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Washington-Baltimore Saturday 3/3/56

L

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Going back almost 50 years for this..

Washington DC and Baltimore
Saturday March 3, 1956

WMAR channel 2 ( CBS )
9:30am Capt. Kanagroo
10:30 Winky Dink and You
11:00 Mighty Mouse
11:30 Texas Rangers
Noon Big Top
1:00 The Lone Ranger
1:30 Capt. Mignight
2:00 The Collegians ( variety show )
3:00 Wrestling from Hollywood
4:00 College Basketball ( Illinois-Northwestern )
5:00 Lucy Show ( actually I Love Lucy )
5:30 Church Visible
6:00 Lassie
6:30 Buffalo Bill Jr.
7:00 Gene Autry
7:30 Beat The Clock
8:00 Jackie Gleason
8:30 Stage Show
9:00 Two For The Money
9:30 Mad Hatter's Ball ( from the Women's Ad Club of Baltimore )
10:00 Gunsmoke
10:30 First Run Movie ( 1950's "Eye Witness" )
Mid The Pendulum ( drama )
12:30 News

WRC channel 4 ( NBC )
9am Cartoon Circus
9:30 Andy's Gang
10:00 Children's Corner
10:30 Pinky Lee
11:00 Fury
11:30 Uncle Johnny Coons
Noon Winchell and Mahoney
12:30 Encore Theatre ( 1950's "The Magnet" )
1:45 Trading Post
3:00 Pro Basketball ( Minneapolis-Rochester )
5:00 To Be Announced
5:30 Western Movie ( 1949's "Shadows Of The West" )
6:30 News
6:45 Jig Saw Time ( Quiz )
7:00 Your Hit Parade
7:30 The Big Surprise
8:00 Perry Como
9:00 People Are Funny
9:30 Jimmy Durante
10:00 George Gobel ( color )
10:30 Movie ( 1952's "The Man in the White Suit" )
Mid Commercial Film

WTTG channel 5 ( DuMont )
11am Young Eagles
11:30 Space Soldiers
Noon Double Feature ( two westerns.."Red Desert" & "Rangeland Empire" )
2:30 Cartoons
3:00 Movie ( 1948's "Shep Comes Home" )
4:30 Western Adventure
5:30 Signs Of Progress
6:00 Capital Caravan
6:30 Teen Talk
7:00 Grand Ole Opry
8:00 Movie ( 1950's "The Second Face" )
9:30 Wrestling
10:00 Jalopy Derby
10:30 Featurama with Milt Grant

WMAL channel 7 ( ABC )
( they didn't even sign on until 5:30pm )
5:30pm Future Flyers Club
6:00 Boxing
6:30 Bowling
7:30 Ozark Jubilee
8:00 Grand Ole Opry
9:00 Lawrence Welk
10:00 Chance Of A Lifetime
10:30 Town & Country Jamboree ( I believe Jimmy Dean hosted this )

WTOP channel 9 ( CBS )
8am Stop, Look, and Listen
8:30 Oswald Rabbit
9:00 Ask-it Basket
9:30 Capt. Kangaroo
10:30 Winky Dink and You
11:00 Mighty Mouse
11:30 Texas Rangers
Noon Big Top
1:00 The Lone Ranger
2:00 Saturday matinee ( 2 films "Border Roundup" & "The Nightwatchman" )
2:45 You and Traffic
3:00 College Basketball
4:45 Pick Temple's Ranch
5:55 News with Steve Cushing
6:00 Lucy Show ( I Love Lucy )
6:30 Captain Z-Ro
7:00 Gene Autry
7:30 Beat The Clock
8:00 Jackie Gleason
8:30 Stage Show
9:00 Two for The Money
9:30 It's Always Jan
10:00 Gunsmoke
10:30 Damon Runyon
11:00 News
11:05 Weather
11:10 Sports
11:15 Film Studio 9 ( "Breaking the Sound Barrier" )

WBAL channel 11 ( NBC )
8:30am Western Movie
10:00 Teen Canteen
10:30 Pinky Lee
11:00 Fury
11:30 Uncle Johnny Coons
Noon Winchell & Mahoney
12:30 Country Camera
1:00 Quiz Club
2:00 Teen Canteen
3:00 Officer Happy's Rascals
4:00 Hopalong Cassidy
4:30 Sky King
5:00 Roy Rogers
5:30 Annie Oakley
6:00 Appeal ( courts )
6:30 Ramar Of The Jungle
7:00 I Search For Adventure
7:30 The Big Surprise
8:00 Perry Como
9:00 People Are Funny
9:30 Jimmy Durante
10:00 George Gobel ( color )
10:30 Mr. District Attorney
11:00 Gunther ( Beer ) News
11:05 Weather ( Luby Chevrolet )
11:10 Sports
11:15 Your Hit Parade
11:45 Picture Playhouse ( "Love, Honor, and Goodbye" )

WAAM channel 13 ( ABC and DuMont )
9:25am News
9:30 Film Funnies
10:00 Western Movie ( "Springtime in Texas" )
11:00 Old Nickelodeon Daze
11:30 Gene Autry
12:30 Our Gang
1:00 Playhouse 13 ( "It Happened In New Orleans" )
2:30 Movie ( John Wayne's "The Lonely Trail" )
3:30 Bowling
4:00 Movie ( Roy Rogers' "Ridin' Down The Canyon" )
6:00 Movie Time ( "Nothing So Monstrous" & "Nobody's Fool" )
7:00 Death Valley Days
7:30 Ozark Jubilee
8:00 Grand Ole Opry
9:00 Lawrence Welk
10:00 Chance Of A Lifetime
10:30 Adenture Theatre ( "Young Buffalo Bill" )
11:30 Nocturne Movie ( "Invitation To Marriage" )
Mid News
 
> Going back almost 50 years for this..
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> Washington DC and Baltimore
> Saturday March 3, 1956
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> WRC channel 4 ( NBC )
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> 7:00 Your Hit Parade

I'm amazed that neither WRC nor WBAL carried Your
Hit Parade live at 10:30. The show was still popular,
even though rock 'n' roll would take its toll over the
next three years. The show's regulars (Dorothy Collins,
Snooky Lanson, et. al.) simply couldn't handle that kind
of music. But because the show's premise was a countdown
of the top songs of the week, logic would seem to dictate
that it had to be produced--and carried--live. And I don't
see how WBAL got it on at 11:15 unless with a "fast kine,"
since videotape would not come into use until later that
year.
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> WMAL channel 7 ( ABC )
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> 10:30 Town & Country Jamboree ( I believe Jimmy Dean
> hosted this )
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He did. Washington was a hotbed of country music in those
days. Besides Jimmy Dean, Roy Clark was working in nightclubs,
as was the Stoneman Family (Roni, the banjo player, was a
regular on Hee Haw), who called themselves the Blue Grass
Champs and were winners on Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts
that year. Town & Country Jamboree stayed on until about 1 AM.
> WTOP channel 9 ( CBS )
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> 9:00 Ask-it Basket

I've always wondered if this show had any relation to a CBS
radio show of the same name, one of the first game shows in
the late 1930s (WJSV, which became WTOP, recorded it on its
Day From The Golden Age Of Radio, September 21, 1939).
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> > Going back almost 50 years for this..
> >
> > Washington DC and Baltimore
> > Saturday March 3, 1956
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > WRC channel 4 ( NBC )
> >
> > 7:00 Your Hit Parade
>
> I'm amazed that neither WRC nor WBAL carried Your
> Hit Parade live at 10:30. The show was still popular,
> even though rock 'n' roll would take its toll over the
> next three years. The show's regulars (Dorothy Collins,
> Snooky Lanson, et. al.) simply couldn't handle that kind
> of music. But because the show's premise was a countdown
> of the top songs of the week, logic would seem to dictate
> that it had to be produced--and carried--live. And I don't
> see how WBAL got it on at 11:15 unless with a "fast kine,"
> since videotape would not come into use until later that
> year.
> >
> >

I was thinking that maybe WBAL aired the same program that WRC aired earlier.

One interesting thing about WBAL is that, this station saved A LOT of stuff over the years. Some of the shows that appeared on this schedule like Teen Canteen, Quiz Club, and Officer Happy's Rascals, it would not surprise me if WBAL had a least one kine of these shows in their archives even today.

When WBAL aired their 50th Anniversary several years back, they aired so many clips of their old local shows that their program was almost like watching one of the network anniversary shows.

Unlike many local stations when they turned 50 ( such as WJLA/WMAL-TV who reached that milestone around the same time as WBAL ), when it came to going back to the "good ole days", they relied on still photos and the music of Glenn Miller as background music.

I think it was on this board that I remember reading where some local station was about to celebrate their 50th. Trouble was they had hardly anything from the past in their archives so they actually turned to the viewers asking if they had anything.

I guess one could say WBAL was ahead of its time.
 
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