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Retro: New England - Sunday, February 28, 1954

Source: New England Region TV Guide

4 – WBZ Boston (NBC)
09:00a Johns Hopkins Science Review – “The Most Precise Balance in the World” (DuMont, delayed from Wednesday @ 8p)
09:30a Mr. Wizard – science (NBC)
10:00a Frontiers of Faith – religion
10:30a Living Book – religion; “Isaac and Rebecca”
11:00a Our Believing World – Rabbi Ronald Gittlesohn officiates a service of worship from Temple Israel, Boston
11:30a Film Short – cooking
11:45a Joe DiMaggio – sports
12:00p News – Local, National
12:15p Adventures of Capt. Hartz – stories for youngsters
12:30p Twenty Questions – panel; Fred Van Deventer, Florence Rinard, Herb Polesie and Dick Harrison (DuMont, delayed from Monday @ 8p)
01:00p Community Auditions
01:30p WBZ-TV Film Drama “Edge of the Law”
02:00p Sunday Cinema – movie
03:00p Liberace – piano
03:30p Kukla, Fran and Ollie (NBC)
04:00p Red Cross Appeal “The Ballad of Three Neighbors”
04:30p Zoo Parade “Animal Homes” (NBC)
05:00p Hall of Fame – drama (not sure if this is the “Hallmark Hall of Fame”)
06:00p Pleasure Playhouse – movie
07:00p Range Rider – western
07:30p Mr. Peepers – due to a storm the teachers teach via television; President Eisenhower will deliver a special appeal for the Red Cross during the program (NBC)
08:00p Colgate Comedy Hour – Ethel Merman, Frank Sinatra and Bert Lahr in “Anything Goes” (NBC)
09:00p Philco/Goodyear TV Playhouse – “Buy Me Blue Ribbons” starring Roddy McDowall (NBC)
10:00p Loretta Young – a mother keeps a cocktail date with a man and disappoints her young son (NBC)
10:30p Treasury Men in Action (NBC, delayed from Thursday @ 8:30p)
11:00p Meet the Press (NBC, delayed from 6p)
11:30p News – Streeter Stuart
11:35p The Plainclothesman “Lost in Two Minutes” (DuMont, delayed from Sunday @ 9:30p)
12:05a Night Owl Theater “That Hamilton Woman”

7 – WNAC Boston (ABC/CBS/DuMont)
10:00a Catholic Mass
11:00a This is the Life – drama
11:30a WNAC-TV Film Shorts
12:00p Time for Beany – kids
12:30p Billy Graham – religion
12:45p Vienna Philharmonic
01:00p Big Picture – documentary
01:30p Pride of the Family – Junior get a dog (ABC, delayed from Friday @ 9p; Natalie Wood played the daughter)
02:00p Afternoon Theater – movie; “Good Time Girl”
03:45p Your TV Theater – drama
04:15p Opera Cameos – music; “La Tosca”, David Poleri
04:45p Kieran’s Kaleidoscope
05:00p Omnibus – 1)”Hilde and the Turnpike”; 2)”A Marriage Has Been Arranged”; 3)an underwater film by Jacques-Yves Cousteau (CBS)
06:30p You Are There “The Rise of Adolph Hitler” (CBS)
07:00p Life With Father – Mother gives away some of father’s clothes (CBS)
07:30p Jack Benny Show – guest: Helen Hayes (CBS)
08:00p Toast of the Town – guests: Betty and Jane Kean; soprano Hilde Gueden: Les Compagnos de la Chanson, French singing group; dancer Eileen O’Dare; and the Mayo Brothers, novelty act; Red Skelton may drop by to visit Ed (CBS)
09:00p Fred Waring – music; theme: Our American Heritage (CBS)
09:30p Man Behind the Badge (CBS)
10:00p The Web “The Circle Closes” (CBS)
10:30p TV Theater – movie; “Once A Crook”
12:00a Weather Service

8 – WNHC New Haven (ABC/CBS/DuMont/NBC)
09:00a The Nature of Things – “Caves and Fossils”
09:15a What’s Your Trouble? – Dr. and Mrs. Norman Vincent Peale
09:30a Frontiers of Faith – religion
10:00a This is the Life – religion
10:30a Captain Midnight (CBS)
11:00a Super Circus – Mary Hartline; The Three Hitch Hikers, knockabout act; Roas Patine, web act; Eddie Fay’s Boxing Cats; the Six Mar Vels, teeterboard act (ABC, delayed from 5p)
12:00p Excursion – education; Henry Cabot Lodge, U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations discusses the U.N.
12:30p Hollywood Half Hour
01:00p Youth Wants to Know – guest: Sherman Adams, Assistant to the President (NBC)
01:30p Zoo Parade – animals; “Zoo Mysteries” (NBC, delayed from 4p)
02:00p Pride of the Family – Junior get a dog (ABC, delayed from Friday @ 9p)
02:30p The Trouble With Father (ABC, delayed from Friday @ 7:30p)
03:00p Comeback Story – George Jessel (ABC, delayed from Friday @ 9:30p)
03:30p Kukla, Fran and Ollie (NBC)
04:00p Meet McNutley – comedy; Ray’s wife thinks another woman is interested in him (CBS, delayed from Thursday @ 8p)
04:30p The Name’s the Same – panel; Robert Q. Lewis, host (ABC, delayed from Tuesday @ 10:30p)
05:00p Hall of Fame – drama (not sure if this is the “Hallmark Hall of Fame”)
06:00p Ozzie and Harriet (ABC, delayed from Friday @ 8p)
06:30p You Are There “The Rise of Adolph Hitler” (CBS)
07:00p The Paul Winchell Show – Paul and Jerry visit a cemetery at midnight (NBC)
07:30p Jack Benny Show – guest: Helen Hayes (CBS)
08:00p Toast of the Town – guests: Betty and Jane Kean; soprano Hilde Gueden: Les Compagnos de la Chanson, French singing group; dancer Eileen O’Dare; and the Mayo Brothers, novelty act; Red Skelton may drop by to visit Ed (CBS)
09:00p Philco/Goodyear TV Playhouse – “Buy Me Blue Ribbons” starring Roddy McDowall (NBC)
10:00p Loretta Young – a mother keeps a cocktail date with a man and disappoints her young son (NBC)
10:30p What’s My Line? (CBS)
11:00p News Bulletins
11:15p Fireside Theater “Touch the Earth”
11:45p Facts Forum – debate

10 – WJAR Providence (ABC/CBS/DuMont/NBC)
10:00a Faith for Today – religion
10:30a This is the Life – drama
11:00a Frontiers of Faith – religion
11:30a Religious Programming
12:00p Draw With Me – Education
12:15p Boys Club – kids
12:30p Super Circus (ABC, delayed from 5p)
01:00p Johnny Jupiter – fantasy (ABC)
01:30p Badge 714 – crime (“Dragnet”)
02:00p Playhouse – Arlene Dahl
02:30p Your Income Tax
03:00p High School Visit
03:15p Auction Block
03:30p Kukla, Fran and Ollie (NBC)
04:00p Loretta Young – drama; “Act of Faith” (NBC, delayed from Sunday @ 10p)
04:30p Roy Rogers – western
05:00p You Asked for It (ABC, delayed from Sunday @ 7p)
05:30p Liberace – piano
06:00p Meet The Press – news; Representative Martin Dies (D., Texas) is the guest (NBC)
06:30p Range Rider – western
07:00p Douglas Fairbanks Presents – drama
07:30p Mr. Peepers – due to a storm the teachers teach via television; President Eisenhower will deliver a special appeal for the Red Cross during the program (NBC)
08:00p Colgate Comedy Hour – Ethel Merman, Frank Sinatra and Bert Lahr in “Anything Goes” (NBC)
09:00p Philco/Goodyear TV Playhouse – “Buy Me Blue Ribbons” starring Roddy McDowall (NBC)
10:00p Mr. and Mrs. North (NBC, delayed)
10:30p Vanity Fair Theater
10:45p Pride of the Family – Junior get a dog (ABC, delayed from Friday @ 9p)
11:15p Late News Bulletins
11:25p Feature Theater “They Meet Again”

14 – WWOR Worcester (ABC /DuMont)
01:00p Answers for Americans
01:30p Sunday Matinee – movie; “Doughnuts and Society”
02:30p This is My Faith – religious
03:00p To Be Announced
03:30p Swedish Time – music; Gunnar Grundberg is host
04:00p Roller Derby
05:00p Hopalong Cassidy
06:00p Drew Pearson – news
06:15p WWOR-TV Feature Movie “Blond Goddess”
08:00p The Mask – drama; “The Poisoned Village” (ABC)
09:00p Far Horizons – travel
09:15p Jane Pickens – songs (ABC)
09:30p This is the Life
10:00p Break the Bank (ABC, delayed)
10:30p Feature Theater – movie; “Bush Christmas”
12:00a News Review

30 – WKNB New Britain (ABC/CBS/DuMont/NBC)
12:00p Big Picture – documentary
12:30p Contest Carnival – kids (CBS, from WCAU Philadelphia with Gene Crane as host)
01:00p Family Theater – movie
02:00p Sunday Matinee – movie; “Old Swimmin’ Hole”
03:00p Youth Takes a Stand (CBS)
03:30p Man of the Week – Treasury Secretary George M. Humphrey is today’s guest (CBS)
04:00p The Current Scene – forum
04:30p Industry on Parade – film
04:45p Drew Pearson – comment (not sure the network – Wiki has on ABC in 1952 and DuMont in 1953)
05:00p Omnibus – 1)”Hilde and the Turnpike”; 2)”A Marriage Has Been Arranged”; 3)an underwater film by Jacques-Yves Cousteau (CBS)
06:30p Kit Carson – western
07:00p Life With Father – Mother gives away some of father’s clothes (CBS)
07:30p Sunday Playhouse – movie; “Phantom of 42nd Street”
08:30p My Hero – comedy
09:00p Fred Waring – music; theme: Our American Heritage (CBS)
09:30p To Be Announced
10:00p The Web “The Circle Closes” (CBS)
10:30p This is the Life
11:00p The Late Show – movie; “Broadway Big Shot”

53 – WATR Waterbury (ABC/DuMont)
04:00p Roller Derby
05:00p Thirty Minute Film
05:30p WATR-TV Film Shorts
06:00p News and Weather
06:15p Igor Cassini – comment (DuMont)
06:30p George Jessel – variety; guests include singer Dorothy Dandridge and Sinclair and Spaulding dance team (ABC)
07:00p Author Meets the Critics – book: “The Test of Freedom” by socialist party leader Norman Thomas; anti-critic: Lawrence Fertig, economics columnist for the New York World-Telegram and Sun (DuMont)
07:30p Opera Cameos – music; “Madam Butterfly” by Puccini
08:00p The Mask – drama; “The Poisoned Village” (ABC)
09:00p Rocky King “The Frameup” (DuMont)
09:30p Peter Potter – music
10:00p Dollar a Second (DuMont)
10:30p News Bulletin

55 – WHYN Springfield (CBS/DuMont)
03:00p Youth Take a Stand (CBS)
03:30p Man of the Week – Treasury Secretary George M. Humphrey is today’s guest (CBS)
04:00p Juvenile Jury (CBS)
04:30p Adventure – education; “Portrait of the Artic”
05:00p Omnibus – 1)”Hilde and the Turnpike”; 2)”A Marriage Has Been Arranged”; 3)an underwater film by Jacques-Yves Cousteau (CBS)
06:30p You Are There “The Rise of Adolph Hitler” (CBS)
07:00p Author Meets the Critics – book: “The Test of Freedom” by socialist party leader Norman Thomas; anti-critic: Lawrence Fertig, economics columnist for the New York World-Telegram and Sun (DuMont)
07:30p Jack Benny Show – guest: Helen Hayes (CBS)
08:00p Sunday Cinema – movie
09:30p The Plainclothesman “Lost in Two Minutes” (DuMont)
10:00p Dollar a Second (DuMont)
10:30p Beauty Secrets – women
10:40p Nightcap Edition – news

56 – WTAO Boston (ABC/DuMont)
06:45p Crusader Rabbit – cartoon
06:50p Uncle George – stories; “The Story of Salt”
07:00p Big Picture – documentary
07:30p Double Feature – movie; “Men With Whips” and “Face of Marble”

61 – WWLP Springfield (ABC/NBC)
11:00a Living Book – religion
11:30a News and Weather
11:35a WWLP Feature Movie “Love from a Stranger”
01:00p Youth Wants to Know – guest: Sherman Adams, Assistant to the President (NBC)
01:30p Frontiers of Faith
02:00p American Inventory
02:30p Forum of the Air – “Are citizens competent to investigate communism?” (NBC)
03:00p The President’s Week
03:15p The Nature of Things – science
03:30p What’s Your Trouble
03:45p Family Theater – drama
04:00p Excursion – education; the history of jazz
04:30p News and Weather
04:35p Matinee Theater – movie; “Man of Two Lives”
06:00p Pastor’s Study – religion
06:15p The Mayor Reports
06:30p George Jessel – variety; guests include singer Dorothy Dandridge and Sinclair and Spaulding dance team (ABC)
07:00p The Paul Winchell Show – Paul and Jerry visit a cemetery at midnight (NBC)
07:30p TV Teen Club – talent; Acts include a toe ballet tap dance and a vocal quartet (ABC, delayed from Saturday @ 7p)
08:00p Colgate Comedy Hour – Ethel Merman, Frank Sinatra and Bert Lahr in “Anything Goes” (NBC)
09:00p Philco/Goodyear TV Playhouse – “Buy Me Blue Ribbons” starring Roddy McDowall (NBC)
10:00p Loretta Young – a mother keeps a cocktail date with a man and disappoints her young son (NBC)
10:30p Drew Pearson – comment
10:45p Hubert Kregeloh
11:00p Final Edition – Drury
11:10 WWLP Feature Movie “Mine Own Executioner”
 
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