Retro; New York City, Tuesday, June 28, 1949

[Bob1370]

Source; New York Times

Stations;
2-WCBS-TV (CBS)
4-WNBT (NBC; now WNBC)
5-WABD (DuMont; now WNYW-Fox)
7-WJZ-TV (ABC; now WABC-TV)
11-WPIX (Ind.; now CW)
13-WATV (Ind.; now WNET-PBS)

MORNING

10:00
5-Television Shopper; Kathi Norris
11:00
5-Rumpus Room; Johnny Olsen
11:30
2-Music; Weather; Films
5-Margaret Johnson, Songs
11:45
5-Morning Chapel

AFTERNOON

12:00
2-Ted Steele Show
5-Amanda; sidewalk interviews
7-News (also 1:00 and 1:55)
12:30
2-Vanity Fair with Dorothy Doane; guests, Kathy Urbach, Jerome Beatty
5-To be announced
1:00
2-Jack Sterling Show; guests, Max Showalter, Dick Boone
5-Okay Mother (game show); host Dennis James
1:30
5-The Needle Shop (instruction); Alice Burrows
1:45
5-Women's Club; Irene Murphy
2:00
5-Test pattern, music
7-Market Melodies; Anne Russell, Walter Herlihy
3:30
13-Sign-on; test pattern
3:45
13-Music, announcements
11-Sign-on; News
4:00
7-TV Telephone Game
13-Western film (title not listed)
4:15
7-Film shorts
4:45
7-TV Telephone Game
5:00
4-Sign-on; Gene Archer and Eddie MacIntyre
11-Comics On Parade with Danny Webb
13-Film; Of Human Interest
5:15
2-Music, weather
4-Western Balladeer
11-Pixie Movie Matinee
5:25
5-Time For Reflection
5:30
2-Chuck Wagon with Bob Dixon (children)
4-Howdy Doody with Buffalo Bob Smith (children)
5-Magic Cottage with Pat Meikle (children)
6:00
4-Gobo's Circus (children)
5-Small Fry Club with Bob Emery (children)
7-News
11-Six Gun Playhouse (Western films)
13-Film; Of Human Interest
6:30
2-Lucky Pup (children)
4-Easy Does It; Johnny Andrews
5-Alan Logan Trio
6:45
2-Bob Howard Show (variety)
5-Vincent Lopez Show (music, variety); guest, Gus Van
7-Oky Doky Ranch (children)
6:55
4-Weather Man
11-Film Museum
7:00
2-Your Sports Special; Caswell Adams, Dolly Stark
4-Judy Splinters (children)
5-Captain Video (adventure, children)
7-Ship's Reporter
13-Western Film
7:15
2-Film Shorts
4-Mary Kay and Johnny (situation comedy)
7-Film shorts
11-News
7:30
2-CBS News with Douglas Edwards
4-Roberta Quinlan Show (music)
5-A Woman To Remember (serial drama)
11-Film; Calaboose (Comedy/western, 1943); Noah Beery Jr., Jimmy Rodgers
7:45
2-Sonny Kendis Show; Gigi Durston, guest
4-Camel News Caravan; John Cameron Swayze, anchor
5-Manhattan Spotlight with Chuck Tranum
8:00
2-Film; One Thrilling Night (Comedy/mystery, 1942); John Beal, Wanda McKay
4-Fun-for-All (comedy/variety) with Olson and Johnson, Al Goodman Orchestra (premiere)
5-Court of Current Issues (public affairs) with Judge Anna Kross; topic, "What's Ahead for the 1949 College Graduate", with panelists Thorndike Deland Sr., Polly Weaver, Dr. Eduard C. Lindeman, Edward L. Bernays, William Benton, Leo Cherne, Suzanne Baker, Roy Hemming
8:15
11-Sports Album with Bill Slater
8:20
11-Baseball; Boston Braves vs. NY GIants at the Polo Grounds
9:00
2-We The People (public affairs)
4-Fireside Theater (drama anthology); "Father", starring Harry Bannister, Jane Walker, Curt Conway
5-Ted Steele Show (variety)
7-Film; Shot In The Dark (comedy/mystery, 1941); William Lundigan, Nan Wynn
9:30
2-Suspense (mystery anthology); "The Hands of Mr. Ottermole" starring Ralph Bell
4-Believe It Or Not with Robert Ripley
5-Feature Film (film not listed)
10:00
2-Jeanne Bargy, songs
4-Film; Paradise Island (Romance/adventure/musical, 1930); Kenneth Harland, Marceline Day
7-Boxing from Chicago, with audience participation quiz
10:15
2-News
4-Trotting Races, Westbury, L.I.
10:30
5-News
11:00
11-News

WOR-TV, Channel 9 (now WWOR), was still under construction and in preliminary testing; it would sign on and begin regular programming in October of 1949.

All stations in New York ended their broadcast day before midnight in the summer of 1949.

 

[wbhist]

Re: Retro: New York City, Tuesday, June 28, 1949

WABC-TV (changed from previous calls WJZ-TV in 1953) was one of the last stations in New York to expand the later hours of its broadcast day past 11:30 P.M., in February 1956 when they launched the late-night movie series The Night Show.

It wasn't until 1950 that WPIX was perhaps the first station in New York to launch a late night movie show, with their Night Owl Theatre (sometimes spelled Nite Owl Theatre) which ran through 1956 or '57; it was probably in response that WCBS, in 1951, launched their ultimately long-running Late Show.

 

[DToTheJ]

2-Jeanne Bargy

What's her husband's name, Argy? ;D

 

[hubcity]

4-Fun-for-All (comedy/variety) with Olson and Johnson, Al Goodman Orchestra (premiere)

Identified in the credits as "Fireball Fun-for-all", there's a YouTube kinnie of the first 15 minutes of one of these shows (definitely not from the date advertised) that'll give a good feel for the style, adapted from their successful stage style, the most notable example of which is the Hellzapoppin' stage revue. It's pretty interesting; most accounts say that Olsen & Johnson's style didn't work on television, but I'd say they gave it a good shot.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FC8fz-I54E8

The first fifteen minutes of the movie version of Hellzapoppin' are on YouTube as well - apparently, unfortunately, we'll never see the stage version, which is what started all the fuss in the first place, but the movie version's pretty mind-bending for its time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8okW69O4mY