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Retro: Seattle/Tacoma, Sat. May 28th, 1955

Another listing from my oldest TV Guide!

CHANNELS
2 CBUT Vancouver [CBC]
4 KOMO Seattle [NBC]
5 KING Seattle [ABC]
9 KCTS Seattle [NET, off for weekend]
11 KTNT Tacoma [CBS]
12 KVOS Bellingham [CBS]
13 KTVW Tacoma [IND]

8:50
4 Thought for Today

8:55
4 News Headlines

9AM
4 Pinky Lee Show

9:25
11 News and Previews

9:30
4 Winchell & Mahoney
11 Autorama

9:45
11 12 Baseball Preview
"National Ladies Day in Baseball."

9:55
11 12 Baseball-New York
The Brooklyn Dodgers cross over the bridge to meet the N.Y. Giants.

10AM
4 Funny Boners
5 Movie-TBA

10:30
4 Space Cadet
"Exercise for Death." Tom and his Polaris crewmates take Defense Secretary Masters on an inspection tour.

11AM
4 To Be Announced

1PM
11 Sports Time

1:15
11 Sports Feature

1:20
5 News Headlines

1:30
11 12 Preakness Horse Race
SPECIAL: Nashua and Summer Tan are expected to duel again at the 79th running of the Preakness at Pimlico.

1:55
4 5 News Headlines

2PM
4 Movie-Western
John Wayne Theater: "Westward Ho." Two men, unaware that they are brothers, meet later in life.
5 Sky King
11 Lone Ranger
"Damsels in Distress." The ever-gallant Lone Ranger dons still another disguise.

2:15
11 Sports Feature

3PM
4 Mr. Wizard
"Time on Your Hands." Mr. Wizard and Buzz have a visitor, Wagner Schlesinger.
5 Tomorrow
11 Movie-Triple Feature
1. "Haunted House." 2. "Old Swimmin' Hole." 3. "Big Timber."
12 Movie
"Enemy of Women." (film is from 1944)

3:30
2 Lassie
4 Soap Box Derby Clinic
5 Movie-Western (Title not shown)

4PM
2 Wild Bill Hickok
11 VFW Talent Show
13 Let's Look at America

4:30
2 Disneyland
The realm of fantasyland is revisited for a showing of Walt's cartoon versions of two stories by Kenneth Grahame, "Mr. Toad" and "The Reluctant Dragon."
4 Film Feature
5 Buffalo Bill, Jr.

5PM
4 Joe Palooka
"Below the Border." Heavyweight champion Joe Palooka is asked to fight the Mexican champ. Joe Kirkwood.
5 Super Circus
12 Town and Country
13 Starmaker Show

5:30
2 Bill Corum
4 Garden Digest
11 Gospel Western Aires
12 Serial Time

5:45
2 News-Don McGibbon

6PM
2 Bishop Fulton Sheen
4 Deadline-News
5 King's Ring
11 Professional Father
Twig becomes a judge in the city government for Boys' Day in City Government. Dr. Wilson's joy over this honorary position decreases as Twig presents him with old traffic violations and fines.
12 13 Gospel Western Aires - was this just like The Christophers - free to any station? I see KTNT and KTVW both aired it

6:30
2 Holiday Ranch
Guest: Denyse Angers, semifinal winner of "Pick the Stars."
4 Show Wagon
Horace Heidt and his Show Wagon journey to Des Moines, Ia.
11 Beat the Clock

6:45
2 News-Don McGibbon

6:55
5 Weekend Edition-Dargan

7PM
2 Jackie Gleason
"Songs and Witty Sayings." Ralph and Ed are bitten by the amateur bug, and plan an appearance at a local theater.
4 Mickey Rooney
"The Grunion Hunt Mystery." Mickey and his girlfriend plan a grunion hunt at the beach, but discover an even more slippery character.
5 I Search for Adventure
"Polynesian Paradise." Col. John D. Craig, veteran deep sea diver and underwater camera expert, presents some exciting films on spearfishing off the Polynesian Islands.
11 Jackie Gleason
It's a varied show tonight. Reggie Van Gleason sets up a hot-dog stand in Central Park. The June Taylor dancers play Glockenspiels as they perform their big number. On behalf of bounteous Mother Fletcher, pitchman Gleason offers a couple of dozen dan-dan-dandy prizes. In a grand finale, Jackie leads the combined bands from his three record hits in four numbers.
12 China Smith
13 Dick Tracy
"Egyptian Mummy." Tracy faces death when the mummy case he is hiding in is to be destroyed.

7:30
4 So This is Hollywood
"Grutchnik Rides Again." Queenie and her cohorts almost put a premature end to their Hollywood careers. It all occurs when they attend a cocktail party disguised as the famous Slabanian actress Grutchnik and her entourage.
5 Penny to a Million
12 Wrestling-Texas
13 Sports Reel

7:45
13 Dugout Gang

8PM
2 On Camera
"Just a Short Visit," by Allan Miller. As Mrs. A prepares a birthday party for her granddaughter, she realizes she is left without a family to care for.
4 Imogene Coca
Now that the honeymoon is over, Jerry's stopped taking Betty out to the fancier spots in town. Hal March.
5 March On
11 Two for the Money
13 Baseball
Seattle Rainiers vs. Hollywood Stars.

8:30
2 Greatest Sports Events
4 Jimmy Durante
Jimmy's guest is Dorothy Lamour. He, Dorothy and Eddie Jackson appear in a sketch, "The Durantes at Home."
5 Eddie Cantor
Eddie presents Victor McLaglen and Stan Freberg in "This Marine Went to Town."
11 My Favorite Husband
For years George has been listening to Liz rave about an old boy friend. One day, the Adonis pays an unexpected visit. Joan Caulfield.
12 Movie-Double Feature
Candlelight Theater: 1. "Count of Monte Cristo." Dumas' tale of Edmond Dantes' false imprisonment and his revenge. Robert Donat. 2. "Devil Bat's Daughter." A beautiful girl is accused of being a vampire bat.

9PM
2 D. Fairbanks Presents
4 George Gobel
Garry Moore visits tonight's show to re-enact the time when he "discovered" George through his secretary, Alice.
5 Kingo
11 Chance of a Lifetime

9:30
2 Life with Elizabeth
4 Your Hit Parade
Extras tonight: Dorothy Collins sings "Smiles"; the dancers offer "Turkey in the Straw."
11 Damon Runyan Theater
Edmond O'Brien stars in "Old Em's Kentucky Home." Four fugitives from Broadway-two guys, a doll and a broken-down nag-take a trip down to the Blue Grass State to visit a colonel who's lost his prize mare. The object: A swindle!

10PM
2 Wrestling-Hollywood
4 Ames Brothers
5 Dollar a Second
11 Down You Go

10:15
4 Movie-Drama
Curtain Time: "Someone to Remember." A kindly old lady remains in an old hotel when it is taken over and turned into a dormitory for men students. Mabel Paige.

10:30
5 Weekend Edition
11 Movie-Mystery
Late Show: "Shadow Returns." The police commissioner's nephew assumes the Shadow's disguise in order to solve a series of murders. Kane Richmond.
13 Movie-Drama
Puget Sound Playhouse: "Ginger." Story of a boxer and his nephew's love for a stray dog. Frank Albertson.

10:40
5 Movie-Drama
"I Was an American Spy." A cabaret singer in Manila doubles in espionage during the Japanese occupation.

11PM
2 News and Weather Report

11:30
12 News Bulletins

11:45
4 News Headlines

11:50
4 Thought for the Day

12AM
5 Nightcap Final
11 Sign Off News

-crainbebo
 
I don't know if this took place when Garry Moore was guesting
on George Gobel's show (I think it did), but Lonesome George
brought in a bottle and two glasses to Garry's dressing room,
uncorked the bottle, and began to pour, signaling "say when."
Garry declined, saying he never took a drink before facing an
audience. "You mean," asked an astounded George, "that you
go out there all alone?"

Slightly off-topic: Bud Abbott and Lou Costello used to compete
to see who could come up with the most elaborate Christmas display,
and Lou, who lived across the street from George, came up with one
one year that prompted George to put a sign in his own yard: "See our
display across the street." George once invited Lou to his house,
something he had never done before, and Lou declined, angrily chastising
George for having been a neighbor for years and never once inviting him over.
 
No DuMont affiliate? You would think KTVW 13 as a primary or KING 5 as a secondary would fill that void back then.....

Interesting.....

Cheers & 73 ;D
 
...well, Bishop Fulton J. Sheen's Life is Worth Living had just switched from DuMont to ABC four weeks earlier; is it possible that the installment run on CBUT/2 at 6:00 PM was one of the later DuMont episodes?...
 
Pat Cook said:
No DuMont affiliate? You would think KTVW 13 as a primary or KING 5 as a secondary would fill that void back then.....

Interesting.....

Cheers & 73 ;D

By this time DuMont as a Network was pretty much finished..Captain Video had already been canceled, as were just about all their Prime Time Shows (except for Fulton Sheen, which had moved to ABC) Game Show Down You Go had changed networks as well. A Boxing Show was all there was left of the Network, and it held on till August 1956..
 
DuMont was secondary on "all-four" station KRSC-5 until 1952. Then it switched to the secondary affiliation of KTNT-11 (CBS).

-crainbebo
 
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