Source: TV Guide, New York Metropolitan edition
CHANNELS LISTED:
2 WCBS-TV (CBS) 485 Madison Avenue, New York 22
4 WRCA-TV (NBC) 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York 20
5 WABD (Du Mont*) 205 East 67th Street, New York 21
7 WABC-TV (ABC) 7 West 66th Street, New York 23
8 WNHC-TV (ABC, CBS, Du Mont*) 1110 Chapel Street, New Haven 10
9 WOR-TV (Independent) 1440 Broadway, New York 18
11 WPIX (Independent) 220 East 42nd Street, New York 17
13 WATV (Independent) Empire State Building, New York 1**
43 WICC-TV (ABC***) Booth Hill Road, Trumbull, Bridgeport
*Although WABD and WNHC-TV are listed as Du Mont network affiliates, that network actually ceased operations the previous August with a boxing telecast.
**Although WATV was listed as being located in the Empire State Building, its city of license was actually Newark, New Jersey.
***While WICC-TV was officially an ABC affiliate, it ran no ABC programming at all on this date and was pretty much functioning more as an independent throughout this week. The only prime time ABC programming the station did air this week was The Danny Thomas Show on Monday at 8:00 (curiously, as did WNHC-TV), Circus Time (with Paul Winchell) on Thursday at 8:00 and The Ray Anthony Show on Friday at 10:00 (again, simultaneous with WNHC-TV).
MORNING
6:45
8 Man to Man (religion; Dr. Alvin N. Rogness)
6:50
2 Previews
6:55
2 Give Us This Day (Rabbi Lawrence Charney)
4 Daily Sermonette (Rev. Charles McManus)
7:00
2 Good Morning! (Will Rogers Jr. hosts vocalist Jackie Paris and comedian Archie Robbins)
4 Today (Dave Garroway hosts Dame Flora MacLeod, the first female Scottish clan chief)
8 Cartoon Carnival
7:25
8 News and Weather
7:30
8 Short Show (Part 2 of “HooDoo Ann” with Mae Marsh)
7:55
8 News and Weather
7:56
7 Morning Prayer (Rev. Eugene Houston)
8:00
2 Captain Kangaroo
7 Tinker’s Workshop (cartoons)
8 Happy the Clown
8:30
8 Breakfast Playhouse (“The Marriage of Lot Lit,” with Don DeFore)
8:45
5 Sandy Becker
8:55
4 First Feature (Block Heads, 1938 Laurel & Hardy comedy)
8 News
9:00
2 The Stu Erwin Show
7 Drama of Life
8 This, Our Faith (Rev. Harold Heinrich of New Haven’s St. Boniface’s Catholic Church)
9:30
2 Amos ‘n’ Andy
7 Morning Feature (So This is New York, 1948 comedy, starring Henry Morgan and Rudy Vallee; WABC-TV ran this movie every weekday morning that week at 9:30)
8 University of the Air (Dr. Victor Pitkin on “Asia in Ferment: The United States and the Orient”)
9 Our Children (documentary)
10:00
2 The Garry Moore Daytime Show
4 Home (Arlene Francis and Hugh Downs reminisce about silent movie star Rudolph Valentino)
5 Tune In Anytime Theater (The Foreman Went to France, 1942 British WW2 adventure with Clifford Evans; WABD repeated this movie at 1:00 PM)
8 My Little Margie
9 Cartoon Time
10:30
2 Arthur Godfrey Time
8 Movie (Everything’s Rosie, 1931 drama, with Anita Louise)
9 Movie (Sunset in Wyoming, Gene Autry Western)
10:38
4 Window ([COLOR] Ostrid Lind gives tips on travelling with children)
10:43
4 Home (rejoined in progress)
11:00
4 The Price is Right (Bill Cullen)
7 News (George H. Combs)
11:05
7 Road of Romance
11:30
2 Strike It Rich
4 Truth or Consequences (this was early in Bob Barker’s run on the series)
7 The Martin Block Show (daytime variety show hosted by the “Make-Believe Ballroom” radio disc jockey of the ‘30s and ‘40s)
9 Cartoon Time
11:45
5 To Be Announced
11:58
13 TV Pastor (Marsh)
AFTERNOON
12:00
2 Valiant Lady
4 Tic Tac Dough
5 Anyone Can Win
7 Time For Fun
8 News (George Thompson)
9 Movie (Algiers, the 1938 classic romantic adventure with Hedy Lamarr and Charles Boyer; WOR-TV repeated the movie immediately after its first airing here)
13 Coffee Club (panel discussion)
12:15
2/8 Love of Life
12:30
2/8 Search for Tomorrow
4 It Could Be You
7 Memory Lane (Joe Franklin’s first daily TV show; his guest today is Barbara Cook, then co-starring on Broadway in Candide)
13 Movie (Fighting Code, the Buck Jones Western)
12:45
2/8 The Guiding Light
1:00
2 News (Walter Cronkite)
4 Tex & Jinx ([COLOR] Guests today are singer Jane Powell and home economist Josephine McCarthy, the latter of whom prepares braised veal knuckles)
5 Tune In Anytime Theater (see 10:00 AM listing)
8 Movie (Grand Central Murder, 1942 mystery with Van Heflin)
1:10
2 Stand Up & Be Counted
1:30
2 As the World Turns
7 The Afternoon Show (Belle of the Yukon, 1944 drama with Randolph Scott and Gypsy Rose Lee)
11 Man to Man (religion)
13 Movie (Calendar Girl, 1947 comedy with Jane Frazee)
1:45
11 Transition (topical discussion)
2:00
2 Our Miss Brooks
4 The Richard Willis Show (beauty)
11 Movie (The Magic Bow, 1947 British biography of composer and violinist Nicolo Paganini, with Stewart Granger)
2:30
2/8 Art Linkletter’s House Party
4 The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show
2:45
5 News and Weather
2:55
13 News
3:00
2 The Big Payoff
4 Matinee Theater ([COLOR] Night Train to Chicago by Franklin Barton)
5 Liberace
7 Afternoon Film Festival (Part 2 of The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, the 1945 British classic; Part 1 was run Monday)
8 The Fedora Bontempis Show (local cooking show; today she prepares Neopolitan ravioli and Roman style lamb cacciatora{sic})
9 The Ted Steele Show (guests today are singers Johnny Brandon and Jeanne O’Brien)
13 Fun Time
3:15
11 Club Tel Aviv (Van Harris hosts Israeli performers Bathia Ostrovshy and Yonah Sklar)
3:30
2 The Bob Crosby Show ([COLOR] Bob was Bing’s brother and Jack Benny’s TV and radio bandleader)
5 Beulah
11 The First Show (Tulsa, the 1949 Western with Susan Hayward and Robert Preston)
13 The Mickey Freeman Show (variety)
3:45
8 Cartoon Carnival
13 The Jan Bart Show (today’s guest is concertina player Raymond Chase)
3:55
9 News
4:00
2 The Brighter Day
4 Queen For A Day (Jack Bailey)
5 The Wendy Barrie Show (today’s guest is Arthur Storch, leading man in the Broadway production The Girls of Summer)
8 Bandstand (today’s guests are students from Jefferson Junior High School in Meriden; this is apparently a New Haven variation on WFIL-TV Philadelphia’s show of the same name, which didn’t go national over ABC as American Bandstand until the following August)
9 The Ted Steele Show (rejoined after the newscast)
13 Fun Time
4:15
2 The Secret Storm
4:30
2 The Edge of Night
5 Mr. & Mrs. North
7 Cartoon Club
13 Junior Frolics (Fred Sayles)
4:45
4 Modern Romances
4:55
9/11 News (Kevin Kennedy on WPIX)
5:00
2 My Little Margie
4 It’s a Great Life
5 Studio Party (students from Clifton High School in New Jersey guest)
7/8 The Mickey Mouse Club
9 Teen Bandstand (Ted Steele hosts students from New York’s Maxwell Vocational High School)
11 Ramar of the Jungle
5:30
2 The Early Show (Home at Seven, the 1952 British mystery with Ralph Richardson)
4 Evening Theatre (Lured, 1947 mystery with Lucille Ball and George Sanders)
5 The Gene Autry Show
11 The Clubhouse Gang
13 Movie (Brazil, 1944 musical comedy, with Tito Guizar and Virginia Bruce)
EVENING
6:00
5 Captain Video’s Cartoons
7 The Adventures of Superman (“The Big Squeeze”)
8 Stage 8 (“One Forty-Two,” with Dick Powell)
9 Willy (June Havoc sitcom)
11 Popeye
43 Navy Film
6:30
5 Looney Tunes (Warner Bros. cartoons)
7 Dangerous Assignment
8 Sports (Syd Jaffe)
9 Headline (Mark Stevens drama)
11 The Abbott & Costello Show
43 News (Al Harper)
6:35
43 Film Shorts
6:40
8 Weather (Ed Caputo)
6:45
4 News (Ken Banghart)
8 News (Dave Kiernan)
43 The Family Rosary (religion)
6:55
4 Weather (Lynn Dollar)
7 Weather (Janet Tyler)
13 News (Guy LeBow)
7:00
2 World News (Robert Trout)
4 Celebrity Playhouse (“East of Nowhere,” with Ann Sheridan)
5 News (Mike Wallace)
7 Kukla, Fran & Ollie
8 The Adventures of Superman
9 Terrytoons
11 News (Kevin Kennedy)
13 The Famous All-Star Movie (Quiet Please, Murder, 1942 spy drama, with George Sanders and Richard Denning; WATV ran this movie every weeknight at 7:00 and 10:00 and Saturday and Sunday at 2:30 PM this week)
43 Film Shorts
7:05
2 Local News (Ron Cochran, who would later anchor ABC’s evening newscast and that network’s initial coverage of the John F. Kennedy assassination)
7:10
2 Weather (Carol Reed, not to be confused with the legendary British film director)
11 Weather (Joe Bolton, later more famous as “Officer” Joe Bolton on WPIX’s “Three Stooges” screenings)
7:15
2 Douglas Edwards and the News (CBS’ evening network newscast)
5 Top Secret (science fiction; “Three is a Crowd,” with Paul Stewart)
7 John Daly and the News (ABC’s evening network newscast)
11 News (John Tillman)
7:30
2 Name That Tune (George De Witt was the emcee at this point)
4 The Jonathan Winters Show (tonight’s guest is Jaye P. Morgan)
5 Waterfront (adventure)
7/8 Conflict (one-season Warner Bros.-produced adventure anthology; tonight, Keith Andes stars in the World War 2 drama “Blind Drop: Warsaw”)
9 The Million Dollar Movie (Cry, The Beloved Country, the 1952 British-produced social drama about apartheid in South Africa, starring Canada Lee and Sidney Poitier; WOR-TV ran this movie at 7:00 and 9:00 each weeknight and on Saturday and Sunday afternoons this week)
11 City Detective (Rod Cameron police series; tonight’s guest star is Touch {Mike} Connors)
7:45
4 The Huntley-Brinkley Report
8:00
2 The Phil Silvers Show (Bing Crosby guests tonight; he was paid the union minimum of $80 for his appearance, thanks to some typical fast-talk by Crosby’s old Vaudeville buddy Silvers)
4 The Big Surprise (Mike Wallace was the second-season emcee of this NBC copy of The $64,000 Question; he had half an hour to skedaddle from the Du Mont Building on East 67th Street, where he did the 7:00 WABD local news, to 30 Rock to do this gig every Tuesday)
5 Uncommon Valor (documentary series about the history of the U.S. Marine Corps)
11 I Led Three Lives
43 Movie (to be announced)
8:30
2 Brothers (single-season sitcom starring Gale Gordon and Bob Sweeney; Kathleen Freeman and Ellen Corby are tonight’s guest stars)
4 Noah’s Ark ([COLOR] short-lived Jack Webb production about a pair of veterinarians)
5 Bowling Time (New Yorker Ralph Engan squares off against Lee Jouglard of Detroit; former welterweight champion boxer Mickey Walker is a special guest commentator)
7/8 The Life & Legend of Wyatt Earp
11 Tracer (mystery anthology)
13 Hollywood Half Hour (“Make Your Bed” with Bonita Granville as a meddling mother-in-law; WATV ran this episode every weeknight at 8:30 this week)
9:00
2 To Tell the Truth
4 The Jane Wyman Show (Wyman herself stars in “The Golden Door”)
7/8 Broken Arrow
9 State Trooper (Premiere of Rod Cameron’s 1957-59 syndicated police drama; the pilot had run as an episode of NBC’s Star Stage the previous season)
11 Pro Basketball (The Syracuse Nationals at the New York Knickerbockers; Bob Wolff reported from Madison Square Garden)
13 Front Page Detective (WATV also ran this episode, “You Kill Me,” every weeknight at 9:00 this week)
9:30
2 The Red Skelton Show ([COLOR] Vincent Price is this week’s guest)
4 Armstrong Circle Theatre (John Cameron Swayze narrates the docudrama “The Freedom Fighters of Hungary”)
5 Cavalcade of Stars (although the same title was used for Jackie Gleason’s first big variety show, also produced at WABD, by this time the station was using the title for a dramatic film anthology)
7/8 Du Pont Theater (Oscar Homolka in the comic play Dowry for Ilona)
9 Film Drama (Broderick Crawford in “Margin for Fear”)
13 Hollywood Half Hour (“Southern Lady,” with Jane Wyatt and Georgia Backus; again, WATV ran this episode at 9:30 each weeknight this week)
10:00
2/8 The $64,000 Question
5 Hunter (adventure)
7 Polka Time (Bruno “Junior” Zielinski’s national polka showcase, produced at ABC’s WBKB-TV/7 in Chicago; this weeks guests are the Branko Radichevich Serbian Folk Dancers. The Polka Chips, Rusty Gill, Bob Martin and Jack Cardero are regular supporting musicians.)
9 The Million Dollar Movie (see the 7:30 listing)
13 The Famous All-Star Movie (see the 7:00 listing)
43 Film Shorts
10:30
2 Do You Trust Your Wife? (The Don Fedderson-produced game show, at this point starring Edgar Bergen and his characters Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd; when the show moved to ABC daytime later this year, production was moved from Hollywood to New York and Bergen was replaced by Johnny Carson)
4 Break The $250,000 Bank ([COLOR] curiously, Brooks & Marsh claim this long-running Bert Parks game show had finished its run the week before this, on January 15th)
5 Sherlock Holmes
7 Damon Runyon Theater (Fay Bainter in “Teacher’s Pet”)
8 The People’s Choice
11:00
2 News (Ron Cochran)
4 News (John McCaffery)
5 Night Beat (Mike Wallace’s third job of the night, this time back at WABD to interview author John Resko and attorney Melvin Belli)
7 News (Cecil Brown)
8 News (Dave Kiernan)
11 Late Mystery (“Two Blind Men” with Louis Jourdan)
11:10
2 Weather and Sports
4 Weather (Tex Antoine)
7 The Night Show (Nocturne, 1946 mystery with George Raft and Lynn Bari; WABC-TV ran this movie at 11:10 each weeknight this week)
8 Weather (St. George)
11:15
2 The Late Show (Crazy House, 1943 comedy, with Olsen & Johnson)
4 Hy Gardner Calling (talk show)
8 Movie (That’s Right, You’re Wrong, 1939 musical comedy with Lucille Ball and Kay Kyser)
11:30
4 Tonight (This is Ernie Kovacs’ last night hosting the Monday and Tuesday shows of this series, with Edie Adams and announcer Bill Wendell. Steve Allen and Gene Rayburn wrap their tenure this Friday night, and Jack Lescoulie takes the show over with a magazine format next Monday.)
9 Movie (Far Frontier, the Roy Rogers Western)
11 News (John Tillman)
13 Hollywood Half Hour (Ann Dvorak in “Closeup,” and, yes, WATV ran this episode at 11:30 each weeknight this week as well)
12:00
5 Movie (Love Takes Flight, 1937 drama, with Bruce Cabot)
13 Front Page Detective (“Friend of the Corpse,” which WATV also stripped at Midnight each weeknight this week)
12:30
4 Old, Old Show (Are Parents Pickles? With Jimmy Parrott and Jobyna Ralston)
9 Strange Stories
12:40
7 Evening Prayer (Rev. Eugene Huston)
12:50
2 The Late Late Show (Passport to Alcatraz, 1940 spy drama, with Jack Holt and Noah Beery Jr.)
1:00
4 Sermonette (Rev. Charles McManus)
8 News
1:30
5 Previews; Call to Prayer
1:55
2 News
2:00
2 Give Us This Day (Rabbi Sidney Jacobs)
CHANNELS LISTED:
2 WCBS-TV (CBS) 485 Madison Avenue, New York 22
4 WRCA-TV (NBC) 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York 20
5 WABD (Du Mont*) 205 East 67th Street, New York 21
7 WABC-TV (ABC) 7 West 66th Street, New York 23
8 WNHC-TV (ABC, CBS, Du Mont*) 1110 Chapel Street, New Haven 10
9 WOR-TV (Independent) 1440 Broadway, New York 18
11 WPIX (Independent) 220 East 42nd Street, New York 17
13 WATV (Independent) Empire State Building, New York 1**
43 WICC-TV (ABC***) Booth Hill Road, Trumbull, Bridgeport
*Although WABD and WNHC-TV are listed as Du Mont network affiliates, that network actually ceased operations the previous August with a boxing telecast.
**Although WATV was listed as being located in the Empire State Building, its city of license was actually Newark, New Jersey.
***While WICC-TV was officially an ABC affiliate, it ran no ABC programming at all on this date and was pretty much functioning more as an independent throughout this week. The only prime time ABC programming the station did air this week was The Danny Thomas Show on Monday at 8:00 (curiously, as did WNHC-TV), Circus Time (with Paul Winchell) on Thursday at 8:00 and The Ray Anthony Show on Friday at 10:00 (again, simultaneous with WNHC-TV).
MORNING
6:45
8 Man to Man (religion; Dr. Alvin N. Rogness)
6:50
2 Previews
6:55
2 Give Us This Day (Rabbi Lawrence Charney)
4 Daily Sermonette (Rev. Charles McManus)
7:00
2 Good Morning! (Will Rogers Jr. hosts vocalist Jackie Paris and comedian Archie Robbins)
4 Today (Dave Garroway hosts Dame Flora MacLeod, the first female Scottish clan chief)
8 Cartoon Carnival
7:25
8 News and Weather
7:30
8 Short Show (Part 2 of “HooDoo Ann” with Mae Marsh)
7:55
8 News and Weather
7:56
7 Morning Prayer (Rev. Eugene Houston)
8:00
2 Captain Kangaroo
7 Tinker’s Workshop (cartoons)
8 Happy the Clown
8:30
8 Breakfast Playhouse (“The Marriage of Lot Lit,” with Don DeFore)
8:45
5 Sandy Becker
8:55
4 First Feature (Block Heads, 1938 Laurel & Hardy comedy)
8 News
9:00
2 The Stu Erwin Show
7 Drama of Life
8 This, Our Faith (Rev. Harold Heinrich of New Haven’s St. Boniface’s Catholic Church)
9:30
2 Amos ‘n’ Andy
7 Morning Feature (So This is New York, 1948 comedy, starring Henry Morgan and Rudy Vallee; WABC-TV ran this movie every weekday morning that week at 9:30)
8 University of the Air (Dr. Victor Pitkin on “Asia in Ferment: The United States and the Orient”)
9 Our Children (documentary)
10:00
2 The Garry Moore Daytime Show
4 Home (Arlene Francis and Hugh Downs reminisce about silent movie star Rudolph Valentino)
5 Tune In Anytime Theater (The Foreman Went to France, 1942 British WW2 adventure with Clifford Evans; WABD repeated this movie at 1:00 PM)
8 My Little Margie
9 Cartoon Time
10:30
2 Arthur Godfrey Time
8 Movie (Everything’s Rosie, 1931 drama, with Anita Louise)
9 Movie (Sunset in Wyoming, Gene Autry Western)
10:38
4 Window ([COLOR] Ostrid Lind gives tips on travelling with children)
10:43
4 Home (rejoined in progress)
11:00
4 The Price is Right (Bill Cullen)
7 News (George H. Combs)
11:05
7 Road of Romance
11:30
2 Strike It Rich
4 Truth or Consequences (this was early in Bob Barker’s run on the series)
7 The Martin Block Show (daytime variety show hosted by the “Make-Believe Ballroom” radio disc jockey of the ‘30s and ‘40s)
9 Cartoon Time
11:45
5 To Be Announced
11:58
13 TV Pastor (Marsh)
AFTERNOON
12:00
2 Valiant Lady
4 Tic Tac Dough
5 Anyone Can Win
7 Time For Fun
8 News (George Thompson)
9 Movie (Algiers, the 1938 classic romantic adventure with Hedy Lamarr and Charles Boyer; WOR-TV repeated the movie immediately after its first airing here)
13 Coffee Club (panel discussion)
12:15
2/8 Love of Life
12:30
2/8 Search for Tomorrow
4 It Could Be You
7 Memory Lane (Joe Franklin’s first daily TV show; his guest today is Barbara Cook, then co-starring on Broadway in Candide)
13 Movie (Fighting Code, the Buck Jones Western)
12:45
2/8 The Guiding Light
1:00
2 News (Walter Cronkite)
4 Tex & Jinx ([COLOR] Guests today are singer Jane Powell and home economist Josephine McCarthy, the latter of whom prepares braised veal knuckles)
5 Tune In Anytime Theater (see 10:00 AM listing)
8 Movie (Grand Central Murder, 1942 mystery with Van Heflin)
1:10
2 Stand Up & Be Counted
1:30
2 As the World Turns
7 The Afternoon Show (Belle of the Yukon, 1944 drama with Randolph Scott and Gypsy Rose Lee)
11 Man to Man (religion)
13 Movie (Calendar Girl, 1947 comedy with Jane Frazee)
1:45
11 Transition (topical discussion)
2:00
2 Our Miss Brooks
4 The Richard Willis Show (beauty)
11 Movie (The Magic Bow, 1947 British biography of composer and violinist Nicolo Paganini, with Stewart Granger)
2:30
2/8 Art Linkletter’s House Party
4 The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show
2:45
5 News and Weather
2:55
13 News
3:00
2 The Big Payoff
4 Matinee Theater ([COLOR] Night Train to Chicago by Franklin Barton)
5 Liberace
7 Afternoon Film Festival (Part 2 of The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, the 1945 British classic; Part 1 was run Monday)
8 The Fedora Bontempis Show (local cooking show; today she prepares Neopolitan ravioli and Roman style lamb cacciatora{sic})
9 The Ted Steele Show (guests today are singers Johnny Brandon and Jeanne O’Brien)
13 Fun Time
3:15
11 Club Tel Aviv (Van Harris hosts Israeli performers Bathia Ostrovshy and Yonah Sklar)
3:30
2 The Bob Crosby Show ([COLOR] Bob was Bing’s brother and Jack Benny’s TV and radio bandleader)
5 Beulah
11 The First Show (Tulsa, the 1949 Western with Susan Hayward and Robert Preston)
13 The Mickey Freeman Show (variety)
3:45
8 Cartoon Carnival
13 The Jan Bart Show (today’s guest is concertina player Raymond Chase)
3:55
9 News
4:00
2 The Brighter Day
4 Queen For A Day (Jack Bailey)
5 The Wendy Barrie Show (today’s guest is Arthur Storch, leading man in the Broadway production The Girls of Summer)
8 Bandstand (today’s guests are students from Jefferson Junior High School in Meriden; this is apparently a New Haven variation on WFIL-TV Philadelphia’s show of the same name, which didn’t go national over ABC as American Bandstand until the following August)
9 The Ted Steele Show (rejoined after the newscast)
13 Fun Time
4:15
2 The Secret Storm
4:30
2 The Edge of Night
5 Mr. & Mrs. North
7 Cartoon Club
13 Junior Frolics (Fred Sayles)
4:45
4 Modern Romances
4:55
9/11 News (Kevin Kennedy on WPIX)
5:00
2 My Little Margie
4 It’s a Great Life
5 Studio Party (students from Clifton High School in New Jersey guest)
7/8 The Mickey Mouse Club
9 Teen Bandstand (Ted Steele hosts students from New York’s Maxwell Vocational High School)
11 Ramar of the Jungle
5:30
2 The Early Show (Home at Seven, the 1952 British mystery with Ralph Richardson)
4 Evening Theatre (Lured, 1947 mystery with Lucille Ball and George Sanders)
5 The Gene Autry Show
11 The Clubhouse Gang
13 Movie (Brazil, 1944 musical comedy, with Tito Guizar and Virginia Bruce)
EVENING
6:00
5 Captain Video’s Cartoons
7 The Adventures of Superman (“The Big Squeeze”)
8 Stage 8 (“One Forty-Two,” with Dick Powell)
9 Willy (June Havoc sitcom)
11 Popeye
43 Navy Film
6:30
5 Looney Tunes (Warner Bros. cartoons)
7 Dangerous Assignment
8 Sports (Syd Jaffe)
9 Headline (Mark Stevens drama)
11 The Abbott & Costello Show
43 News (Al Harper)
6:35
43 Film Shorts
6:40
8 Weather (Ed Caputo)
6:45
4 News (Ken Banghart)
8 News (Dave Kiernan)
43 The Family Rosary (religion)
6:55
4 Weather (Lynn Dollar)
7 Weather (Janet Tyler)
13 News (Guy LeBow)
7:00
2 World News (Robert Trout)
4 Celebrity Playhouse (“East of Nowhere,” with Ann Sheridan)
5 News (Mike Wallace)
7 Kukla, Fran & Ollie
8 The Adventures of Superman
9 Terrytoons
11 News (Kevin Kennedy)
13 The Famous All-Star Movie (Quiet Please, Murder, 1942 spy drama, with George Sanders and Richard Denning; WATV ran this movie every weeknight at 7:00 and 10:00 and Saturday and Sunday at 2:30 PM this week)
43 Film Shorts
7:05
2 Local News (Ron Cochran, who would later anchor ABC’s evening newscast and that network’s initial coverage of the John F. Kennedy assassination)
7:10
2 Weather (Carol Reed, not to be confused with the legendary British film director)
11 Weather (Joe Bolton, later more famous as “Officer” Joe Bolton on WPIX’s “Three Stooges” screenings)
7:15
2 Douglas Edwards and the News (CBS’ evening network newscast)
5 Top Secret (science fiction; “Three is a Crowd,” with Paul Stewart)
7 John Daly and the News (ABC’s evening network newscast)
11 News (John Tillman)
7:30
2 Name That Tune (George De Witt was the emcee at this point)
4 The Jonathan Winters Show (tonight’s guest is Jaye P. Morgan)
5 Waterfront (adventure)
7/8 Conflict (one-season Warner Bros.-produced adventure anthology; tonight, Keith Andes stars in the World War 2 drama “Blind Drop: Warsaw”)
9 The Million Dollar Movie (Cry, The Beloved Country, the 1952 British-produced social drama about apartheid in South Africa, starring Canada Lee and Sidney Poitier; WOR-TV ran this movie at 7:00 and 9:00 each weeknight and on Saturday and Sunday afternoons this week)
11 City Detective (Rod Cameron police series; tonight’s guest star is Touch {Mike} Connors)
7:45
4 The Huntley-Brinkley Report
8:00
2 The Phil Silvers Show (Bing Crosby guests tonight; he was paid the union minimum of $80 for his appearance, thanks to some typical fast-talk by Crosby’s old Vaudeville buddy Silvers)
4 The Big Surprise (Mike Wallace was the second-season emcee of this NBC copy of The $64,000 Question; he had half an hour to skedaddle from the Du Mont Building on East 67th Street, where he did the 7:00 WABD local news, to 30 Rock to do this gig every Tuesday)
5 Uncommon Valor (documentary series about the history of the U.S. Marine Corps)
11 I Led Three Lives
43 Movie (to be announced)
8:30
2 Brothers (single-season sitcom starring Gale Gordon and Bob Sweeney; Kathleen Freeman and Ellen Corby are tonight’s guest stars)
4 Noah’s Ark ([COLOR] short-lived Jack Webb production about a pair of veterinarians)
5 Bowling Time (New Yorker Ralph Engan squares off against Lee Jouglard of Detroit; former welterweight champion boxer Mickey Walker is a special guest commentator)
7/8 The Life & Legend of Wyatt Earp
11 Tracer (mystery anthology)
13 Hollywood Half Hour (“Make Your Bed” with Bonita Granville as a meddling mother-in-law; WATV ran this episode every weeknight at 8:30 this week)
9:00
2 To Tell the Truth
4 The Jane Wyman Show (Wyman herself stars in “The Golden Door”)
7/8 Broken Arrow
9 State Trooper (Premiere of Rod Cameron’s 1957-59 syndicated police drama; the pilot had run as an episode of NBC’s Star Stage the previous season)
11 Pro Basketball (The Syracuse Nationals at the New York Knickerbockers; Bob Wolff reported from Madison Square Garden)
13 Front Page Detective (WATV also ran this episode, “You Kill Me,” every weeknight at 9:00 this week)
9:30
2 The Red Skelton Show ([COLOR] Vincent Price is this week’s guest)
4 Armstrong Circle Theatre (John Cameron Swayze narrates the docudrama “The Freedom Fighters of Hungary”)
5 Cavalcade of Stars (although the same title was used for Jackie Gleason’s first big variety show, also produced at WABD, by this time the station was using the title for a dramatic film anthology)
7/8 Du Pont Theater (Oscar Homolka in the comic play Dowry for Ilona)
9 Film Drama (Broderick Crawford in “Margin for Fear”)
13 Hollywood Half Hour (“Southern Lady,” with Jane Wyatt and Georgia Backus; again, WATV ran this episode at 9:30 each weeknight this week)
10:00
2/8 The $64,000 Question
5 Hunter (adventure)
7 Polka Time (Bruno “Junior” Zielinski’s national polka showcase, produced at ABC’s WBKB-TV/7 in Chicago; this weeks guests are the Branko Radichevich Serbian Folk Dancers. The Polka Chips, Rusty Gill, Bob Martin and Jack Cardero are regular supporting musicians.)
9 The Million Dollar Movie (see the 7:30 listing)
13 The Famous All-Star Movie (see the 7:00 listing)
43 Film Shorts
10:30
2 Do You Trust Your Wife? (The Don Fedderson-produced game show, at this point starring Edgar Bergen and his characters Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd; when the show moved to ABC daytime later this year, production was moved from Hollywood to New York and Bergen was replaced by Johnny Carson)
4 Break The $250,000 Bank ([COLOR] curiously, Brooks & Marsh claim this long-running Bert Parks game show had finished its run the week before this, on January 15th)
5 Sherlock Holmes
7 Damon Runyon Theater (Fay Bainter in “Teacher’s Pet”)
8 The People’s Choice
11:00
2 News (Ron Cochran)
4 News (John McCaffery)
5 Night Beat (Mike Wallace’s third job of the night, this time back at WABD to interview author John Resko and attorney Melvin Belli)
7 News (Cecil Brown)
8 News (Dave Kiernan)
11 Late Mystery (“Two Blind Men” with Louis Jourdan)
11:10
2 Weather and Sports
4 Weather (Tex Antoine)
7 The Night Show (Nocturne, 1946 mystery with George Raft and Lynn Bari; WABC-TV ran this movie at 11:10 each weeknight this week)
8 Weather (St. George)
11:15
2 The Late Show (Crazy House, 1943 comedy, with Olsen & Johnson)
4 Hy Gardner Calling (talk show)
8 Movie (That’s Right, You’re Wrong, 1939 musical comedy with Lucille Ball and Kay Kyser)
11:30
4 Tonight (This is Ernie Kovacs’ last night hosting the Monday and Tuesday shows of this series, with Edie Adams and announcer Bill Wendell. Steve Allen and Gene Rayburn wrap their tenure this Friday night, and Jack Lescoulie takes the show over with a magazine format next Monday.)
9 Movie (Far Frontier, the Roy Rogers Western)
11 News (John Tillman)
13 Hollywood Half Hour (Ann Dvorak in “Closeup,” and, yes, WATV ran this episode at 11:30 each weeknight this week as well)
12:00
5 Movie (Love Takes Flight, 1937 drama, with Bruce Cabot)
13 Front Page Detective (“Friend of the Corpse,” which WATV also stripped at Midnight each weeknight this week)
12:30
4 Old, Old Show (Are Parents Pickles? With Jimmy Parrott and Jobyna Ralston)
9 Strange Stories
12:40
7 Evening Prayer (Rev. Eugene Huston)
12:50
2 The Late Late Show (Passport to Alcatraz, 1940 spy drama, with Jack Holt and Noah Beery Jr.)
1:00
4 Sermonette (Rev. Charles McManus)
8 News
1:30
5 Previews; Call to Prayer
1:55
2 News
2:00
2 Give Us This Day (Rabbi Sidney Jacobs)
