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Retro: North Carolina Sunday, January 27, 1957

From the oldest TV Guide I have, North Carolina Edition
(week of Jan. 26-Feb. 1):

WFMY Ch. 2 Greensboro (CBS/ABC)

10 AM Lamp Unto My Feet (a woman who wants to be a
concert singer finds her ambition interfering with her
marriage)
10:30 Look Up And Live
11 AM Church Service (Edenton Street Methodist Church, Raleigh)
12 N Heckle And Jeckle (same show that airs on CBS at 1 PM)
12:30 Wild Bill Hickok
1 PM TV Chapel
1:30 The Visitor
2 PM Movie: "See My Lawyer"
3:15 Renfro Valley Folks
3:30 Lawrence Welk (ABC, delay from Sat 9 PM)
4:30 Air Power (the battle of Midway, same show airing on CBS
at 6:30 PM)
5 PM Disneyland ("Our Friend The Atom" looks at the past, present,
and future of atomic energy, ABC, delay from Wed 7:30 PM)
6 PM Telephone Time (the story of Queen Victoria's proposal of marriage
to Prince Albert)
6:30 Wyatt Earp (ABC, delay from Tue 8:30 PM)
7 PM Ford Theatre (a couple living in an old broken-down house have
two problems: he's an artist who doesn't sell any paintings, and
a poodle has taken up residence at the house, ABC, delay from
Wed 9:30 PM)
7:30 Jack Benny (Jack and Dennis Day in a murder mystery)
8 PM Ed Sullivan (Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, scenes from "Madame
Butterfly" with opera stars Dorothy Kirsten and Mario Del Monaco,
Senor Wences, the Dancing Szonys)
9 PM GE Theater (Lee Marvin and Kevin McCarthy in a Western, "Doctors
Of Pawnee Kill," as brothers who disagree on how to rid their town
of an outlaw gang)
9:30 December Bride (CBS, delay from Mon 9:30 PM)
10 PM $64,000 Challenge
10:30 What's My Line?
11 PM News (don't know if this is local or CBS)
11:15 Deadline (don't know anything about this show except that in this
episode the show's main character investigates the death of a
harness-racing jockey)
11:45 Yesterday's Newsreel

WBTV Ch. 3 Charlotte (CBS/NBC/ABC)

10 AM Faith For Today
10:30 Look Up And Live
11 AM This Is The Life
11:30 Camera Three (James Macandrew and Time Magazine drama
critic Louis Kronenberger discuss English critic Max Beerbohm.)
12 N Let's Take A Trip (Sonny Fox goes to the American Museum of
Natural History in New York City.)
12:30 Wild Bill Hickok
1 PM Disneyland (same as Ch. 2)
2 PM Jim Bowie (ABC, delay from Fri 8 PM)
2:30 Telephone Time (same episode airing on CBS at 6 PM)
3 PM Man To Man
3:15 Renfro Valley Folks
3:30 Lassie (delay from 7 PM)
4 PM Air Power (same episode airing on CBS at 6:30 PM)
4:30 Captain Gallant
5 PM Phil Silvers (CBS, delay from Tue 8 PM)
5:30 Broken Arrow (ABC, delay from Tue 9 PM)
6 PM Rosemary Clooney
6:30 $64,000 Challenge
7 PM Science Fiction Theater
7:30 Jack Benny
8 PM Ed Sullivan
9 PM GE Theater
9:30 Alfred Hitchcock Presents (a detective escorting a convicted
criminal to prison is tempted by the man's offer of $50,000 to
set him free in a phony escape plot)
10 PM Bob Cummings (CBS, delay from Thu 8 PM)
10:30 What's My Line?
11 PM News (again, don't know if local or CBS)
11:15 Federal Men

WUNC Ch. 4 Chapel Hill (NET)

9:45 Back To God
10 AM Sunday School
10:30 The Pastor
10:45 Organ Prelude
11 AM Church Service (Edenton Street Methodist Church, Raleigh)
12 N This Is The Life
12:30 off air until
6:30 Big Picture
7 PM American Album
7:30 Shakespeare (Dr. Frank Baxter presents an abbreviated version
of "King Lear.")
8:15 UN Review
8:30 Men And Ideas (the difference between a statement of inference
and a statement of fact)
sign off 9 PM

WFBC (WYFF) Ch. 4 Greenville, SC (NBC)

11:45 Man To Man
12 N Mission To The World
12:30 This Is The Answer
1 PM Movie: "Along Came Jones"
2:30 American Forum
3 PM Holy Land (Drew Pearson looks at Israel in the last three months
of 1956, including the Suez Canal crisis.)
4 PM Washington Square (Ray Bolger welcomes Gertrude "Molly Goldberg"
Berg, Stubby Kaye, Lionel Hampton, and opera singer Richard Torigi)
5 PM First Meeting (three well-known people meet each other for the first time)
5:30 Frontier Doctor
6 PM Soldiers Of Fortune
6:30 Foreign Legionnaire
7 PM Studio 57
7:30 Playhouse (don't know the full title)
8 PM Steve Allen (Pearl Bailey, actress Lilli Palmer, Don Adams, Steve
Lawrence, western vocal team the Collins Kids)
9 PM Alcoa/Goodyear TV Playhouse (Jason Robards Jr. in "Nobody's Town,"
written by future "Route 66" star George Maharis. Robards plays the
cowardly owner of a general store in a western town, who steps back
along with everyone else when five gunmen ride into town.)
10 PM Loretta Young (Loretta plays a once-wealthy Southern belle now living
in a tiny apartment in the North and unable to adjust to the change in
her life.)
10:30 Star Performance
11 PM Movie: "Along Came Jones"

WRAL Ch. 5 Raleigh (NBC)

11 AM Church Service (Edenton Street Methodist Church, Raleigh)
12 N Christophers
12:30 March Of Dimes
1 PM Carolina Newsreel
1:15 Guest Minister
1:30 Oral Roberts
2 PM Movie: "The Scarf"
3:30 Pro And Con (Dick Snavely, director of the Raleigh Little Theater,
leads a discussion of "Drama In Every Community.")
4 PM Washington Square
5 PM First Meeting
5:30 Ideas (the North Carolina Department of Archives and History
documents early settlements in the state)
6 PM Meet The Press (Secretary of the Treasury George M. Humphrey)
6:30 Roy Rogers
7 PM Tales Of The 77th Bengal Lancers
7:30 Circus Boy (Micky Dolenz, then known as Mickey Braddock)
8 PM Steve Allen
9 PM Alcoa/Goodyear TV Playhouse
10 PM Loretta Young
10:30 Theater Five (a man learns his girlfriend has fallen for someone else)
11 PM News

WITN Ch. 7 Washington, NC (NBC)

12 N News (Bill Dick--I didn't know anyone did weekend noon newscasts
prior to 1972)
12:15 Men Toward The Light
12:30 This Is The Life
1 PM Trouble With Father (Stu Erwin; in the '60s this would be a daytime
fixture on WNCT)
1:30 Catholic Hour (works by contemporary Catholic authors, part four; today:
"Tower Of Babel" by Thomas Merton)
2 PM Caswell Training School (an institution for retarded children in Kinston, NC)
2:30 East Carolina College (now ECU)
3 PM Holy Land
4 PM Washington Square
5 PM First Meeting
5:30 Church Of Christ
5:45 Christian Science
6 PM News And Weather (and a 30-minute local newscast, too!)
6:30 Roy Rogers
7 PM Tales Of The 77th Bengal Lancers
7:30 My Little Margie
8 PM Steve Allen
9 PM Alcoa/Goodyear TV Playhouse
10 PM Loretta Young
10:30 News, Weather, Sports
10:35 Movie: "Egypt By Three" (Joseph Cotten introduces three
stories about North Africa.)

WSPA Ch. 7 Spartanburg, SC (CBS)

10:30 This Is The Life
11 AM Church Service (First Baptist Church, Spartanburg, still on
the air)
12 N Let's Take A Trip
12:30 Mission At Mid-Century
1 PM Heckle And Jeckle
1:30 Film Shorts
2:30 The Last Word (panel: Sam Levenson, writer Katherine Ann
Porter, British publicist Edward Whitehead)
3 PM Face The Nation
3:30 News Roundup
4 PM Odyssey (Charles Collingwood looks at the Salem witchcraft
trials of 1692.)
5 PM Mama
5:30 Boing-Boing Show (COLOR)
6 PM Telephone Time
6:30 Air Power
7 PM Public Defender
7:30 Jack Benny
8 PM Ed Sullivan
9 PM Rosemary Clooney
9:30 Alfred Hitchcock Presents
10 PM $64,000 Challenge
10:30 What's My Line?
11 PM News (again, don't know if local or CBS)
11:15 Man Behind The Badge

WNCT Ch. 9 Greenville, NC (CBS/ABC)

10 AM Lamp Unto My Feet
10:30 Look Up And Live
11 AM The UN In Action (Eric Sevareid)
11:30 Camera Three
12 N Let's Take A Trip
12:30 Wild Bill Hickok
1 PM Oral Roberts
1:30 Let's Go To College
2 PM Christophers
2:30 The Last Word
3 PM Lawrence Welk's Top Tunes And New Talent
(18-year-old singer Darlene Powell, who appears
to be the daughter of Eleanor Powell; accordionist
Pvt. Steve Kopy, ABC, delay from Mon 9:30 PM)
4 PM Renfro Valley Folks
4:15 News Of The Week
4:30 Disneyland (same as Ch. 2)
5:30 Circuit Rider (from WRAL)
6 PM Telephone Time
6:30 Broken Arrow
7 PM Lassie
7:30 Jack Benny
8 PM Ed Sullivan
9 PM GE Theater
9:30 Alfred Hitchcock Presents
10 PM $64,000 Challenge
10:30 Celebrity Playhouse
11 PM News (again, don't know if local or CBS)
11:15 Movie: "Dangerous Millions"

WTVD Ch. 11 Durham (ABC)

3 PM Faith For Today
3:30 Johns Hopkins File 7 (did American civilization
begin with the Spanish or Asiatic people?)
4 PM Oral Roberts
4:30 Big Picture
5 PM Dean Pike (I think this is the later Bishop James
A. Pike; guest is Rev. Roy S. Lee, rector of
the University Church in Oxford, England)
5:30 Press Conference
6 PM Movie: "D.O.A."
7:30 Amateur Hour (Ted Mack salutes Philadelphia.)
8:30 All Star Theater
9 PM Omnibus (Bert Lahr introduces a show about the
golden age of burlesque; "The Message," about
a British patrol unable to get a message out from
behind enemy lines.)
10:30 The Vise (ABC, delay from Fri 9:30 PM)
11 PM News

WSJS (WXII) Ch. 12 Winston-Salem (NBC)

10:55 News, Weather
11 AM Church Service (Edenton Street Methodist Church, Raleigh)
12 N Christophers
12:30 Man To Man
12:45 Industry On Parade
1 PM Cartoon Comics
1:30 Catholic Hour
2 PM This Is The Life
2:30 Omnibus ("Lee At Gettysburg" looks at that battle from the
standpoint of three Confederate generals: Robert E. Lee,
James Longstreet, and Jeb Stuart.)
4 PM Washington Square
5 PM First Meeting
5:30 Press Conference (ABC)
6 PM Meet The Press
6:30 Star Performance
7 PM Tales Of The 77th Bengal Lancers
7:30 Circus Boy
8 PM Steve Allen
9 PM Alcoa/Goodyear TV Playhouse
10 PM Loretta Young
10:30 Golden Playhouse
11 PM All Star Theater

WLOS Ch. 13 Asheville, NC (ABC)

9 AM Heavenbound Train
12 N Variety Review
1 PM Oral Roberts
1:30 Rev. Harris (local)
1:45 Industry On Parade
2 PM Revival Hour
2:30 Precious Memories
3 PM Movie: "Flight From Glory"
4:30 Medical Horizons (arthritis in young people is the
topic)
5 PM The Ruggles (Charlie Ruggles, not Barney Rubble)
5:30 Press Conference
6 PM Renfro Valley Folks
6:15 Statesmen Quartet
6:30 Boston Blackie
7 PM Badge 714 ("Dragnet" reruns)
7:30 Amateur Hour
8:30 Conrad Nagel Theater
9 PM Omnibus
10:30 Movie: TBA

WTOB (WUNL) Ch. 26 Winston-Salem (ABC)

2:15 Your Own Home (wonder if this is a real-estate show
like "House Detective" in Atlanta?)
2:30 Faith For Today
3 PM Variety Showcase
3:30 Johns Hopkins File 7
4 PM College News Conference (guest: Harold Stassen,
special assistant to the president on disarmament)
4:30 Medical Horizons
5 PM Dean Pike
5:30 Press Conference
6 PM The Pastor
6:15 Sacred Heart
6:30 Building America
7 PM You Asked For It (barrel organs of Holland, training
Swiss mountain climbers)
7:30 Amateur Hour
8:30 TBA
9 PM Omnibus
sign off 10:30 PM

WNAO (WRDC) Ch. 28 Raleigh (CBS/ABC)

9 AM Herald Of Truth
9:30 Sacred Heart
9:45 Christian Science
10 AM Lamp Unto My Feet
10:30 Look Up And Live
11 AM The UN In Action
11:30 Camera Three
12 N Let's Take A Trip
12:30 This Is The Life
1 PM Variety Time
1:30 This Is The Answer
2 PM Religious Town Meeting
2:30 The Last Word
3 PM Face The Nation
3:30 News Roundup
4 PM Odyssey
5 PM Mama
5:30 Boing-Boing Show (COLOR)
6 PM Telephone Time
6:30 Air Power
7 PM Variety Time
7:30 Jack Benny
8 PM Ed Sullivan
9 PM GE Theater
9:30 Alfred Hitchcock Presents
10 PM Variety Time
10:30 What's My Line?
11 PM News (don't know if local or CBS)
11:15 Movie: "Hips, Hips, Hooray"

WAIM (WMYA) Ch. 40 Anderson, SC (ABC/CBS)

12:45 Man To Man
1 PM Christophers
1:30 This Is The Life
2 PM What's Your Trouble? (Dr. Norman Vincent Peale)
2:15 Drew Pearson
2:30 The Last Word
3 PM Face The Nation
3:30 News Roundup
4 PM Odyssey
5 PM Mama
5:30 Boing-Boing Show (COLOR)
6 PM Telephone Time
6:30 Air Power
7 PM Liberace
7:30 Amateur Hour
8:30 Life With Elizabeth (Betty White's first series, three
short comedies about married life)
9 PM Omnibus
10:30 Uncovered
11 PM Christophers
 
I do have TV Guides from later in 1957 that list a CBS newscast after "What's My Line?" anchored by Walter Cronkite. Both WHDH Boston and WHCT Hartford cleared it, so it's possible that it is a CBS newscast.
 
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