Sunday, March 20, 2011

Looking back:January 1958


"Susie"-Syndicated title for "Private Secretary", which had aired on CBS from 1953-57 Ann Sothern returned to series TV in the "Ann Sothern Show" from Fall 1958-Spring 1961..After a few months. cast changes were made that essentially made the show "Private Secretary" in a Hotel setting..Ann Sothern was best known on TV as "Mother" in the 1965-66 NBC series "My Mother The Car"


"Sherrif of Cochise" aka as "US Marshal" Thursdays at 10:30 PM on KYW-TV..Smaller Low power networks still show this on occasion


Ad for the Syndicated "Douglas Fairbanks Jr." on WEWS Friday nights at 10:30PM



Rev. Rex Humbard, from the Calvary Temple, which became Cathedral of Tomorrow

Wednesday, January 29, 1958:US Steel Hour Starring Andy Griffith on CBS:and Ozzie And Harriet on ABC, in their sixth season..


Hello
For our first pure historical posting in awhile I thought we'd look at January 1958.

Doug Adair was doing a 9:55AM News bulletin weekdays on channel 8..

The Syndicated "Liberace" aired weekdays at 11:30 on channel 5

8:55 AM News was being aired by Channel 3 (Tom Haley) and 5 (Court Stanton or Bill Prentice)

Tom Field returned to Cleveland at WEWS-5 from WRCV-3 Philadelphia, replacing John B. Hughes..

In a letter to TV Guide, One Bill Sanders of Canton was not pleased with the change: "I understand that Ton Field is returning to Cleveland to replace JOHN B. HUGHES AND THE NEWS on Channel 5. Why? I have enjoyed Hughes and his staff and the manner in which they give the news coverage. I doubt that Tom Field can offer anything close in this line of service."

John Daly News was aired weeknights at 7:15 on WKST-45 and WAKR-49..

In Pro Basketball, on NBC The Minneapolis Lakers took on the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden Saturday, Jan. 25 at 2PM (Knicks won 128-116)

"Spirtuals" was the name of the program Mary Holt hosted on Sunday mornings at 9:30on KYW-TV 3..Miss Holt passed away last week at the age of 89..

Sitcom, "Date With The Angels", with Betty White and Bill Williams, ends its ABC Run Friday, Jan. 31, 1958 at 9:30, being replaced the next week by a sketch variety show starring..Betty White! She is enjoying a well deserved surge of popularity these days, helped by starring in the TV Land original series, "Hot In Cleveland"


NBC:Portion of It Could Be You with Bill Leyden in a Nighttime Episode from September 1958..Sort of a takeoff on "This Is Your Life" Or "Queen For A Day"

TV Listings Cleveland Edition TV Guide
Saturday, January 25, 1958

3-KYW Cleveland NBC
5-WEWS Cleveland ABC
8-WJW Cleveland CBS
12 WICU Erie ABC-NBC
21-WFMJ Youngstown NBC
27-WKBN Youngstown CBS
35 WSEE Erie CBS
45-WKST Youngstown ABC
49-WAKR Akron ABC

7:30
3 This Land Is Ours

8AM
8 Camera Three

8:30
3 Numbers and Space

8:55
5 News-Ron Penfound

9AM
3 Geophysical Year
5 Cowboy G-Men
8 Looney Tunes

9:30
3 Kartoons For Kids
5 Cartoon Time
8-27 Captain Kangaroo

10AM
3-21 Howdy Doody
5 Christophers
12 Toy Time

10:30
3-21 Ruff and Reddy
5 Movie-Code Of The Lawless (Kirby Grant)
8 Mighty Mouse
27 Cartoon Classics

11AM
3-21 Fury
8-27 Heckle and Jeckle-Return
12 Movie-To Be Announced

11:30
3-21 Andy's Gang-Andy Devine
5 Liberace
8 Adventures In Music
27 Saturday Playhouse
49 Get Set, Go!-Variety

Noon
3-21 True Story
5 Mr. Lollipop
8 RFD
12 Ramar
27-35 Jimmy Dean
49 Devotional Time

12:30
3-21 Detective's Diary
5 Telvideo Theater
8 Tomorrow-Science
12 High School Wrestling
27 Celebrity Theater
49 Movie-The Lost Trail (Johnny Mack Brown)

1PM
3 Movie-Along The Rio Grande (Tim Holt)
5 Movie-Riders Of The Range-1942 (Bob Steele)
8 Lone Ranger
21-35 Movie-TBA
27 Gene Autry

1:30
8-49 Rex Humbard

2PM
3-12-21 NBA Basketball-Minneapolis Lakers at NY Knicks
5 New Horizons-Industry
8-27-35 NHL Hockey-Detroit at Boston (Bruins win 5-3)
49 Bowling Stars

2:30
5 Movie-Old Chisolm Trail (Johnny Mack Brown)
49 Medical Society-Public Service

3PM
45 Film Drama
49 Movie-The Man From Utah (John Wayne)

3:30
5 All-Star Golf
45 Film Drama

4PM
3 Through The Hooping Glass (cute)
21 Popcorn Party-Kids
45-49 All-Star Golf

4:15
12 Civil Defense-Public Service

4:30
3-21 Horse Race-Royal Palm Handicap from Hialeah
5-27 College Basketball-Jack Drees Iowa at Minnesota
8 Bandstand-Phil McLean
12 All-Star Golf
35 New Horizons

5PM
3 Meet Corliss Archer
21 Popeye
35 Man To Man-Religion
45 Movie-TBA
49 Movie-Ghost and Mrs. Muir 1947

5:15
35 Off To Adventure

5:30
3 TV Auction Party-Big Wilson
8 Frontier
12 Chalk it Up-Religion
35 Little Rascals
45 Film Drama

6PM
3 Mr. Wizard
5 Bowling Stars
8 Hawkeye
12 Rin Tin Tin
27 News, Sports
35 Movie-TBA
45 Travel Time

6:30
3 Lights, Camera, Questions
8 Annie Oakley
12 Broken Arrow-ABC
21 Get Set, Go!

6:45
5 Liberace
45 Our Miss Brooks

7PM
3 City Detective
5 Jamboree
8 Charlie Chan
12 Navy Log-ABC
21 Rumpus Room
27 Range Rider
45 Teen Time
49 Movie-Summer Holiday 1947

7:20
27 Ohio Story

7:30
3-12-21 People Are Funny-Art Linkletter
5-45 Keep It In The Family
8-27-35 Perry Mason

8PM
3-12-21 Pery Como-Color
5-45 Country Music Jubilee

8:30
8-27-35 Dick and The Duchess
49 Country Music Jubilee

9PM
3-12-21 Polly Bergen Show
5-45-49 Lawrence Welk
8-27-35 Oh! Susanna

9:30
3-12-21 Gisele McKenzie
8-35 Have Gun Will Travel
27 My Little Margie (You could say WKBN-27 had The Gale Storm Hour)

10PM
3-12-21 End Of The Rainbow
5-45 Mike Wallace
8-27-35 Gunsmoke
49 Movie-Parnell 1937

10:30
3-12-21 Your Hit Parade-Color
5 Four Star Theater
8 Silent Service
27 News Tonight
35 Championship Bowling
45 Movie-TBA

10:40
27 Movie-Lloyds of London 1936

11PM
3 News-Jay Miltner
5 Movie-The Whistler 1944
8 News-Jim Doney
12 Star Performance
21 Sports. Weather

11:05
3 Sports-Johnny Bell

11:10
3 Movie-Cry Havoc 1943
8 Sports-Doug Adair

11:15
8 Weather-Scotty Armstrong
21 Championship Bowling

11:30
12 Movie-The Wolf Man 1941
27 Wrestling
35 Movie-Footlight Serenade 1942
49 Movie-Laugh Your Blues Away 1943

12:15
21 Movie-The Caribbean Mystery 1945

12:30
3 News-Pete French

12:30
3 Movie-Betrayal Of The East

1AM
5 News-Court Stanton
8 Movie-The Mask Of Dijon 1946

Monday, January 27, 1958

7AM
3-12-21 Today-Dave Garroway

7:55
8 Morning Meditation

8AM
8-27 Captain Kangaroo

8:45
8 Mr. Banjo-Davey Herbert
27 Cartoon Carnival

8:55
3 News-Tom Haley
5 News-Court Stanton
12 Your Church-Religion

9AM
3 Movie (Cash On The Line)-The First Hundred Years 1938-Tom Haley
5 Fun Farm
12 Movie-TBA
21 Adelaide Snyder
27-35 Captain Kangaroo

9:15
8 Susie-Ann Sothern

9:30
5 Paige Palmer

9:45
27-35 CBS News-Richard C. Hottelet

9:55
8 News-Doug Adair

10AM
8-27-35 Garry Moore
12-21 Arlene Francis

10:15
5 Movie-Doorway To Suspicion 1954

10:25
3 Window-Women

10:30
3-12-21 Treasure Hunt-Jan Murray
8-27-35 Arthur Godfrey

11AM
3-12-21 Price Is Right-Bill Cullen

11:30
3-12-21 Truth Or Consequences-Bob Barker
5 Liberace
8-27-35 Dotto-Jack Narz-In its fourth daytime week-The show that began suspicion that game shows may be fixed, though Narz himself was cleared of any wrongdoing

Noon
3-12-21 Tic Tac Dough-Gene Rayburn
5 News-Court Stanton
8-35 Hotel Cosmopolitan-serial
27 Cartoon Carnival

12:05
5 Noon Show Ron Penfound as Captain Penny

12:15
8-27-35 Love Of Life

12:30
3-12-21 It Could Be You-Bill Leyden
8-35 Search For Tomorrow
27 Movie-Appointment In Berlin-1943


12:45
8-35 Guiding Light

1PM
3 Movie-Wild Cargo 1934 Big Wilson
5 One O Clock Club-Dorothy Fuldheim
8 Movie-Glamour For Sale 1940
12 Tex and Jinx-Had been in radio since the 1940's. This was apparently their last TV series..
35 Hy Yaple-Women
49 Movie-Salute To The Marines-1943-Apparently a repeat from Sunday 9PM

1:15
21 Kitchen Corner-Marjorie Mariner

1:30
12 Howard Miller-Color
35 As The World Turns

2PM
5 Our Niss Brooks
21 Howard Miller-Color
27-35 Beat The Clock-Bud Collyer

2:15
8 Alice Weston-Debut

2:30
5 Stu Erwin
8-27-35 House Party-Art Linkletter
12-21 Kitty Foyle-serial

2:55
3 News-Pete French

3PM
3-12-21 Matinee Theater-Matinee Theater was normally in color, but today appears to be in B@W unless there was a mistake on TV Guide's part-"Soldier's Boy"
5-45 American Bandstand-Dick Clark
8-27-35 Big Payoff-Randy Merriman
49 Movie-Private Nurse 1941

3:30
5-45 Do You Trust Your Wife?-Johnny Carson (Later changed title to Who Do You Trust?)
8-27-35 Verdict Is Yours

4PM
3-12-21 Queen For A Day
5-45-49 American Bandstand
8-35 Brighter Day
27 Caroon Classics

4:15
8-27-35 Secret Storm

4:30
8-35 Edge Of Night
27 Colonel Bleep (With other cartoons I would think..Can't see 90 minutes straight of Colonel Bleep..)

49 Operation Blackboard

4:45
3-12-21 Modern Romances

5PM
3 Dear Phoebe-Peter Lawford sitcom-NBC
5-12-45 Superman-George Reeves
8 As The World Turns
21 Fun House Gang
35 Movie-The Return Of Daniel Boone 1941
49 Movie-Valley Of Fear Johnny Mack Brown

5:30
3 Popeye-Linn Sheldon as Barnaby
5-12-45 Mickey Mouse Club
8 Beat The Clock

5:45
21 Popeye

6PM
3 Six O Clock Adventure-Brave Eagle, followed by Sky King
5 Captain Penny
8 Action at Six
12 Candy Cane Lane
27 My Little Margie
35 Popeye
45 What's New For You?
49 Looney Tunes

6:10
45 Weather, News, Sports

6:30
5 Dorothy Fuldheim
8 News, Sports
12-21-27 News, Sports, Weather
35 Gene Autry

6:45
5 News-Tom Field
8-27 CBS News-Douglas Edwards
12-21 Huntley-Brinkley Report
45 Our Miss Brooks


6:55
3 News-Pete French
5 Weather-Bill Prentice
49 Weather,News

7PM
3 Frontier Doctor
5 Waterfront
8 Badge 714 (Dragnet)
12 Walter Winchell
21 Death Valley Days
27 State Trooper
35 Erieland Newsreel

7:15
35 CBS News
45-49 ABC News-John Daly

7:30
3-12-21 Price Is Right-Color
5 Meet Your Schools
8-27-35 Robin Hood
45 Duffy's Tavern
49 Movie-Adam Had Four Sons 1941 (also aired Sunday Jan. 26 at 1PM)

8PM
3-12-21 Restless Gun
5-45 Love That Jill
8 Burns and Allen
27 Studio 57
35 Amos 'N' Andy

8:30
3-12-21 Wells Fargo
5-45 Bold Jouirney
8-27-35 Talent Scouts-Arthur Godfrey

9PM
3-12-21 Twenty-One-Jack Barry
5-45-49 Voice Of Firestone-Howard Barlow
8-27-35 Danny Thomas

9:30
3-12-21 Alcoa Theater
5-45-49 Top Tunes-Lawrence Welk
8-27-35 December Bride

10PM
3-12-21 Suspicion
8-27-35 Studio One

10:30
5 Bob Cummings Show (NBC-Tuesday 9:30)
45 News Sports Weather
49 TV Auction Party

11PM
3 News-Pete French
5 News-Tom Field
8-27 News-Warren Guthrie
12-21-35 News, Sports, Weather
45 Confidential File
49 Movie-Broadway Melody of 1938 (1937)

11:10
3 Weather-Joe Finan
8 Sports-John Fitzgerald

11:15
3 Sports-Bob Neal
5 Tonight-Johnathan Winters
8 Weather-Ken Armstrong
27 Movie-Thirteen Rue Madeline 1946
35 Movie-Tight Shoes 1941

11:20
3 Movie-Idiot's Delight 1939
8 Movie-The Flanagan Boy English 1954
21 University Story

11:30
12 Wrestling-Buffalo
21 Tonight-Jonathan Winters
45 Travel Time-Documentary

1AM
5 News-Bill Prentice

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

"Dimension" Cleveland TV History Special-WVIZ--1988


The Classic WVIZ-25 Logo from 1978-From a still of a YouTube video from RobtatSea


Featured in this post will be a YouTube Video-Part of the WVIZ-TV "Dimension" Series of hour long monthly specials. This is from 1988. A History of Cleveland Televison as it was then..40 years in..Hosted by Jack Marschall, who had just weeks/months before this started at WUAB-TV's Ten O Clock News..and Anne Mulligan, who may have been at Channel 8 at this time..Producer was Dennis Goulden, known first at KYW-TV in 1964, then as producer of the long running "Montage" series (1966-84) on WKYC-TV 3..The hour is all too brief, as most shows of this type are. Run in tandem with PBS' "Television" history series (Not "Pioneers Of Television" currently being shown), There are clips galore, though many of them would be reused on later TV station retrospectives..There are a number of "New" Interviews with pioneers and then-current station representatives such as..

Tom Haley, WKYC
Jim Breslin, Don Webster WEWS (Webster was station manager)
Chuck Schodowski, Dick Goddard, Lou Gatozzi WJW
Dennis Thatcher WOIO
Betty Cope, Mike Massa WVIZ
Alice Weston, Gib Shanley WUAB

Also mentioned:WCLQ-61..Which had just recently become WQHS-61, having been purchased by Home Shopping Network..

Interesting look into local TV of the mid-1980's..a few years before HD and digital tv was thought of..