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Retro: Philadelphia Sun, Sept 27, 1953

B

Bluenoser

from TV Guide-Philadelphia edition
Network affiliation info from http://www.mcsittel.com/html/tvg-phl.htm

WPTZ 3-NBC Philadelphia
9:40 Thought for Today
9:45 Today's Headlines
10:00 Frontiers of Faith
10:30 This is the Life
11:00 Bertie the Bunyip
noon Mr. Wizard
12:30 TBA
1:00 Opening of Community Chest Drive (President Eisenhower launches the 1953 National Community Chest Drive, followed by a special edition of What's My Line? simulcast on all networks)
1:30 Academy Theater "South Sea Adventure"
2:30 Cross Section
3:00 Paul Winchell
3:30 Excursion (guest Maureen Connolly)
4:00 Roy Rogers "Dead Man's Hills"
4:30 Zoo Parade "Survival of the Fittest"
5:00 Hall of Fame "Queen Way" (Series return)
6:00 Mirror Theater "Because I Love Him"
6:30 Let's Go
6:40 News
6:45 Keiran's Kaleidoscope "Ant City"
7:00 Favorite Story
7:30 Mr. Peepers
8:00 Big Payoff
9:00 TV Playhouse "0 for 37"
10:00 Letter to Loretta
10:30 TBA
11:00 Sunday Playhouse "Misadventures of Buster Keaton"
12:20 News
12:25 Religious Thought

WFIL 6-ABC/DuMont Philadelphia
10:00 What's Your Trouble?
10:15 Sunday Comics
10:30 Panorama
11:30 Spotlight Review
noon Adventures in Israel "Transition"
12:30 Faith for Today
1:00 Opening of Community Chest Drive
1:30 What One Person Can Do
1:45 We Love Dogs (premiere)
2:00 NFL: Pittsburgh-Detroit (commentators Byrum Saam, Joe Tucker, and Harry Wismer)
4:30 Information USA
5:00 Super Circus
6:00 Terry & the Pirates "The Maitland Affair"
6:30 Week in Philadelphia
6:45 Pulse in the City "Comeback"
7:00 You Asked for It
7:30 Frank Leahy
7:45 Notre Dame Football (premiere, Irish-Oklahoma highlights)
9:00 Walter Winchell
9:15 Orchid Award (guests the Five Demarco Sisters)
9:30 Plainclothesman
10:00 Rocky King
10:30 Youth on the March
11:00 What One Can Do
11:15 Ramar

WGAL 8-NBC Lancaster
11:15 Sunday Serenade
11:30 Sunday Meditation
12:30 Film Presentation
12;45 Film Featurette "Capital for a Day"
1:00 Opening of Community Chest Drive
1:30 News Summary
1:45 Football Preview
2:00 NFL: Pittsburgh-Detroit
3:30 Excursion
4:00 sign-off
4:30 Zoo Parade "Survival of the Fittest"
5:00 TBA
5:30 Terry & the Pirates
6:00 Sanctuary Time
6:30 Racket Squad
7:00 Paul Winchell (guest Sally Forrest)
7:30 Mr. Peepers
8:00 Big Payoff
9:00 TV Playhouse "0 for 37"
10:00 Toast of the Town (guests Gene Autry, Dolores Gray, John Raitt, and Anne Russell)
11:00 News/Sports
11:10 Regional News
11:15 Letter to Loretta
11:45 Sports Notes

WCAU 10-CBS Philadelphia
10:00 Time/Music/Resume
10:15 TV Newsreel
10:30 Lamp Unto My Feet
11:00 Cartoon Corner
11:15 Here's Willie
11:30 Children's Hour
12:30 Patches
1:00 Opening of Community Chest Drive
1:30 Baseball: Philadelphia-Brooklyn
4:00 Sunday Feature "End of the Road"
5:30 Man of the Week
6:00 Adventure "Life Among the Australian Aborigines"
6:30 You are There "Birth of a National Anthem"
7:00 Douglas Fairbanks "The Scream"
7:30 Private Secretary
8:00 Toast of the Town (guests Peter Lind Hayes, Mary Healy, Darvas & Julia, and Walter Dare Wahl)
9:00 Fred Waring (return)
9:30 Dance Party (guests Richard Tucker, Billy DeWolfe, and Burton's Birds)
10:00 The Web "Combination for Murder"
10:30 What's My Line?
11:00 News/Sports
11:15 Man About Town
11:30 Feature Theater

WDEL 12-NBC Wilmington
12:30pm Catholic TV Guild
1:00 Opening of Community Chest Drive
1:30 School Report
2:00 NFL: Pittsburgh-Detroit
3:30 Excursion
4:00 sign-off
4:30 Zoo Parade "Survival of the Fittest"
5:00 Hall of Fame "Queen Way" (return)
6:00 Meet the Press
6:30 Roy Rogers "Dead Man's Hills"
7:00 Paul Winchell
7:30 Mr. Peepers
8:00 Pig Payoff
9:00 TV Playhouse "0 for 37"
10:00 Letter to Loretta
10:30 Hour of Decision
10:45 Weekly News Review
11:00 Headline Roundup

WEEU 33-NBC/ABC Reading
1pm Opening of Community Chest Drive
1:30 Frontiers of Faith
2:00 sign-off
3:30 Excursion
4:00 What's Your Trouble?
4:15 Pupular Pals
4:30 Six Gun Playhouse "Shadows of the Range"
5:30 Chapel
6:00 Week's News Review
6:15 What One Can Do
6:30 George Jessel (guests Lilo and Jan Peerce)
7:00 Jerry Kobrin
7:15 Power
7:30 Sunday Theatre
9:00 TV Playhouse "0 for 37"
10:00 Sunset Trail "Fighting Fury"
11:00 News

WSBA 43-ABC York
1pm Opening of Community Chest Drive
1:30 World in Review
1:45 Big League Football
2:00 NFL: the Battle of Chicago as Da Bears square off with the cross-town rival Cardinals (Red Grange and Bill Fay with the call)
5:00 Super Circus
6:00 Big Picture
6:30 George Jessel
7:00 You Asked for It
7:30 Frank Leahy (premiere)
7:45 Notre Dame Football: Irish v Oklahoma
9:00 Walter Winchell
9:15 Orchid Award
9:30 York High Football
10:00 Hour of Decision
10:15 Industry on Parade
10:30 Of Human Interest
11:00 News Briefs

WFPG 46-NBC/CBS/ABC/DuMont Atlantic City
1pm Opening of Community Chest Drive
1:30 Baseball: Philadelphia-Brooklyn
2:00 NFL: Pittsburgh-Detroit
3:30 Excursion
4:00 Film Feature
5:30 American Forum
6:00 Adventure "Life Among the Australian Aborigines"
6:30 Film Feature
8:00 Big Payoff
9:00 TV Playhouse "0 for 37"
10:00 The Web "Combination for Murder"
10:30 Hour of Decision
10:45 What One Can Do

WHUM 61-CBS Reading
1pm Opening of Community Chest Drive
1:30 sign-off
2:00 NFL: Pittsburgh-Detroit
4:30 What One Can Do
4:45 Hour of Decision
5:00 Lamp Unto My Feet "The Difference"
6:00 Adventure "Life Among the Australian Aborigines"
6:30 You are There "Birth of a National Anthem"
7:00 Medallion Theater
7:30 Private Secretary
8:00 Toast of the Town
9:00 Fred Waring
9:30 Dance Party
10:00 The Web "Combination for Murder"
10:30 Sunday Vespers
11:00 Sunday News
11:15 Film Feature
12:15 News
 
Does anybody know the reason for the special Sunday-afternoon
telecast of "What's My Line?" The following year, on Sunday,
September 26, a special edition of "Masquerade Party" aired at
2 PM on all the networks. Was this for some charitable cause, or
what?
 
bpatrick said:
Does anybody know the reason for the special Sunday-afternoon
telecast of "What's My Line?" The following year, on Sunday,
September 26, a special edition of "Masquerade Party" aired at
2 PM on all the networks. Was this for some charitable cause, or
what?
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Based on what the listings said, I have to assume the reason for it was the launch of the Community Chest Drive. Did the DuMont full affiliates like WDTV Pittsburgh or WABD NYC carry that as well?
 
Yeah, I guess Ike's appearance was very brief.
As for the DuMont stations I don't know if they
carried the "What's My Line?" special, but I've
never found anything to indicate they carried
the '54 "Masquerade Party" special.
 
Bluenoser said:
from TV Guide-Philadelphia edition
WSBA 43-ABC York
2:00 NFL: the Battle of Chicago as Da Bears square off with the cross-town rival Cardinals (Red Grange and Bill Fay with the call)
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Looking at the schedule for the 1953 Bears and they are shown playing the (new) Baltimore Colts team (named after the AAFC franchise that folded in 1950 and formed of the remains of the old Dallas Texans team -- not to be confused with the later version that is now the Kansas City Chiefs).
http://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/195309270clt.htm

As for the Cards; they were hosting Washington.
http://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/195309270crd.htm
 
Bluenoser said:
Based on what the listings said, I have to assume the reason for it was the launch of the Community Chest Drive. Did the DuMont full affiliates like WDTV Pittsburgh or WABD NYC carry that as well?
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...I'm positive that only one DuMont affiliate that wasn't owned and operated by the network itself, Tribune Co.'s WGN-TV/9 Chicago, wasn't split at the time with another network, usually ABC, like was the case with WOKY-TV/19 Milwaukee. (WGN-TV had earlier shared the CBS affiliation with WBKB/4, but by this time CBS had bought Channel 4 and converted it into WBBM-TV/2, taking the last elements of the network away from the Channel 9 schedule.) Even WDTV was split between NBC, CBS, ABC and DuMont...
 
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