from TV Guide-Minnesota State edition
This edition had 3 flavors of bullets- black, white, and gray...listing them in order of color, regardless of channel number (black first, followed by white, and then gray):
Black-Twin Cities
White-Southern Minnesota, La Crosse/Eau Claire
Gray-Duluth
KGLO 3-CBS Mason City
1:45pm Curtain Time
2:00 Brighter Day
2:15 Valiant Lady
2:30 On Your Account
3:00 At Home with Jay
3:30 Music
4:00 Super Show
5:00 Line Shack
5:55 Farm Digest
6:00 News
6:10 Sports
6:20 Checkerboard
6:30 Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts
7:00 Whiting Girls
7:30 Ethel & Albert
8:00 Mayor of the Town
8:30 Barn Dance
9:00 Industry on Parade
9:15 Weekly News Review
9:30 Anywhere USA
10:00 Weather/News/Sports
10:30 Movie "Broadway Limited"
KDAL 3-NBC/ABC Duluth
9:00 Home
10:00 Tennessee Ernie Ford
10:30 Feather Your Nest
11:00 Movie: TBA
1:00 Ted Mack's Matinee (Anna Maria Saritelli starts off a week in the Showcase Spot)
1:30 It Pays to Be Married
2:00 Way of the World
2:15 First Love
2:30 Mr. Sweeney "The Franklin Family Gets the Business"
2:45 Modern Romances "Beverly"
3:00 Pinky Lee
3:30 Howdy Doody
4:00 Captain Joe
5:00 Mr. Tolliver's Travels
5:30 Western Ranger
5:55 Crusader Rabbit
6:00 News
6:10 Weather (Paymar)
6:15 Three Yanks
6:30 Danny Thomas
7:00 TBA
7:30 Robert Montgomery Presents "Thunder Stone"
8:30 Damon Runyon Theater
9:00 Comedy Review
10:00 News/Sports
10:10 Weather
10:15 Tonight in Duluth
10:30 Tonight Show
11:00 Movie "Rosie the Riveter"
WCCO 4-CBS Minneapolis
7:00 Morning Show (Van Dyke)
8:00 Garry Moore
8:30 Arthur Godfrey
9:30 Strike It Rich
10:00 Valiant Lady
10:15 Love of Life
10:30 Search for Tomorrow
10:45 Guiding Light
11:00 Mel Jass
11:30 Welcome Travelers
noon News at Noon (McCuen)
12:15 Weather Window (Kraehling)
12:20 Answer Man (Gene Godt)
12:30 Art Linkletter (guest host Jack Slattery welcomes Wee Bonnie Baker)
1:00 Big Payoff
1:30 Bob Crosby
2:00 Brighter Day
2:15 Secret Storm
2:30 On Your Account
3:00 Around the Town (Haeberle)
3:30 Hollywood Playhouse "Forever My Heart"
4:00 Robert Q. Lewis
4:30 Fish 'n' Chips
4:45 Axel & His Dog
5:30 CBS News
5:45 Julius La Rosa
6:00 News
6:15 Sports
6:25 Weather
6:30 Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts
7:00 Whiting Girls
7:30 Ethel & Albert
8:00 Studio One "The Tall Dark Stranger"
9:00 Star Theater "Payment in Kind"
9:30 Burns & Allen
10:00 Bob Cummings
10:30 News (Rollie Johnson, TVG's ad gives it the title of Tomorrow's News Tonight)
10:45 Weather Tower (Kraehling)
10:50 Sports (Dick Enrath)
11:00 Visitor
11:30 Program Playhouse
KSTP 5-NBC St. Paul
6:30 Billy Folger
6:55 News (George Grim)
7:00 Today (Faye Emerson and Jack Lescoulie fill in for Garroway...4 GIs about to ship out to Germany get advice from 4 GIs who have been stationed there, also an appearance by Florida Gov. Leroy Collins)
8:00 Ding Dong School
8:30 Parents' Time
8:45 Sheilah Graham (guest of the week Gale Storm, Barry Sullivan also appears)
9:00 Home
10:00 Tennessee Ernie Ford
10:30 Feather Your Nest
11:00 Bee Baxter
11:20 Morning Movie "Vengeance"
noon News In Sight (Ingram)
12:15 Main Street (David Stone)
1:00 Ted Mack's Matinee
1:30 It Pays to be Married
2:00 Way of the World
2:15 First Love
2:30 Mr. Sweeney "The Franklin Family Gets the Business"
2:45 Modern Romances "Beverly"
3:00 Pinky Lee
3:30 Howdy Doody
4:00 Boots & Saddles "Two Gun Man"
5:00 Commander Saturn
5:30 News Picture
5:45 You Should Know
6:00 Producers' Showcase "The Fourposter" (in RCA Compatible Color)
7:30 Robert Montgomery Presents "Thunder Stone"
8:30 Comedy Review (guest Judy Tyler)
9:30 Badge 714 (Dragnet)
10:00 News
10:15 Weather
10:20 Sports (Dick Nesbitt)
10:30 Tonight Show
11:00 Weather Headlines (Ingram)
11:05 Nesbitt's Scoreboard
11:10 Movie "Jim the Penman"
KMMT 6-ABC Austin
4pm Movie: TBA
5:00 Soupy Sales
5:30 Superman
6:00 Weatherman (Stydnicki)
6:05 Sports (Stevenson)
6:15 News
6:30 Concert (Leontyne Price and her husband William Warfield perform)
7:00 Pee Wee King (guests Webb Pierce and his band, Charlene Mills, and some roller-skating square dancers!)
7:30 off air?
8:30 Bobby Thomsen
9:00 Rasslin' with Russ
10:00 News
10:15 Weather
10:20 Variety Theater
WDSM 6-CBS Duluth
9:15 Arthur Godfrey
9:30 Film Program
10:00 Valiant Lady
10:15 Love of Life
10:30 Search for Tomorrow
10:45 Guiding Light
11:00 Jack Paar
11:30 Welcome Travelers
noon House Party
12:15 Movie: TBA
1:30 Bob Crosby
2:00 Brighter Day
2:15 Secret Storm
2:30 On Your Account
3:00 Time for Terry
3:30 Film Program
4:00 World We Live In
4:30 C-Bar-6
5:00 Air Force Dedication
5:30 CBS News
5:45 News
5:55 Weather (McKenna)
6:00 Superman
6:30 Cisco Kid
7:00 Whiting Girls
7:30 Boston Blackie
8:00 Studio One "The Tall Dark Stranger"
9:00 Dukes Baseball
10:00 News
10:15 Sports
10:25 Weather
10:30 Movie "Drifting Along"
WKBT 8-CBS/NBC/ABC/DuMont La Crosse
1:45pm Little Theater
2:00 Brighter Day
2:15 Secret Storm
2:30 On Your Account
3:00 Pinky Lee
3:30 Howdy Doody
4:00 off air
4:30 Cowboy Club
5:30 Wild Bill Hickok
6:00 Program Previews
6:10 Sports
6:15 News
6:25 Weather
6:30 Big Picture
6:45 Marge & Jeff
7:00 Whiting Girls
7:30 Ethel & Albert
8:00 Badge 714 (Dragnet)
8:30 Coulee Crossroads
9:00 Guy Lombardo
9:30 Mystery Theater
10:00 Weather/News/Sports
10:20 Playhouse 15
10:35 Iowa Sportsman
KEYD 9-DuMont Minneapolis
3:30pm Daily Drama
4:00 Marjorie Ellis McCrady
4:30 Trail Blazers
5:30 Mystery Manor (with Pierre the Magician and Popcorn the rabbit...according to a TVG ad, the show came from "Africa" that week, with Popcorn packing heat in case he ran into any rhinos or cobras)
5:45 News
6:00 News
6:15 Sports
6:25 Weather
6:30 Norman Vincent Peale
6:45 MD
6:55 Paradox
7:00 St. Nick's Boxing: 10 round lightweight bout between Brooklyn's Tony "Sonny" Puleo (8-3-3, 2 KO) and Elmhurst LI's Libby Manzo (18-5-3, 3 KO)
7:45 After the Brawl
8:00 Movie "The Woman in Green"
9:00 Movie "Hi Diddle Diddle"
10:30 News/Weather/Sports
10:45 Movie "Sensation"
KROC 10-NBC/ABC Rochester
7:00 Today
8:00 Ding Dong School
8:30 Parents' Time
8:45 Sheilah Graham
9:00 Home
10:00 Tennessee Ernie Ford
10:30 Feather Your Nest
11:00 off air
2:30 Mr. Sweeney "The Franklin Family Gets the Business"
2:45 Modern Romances "Beverly"
3:00 Pinky Lee
3:30 Howdy Doody
4:00 Story Tales (Gayle Korsmo)
4:15 Carol's Desk (Carole Eittreim)
4:30 Movie "Hurricane at Pilgrim Hill"
5:45 Camel News Caravan
6:00 Old Time Laff Riots
6:20 Weather (Norm Selby)
6:30 Sports (Bernie Lusk)
6:40 News (Cal Smith)
6:55 Crusader Rabbit
7:00 Comedy Review
8:00 Farm Festival (with Garfield Kuhfuss & the Gay Heinies...I just relay them, I don't explain them ;D)
8:30 Big Picture
9:00 Church Points the Way
9:30 Concert Hall
9:45 Industry on Parade
10:00 News
10:10 Weather
10:15 Sports
10:30 Movie "Love Story"
WTCN 11-ABC Minneapolis (WTCN shared the frequency with WMIN-TV from 1953 to April 1955)
9:30 J.P. Patches (the same guy from KIRO-TV Seattle, he relocated there in 1958)
10:00 Coffee Break
10:30 Morning Movie
noon Casey Jones (Lunch with Casey-Chris Wedes, who played J.P. Patches, played Joe the Cook on this show)
12:30 News (Paul Sevareid)
12:45 Relax
1:00 Movie "The Kid Sister"
2:15 Movie Quick Quiz
2:30 Movie "The Sicilian"
4:00 Record Hop (Jack Thayer)
4:30 Sheriff Sev
5:00 Kartoon Kapers
5:30 Captain 11 "The Lost Jungle"
6:00 Crusader Rabbit
6:05 Weatherbird (Zimmerman)
6:15 News
6:30 Concert
7:00 Ringside with Rasslers
8:00 Pee Wee King
8:30 Sportsman's Roundtable
9:00 TV Reader's Digest "The End of Blackbeard the Pirate"
9:30 Secret File, USA
10:00 News
10:15 Weather
10:20 Sportlite (Frank Buetel)
10:30 Patti Page
10:45 Movie "South of Pago Pago"
WEAU 13-NBC Eau Claire
3pm Pinky Lee
3:30 Howdy Doody
4:00 Movie "Black Widow"
5:30 Cartoons
5:45 Camel News Caravan
6:00 Music & News
6:45 Town Crier
7:00 Comedy Review
8:00 Masquerade Party
8:30 All Star Theater
9:00 I Led Three Lives
9:30 Top of the News (Wright)
9:40 Whatever the Weather
9:45 Sports Parade
9:50 Movie "Inner Sanctum"
This edition had 3 flavors of bullets- black, white, and gray...listing them in order of color, regardless of channel number (black first, followed by white, and then gray):
Black-Twin Cities
White-Southern Minnesota, La Crosse/Eau Claire
Gray-Duluth
KGLO 3-CBS Mason City
1:45pm Curtain Time
2:00 Brighter Day
2:15 Valiant Lady
2:30 On Your Account
3:00 At Home with Jay
3:30 Music
4:00 Super Show
5:00 Line Shack
5:55 Farm Digest
6:00 News
6:10 Sports
6:20 Checkerboard
6:30 Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts
7:00 Whiting Girls
7:30 Ethel & Albert
8:00 Mayor of the Town
8:30 Barn Dance
9:00 Industry on Parade
9:15 Weekly News Review
9:30 Anywhere USA
10:00 Weather/News/Sports
10:30 Movie "Broadway Limited"
KDAL 3-NBC/ABC Duluth
9:00 Home
10:00 Tennessee Ernie Ford
10:30 Feather Your Nest
11:00 Movie: TBA
1:00 Ted Mack's Matinee (Anna Maria Saritelli starts off a week in the Showcase Spot)
1:30 It Pays to Be Married
2:00 Way of the World
2:15 First Love
2:30 Mr. Sweeney "The Franklin Family Gets the Business"
2:45 Modern Romances "Beverly"
3:00 Pinky Lee
3:30 Howdy Doody
4:00 Captain Joe
5:00 Mr. Tolliver's Travels
5:30 Western Ranger
5:55 Crusader Rabbit
6:00 News
6:10 Weather (Paymar)
6:15 Three Yanks
6:30 Danny Thomas
7:00 TBA
7:30 Robert Montgomery Presents "Thunder Stone"
8:30 Damon Runyon Theater
9:00 Comedy Review
10:00 News/Sports
10:10 Weather
10:15 Tonight in Duluth
10:30 Tonight Show
11:00 Movie "Rosie the Riveter"
WCCO 4-CBS Minneapolis
7:00 Morning Show (Van Dyke)
8:00 Garry Moore
8:30 Arthur Godfrey
9:30 Strike It Rich
10:00 Valiant Lady
10:15 Love of Life
10:30 Search for Tomorrow
10:45 Guiding Light
11:00 Mel Jass
11:30 Welcome Travelers
noon News at Noon (McCuen)
12:15 Weather Window (Kraehling)
12:20 Answer Man (Gene Godt)
12:30 Art Linkletter (guest host Jack Slattery welcomes Wee Bonnie Baker)
1:00 Big Payoff
1:30 Bob Crosby
2:00 Brighter Day
2:15 Secret Storm
2:30 On Your Account
3:00 Around the Town (Haeberle)
3:30 Hollywood Playhouse "Forever My Heart"
4:00 Robert Q. Lewis
4:30 Fish 'n' Chips
4:45 Axel & His Dog
5:30 CBS News
5:45 Julius La Rosa
6:00 News
6:15 Sports
6:25 Weather
6:30 Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts
7:00 Whiting Girls
7:30 Ethel & Albert
8:00 Studio One "The Tall Dark Stranger"
9:00 Star Theater "Payment in Kind"
9:30 Burns & Allen
10:00 Bob Cummings
10:30 News (Rollie Johnson, TVG's ad gives it the title of Tomorrow's News Tonight)
10:45 Weather Tower (Kraehling)
10:50 Sports (Dick Enrath)
11:00 Visitor
11:30 Program Playhouse
KSTP 5-NBC St. Paul
6:30 Billy Folger
6:55 News (George Grim)
7:00 Today (Faye Emerson and Jack Lescoulie fill in for Garroway...4 GIs about to ship out to Germany get advice from 4 GIs who have been stationed there, also an appearance by Florida Gov. Leroy Collins)
8:00 Ding Dong School
8:30 Parents' Time
8:45 Sheilah Graham (guest of the week Gale Storm, Barry Sullivan also appears)
9:00 Home
10:00 Tennessee Ernie Ford
10:30 Feather Your Nest
11:00 Bee Baxter
11:20 Morning Movie "Vengeance"
noon News In Sight (Ingram)
12:15 Main Street (David Stone)
1:00 Ted Mack's Matinee
1:30 It Pays to be Married
2:00 Way of the World
2:15 First Love
2:30 Mr. Sweeney "The Franklin Family Gets the Business"
2:45 Modern Romances "Beverly"
3:00 Pinky Lee
3:30 Howdy Doody
4:00 Boots & Saddles "Two Gun Man"
5:00 Commander Saturn
5:30 News Picture
5:45 You Should Know
6:00 Producers' Showcase "The Fourposter" (in RCA Compatible Color)
7:30 Robert Montgomery Presents "Thunder Stone"
8:30 Comedy Review (guest Judy Tyler)
9:30 Badge 714 (Dragnet)
10:00 News
10:15 Weather
10:20 Sports (Dick Nesbitt)
10:30 Tonight Show
11:00 Weather Headlines (Ingram)
11:05 Nesbitt's Scoreboard
11:10 Movie "Jim the Penman"
KMMT 6-ABC Austin
4pm Movie: TBA
5:00 Soupy Sales
5:30 Superman
6:00 Weatherman (Stydnicki)
6:05 Sports (Stevenson)
6:15 News
6:30 Concert (Leontyne Price and her husband William Warfield perform)
7:00 Pee Wee King (guests Webb Pierce and his band, Charlene Mills, and some roller-skating square dancers!)
7:30 off air?
8:30 Bobby Thomsen
9:00 Rasslin' with Russ
10:00 News
10:15 Weather
10:20 Variety Theater
WDSM 6-CBS Duluth
9:15 Arthur Godfrey
9:30 Film Program
10:00 Valiant Lady
10:15 Love of Life
10:30 Search for Tomorrow
10:45 Guiding Light
11:00 Jack Paar
11:30 Welcome Travelers
noon House Party
12:15 Movie: TBA
1:30 Bob Crosby
2:00 Brighter Day
2:15 Secret Storm
2:30 On Your Account
3:00 Time for Terry
3:30 Film Program
4:00 World We Live In
4:30 C-Bar-6
5:00 Air Force Dedication
5:30 CBS News
5:45 News
5:55 Weather (McKenna)
6:00 Superman
6:30 Cisco Kid
7:00 Whiting Girls
7:30 Boston Blackie
8:00 Studio One "The Tall Dark Stranger"
9:00 Dukes Baseball
10:00 News
10:15 Sports
10:25 Weather
10:30 Movie "Drifting Along"
WKBT 8-CBS/NBC/ABC/DuMont La Crosse
1:45pm Little Theater
2:00 Brighter Day
2:15 Secret Storm
2:30 On Your Account
3:00 Pinky Lee
3:30 Howdy Doody
4:00 off air
4:30 Cowboy Club
5:30 Wild Bill Hickok
6:00 Program Previews
6:10 Sports
6:15 News
6:25 Weather
6:30 Big Picture
6:45 Marge & Jeff
7:00 Whiting Girls
7:30 Ethel & Albert
8:00 Badge 714 (Dragnet)
8:30 Coulee Crossroads
9:00 Guy Lombardo
9:30 Mystery Theater
10:00 Weather/News/Sports
10:20 Playhouse 15
10:35 Iowa Sportsman
KEYD 9-DuMont Minneapolis
3:30pm Daily Drama
4:00 Marjorie Ellis McCrady
4:30 Trail Blazers
5:30 Mystery Manor (with Pierre the Magician and Popcorn the rabbit...according to a TVG ad, the show came from "Africa" that week, with Popcorn packing heat in case he ran into any rhinos or cobras)
5:45 News
6:00 News
6:15 Sports
6:25 Weather
6:30 Norman Vincent Peale
6:45 MD
6:55 Paradox
7:00 St. Nick's Boxing: 10 round lightweight bout between Brooklyn's Tony "Sonny" Puleo (8-3-3, 2 KO) and Elmhurst LI's Libby Manzo (18-5-3, 3 KO)
7:45 After the Brawl
8:00 Movie "The Woman in Green"
9:00 Movie "Hi Diddle Diddle"
10:30 News/Weather/Sports
10:45 Movie "Sensation"
KROC 10-NBC/ABC Rochester
7:00 Today
8:00 Ding Dong School
8:30 Parents' Time
8:45 Sheilah Graham
9:00 Home
10:00 Tennessee Ernie Ford
10:30 Feather Your Nest
11:00 off air
2:30 Mr. Sweeney "The Franklin Family Gets the Business"
2:45 Modern Romances "Beverly"
3:00 Pinky Lee
3:30 Howdy Doody
4:00 Story Tales (Gayle Korsmo)
4:15 Carol's Desk (Carole Eittreim)
4:30 Movie "Hurricane at Pilgrim Hill"
5:45 Camel News Caravan
6:00 Old Time Laff Riots
6:20 Weather (Norm Selby)
6:30 Sports (Bernie Lusk)
6:40 News (Cal Smith)
6:55 Crusader Rabbit
7:00 Comedy Review
8:00 Farm Festival (with Garfield Kuhfuss & the Gay Heinies...I just relay them, I don't explain them ;D)
8:30 Big Picture
9:00 Church Points the Way
9:30 Concert Hall
9:45 Industry on Parade
10:00 News
10:10 Weather
10:15 Sports
10:30 Movie "Love Story"
WTCN 11-ABC Minneapolis (WTCN shared the frequency with WMIN-TV from 1953 to April 1955)
9:30 J.P. Patches (the same guy from KIRO-TV Seattle, he relocated there in 1958)
10:00 Coffee Break
10:30 Morning Movie
noon Casey Jones (Lunch with Casey-Chris Wedes, who played J.P. Patches, played Joe the Cook on this show)
12:30 News (Paul Sevareid)
12:45 Relax
1:00 Movie "The Kid Sister"
2:15 Movie Quick Quiz
2:30 Movie "The Sicilian"
4:00 Record Hop (Jack Thayer)
4:30 Sheriff Sev
5:00 Kartoon Kapers
5:30 Captain 11 "The Lost Jungle"
6:00 Crusader Rabbit
6:05 Weatherbird (Zimmerman)
6:15 News
6:30 Concert
7:00 Ringside with Rasslers
8:00 Pee Wee King
8:30 Sportsman's Roundtable
9:00 TV Reader's Digest "The End of Blackbeard the Pirate"
9:30 Secret File, USA
10:00 News
10:15 Weather
10:20 Sportlite (Frank Buetel)
10:30 Patti Page
10:45 Movie "South of Pago Pago"
WEAU 13-NBC Eau Claire
3pm Pinky Lee
3:30 Howdy Doody
4:00 Movie "Black Widow"
5:30 Cartoons
5:45 Camel News Caravan
6:00 Music & News
6:45 Town Crier
7:00 Comedy Review
8:00 Masquerade Party
8:30 All Star Theater
9:00 I Led Three Lives
9:30 Top of the News (Wright)
9:40 Whatever the Weather
9:45 Sports Parade
9:50 Movie "Inner Sanctum"
