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Retro: New York City Sun, Jan 22, 1956

from New York Herald Tribune

WCBS 2-CBS New York
7:50 Prevues
7:55 Give Us This Day (Rabbi William Berkowitz)
8:00 FYI
8:30 Big Picture
9:00 The Pastor "Dearly Beloved" (with Rev. Dr.. Robert E. Goodrich Jr. from First Methodist Church in Dallas)
9:15 Our Goodly Heritage (NYU College of Arts and Sciences Dean William Bush Baer reads Samuel chapters 2-4)
9:30 Cartoon Carnival
10:00 Lamp Unto My Feet (guest F. Gerald Ensley, Methodist Bishop of Des Moines)
10:30 Look Up & Live (guests Mahalia Jackson, and from Oxford PA Rev. L. McMaster)
11:00 Eye on New York (Bill Leonard)
11:30 Camera Three "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man" (one-man show by John Drainie)
noon Let's Take a Trip (Sonny, Ginger and Pud head for Miami Beach)
12:30 Wild Bill Hickok "the Music Teacher"
1:00 Picture for a Sunday Afternoon "Bulldog Drummond's Peril"
2:00 Amos 'n' Andy "Andy Goes Into the Chinchilla Business" (when Kingfish hornswoggles him into believing a pair of rare rabbits are in fact chinchillas)
2:30 Adventure (feature on voodoo)
3:00 Face the Nation
3:30 CBS Sunday News
4:00 Front Row Center "The Challenge" (starring Gunsmoke's James Arness)
5:00 Omnibus (pt 2 of the Great Adventure/foreign commercials/Yugoslav National Folk Ballet in its US debut)
6:30 You are There "The Hoax of the Cardiff Giant" (a controversial "giant" near Cardiff NY with some people saying it's a petrified human giant, and others insisting it's an ancient statue)
7:00 Lassie
7:30 Private Secretary "Noble Gesture"
8:00 Ed Sullivan (Ed salutes ASCAP with the assistance of Margaret & Barbara Whiting, Mitch Miller & chorus, Hugh Tierney, Eddie Burnette, Maude Nugent Jerome, Alice Lawlor, Jack Nowarth, Guys & Dolls composer Frank Loesser, Billy Daniels, John Raitt, Claramae Turner, Pat Rooney, Will Oakland, Mitchell Parish, Helen Kane, and Rose Murphy)
9:00 GE Theater "The Muse and Mr. Parkinson"
9:30 Alfred Hitchcock Presents "The Older Sister" (story of Lizzie Borden)
10:00 Appointment with Adventure "Betrayal"
10:30 What's My Line?
11:00 Sunday News Special
11:15 Late Show "Double-Barrel Miracle"
12:30 Late Late Show "I Killed Geronimo"
1:30 News/Sermon

WRCA 4-NBC New York
8:00 Fourth R (Sr. Maria del Rey)
9:00 Britannica Theater "Making Shoes"/"Atomic Energy"/"Southwestern States"/"Pakistan"/"Adventures of a Baby Fox"
10:00 Sing a Song (Charity Bailey)
10:30 Children's Hour (Ed Herlihy)
11:30 Time for Adventure "Squeak the Squirrel"/"YMCA on World Fronts" (Milton Ford)
noon Mr. Wizard
12:30 Top Secret "Narrow to One"
12:45 Viewpoint (guest Assemblyman/minority leader Eugene Bannigan)
1:00 American Forum
1:30 Catholic Hour "Communist History" (Rev. James J. McQuade)
2:00 Conversation with Sean O'Casey (visiting the Irish playwright at his home in Torquay, England)
2:30 Youth Wants to Know (guest Sen. Paul Douglas (D-IL))
3:00 Dr. Spock (discussing pre-school books with Scott Publishing Co's William Scott; also relationships among sisters with guests including a grandma, her 3 daughters and several of their kids)
3:30 Zoo Parade
4:00 Wide Wide World "Portrait of An American Winter"
5:30 Captain Gallant "The Constance Missal"
6:00 Meet the Press (guest: Secretary of the Treasury George W. Humphrey)
6:30 Roy Rogers
7:00 It's a Great Life "House Guest"
7:30 Frontier "The Ten Days of John Leslie"
8:00 Comedy Hour (guests Ernie Kovacs, Wally Cox, the Gentlemaniacs, and Eddie Mayehoff)
9:00 Alcoa Hour "A Patch on Faith"
10:00 Loretta Young "Song of Rome"
10:30 Justice "Broken Lullaby"
11:00 News (J.K.M. McCaffery)
11:15 Les Paul & Mary Ford
11:10 Weather/Fishing
11:20 Eleventh-Hour Theater "Take It Big"

WABD 5-DuMont New York
9:55 Prayer/News
10:00 Western Tales "Colorado Serenade"
10:50 Homemaker's Newsreel
11:00 Star of the West "Man from Utah"
11:50 Hints for Women
noon Wonderama (Tim McCoy)
3:00 Feature Theater "The Crimson Key"
4:30 Feature Theater "Ghost Camera"
6:00 Beulah "Beulah and the Shop"
6:30 Youth Forum "Can a Physical Handicap Become an Asset?" (guest Dr. Howard A. Rusk, rehab director at NYU-Bellevue Medical Center)
7:00 Between the Lines
7:30 Manhattan Playhouse "Master of Bankdom"
8:45 Beauty Hints
9:00 Playhouse Five "Calendar"
11:00 Featurama "The Best of the Week" (Tom Moore)
mid. Prevues/Prayer

WABC 7-ABC New York
11:30 Pet Center Show
noon Christopher Program "Abraham Lincoln's Personality"
12:30 Faith for Today
1:00 Feature Film "Meeting at Midnight"
2:00 Film Feature "Riot Squad"
3:00 Hopalong Cassidy
4:00 Dean James A. Pike (Cathedral of St. John the Divine)
4:30 College News Conference "Issues in the New Congress" (teens interview Mass. Sen. Leverett Saltonstall)
5:00 Super Circus
6:00 Sky King "The Rainbird"
6:30 Gene Autry (no details listed, Gene ran on both ch 7 and 9 in the slot)
7:00 You Asked for It
7:30 Famous Film Festival "In Which We Serve" (written, directed, produced, and starring Noel Coward)
9:00 Chance of a Lifetime
9:30 Ted Mack's Original Amateur Hour
10:30 Sunday Playhouse "Catherine the Great"

WNHC 8-ABC/CBS New Haven
8:30 Oral Roberts
9:00 This is the Life "I Killed Lt. Hartwell"
9:30 Christophers
10:00 Lamp Unto My Feet
10:30 Texas Rangers
11:00 Super Circus
noon Outdoor Club (Bruce Gilson)
1:00 Looney Tunes
1:30 Stories of the Century "John Wesley Hardin"
2:00 Western Film "Son of Davy Crockett"
3:00 Three-Bell Theater "Donovan's Brain"
4:30 Hollywood Backstage
5:00 Lassie (same episode as ch 2 at 7)
5:30 Man Behind the Badge "The Desperate Moment"
6:00 Studio 57 "The Ballad of Jubal Pickett"
7:00 You Asked for It
7:30 Private Secretary "Noble Gesture"
8:00 Ed Sullivan
9:00 Chance of a Lifetime
9:30 Ted Mack's Original Amateur Hour
10:30 What's My Line?
11:00 Sunday News Special
11:15 Les Paul & Mary Ford
11:20 Sherlock Holmes "The Case of the Impromptu Performance"
11:50 Mystery Theater "Case of Carrie's Coffin"
12:20 News

WOR 9-Ind New York
9:00 Christophers (guest Garry Moore)
9:15 What's Your Trouble? (Dr. & Mrs. Norman Vincent Peale)
9:30 Kiddie Video
10:00 Roy Rogers "Frontier Pony Express"
11:00 Health & Beauty"
11:15 Movie Museum "Ambrose's First Falsehood"/"Lindberg and the Desperate Encounter"
noon Fun for Lunch
12:30 This is the Life "I Killed Lt. Hartwell"
1:00 The World We Want (guests are participants in the 10th annual Herald Tribune High School Forum, students come from Curtis High, Hempstead High, Australia, France, Germany, Italy, and Switzerland)
1:30 Camera 9 Theater "Double Cross"
2:30 Enterprise, USA (look at Yeshiva University)
3:00 Biff Baker, USA "The Jewel"
3:30 Dateline Europe "In Valladon"
4:00 Million Dollar Movie-Uncut Version "Tales of Hoffmann"
6:30 Gene Autry "Singing Cowboy"
7:30 Million Dollar Movie "Tales of Hoffmann"
9:00 Famous Playhouse "Miss Jeremy and the Bran Sergin"
9:30 Conflicts "Night Light at Vardens"
10:00 Million Dollar Movie (Repeat from 7:30)
11:30 Oral Roberts

WPIX 11-Ind New York
11:30 Film Varieties
noon World of Tomorrow
12:30 Sightseeing
1:00 Feature Theater "Yellow Fin"
2:30 Feature Playhouse "Little Big Horn"
4:00 Sunday Movie "Roaring City"
5:00 Tales of Hans Christian Andersen "The Puppet Showman"
5:30 Clubhouse Gang (Little Rascals)
6:00 Soldiers of Fortune "The General"
6:30 Life with Father "Father and the Circus"
7:00 Big Playback (Jimmy Powers)
7:30 Victory at Sea "Battle for Leyte Gulf"
8:00 Inspector Mark Saber "Snowman Murder"
8:30 Foreign Intrigue "Speed Demon"
9:00 Ellery Queen "A Letter from the Dead"
9:30 City Detective "The Baby in the Basket"
10:00 Studio 57 "The Ballad of Jubal Pickett"
10:30 Whistler "Silent Partner"
11:00 Weatherman
11:05 Fashion Show (Ethel Thorsen)

WATV 13-Ind New York
9:00 Film Highlights
9:15 Gospel Train
9:45 Christian Science
10:00 Thrills in Sports
10:15 Rabbi Schulem Reuben "Passport for Happiness"
10:30 Attualita Italiana (Erberto Landi)
11:00 Aldo Aldi
noon Dove Son Nato (Italian quiz show)
12:30 Fiesta Juvenil
1:00 Junior Carnival (Uncle Steve)
2:00 Opportunity Knocks (Milo Boulton)
2:30 Housewife's Hints
3:00 Western Feature "Drifting Along"
3:30 Western Roundup "Fighting Marshal"
4:30 Junior Carnival
5:30 Time for Pets (Murray Zaret)
6:00 Greek Show
7:00 Gov. Meyner's Report "Foster Care Program of the State Board of Child Welfare"
7:30 NJ Legislative Report "Increased State Aid for Schools-How Shall We Pay for It?"
8:00 Carousel Hispano
9:00 Evangel Hour (Rev. David Coddington)
9:30 Spanish Hour
11:00 Programa de los Once

WICC 43-ABC/DuMont Bridgeport
6:30pm This is the Life
7:00 You Asked for It
7:30 Famous Film Festival "In Which We Serve"
9:00 Local Film
 
Bluenoser said:
from New York Herald Tribune


WRCA 4-NBC New York

1:30 Catholic Hour "Communist History" (Rev. James J. McQuade)

11:10 Weather/Fishing

WABD 5-DuMont New York
9:55 Prayer/News
8:45 Beauty Hints
mid. Prevues/Prayer

WABC 7-ABC New York

4:30 College News Conference "Issues in the New Congress" (teens interview Mass. Sen. Leverett Saltonstall)

With a lineup like that, it's amazing that TV ever took off! :)
 
Bluenoser said:
WATV 13-Ind New York
2:00 Opportunity Knocks (Milo Boulton)

Would anyone know if this was the U.S. equivalent of the long-running British talent show that was hosted by the late Hughie Green?
 
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