Retro: Southern California Wed, Dec 9, 1959

[Bluenoser]

from TV Guide-Southern California edition

2 KNXT-CBS Los Angeles
3 KEYT-NBC/ABC/CBS Santa Barbara
4 KRCA-NBC Los Angeles
5 KTLA-Ind Los Angeles
6 XETV-ABC San Diego
7 KABC-ABC Los Angeles
8 KFMB-CBS San Diego
9 KHJ-Ind Los Angeles
10 KFSD-NBC San Diego
11 KTTV-Ind Los Angeles
13 KCOP-Ind Los Angeles

Morning
5:45
4 Morning Farm Report

5:55
3 News

6:00
3-4-10 Continental Classroom "Physics"

6:30
3-4-10 Continental Classroom "Chemistry" (c)

6:40
2 Give Us This Day

6:45
2 Farm Report/News

6:50
8 This is My Faith

6:55
8 Farm Report

7:00
2-8 Captain Kangaroo
3-4 Today (guests include Peter Palmer)
10 Today on the Farm

7:30
10 Cartoons

7:45
2-8 CBS News

8:00
2 Our Miss Brooks
8 Movie "Mutiny on the Blackhawk"
10 Today

8:30
2 Amos 'n' Andy
5 Cartoons
6 Spanish Programming
11 Ramar

8:55
7 Daily Word

9:00
2-8 Red Rowe
3-4-10 Dough Re Mi
5 Larry Finley (newsbreak at 10)
6 Cal Western University
7 Chef Milani
11 Check It with Chambers

9:30
2-8 On the Go
3-4-10 Play Your Hunch
7 Mama
11 Jack LaLanne

10:00
2-8 I Love Lucy
3-4-10 Price is Right
7 Chucko's Cartoons (birthday guests of honor: Jeffrey Lieberman (4) of Corona and Collette Maley (5) of Huntington Park)
11 Morning Movie "The Toy Wife"

10:30
2-8 December Bride
3-4-10 Concentration
5 Ding Dong School
6 Romper Room
9 Health & Happiness
13 News

10:55
5 News

11:00
2-8 Love of Life
3-4-10 Truth or Consequences
5 Romper Room
6 Movie (no title mentioned, listed as Western)
7 I Married Joan
9 Star Performance
13 Guideposts "Guidepost to Science"

11:30
2-8 Search for Tomorrow
3-4-10 It Could Be You (c)
7 Navy Log
9 Movie (same details as 11am on 6)
13 Record Shop

11:45
2-8 Guiding Light

Afternoon
noon
2 CBS News
3-4-10 Queen for a Day
5 Uncle Luther
6-7 Restless Gun
8 Early Show "Dangerous Journey"
11 Lunch Brigade

12:05
2 Noon Show "The Woman in Question"

12:30
3 Margo Cobey
4 Thin Man
6-7 Love That Bob!
10 KFSD-TV Classroom "Relating to the Community"
13 Assignment Education "Challenge of Russian Education"

12:45
9 Betty Yeakel Matinee "Boy Slaves"

1:00
3-4-10 Young Dr. Malone
5 Dorothy Gardiner Show "Kings Row"
6-7 Music Bingo
11 Abbott & Costello
13 Big Picture

1:30
2-8 As the World Turns
3-4-10 From These Roots
6 Film Drama
7 Ray Milland
11 Dial 999
13 Guideposts "Guidepost to History, Art & Music"

2:00
2-8 For Better or Worse
3-4-10 House on High Street
6-7 Day in Court
11 Paul Coates

2:30
2-8 House Party
3-4-10 Split Personality
6-7 Gale Storm
9 Mr. & Mrs. North
11 I Led Three Lives
13 Movie "Cattle Queen"

3:00
2-8 Millionaire
3-6-7 Beat the Clock
4 Frandsen's Feature "Argentine Nights"
9 Movie "Cockeyed Cavaliers"
10 Pantry Playhouse "Magic Fire"
11 Steve Martin's Club

3:30
2-8 Verdict is Yours
3-6-7 Who Do You Trust?

3:50
5 News

4:00
2-8 Brighter Day
3-6-7 American Bandstand
5 Cartoon Carousel
11 Frontier Doctor
13 Cartoonaroony

4:15
2-8 Secret Storm

4:30
2-8 Edge of Night
11 TV Reader's Digest

4:40
4 Lee Giroux

4:45
10 Johnny Downs

5:00
2 Burns & Allen
3 Pacific Bandstand
6 Bozo the Clown
8 Life of Riley

5:05
9 John J. Anthony
11 Susie

5:20
10 Popeye Cartoons

5:25
13 Robin Hood

5:30
2 Early Show "The Inspector General"
3 Dan Smoot
5 Popeye Cartoons
6-7 My Friend Flicka
8 Burns & Allen
9 Criswell Predicts

5:35
11 People's Choice

5:45
3-9 News

5:55
13 Blueprint

Evening
6:00
4-7-8-13 News (c on 4)
5 Bozo the Clown
6 Roy Rogers
9 Cartoon Express
10 Annie Oakley

6:05
4 Weather/Sports (c)

6:10
11 Jim Bowie

6:15
3-4-7-8 News
13 Goodwin Knight

6:20
13 Cal Tinney

6:30
3 Movie "Letter from an Unknown Woman"
4 Curt Massey (c)
5-6-10 News
7 Men of Annapolis
8 Lineup
13 People's Court (Orrin B. Evans presides over this version)

6:45
4 News (c)
5 News/Sports
10-11 News

6:55
2 Weather

7:00
2 7 O'Clock Report
4 Four Just Men
5 Youth Court
6-7 Boxing: heavyweight-Sonny Liston (Philadelphia/25-1, 15 KO) v Willi Besmanoff (Milwaukee/39-17-7, 14 KO), live from Cleveland
9 Little Rascals
10 Shotgun Slade
11 Annie Oakley
13 Expedition!

7:15
2 CBS News

7:30
2 Lineup
4-10 Once Upon a Christmas Time (c)
5 Championship Wrestling
8 This Day, 1959
9 Crusade in the Pacific
11 Three Stooges
13 Wonders of the World

7:45
6-7 ABC News

8:00
6-7 Charley Weaver
8 To Tell the Truth
9 Charter Boat
11 Citizen Soldier
13 Powerhouse Movie "Claudia"

8:30
2-8 Men Into Space
3-4-10 Price is Right (c/Bill Cullen unveils the Christmas Showcase)
6-7 Ozzie & Harriet
9 Open Road
11 Trackdown

9:00
2-8 Millionaire
3-11 US Marshal
4-10 Perry Como (c/guests Sandra Church, Tommy Sands, Allen & Rossi, and the Look Magazine All-America Football Team)
6-7 Hawaiian Eye
9 Channel 9 Movie Theater "Sea Devil"

9:30
2-8 I've Got a Secret (Douglas Fairbanks Jr. brings a secret to the panel)
3 How to Marry a Millionaire
11 Bishop Sheen
13 Skin-Diving

10:00
2-8 Armstrong Circle Theater "Operation Moonshine"
3 TV Hour of Stars
4-10 This is Your Life (from Radio City Music Hall, wardrobe mistress Florence Anderson is honored; appearances from Cary Grant and the Rockettes)
5 Beat the Genius
6 Black Saddle
7 Not for Hire
11-13 News

10:15
11 Paul Coates
13 Sports

10:20
13 Cal Tinney

10:30
4-10 Wichita Town
5 News/Sports
6 Glencannon
7 Studio Seven "The Churchill Club"
13 Tom Duggan

10:45
9 News
11 Jerry Lester

11:00
2 11 O'Clock Report
3 Up to Paar
4-7-8-10 News (c on 4)
5 Mike Wallace (guest Maureen Stapleton)
6 Hannibal Cobb
9 Movie "Old Cheyenne"

11:05
6 Powerhouse Movie "Old Los Angeles"
10 Movie "Spoilers of the Forest"

11:15
2 Late Show "Wyoming Kid"
3-4 Jack Paar (Jack's in Hollywood, with Ed Reimers pinch-hitting for Hugh Downs)
7 Let's Dance

11:30
5 Del Moore's Hangout
8 Jack Paar (I assume this was the same episode that 3/4 aired, no description was listed)

11:45
11 News

Late Night
midnight
9 Starlight Theater "Child of Divorce"
11 First Show "Mokey"
13 Movie "Stagecoach"

12:15
7 Nitecap Theater "A Wave, a Wac, and a Marine"

12:45
10 News

1:00
2 Film Drama
4 KRCA Playhouse
8 Daily Word

1:15
4 News

1:30
2 News

1:35
2 Give Us This Day

 

[LKellerIII]

Thanks for posting this, Bluenoser. I grew up in LA, and was 7 year sold in 59. A few miscellaneous comments.

This was the era of a lot of political commentators - most of them had half hour or even 15 minute shows - just the commentator (talking head) addressing the camera with a world map or American flag in the background. Most, like Dan Smoot - were right wing conservatives. Goodwin Knight (6:15 PM on 13)was the Governor of California at the time.

I'm not sure what John J. Anthony (5:05 PM on 9) did on his TV show, but he was a radio staple (billing himself as "Mr. Anthony") in those days, and his show was a fore-runner of the current day radio advice shows hosted by psychologists, like Dr. Laura and Joy Browne. His show was advice to the lovelorn, more than anything.

Travel shows were a staple of KCOP 13 for most of the 60s - I see it was true as early as 1959. It's amazing that KCOP survived.

As a kid, I watched a lot of the local children's shows...except Chucko the Birthday Clown on KABC-TV. That guy was truly scary looking (see picture). He died last year at age 86.

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[RicoGregg]

Don't mean to nitpick, but in 1959, Pat Brown was the Governor of California. He was elected in 1958 & 1962. In the latter election, he defeated Richard Nixon, which caused him to give his famous "You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore" spiel to the media.

Brown ran for a third term in 1966, but was defeated by Ronald Reagan.

 

[LKellerIII]

Don't mean to nitpick, but in 1959, Pat Brown was the Governor of California. He was elected in 1958 & 1962. In the latter election, he defeated Richard Nixon, which caused him to give his famous "You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore" spiel to the media.

Brown ran for a third term in 1966, but was defeated by Ronald Reagan.

Your'e right, Nitpicker...I mean, RicoGregg. Pat Brown (father of another former and possible future Governor Jerry Brown) was a year into his first term. "Goodie" Knight preceded Brown.

Think of how different history would have been if Nixon had kept his promise.

 

[Bob1370]

Sidelight about Jack Paar and the Tonight Show the way it's listed here, with different start times in LA and San Diego...it hints at a peculiar aspect of the show's feed schedule for the first decade of its run.

The Tonight Show began in 1953 as an hour and 45 minute long show with start time at 11:15 PM ET/PT when it launched as a local New York City show on WNBT with Steve Allen. It stayed that way through Allen's 1954-57 full network run, all the way through Jack Paar's run, until a year or so into Johnny Carson's tenure. But after Allen left a lot of people outside the range of an NBC O&O station no longer saw that first quarter hour.

Only stations that ran 15 minute-long late local newscasts (at that time all of the network O&Os which took everything the net fed, plus a fraction of the rest of the country) aired the first 15 minutes. That was almost every market during the Steve Allen period. But starting around 1958, a lot of stations in medium and large markets found local news had become a moneymaker and started programming a 30 minute late local newscast at 11 PM (or 10 in the Central zone). They didn't rejoin the network until 11:30 ET/10:30 CT. So Paar did a casual, less produced opening segment than Allen had done. He would come out at 11:15 and mess around informally with Hugh Downs and Jose Melis and the band, but no other guests, for the first 15 minutes which half the country never saw. He held back his main opening monologue until the full network came on line at the 11:30 re-intro. Looks like LA started the show at 11:15 with the free form opening chat like any network O&O (same deal in NYC, Washington, Chicago and Philly) but San Diego joined at 11:30, the way other markets (like San Francisco, Detroit, Cleveland, Boston, all the Great Lakes cities except Cleveland, and a majority of others) did.

After Johnny started in '62, he never came out for the first 15 minutes of the show, which by then was only being carried by the O&Os and a handful of affiliates. He'd only come on stage at 11:30 when the full network was on line and he could begin his opening monologue for the whole country. Ed McMahon, Skitch Henderson and the band filled that first 15 minute chat segment by themselves. By the fall of 1963 the O&Os were also running a 30 minute late local newscast. That put an end to feeding the 15 minute opening chat segment with Ed and Skitch on the network line. They still did that chat after the network stopped feeding it, and Ed and Doc Severinsen did it after Doc took over the band in 1967. But after '63 it was just a warm-up meant to be seen only by the live studio audience, for the rest of Johnny's 30 year run. The show itself then began with the host's opening monologue for everyone nationwide, after the late local news, the way it still does with Conan today.