Retro: New York City Mon, Aug 27, 1956

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from New York Herald Tribune

WCBS 2-CBS New York
6:50 Prevues & Sermon (Rev. Hoke Dickinson)
7:00 Good Morning! (Will Rogers Jr./Ned Calmer)
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 My Little Margie
9:30 Amos 'n' Andy
10:00 Of All Things
10:30 Arthur Godfrey Time (Peter Lind Hayes pinch hits)
11:30 Strike It Rich
noon Valiant Lady
12:15 Love of Life
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1:00 News (Charles Collingwood)
1:10 Stand Up & Be Counted
1:30 As the World Turns
2:00 Johnny Carson
2:30 Linkletter's Party
3:00 Big Payoff
3:30 Bob Crosby
4:00 Brighter Day
4:15 Secret Storm
4:30 Edge of the Night
5:00 Late Matinee "The Great Jesse James Raid"
5:55 Les Paul & Mary Ford
6:00 World News (Robert Trout)
6:05 New York Report (Ned Calmer)
6:10 Feature (George Skinner)
6:15 Early Show "Pink Strings and Sealing Wax"
7:10 Rain or Shine (Carol Reed)
7:15 CBS News
7:30 Robin Hood
8:00 Burns & Allen
8:30 Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts (Bob Crosby pinch hits)
9:00 Charles Farrell
9:30 Vic Damone (guests Jane Froman and Orson Bean)
10:00 Studio One Summer Theater "Giulio"
11:00 News (Ron Cochran)
11:10 Weather/Sports (Carol Reed/Bill Hickey)
11:15 Late Show "Someone to Remember"
12:45 Late Late Show I "Bill Longley"
1:15 Late Late Show II "Sam Bass"
1:45 News/Sermon

WRCA 4-NBC New York
6:55 Daily Sermonette
7:00 Today
8:55 Herb Sheldon (Josie McCarthy in color, everything else in glorious B&W)
10:00 Ding Dong School
10:30 Band Stand
11:00 Home
11:25 Window (Ostrid Lind, color)
11:30 Home
noon Tic Tac Dough
12:30 It Could Be You
1:00 One is for Sheldon
1:30 Jinx's Diary (color)
2:00 Richard Willis
2:30 Tennessee Ernie Ford
3:00 Matinee Theater "Dark Possession"
4:00 Queen for a Day
4:45 Modern Romances
5:00 It's Always Jan
5:30 Evening Theater "Incident"
6:45 News (Ken Banghart)
7:00 Highway Patrol
7:30 Gordon MacRae
7:45 Camel News Caravan
8:00 Ernie Kovacs (guests Robert Merrill, the Four Step Brothers, and Edie Adams)
9:00 Medic
9:30 Robert Montgomery Summer Theater "The Company Wife"
10:30 Douglas Fairbanks Rheingold Theater "Ship Day"
11:00 News (J.K.M. McCaffery)
11:10 Weather (Tex Antoine, color)
11:15 Sports (Jimmy Powers)
11:20 Tonight Show (Tony Randall subs for Steve Allen)
1:00 Sermonette

WABD 5-DuMont New York
8:25 Prevues/Prayer
8:30 It's Fun to Reduce (Margaret Firth)
8:45 Sandy Becker
10:00 Tune In Anytime Theater "The Iron Duke"
noon Freddie the Fireman (Edward McCurdy)
1:00 Tune In Anytime Theatre cont'd
4:00 Wendy Barrie
4:30 Decor Analyst (Gregg Juarez)
4:45 Easy Chair
5:00 Food for Thought (Virginia Graham)
5:30 Mr. & Mrs. North
6:00 Captain Video (Al Hodges)
6:30 Looney Tunes (Sandy Becker)
7:00 News (Mike Wallace)
7:15 Sports (Marty Glickman)
7:30 Star Playhouse "Lucky 13"
8:00 Crusade in Europe
8:20 Hints for Woman
8:30 Jalopy Derby
9:00 Boxing Preliminaries
10:00 St. Nick's Boxing: Jerry Luedee (New Haven CT; 20-3-1, 11 KO) vs Bob Provizzi (Jamaica LI; 19-7-5, 2 KO) in a 10 round middleweight bout; Chris Schenkel calls the action
10:50 At Ringside
11:00 Featurama "Eskimo Summer"/"Tim McCoy" (Bob Williams)
mid. Preview/Prayer

WABC 7-ABC New York
7:45 News (George H. Combs)
8:00 Tinker's Work Shop
9:00 Romper Room (Miss Jane)
10:00 Drama of Life "A Very Old Murder"
10:30 Road of Romance "Yours for a Dream"
11:00 Hopalong Cassidy
noon Time for Fun
12:30 Joe Franklin (Joe showed cartoons in those days)
1:30 Afternoon Show "Letter from an Unknown Woman"
3:00 Film Festival "It's Hard to Be Good"
5:00 Mickey Mouse Club
6:00 Gene Autry
6:30 Cisco Kid
6:55 Weather (Janet Tyler)
7:00 Sports (Jack Drees)
7:15 News (John Daly)
7:30 Bold Journey
8:00 Dotty Mack
8:30 Voice of Firestone (guests Dolores Wilson and Theodor Uppman)
9:00 Film Fair "Caravan"
10:30 All Star Theater "Summer Memory"
11:00 News (Cecil Brown)
11:10 Night Show "Casanova Brown"

WNHC 8-ABC/CBS New Haven
6:45 Sacred Heart
7:00 Good Morning Connecticut (Joe Francis/George Thompson)
9:00 Breakfast Playhouse "Operation Riviera"/"Gambler's Debt"/"Hero for an Hour"/"Vibora"/cartoon "Those Were Wonderful Days" (Tom Romano)
10:30 Yankee Peddlers
11:00 My Little Margie
11:30 Harvesters
11:45 Looney Tunes
noon News (George Thompson)
12:15 Love of Life
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1:00 Electric Show (Johnne Burnett/Joe Francis)
1:45 Channel 8 Matinee I
2:00 Channel 8 Matinee II "Serenade to an Empty House"
2:30 Linkletter's Party
3:00 Film Festival "It's Hard to Be Good"
5:00 Mickey Mouse Club
6:00 Stage 8 "The Liliac Bush"
6:30 Sports (Syd Jaffe)
6:40 Weather (Ed Caputo)
6:45 News (Joseph Burns)
7:00 Mr. District Attorney
7:30 Bold Journey
8:00 Dotty Mack
8:30 Voice of Firestone
9:00 Charles Farrell
9:30 San Francisco Beat
10:00 Studio One Summer Theater "Giulio"
11:00 News (Joseph Burns)
11:10 Weather (K. St. George)
11:15 Les Paul & Mary Ford
11:20 Nitecap Theater "North of the Lone Star"
1:00 News

WOR 9-Ind New York
11:00 Screening the World
11:30 Kiddie Video
noon Cartoon Parade
12:30 Fun for Lunch
1:00 Camera 9 Feature "Mr. Universe"
2:30 New Products
3:00 Ted Steele
3:10 Happy Fenton
3:25 Baseball: Brooklyn-Milwaukee (Vince Scully/Al Helfer/Connie Desmond; simulcast on WMGM 1050 with the same crew)
6:00 Six O'Clock Movie "Lady Scarface"
7:00 Terrytoons
7:30 Million Dollar Movie "Top Hat"
9:00 Hour of Danger "The Saint in Palm Springs"
10:00 Million Dollar Movie (replay from 7pm)
11:30 Hour of Danger (replay from 9pm)

WPIX 11-Ind New York
1pm Teenager (produced by University of Michigan)
1:30 Hollywood Movietime "Boys from Brooklyn"
3:00 Sightseeing
3:30 Candid Camera
4:00 First Show "Wings of Danger"
5:30 Cartoon Comics
6:00 Clubhouse Gang (Little Rascals)
6:30 Ramar of the Jungle
7:00 News (Kevin Kennedy)
7:10 Weatherman (Joe Bolton)
7:15 New York News (John Tillman)
7:30 Susie
8:00 Stage Seven "Secret Weapon"
9:00 Paris Precinct
9:30 Inner Sanctum
10:00 Scotland Yard Cases
11:00 Tomorrow's News
11:10 Weather (Joe Bolton)
11:15 Industry on Parade

WATV 13-Ind New York
11:58 TV Pastor Marsh
noon Coffee Club (guests are officers from McGuire AFB)
12:30 Junior Carnival
1:00 Mystery Film "High Tide"
2:00 Movie Matinee "Taming of Dorothy"
3:15 Fun Time
3:30 Western Roundup "Unknown Valley"
4:30 Junior Frolics (Uncle Fred Sayles)
5:30 Super Serial "Fighting Kit Carson"
6:00 Western Theatre "Desert Bandit"
7:00 Mystery Hour (replay of 1pm movie)
8:00 Report from Rutgers
8:30 Feature Film (replay of 2pm movie)
9:30 Jimmy Shearer
10:00 Western Feature "Gunlords of Stirrup Basin"
11:00 Mystery Theater "The Phantom of 42nd Street"

WICC 43-ABC/DuMont Bridgeport
6pm Picture Window
6:30 News
6:35 Film Shorts
6:45 Family Rosary
7:00 Telecomics
7:15 Film Shorts
7:30 Picture Pastime
8:30 Open Shutter
9:00 Film Fair "Caravan"

 

[radioman148]

What type of show was Johnny Carson hosting in 56? That was before Who Do You Trust?
I know he hosted a show in LA in the early 50s called "Carson's Cellar".

 

[bpatrick]

From what I gather in Wesley Hyatt's "Encyclopedia Of
Daytime Television," it was fairly similar to Letterman's
1980 morning show, with offbeat guests and recurring
sketches like "Happy Household Hints" and "Carson's
Correspondence Etiquette Clinic," both sendups of daytime
women's shows popular at the time; Carson also did a proto-
Karnack, wherein he answered questions wearing a mortarboard.

Carson's show was ultimately canceled for lack of a sponsor; he
was considered too hip for a housewife audience more accustomed
to Arthur Godfrey, Art Linkletter, and Garry Moore. CBS was unable
to find a more suitable format (why didn't they try late night?) and let
him get away to ABC and "Who Do You Trust?" The rest, as the saying
goes, is history.

 

[wbhist]

WRCA 4-NBC New York
5:30 Evening Theater "Incident"

This is the program that, on or about Feb. 3, 1957, became Movie 4. (I have since verified this date, as it was in the Feb. 3, 1957 New York Times that the first reference to this hallowed title was in WRCA-TV advertising; the film shown that Sunday night was the Gregory Peck film Man with a Million.)