Cleveland Classic Media: Fall Preview:1959-60

Sort of a fun ad for TV 8 movies..

In The Style of Dateline Hollywood and New York Columns..TV Guide goes over some of the Local changes in the fall..Click to read more clearly..

WEWS-TV/WKBN/Fisher Foods' Ad for Ken Coleman's "Quarterback Club"

Double page spread with two ads..A Jerome Kern Special and Fibber McGee and Molly, In Their second week..

Ronnie Barrett, Cleveland Radio DJ..Had hosted Classical Music on KYW-FM in the mid 1950's before becoming part of the first cast on Channel 5's One O Clock Club in 1957..Here, he hosts the 11:20 Movie after the Pete French News..

Note:I copied these pages at the Akron Downtown Library months ago..Looking at the above ad many times I just now got the pun.."The Late Night Show is well above Pa(a)r"..I can be so dense sometimes!LOL!

TV Guide Sitcom preview for 1959-60

Today, lets look at the Fall TV season of 1959-60..Fifty years ago..TV guide was touting it as the "Year Of The Special" as it were, with 400 specials on Network TV for this season..Amazing, when you consider there were only 3 networks..In those days, when a show was pre-empted for a "Special" it was usually a more different, interesting or exciting program than the normal program in that time period..These days, with 500 or more channels, the lines become blurred as far as a "special program" is comcerned.

As far as series programming, the Western reigned supreme, with a total of 29, including 10 new shows. The only Western of this group to last a long time was "Bonanza" which aired for 12 and a half seasons on NBC..Though Laramie on the same Network lasted four seasons..

Next were Private Eyes, mostly on ABC, with Warner Brothers Shows like Hawaiian Eye and Bourbon Street Beat Making their debuts., as well as The Untouchables. Most of the detective shows of this era were gone by 1963..

According to TV Guide, the Situation Comedy was making a comeback, However, of the seven new sitcoms, only 3 lasted past 59-60..Dennis The Menace, Dobie Gillis and Henessey..NBC's ill-fated attempt at remaking Fibber McGee and Molly for TV barely lasted past the Holidays..

Locally, Myrus The Mentalist made a comeback on WJW-TV 8 Tuesdays at 8PM..Bozo also premiered this season on Channel 8 with Ed Fisher in The Clown Costume..New Bishop Sheen films were to air on WEWS Channel 5, along with Notre Dame Football Replays and Mike Hammer with Darren McGavin (Incidentally airing on Retro TV Network weekends in 2009)..KYW picked up Brave Stallion (Fury Reruns) in Syndication..

Lets take a look at a couple of sample program schedules:

Stations:

3 KYW NBC
5 WEWS ABC

8 WJW CBS

21 WFMJ Youngstown NBC

27 WKBN Youngstown CBS

45 WKST Youngstown ABC

49 WAKR Akron ABC

Saturday September 19, 1959

7:30

3 Land Is Ours

8 RFD

8:30

3 Albert P. Worm

8 Mr. Banjo's Carnival

8:55
5 News-Bill Prentice

9AM

3 Fife And Drum

5 Stu Erwin Show

21 Bugs Bunny

9:30

3 Cartoon Carnival

5 Christophers

8-27 Captain Kangaroo

10AM

3-21 Howdy Doody-COLOR

5 Uncle Al-ABC

10:30

3-21 Ruff And Reddy-COLOR

5 Movie-Western "Throwback"

8 Mighty Mouse

27 Cartoon Classics

11AM
3-21 Fury

8-27 Heckle And Jeckle

11:30

3-21 Circus Boy

5 Kit Carson

8-27 Robin Hood

Noon

3 Movie-1943 Comedy "Higher and Higher"

5 Dance Party

8 Rex Humbard

21 True Story

27 Serial Theater

12:30

8 Film Feature

21 Detective's Diary

1PM

5 Command Performance

8 Movie-TBA

21 Mr. Wizard

27 Movie-Lillian Russell 1940

49 Looney Tunes

1:30

5 Waterfront

21 Movie-TBA

49 Uncle Al-ABC

2PM

5 Movie-You Belong To Me 1941

49 Movie-Without Love 1945

2:30

3 Movie-This Man's Navy 1945

8 Bandstand-Phil McLean (Local)

27 Movie-The Flanagan Boy English 1954

3:30

5 Movie-You Were Never Lovelier-1942

21 Movie-TBA

4PM

3 Barnaby, Popeye and Friends

8 Roller Derby-RETURN

49 Movie-Pursuit-1945

4:30

3 Football Warmup-Jim Graner

8 Wrestling

27 Space Rangers

4:45

3-21 College Football-Rice at LSU-RETURN/COLOR-With Red Grange and Lindsey Nelson

5PM

49 Movie-Song Of The City-1927

5:30

5 Three Stooges-Saved By The Belle

8 Movie-TBA-Nikita Khruschev's arrival for a US Visit was scheduled at this time possibly pre-empting programming at this time..

27 Three Stooges

6PM

5 Lights, Camera..Questions-Panel

49 Movie-Ringside Maisie-1941

6:30

5 You Asked For It

27 News Of Today

45 Uncle Al-ABC

6:45

27 World Of Sports

7PM

5 Jamboree-RETURN-Tommy Edwards

8 Death Valley Days

27 McKenzie's Raiders

45 Cisco Kid

7:15

3 Football Scoreboard

7:30

3-21 Bonanza-COLOR

5-45 Dick Clark

8-27 The Reckoning

49 Movie-The Unholy Night-1929

8PM

5 Herald Playhouse-Syndicated

45 Jubilee USA-Red Foley

8:30

3-21 Man And The Challenge

5 Jubilee USA

8-27 Wanted-Dead Or Alive

9PM

3-21 The Deputy

5-45-49 Lawrence Welk

8-27 Brenner

9:30

3-21 Khruschev Visit-Pre-empts Cimarron City

8-27 Have Gun, Will Travel

10PM

5 Indians Baseball-Cleveland at Kansas City A's Ken Coleman, Bill McColgan (Indians won 13-7)

8-27 Gunsmoke

45 Sherlock Holmes

49 Movie-Presenting Lily Mars

10:30

3 Bold Venture

8-TBA

21 It Could Be You-Bill Leyden

27 Border Patrol

45 Movie-The Twonky-1953

11PM

3 News-John Mahoney

8 News-Jim Doney

21-27 News

11:05

3 Weather-Dick Reynolds

11:10

3 Sports-Jim Graner

8 Sports-Doug Adair

27 Movie-Silent Raiders 1954