Retro: Minnesota Mon, July 25, 1955

[Bluenoser]

from TV Guide-Minnesota State edition
The listings in this edition were a bit unusual-the order went Twin Cities (black bullets), Southern Minnesota/La Crosse-Eau Claire (white bullets), and Duluth (grey bullets)

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 Joy
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 is in the Showcase Spot for the week)
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 (Charles McCuen)
12:15 Weather Review (Bud Kraehling)
12:20 Answer Man (Gene Godt)
12:30 Art Linkletter (Jack Slattery, pinch-hitting for Art, 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 LaRosa
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)
10:45 Weather Tower (Bud Kraehling)
10:50 Sports (Dick Enroth)
11:00 Visitor
11:30 Paragon Playhouse

KSTP 5-NBC St. Paul
6:30 Billy Folger
6:55 News (George Grim)
7:00 Today (Faye Emerson and Jack Lescoulie pinch-hit for a vacationing Dave Garroway; 4 GIs about to ship out to Germany get advice from 4 GIs who were already stationed there; Florida Gov. Leroy Collins also guests)
8:00 Ding Dong School
8:30 Parents' Time
8:45 Sheilah Graham (guest of the week Gale Storm)
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
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
5:15 ABC News
5:30 Superman
6:00 Weatherman (Stydnicki)
6:05 Sports (Stevenson)
6:15 News
6:30 Concert (Leontyne Price/William Warfield)
7:00 Pee Wee King (guests Webb Pierce & his band, Charlene Mills, and roller-skating square dancers)
7:30 TBA
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 TBA
4:30 Cowboy Club
5:30 Wild Bill Hickok
6:00 Program Previews
6:05 Farm Digest
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 McCready
4:30 Trail Blazers
5:30 Mystery Manor (Pierre the Magician)
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: a 10-round lightweight bout between Tony "Sonny" Ouleo (Brooklyn NY/8-3-3, 2 KO) and Libby Manzo (Elmhurst LI/18-5-3, 5 KO)
7:45 After the Brawl
8:00 Movie "The Woman in Green"
9:00 Movie "Hi Diddle Diddle"
10:20 Baseball Scoreboard
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
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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 (Carol 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 Luck)
6:40 News (Cal Smith)
6:55 Crusader Rabbit
7:00 Comedy Review
8:00 Farm Festival (with Garfield Kuhfuss and his Gay Heinies, a name he'd never get away with these days ;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
9:30 J.P. Patches (the clown, long associated with KIRO Seattle, got his start in the Twin Cities before heading West in 1958)
10:00 Coffee Break
10:30 Morning Movie: TBA
noon Casey Jones
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
6:00 Crusader Rabbit
6:05 Weatherbird (Zimmerman)
6:15 News (Paul Sevareid)
6:30 Concert (Price/Warfield)
7:00 Ringside with Rasslers
8:00 Pee Wee King
8:30 Sportsmen's Roundtable
9:00 TV Reader's Digest "The End of Blackbeard the Pirate"
9:30 Secret File, USA
10:00 News (you guessed it...Sevareid again)
10:15 Weather
10:20 Sportlite (Frank Buetel)
10:30 Patti Page (ch 11 carried the Singing Rage Mon/Fri at 10:30; in the southern half of the state, KMMT aired Patti Wed/Fri at 6:30)
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
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"

 

[Ultimajock]

KGLO 3-CBS Mason City
1:45pm Curtain Time


KMMT 6-ABC Austin
4pm Movie: TBA


WKBT 8-CBS/NBC/ABC/DuMont La Crosse
1:45pm Little Theater


KEYD 9-DuMont Minneapolis
3:30pm Daily Drama


WEAU 13-NBC Eau Claire
3pm Pinky Lee

...geez, these sure are late sign-ons for network affiliates, even if most of the markets involved are rural communities. No Dave Garroway (apparently vacationing this week) or Tennessee Ernie Ford for La Crosse-Eau Claire, although I suspect the western portions of the market could pick up either KSTP-TV/5 and KROC-TV/10. No daytime Arthur Godfrey, Garry Moore or Art Linkletter for either La Crosse-Eau Claire or Mason City, even if Godfrey was a simulcast with CBS Radio; one would have thought that all five men were big enough stars at the time to warrant at least a brief morning sign-on and a short closedown afterward if WEAU-TV, KGLO/3 or WKBT/8 would not have wanted to stick around for the soap operas, as KROC was doing...

KMMT 6-ABC Austin
5:00 Soupy Sales

...hmmm. Kinda late for Lunch with Soupy, and kinda early for Soupy's On. Either way, would this have been kinescoped from WXYZ-TV/7 and/or fed down the ABC line?...

5:15 ABC News

...anchored by John Charles Daly at the time...

WDSM 6-CBS Duluth
9:00 Dukes Baseball

...this edition of the Duluth Dukes was the Northern League farm team of the Cincinnati Redlegs that particular season. I'm assuming this would be filmed highlights of games from the previous week rather than part of a live game, considering the late hour on the schedule. The season after this, the Dukes merged with the rival Superior Blues to become the Duluth-Superior White Sox, the Northern League farm team of the Chicago AL franchise...

WKBT 8-CBS/NBC/ABC/DuMont La Crosse
3:00 Pinky Lee
3:30 Howdy Doody


KROC 10-NBC/ABC Rochester
3:00 Pinky Lee
3:30 Howdy Doody


WEAU 13-NBC Eau Claire
3pm Pinky Lee
3:30 Howdy Doody

...interesting duplication between the two primary NBC affiliates and WKBT. I know that WKBT and WEAU-TV both carried the regionally syndicated Dick Rodgers Show out of WLUK-TV/11 Green Bay in the '60s and '70s, but for WKBT to carry two of the same network programs as KROC and WEAU during the same hour is really strange...

KDAL 3-NBC/ABC Duluth
5:55 Crusader Rabbit

KROC 10-NBC/ABC Rochester
6:55 Crusader Rabbit

WTCN 11-ABC Minneapolis
6:00 Crusader Rabbit

...of course, this is Jay Ward's first TV cartoon, years before Rocky & His Friends/The Bullwinkle Show and George of the Jungle. Although appearing on WTCN-TV/11, at the time an ABC affiliate, the majority of stations that carried Crusader Rabbit were NBC affiliates, even though the cartoon was syndicated and never actually part of the NBC network schedule...

KDAL 3-NBC/ABC Duluth
10:15 Tonight in Duluth
10:30 Tonight Show
11:00 Movie "Rosie the Riveter"


KSTP 5-NBC St. Paul
10:30 Tonight
11:00 Weather Headlines (Ingram)


KROC 10-NBC/ABC Rochester
10:15 Sports
10:30 Movie "Love Story"


WEAU 13-NBC Eau Claire
9:50 Movie "Inner Sanctum"

...also interesting to note that KDAL-TV/3 apparently had a 15-minute local version of Tonight and both KDAL-TV and KSTP-TV/5 carried only the first half-hour of the Steve Allen network version, pre-empting most of the show, while neither KROC-TV or WEAU-TV carried any part of it...

WTCN 11-ABC Minneapolis
12:30 News (Paul Sevareid)
4:00 Record Hop (Jack Thayer)
6:15 News (Paul Sevareid)
7:00 Ringside with Rasslers
10:00 News (you guessed it...Sevareid again)

...Paul Sevareid was Eric's older brother; I have no idea if Paul ever worked for one of the networks, either on radio or television. Jack Thayer would later go on to be programmer and manager for WGAR Cleveland, WNBC and WNEW New York and at one point President of the NBC Radio Division; he hired Don Imus at WGAR in 1970 and brought him to WNBC the following year. WTCN-TV/11 was for decades the production hub of Verne Gagne's American Wrestling Alliance/Association and its syndicated All-Star Wrestling; before Gagne bought a chunk of the Minneapolis Boxing and Wrestling Club on which the AWA was founded, it was a National Wrestling Alliance affiliate promotion operated by Wally Karbo and Dennis Stecher. I'm positive that Ringside with Rasslers would be MB&W's TV show at the time, as ABC's own prime time wrestling program was long gone by July 1955 (according to Brooks and Marsh); the 9:00 Rasslin' with Russ on KMMT-TV/6 Austin may or may not be a syndicated version of the same show...

 

[oldiesfan6479]

KDAL 3-NBC/ABC Duluth
10:15 Tonight in Duluth
10:30 Tonight Show
11:00 Movie "Rosie the Riveter"

KSTP 5-NBC St. Paul
10:30 Tonight
11:00 Weather Headlines (Ingram)

...also interesting to note that KDAL-TV/3 apparently had a 15-minute local version of Tonight and both KDAL-TV and KSTP-TV/5
carried only the first half-hour of the Steve Allen network version, pre-empting most of the show...

Actually, I think they JIPped the network for just the last half hour of Tonight. The show
would have come down 9:15-11:00 CST. 1955 was before video tape.

 

[Ultimajock]

KDAL 3-NBC/ABC Duluth
10:15 Tonight in Duluth
10:30 Tonight Show
11:00 Movie "Rosie the Riveter"

KSTP 5-NBC St. Paul
10:30 Tonight
11:00 Weather Headlines (Ingram)

...also interesting to note that KDAL-TV/3 apparently had a 15-minute local version of Tonight and both KDAL-TV and KSTP-TV/5
carried only the first half-hour of the Steve Allen network version, pre-empting most of the show...

Actually, I think they JIPped the network for just the last half hour of Tonight. The show
would have come down 9:15-11:00 CST. 1955 was before video tape.

...no, Brooks & Marsh list Tonight as running from 11:30 PM to 1:00 AM Eastern (10:30 PM to Midnight Central) from its premiere in September 1954 to October of 1956. When Ernie Kovacs started splitting weeks with Steve Allen as host of Tonight in October 1956, the show was cut back to one hour, 11:30 PM to 12:30 AM Eastern; it wasn't until Kovacs and Allen left and Tonight! America After Dark premiered in January 1957 that the show started at 11:15 PM Eastern/10:15 PM Central...

 

[jh]

...geez, these sure are late sign-ons for network affiliates, even if most of the markets involved are rural communities. No Dave Garroway (apparently vacationing this week) or Tennessee Ernie Ford for La Crosse-Eau Claire, although I suspect the western portions of the market could pick up either KSTP-TV/5 and KROC-TV/10. No daytime Arthur Godfrey, Garry Moore or Art Linkletter for either La Crosse-Eau Claire or Mason City, even if Godfrey was a simulcast with CBS Radio; one would have thought that all five men were big enough stars at the time to warrant at least a brief morning sign-on and a short closedown afterward if WEAU-TV, KGLO/3 or WKBT/8 would not have wanted to stick around for the soap operas, as KROC was doing...

Probably not enough ad revenue to justify earlier sign ons... but I wonder if staffing was also a problem for these small stations. All these stations signing on in the early 50s, needing engineers, production people, etc. Maybe not enough to go around?

 

[oldiesfan6479]

...Brooks & Marsh list Tonight as running from...(10:30 PM to Midnight Central) from its premiere in September 1954 to October of 1956.

Which is 9:30-11:00 CST for these stations in July 1955. I still maintain the stations
in question aired (10:30-11:00) only the last half hour of the show.

 

[jh]

...Brooks & Marsh list Tonight as running from...(10:30 PM to Midnight Central) from its premiere in September 1954 to October of 1956.

Which is 9:30-11:00 CST for these stations in July 1955. I still maintain the stations
in question aired (10:30-11:00) only the last half hour of the show.

According to Castleman/Podrazik, the summer 1955 schedule for Monday on NBC is (Eastern time) 8:00 Producer's Showcase, 9:30 Robert Montgomery. KSTP is running them two hours ahead. So that would put Tonight 9:30-11pm. Was NBC running their schedule on Eastern Daylight time?

 

[oldiesfan6479]

...the summer 1955 schedule for Monday on NBC is (Eastern time) 8:00 Producer's Showcase,
9:30 Robert Montgomery. KSTP is running them two hours ahead earlier.

Fixed.

Was NBC running their schedule on Eastern Daylight time?

From the last Sunday in April until the last Sunday in October in 1955,
that would be yes.

The area of the country in these listings was on CST at that time.

 

[Ultimajock]

...Brooks & Marsh list Tonight as running from...(10:30 PM to Midnight Central) from its premiere in September 1954 to October of 1956.

Which is 9:30-11:00 CST for these stations in July 1955. I still maintain the stations
in question aired (10:30-11:00) only the last half hour of the show.

...you're not reading this correctly. How does 10:30 to Midnight Central become 9:30 to 11:00 Central?? Perhaps you're confusing it with the time Phoenix and Tucson would get the feeds, which would be 9:30 to 11:00 Mountain...

 

[oldiesfan6479]

...you're not reading this correctly. How does 10:30 to Midnight Central become 9:30 to 11:00 Central??

In summer 1955, 11:30 PM-1:00 AM EDT was 10:30 PM-12:00 AM CDT, as you state.

Just as it is today.

However, these areas were on CST, which resulted in Tonight coming into the area from
9:30 PM-11:00 PM CST.

Just don't ask about October of '55--it was real wacky in a lot of places.

 

[Ultimajock]

...you're not reading this correctly. How does 10:30 to Midnight Central become 9:30 to 11:00 Central??

In summer 1955, 11:30 PM-1:00 AM EDT was 10:30 PM-12:00 AM CDT, as you state.

Just as it is today.

However, these areas were on CST, which resulted in Tonight coming into the area from
9:30 PM-11:00 PM CST.

Just don't ask about October of '55--it was real wacky in a lot of places.

...okeh. got it now. Also did a little checking and it appears the post-WW2 administration of Daylight Savings Time was a shambles. Didn't realise that. Apologies, my bad...

 

[visaman]

from TV Guide-Minnesota State edition
The listings in this edition were a bit unusual-the order went Twin Cities (black bullets), Southern Minnesota/La Crosse-Eau Claire (white bullets), and Duluth (grey bullets)


WTCN 11-ABC Minneapolis
9:30 J.P. Patches (the clown, long associated with KIRO Seattle, got his start in the Twin Cities before heading West in 1958)

I was aware of it of course, but it's still freaky to read a listing of Patches other than Seattle. I wonder what the show was like. Actually there was another person playing Patches before Chris Wedes took over the role. I wonder if this is the first Patches?

http://jppatches.com/

 

[Wright County Guy]

...you're not reading this correctly. How does 10:30 to Midnight Central become 9:30 to 11:00 Central??

In summer 1955, 11:30 PM-1:00 AM EDT was 10:30 PM-12:00 AM CDT, as you state.

Just as it is today.

However, these areas were on CST, which resulted in Tonight coming into the area from
9:30 PM-11:00 PM CST.

Just don't ask about October of '55--it was real wacky in a lot of places.

At one time, Minneapolis and St. Paul had two different times. Yikes.
http://www.northwood.cc/5-things-you-didnt-know-about-daylight-savings-time/