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Retro: Phoenix/Tucson/Albuquerque Sat, June 14, 1955

from TV This Week-Arizona/New Mexico edition (TV This Week, based in San Francisco, had recently acquired Phoenix-based TV Views; the cover showed both titles, this was also the only TVTW edition to use the log format as their Cali editions used a British-style grid for their listings)

Phoenix
KTVK 3-ABC
2:30pm Arizona State College
3:00 Saturday Theatre "Port of New York"/"Tramp, Tramp, Tramp"
4:30 Movie: TBA
5:30 Hillbilly Hit Parade
6:00 Country Music Jubilee (Jim Reeves in for Red Foley)
7:00 Lawrence Welk (tributes to the Lawrence Welk Little League team from the San Fernando Valley, and then Father's Day)
8:00 Billy Graham
9:00 Hallcraft Theatre "He Married His Wife"
10:30 Chicago Wrestling

KPHO 5-Ind
1:30pm This is the Life
2:00 Afternoon Movietime "Gallant Bess"
3:30 Cartoons
4:00 Western Theatre "Springtime in the Sierras"
5:00 Sword of Freedom
5:30 Playmates
6:00 It's Wallace?
6:45 Rascals in Rhythm
7:00 Premiere Movie Parade #1 "30 Seconds Over Tokyo"
9:30 News
9:35 Weather
9:40 Premiere Movie Parade #2 "Little Women"
11:55 Premiere Movie Parade #3 "Congo Maisie"

KOOL 10-CBS
8:00 Laurel & Hardy
8:30 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Jimmy Dean
10:00 Mighty Mouse
10:30 Boston Blackie
11:00 Movie Preview
11:15 Baseball Preview
11:25 Baseball: Milwaukee-St. Louis
1:30 Horse Racing
2:00 Mystery Theatre
3:30 Buck Jones Theatre
4:45 Dan Smoot Reports
5:00 Garden in the Sun
5:30 Range Rider (and again at 6)
6:30 Top Dollar
7:00 Star & the Story
7:30 Big Record (guests Ernie Kovacs, Toni Arden, and Mack Gordon)
8:00 Gunsmoke
8:30 Perry Mason "The Case of the Prodigal Parent"
9:30 Have Gun, Will Travel
10:00 Oh, Susanna
10:30 Movie "Dillinger"

KVAR 12-NBC
7:50 RFD 12
7:55 Morning News
8:00 Howdy Doody
8:30 Ruff & Reddy
9:00 Fury
9:30 Andy's Gang
10:00 True Story
10:30 TBA
10:45 Pre-Game Show
11:00 Baseball: White Sox-Baltimore
1:30 USGA National Open Golf Championship
2:30 Detective's Diary
3:00 Golf Championship (I assume USGA, the listings don't indicate)
4:30 TBA
5:00 Flag Day Ceremonies
5:30 China Smith
6:00 Bob Crosby (c/premiere with guests the Everly Brothers)
7:00 Opening Night "Ringside Seat" (premiere)
7:30 Turning Point
8:00 Ted Mack's Amateur Hour
8:30 Joseph Cotten (premiere)
9:00 Silent Service "The Archerfish Spits Straight"
9:30 All Star Theatre
10:00 Academy Theatre "Woman on Pier 13"
11:00 Mark Saber

Tucson
KVOA 4-NBC
11:00 Baseball: White Sox-Baltimore
2:00 La Hora Mexicana
3:00 Scarlet Pimpernel
3:30 Cowboy G-Men
4:00 Fury
4:30 Western Roundup
5:30 Novelty Time
6:00 Bob Crosby (c/premiere)
7:00 Captured
7:30 Turning Point
8:00 Ted Mack's Amateur Hour
8:30 Joseph Cotten (premiere)
9:00 Mickey Rooney
9:30 News
9:35 Big MGM Movie "The Wild Man of Borneo"
11:00 Movie: TBA

KGUN 9-ABC
2pm Movie: TBA
2:30 Arizona Agriculture
3:00 Mexican Theatre
4:00 Operation Tomorrow
5:00 Motoring with Leo
5:30 Country Carawan
6:00 Country Music Jubilee (Jim Reeves)
7:00 Lawrence Welk (Little League/Father's Day)
8:00 Billy Graham
9:00 Confidential File
9:30 News
9:45 Hollywood's Best "Havana Widows"
11:15 News

KOLD 13-CBS
8:30 Mighty Mouse
9:00 Jimmy Dean
10:00 Dan Smoot Reports
10:15 Film
11:15 Baseball Preview
11:25 Baseball: Milwaukee-St. Louis
1:30 Horse Racing
2:00 Sports
2:15 Movie
3:45 Arizona Highway Patrol
4:00 Country Music Store
4:45 TV Newspaper
5:30 High Road to Danger
5:55 Life
6:00 Cisco Kid
6:30 Top Dollar
7:00 Oh, Susanna
7:30 Have Gun, Will Travel
8:00 Death Valley Days
8:30 Leave It to Beaver
9:00 Burns & Allen
9:30 Perry Mason "The Case of the Prodigal Parent"
10:30 Million Dollar Theatre "International Settlement"

Albuquerque
KOB 4-NBC
10:30 Cartoon Carnival
10:45 Sports Page
11:00 Baseball: White Sox-Baltimore
2:00 Press Box Favorites
2:05 Democracy at Work
2:30 Feature Theatre
3:00 Golf Championship
4:30 Fury
5:00 Box Office Star Theatre
5:30 People are Funny
6:00 Bob Crosby (c/premiere)
7:00 Opening Night "Ringside Seat" (premiere)
7:30 Turning Point
8:00 Ted Mack's Amateur Hour
8:30 Joseph Cotten (premiere)
9:00 Championship Bowling
10:00 News
10:15 Sports
10:20 Weather
10:30 Late Show "Drums Along the Mohawk"

KOAT 7-ABC
3:45pm Cartoons
4:00 Bill Previtti Teen Show
5:30 MGM Saturday Afternoon Special "Young Doctor Kildare"
7:00 I Led Three Lives
7:30 Country Music Jubilee (guests Chet Atkins and Carl Smith)
8:30 Lawrence Welk (different show than in Arizona; performing were Aladdin, the Lennon Sisters, Alice Lon, Dick Dale, Jack Maritin, and Curt Ramsey)
9:30 News
9:35 Big MGM Movie "The Mask of Fu Manchu"

KGGM 13-CBS
10:30 Junior Auction
11:15 Baseball Preview
11:25 Baseball: Milwaukee-St. Louis
1:30 Horse Racing
2:00 Scoreboard
2:15 Baseball Hall of Fame (Andy Pafko)
2:30 Big Picture
3:00 Movie Matinee "Three Steps North"/second film TBA
5:30 Willy
6:00 Our Miss Brooks
6:30 Top Dollar
7:00 Oh, Susanna
7:30 Have Gun, Will Travel
8:00 Gunsmoke
8:30 Sergeant Preston
9:00 Robin Hood
9:30 Perry Mason (different episode than in AZ, Perry becomes involved in a murder in which his client is the chief suspect after a girl with a black eye visits Perry's office)
10:30 The Hunter
11:00 Crosscurrent
 
Are you sure that Saturday, June 14, 1955 is right? Leave It To Beaver, Perry Mason and Have Gun Will Travel did not premiere until 1957 and Oh, Susanna (Gale Storm Show) did not premiere until 1956 and Lawrence Welk and Gunsmoke did not premiere on ABC and CBS until the fall of 1955.
 
Based on The Big Record listing (7:30 PM on "KOOL-TV channel 10 Phoenix, on film" ;))
the episode described aired on CBS Wednesday, June 4, 1958 at 8:30 PM ET, so this
could not have been any earlier than the following Saturday June 7, 1958. June 14
was also a Saturday in '58.
 
Some further Googling indicates this schedule must have been from Saturday,
June 14, 1958, as the Milwaukee Braves did play at the St. Louis Cardinals on
that date (11:25 AM listing on channels 10/13T/13A).
 
It is 1958; I caught it when I saw "Ted Mack's Amateur Hour"
on NBC; it was airing on the Peacock Network Saturdays at
10 (ET) at the time. Also, Lawrence Welk didn't go network
until July 2, 1955, and June 11 would have been three weeks
earlier.
 
Braves2005 said:
Are you sure that Saturday, June 14, 1955 is right? Leave It To Beaver, Perry Mason and Have Gun Will Travel did not premiere until 1957 and Oh, Susanna (Gale Storm Show) did not premiere until 1956 and Lawrence Welk and Gunsmoke did not premiere on ABC and CBS until the fall of 1955.

1958 is the correct date, put 1955 by mistake
 
The Perry Mason episode aired in Phoenix and Tucson was on the network the
week before (June 7). I suppose each station was sent a 16mm film print, as
the air times were not the same (network feed was at 5:30) and I believe
KOLD at the time had its own Telco line for CBS; they did not link up to KOOL
via private microwave (and drop Telco) until sometime in 1959.

Meanwhile in Albuquerque, the Mason episode listed was that night's show on CBS.
Since it also aired out of pattern--and even later than the left coast feed--this too
must have been at 16mm print as I doubt KGGM had any tape machines then.

In 1958 was ABQ a larger TV market than PHX? If so, it might explain why ABQ got
a film for same-night play and PHX was a week behind.

A reminder that for the shows airing "in pattern" (taking the network feed), this was
the first DST period where the networks ran one-hour delayed feeds for standard time
areas, so an 8 PM EDT show was still on at 6 MST instead of 5 (Bob Crosby on NBC).
 
Maybe due to the fact that AZ did/does not go on DST, unlike the rest of the MT time zone. (we are the same as Pacific time in the summer)
 
desertv said:
Maybe due to the fact that AZ did/does not go on DST, unlike the rest of the MT time zone. (we are the same as Pacific time in the summer)

In 1958 the only places in the Mountain Time Zone on DST appear to have been a couple
areas in Montana and Los Alamos County, New Mexico.
 
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