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Retro: New York City Mon, Jan 23, 1956

from New York Herald Tribune

WCBS 2-CBS New York
6:50 Prevues
6:55 Give Us This Day
7:00 Morning Show (Dick Van Dyke was one of the co-hosts)
8:55 George Skinner
9:55 Margaret Arlen
10:00 Garry Moore
10:30 Arthur Godfrey Time
11:30 Strike It Rich
noon Valiant Lady
12:15 Love of Life
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1:00 Jack Paar
1:30 Love Story
2:00 Robert Q. Lewis
2:30 Linkletter's Party
3:00 Big Payoff
3:30 Bob Crosby
4:00 Brighter Day
4:15 Secret Storm
4:30 On Your Account
5:00 Late Matinee "Border Outlaws"
5:55 Les Paul & Mary Ford
6:00 News
6:05 Feature
6:10 Sports
6:15 Early Show "The Windjammer"
7:10 Rain or Shine
7:15 CBS News
7:30 Robin Hood
8:00 Burns & Allen (guest star Jack Benny)
8:30 Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts
9:00 I Love Lucy
9:30 December Bride
10:00 Studio One "A Public Figure"
11:00 News
11:10 Weather/Sports
11:15 Late Show "Voice in the Wind"
12:45 Late Late Show "Eight Witnesses"
1:45 News/Sermon

WRCA 4-NBC New York
6:50 Daily Sermonette
6:55 Eye Opener
7:00 Today (guests Ernest Borgnine and Reba Monness)
9:00 Herb Sheldon
10:00 Ding Dong School
10:30 Ernie Kovacs
11:00 Home
noon Tennessee Ernie Ford
12:30 Feather Your Nest
1:00 One is for Sheldon
1:30 Sky's the Limit
2:00 Richard Willis
2:30 Jinx's Diary (c)
4:00 Date with Life
4:15 Modern Romances
4:30 Queen for a Day
5:00 Pinky Lee Circus Show
5:30 Howdy Doody (c)
6:00 Superman
6:30 Inside NBC (Bill Cullen goes behind the scenes with WRCA's weatherman Tex Antoine and TV producer Henry Salomon)
6:45 Weather (c)
6:50 News
7:00 Highway Patrol
7:30 Tony Martin
8:00 Sid Caesar
9:00 Medic
9:30 Robert Montgomery Presents "Aftermath"
10:30 Rheingold Theater "Deadline Vienna"
11:00 News
11:10 Weather (c)
11:15 Sports
11:20 Steve Allen-Tonight
1:00 Count Sheep

WABD 5-DuMont New York
8:40 Prevues/Prayer
8:45 Sandy Becker
10:00 Ladies Be Seated "Bees in Paradise"
11:00 Four in a Row (the programs being Janet Dean-Registered Nurse, Life with Elizabeth, Beulah, and Mr. & Mrs. North)
noon Johnny Olsen
1:00 Food for Thought
1:30 Midday Matinee "By Appointment Only"
2:30 Maggi McNellis
3:00 Matinee Theater "The Big Box" (c)
4:30 This is the Story
4:45 Letter to Lee Graham
5:00 Adventures in the West "Navajo Trails"
6:00 Rocky Jones, Space Ranger
6:15 Telecomics
6:30 Looney Tunes
7:00 News
7:15 Tex McCrary's MIP
7:30 Rocky Jones
8:00 Sportsorama
9:00 Boxing Preliminaries
10:00 St. Nick's Boxing: 10-round middleweight action between Rory Calhoun (White Plains, NY/16-0, 8 KOs) and Jerry Luedee (New Haven, CT/18-1, 10 KOs)
10:50 At Ringside
11:00 News
11:15 Sealy Playhouse "Janet Dean, RN"
11:45 Feauturama "Arctic Flying"/"Toronto Symphony, Part 1"/"Men of Gloucester"
12:30 Prevues/Prayer

WABC 7-ABC New York
8:00 Tinker's Work Shop
9:00 Romper Room (Miss Jane)
10:00 Drama of Life "Kiss and Forget"
10:30 Claire Mann
11:00 Hopalong Cassidy "Eagles Brood"
noon Time for Fun
12:30 Joe Franklin "Thundering Hoofs" (pt 1)
1:30 Afternoon Show "Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid"
3:00 Afternoon Film Festival "Stranger in Between"
5:00 Mickey Mouse Club
6:00 Gene Autry "Renegade Trail"
6:30 Cisco Kid
6:55 Weather
7:00 Kukla, Fran & Ollie
7:15 News
7:30 Topper
8:00 TV Reader's Digest "A Bell for Okinawa"
8:30 Voice of Firestone (guest Dorothy Warenskjold)
9:00 Dotty Mack
9:30 Medical Horizons (a "live" shot from Lankenau Hospital in Philly, shows Lankenau's new concept of community hospitals)
10:00 Dangerous Assignment
10:30 Where Were You?
11:00 Star Showcase "Weekend with Wal'tuh"
11:30 News

WNHC 8-ABC/CBS New Haven
7:00 Good Morning
9:00 Breakfast Playhouse "The Worried Man"/"Letter for the Queen"/"The Last Act"/"Buddy and Towser"
10:30 Yankee Peddlers
11:30 Quiz the Clergy
11:45 Meet the Stars
noon News
12:15 Love of Life
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1:00 Electric Show
1:45 Window Shopper
2:00 Channel 8 Matinee "Junior"
2:30 Linkletter's Party
3:00 Afternoon Film Festival "Stranger in Between"
5:00 Mickey Mouse Club
6:00 Stage 8 "The Soil"
6:30 Sports
6:40 Weather
6:45 News
7:00 Mr. District Attorney
7:30 This is Your World
8:00 TV Reader's Digest "A Bell for Okinawa"
8:30 Voice of Firestone
9:00 I Love Lucy
9:30 Medical Horizons
10:00 Studio One "A Public Figure"
11:00 TBA
11:30 Les Paul & Mary Ford
11:35 Nitecap Theater "Calling the Tune"
1:00 News

WOR 9-Ind New York
11:00 Screening the World
11:30 Kiddie Video
noon Merry Mailman
12:30 Fun for Lunch
1:00 Camera 9 Feature "Beyond Tomorrow"
2:30 Camera 9 Play "Dream Man"
3:00 Ted Steele
3:55 News
4:00 Ted Steele
4:55 News
5:00 Teen Bandstand (guests from Our Lady of Angels, Brooklyn)
6:00 Ray Heatherton Theater
6:30 Roy Rogers Feature "Don't Fence Me In"
7:30 Million Dollar Movie "The Green Scarf"
9:00 Biff Baker, USA
9:30 Strange Stories
10:00 Million Dollar Movie (replay of the 7:30 movie)
11:30 Movie of the Night "Bowery Blitzkrieg"

WPIX 11-Ind New York
1pm Pastor
1:15 Picture Parade
1:30 Hollywood Movietime "Two Dollar Bettor"
3:00 Dione Lucas
3:30 Candid Camera
4:00 First Show "It Happened Tomorrow"
5:25 News
5:30 Cartoon Comics
6:00 Clubhouse Gang Comedies (Little Rascals)
6:30 Ramar of the Jungle
7:00 News
7:10 Weatherman
7:15 News
7:30 Susie
8:00 Public Defender
8:30 San Francisco Beat
9:00 Trap
9:30 Inner Sanctum
10:00 Word of Life
10:30 Florian Zabach
11:00 Tomorrow's News
11:10 Weather

WATV 13-Ind New York
10:28 TV Pastor Don Marsh
10:30 Gino Caimi
11:00 Aldo Aldi
noon Coffee Club
12:30 Junior Carnival
1:00 Mystery Film "Charlie Chan's Secret"
2:00 Movie Matinee "Blonde Savage"
3:30 Western Roundup "Ranger Courage"
4:30 Junior Frolics
5:30 Super Serial "Don Winslow of the Navy" (pt 8)
6:00 Western Theater "Heir to Trouble"
7:00 Mystery Hour (replay of 1pm film)
8:00 Report from Rutgers
8:30 Western Jamboree
9:00 Western Film
9:45 Jewish Arbor Day
10:00 Western Feature
10:55 News
11:00 Mystery Hour "Charlie Chan in the Black Camel"

WICC 43-ABC/DuMont Bridgeport
6:35pm News
6:45 Family Rosary
7:00 Telecomics
7:15 Film Shorts
7:30 Picture Pastime
8:30 Local Film
9:00 Big Picture
9:45 Film Shorts
10:00 Magic Eye
 
Bluenoser said:
That should read part 8.

Welcome to the club. I've had the same problems with these smilies viz the number 8 and closing parentheses.

This was over 5½ months prior to NBC's ending its late afternoon children's block (with Howdy Doody moving exclusively to Saturday mornings for its last four years on the network), and WRCA-TV premiering a movie series that initially started out as Evening Theatre, but by February 1957 became Movie 4 which would remain until 1974.

Also, it was more than 10 months before WCBS-TV ended its 5 P.M. Late Matinee, moved The Early Show to 5:30 and expanded the latter's run time to 90 minutes. The Early Show remained at 5:30 from December 1956 until the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite expanded to 30 minutes in September 1963.

As for It Happened Tomorrow (which played on this day on WPIX's First Show) - by the end of '56 it moved over to WRCA where it remained until 1957; then returned around 1965 to what by now was WNBC-TV, where it played on Movie 4 occasionally until the end of 1967. (In-between, it had a second run at Channel 11, in the early '60's.)

Now . . . was The Big Box on WABD's Matinee Theatre really in color? I seem to recall Channel 5 was the last to go color on a regular basis - in 1965, as WNEW-TV, initially via film and slide capacity, then in 1966 live color was added with Norelco PC-70's.
 
Where is NBC's "Matinee Theater"? Seems it should have
been on at 3 PM on Ch. 4.

I also noticed that Les Paul and Mary Ford aired on Ch. 2
at 5:55 PM. That's the first time I've seen their show airing
in a timeslot before 11 PM anywhere.
 
Bluenoser said:
WABD 5-DuMont New York
10:00 St. Nick's Boxing: 10-round middleweight action between Rory Calhoun (White Plains, NY/16-0, 8 KOs) and Jerry Luedee (New Haven, CT/18-1, 10 KOs)
...nope, not that Rory Calhoun -- the actor was from the West Coast and was filming the theatrical film The Looters at the time of this match...
 
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