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Retro: Philadelphia/Wilmington Sat, July 5, 1958

B

Bluenoser

from TV Guide
* A weekday sked from the period can be found at
http://www.radio-info.com/mods/board.php?Post=309714&Board=tv-classic

(c)color program

WRCV 3-NBC
7:25 Thought for Today
7:30 Farm
8:00 Cartoons
9:00 Big Rascals
10:00 Howdy Doody
10:30 Ruff & Reddy
11:00 Fury
11:30 Blondie
Noon True Story
12:30 Detective's Diary
1:00 Hollywood Playhouse "It's a Joke, Son!/Nurse Edith Cavell"
4:00 Philadelphia Wrestling
5:00 Stagecoach Theater "Night Riders of Montana/James Brothers of Missouri"
6:25 News
6:30 I Search for Adventure
7:00 Jack London
7:30 People are Funny
8:00 Bob Crosby (c)
9:00 Club Oasis
9:30 Turning Point
10:00 Amateur Hour (Ted Mack)
10:30 Joseph Cotton
11:00 Movie 3 "Geraldine"
1:00 Nightcap Theater "The Diary of a Chambermaid"
2:00 Thought for Tomorrow

WFIL 6-ABC
7:25 All Star Theater
7:55 Christian Answer
8:00 Secret Answer
8:30 Breakfast Time
10:00 Chief Halftown's Pow-Wow
Noon Favorite Film Playhouse "Maytime"
2:20 Universal Pressbox
2:30 Baseball: Philadelphia @ Cincinnati [Redlegs] (Comm: Byrum Saam)
5:00 Grandstand Manager
5:10 Cartoons
5:45 News
5:55 Weather
6:00 Popeye Theater (c)
7:25 Delaware Park Horse Race
7:30 Dick Clark
8:00 Triangle Theater
9:00 Lawrence Welk
10:00 Mystery is My Business
10:30 News
10:40 Weather
10:45 World's Best Movies "Flaxy Martin/Shadow of Doubt"
1:40 Delaware Park Horse Race

WGAL 8-CBS/NBC Lancaster
7:55 News/Weather
8:00 Covered Wagon Theater "Corpus Christi Bandits"
9:00 Percy Platypus
9:30 Mighty Mouse
10:00 Howdy Doody
10:30 Ruff & Reddy
11:00 Fury
11:30 Blondie
Noon Jimmy Dean
1:00 Lone Ranger
1:30 Lancaster Re-Assessment Program
2:00 Country Style, USA
2:15 News
2:20 Baseball Preview
2:30 Baseball: Philadelphia @ Cincinnati
5:00 Big Picture
5:30 Call of the Outdoors (c)
6:00 I've Got a Secret
6:30 Sports
6:40 Weather
6:45 News
7:00 Sea Hunt
7:30 People are Funny
8:00 Bob Crosby (c)
9:00 Club Oasis
9:30 Turning Point
10:00 Amateur Hour
10:30 Joseph Cotten
11:00 News
11:10 News (network?)
11:20 Sports
11:25 Weather
11:30 Saturday Night Playhouse "The Lost Moment"
1:00 News

WCAU 10-CBS
8:00 Gene Autry Theater "Western Jamboree"
9:00 Cartoon Carnival
9:30 Carny the Clown
10:00 Heckle & Jeckle
10:30 Mighty Mouse
11:00 Captain Kangaroo
Noon T-K Ranch
12:30 Jimmy Dean
1:00 Lone Ranger
1:30 Saturday Playhouse
2:30 Block Party (Hy Lit)
4:00 Cross Current
4:30 Horse Racing: Mother Goose Stakes
5:00 Jungle Jim
5:30 Annie Oakley
6:00 Sky King
6:30 Official Detective
7:00 Highway Patrol
7:30 Perry Mason
8:30 Top Dollar
9:00 Oh! Susanna
9:30 Have Gun, Will Travel
10:00 Gunsmoke
10:30 San Francisco Beat
11:00 News
11:10 Sports
11:15 Weather
11:20 Shock Theater "The Mad Doctor of Market Street"
1:00 Late Show "The Magnificent Dope"

WVUE 12-Ind
1:30 This is Delaware
2:00 Camera USA
2:30 Catholic TV Guild
3:00 US Department of Agriculture
3:30 Pastor's Study
4:00 Hopalong Cassidy Playhouse "Outlaws of the Desert"
5:00 Black Patch the Pirate
6:00 Tiny Fairbanks
7:00 Bingo at Home
9:00 All Star Movie "The Sleeping Tiger"
10:30 Joe Pyne
Mid. Late Movie "Apology for Murder"

TV Guide also listed network programs for some other stations in the Lancaster/Susquehanna Valley area:
WLBR-15 Lebanon carried Dick Clark
WTPA-27 Harrisburg carried Dick Clark and Lawrence Welk
WSBA-43 York carried Dick Clark and Lawrence Welk
WNOW-49 York did not air network programs that day
WHP-55 Harrisburg carried Heckle & Jeckle, Mighty Mouse, Captain Kangaroo, Jimmy Dean (same time as WGAL), Mother Goose Stakes Horse Race, Perry Mason, Top Dollar, Oh! Susanna and Gunsmoke<P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by Bluenoser on 09/14/05 05:49 PM.</FONT></P>
 
Bluenoser takes us back to the City Of Brotherly Love on July 5th, 1958. Bluenoser indicated (c) for programs broadcast in color.

> WRCV 3-NBC

> 10:00 Howdy Doody
> 10:30 Ruff & Reddy

Although not listed as being in color, I thought "Howdy Doody" was in color from September, 1955 (it's last season as a five-days-a-week show) until the end in September of 1960, and that "Ruff And Reddy" was also in color.

On the other hand, "Howdy Doody" may have been a repeat, and while originally broadcast live and in color, the repeat may have been a black-and-white kinescope or videotape.

> 8:00 Bob Crosby (c)

Bing's brother, and a Summer replacement for Perry Como.

> WFIL 6-ABC

Now known as WPVI.

> 2:30 Baseball: Philadelphia @ Cincinnati [Redlegs] (Comm:
> Byrum Saam)

Wasn't WFIL/WPVI the home of Phillies' telecasts from the late 1940's until the mid 1970's??

> 6:00 Popeye Theater (c)

Although Ed Reitan's website noted that WFIL had a color camera (that was even used for "American Bandstand", although once the show went network, it was seen in color only in Philly), I wonder if these cartoons had a live in-studio host(ess). If they did, were the studio segments in color (I suspect the cartoons were in color)??

> 7:25 Delaware Park Horse Race

Given the five-minute slot, it was probably a film of the day's feature race.

> WGAL 8-CBS/NBC Lancaster

> 11:00 News
> 11:10 News (network?)

According to Brooks and Marsh, there were no evening or nighttime newscasts on any network during the Summer of 1958. Perhaps WGAL had a ten-minute locally-produced program of world and national news, preceded or followed by a ten-minute program of local news. I believe WPIX-11 in New York did the same thing in the late 1950's and the first half of the 1960's, but in the early evening.

> WCAU 10-CBS

Did CBS take the station over by this time?? I know it was sometime in 1958.

> 10:00 Heckle & Jeckle
> 10:30 Mighty Mouse

Both of these shows consisted of cartoons from the Terrytoons library, which CBS purchased (along with the Terrytoons animation studio) three years earlier. While the older "Heckle & Jeckle" and "Mighty Mouse" cartoons were being shown on CBS' Saturday-morning schedule (Terrytoons would produce a handful of new episodes of both series around 1959-61), the studio during 1957 and 1958 was producing "Tom Terrific" for CBS' "Captain Kangaroo" show.

> 11:00 Captain Kangaroo

I don't know if CBS was feeding programs to the Eastern and Central time zones at 11 A.M. EDT during the Summer of 1958. If they didn't, this show may have been fed at 11 A.M. EDT for the Mountain and Pacific time zones. CBS had started to use videotape for delayed-broadcast purposes by this time, so it's possible that it may have been the taped West Coiast feed, which WCAU picked-up, of a show done live earlier in the morning.

Of course, WCAU may have also gotten a tape machine by this time (many local stations got their first videotape machines during 1958) and taped the live broadcast earlier that morning for an 11 A.M. playback.

> 2:30 Block Party (Hy Lit)

I'm surprised Hy Lit was in Philly TV and radio this early. I thought he didn't arrive on Philly's airwaves until around 1960 or so and that his peak years of popularity were between 1964 and 68.

Nevertheless, Hy Lit is one of perhaps only two radio DJ's in Philly history (the other being Dick Clark) to become a nationally-known "name", thanks to his syndciated TV shows in the mid-to-late 1960's.

> 4:00 Cross Current

Actually the rerun title for the final season of "Foreign Intrigue" (those episodes starring Gerald Mohr, originally produced and broadcast during the 1954/55 season). Reruns of earlier seasons were syndicated under the titles of "Dateline Europe" (1951-53, with Jerome Thor) and "Overseas Assignment" (1953/54, with James Daly).

> 4:30 Horse Racing: Mother Goose Stakes

I remember that for much of the 1960's, there was a syndicated (by Sports Networks International, later by Hughes Sports Network) series of weekly horse races (except during the Triple Crown weeks in May and June) titled "Race Of The Week". I also recall that during the mid 1960's, Schaefer Beer was the sponsor.

Could this have been a telecast (maybe one of the earliest??) of "Race Of The Week"??

> 11:20 Shock Theater "The Mad Doctor of Market Street"

Wouldn't Zachrele (sp?) have been the in-studio host? I thought his horror-movie hosting career began in Philadelphia during the late 1950's.

> WVUE 12-Ind

Maybe the biggest mistake Storer Communications ever made was turning-in the WVUE-12 license. During the 1960's and 1970's, a VHF independent was a license to print money! If Storer didn't know what to do with WVUE, they could have sold WVUE off to Metropolitan Broadcasting (soon to become Metromedia), whose WNEW-5 New York and WTTG-5 Washington were very strong indies for a lot of years.

> 10:30 Joe Pyne

Some years later, he would host a nationally-syndicated----and very controversial----talk/interview show. But I remember him for being the host of the short-lived 1966 NBC game show "Showdown!" (I was a child then), on which Pyne told contestants who gave wrong answers "Down!", followed by the sound of one note from a kettle drum and contestants falling out of sight behind their podiums.
 
> Bluenoser takes us back to the City Of Brotherly Love on
> July 5th, 1958. Bluenoser indicated (c) for programs
> broadcast in color.
>
> > WRCV 3-NBC
>
> > 10:00 Howdy Doody
> > 10:30 Ruff & Reddy
>
> Although not listed as being in color, I thought "Howdy
> Doody" was in color from September, 1955 (it's last season
> as a five-days-a-week show) until the end in September of
> 1960, and that "Ruff And Reddy" was also in color.
>
> On the other hand, "Howdy Doody" may have been a repeat, and
> while originally broadcast live and in color, the repeat may
> have been a black-and-white kinescope or videotape.

But "Ruff & Reddy," on film, should have been in color.
>
> >
>
>
> >WCAU 10-CBS
>
>
>
> > 11:00 Captain Kangaroo
>
> I don't know if CBS was feeding programs to the Eastern and
> Central time zones at 11 A.M. EDT during the Summer of 1958.
> If they didn't, this show may have been fed at 11 A.M. EDT
> for the Mountain and Pacific time zones. CBS had started to
> use videotape for delayed-broadcast purposes by this time,
> so it's possible that it may have been the taped West Coiast
> feed, which WCAU picked-up, of a show done live earlier in
> the morning.
>
> Of course, WCAU may have also gotten a tape machine by this
> time (many local stations got their first videotape machines
> during 1958) and taped the live broadcast earlier that
> morning for an 11 A.M. playback.

Castleman and Podrazik show "Captain Kangaroo" at 11 AM (ET)
in the summer of 1958. In the fall it moved back to 9:30.
>
> >
 
> > WFIL 6-ABC
> > 6:00 Popeye Theater (c)
> ...I wonder if these cartoons had a live
> in-studio host(ess).

Philly kidvid TV icon Sally Starr, no doubt.

She hosted the Popeye cartoons on weeknights.
 
> > WFIL 6-ABC
>
> > 7:25 Delaware Park Horse Race
>
> Given the five-minute slot, it was probably a film of the
> day's feature race.

According to TVG, that's exactly what it was.
 
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