from TV Guide-Pittsburgh edition
ch 12 listed EST
Italicized programs in PGH affiliate listings indicate simulcast by WARD 56-Johnstown, for which TVG only carried network skeds
KDKA 2-CBS Pittsburgh
7:25 Sermonette
7:30 RFD #2
8:00 Movie "Pioneer of the West"
9:00 Farmer Al Falfa
9:30 Captain Kangaroo
10:00 Sky King "The Runaway"
10:30 Mighty Mouse
11:00 Heckle & Jeckle
11:30 Robin Hood "The Moneylender" (series return)
noon Political Talk
12:15 Inside Football
12:30 Murderer
1:00 Willy
1:30 Movie "Fort Defiance"
3:00 Roads We Take (Mitchell)
3:30 Safari
4:00 Spotlight
4:30 KD Country Fair
5:30 Lone Ranger "No Handicap"
6:00 Laurel & Hardy
6:30 News/Sports
7:00 Capt. David Grief "Escape"
7:30 Perry Mason "The Case of the Pint-Sized Client" (Perry gets a challenge from a teen: is "finders keepers" really ethical?)
8:30 Wanted-Dead or Alive
9:00 Gale Storm
9:30 Have Gun, Will Travel
10:00 Gunsmoke
10:30 State Trooper "The Talking Corpse"
11:00 Silent Service "The Tigershark"
11:30 News/Weather
11:35 Movie "To the Shores of Tripoli"
1:20 News/Sports
1:30 Movie "Experiment Perilous"
2:40 Sermonette
WTAE 4-ABC Pittsburgh
10:55 News
11:00 Cartoons
noon Movie "The Twonky"
1:15 Rocky Jones "The Crash of Moons" (pt 3)
1:45 Movie "Under the Southern Cross"
3:00 Jay Michael's Bandstand
5:00 Movie "Rose of Cimarron"
6:00 Championship Bowling
7:00 Polka Party (Nick Perry)
7:30 Dick Clark (guests Jimmy Clanton and Dion & the Belmonts; "The World's Oldest Teenager" was on that week's cover)
8:00 Billy Graham
9:00 Dancing Party (Lawrence Welk)
10:00 Sammy Kaye
10:30 News (John B. Hughes)
10:45 Movie "Wicked City"
12:15 News (Paul Shannon)
12:25 Movie "Diary of a Chambermaid"
WJAC 6-ABC/CBS/NBC Johnstown
9:25 News (Bill Wilson)
9:30 Cartoons
9:45 Through the Porthole
10:00 Howdy Doody
10:30 Ruff & Reddy
11:00 Fury
11:30 Blondie (finale)
noon True Story "Till We Meet Again"
12:30 Sports Page
12:45 World Series, Game 3: Milwaukee-Yankees (c/the Yankees won 4-0 before 71,599 at the Bronx Zoo, and went the distance, taking the full 7 games to beat the Braves)
3:45 TBA
4:45 College Football: Washington State-California
7:30 People are Funny
8:00 Perry Como (c/guests Robert Sterling & Anne Jeffreys, and Jackie Dennis)
9:00 Steve Canyon
9:30 Turning Point "Saddle Tramp" (finale)
10:00 Ted Mack's Amateur Hour (semi-final: ventriloquist George Boyle, novelty dance pantomime Philip Toon, and trumpeter Everado Rey Ramirez)
10:30 Brains & Brawn (pianist Alec Templeton and Celtics legend Bob Cousy take on music critic Deems Taylor and St. Louis Hawk Bob Pettit)
11:00 State Trooper "Cinder Jungle"
11:30 Sea Hunt
mid. News/Sports/Weather
12:15 Movie "Killer's Kiss"
WTRF 7-ABC/NBC Wheeling
9:00 Bugs Bunny's Friends
9:30 Kit Carson "The Hermit of Indian Ridge"
10:00 Howdy Doody
10:30 Ruff & Reddy
11:00 Fury
11:30 Blondie (finale)
noon True Story "Till We Meet Again"
12:30 World Series Preview
12:45 World Series, Game 3 (c)
3:45 TBA
4:45 College Football: Washington State-California
7:30 People are Funny
8:00 Perry Como (c)
9:00 Steve Canyon
9:30 Turning Point "Saddle Tramp" (finale)
10:00 Ted Mack's Amateur Hour
10:30 Brains & Brawn
11:00 News/Sports/Weather
11:25 Movie "Fifty Roads to Town"
WSTV 9-ABC/CBS Steubenville
8:00 Movie "Western Trails"
9:00 Joe Palooka
9:30 Captain Kangaroo
10:30 Mighty Mouse
11:00 Heckle & Jeckle
11:30 Robin Hood "The Moneylender" (return)
noon Cartoons
1:00 9 Teen-Time
2:00 Super Serial "Daredevils of the Red Circle"
4:30 Beldame Handicap horse race (simulcast on ch 56 in Johnstown)
5:00 Cartoons
5:30 My Little Margie
6:00 Trouble with Father "Dr. I.Q. Erwin"
6:30 News/Sports
7:00 Wanted-Dead or Alive
7:30 Perry Mason "The Case of the Pint-Sized Client"
8:30 Zorro "The Fox and the Coyote"
9:00 Gale Storm
9:30 Command Performance
10:00 Gunsmoke
10:30 Movies "The Return of Monte Cristo"/"Just Before Dawn"
1:00 News/Sports
WFBG 10-ABC/CBS Altoona
8:55 Thought for the Day (Fr. Joseph Kiniry)
9:00 RFD #10
9:30 Captain Kangaroo
10:30 Mighty Mouse
11:00 Dance Time
noon Political Talk
12:15 Dance Time
1:00 University of the Air
1:50 Movies "Anne of Windy Poplars"/"The Falcon in Hollywood"/"The Navy Comes Through"
6:00 Dancing Party (Lawrence Welk)
7:00 Leave It to Beaver "Poetic Justice"
7:30 Perry Mason "The Case of the Pint-Sized Client"
8:30 Wanted-Dead or Alive
9:00 Zane Grey "Trail to Nowhere"
9:30 Have Gun, Will Travel
10:00 Gunsmoke
10:30 Walter Winchell File
11:00 News/Sports/Weather
11:05 Mickey Spillane "Old Folks at Home Blues"
11:35 Movie "Nocturne"
12:45 Thought for the Day
WIIC 11-NBC Pittsburgh
7:00 Movie "Crashing Through"
8:00 Cartoons
9:00 Popeye
10:00 Howdy Doody
10:30 Ruff & Reddy
11:00 Fury
11:30 Blondie (finale)
noon True Story "Till We Meet Again"
12:30 World Series Preview
12:45 World Series, Game 3 (c)
3:45 TBA
4:00 Club 11 Teen Party
4:45 College Football: Washington State-California
7:30 People are Funny
8:00 Perry Como (c)
9:00 Steve Canyon
9:30 Turning Point "Saddle Tramp" (finale)
10:00 Ted Mack's Amateur Hour
10:30 Brains & Brawn
11:00 News/Sports/Weather
11:15 Movie "Submarine D-1"
12:45 News/Sports
1:00 Movie "Night Freight"
WBOY 12-ABC/CBS/NBC Clarksburg
7:55 News
8:00 Movies "Wild West"/"Rainbow Valley"
10:00 Howdy Doody
10:30 Ruff & Reddy
11:00 RFD #12
11:30 Sports Page
11:45 World Series, Game 3 (c)
2:45 TBA
3:45 College Football: Washington State-California
6:30 Teen Dancing Party
7:00 Flash Gordon
7:30 People are Funny
8:00 Perry Como (c)
9:00 Dancing Party (Lawrence Welk)
10:00 Paris Precinct
10:30 Brains & Brawn
11:00 News/Sports/Weather
11:05 Movie "Green Hell"
12:45 News/Sports
WQED 13-Edu Pittsburgh
no scheduled programs
WFMJ 21-NBC Youngstown
9:00 Bugs Bunny
10:00 Howdy Doody
10:30 Ruff & Reddy
11:00 Fury
11:30 Blondie (finale)
noon Cartoons
12:30 Sports Page
12:45 World Series, Game 3 (c)
3:45 TBA
4:45 College Football: Washington State-California
7:30 People are Funny
8:00 Perry Como (c)
9:00 Steve Canyon
9:30 Turning Point "Saddle Tramp" (finale)
10:00 Ted Mack's Amateur Hour
10:30 Brains & Brawn
11:00 News/Sports/Weather
11:15 Movie "Riffraff"
WKBN 27-CBS Youngstown
9:30 Captain Kangaroo
10:30 Cartoons
11:00 Heckle & Jeckle
11:30 Robin Hood "The Moneylender" (return)
noon Major Ted
1:00 Serial Theater
2:00 Movies: TBA
6:30 News/Sports
7:00 This is Stereo
7:30 Perry Mason "The Case of the Pint-Sized Client"
8:30 Wanted-Dead or Alive
9:00 Gale Storm
9:30 Boots & Saddles "Dispatch Rider"
10:00 Gunsmoke
10:30 News (Dunlevy)
10:40 Movie "Tomorrow the World"
mid. Chicago Wrestling
WKST 45-ABC New Castle
4pm TBA
5:00 What's New for You?
5:30 TBA
6:00 Bob Brenner
6:30 Travel Time
7:00 Juke Box
7:30 Dick Clark
8:00 Billy Graham
9:00 Dancing Party (Lawrence Welk)
10:00 Sammy Kaye
10:30 Movie "The Creeping Unknown"
ch 12 listed EST
Italicized programs in PGH affiliate listings indicate simulcast by WARD 56-Johnstown, for which TVG only carried network skeds
KDKA 2-CBS Pittsburgh
7:25 Sermonette
7:30 RFD #2
8:00 Movie "Pioneer of the West"
9:00 Farmer Al Falfa
9:30 Captain Kangaroo
10:00 Sky King "The Runaway"
10:30 Mighty Mouse
11:00 Heckle & Jeckle
11:30 Robin Hood "The Moneylender" (series return)
noon Political Talk
12:15 Inside Football
12:30 Murderer
1:00 Willy
1:30 Movie "Fort Defiance"
3:00 Roads We Take (Mitchell)
3:30 Safari
4:00 Spotlight
4:30 KD Country Fair
5:30 Lone Ranger "No Handicap"
6:00 Laurel & Hardy
6:30 News/Sports
7:00 Capt. David Grief "Escape"
7:30 Perry Mason "The Case of the Pint-Sized Client" (Perry gets a challenge from a teen: is "finders keepers" really ethical?)
8:30 Wanted-Dead or Alive
9:00 Gale Storm
9:30 Have Gun, Will Travel
10:00 Gunsmoke
10:30 State Trooper "The Talking Corpse"
11:00 Silent Service "The Tigershark"
11:30 News/Weather
11:35 Movie "To the Shores of Tripoli"
1:20 News/Sports
1:30 Movie "Experiment Perilous"
2:40 Sermonette
WTAE 4-ABC Pittsburgh
10:55 News
11:00 Cartoons
noon Movie "The Twonky"
1:15 Rocky Jones "The Crash of Moons" (pt 3)
1:45 Movie "Under the Southern Cross"
3:00 Jay Michael's Bandstand
5:00 Movie "Rose of Cimarron"
6:00 Championship Bowling
7:00 Polka Party (Nick Perry)
7:30 Dick Clark (guests Jimmy Clanton and Dion & the Belmonts; "The World's Oldest Teenager" was on that week's cover)
8:00 Billy Graham
9:00 Dancing Party (Lawrence Welk)
10:00 Sammy Kaye
10:30 News (John B. Hughes)
10:45 Movie "Wicked City"
12:15 News (Paul Shannon)
12:25 Movie "Diary of a Chambermaid"
WJAC 6-ABC/CBS/NBC Johnstown
9:25 News (Bill Wilson)
9:30 Cartoons
9:45 Through the Porthole
10:00 Howdy Doody
10:30 Ruff & Reddy
11:00 Fury
11:30 Blondie (finale)
noon True Story "Till We Meet Again"
12:30 Sports Page
12:45 World Series, Game 3: Milwaukee-Yankees (c/the Yankees won 4-0 before 71,599 at the Bronx Zoo, and went the distance, taking the full 7 games to beat the Braves)
3:45 TBA
4:45 College Football: Washington State-California
7:30 People are Funny
8:00 Perry Como (c/guests Robert Sterling & Anne Jeffreys, and Jackie Dennis)
9:00 Steve Canyon
9:30 Turning Point "Saddle Tramp" (finale)
10:00 Ted Mack's Amateur Hour (semi-final: ventriloquist George Boyle, novelty dance pantomime Philip Toon, and trumpeter Everado Rey Ramirez)
10:30 Brains & Brawn (pianist Alec Templeton and Celtics legend Bob Cousy take on music critic Deems Taylor and St. Louis Hawk Bob Pettit)
11:00 State Trooper "Cinder Jungle"
11:30 Sea Hunt
mid. News/Sports/Weather
12:15 Movie "Killer's Kiss"
WTRF 7-ABC/NBC Wheeling
9:00 Bugs Bunny's Friends
9:30 Kit Carson "The Hermit of Indian Ridge"
10:00 Howdy Doody
10:30 Ruff & Reddy
11:00 Fury
11:30 Blondie (finale)
noon True Story "Till We Meet Again"
12:30 World Series Preview
12:45 World Series, Game 3 (c)
3:45 TBA
4:45 College Football: Washington State-California
7:30 People are Funny
8:00 Perry Como (c)
9:00 Steve Canyon
9:30 Turning Point "Saddle Tramp" (finale)
10:00 Ted Mack's Amateur Hour
10:30 Brains & Brawn
11:00 News/Sports/Weather
11:25 Movie "Fifty Roads to Town"
WSTV 9-ABC/CBS Steubenville
8:00 Movie "Western Trails"
9:00 Joe Palooka
9:30 Captain Kangaroo
10:30 Mighty Mouse
11:00 Heckle & Jeckle
11:30 Robin Hood "The Moneylender" (return)
noon Cartoons
1:00 9 Teen-Time
2:00 Super Serial "Daredevils of the Red Circle"
4:30 Beldame Handicap horse race (simulcast on ch 56 in Johnstown)
5:00 Cartoons
5:30 My Little Margie
6:00 Trouble with Father "Dr. I.Q. Erwin"
6:30 News/Sports
7:00 Wanted-Dead or Alive
7:30 Perry Mason "The Case of the Pint-Sized Client"
8:30 Zorro "The Fox and the Coyote"
9:00 Gale Storm
9:30 Command Performance
10:00 Gunsmoke
10:30 Movies "The Return of Monte Cristo"/"Just Before Dawn"
1:00 News/Sports
WFBG 10-ABC/CBS Altoona
8:55 Thought for the Day (Fr. Joseph Kiniry)
9:00 RFD #10
9:30 Captain Kangaroo
10:30 Mighty Mouse
11:00 Dance Time
noon Political Talk
12:15 Dance Time
1:00 University of the Air
1:50 Movies "Anne of Windy Poplars"/"The Falcon in Hollywood"/"The Navy Comes Through"
6:00 Dancing Party (Lawrence Welk)
7:00 Leave It to Beaver "Poetic Justice"
7:30 Perry Mason "The Case of the Pint-Sized Client"
8:30 Wanted-Dead or Alive
9:00 Zane Grey "Trail to Nowhere"
9:30 Have Gun, Will Travel
10:00 Gunsmoke
10:30 Walter Winchell File
11:00 News/Sports/Weather
11:05 Mickey Spillane "Old Folks at Home Blues"
11:35 Movie "Nocturne"
12:45 Thought for the Day
WIIC 11-NBC Pittsburgh
7:00 Movie "Crashing Through"
8:00 Cartoons
9:00 Popeye
10:00 Howdy Doody
10:30 Ruff & Reddy
11:00 Fury
11:30 Blondie (finale)
noon True Story "Till We Meet Again"
12:30 World Series Preview
12:45 World Series, Game 3 (c)
3:45 TBA
4:00 Club 11 Teen Party
4:45 College Football: Washington State-California
7:30 People are Funny
8:00 Perry Como (c)
9:00 Steve Canyon
9:30 Turning Point "Saddle Tramp" (finale)
10:00 Ted Mack's Amateur Hour
10:30 Brains & Brawn
11:00 News/Sports/Weather
11:15 Movie "Submarine D-1"
12:45 News/Sports
1:00 Movie "Night Freight"
WBOY 12-ABC/CBS/NBC Clarksburg
7:55 News
8:00 Movies "Wild West"/"Rainbow Valley"
10:00 Howdy Doody
10:30 Ruff & Reddy
11:00 RFD #12
11:30 Sports Page
11:45 World Series, Game 3 (c)
2:45 TBA
3:45 College Football: Washington State-California
6:30 Teen Dancing Party
7:00 Flash Gordon
7:30 People are Funny
8:00 Perry Como (c)
9:00 Dancing Party (Lawrence Welk)
10:00 Paris Precinct
10:30 Brains & Brawn
11:00 News/Sports/Weather
11:05 Movie "Green Hell"
12:45 News/Sports
WQED 13-Edu Pittsburgh
no scheduled programs
WFMJ 21-NBC Youngstown
9:00 Bugs Bunny
10:00 Howdy Doody
10:30 Ruff & Reddy
11:00 Fury
11:30 Blondie (finale)
noon Cartoons
12:30 Sports Page
12:45 World Series, Game 3 (c)
3:45 TBA
4:45 College Football: Washington State-California
7:30 People are Funny
8:00 Perry Como (c)
9:00 Steve Canyon
9:30 Turning Point "Saddle Tramp" (finale)
10:00 Ted Mack's Amateur Hour
10:30 Brains & Brawn
11:00 News/Sports/Weather
11:15 Movie "Riffraff"
WKBN 27-CBS Youngstown
9:30 Captain Kangaroo
10:30 Cartoons
11:00 Heckle & Jeckle
11:30 Robin Hood "The Moneylender" (return)
noon Major Ted
1:00 Serial Theater
2:00 Movies: TBA
6:30 News/Sports
7:00 This is Stereo
7:30 Perry Mason "The Case of the Pint-Sized Client"
8:30 Wanted-Dead or Alive
9:00 Gale Storm
9:30 Boots & Saddles "Dispatch Rider"
10:00 Gunsmoke
10:30 News (Dunlevy)
10:40 Movie "Tomorrow the World"
mid. Chicago Wrestling
WKST 45-ABC New Castle
4pm TBA
5:00 What's New for You?
5:30 TBA
6:00 Bob Brenner
6:30 Travel Time
7:00 Juke Box
7:30 Dick Clark
8:00 Billy Graham
9:00 Dancing Party (Lawrence Welk)
10:00 Sammy Kaye
10:30 Movie "The Creeping Unknown"