Retro: Minnesota Sat, July 23, 1955

[Bluenoser]

from TV Guide-Minnesota State edition

KGLO 3-CBS Mason City
11:15 Curtain Time
12:15 Dizzy Dean (Dazzy Vance joins Dizzy to honor the new members of the Baseball Hall of Fame: Joe DiMaggio, Ted Lyons, Gabby Hartnett, Roy Schalk, Homerun Baker, and Dazzy himself)
12:25 Baseball: it's the Battle of the Sox as Chicago hosts Boston at Comiskey
2:45 off air
3:30 Movie "Pride of the Legion"
5:15 Chicago Markets
5:25 Farm Bureau
5:30 Sagebrush Saga
6:45 Your Children's Safety
7:00 Two for the Money
7:30 Down You Go
8:00 TV's Top Tunes (guests Patricia Wright and Eddy Arnold)
8:30 Life with Father
9:00 Your Children's Safety
9:15 Contrasts in Rhythm
9:30 Mayor of the Town
10:00 News
10:10 Your Children's Safety
10:25 Movie "Yellow Cargo"

KDAL 3-NBC/ABC Duluth
4pm Videoscope
4:30 Movie "Rookies on Parade"
5:30 Soldiers of Fortune
6:00 Lone Ranger
6:30 Dollar a Second
7:00 Musical Chairs (panelists: Johnny Mercer, Mel Blanc, Bobby Troup, and June Christy; Mel sings "April Showers" on this episode, with Johnny and Bobby teaming up for "I'm Such a Hungry Man")
7:30 Soldier Parade
8:00 Here's the Show (Jonathan Winters plays a air-travelling businessman and an African explorer)
8:30 Play Time "Rescue"
9:00 Treasury Men
9:30 Big Town
10:00 Star Theater
10:30 Masquerade Party
11:00 Chicago Wrestling

WCCO 4-CBS Minneapolis
7:30 Western Adventure "The Crimson Ghost"
8:30 Axel & His Dog
9:00 Winky Dink & You
9:30 Captain Midnight
10:00 Serial Adventure "Terry and the Pirates"
10:30 Hobby Showcase
11:00 Lone Ranger
11:30 This is the Story
11:45 Big Picture
12:15 Dizzy Dean
12:25 Baseball: Boston-Chicago
3:00 After the Game
3:10 Film
3:30 World of Aviation
4:00 Joe Palooka
4:30 Wild Bill Hickok
5:00 TBA
5:30 Beat the Clock
6:00 America's Bands (guests: the bands of Art Mooney, Count Basie, Rudy Vallee, and Xavier Cugat)
7:00 Two for the Money
7:30 Down You Go
8:00 Hopalong Cassidy
8:30 Damon Runyon Theater "The Big Fix"
9:00 Wrestling
10:00 Report
10:30 Movie "No Minor Vices"

KSTP 5-NBC St. Paul
7:20 Movie "Rubber Racketeers"
8:00 Pinky Lee
8:30 Winchell & Mahoney
9:00 Commando Cody (premiere) "SOS Ice Age"
9:30 Mr. Wizard
10:00 Movie "Mysterious Raiders"
11:00 Movie "Boss of Rawhide"
11:30 Film
noon Big Picture
12:30 Movie "Manhattan Love Song"
2:00 Movie "The Kid Rides Again"
3:00 Movie "Prison Shadows"
4:00 Frontiers of the Future "Men Toward the Light"/"Bonnie Scotland"/"A Woman's Story"
4:30 World Around Us
5:00 Industry on Parade
5:15 Showcase
5:30 Horace Heidt (tribute to New Jersey with guest Lionel Hampton)
6:00 Soldiers
6:30 Dunninger
7:00 Musical Chairs
7:30 Jimmy Durante
8:00 Here's the Show
8:30 Play Time "Rescue"
9:00 Bandstand Revue
9:30 Bob Cummings
10:00 News
10:15 Weather
10:20 Sports
10:30 Call the Play
10:45 Barn Dance

KMMT 6-ABC Austin
4pm Movie: TBA
5:00 Flight #7 (exploring Scandinavia)
5:30 Ozark Jubilee (guest Johnny Bond)
6:30 TBA
7:00 Lawrence Welk
8:00 Compass
8:30 Movie: TBA

WDSM 6-CBS Duluth
11:15 Movie: TBA
12:15 Dizzy Dean
12:25 Baseball: Boston-Chicago
3:30 Sports Highlights
4:00 Western Theater
5:30 Soldiers of Fortune
6:00 America's Bands
7:00 Two for the Money
7:30 Triangle Theater
8:00 Saturday Theater
8:30 Dukes Baseball
10:00 News
10:10 Weather
10:15 Movie "Unknown Island"

WKBT 8-ABC/CBS/NBC/DuMont La Crosse
11:15 Roy Rogers
12:15 Dizzy Dean
12:25 Baseball: Boston-Chicago
3:00 Scoreboard
4:30 Christophers
5:00 Big Top
6:00 Soldiers
6:30 World We Live In
7:00 Musical Chairs
7:30 Down You Go
8:00 Here's the Show
8:30 Play Time "Rescue"
9:00 Lawrence Welk
10:00 Weather/News
10:10 Movie: TBA

KEYD 9-DuMont Minneapolis
noon Film
12:30 Big Picture
1:00 Saturday Out West
3:00 Slim Jim's Amateurs
3:30 Trailblazers
4:30 Film
5:00 Saturday Out West
5:30 Film
5:55 Top of the News
6:00 News
6:15 Sports
6:25 Mister Weather
6:30 Slim Jim's Show
7:30 Hollywood Offbeat
8:00 Curtain Call "Nothing So Monstrous"
8:30 Laff Time
9:00 Movie "The Powers Girl"
10:15 Baseball Scoreboard
10:30 News/Weather/Sports
10:45 Movie "That's My Gal"

KROC 10-NBC/ABC Rochester
6pm Soldiers
6:30 Air Force Digest
7:00 Musical Chairs
7:30 Movie "Fighting Back"
8:30 Play Time "Rescue"
9:00 Hollywood Wrestling
10:00 Movie "A Man About the House"

WTCN 11-ABC Minneapolis
10:00 Chuck Wagon Chuck
11:30 Film
11:45 Sister Fern
noon Western Theater
1:00 Religious Town Hall Meeting "Can a Christian Really Follow Jesus?"
1:30 Christophers
2:00 Western Theater
3:00 Charlie Chan Theater
4:15 Joe Palooka Theater
5:30 Captain 11
6:00 Ozark Jubilee (guest Johnny Bond)
7:00 Lawrence Welk
8:00 Jack Thayer
8:30 Movie "The Dude Goes West"
10:00 News
10:15 Weather
10:20 Sports
10:30 Movie "Pimpernel Smith"

WEAU 13-NBC Eau Claire
4pm Movie "The Vicious Years"
5:30 Cartoon Time
6:00 Soldiers
6:30 Western Roundup
7:00 Musical Chairs
7:30 TBA
8:00 It's a Great Life
8:30 Play Time "Rescue"
9:00 Top of the News
9:15 Lawrence Welk
10:15 Movie "The Devil's Brother"

 

[KeithE4]

12:15 Dizzy Dean (Dazzy Vance joins Dizzy to honor the new members of the Baseball Hall of Fame: Joe DiMaggio, Ted Lyons, Gabby Hartnett, Roy Schalk, Homerun Baker, and Dazzy himself)

That must be a typo. Ray Schalk is in the Hall of Fame, not Roy Schalk. Ray and Frank "Home Run" Baker were elected by the Veterans Committee in 1955.

Ray "Cracker" Schalk was a catcher with the White Sox between 1912 and 1928 (one of the "clean" players on the infamous 1919 team), and the NY Baseball Giants in '29. Roy Schalk, a second baseman, had a cup of coffee with the Yankees in 1932, and spent two seasons with the White Sox in 1944 & '45. Not exactly HOF material. As far as I know, they were not related.

And, Joe DiMaggio & Ted Lyons were last players elected to the HOF under the old one-year eligibility rule (which also allowed Babe Ruth to be among the original 1936 inductees, having retired in the middle of the '35 season).

 

[FreddyE1977]

8:30 Dukes Baseball

The old Duluth-Superior Dukes of the Northern League had a television deal?
I'm impressed!

 

[Stanislav]

KDAL 3-NBC/ABC Duluth

7:00 Musical Chairs (panelists: Johnny Mercer, Mel Blanc, Bobby Troup, and June Christy; Mel sings "April Showers" on this episode, with Johnny and Bobby teaming up for "I'm Such a Hungry Man")

Mel Blanc was no musical slouch (after all, he sang quite credibly in his character's voices, everything from hillbilly to opera!), but I've never heard of him having the opportunity to do a straight song. Unless this wasn't "straight" at all, and he used a character voice to do a comic turn here. (I can imagine Porky Pig singing "April Showers...")

 

[bpatrick]

Isn't there a Bugs Bunny cartoon where he's using a waterfall
for a shower; Black Jack Shellaque is trying to dam it up, but
in that cartoon Bugs sings "April Showers" in a credible imitation
of Al Jolson? And we all know Mel was Bugs' voice.

 

[oldiesfan6479]

Times are Central Standard.

 

[cd637299]

If my Strat-o-Matic Hall of Fame playing cards are correct, Ray Schalk was one of the vey few HOF position players to hit well under .300 (.279 according to the card).

He caught *4* no-hitters, which may have vaulted him into the Hall.

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[wbhist]

Isn't there a Bugs Bunny cartoon where he's using a waterfall for a shower; Black Jack Shellaque is trying to dam it up, but in that cartoon Bugs sings "April Showers" in a credible imitation of Al Jolson? And we all know Mel was Bugs' voice.

Yeah. Wet Hare (1962). A staple for years of the network Bugs Bunny presentations.