Source: TV Guide, Lake Ontario Edition
Stations listed:
2 WGR-TV (NBC) 184 Barton Street, Buffalo 13
3 CKVR-TV (CBC) Barrie, Ontario
4 WBEN-TV (CBS) 2077 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo 7
5 WROC-TV (NBC, ABC) 201 Humboldt Street, Rochester 3
6 CBLT (CBC) Box 500, Terminal “A”, Toronto, Ontario
7 WKBW-TV (ABC) 1420 Main Street, Buffalo 9
9 CFTO-TV (Independent*) Box 9, Agincourt, Ontario
10 WHEC-TV** (CBS, ABC) 191 East Avenue, Rochester 4
10 WVET-TV** (ABC, CBS) 17 Clinton Avenue South, Rochester 4
11 CHCH-TV (CBC) 163 Jackson Street West, Hamilton, Ontario
12 WICU-TV (NBC, ABC) 3514 State Street, Erie, Pennsylvania
13 CKCO-TV (CBC) 864 King Street West, Kitchener, Ontario
*CFTO had first signed on the air three weeks earlier, on December 31, 1960. It would not be officially part of the CTV network until the following October; in fact, ABC held a minority stake in the station’s ownership prior to its taking to the air.
**WHEC-TV and WVET-TV time-shared Channel 10 in Rochester at the time, and even shared advertising on one page of this issue of TV Guide (promoting the syndicated series Lock Up, starring MacDonald Carey, and their Sunday night local newscasts). Later in 1961, Veterans Broadcasting sold WVET-TV to the owners of WHEC-TV, Gannett, and subsequently bought WROC-TV/5 from Transcontinent Broadcasting.
This date was significant in the respective careers of two of the most famous Jacks of the 20th Century, Kennedy and Gleason. Kennedy was inaugurated as U.S. President, while Gleason – well, just look at the listing for 9:30 P.M. for Jackie’s contribution…
MORNING
6:00
5 Continental Classroom [Color] (“Organic Dyes,” with Dr. John F. Baxter and guest lecturer Dr. Leslie G.S. Brooker)
6:30
2/5 Continental Classroom [Color] (“Modern Algebra: Linear Transformations,” with Dr. John L. Kelley)
7:00
2/5/12 Today (Dave Garroway)
7 Buffalo A.M. (variety)
10 Math for Teachers
7:30
4 Rise and Shine
10 Sacred Heart
11 Introduction to Biology
7:45
10 Your Home
8:00
4/10 CBS News (Richard C. Hottelet)
7 Popeye and Pals
8:15
4/10 Captain Kangaroo (The Captain talks about that day’s inauguration of President-Elect Kennedy)
9:00
2 Mr. District Attorney
4 Cartoons
5 The Coffee Break Movie (The Girl on the Limberlost, 1945 drama, with Ruth Nelson)
7 Deputy Dawg
10 Movie (Repent at Leisure, 1941 drama, with Wendy Barrie)
11 Romper Room
12 Movie (to be announced)
13 Minister’s Study
9:10
13 Slimnastics (Doug Gerrard)
9:30
2 Science Fiction Theater
4 You and Your Family
7 Romper Room (Mary Klein)
11 Movie (The Teckman Mystery, 1955 English mystery, with Margaret Leighton)
13 Pepper Pot (Vi Scriver)
10:00
2/5/12 Say When
4 December Bride
13 The Coffee Club Movie (Three Sons, 1939 drama, with Edward Ellis)
10:15
10 En Avant, Marche (does anyone know exactly what this Monday-thru-Friday program was? Perhaps a brokered program for the Francophone audience across the lake in Ontario, considering Radio-Canada’s CBLFT/25 Toronto wouldn’t take to the air until 12 years later and CBLT didn’t yet run much Francophone programming?)
10:30
2/5/12 Play Your Hunch [Color] (Merv Griffin)
4/10 Video Village (Monty Hall)
7 Dr. Hudson’s Journal
10:45
3 Sacred Heart
11:00
2/4/5/7/10/12 Inauguration Day (All three U.S. Networks covered the inauguration of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy live, with NBC airing it in color after 2:00 P.M. NBC’s coverage [picked up in Rochester on WROC-TV and in Erie by WICU-TV] was anchored by Chet Huntley and David Brinkley, with Frank McGee, Merrill Mueller, Sander Vanocur, Ray Scherer, Bob Abernethy and Herb Kaplow in the field. CBS’ coverage [picked up in Rochester by WHEC-TV/WVET-TV] was anchored by Walter Cronkite and Edward R. Murrow, with Howard K. Smith, Bob Trout and George Herman in the field. ABC’s coverage [only seen here on WKBW-TV] was anchored by Bill Shadel, with Edward P. Morgan, Don Goddard, Quincy Howe, Erwin D. Canham, Bob Lodge, Al Mann and John Edwards in the field.)
3 Romper Room
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The network programs being pre-empted for the Inauguration coverage, as listed the previous days that week, were:
NBC:
11:00 The Price is Right [Color] (Arlene Francis hosted at the time) (2/5/12)
11:30 Concentration (2/5/12)
12:00 Truth or Consequences (2/5/12)
12:30 It Could Be You [Color] (2/5/12)
12:55 News (Ray Scherer) (2/5/12)
Local programming from 1:00 to 2:00 (movies on 2 and 5)
2:00 Jan Murray [Color] (2 only; 5 carried its own Home Cooking program)
2:30 Loretta Young (2/5/12)
3:00 Young Dr. Malone (2/5/12)
3:30 From These Roots (2/5/12)
CBS:
11:00 I Love Lucy (4/10)
11:30 Clear Horizon (4/10)
12:00 Love of Life (10 only; 4 had local news at Noon and Speaker of The House at 12:15)
12:30 Search for Tomorrow (4/10)
12:45 The Guiding Light (4/10)
Local programming from 1:00 to 1:30 (Meet The Millers [Color] on 4, Stage One on 10)
1:30 As The World Turns (4/10)
2:00 Full Circle (4/10)
2:30 Art Linkletter’s House Party (4/10)
ABC:
11:00 Morning Court (7)
11:30 Love That Bob! (7)
12:00 Camouflage (7)
12:30 Beat the Clock (7)
1:00 About Faces (7/12)
Local programming from 1:30 to 2:00 (Confidential File on 7, a delayed Beat the Clock on 12)
2:00 Day in Court (7/12)
2:30 Road to Reality (7)
3:00 Queen For a Day (7)
3:30 Who Do You Trust? (7)
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11:30
13 Cartoon Capers
AFTERNOON
12:00
3/11 Cartoons
9 News
13 Fury
12:15
6 News (Rae, Marsh)
9 Your Special Day
12:20
9 Farm Report (Larry Burt)
12:30
3/13 News
6 Movie (Wicked Woman, 1953 drama, with Beverly Michaels and Richard Egan)
9 Playhouse
12:45
11 News
12:50
13 Elaine Cole (variety)
1:00
3 TV Hour of Stars
9 Lunch Party (variety)
11 Movie (Alias John Preston, 1955 English drama, with Alexander Knox)
1:20
13 Variety Fare (Ron Hill)
1:30
9 Women’s Show (Carroll, Hicks)
13 Bazaar (Lawson, Sellner)
1:50
3 Women’s Show (Wendy Hicks; I assume this is a kinescoped edition of the same show under this title over CFTO)
2:00
6 Chez Helene (children – was this in French, by any chance, or just an English program using a French-language title?)
9 Movie (Whirlpool, 1950 drama, with Gene Tierney and Jose Ferrer)
2:15
6/11 Nursery School Time
2:30
3/6/11/13 Inauguration Day (CBC’s package of taped highlights of that day’s proceedings; I suspect this was mainly from CBS’ coverage. The regular programs being pre-empted here are Talk of the Town [2:30 on 3, 6 and 13], Jane Gray [2:30 on 11], and Music in Miniature [3:00 on 3, 6, 11 and 13].)
3:00
4/10 The Millionaire
3:30
3/4/6/10/13 The Verdict is Yours (simulcast by CBS and CBC)
11 Public Service Guide
3:35
11 Music For You (Joe Carlo)
3:55
9/11 News (Iris Cooper on CFTO)
4:00
2/5/12 Make Room for Daddy
3/11 Popeye and Pals
4/10 Brighter Day
6 Cartoon Capers
7 American Bandstand (Madeline Kern was Dick Clark’s guest that day)
9 Professor’s Hideaway
13 Wally Walrus
4:15
4/10 The Secret Storm
4:30
2/5/12 Here’s Hollywood (The final day of a week in Las Vegas, wherein Marie Wilson is interviewed by Dean Miller and Joanne Jordan visits the home of Joanna Barnes)
3/6/13 Junior Roundup
4/10 The Edge of Night
5:00
2 Big Rascals
4 Fun to Learn (historical instruction)
5 Popeye
7 Rin Tin Tin
9 Jungle Boy
10 The Life of Riley
11 Movie (Pink String and Sealing Wax, 1950 English drama, with Mervyn Johns)
12 Bugs Bunny
5:15
4 Mischief Makers
5:30
2 Ramar of the Jungle
3/6 Fury
4 Big Mac (children)
5 Movie (Tarzan and the She-Devil, 1953 Lex Barker entry in the Tarzan franchise)
7 Movie (Margie, 1946 comedy, with Jeanne Crain, Lynn Bari and Alan Young)
9 Men Into Space
10 Abbott and Costello
12 Rin Tin Tin
13 Movie (The Green Cockatoo, 1940 mystery, with John Mills)
EVENING
6:00
2 Highway Patrol
3 Charley Chase
4 MacKenzie’s Raiders
6 News (Bruce Marsh)
9 Focus (Rick Hart)
10 Huckleberry Hound
12 The Life of Riley
6:15
6 You’ll Never Get Rich
9 Punch and Johnny (CFTO Sports Director Johnny Esaw and Toronto Maple Leafs coach Punch Imlach talk NHL Hockey)
6:20
3 Farm Market Report
6:25
3/4 News
6:30
2/5/9/10/11/12 News
6:45
2/5/12 The Huntley-Brinkley Report
4/10 Douglas Edwards and The News
6/13 News
7:00
2 The Brothers Brannagan
3/4 Father Knows Best (both delayed from earlier in the week, CKVR from the 6:15 Monday CBC pattern and WBEN-TV from the Tuesday 7:30 CBS broadcast)
5 The Flintstones (early run of the same episode from ABC at 8:30)
6 Seven-O One (interview)
9 To Be Announced
10 Shotgun Slade
11 Guestward Ho! (delayed airing of the 7:30 Thursday ABC episode)
12 Mister Ed
13 Bachelor Father
7:15
7 News
7:30
2 Happy
3 Wyatt Earp
4/10 Rawhide (E.G. Marshall and Dick York guest star)
5 The Islanders (delayed from ABC Sunday at 9:30)
6 Sports Huddle
7 Sea Hunt
9 Leave it to Beaver
11 The Real McCoys
12 Death Valley Days
13 Wanted – Dead or Alive
8:00
2 One Happy Family
3/6/11/13 Country Hoedown
7/12 Harrigan and Son
9 Jim Backus
8:30
2/5 Nanette Fabray
3/6/11/13 Perry Mason
4/10 Route 66 (Anne Francis and Jack Lord guest)
7/12 The Flintstones (Bank robbers throw their loot into Barney’s back yard, where it lands on Fred’s head)
9 The Brothers Brannagan
9:00
2/5 The Bell Telephone Hour [Color] (Rosemary Clooney guests)
7/12 77 Sunset Strip
9 Two Faces West
9:30
3/6/11/13 Danger Man (CBC run of the British spy drama series starring Patrick McGoohan that made the CBS schedule briefly that same summer, retitled Secret Agent when CBS rescheduled it in 1965, and led to The Prisoner two years after that)
4/10 You’re In the Picture (Jackie Gleason returned to CBS to produce and host this colossal failure of a game show, with panellists Keenan Wynn, Pat Carroll, Jan Sterling and Arthur Treacher putting their heads through a painting and guessing what the painting depicts through their questioning Gleason. The premiere was so amazingly awful that Gleason spent the entire broadcast of the following week apologising for this week’s show, and the week after that replacing You’re In the Picture with his own prime-time talk series, The Jackie Gleason Show.)
9 Country Style (Barbara Franklin guests)
10:00
2 Michael Shayne
3/6/11/13 Have Gun – Will Travel
4/10 The Twilight Zone (Jack Carson as a used car salesman who buys a haunted car from Loring Smith)
5/7/12 The Detectives
10:30
3 Tightrope!
4/6/10 Eyewitness to History/On The Scene (“Athletes in Motion,” filmed at the Toronto Central YMCA. For whatever reason, this show was simulcast on CBC and CBS under different series titles, the Firestone-sponsored Eyewitness to History on CBS and On The Scene on CBC)
5 Two Faces West
7 Pony Express
9 News
11 Peter Gunn
12 The Law and Mr. Jones
13 Gunsmoke
11:00
2/3/4/5/6/7/10/11/12/13 News
9 Better Late (Rick Campbell)
11:15
2/4/5/10/12 Inaugural Ball (both NBC and CBS covered the celebration with 45-minute late-night specials; the NBC special [picked up in Erie by WICU-TV] was reported by Frank Blair, Frank McGee, Sander Vanocur and Dina Merrill, while CBS’ special was anchored by Walter Cronkite with field reports from Charles Collingwood, Nancy Hanschman and Bill Downs)
6 Viewpoint
7 Movie (The Gunfighter, 1950 Western, with Gregory Peck)
11:20
6 News
11:30
6 Gunsmoke
11:35
3 Movie (Topaze, 1933 comedy, with John Barrymore and Myrna Loy)
11 Movie (Bengazi, 1955 melodrama, with Richard Conte)
13 Movie (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, the 1939 Frank Capra classic comedy with James Stewart and Jean Arthur)
12:00
2/5/12 Jack Paar
4 Movie (Cairo, 1942 war drama, with Robert Young and Jeanette MacDonald)
6 Wrestling (Toronto)
9 Movie (Three Stripes in the Sun, 1955 drama, with Aldo Ray and Dick York)
10 Movie (Cornered, 1945 WW2 drama, with Dick Powell)
Stations listed:
2 WGR-TV (NBC) 184 Barton Street, Buffalo 13
3 CKVR-TV (CBC) Barrie, Ontario
4 WBEN-TV (CBS) 2077 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo 7
5 WROC-TV (NBC, ABC) 201 Humboldt Street, Rochester 3
6 CBLT (CBC) Box 500, Terminal “A”, Toronto, Ontario
7 WKBW-TV (ABC) 1420 Main Street, Buffalo 9
9 CFTO-TV (Independent*) Box 9, Agincourt, Ontario
10 WHEC-TV** (CBS, ABC) 191 East Avenue, Rochester 4
10 WVET-TV** (ABC, CBS) 17 Clinton Avenue South, Rochester 4
11 CHCH-TV (CBC) 163 Jackson Street West, Hamilton, Ontario
12 WICU-TV (NBC, ABC) 3514 State Street, Erie, Pennsylvania
13 CKCO-TV (CBC) 864 King Street West, Kitchener, Ontario
*CFTO had first signed on the air three weeks earlier, on December 31, 1960. It would not be officially part of the CTV network until the following October; in fact, ABC held a minority stake in the station’s ownership prior to its taking to the air.
**WHEC-TV and WVET-TV time-shared Channel 10 in Rochester at the time, and even shared advertising on one page of this issue of TV Guide (promoting the syndicated series Lock Up, starring MacDonald Carey, and their Sunday night local newscasts). Later in 1961, Veterans Broadcasting sold WVET-TV to the owners of WHEC-TV, Gannett, and subsequently bought WROC-TV/5 from Transcontinent Broadcasting.
This date was significant in the respective careers of two of the most famous Jacks of the 20th Century, Kennedy and Gleason. Kennedy was inaugurated as U.S. President, while Gleason – well, just look at the listing for 9:30 P.M. for Jackie’s contribution…
MORNING
6:00
5 Continental Classroom [Color] (“Organic Dyes,” with Dr. John F. Baxter and guest lecturer Dr. Leslie G.S. Brooker)
6:30
2/5 Continental Classroom [Color] (“Modern Algebra: Linear Transformations,” with Dr. John L. Kelley)
7:00
2/5/12 Today (Dave Garroway)
7 Buffalo A.M. (variety)
10 Math for Teachers
7:30
4 Rise and Shine
10 Sacred Heart
11 Introduction to Biology
7:45
10 Your Home
8:00
4/10 CBS News (Richard C. Hottelet)
7 Popeye and Pals
8:15
4/10 Captain Kangaroo (The Captain talks about that day’s inauguration of President-Elect Kennedy)
9:00
2 Mr. District Attorney
4 Cartoons
5 The Coffee Break Movie (The Girl on the Limberlost, 1945 drama, with Ruth Nelson)
7 Deputy Dawg
10 Movie (Repent at Leisure, 1941 drama, with Wendy Barrie)
11 Romper Room
12 Movie (to be announced)
13 Minister’s Study
9:10
13 Slimnastics (Doug Gerrard)
9:30
2 Science Fiction Theater
4 You and Your Family
7 Romper Room (Mary Klein)
11 Movie (The Teckman Mystery, 1955 English mystery, with Margaret Leighton)
13 Pepper Pot (Vi Scriver)
10:00
2/5/12 Say When
4 December Bride
13 The Coffee Club Movie (Three Sons, 1939 drama, with Edward Ellis)
10:15
10 En Avant, Marche (does anyone know exactly what this Monday-thru-Friday program was? Perhaps a brokered program for the Francophone audience across the lake in Ontario, considering Radio-Canada’s CBLFT/25 Toronto wouldn’t take to the air until 12 years later and CBLT didn’t yet run much Francophone programming?)
10:30
2/5/12 Play Your Hunch [Color] (Merv Griffin)
4/10 Video Village (Monty Hall)
7 Dr. Hudson’s Journal
10:45
3 Sacred Heart
11:00
2/4/5/7/10/12 Inauguration Day (All three U.S. Networks covered the inauguration of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy live, with NBC airing it in color after 2:00 P.M. NBC’s coverage [picked up in Rochester on WROC-TV and in Erie by WICU-TV] was anchored by Chet Huntley and David Brinkley, with Frank McGee, Merrill Mueller, Sander Vanocur, Ray Scherer, Bob Abernethy and Herb Kaplow in the field. CBS’ coverage [picked up in Rochester by WHEC-TV/WVET-TV] was anchored by Walter Cronkite and Edward R. Murrow, with Howard K. Smith, Bob Trout and George Herman in the field. ABC’s coverage [only seen here on WKBW-TV] was anchored by Bill Shadel, with Edward P. Morgan, Don Goddard, Quincy Howe, Erwin D. Canham, Bob Lodge, Al Mann and John Edwards in the field.)
3 Romper Room
+++ +++ +++
The network programs being pre-empted for the Inauguration coverage, as listed the previous days that week, were:
NBC:
11:00 The Price is Right [Color] (Arlene Francis hosted at the time) (2/5/12)
11:30 Concentration (2/5/12)
12:00 Truth or Consequences (2/5/12)
12:30 It Could Be You [Color] (2/5/12)
12:55 News (Ray Scherer) (2/5/12)
Local programming from 1:00 to 2:00 (movies on 2 and 5)
2:00 Jan Murray [Color] (2 only; 5 carried its own Home Cooking program)
2:30 Loretta Young (2/5/12)
3:00 Young Dr. Malone (2/5/12)
3:30 From These Roots (2/5/12)
CBS:
11:00 I Love Lucy (4/10)
11:30 Clear Horizon (4/10)
12:00 Love of Life (10 only; 4 had local news at Noon and Speaker of The House at 12:15)
12:30 Search for Tomorrow (4/10)
12:45 The Guiding Light (4/10)
Local programming from 1:00 to 1:30 (Meet The Millers [Color] on 4, Stage One on 10)
1:30 As The World Turns (4/10)
2:00 Full Circle (4/10)
2:30 Art Linkletter’s House Party (4/10)
ABC:
11:00 Morning Court (7)
11:30 Love That Bob! (7)
12:00 Camouflage (7)
12:30 Beat the Clock (7)
1:00 About Faces (7/12)
Local programming from 1:30 to 2:00 (Confidential File on 7, a delayed Beat the Clock on 12)
2:00 Day in Court (7/12)
2:30 Road to Reality (7)
3:00 Queen For a Day (7)
3:30 Who Do You Trust? (7)
+++ +++ +++
11:30
13 Cartoon Capers
AFTERNOON
12:00
3/11 Cartoons
9 News
13 Fury
12:15
6 News (Rae, Marsh)
9 Your Special Day
12:20
9 Farm Report (Larry Burt)
12:30
3/13 News
6 Movie (Wicked Woman, 1953 drama, with Beverly Michaels and Richard Egan)
9 Playhouse
12:45
11 News
12:50
13 Elaine Cole (variety)
1:00
3 TV Hour of Stars
9 Lunch Party (variety)
11 Movie (Alias John Preston, 1955 English drama, with Alexander Knox)
1:20
13 Variety Fare (Ron Hill)
1:30
9 Women’s Show (Carroll, Hicks)
13 Bazaar (Lawson, Sellner)
1:50
3 Women’s Show (Wendy Hicks; I assume this is a kinescoped edition of the same show under this title over CFTO)
2:00
6 Chez Helene (children – was this in French, by any chance, or just an English program using a French-language title?)
9 Movie (Whirlpool, 1950 drama, with Gene Tierney and Jose Ferrer)
2:15
6/11 Nursery School Time
2:30
3/6/11/13 Inauguration Day (CBC’s package of taped highlights of that day’s proceedings; I suspect this was mainly from CBS’ coverage. The regular programs being pre-empted here are Talk of the Town [2:30 on 3, 6 and 13], Jane Gray [2:30 on 11], and Music in Miniature [3:00 on 3, 6, 11 and 13].)
3:00
4/10 The Millionaire
3:30
3/4/6/10/13 The Verdict is Yours (simulcast by CBS and CBC)
11 Public Service Guide
3:35
11 Music For You (Joe Carlo)
3:55
9/11 News (Iris Cooper on CFTO)
4:00
2/5/12 Make Room for Daddy
3/11 Popeye and Pals
4/10 Brighter Day
6 Cartoon Capers
7 American Bandstand (Madeline Kern was Dick Clark’s guest that day)
9 Professor’s Hideaway
13 Wally Walrus
4:15
4/10 The Secret Storm
4:30
2/5/12 Here’s Hollywood (The final day of a week in Las Vegas, wherein Marie Wilson is interviewed by Dean Miller and Joanne Jordan visits the home of Joanna Barnes)
3/6/13 Junior Roundup
4/10 The Edge of Night
5:00
2 Big Rascals
4 Fun to Learn (historical instruction)
5 Popeye
7 Rin Tin Tin
9 Jungle Boy
10 The Life of Riley
11 Movie (Pink String and Sealing Wax, 1950 English drama, with Mervyn Johns)
12 Bugs Bunny
5:15
4 Mischief Makers
5:30
2 Ramar of the Jungle
3/6 Fury
4 Big Mac (children)
5 Movie (Tarzan and the She-Devil, 1953 Lex Barker entry in the Tarzan franchise)
7 Movie (Margie, 1946 comedy, with Jeanne Crain, Lynn Bari and Alan Young)
9 Men Into Space
10 Abbott and Costello
12 Rin Tin Tin
13 Movie (The Green Cockatoo, 1940 mystery, with John Mills)
EVENING
6:00
2 Highway Patrol
3 Charley Chase
4 MacKenzie’s Raiders
6 News (Bruce Marsh)
9 Focus (Rick Hart)
10 Huckleberry Hound
12 The Life of Riley
6:15
6 You’ll Never Get Rich
9 Punch and Johnny (CFTO Sports Director Johnny Esaw and Toronto Maple Leafs coach Punch Imlach talk NHL Hockey)
6:20
3 Farm Market Report
6:25
3/4 News
6:30
2/5/9/10/11/12 News
6:45
2/5/12 The Huntley-Brinkley Report
4/10 Douglas Edwards and The News
6/13 News
7:00
2 The Brothers Brannagan
3/4 Father Knows Best (both delayed from earlier in the week, CKVR from the 6:15 Monday CBC pattern and WBEN-TV from the Tuesday 7:30 CBS broadcast)
5 The Flintstones (early run of the same episode from ABC at 8:30)
6 Seven-O One (interview)
9 To Be Announced
10 Shotgun Slade
11 Guestward Ho! (delayed airing of the 7:30 Thursday ABC episode)
12 Mister Ed
13 Bachelor Father
7:15
7 News
7:30
2 Happy
3 Wyatt Earp
4/10 Rawhide (E.G. Marshall and Dick York guest star)
5 The Islanders (delayed from ABC Sunday at 9:30)
6 Sports Huddle
7 Sea Hunt
9 Leave it to Beaver
11 The Real McCoys
12 Death Valley Days
13 Wanted – Dead or Alive
8:00
2 One Happy Family
3/6/11/13 Country Hoedown
7/12 Harrigan and Son
9 Jim Backus
8:30
2/5 Nanette Fabray
3/6/11/13 Perry Mason
4/10 Route 66 (Anne Francis and Jack Lord guest)
7/12 The Flintstones (Bank robbers throw their loot into Barney’s back yard, where it lands on Fred’s head)
9 The Brothers Brannagan
9:00
2/5 The Bell Telephone Hour [Color] (Rosemary Clooney guests)
7/12 77 Sunset Strip
9 Two Faces West
9:30
3/6/11/13 Danger Man (CBC run of the British spy drama series starring Patrick McGoohan that made the CBS schedule briefly that same summer, retitled Secret Agent when CBS rescheduled it in 1965, and led to The Prisoner two years after that)
4/10 You’re In the Picture (Jackie Gleason returned to CBS to produce and host this colossal failure of a game show, with panellists Keenan Wynn, Pat Carroll, Jan Sterling and Arthur Treacher putting their heads through a painting and guessing what the painting depicts through their questioning Gleason. The premiere was so amazingly awful that Gleason spent the entire broadcast of the following week apologising for this week’s show, and the week after that replacing You’re In the Picture with his own prime-time talk series, The Jackie Gleason Show.)
9 Country Style (Barbara Franklin guests)
10:00
2 Michael Shayne
3/6/11/13 Have Gun – Will Travel
4/10 The Twilight Zone (Jack Carson as a used car salesman who buys a haunted car from Loring Smith)
5/7/12 The Detectives
10:30
3 Tightrope!
4/6/10 Eyewitness to History/On The Scene (“Athletes in Motion,” filmed at the Toronto Central YMCA. For whatever reason, this show was simulcast on CBC and CBS under different series titles, the Firestone-sponsored Eyewitness to History on CBS and On The Scene on CBC)
5 Two Faces West
7 Pony Express
9 News
11 Peter Gunn
12 The Law and Mr. Jones
13 Gunsmoke
11:00
2/3/4/5/6/7/10/11/12/13 News
9 Better Late (Rick Campbell)
11:15
2/4/5/10/12 Inaugural Ball (both NBC and CBS covered the celebration with 45-minute late-night specials; the NBC special [picked up in Erie by WICU-TV] was reported by Frank Blair, Frank McGee, Sander Vanocur and Dina Merrill, while CBS’ special was anchored by Walter Cronkite with field reports from Charles Collingwood, Nancy Hanschman and Bill Downs)
6 Viewpoint
7 Movie (The Gunfighter, 1950 Western, with Gregory Peck)
11:20
6 News
11:30
6 Gunsmoke
11:35
3 Movie (Topaze, 1933 comedy, with John Barrymore and Myrna Loy)
11 Movie (Bengazi, 1955 melodrama, with Richard Conte)
13 Movie (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, the 1939 Frank Capra classic comedy with James Stewart and Jean Arthur)
12:00
2/5/12 Jack Paar
4 Movie (Cairo, 1942 war drama, with Robert Young and Jeanette MacDonald)
6 Wrestling (Toronto)
9 Movie (Three Stripes in the Sun, 1955 drama, with Aldo Ray and Dick York)
10 Movie (Cornered, 1945 WW2 drama, with Dick Powell)