that killed his wife.
11:45
5 Movie-'Dead Men Are Dangerous'
Starring Robert Newton and Betty Lynne. An author changes identity with a dead man and then is tracked down both by Scotland Yard and the dead man's associates. (1939)
12AM
73 News
12:30
5 27 News
Channels - 4/5/8 had no bullets. 27/49/73 were in a small square box with a different font.
4 WNBK Cleveland NBC (now WKYC ch 3), NBC Building
5 WEWS Cleveland CBS, WEWS Building
8 WXEL Cleveland ABC/DuMont (now WJW, Fox), 1630 Euclid Ave
27 WKBN Youngstown CBS/ABC/DuMont, Midlothian Blvd
49 WAKR Akron ABC, 853 Copley Rd.
73 WFMJ Youngstown NBC, Boardman St.
1/31/1954 - Sunday
8:45
4 Norman V. Peale
Dr. and Mrs. Peale offer advice.
9AM
4 The Catholic Hour
Dramatization of problem facing young people today. Devotion service from Trinity Lutheran Church, Long Island City, by the Rev. Herman J. Rippe, pastor of the church, will preside. Sermon by the Rev. Dr. Alfred O. Fuerbringer, president of Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, 'Fear Yields to Faith.' The children's choir of the Lutheran elementary schools in metropolitan New York will sing 'O Jesus, King Most Wonderful, 'Ye Watchers and Ye Holy Ones,' and 'Give Ear unto Me.'
9:30
4 TV Sunday School
9:55
5 News
10AM
4 Film Fill
5 Lamp Unto My Feet
10:30
4 American Inventory
'Soldiers of Lead,' a salute to the printing industry. Ben Grauer is host with guests William Walling, chairman of the Executive Committee of the Printing Industry of America, George Macy, and Theodore Waller.
5 Look Up and Live
Dr. Walter K. Kerr, of Marvin Methodist Church at Tyler, Texas returns to discuss, 'Waste Baskets.' Sings this week are Betty Cox and the Mariners, emcee is Al Hodge.
10:45
8 The Christophers
11AM
4 American Forum
'What Can the Taxpayer Expect in 1954?' Representative Noah M. Mason (Rep., Ill.) and Herman P. Eberharter, (Dem, Pa.) of the House Ways and Means Committee.
5 The Pastor
8 Talent Parade
11:15
5 The Christophers
11:30
4 Nature of Things
5 Barker Bill
27 Western Theater
11:45
4 Industry on Parade
5 Captain Hartz
8 Star Babes
Viola Schoulin and youngsters.
Noon
4 Captain Midnight
5 Gene Carroll
TV Guide gives a talent cup, to the winner of this show.
8 Faith for Today
12:30
4 Film Fill
8 The Big Picture (Army film)
27 Contest Carnival
73 Movie-'Rolling Home' (1946, with Jean Parker)
1PM
4 Who Said That
5 Polka Parade
8 27 Elmer Davis
1:15
8 Film Shorts
27 The Christophers
1:30
4 Movie-'A Guy Could Change' (1946, with Allan Lane and Jane Frazee)
5 Movie-'Alaska Patrol'
Starring Richard Travis and Helen Westcott. A melodrama about the activities of a Naval Intelligence Officer who impersonates an international spy. (1949)
8 This is the Life
Story of a jet fighter pilot who returns from the war crippled and in a wheelchair. He is cheery in optimism until he learns he will never walk again and that his fiancee is in love with another.
2PM
8 Movie-'Pot of Gold'
Jimmy Stewart and Paulette Goddard star. Musical comedy of a radio quiz program. A dance band practices their programs on the roof of a boarding house. Horace Heidt provides the music. (1941)
27 Movie-Feature
73 American Inventory
2:30
73 The American Forum
3PM
4 Adventures in Egineering
H.G. Schiller of the Illuminating Engineers Society will discuss illuminating. Guest student from one of Cleveland's high schools.
5 University Circle
27 Youth Takes a Stand
73 President's Week
3:30
4 73 Kukla, Fran and Ollie
5 Behind the Law
27 Man of the Week
4PM
4 73 Excursion
Dr. Seuss takes you for a ride as he discusses 'Modern Art on Horseback,' with a married couple. Burgess Meredith plays the husband. The famous comic illustrator, and author of the '5,000 Fingers of Dr. T,' takes a look at the different ways different artists represent a horse. Some visiting art students assist him in this.
8 Ohio Story
'Mother Molly.' The story of an imported cow, and the beginning of the dairy industry in Ohio.
27 This is the Life
49 Talent Sprouts
4:10
8 Red Cross Briefcase
Garde Chambers, Cleveland representative of the Red Cross in a new series of programs designed to clear up some of the rumors and misinformation that have floated around concerning the Red Cross.
4:25
8 News
4:30
4 Zoo Parade
The story of how animals adapt themselves to their natural surroundings.
5 Fun with Charades
The Wadsworth Footlighters vs. Roadway Express of Akron.
8 27 Prescription for Living
Warren Guthrie and Dr. Leon Schiff of Cincinnati discuss the stomach.
49 Sunday with the Stars
73 World of Parade
4:45
49 Portraits in Melody
5PM
4 73 Hall of Fame
'The Lone Star,' the story of Sam Houston of Texas. Sam Houston goes to Mexican Territory at the suggestion of President Andrew Jackson. He becomes involved in the cause of Texas independence in opposition to Stephen Austin, who believes Texas can gain autonomy under Mexican rule.
5 27 Omnibus
The first American performance of the opera 'Sleeping Beauty,' originally composed as a marionette show. Arnold Schulman has adapted the story for American audiences. It opens with a puppet sequence in an enchanted forest. Fairies and elves are summed to present their gifts to a newborn princess. A witch arrives and casts a spell in which at 21 the princess will fall asleep and be awakened only by April. This all comes true in the course of the story, and yes, April turns out to be a prince. Also excerpts from the film, 'The Conquering of Everest' will be shown. Sir Edmund Hilliary, George Lawe and Charles Evans will be on hand.
8 49 Super Circus
(1) Tate's Comedy Canines. (2) Franklin & Astrid, hand balancing. (3) Jack Gwynne, magician, doing the Arabian tent myster. (4) Miss Mickey King, aerial web act. (5) Clown Skit.
6PM
4 Meet the Press
Guest: Senator John W. Bricker (R-OH) proponent of the controversial bill to limit the treaty-making powers of the President.
8 The Paul Hartman Show
Albie tries to prove to this family that he really does enjoy 'The Finer Things of Life.'
49 Cowboy G-Man
73 That We May See
6:15
73 What's Your Trouble
6:30
4 73 Roy Rogers
'Ride in The Death Wagon.' Roy tracks down the desperados who are out to steal $100,000 intended for a clinic for the crippled.
5 27 You Are There
From her dungeon cell in the Conciergerie, Marie Antoinette and her maid reveal their thoughts and actions to Walter Cronkite's on-the-spot newscasters.
8 George Jessel Show
Singers Burl Ives and Eleanor Steber are guests in a program dedicated to American singers.
49 Mr. and Mrs. North
7PM
4 73 Paul Winchell Show
5 Range Rider
8 You Asked for It
(1) Daredevil twins on horseback. (2) A cannonball juggler. (3) A speedphoto againstcrime. (4) A one-arm drummer. (5) Flying saucers.
27 U.S. Steel Hour
49 News-Jack Fitzgibbons
7:15
49 Our Town
7:3
4 73 Mr. Peepers
Marge tries to convince Wes that it's his duty to attend a parent-teachers meeting.
5 Private Secretary
Susie does some casting for her boss's play, 'The Little Monster,' and comes up with a precocious little boy. Danny Richards Jr. plays the youngster.
8 49 TV Teen Club
8PM
4 73 Comedy Hour
Star Eddie Cantor celebrates his 62nd birthday, with Groucho Marx, Wally Cox, singer Connie Russell, dancer Billy Daniels, and Ricky Vera, boy comic. Also,Eddie's daughter Marilyn will appear. Wally Cox appears as the passenger in the famous 'Maxie the Taxie' vehicle.
5 27 Toast of the Town-Ed Sullivan
Guests: Richard Tucker, tenor from the Met, Andre Segovia, guitarist, Judith Anderson, actress. The West Point Glee Club, Three Rudelles, novelty act, St. Paul Ice Carnival, and Patti Page.
8 49 The Mask
In addition to the regulars, Garry Merill and William Prince, Gaby Rodgers and Wayne Carson will be in the cast. After the death of a rich old lady, Walter Guilfoyle (Garry Merrill) takes over the reading of her will, and finds himself enmeshed in a murder.
9PM
4 73 Playhouse
'The Brownstone,' by N. Richard Nash. Starring Kim Stanley as a girl who tries to shut herself away from the world.
5 Fred Waring
Fred introduces to television a young concert singer, Wynne Miller. The theme of the program is 'Love and the Heart.' Songs include 'I Love You,' 'Hooray for Love,' Heart of My Heart,' "All Of A Sudden My Heart Sings,' 'So in Love' and 'So Beats My Heart.'
8 49 Walter Winchell
Gossip, hot tips and predictions.
27 The Ray Bolger Show
9:15
8 49 Jane Pickens
Perennial favorite, Jane singers her songs for everyone.
9:30
5 27 Man Behind the Badge
Tonite's man behind the badge is a woman, Judge Mildred Lillie of Domestic Relations Court in Los Angeles. Judge Lillie intervened in the case of a young married couple who were seeking a divorce even though it was obvious that they still loved each other.
8 Plainclothesman
Aware of a romance between her roommate and her fiance, a girl plots revenge on the roommate.
49 Peter Potter
10PM
4 73 Letter to Loretta
'The Hollywood Story.' A small-town girl goes to Hollywood in search of a movie career, and gets a job in a dress shop. William Bishop, George O'Hanlon, Jacqueline deWit.
5 Foreign Intrigue
Anne Preville comes to suspect that a series of apparently unrelated fires have been set by subversive agents in order to disrupt the Western aid program.
8 Industry for America
27 The Web
49 Break the Bank
10:30
4 73 Man Against Crime
Mike Barnett is assigned to trace a series of robberies that have occurred in apartments while the lady of the house was at the Salon deCharles beauty salon.
5 What's My Line
John Daly as moderator for Arlene Francis, Dorothy Kilgallen, Bennett Cerf and Steve Allen. Bennett Cerf will not be on this show for several weeks; this week the one and only Victor Borge subs for the publisher.
8 Peter Potter
27 Red Skelton
49 This is the Life
11PM
4 Movie-'Women in War'
Starring Elsie Janis, Wendy Barrie and Patric Knowles. This story deals with a socialite playgirl who is recruited into war nursing service in order to escape a prison sentence. She goes through tough assignments and falls in love with an air force officer. (Followed by late news. This movie was from 1940.)
5 Don Hollenbeck-News
8 Movie-'Flesh and Blood'
Richard Todd, and Joan Greenwood star. A young doctor sees his sister die giving birth to his best friend's child. (1951)
27 Movie-To Be Announced
49 News-Sports-Weather
73 Movie-'Fear in the Night' (must be the DeForest Kelley movie from 1947 - his first movie role actually, some 19 years before playing 'Bones' McCoy on 'Star Trek')
11:15
5 The Web
A demented man plots an attempt on the life of the lawyer who won an acquittal for the drive of the car that killed his wife.
11:45
5 Movie-'Dead Men Are Dangerous'
Starring Robert Newton and Betty Lynne. An author changes identity with a dead man and then is tracked down both by Scotland Yard and the dead man's associates. (1939)
12AM
73 News
12:30
5 27 News
