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Retro: New York City Sun, Aug 26, 1956

from New York Herald Tribune

WCBS 2-CBS New York
7:50 Prevues & Sermon
8:00 Agriculture USA
8:30 Big Picture "Pictorial Report #16" (how a GI and a dog are trained as a patrol duty team)
9:00 The Pastor "Out of Tune"
9:15 Our Godly Heritage "John Milton and the Temptation of Samson"
9:30 Cartoon Carnival
10:00 Lamp Unto My Feet
10:30 Look Up & Live "Letters from a Jazz Musician" (conclusion)
11:00 Eye on New York
11:30 Camera Three "The Ancient Mariner"
noon Let's Take a Trip
12:30 Wild Bill Hickok "Heading for Trouble"
1:00 Sunday Picture "So Long at the Fair"
2:30 Late Matinee "Little Big Shot"
3:45 Renaissance on TV "Erasmus"
4:15 Political Broadcast (Eric Haas, Socialist Labor Presidential candidate)
4:30 Bandwagon '56
5:00 Face the Nation
5:30 CBS Sunday News
6:00 Telephone Time "Smith of Ecuador"
6:30 You are There "Dr. Pinels Unchains the Insane"
7:00 Lassie "The Tree House"
7:30 Private Secretary
8:00 Ed Sullivan (Kirk Douglas fills in for an ill Ed as the show presents its 3rd annual showcase of Navy talent)
9:00 GE Theater "The Honest Man"
9:30 Alfred Hitchcock Presents "Gentleman from America"
10:00 $64,000 Challenge
10:30 What's My Line?
11:00 Sunday News Special
11:15 Late Show "The Unholy Four"
12:15 Late Late Show "Terror Street"
2:15 News & Sermon

WRCA 4-NBC New York
7:30 Modern Farmer
8:00 The Fourth R
9:00 Library Lions
10:30 Children's Hour
11:30 Ask the Camera
noon Playhouse 4 "Foolish Nations"
1:00 Sunday Theater "Waltz Time"
2:30 Citizen's Union (guest NY Attorney-General Jacob Javits)
3:00 Community Service "Via the Port of New York"
3:30 Youth Wants to Know
4:00 Catholic Hour (guest Paul Horgan)
4:30 American Forum
5:00 Zoo Parade "Zoo Parade Safari-East Africa (c/Wild Kingdom's Marlin Perkins was then director of Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo)
5:30 Outlook
6:00 Meet the Press (guest Undersecretary of Labor Arthur Larson)
6:30 Roy Rogers "Mayor of Ghost Town"
7:00 Topper "Topper Goes to School"
7:30 Frontier "The Return of Jubal Dolan"
8:00 Steve Allen (guests Buddy Hackett, Jaye P. Morgan, Geogory Ratoff, and Andy Williams; plus a trip to Atlantic City to visit the Ice Capades of 1957)
9:00 Goodyear Playhouse "Grow Up"
10:00 Loretta Young "Double Partners" (season premiere)
10:30 Bowling: Detroiters Buzz Fazio and Therman Gibson square off in Chicago
11:00 News
11:10 Weather
11:15 Hy Gardner Calling
11:45 Eleventh Hour Theater "Getting Gertie's Garter"

WABD 5-DuMont New York
9:55 Prevues & Prayer
10:00 Frontier Theater "Sheriff of Sage Valley"
11:00 Western Tales "Texas Manhunt"
noon Feature Theater "Against the Wind"
2:00 Feature Theater "Meet Me at Dawn"
4:00 Feature Theater "Noose for a Lady"
6:00 Beulah "The Lucky Suit"
6:30 Looney Tunes
7:00 Between the Lines
7:30 Cavalcade of Progress
8:00 Sunday Night Concert "Two Centuries of Russian Music"
9:00 Mystery at Nine "Shadow of a Man"
10:30 Frontiers of Health "Dentistry III"
11:00 Featurama "The World Through Stamps"/"Story of Packaging"
mid. Prevues & Prayer

WABC 7-ABC New York
8:00 Cartoon Festival
8:30 Gene Autry "The Devil's Brand"
9:00 Tales of the Trail "Song of Old Wyoming"
10:00 Family Feature "Joe Palooka Meets Humphrey"
11:00 Focus "Give Me Second Station"
11:30 Wing & Pet Show
noon Christopher Program "Make Each Day Count"
12:30 Faith for Today
1:00 Feature Film "Kentucky Bluestreak"
2:00 Feature Film "Blonde for a Day"
3:00 Hopalong Cassidy "Heart of the West"
4:00 All-Star Theater "Gun Job"
4:30 College Press Conference (Turkish UN Ambassador Selim Sarper)
5:00 Going Places (Merv Griffin heads to the University of Miami)
6:00 All-Star Theater "Tomorrow's Men"
6:30 Gene Autry
7:00 You Asked for It
7:30 Famous Film Festival "The Promoter"
9:00 Ted Mack's Amateur Hour (guests Gary Carbone (Lyndhurst NJ/pantomime), Jimmy McHugh (Oradell NJ/trombone), Billy Boren (Verona MS/vocalist), the Rhythmaires (East Meadow NY/instrumental group), Lawrence Jennings (Norfolk/singer), Freddy Frederico & James Boticelli (Long Island City/Western singers))
10:00 Studio Seven "Too Old for Dolls"
10:30 Sunday Playhouse "Mr. Ace"

WNHC 8-ABC/CBS New Haven
8:30 Oral Roberts
9:00 Faith for Today
9:30 Christophers
10:00 Lamp Unto My Feet
10:30 This is the Life "Linda"
11:00 Channel 8 Ranch "Carson City Cyclone"
noon Three Bell Theater "Casbah"
1:30 Looney Tunes
2:00 Baseball: Yankees-Detroit (game 1 of doubleheader, WNHC didn't carry the second game; Mel Allen and Jim Woods call the action)
4:30 College Press Conference
5:00 Lassie "The Tree House"
5:30 Federal Men "Broken Bond"
6:00 Badge 714 (Dragnet)
6:30 You are There "Dr. Pinels Unchains the Insane"
7:00 You Asked for It
7:30 Private Secretary
8:00 Ed Sullivan
9:00 Ted Mack's Amateur Hour
10:00 Conrad Nagel Theater "The House in the Sea"
10:30 What's My Line?
11:00 Sunday News Special
11:15 Les Paul & Mary Ford
11:20 Nitecap Theater "New York Lights"
1:00 News

WOR 9-Ind New York
8:00 Big Picture
8:30 Oral Roberts
9:00 Christopher Program
9:15 The Pastor
9:30 Kiddie Video
10:00 Roy Rogers "Badman of Deadwood"
11:00 Cartoon Time
12:30 This is the Life "Linda"
1:00 Man to Man "Are Your Restless"
1:15 Movie Museum
1:30 Movie Classics Theater "Consolation Marriage" (replayed at 3 and 4:30)
6:00 Million Dollar Movie "Duffy of San Quentin" (replayed at 7:30)
9:00 Movie Classics Theater (replay from 1:30)
10:30 Million Dollar Movie (replay from 6pm)
mid. Col. March "The Headless Hat"

WPIX 11-Ind New York
11:45 The Pastor "Witness"
noon Ramar of the Jungle
12:30 Western Feature "Rainbow Over the Rockies"
1:30 Jimmy Powers
1:40 Red Barber
1:55 Baseball: Yankees-Detroit (doubleheader)
7:30 Victory at Sea "The Battle for Leyte Gulf"
8:00 Inspector Mark Saber "Artful Murder"
8:30 Foreign Intrigue "Runaround"
9:00 Ellery Queen "Doodle of Death"
9:30 City Detective "In Sickness and In Stealth"
10:00 Studio 57 "Farewell Appearance"
10:30 Whistler "Backfire"

WATV 13-Ind New York
10:30 Big Picture
11:00 Fun Time
11:15 Juventud Latina Americana
11:45 Italian Travel Show
noon Dove Son Nato
12:30 Comedy Corner
12:45 Fun Time
1:00 Junior Carnival
2:00 Buster Crabbe
2:30 Feature Film "Now Barabas"
3:30 Western Roundup "Gunlords of Stirrup basin"
4:30 Junior Carnival
5:30 Fun Time
6:00 Greek TV Hour
6:30 La Pregunta Musicale
7:00 Gov. Meyner's Report "Highway Improvement Program for Northern NJ Communities"
7:30 NJ Legislative Report "Women in the NJ Legislature and Politics" (discussed by Essex Co Rep Marie Maebery and Passaic Co Rep Emma Newton)
8:00 Perucho Show
8:30 Nicasio Time
9:00 Evangel Hour
9:30 Spanish Show
11:00 Cabaret de la Alegria
11:30 Buster Crabbe

WICC 43-ABC/DuMont Bridgeport
6pm Christophers
6:30 This is the Life
7:00 Film Shorts
7:30 Famous Film Festival "The Promoter"
9:00 Guided Tour
9:30 Film Shorts
10:00 Travel Theater
 
The Herald Tribune may've referred to WCBS's 1 P.M. movie as Sunday Picture (and believe me, I've seen these listings at the NYPL's main branch) - but its actual title was Picture for a Sunday Afternoon.
 
And I recall that the "Picture For A Sunday Afternoon" intro had the same flash and pizzazz as their "Late Show" and "Late Late Show" - at least when it ran in the 80's... I don't think they had color back in 1956... ;)
 
DToTheJ said:
And I recall that the "Picture For A Sunday Afternoon" intro had the same flash and pizzazz as their "Late Show" and "Late Late Show" - at least when it ran in the 80's... I don't think they had color back in 1956... ;)

Up to about 1957, WCBS very occasionally ran a color film in color (such as the time in late 1957 when the New York TV premiere of Moulin Rouge on The Late Show was in color) - but their attitude towards color was very much mirroring that of the CBS network as a whole. It wasn't until 1965 that WCBS started running films in color on a regular basis. However, from 1973 to about 1988 all WCBS's movie shows had the same opening sequence - even what was left of The Early Show (the "Lite Brite" graphics and player piano music), the only difference being the series title.
 
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