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Retro: North Carolina Tuesday, January 3, 1956

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bpatrick

A red-letter day. Queen For A Day, a popular
Mutual radio show, comes to television on NBC
and proves to be just as popular as ever.

Later, Do You Trust Your Wife? with Edgar Bergen
debuts on CBS. This show will move to ABC daytime
in the fall of 1957, and in 1958 will receive its
more familiar title, Who Do You Trust? Johnny Carson
will host the daytime show until he gets The Tonight
Show in 1962.

Ironically, Queen For A Day and Who Do You Trust?
will air back-to-back on ABC's daytime schedule from
January 1961 to December 1963.

Also this night, Jackie Gleason appears on The $64,000
Question to deliver the first "Blue Crutch" lapel decoration
for the 1956 March of Dimes campaign. Twenty-five days
later, Gleason will do the classic Honeymooners episode in
which Ralph Kramden is a contestant on The $99,000 Answer
and loses on the first question because he thinks Norton
wrote "Swanee River."

Schedules are from the Raleigh News and Observer.

WFMY Ch. 2 Greensboro (CBS/ABC)

7 AM Morning Show
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Morning Chapel
9:15 Second Breakfast
9:30 On Your Account
10 AM Garry Moore
10:30 Arthur Godfrey
11:30 Strike It Rich
12 N RFD Piedmont
12:15 Love Of Life
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1 PM What's Cooking Today?
1:30 Love Story
2 PM Robert Q. Lewis
2:30 Art Linkletter's House
Party
3 PM TV Matinee
3:30 Bob Crosby
4 PM Brighter Day
4:15 Secret Storm
4:30 Little Rascals
5 PM Mickey Mouse Club
6 PM Superman
6:30 News
6:45 Douglas Edwards With The
News
7 PM I Led Three Lives
7:30 Name That Tune
8 PM Phil Silvers
8:30 Mr. District Attorney
9 PM Meet Millie
9:30 Theater (doesn't say what)
10 PM $64,000 Question
10:30 Playhouse (again, no info)
11 PM Les Paul And Mary Ford
11:05 Sports
11:10 Weather
11:15 News
11:20 Movie

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

7 AM Morning Show
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Movie
10 AM Garry Moore
10:30 Arthur Godfrey
11:30 Strike It Rich
12 N Valiant Lady
12:15 Love Of Life
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1 PM Cooking
1:30 Love Story
2 PM Robert Q. Lewis
2:30 House Party
3 PM Backstage
3:30 Bob Crosby
4 PM Brighter Day
4:15 Secret Storm
4:30 On Your Account
5 PM Jamboree
5:30 Superman
6 PM Open House
6:15 Not Alone
6:30 News
6:45 Weather
(there's a gap here)
7:15 Douglas Edwards
7:30 Arthur Smith
8 PM DuPont Cavalcade Theater
8:30 Waterfront
9 PM Douglas Fairbanks
9:30 Stories
10 PM $64,000 Question
10:30 Damon Runyon Theater
11 PM Weather, News
11:15 Sports
11:25 Les Paul And Mary Ford
11:30 Movie

WUNC Ch. 4 Chapel Hill (NET)

12:45 News
12:50 Treasury Department
1 PM Today On The Farm
1:30 Travelogues
2 PM Play Period
2:30 Sign Off
6 PM Magic Lantern
6:30 News And Weather
6:45 Sports
7 PM Prelude
7:15 Books And People
7:30 Wright-Songs
8 PM Reading
8:30 News
8:45 Sign Off

WMFD (WECT) Ch. 6 Wilmington (NBC/CBS/ABC)

2 PM Message
2:15 NATA
2:30 Cooking
3 PM Matinee Theater
4 PM NATA
4:15 Modern Romances
4:30 TBA
4:45 Kiddies
5 PM Pinky Lee
5:30 Howdy Doody
6 PM Wild Bill Hickok
6:30 S. Thomas (don't know who this is)
6:45 Drew Pearson
7 PM News And Sports
7:15 Music
7:30 Dinah Shore
7:45 Camel News Caravan
8 PM Martha Raye
9 PM I Led Three Lives
9:30 Damon Runyon Theater
10 PM Justice
10:30 Big Town
11 PM NATA

WITN Ch. 7 Washington, NC (NBC/ABC)

2 PM B. McManis (some sort of local
program)
3 PM Matinee Theater
4 PM B. Rangers (no idea)
4:15 Modern Romances
4:30 Queen For A Day
5 PM Pinky Lee
5:30 Howdy Doody
6 PM Playhouse
6:15 Weather
6:25 Sports
6:30 Caudill
7 PM Flash Gordon
7:30 Jr. (illegible)
7:45 Weather And News
8 PM Martha Raye
9 PM Fireside Theater
9:30 TBA
10 PM Big Picture
10:30 Big Town
11 PM News And Weather

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

7 AM Morning Show
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Romper Room
10:15 Theater
10:30 Arthur Godfrey
11:30 Strike It Rich
12 N News And Weather
12:15 Love Of Life
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1 PM Jack Paar
1:30 Love Story
2 PM Family Fare
2:30 House Party
3 PM Big Payoff
3:30 Geography
4 PM Brighter Day
4:15 Secret Storm
4:30 On Your Account
5 PM Cactus Jim
5:30 Cartoons
6 PM News And Weather
6:15 News And Safety
6:30 Eddy Arnold
7 PM Jamboree
7:15 Douglas Edwards
7:30 Name That Tune
8 PM Phil Silvers
8:30 Eddie Cantor Comedy
Theater
9 PM Make Room For Daddy
9:30 DuPont Cavalcade Theater
10 PM $64,000 Question
10:30 Do You Trust Your Wife?
11 PM News
11:05 Sports And Weather
11:15 Late Show

WTVD Ch. 11 Durham (NBC/ABC)

7 AM Today
9 AM Feature
10 AM Ding Dong School
10:30 Ernie Kovacs
11 AM Home
12 N Tennessee Ernie Ford
12:30 Feather Your Nest
1 PM Farm
1:15 Weather
1:20 News
1:30 Cooking
2 PM Afternoon
3 PM Matinee Theater
4 PM Playhouse
4:15 Modern Romances
4:30 Queen For A Day
5 PM Mickey Mouse Club
6 PM Superman
6:30 Sports
6:45 Jim Thornton (country music)
7 PM North Carolina News
7:15 John Daly And The News
7:30 Great Gildersleeve
8 PM Martha Raye
9 PM Make Room For Daddy
9:30 I Led Three Lives
10 PM Racket Squad
10:30 Big Town
11 PM Weather And Sports
11:15 Crusade In Europe
11:45 Previews

Channel 12 in Winston-Salem and Channel 13
in Asheville were not listed in the N&O, so
we go to:

WFLB Ch. 18 Fayetteville (NBC/CBS/ABC)

5:45 Billboard
5:50 Vespers
6 PM Farm News
6:15 Garry Moore
6:30 Carolina News
6:45 Douglas Edwards
7 PM Club 18
7:30 Lone Wolf
8 PM Martha Raye
9 PM Meet Millie
9:30 Red Skelton
10 PM Theater
11 PM News

WNAO Ch. 28 Raleigh (CBS/ABC)

6:45 Almanac
7 AM Morning Show
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM not given
10 AM Morning Movie
11 AM Carousel
11:30 "28" Presents
12 N Industry On Parade
12:15 Love Of Life
12:30 Winter Season
1 PM Jack Paar
1:30 Piggly Wiggly
2 PM Robert Q. Lewis
2:30 Feature
3 PM Big Payoff
3:30 Bob Crosby
4 PM Coffee Break
4:15 Secret Storm
4:30 On Your Account
5 PM Pinky Lee
5:30 Howdy Doody
These last two were NBC shows pre-empted
on WTVD.
6 PM Capitol
6:10 Sports
6:20 Star Time
6:40 Weather
6:45 Douglas Edwards
7 PM Kukla, Fran And Ollie
7:15 Sports
7:30 Name That Tune
8 PM Phil Silvers
8:30 Navy Log
9 PM Meet Millie
9:30 DuPont Cavalcade Theater
10 PM $64,000 Question
10:30 Do You Trust Your Wife?
11 PM News
11:05 Late Show
 
B. Patrick noted:

> Also this night, Jackie Gleason appears on The $64,000
> Question to deliver the first "Blue Crutch" lapel decoration
> for the 1956 March of Dimes campaign. Twenty-five days
> later, Gleason will do the classic Honeymooners episode in
> which Ralph Kramden is a contestant on The $99,000 Answer
> and loses on the first question because he thinks Norton
> wrote "Swanee River."

The 1955/56 "Honeymooners" episodes were on film, and usually produced well in advance of broadcast. However, I've heard an urban legend that the day after doing his "$64,000" walk-on, Gleason asked his writers to come up with a "Honeymooners" episode spoofing "$64,000", and that a script was written within a few days, shot the next week, and aired three and a half weeks after Gleason's "$64,000" walk-on.

Regardless of when the "$99,000 Answer" episode was filmed, it was very timely, considering that "$64,000" was the top-rated prime-time series of the 1955/56 season. Thus, doing a spoof of it helped make "The Honeymooners" somewhat topical.
 
> B. Patrick noted:
>
> > Also this night, Jackie Gleason appears on The $64,000
> > Question to deliver the first "Blue Crutch" lapel
> decoration
> > for the 1956 March of Dimes campaign. Twenty-five days
> > later, Gleason will do the classic Honeymooners episode in
>
> > which Ralph Kramden is a contestant on The $99,000 Answer
> > and loses on the first question because he thinks Norton
> > wrote "Swanee River."
>
> The 1955/56 "Honeymooners" episodes were on film, and
> usually produced well in advance of broadcast. However, I've
> heard an urban legend that the day after doing his "$64,000"
> walk-on, Gleason asked his writers to come up with a
> "Honeymooners" episode spoofing "$64,000", and that a script
> was written within a few days, shot the next week, and aired
> three and a half weeks after Gleason's "$64,000" walk-on.
>
> Regardless of when the "$99,000 Answer" episode was filmed,
> it was very timely, considering that "$64,000" was the
> top-rated prime-time series of the 1955/56 season. Thus,
> doing a spoof of it helped make "The Honeymooners" somewhat
> topical.
>
I may have given the impression that "The $99,000 Answer"
episode aired live, but I know that it was filmed. It is,
however, a classic, perhaps the best episode of the entire
Honeymooners series.

BTW, Ed Norton once said that there are three times when
a man wants to be alone, the third of which is in the isolation
booth on The $64,000 Question.
 
Queen For A Day, a popular
> Mutual radio show, comes to television on NBC
> and proves to be just as popular as ever.
>I never new it was on radio.
>
> Also this night, Jackie Gleason appears on The $64,000
> Question to deliver the first "Blue Crutch" lapel decoration
>I got one of them.
 
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