from TV Guide- New York Metropolitan edition
TVG also listed WICC 43-ABC/Dumont Bridgeport, but they had no scheduled programs on this day
WCBS 2-CBS
6:45 Previews
6:55 Give Us This Day (Fr. Patrick Ahern)
7:00 Movie "The Return of Daniel Boone"
8:00 Space Funnies (Capt. Jet's co-pilot is Newark's Mark Lipstein)
9:00 On the Carousel (Tripp)
10:00 Hickory Dickory Dock "A Day at School"
10:30 Cartoon Carnival
11:00 Winky Dink & You
11:30 Tales of the Texas Rangers "Carnival Criss-Cross"
noon Big Top
1:00 Lone Ranger "Mission Bells"
1:30 Uncle Johnny Coons
2:00 Movie "Wyoming Outlaw"
3:00 Movie "The Magic Face"
4:30 Amos 'n' Andy "The Gun"
5:00 Stories of the Century "Rube Barrows"
5:30 Annie Oakley "Annie and the Higher Court"
6:00 News (Ned Calmer)
6:05 Weather (Carol Reed)
6:10 Sports (Jim McKay)
6:15 Laurel & Hardy "Perfect Day"
6:30 Man Behind the Badge "The Case of the Black Sheep"
7:00 Gene Autry "Six Gun Romeo"
7:30 Beat the Clock
8:00 Greatest Bands (guests: bands of Ralph Marterie, the Treniers, Jose Curbelo, and Buddy Rogers)
9:00 Two for the Money
9:30 It's Always Jan (premiere)
10:00 Gunsmoke (premiere)
10:30 Damon Runyon Theater "Tobias the Terrible"
11:00 News (Ned Calmer)
11:10 Weather/Sports
11:15 Late Show "A Lady Takes a Chance"
12:45 Late Late Show "Black Beauty"
2:15 Give Us This Day (Fr. Andrew O'Reilly)
WRCA 4-NBC
6:25 Sermonette
6:30 Modern Farmer
7:00 Saturday (Herb Sheldon)
9:00 Children's Theater (Forrest)
9:30 Andy's Gang "Monkey's Temple"
10:00 Pinky Lee
10:30 Children's Corner (Josie Carey/Fred Rogers, some of Fred's characters from Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood appeared here as well)
11:00 Commando Cody "Solar Sky Riders"
11:30 Mr. Wizard (season premiere)
noon Home Gardener (Alampis)
12:30 Movie "There is a Family"
2:00 US National Singles Tennis semis
5:00 Operation Success (Quentin Reynolds)
5:30 Movie "Captain Fury"
7:00 Television Workshop "Essays '55" (Martin Levin and 2 other writers read from their works)
7:30 Show Wagon (from St. Paul with performers Keith Thibodeaux (age 3) and Reita Green)
8:00 Kickoff: 1955 (preview of college football season)
8:30 Dunniger Show (guest: Secret Service chief U.E. Broughman)
9:00 Musical Chairs
9:30 Donald O'Connor
10:00 Here's the Show (Ransom Sherman/Jonathan Winters)
10:30 Your Hit Parade (return)
11:00 News (Bob Wilson)
11:15 Mayor of the Town "Marilly's Murder"
11:45 Movie "Trade Winds"
WABD 5-DuMont
10:55 Prayer/News
11:00 Movie "Frontier Feud"
noon Movie "Who Killed Doc Robbin?"
1:00 Movie "My Dear Secretary"
2:30 Film Drama "The Substance of His House"
3:00 Movie "Father Makes Good"
4:00 Film Drama "Treasure of the Heart"
4:30 Film Drama "Three Strangers"
5:00 Movie "The Seven Ravens"
6:00 Film Drama "Polly"
6:30 Looney Tunes
7:00 Terry & the Pirates "The Loaded Dice Affair"
7:30 Joe Palooka "The Last Round"
8:00 Movie "Flame of the West"
9:00 Counterpoint "The Old Man"
9:30 American Barn Dance (Bill Bailey welcomes Mary Jane, Kay Brewer, Tex Williams, Homer & Jethro, Doc Hopkins, the Candy Mountain Girls, and Cousin Alvin)
10:00 MDA Telethon (benefiting the National Muscle Research Center; to 5pm Sunday)
WABC 7-ABC
11:26 Morning Prayer (Fr. John P. Breheny)
11:30 Focus
noon Italian Cooking (Bontempis)
1:00 Movie "Strange Cargo"
2:00 Movie "Trail of the Yukon"
3:00 Hopalong Cassidy "Leather Burners"
4:15 Discovery Handicap horse race
4:30 Movie "Wild Horse Phantom"
5:00 School of Memory
5:30 Rin Tin Tin "The Bugle Call"
6:00 Movie "Lost Trail"
7:00 Step This Way
7:30 Harriet Van Horne (premiere)
8:00 Ozark Jubilee
9:00 Lawrence Welk
10:00 Studio 7 "And Suddenly You Know"
10:30 Miss America Pageant
mid. Evening Prayer (Fr. Breheny)
WNHC 8-ABC/CBS/NBC/DuMont New Haven
9:15 Mr. Wizard "Solutions"
9:45 Barker Bill's Cartoon
10:00 Andy's Gang (as ch 4)
10:30 Wild Bill Hickok "A Trap of Diamonds"
11:00 Buffalo Bill, Jr. "Redskin Gap"
11:30 Commando Cody "Robot Monster of Mars"
noon Big Top
1:00 Roy Rogers "Backfire"
1:30 Uncle Johnny Coons
2:00 Baseball: Yankees-Chicago (JIP from 11)
4:30 Make the Connection
5:00 Disneyland "Tomorrowland"
6:00 Lone Ranger "The Sheriff's Wife"
6:30 You Asked for It
7:00 This is Your Life (Andy Devine is profiled)
7:30 Stage 7 "End of the Line"
8:00 Greatest Bands
9:00 Musical Chairs
9:30 Donald O'Connor
10:30 Miss America Pageant
mid. Movie "Joan of Ozark"
1:00 News
WOR 9-Ind
1pm Commercial Program
1:30 Cowboy G-Men "Gunslingers"
2:00 Movie "The Magic Bow"
3:30 Movie "Derby Day"
4:30 Movie "Straight Shooters"
5:30 Million Dollar Movie "Ruthless"
7:00 Post Time USA
7:15 Movie Museum "The Great Train Robbery" (Killiam)
7:30 Million Dollar Movie (replay from 5:30)
9:00 Movie (replay from 3:30)
10:00 Million Dollar Movie (replay from 5:30)
11:30 Movie "Egypt by Three"
WPIX 11-Ind
noon Treasure Chest
12:20 Movie "Gunfire"
1:30 Baseball Album (Slater)
1:40 Sports (Red Barber)
1:55 Baseball: Yankees-Chicago (Red alongside Mel Allen)
4:35 Sports (Red Barber)
4:45 Batter-Up
5:00 Cartoon Comics
5:30 Abbott & Costello "Paper Hangers"
6:00 Buffalo Bill, Jr. (as 8)
6:30 Clubhouse Gang
7:00 Ramar of the Jungle "Call to Danger"
7:30 San Francisco Beat "The Paisley Gang" (premiere)
8:00 Movie "Train to Tombstone"
9:00 Movie "Six-Gun Serenade"
10:00 Ringabuk
10:45 Film Shorts
10:55 Weather (Kennedy)
11:00 Movie "There's a Girl in My Heart"
WATV 13-Ind
10:58 TV Pastor (Marsh)
11:00 Aldo Aldi (Terry Taylor sings)
noon Casa Serena "The Blond Angel"
12:30 Junior Town Meeting "Tension in the Far East" (Bob Macdougall and Jerry Roberts welcome panelists from Trenton, Brooklyn, Cedar Grove, and the Bronx)
1:30 Thrills in Sports
2:00 Congress Answers (NJ GOP Senator Clifford Case gets grilled by 3 reporters)
2:30 Movie "Mania for Melody"
3:30 Movie "Beneath Western Skies"
4:30 Junior Frolics (Fred Sayles)
5:30 Super Serial "Crimson Ghost" (pt 6)
6:00 Movie "Silent Code"
7:00 News/Sports
7:15 Foreign Press Report "Problems Facing Adenauer in Moscow"
7:30 Polka Party (Eddie Gronet; performers: Champagne Polka Timers, and the Polish National Alliance Dance Group with Regina Kujowa and Stash Gritt)
8:00 German Variety
8:30 Big Picture
9:00 Carnaval Hispano
10:00 Ukrainian Melody Hour (Roman Marynowych welcomes Alicia Bucbinska, Mykola Buchowski, and the dance group of Allentown-based Ukrainian Youth Organization)
10:30 Film Shorts
11:00 Movie "Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise"
TVG also listed WICC 43-ABC/Dumont Bridgeport, but they had no scheduled programs on this day
WCBS 2-CBS
6:45 Previews
6:55 Give Us This Day (Fr. Patrick Ahern)
7:00 Movie "The Return of Daniel Boone"
8:00 Space Funnies (Capt. Jet's co-pilot is Newark's Mark Lipstein)
9:00 On the Carousel (Tripp)
10:00 Hickory Dickory Dock "A Day at School"
10:30 Cartoon Carnival
11:00 Winky Dink & You
11:30 Tales of the Texas Rangers "Carnival Criss-Cross"
noon Big Top
1:00 Lone Ranger "Mission Bells"
1:30 Uncle Johnny Coons
2:00 Movie "Wyoming Outlaw"
3:00 Movie "The Magic Face"
4:30 Amos 'n' Andy "The Gun"
5:00 Stories of the Century "Rube Barrows"
5:30 Annie Oakley "Annie and the Higher Court"
6:00 News (Ned Calmer)
6:05 Weather (Carol Reed)
6:10 Sports (Jim McKay)
6:15 Laurel & Hardy "Perfect Day"
6:30 Man Behind the Badge "The Case of the Black Sheep"
7:00 Gene Autry "Six Gun Romeo"
7:30 Beat the Clock
8:00 Greatest Bands (guests: bands of Ralph Marterie, the Treniers, Jose Curbelo, and Buddy Rogers)
9:00 Two for the Money
9:30 It's Always Jan (premiere)
10:00 Gunsmoke (premiere)
10:30 Damon Runyon Theater "Tobias the Terrible"
11:00 News (Ned Calmer)
11:10 Weather/Sports
11:15 Late Show "A Lady Takes a Chance"
12:45 Late Late Show "Black Beauty"
2:15 Give Us This Day (Fr. Andrew O'Reilly)
WRCA 4-NBC
6:25 Sermonette
6:30 Modern Farmer
7:00 Saturday (Herb Sheldon)
9:00 Children's Theater (Forrest)
9:30 Andy's Gang "Monkey's Temple"
10:00 Pinky Lee
10:30 Children's Corner (Josie Carey/Fred Rogers, some of Fred's characters from Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood appeared here as well)
11:00 Commando Cody "Solar Sky Riders"
11:30 Mr. Wizard (season premiere)
noon Home Gardener (Alampis)
12:30 Movie "There is a Family"
2:00 US National Singles Tennis semis
5:00 Operation Success (Quentin Reynolds)
5:30 Movie "Captain Fury"
7:00 Television Workshop "Essays '55" (Martin Levin and 2 other writers read from their works)
7:30 Show Wagon (from St. Paul with performers Keith Thibodeaux (age 3) and Reita Green)
8:00 Kickoff: 1955 (preview of college football season)
8:30 Dunniger Show (guest: Secret Service chief U.E. Broughman)
9:00 Musical Chairs
9:30 Donald O'Connor
10:00 Here's the Show (Ransom Sherman/Jonathan Winters)
10:30 Your Hit Parade (return)
11:00 News (Bob Wilson)
11:15 Mayor of the Town "Marilly's Murder"
11:45 Movie "Trade Winds"
WABD 5-DuMont
10:55 Prayer/News
11:00 Movie "Frontier Feud"
noon Movie "Who Killed Doc Robbin?"
1:00 Movie "My Dear Secretary"
2:30 Film Drama "The Substance of His House"
3:00 Movie "Father Makes Good"
4:00 Film Drama "Treasure of the Heart"
4:30 Film Drama "Three Strangers"
5:00 Movie "The Seven Ravens"
6:00 Film Drama "Polly"
6:30 Looney Tunes
7:00 Terry & the Pirates "The Loaded Dice Affair"
7:30 Joe Palooka "The Last Round"
8:00 Movie "Flame of the West"
9:00 Counterpoint "The Old Man"
9:30 American Barn Dance (Bill Bailey welcomes Mary Jane, Kay Brewer, Tex Williams, Homer & Jethro, Doc Hopkins, the Candy Mountain Girls, and Cousin Alvin)
10:00 MDA Telethon (benefiting the National Muscle Research Center; to 5pm Sunday)
WABC 7-ABC
11:26 Morning Prayer (Fr. John P. Breheny)
11:30 Focus
noon Italian Cooking (Bontempis)
1:00 Movie "Strange Cargo"
2:00 Movie "Trail of the Yukon"
3:00 Hopalong Cassidy "Leather Burners"
4:15 Discovery Handicap horse race
4:30 Movie "Wild Horse Phantom"
5:00 School of Memory
5:30 Rin Tin Tin "The Bugle Call"
6:00 Movie "Lost Trail"
7:00 Step This Way
7:30 Harriet Van Horne (premiere)
8:00 Ozark Jubilee
9:00 Lawrence Welk
10:00 Studio 7 "And Suddenly You Know"
10:30 Miss America Pageant
mid. Evening Prayer (Fr. Breheny)
WNHC 8-ABC/CBS/NBC/DuMont New Haven
9:15 Mr. Wizard "Solutions"
9:45 Barker Bill's Cartoon
10:00 Andy's Gang (as ch 4)
10:30 Wild Bill Hickok "A Trap of Diamonds"
11:00 Buffalo Bill, Jr. "Redskin Gap"
11:30 Commando Cody "Robot Monster of Mars"
noon Big Top
1:00 Roy Rogers "Backfire"
1:30 Uncle Johnny Coons
2:00 Baseball: Yankees-Chicago (JIP from 11)
4:30 Make the Connection
5:00 Disneyland "Tomorrowland"
6:00 Lone Ranger "The Sheriff's Wife"
6:30 You Asked for It
7:00 This is Your Life (Andy Devine is profiled)
7:30 Stage 7 "End of the Line"
8:00 Greatest Bands
9:00 Musical Chairs
9:30 Donald O'Connor
10:30 Miss America Pageant
mid. Movie "Joan of Ozark"
1:00 News
WOR 9-Ind
1pm Commercial Program
1:30 Cowboy G-Men "Gunslingers"
2:00 Movie "The Magic Bow"
3:30 Movie "Derby Day"
4:30 Movie "Straight Shooters"
5:30 Million Dollar Movie "Ruthless"
7:00 Post Time USA
7:15 Movie Museum "The Great Train Robbery" (Killiam)
7:30 Million Dollar Movie (replay from 5:30)
9:00 Movie (replay from 3:30)
10:00 Million Dollar Movie (replay from 5:30)
11:30 Movie "Egypt by Three"
WPIX 11-Ind
noon Treasure Chest
12:20 Movie "Gunfire"
1:30 Baseball Album (Slater)
1:40 Sports (Red Barber)
1:55 Baseball: Yankees-Chicago (Red alongside Mel Allen)
4:35 Sports (Red Barber)
4:45 Batter-Up
5:00 Cartoon Comics
5:30 Abbott & Costello "Paper Hangers"
6:00 Buffalo Bill, Jr. (as 8)
6:30 Clubhouse Gang
7:00 Ramar of the Jungle "Call to Danger"
7:30 San Francisco Beat "The Paisley Gang" (premiere)
8:00 Movie "Train to Tombstone"
9:00 Movie "Six-Gun Serenade"
10:00 Ringabuk
10:45 Film Shorts
10:55 Weather (Kennedy)
11:00 Movie "There's a Girl in My Heart"
WATV 13-Ind
10:58 TV Pastor (Marsh)
11:00 Aldo Aldi (Terry Taylor sings)
noon Casa Serena "The Blond Angel"
12:30 Junior Town Meeting "Tension in the Far East" (Bob Macdougall and Jerry Roberts welcome panelists from Trenton, Brooklyn, Cedar Grove, and the Bronx)
1:30 Thrills in Sports
2:00 Congress Answers (NJ GOP Senator Clifford Case gets grilled by 3 reporters)
2:30 Movie "Mania for Melody"
3:30 Movie "Beneath Western Skies"
4:30 Junior Frolics (Fred Sayles)
5:30 Super Serial "Crimson Ghost" (pt 6)
6:00 Movie "Silent Code"
7:00 News/Sports
7:15 Foreign Press Report "Problems Facing Adenauer in Moscow"
7:30 Polka Party (Eddie Gronet; performers: Champagne Polka Timers, and the Polish National Alliance Dance Group with Regina Kujowa and Stash Gritt)
8:00 German Variety
8:30 Big Picture
9:00 Carnaval Hispano
10:00 Ukrainian Melody Hour (Roman Marynowych welcomes Alicia Bucbinska, Mykola Buchowski, and the dance group of Allentown-based Ukrainian Youth Organization)
10:30 Film Shorts
11:00 Movie "Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise"