Source: TV Guide, Lake Ontario edition
Stations listed:
2 WGR-TV (NBC) 184 Barton Street, Buffalo 13
3 CKVR-TV (CBC*) Barrie, Ontario
4 WBEN-TV (CBS) 2077 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo 7
5 WROC-TV (NBC/ABC) 201 Humboldt Street, Rochester 3
6 CBLT (CBC) Box 500, Terminal “A”, Toronto, Ontario
7 WKBW-TV (ABC) 1420 Main Street, Buffalo 9
9 CFTO-TV** (Independent) Box 9, Agincourt, Ontario
10 WHEC-TV (CBS/ABC) 191 East Avenue, Rochester 4
10 WVET-TV (ABC/CBS) 17 Clinton Avenue South, Rochester 4
11 CHCH-TV (CBC*) 163 Jackson Street West, Hamilton, Ontario
12 WICU-TV (NBC/ABC) 3514 State Street, Erie, Pennsylvania
13 CKCO-TV (CBC*) 864 King Street West, Kitchener, Ontario
*Although CKVR, CHCH and CKCO were all affiliated with CBC at the time, TV Guide identified each as being “Independent, CBC” in their station ID list.
**On Page A-1, the following notation appears: “Additional Listings: Complete program listings for Toronto’s New Ch. 9 are included in this issue.” Thus, I suspect this is the first full day of listings for CFTO ever in TV Guide.
MORNING
7:00
2/5 Today On The Farm (Carson & The Tall Timber Trio are today’s guests)
7 Window On The World
7:30
2/5 Rumpus Room (a kiddie show, not to be confused with Romper Room; CHCH, WKBW and CKVR had that program on weekdays)
8:00
5 Bozo’s Cartoons
7 Popeye & Pals
7 Deputy Dawg
12 Movie (to be announced)
9:30
2 Junior Auction
4 Your Museum of Science (Ellsworth Jaeger talks about flying squirrels)
7 Movie (A-Haunting We Will Go, 1942 comedy, with Stan Laurel & Oliver Hardy)
10 Cartoons
10:00
2/5/12 Shari Lewis (Briney, a sailor friend of Mr. Goodfellow’s, meets Shari and the gang and Hush Puppy is taken by Briney’s sea stories)
4/10 Captain Kangaroo
10:30
2/5/12 King Leonardo
7 Movie (Wild and Woolly, 1937 Western, with Jane Withers)
11:00
2/5/12 Fury
4/10 Allakazam
11:30
2/5/12 Lone Ranger
4/10 Roy Rogers
11 Joindre Les Deux Bouts
AFTERNOON
12:00
2 Movie (Rough Riders’ Roundup, 1939 Western, with Roy Rogers)
4/10 Sky King
5 Jet Jackson
6 Live and Learn
7 Soupy Sales
9 News
11 Cartoons
12 True Story
13 Light Time
12:15
9 Your Special Day
13 Countrytime (agriculture)
12:20
9 Farm Report (Larry Burt)
12:30
4 Mighty Mouse
5 Casey Jones (Alan Hale played the storied rail engineer in this syndicated 1957-58 series)
6 Movie (Sundown in Santa Fe, 1948 Western, with Allan “Rocky” Lane)
7/10 Pip The Piper
9 Movie (Riders of the Northwest Mounted, 1943 Western, with Russell Hayden, Dub Taylor and Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys)
11 Movie (The Big Show, 1937 Western, with Gene Autry and Smiley Burnette)
12 Detective’s Diary (syndicated reruns of the British 1958-59 series Man from Interpol, which had run on NBC prime time in 1960)
13 News
12:45
13 Popeye & Pals
1:00
2 Movie (The Gay Adventure, 1953 British drama, with Burgess Meredith and Jean-Pierre Aumont)
4 Rural Review (tax forms and computations are discussed by host Al Fox)
5 Texas Rangers
7 Wrestling (Buffalo)
10 Popeye
12 Mr. Wizard (“The Certainties of Improbability”)
1:30
4 Pinbusters (bowling)
5 Film Feature
9 Theater
10 Mighty Mouse
11 Robin Hood
12 Hadassah
13 Profile (Gary MacLaren; debut broadcast)
2:00
2 People are Funny
5/12 Pro Basketball (The Cincinnati Royals at the Los Angeles Lakers; Lakers won, 123-114. Lindsey Nelson reports.)
6 All-Star Golf (Jimmy Demaret challenges last week’s winner)
7 College Basketball (North Carolina State at Wake Forest; dunno what the score was, but NC State finished the year 4th in the ACC, while Wake Forest made the Elite Eight in that year’s NCAA Tournament. Curt Gowdy and Bob Neal report.)
9 Movie (Thunderbirds, 1952 military drama, with John Derek)
10 Movie (The Secret Six, 1931 drama, with Clark Gable, Wallace Beery and Lewis Stone)
11 Movies (Double Feature: The Phantom Plainsmen, 1942 Three Mesquiteers WW2 Western – the Mesquiteers go up against Nazi spies in this one – with Bob Steele and Tom Tyler; and Corpus Christi Bandits, 1945 Western, with Allan “Rocky” Lane and Helen Talbot)
13 Movie (The Girl in the Picture, 1955 British mystery, with Donald Houston and Junia Crawford)
2:30
2 Movie (The Secret Man, 1958 British mystery, with Marshall Thompson)
4 Buffalo Zoo Story (Freiheit)
3:00
4 Movie (to be announced)
6 Sports Special (Steve Douglas reports a senior exhibition basketball game between the YMHA Blues and a University of Toronto team)
13 Canadian Bandstand (news anchorman Gary McLaren hosted this local version of American Bandstand; Peter Jennings started his television career as host of the Ottawa version, Saturday Date, over CJOH)
3:30
10 People Are Funny
3:55
2/9 News (Iris Cooper reported on CFTO)
4:00
2 Three Stooges & Big Rascals
3 Movie (Panama Lady, 1939 drama, with Lucille Ball and Allan “Rocky” Lane)
6/13 Bowling (CBLT origination; Keith Barrett challenges last week’s winner)
7 Buffalo Bandstand (WKBW Radio disc jockey Tommy Shannon hosted this local version of American Bandstand)
9 To Be Announced
10 All-Star Golf (Eric Monti faces Bob Rosburg at La Quinta Golf Club in Palm Springs, California; Jimmy Demaret reports)
11 Cartoons
4:30
2 The Broward Handicap (horse race from Tropical Park in Coral Gables, Florida; the race is known today as the Skip Away Stakes. Fred Caposella and Tommy Roberts report.)
5 Wrestling (Rochester)
9 Hi Time (the Toronto version of American Bandstand; Ted Curl hosted vocal group The Dukes on this date)
11 Roy Rogers
12 Bowling Stars (Dick Downey faces Johnny King at Skytop Lanes in White Plains, New York; Bud Palmer reports)
5:00
2 Movie (Gold Raiders, 1951 Three Stooges comedy)
3/6/11/13 The Long Haul (documentary short in which truck drivers Jim Dalawrack and Joe Ellison haul a payload from Vancouver to Calgary)
4 Beat The Champ (bowlerJohn Levin is this week’s challenger; Chuck Healey reports)
9 Hobby House (Ted Curl also hosted this educational program)
10 Dance Party (Eddie Meath)
12 All-Star Golf (Sam Snead plays Jack Burke Jr. at Yorba Linda Country Club in California; Dick Danehe and Jimmy Demaret report)
5:30
3/6/11/13 Cartoon Party
5 Saturday Prom (Merv Griffin hosts this NBC version of the recently-cancelled ABC Dick Clark Saturday Night Beech-Nut Show, also sponsored by Beech-Nut Chewing Gum. This week’s guests are The Playmates, Johnny & The Hurricanes and 11-year-old singer Limmie B. Good.)
7 Movie (Tarzan and the Mermaids, 1948 adventure, with Johnny Weissmuller, Brenda Joyce and Linda Christian)
10 Donna Reed (“Donna’s fooling around with amateur psychology again!”)
EVENING
6:00
2/3 Harbor Command
4 Jeff’s Collie (rerun of the Tommy Rettig-Jan Clayton era of Lassie)
5 Hong Kong
6 Speaking French (instructional program)
9 News
10 Maverick (“Family Pride,” with Roger Moore as Beau Maverick; delayed from ABC the previous Sunday at 7:30, when WHEC-TV/WVET-TV ran Dennis The Menace and The Ed Sullivan Show from CBS instead)
11 Tennessee Ernie Ford (Shari Lewis and her puppets Lamb Chop and Charlie Horse visit)
12 This Is Your Life (Ralph Edwards “honors a veteran Hollywood performer who has become ‘Everybody’s Neighbor’”)
13 Roy Rogers
6:15
9 Sports Interview (Esaw)
6:30
2 Highway Patrol
3 Andy Griffith (Andy wants to get rid of the old cannon in Mayberry’s town square)
4/9/13 News
6 Mr. Fixit (Peter Whittall)
11 Father Knows Best
12 Adventures in Paradise
6:45
6 News
7:00
2 Johnny Midnight
3/6/11/13 Dennis The Menace (CBC run of the same episode CBS will screen tomorrow night)
4 University of Buffalo Roundtable
5 Highway Patrol
7 Matty’s Funday Funnies (Casper the Friendly Ghost, Little Audrey and Herman the Mouse cartoons)
9 Guestward Ho!
10 This Man Dawson
7:30
2/5/12 Bonanza (“The Spitfire”)
3 People’s Choice (“Sock Strikes It Rich”)
4/10 Perry Mason (“The Case of the Irresolute Reformer”)
6 Red River Jamboree (Stu Davis, Peggy Neville and The Altones perform)
7 Expedition! (“The Vanishing Musk Ox”)
9 Jane Wyman
11 Sea Hunt
13 Wyatt Earp
8:00
3 Phil Silvers
6 Auquanauts (CBC run of the same episode CBS will run at 7:30 Wednesday night)
7 Winston Churchill
9 Q.E.D. (Eleanor Roosevelt is tonight’s guest)
11 Gunsmoke
13 Manhunt (“The Check Passer”)
8:30
2/5/12 The Tall Man (“A Gun is for Killing”)
3 Sea Hunt
4/10 Checkmate (“The Human Touch”)
7 Leave it to Beaver (“Ward’s Millions”)
9 King Ganam (music)
11 Jamboree (variety)
13 Peter Gunn (“The Dirty Word”)
9:00
2 College Basketball (St. Bonaventure vs. Niagara University; Bill Mazer reports)
3/6/11/13 Hockey Night in Canada (Chicago Black Hawks at Toronto Maple Leafs; Bill and Foster Hewitt report)
5/12 The Deputy (“The Lesson”)
7 Lawrence Welk
9 Naked City (“Murder is a Face I Know,” with Theodore Bikel and Keir Dullea)
9:30
4/10 Have Gun – Will Travel
5 Play of the Week (“Mary Stuart,” with Signe Hasso)
12 Nannette Fabray
10:00
4/10 Gunsmoke
7 The Law & Mr. Jones (“The Big Gambling Raid”)
9/12 Boxing (“Paddington Express” Terry Downes challenges Paul Pender for the World Middleweight Championship at Boston Arena; Pender won this match, but lost to Downes in a London rematch in July, regaining the championship in the third match against Downes – again in Boston – in April 1962. After that match, Pender retired as middleweight champ due to his brittle hands. Don Dunphy calls the blow-by-blow.)
10:15
3/6/11/13 Juliette (Variety show from CBMT Montreal; Jean Roger is tonight’s guest)
10:30
4 The Blue Angels (“Flying Lesson”)
7 The Case of the Dangerous Robin (Ziv syndicated mystery series starring Rick Jason, two years before the premiere of Combat! On ABC)
10 Lock Up (Ziv syndicated lawyer series, with MacDonald Carey as real-life corporate lawyer Herbert Maris, whose passion was defending those who were unjustly accused on the side. WHEC-TV and WVET-TV jointly bought a full-page ad on Page A-12 of this week’s TV Guide to promote the show, as well as their Sunday newscasts; the two stations would merge into a single Channel 10 license as WHEC-TV later in 1961.)
10:45
3/6/11/13 The King Whyte Show (outdoors sports program hosted by the noted writer, usually a filler after Hockey Night in Canada. At the time of Whyte’s death in 1962, this was the second-longest running sponsored program on the CBC Network, having started in 1955.)
11:00
2 Movie (O.S.S., 1946 war drama, with Alan Ladd and Geraldine Fitzgerald; a 10-minute Roy Kerns newscast interrupts the movie at 11:15)
3/4/6/7/9/10/11/12/13 News
11:15
3 Movie (Flame of the Islands, 1955 drama, with Yvonne DeCarlo and Howard Duff)
7 Movie (Back from Eternity, 1956 drama, with Robert Ryan, Anita Ekberg and Rod Steiger)
9 Movie (The Harder They Fall, 1956 boxing drama, Humphrey Bogart’s last film, also with Rod Steiger and Jan Sterling)
12 Movie (Passage to Marseille, 1944 WW2 drama, with Humphrey Bogart and Claude Rains)
11:20
10 Movie (Gentle Annie, 1944 comedy, with Donna Reed)
11:30
4 Movie (The Men, 1950 drama, Marlon Brando’s film debut, also with Teresa Wright and Everett Sloane)
5 Movie (Big Guy, 1939 drama, with Victor McLaglen and Jackie Cooper)
6 Manhunt (episode postponed from the previous week)
11 Movie (Call Northside 777, 1948 drama, with James Stewart)
13 Movie (Criss Cross, 1949 police drama, with Burt Lancaster and Yvonne DeCarlo)
12:00
6 Midnight Zone (variety)
Stations listed:
2 WGR-TV (NBC) 184 Barton Street, Buffalo 13
3 CKVR-TV (CBC*) Barrie, Ontario
4 WBEN-TV (CBS) 2077 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo 7
5 WROC-TV (NBC/ABC) 201 Humboldt Street, Rochester 3
6 CBLT (CBC) Box 500, Terminal “A”, Toronto, Ontario
7 WKBW-TV (ABC) 1420 Main Street, Buffalo 9
9 CFTO-TV** (Independent) Box 9, Agincourt, Ontario
10 WHEC-TV (CBS/ABC) 191 East Avenue, Rochester 4
10 WVET-TV (ABC/CBS) 17 Clinton Avenue South, Rochester 4
11 CHCH-TV (CBC*) 163 Jackson Street West, Hamilton, Ontario
12 WICU-TV (NBC/ABC) 3514 State Street, Erie, Pennsylvania
13 CKCO-TV (CBC*) 864 King Street West, Kitchener, Ontario
*Although CKVR, CHCH and CKCO were all affiliated with CBC at the time, TV Guide identified each as being “Independent, CBC” in their station ID list.
**On Page A-1, the following notation appears: “Additional Listings: Complete program listings for Toronto’s New Ch. 9 are included in this issue.” Thus, I suspect this is the first full day of listings for CFTO ever in TV Guide.
MORNING
7:00
2/5 Today On The Farm (Carson & The Tall Timber Trio are today’s guests)
7 Window On The World
7:30
2/5 Rumpus Room (a kiddie show, not to be confused with Romper Room; CHCH, WKBW and CKVR had that program on weekdays)
8:00
5 Bozo’s Cartoons
7 Popeye & Pals
7 Deputy Dawg
12 Movie (to be announced)
9:30
2 Junior Auction
4 Your Museum of Science (Ellsworth Jaeger talks about flying squirrels)
7 Movie (A-Haunting We Will Go, 1942 comedy, with Stan Laurel & Oliver Hardy)
10 Cartoons
10:00
2/5/12 Shari Lewis (Briney, a sailor friend of Mr. Goodfellow’s, meets Shari and the gang and Hush Puppy is taken by Briney’s sea stories)
4/10 Captain Kangaroo
10:30
2/5/12 King Leonardo
7 Movie (Wild and Woolly, 1937 Western, with Jane Withers)
11:00
2/5/12 Fury
4/10 Allakazam
11:30
2/5/12 Lone Ranger
4/10 Roy Rogers
11 Joindre Les Deux Bouts
AFTERNOON
12:00
2 Movie (Rough Riders’ Roundup, 1939 Western, with Roy Rogers)
4/10 Sky King
5 Jet Jackson
6 Live and Learn
7 Soupy Sales
9 News
11 Cartoons
12 True Story
13 Light Time
12:15
9 Your Special Day
13 Countrytime (agriculture)
12:20
9 Farm Report (Larry Burt)
12:30
4 Mighty Mouse
5 Casey Jones (Alan Hale played the storied rail engineer in this syndicated 1957-58 series)
6 Movie (Sundown in Santa Fe, 1948 Western, with Allan “Rocky” Lane)
7/10 Pip The Piper
9 Movie (Riders of the Northwest Mounted, 1943 Western, with Russell Hayden, Dub Taylor and Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys)
11 Movie (The Big Show, 1937 Western, with Gene Autry and Smiley Burnette)
12 Detective’s Diary (syndicated reruns of the British 1958-59 series Man from Interpol, which had run on NBC prime time in 1960)
13 News
12:45
13 Popeye & Pals
1:00
2 Movie (The Gay Adventure, 1953 British drama, with Burgess Meredith and Jean-Pierre Aumont)
4 Rural Review (tax forms and computations are discussed by host Al Fox)
5 Texas Rangers
7 Wrestling (Buffalo)
10 Popeye
12 Mr. Wizard (“The Certainties of Improbability”)
1:30
4 Pinbusters (bowling)
5 Film Feature
9 Theater
10 Mighty Mouse
11 Robin Hood
12 Hadassah
13 Profile (Gary MacLaren; debut broadcast)
2:00
2 People are Funny
5/12 Pro Basketball (The Cincinnati Royals at the Los Angeles Lakers; Lakers won, 123-114. Lindsey Nelson reports.)
6 All-Star Golf (Jimmy Demaret challenges last week’s winner)
7 College Basketball (North Carolina State at Wake Forest; dunno what the score was, but NC State finished the year 4th in the ACC, while Wake Forest made the Elite Eight in that year’s NCAA Tournament. Curt Gowdy and Bob Neal report.)
9 Movie (Thunderbirds, 1952 military drama, with John Derek)
10 Movie (The Secret Six, 1931 drama, with Clark Gable, Wallace Beery and Lewis Stone)
11 Movies (Double Feature: The Phantom Plainsmen, 1942 Three Mesquiteers WW2 Western – the Mesquiteers go up against Nazi spies in this one – with Bob Steele and Tom Tyler; and Corpus Christi Bandits, 1945 Western, with Allan “Rocky” Lane and Helen Talbot)
13 Movie (The Girl in the Picture, 1955 British mystery, with Donald Houston and Junia Crawford)
2:30
2 Movie (The Secret Man, 1958 British mystery, with Marshall Thompson)
4 Buffalo Zoo Story (Freiheit)
3:00
4 Movie (to be announced)
6 Sports Special (Steve Douglas reports a senior exhibition basketball game between the YMHA Blues and a University of Toronto team)
13 Canadian Bandstand (news anchorman Gary McLaren hosted this local version of American Bandstand; Peter Jennings started his television career as host of the Ottawa version, Saturday Date, over CJOH)
3:30
10 People Are Funny
3:55
2/9 News (Iris Cooper reported on CFTO)
4:00
2 Three Stooges & Big Rascals
3 Movie (Panama Lady, 1939 drama, with Lucille Ball and Allan “Rocky” Lane)
6/13 Bowling (CBLT origination; Keith Barrett challenges last week’s winner)
7 Buffalo Bandstand (WKBW Radio disc jockey Tommy Shannon hosted this local version of American Bandstand)
9 To Be Announced
10 All-Star Golf (Eric Monti faces Bob Rosburg at La Quinta Golf Club in Palm Springs, California; Jimmy Demaret reports)
11 Cartoons
4:30
2 The Broward Handicap (horse race from Tropical Park in Coral Gables, Florida; the race is known today as the Skip Away Stakes. Fred Caposella and Tommy Roberts report.)
5 Wrestling (Rochester)
9 Hi Time (the Toronto version of American Bandstand; Ted Curl hosted vocal group The Dukes on this date)
11 Roy Rogers
12 Bowling Stars (Dick Downey faces Johnny King at Skytop Lanes in White Plains, New York; Bud Palmer reports)
5:00
2 Movie (Gold Raiders, 1951 Three Stooges comedy)
3/6/11/13 The Long Haul (documentary short in which truck drivers Jim Dalawrack and Joe Ellison haul a payload from Vancouver to Calgary)
4 Beat The Champ (bowlerJohn Levin is this week’s challenger; Chuck Healey reports)
9 Hobby House (Ted Curl also hosted this educational program)
10 Dance Party (Eddie Meath)
12 All-Star Golf (Sam Snead plays Jack Burke Jr. at Yorba Linda Country Club in California; Dick Danehe and Jimmy Demaret report)
5:30
3/6/11/13 Cartoon Party
5 Saturday Prom (Merv Griffin hosts this NBC version of the recently-cancelled ABC Dick Clark Saturday Night Beech-Nut Show, also sponsored by Beech-Nut Chewing Gum. This week’s guests are The Playmates, Johnny & The Hurricanes and 11-year-old singer Limmie B. Good.)
7 Movie (Tarzan and the Mermaids, 1948 adventure, with Johnny Weissmuller, Brenda Joyce and Linda Christian)
10 Donna Reed (“Donna’s fooling around with amateur psychology again!”)
EVENING
6:00
2/3 Harbor Command
4 Jeff’s Collie (rerun of the Tommy Rettig-Jan Clayton era of Lassie)
5 Hong Kong
6 Speaking French (instructional program)
9 News
10 Maverick (“Family Pride,” with Roger Moore as Beau Maverick; delayed from ABC the previous Sunday at 7:30, when WHEC-TV/WVET-TV ran Dennis The Menace and The Ed Sullivan Show from CBS instead)
11 Tennessee Ernie Ford (Shari Lewis and her puppets Lamb Chop and Charlie Horse visit)
12 This Is Your Life (Ralph Edwards “honors a veteran Hollywood performer who has become ‘Everybody’s Neighbor’”)
13 Roy Rogers
6:15
9 Sports Interview (Esaw)
6:30
2 Highway Patrol
3 Andy Griffith (Andy wants to get rid of the old cannon in Mayberry’s town square)
4/9/13 News
6 Mr. Fixit (Peter Whittall)
11 Father Knows Best
12 Adventures in Paradise
6:45
6 News
7:00
2 Johnny Midnight
3/6/11/13 Dennis The Menace (CBC run of the same episode CBS will screen tomorrow night)
4 University of Buffalo Roundtable
5 Highway Patrol
7 Matty’s Funday Funnies (Casper the Friendly Ghost, Little Audrey and Herman the Mouse cartoons)
9 Guestward Ho!
10 This Man Dawson
7:30
2/5/12 Bonanza (“The Spitfire”)
3 People’s Choice (“Sock Strikes It Rich”)
4/10 Perry Mason (“The Case of the Irresolute Reformer”)
6 Red River Jamboree (Stu Davis, Peggy Neville and The Altones perform)
7 Expedition! (“The Vanishing Musk Ox”)
9 Jane Wyman
11 Sea Hunt
13 Wyatt Earp
8:00
3 Phil Silvers
6 Auquanauts (CBC run of the same episode CBS will run at 7:30 Wednesday night)
7 Winston Churchill
9 Q.E.D. (Eleanor Roosevelt is tonight’s guest)
11 Gunsmoke
13 Manhunt (“The Check Passer”)
8:30
2/5/12 The Tall Man (“A Gun is for Killing”)
3 Sea Hunt
4/10 Checkmate (“The Human Touch”)
7 Leave it to Beaver (“Ward’s Millions”)
9 King Ganam (music)
11 Jamboree (variety)
13 Peter Gunn (“The Dirty Word”)
9:00
2 College Basketball (St. Bonaventure vs. Niagara University; Bill Mazer reports)
3/6/11/13 Hockey Night in Canada (Chicago Black Hawks at Toronto Maple Leafs; Bill and Foster Hewitt report)
5/12 The Deputy (“The Lesson”)
7 Lawrence Welk
9 Naked City (“Murder is a Face I Know,” with Theodore Bikel and Keir Dullea)
9:30
4/10 Have Gun – Will Travel
5 Play of the Week (“Mary Stuart,” with Signe Hasso)
12 Nannette Fabray
10:00
4/10 Gunsmoke
7 The Law & Mr. Jones (“The Big Gambling Raid”)
9/12 Boxing (“Paddington Express” Terry Downes challenges Paul Pender for the World Middleweight Championship at Boston Arena; Pender won this match, but lost to Downes in a London rematch in July, regaining the championship in the third match against Downes – again in Boston – in April 1962. After that match, Pender retired as middleweight champ due to his brittle hands. Don Dunphy calls the blow-by-blow.)
10:15
3/6/11/13 Juliette (Variety show from CBMT Montreal; Jean Roger is tonight’s guest)
10:30
4 The Blue Angels (“Flying Lesson”)
7 The Case of the Dangerous Robin (Ziv syndicated mystery series starring Rick Jason, two years before the premiere of Combat! On ABC)
10 Lock Up (Ziv syndicated lawyer series, with MacDonald Carey as real-life corporate lawyer Herbert Maris, whose passion was defending those who were unjustly accused on the side. WHEC-TV and WVET-TV jointly bought a full-page ad on Page A-12 of this week’s TV Guide to promote the show, as well as their Sunday newscasts; the two stations would merge into a single Channel 10 license as WHEC-TV later in 1961.)
10:45
3/6/11/13 The King Whyte Show (outdoors sports program hosted by the noted writer, usually a filler after Hockey Night in Canada. At the time of Whyte’s death in 1962, this was the second-longest running sponsored program on the CBC Network, having started in 1955.)
11:00
2 Movie (O.S.S., 1946 war drama, with Alan Ladd and Geraldine Fitzgerald; a 10-minute Roy Kerns newscast interrupts the movie at 11:15)
3/4/6/7/9/10/11/12/13 News
11:15
3 Movie (Flame of the Islands, 1955 drama, with Yvonne DeCarlo and Howard Duff)
7 Movie (Back from Eternity, 1956 drama, with Robert Ryan, Anita Ekberg and Rod Steiger)
9 Movie (The Harder They Fall, 1956 boxing drama, Humphrey Bogart’s last film, also with Rod Steiger and Jan Sterling)
12 Movie (Passage to Marseille, 1944 WW2 drama, with Humphrey Bogart and Claude Rains)
11:20
10 Movie (Gentle Annie, 1944 comedy, with Donna Reed)
11:30
4 Movie (The Men, 1950 drama, Marlon Brando’s film debut, also with Teresa Wright and Everett Sloane)
5 Movie (Big Guy, 1939 drama, with Victor McLaglen and Jackie Cooper)
6 Manhunt (episode postponed from the previous week)
11 Movie (Call Northside 777, 1948 drama, with James Stewart)
13 Movie (Criss Cross, 1949 police drama, with Burt Lancaster and Yvonne DeCarlo)
12:00
6 Midnight Zone (variety)