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1944-08-18, NBC, 15 min.
December 5th, 1937-June 22nd, 1956 The Bill Stern Colgate Sports newsreel from Hollywood was a radio show on the NBC radio network, sponsored by Colgate Shave Cream and hosted by sportscaster Bill Stern. A series of fifteen-minute interviews with notable public figures from the sports and entertainment industries. Today's topic: Ellery Queen.
1945-00-00, NBC, 15 min.
December 5th, 1937-June 22nd, 1956 The Bill Stern Colgate Sports newsreel from Hollywood was a radio show on the NBC radio network, sponsored by Colgate Shave Cream and hosted by sportscaster Bill Stern. A series of fifteen-minute interviews with notable public figures from the sports and entertainment industries. Guest: Frank Sinatra
1945-04-27, NBC, 15 min.
December 5th, 1937-June 22nd, 1956 The Bill Stern Colgate Sports newsreel from Hollywood was a radio show on the NBC radio network, sponsored by Colgate Shave Cream and hosted by sportscaster Bill Stern. A series of fifteen-minute interviews with notable public figures from the sports and entertainment industries. Guest: Henny Youngman
1945-09-14, NBC, 15 min.
December 5th, 1937-June 22nd, 1956 The Bill Stern Colgate Sports newsreel from Hollywood was a radio show on the NBC radio network, sponsored by Colgate Shave Cream and hosted by sportscaster Bill Stern. A series of fifteen-minute interviews with notable public figures from the sports and entertainment industries. Guest: Brace Beemer who portrayed The Lone Ranger on radio.
1946-00-00, NBC, 15 min.
December 5th, 1937-June 22nd, 1956 The Bill Stern Colgate Sports newsreel from Hollywood was a radio show on the NBC radio network, sponsored by Colgate Shave Cream and hosted by sportscaster Bill Stern. A series of fifteen-minute interviews with notable public figures from the sports and entertainment industries. Guest: Sonja Henie
1946-06-07, NBC, 15 min.
December 5th, 1937-June 22nd, 1956 The Bill Stern Colgate Sports newsreel from Hollywood was a radio show on the NBC radio network, sponsored by Colgate Shave Cream and hosted by sportscaster Bill Stern. A series of fifteen-minute interviews with notable public figures from the sports and entertainment industries. Guest: Eddie (Rochester) Anderson, Jack Benny Show.
1946-06-21, NBC, 15 min.
December 5th, 1937-June 22nd, 1956 The Bill Stern Colgate Sports newsreel from Hollywood was a radio show on the NBC radio network, sponsored by Colgate Shave Cream and hosted by sportscaster Bill Stern. A series of fifteen-minute interviews with notable public figures from the sports and entertainment industries. Guest: Orson Welles
1946-12-20, NBC, 15 min.
December 5th, 1937-June 22nd, 1956 The Bill Stern Colgate Sports newsreel from Hollywood was a radio show on the NBC radio network, sponsored by Colgate Shave Cream and hosted by sportscaster Bill Stern. A series of fifteen-minute interviews with notable public figures from the sports and entertainment industries. Annual Christmas Show
1947-10-31, NBC, 15 min.
December 5th, 1937-June 22nd, 1956 The Bill Stern Colgate Sports newsreel from Hollywood was a radio show on the NBC radio network, sponsored by Colgate Shave Cream and hosted by sportscaster Bill Stern. A series of fifteen-minute interviews with notable public figures from the sports and entertainment industries. Guest: Frank Leahy
1948-06-11, NBC, 15 min.
December 5th, 1937-June 22nd, 1956 The Bill Stern Colgate Sports newsreel from Hollywood was a radio show on the NBC radio network, sponsored by Colgate Shave Cream and hosted by sportscaster Bill Stern. A series of fifteen-minute interviews with notable public figures from the sports and entertainment industries. Guest: Former heavyweight champion James Braddock.
1948-07-16, NBC, 15 min.
December 5th, 1937-June 22nd, 1956 The Bill Stern Colgate Sports newsreel from Hollywood was a radio show on the NBC radio network, sponsored by Colgate Shave Cream and hosted by sportscaster Bill Stern. A series of fifteen-minute interviews with notable public figures from the sports and entertainment industries. Guest: William Powell subbing for Bill Stern.
#11335: "MAKE MINE MUSIC"
Order1949-02-03, CBS, 15 min.
December 13th, 1948- May 19th, 1949 (CBS) Carole Coleman, Bill Skipper, and Larry Douglas are featured on this fifteen-minute musical show which was seen after the network news on irregular weeknights. Note: Within six weeks of its premiere, the program expanded to a five days a week schedule. Original title of the show "Face The Music" was changed to "Make Mine Music" on December 13th, 1948.
1949-11-18, NBC, 15 min.
December 5th, 1937-June 22nd, 1956 The Bill Stern Colgate Sports newsreel from Hollywood was a radio show on the NBC radio network, sponsored by Colgate Shave Cream and hosted by sportscaster Bill Stern. A series of fifteen-minute interviews with notable public figures from the sports and entertainment industries. Guest: Doak Walker (football player)
1949-11-25, NBC, 15 min.
December 5th, 1937-June 22nd, 1956 The Bill Stern Colgate Sports newsreel from Hollywood was a radio show on the NBC radio network, sponsored by Colgate Shave Cream and hosted by sportscaster Bill Stern. A series of fifteen-minute interviews with notable public figures from the sports and entertainment industries. Guest: The Four Horsemen
1950-01-01, WNBC, min.
- Winston Churchill
- Joseph Stalin
- Jackie Robinson
- Harry Truman
- John J. McCloy
- Josip Broz Tito
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- Drew Pearson
- John G. Crommelin
- Jinx Falkenburg
- Tex McCrary
- Paul Robeson
- William ODwyer
- Bill Robinson
- Enzio Pinza
- John L. Lewis
- Philip Murrow
- John Gates
- Carlos Romulo
- Charim Weitzman
- Madame Chiang Kai-Shek
- Pope Pius
- Angus Ward
- James Forrestal
- Amadeo Giannini
- Guy Gabrielson
- Louis A. Johnson
- Westbrook Pegler
- Alben William Barkley
- Dean Acheson
TEX AND JINX Radio & Television BROADCAST HISTORY: April 22, 1946- February 27, 1959. WEAF (WNBC, WRCA), New York weekdays at 8:30 A.M. until 1954; at 1:00pm,1954-1955; then at 6:30 and 10:35pm until July 31, 1958, moving briefly to WOR, broadcasting at 2:15pm. In addition to the Kollmars (Dorothy Kilgallen and husband Richard Kollmar) and the Fitzgeralds (Pegeen and husband Ed Fitzgerald), another well-recognized New York couple, newlyweds Tex McCrary and Jinx Falkenburg, added their own bread-and-bacon banter to the local airwaves between 1946 and 1959. Their gabfest, initially Hi Jinx but later revised to Tex and Jinx, was beamed over WEAF which was subsequently re-lettered WNBC and later WRCA. In limited doses, the flagship outlet of the National Broadcasting Company transmitted Meet Tex and Jinx to the whole country during 1947 and 1948. Tex and Jinx devoted most of their airtime to lofty and noble concepts, visitors and sidebars. Tex and Jinx [on WEAF-WNBC-WRCA] were interviewing Bernard Baruch, Margaret Truman, or Ethel Waters…. McCrary built the show on the assumption that the early morning audience was not stupid, as programmers generally assumed; that people in general had fresher minds and were more open to serious topics at the beginning of the day.” Their joint radio venture began in April 1946 just 10 months following their nuptials (June 10, 1945). Launched as a breakfast feature, the series later shifted to afternoons and finally into the evening hours before departing the ether a dozen years afterward. They were branded by one journalist “Mr. Brains and Mrs. Beauty.” In early 1947 NBC put them on its television network as a portion of a Sunday evening quarter-hour dubbed Bristol-Myers Tele-Varieties. “The McCrarys were naturals for TV,” wrote a reviewer, “with their combination of friendly chatter, interviews, and features.” That summer the web awarded them an exclusive Sunday night half-hour format under the appellation At Home with Tex and Jinx. A decade later, in the 1957-58 season, the duo hosted a daytime NBC-TV showcase, The Tex and Jinx Show. When hepatitis sidetracked Falkenburg in 1958 from their broadcast commitments, McCrary carried on solo on their radio show for another couple of years. In the 1980s, however, the couple separated, remaining on genial terms. McCrary died in New York on July 29, 2003 and Falkenburg expired just 29 days later in the same city, on August 27, 2003. NOTE:: The scores of TEX AND JINX SHOWS archived by Archival Television Audio, Inc. were originally obtained as original 16" Electronic Discs from Barry Farber, producer of the show (1957-1959), in 1960 after he had begun his own career in front of the mike at WINS Radio. These discs were subsequently transferred to 1/4" reel to reel tape, and then disposed. These broadcasts are rare and represent the largest known collection of TEX AND JINX extant broadcasts in the world. Topics: Man of year search, personalities of 1949, Forrestal on threat against peace, Amadeo Giannini, talks about America, Bill Robinson dances and sings, John G. Crommelin talks about interservice feud, discussion on atomic energy, Jackie Robinson discusses loyalty of the American Negro and comments on Paul Robeson, Mrs FDR comments on "old men" in Congress, FDR Jr. discusses Republicans, President Truman on his "new deal", Guy Gabrielson on Washington demonstration, Secretary Johnson talks about Drew Pearson comment on Westbrook Pegler in reference to suit, "South Pacific" starring Enzio Pinza, hit of 1949, VP Barkley gets married, John L. Lewis and William O'Dwyer on dead miners, Phillip Murrow of CIO attacks communists, twelve Red leaders convicted of conspiracy against US, John Gates attacks US Capitalists, Secretary Acheson's two-faced foreign policy, possibility of Red China recognition, UN building being erected, Carlos Romulo of Phillipines speaks on rights of small nations, Chaim Weizmann predicts great Jewish state of Israel, Madame Chiang Kai-Shek on US friendship, Tito challenges Stalin, Pope Pius talk, Time Magazine names Winston Churchill "Man Of Century", voice of Churchill, US Counsel Angus Ward failed by Red Chinese, Ward tells of his imprisonment, John J. McCloy named "Man Of Year", McCloy doesn't believe Nazism will revive, believes strong bid by Germans for freedom, denies future German aggression,
1950-01-06, NBC, 15 min.
December 5th, 1937-June 22nd, 1956 The Bill Stern Colgate Sports newsreel from Hollywood was a radio show on the NBC radio network, sponsored by Colgate Shave Cream and hosted by sportscaster Bill Stern. A series of fifteen-minute interviews with notable public figures from the sports and entertainment industries. Guest: George Raft
1950-01-13, NBC, 15 min.
December 5th, 1937-June 22nd, 1956 The Bill Stern Colgate Sports newsreel from Hollywood was a radio show on the NBC radio network, sponsored by Colgate Shave Cream and hosted by sportscaster Bill Stern. A series of fifteen-minute interviews with notable public figures from the sports and entertainment industries. Today: Boris Karloff
#10656: FUN FOR ALL
Order1951-01-00, , min.
Comedy skit with Arlene Francis and Bill Cullen.
#5903: REVENGE WITH MUSIC
Order1951-02-19, WNBT, 30 min.
Presented on MUSICAL COMEDY TIME. Dietz-Schwartz musical about the Governor of a Spanish colony in 1812 who cannot resist the ladies. Musical numbers only. A lost television broadcast. Very good to excellent sound recording.
1951-10-03, WMCA, 34 min.
- Duke Snider
- Ford Frick
- Roy Campanella
- Bob Prince
- Russ Hodges
- Alvin Dark
- Willie Mays
- Leo Durocher
- Toots Shor
- Monte Irvin
- Ernie Harwell
- Sal Maglie
- Hank Sims
- Jim Hearn
- Herman Franks
- Walter OMalley
- Steve Ellis
- Whitey Lockman
- Eddie Stanky
- Bobby Thomson
- Bill Rigney
- Larry Jansen
- Sheldon Jones
- Charlie Dressen
- Horace Stoneham
- Charley Finney
- Eddie Bracket
- Art Flynn
- Chris Durocher
- Paul Richards
- Willard Marshall
- Lawrence Goldberg
- Sylvia Goldberg
Recorded coverage beginning in the last of the ninth inning, with the New York Giants Whitey Lockman at bat; the score 4 to 2 Brooklyn. Announcer Russ Hodges calls the play by play, as Bobby Thomson hits a homerun ("The Shot heard Round the World"), winning the best two out of three playoff series (the FIRST nationally televised baseball series ever broadcast, coast to coast). Wrap up of the game is heard by Bob Prince (baseball announcer for the Pittsburgh Pirates 1948-1975), who attended the game and sat along side best friend Russ Hodges in the booth. Post game clubhouse (New York Giants) interviews begin with Steve Ellis, Ernie Harwell and Russ Hodges behind the mike. Those interviewed, in a emotional celeritous Giant clubhouse, are Herman Franks, Alvin Dark, Larry Jansen, Eddie Stanky, Charlie Dressen, Ford Frick, Horace Stoneham, Bill Rigney, Hank Sims, Walter O'Malley, Bobby Thomson, Charley Finney, Jim Hearn, Eddie Bracket, Art Flynn, Leo Durocher, Chris Durocher (son), Willie Mays, Whitey Lockman, Sal Maglie, Monte Irvin Paul Richards, Duke Snider, Roy Campanella, Sheldon Jones and Willard Marshall. NOTE: In addition to NBC's TV crew, six radio networks set up shop in the press box attached to the underside of the upper deck. • Russ Hodges did the Giants' broadcast solo because NBC hired his partner, Ernie Harwell, to handle their telecast. Hodges's friend Bob Prince, the Pirates' announcer, sat next to him as a guest, and filled in for Hodges and Harwell in the celebratory New York Giant’s locker room after the game ended with a wrap up summary prior to the beginning of the many interviews that would follow and captured on audio. • Red Barber and Connie Desmond would, as usual, call the game for the Dodgers (WMGM). • The Liberty Broadcasting Network, which recreated most of its baseball and football broadcasts from its studio in Dallas, sent "The Old Scotsman" Gordon McLendon to call the game live. His broadcast is the only one that survives as complete, on audio tape. • Al Helfer reported the action on the Mutual Broadcasting System, largest in the nation. • Harry Caray of the Cardinals broadcast the game for a group of Midwest stations. • Buck Canel and Felo Ramirez did the Spanish broadcast for Latin America. Russ Hodges: “The Giants win the pennant! The Giants win the pennant! Bobby Thomson hits into the lower deck of the left-field The Giants win the pennant! And they’re going crazy! They are going crazy! Oh-oh!” “Everybody remembers it now,” said Bobby Thomson. “But you have to understand the feeling between those teams. I didn’t think of the pennant — only that we beat the Dodgers.” Hodges: “I don’t believe it! I do not believe it! Bobby Thomson hit a line drive into the lower deck of the leftfield stands, and the whole place is going crazy! The Giants Horace Stoneham is now a winner. The Giants won it by a score of 5 to 4, and they’re picking Bobby Thomson up and carrying him off the field!” NOTE: Before videotape recording and playback available beginning November 30, 1956 the only way to reproduce a television broadcasts, as it aired live, was via a film camera using film (usually on black & white 16mm Kodak reversal film stock)to record a TV screen monitor recording a copy of a broadcast.The process was called kinescoping. “Kinescopes were fuzzy and extremely bulky, and costly to accomplish, so the networks of the 1950s saved almost nothing. Few professionals and lay persons even had an audio tape reel-to-reel tape recorder to record even the sound of a broadcast (sold commercially only a few years before) which were hard to carry around, expensive to purchase as well as the cost incurred to purchase audio tape 1/4" reels, so not only the average person didn’t have one, it was rare for anyone to audio record a TV program at that time (almost non-existent). However, In Brooklyn, a restaurant waiter Laurence Goldberg did own one. Goldberg was a New York Giant fan from the time he was 8 years old. Having to leave for work in Manhattan, he instructed his mother, Sylvia, who knew little about baseball, to hit the “record” button in the bottom of the ninth which she did, with one out and Whitey Lockman at bat, the score now 4 to 2 Brooklyn. Lockman doubles. The Giants now have men on second and third base. Bobby Thomson comes to the plate, and the rest is history! The next day, Larry Goldberg wrote a letter to Russ Hodges about his tape recording, which was not recorded my WMCA radio, or it turns out to be by anyone else (similar to the scenario of Phil Gries' solo home audio tape recording of Don Pardo announcing, over NBC TV, the first bulletins of the JFK assassination, eight years later). Russ Hodges sent Goldberg $10 to use his borrowed copy to record a 1951 Christmas gift for friends. During the fall of 1952 sponsor Chesterfield cigarettes released a record of “the most exciting moment in baseball history, including that famous Bobby Thomson homerun.” NOTE: The National Recording Registry chose announcer Russ Hodges’ call of the 1951 National League tiebreaker between the New York Giants and the Brooklyn Dodgers for inclusion in their archive of iconic American sounds. Courtesy National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. Why so memorable: Russ Hodges’ “The Shot Heard ’Round the World?” At the time, Dodgers-Giants forged sport’s greatest rivalry, yearly playing 22 games against each other on radio and TV, broadcasting through The City. America in the world’s post-war colossus, perhaps baseball never meaning more. What made the moment of this historic homerun memorable for all time was the Giants announcer’s call. On August 13, Brooklyn led the National League by 13 and 1/2 games. By September 20 the Giants trailed by 6 with 7 left. Then with both teams in a tie at the end of their 154 game season a best of three playoff National League contest was played. Russ Hodges stated, “all baseball fans focused on our rivalry.” Even the Voice of the American League Yankees was transfixed. “Think of it,” said Voice Mel Allen. “Three New York teams out of the big leagues’ of 16 remain alive. One’s already in the Series, the other two tied.” For years a red-blooded American could recite the script by rote. It is easy to see why so much excitement was brewing during that October of 1951. The NL playoff became the then most widely aired event in radio and TV history. Seven networks, five of them radio, did at least one game: the Mutual and Liberty Broadcasting system with announcer Gordon McClendon, Dodgers’ radio WMGM and Brooklyn Dodgers’ Re-created Network(s); Giants’ WMCA Radio; and CBS TV—the latter airing the first coast-to-coast network sports telecast for game one of the playoffs (October 1st), with Red Barber doing the play by play. With the playoff series moving the following day to the Giants’ home park, the Polo Grounds, NBC TV moved in to pick up the rights, negotiating directly with WPIX, New York, which had carried the Giant’s home schedule all year. CBS TV held on to westbound relay until 3 pm and NBC broadcast the game from 3:00pm to conclusion. It was necessary for the two networks to swap time each day to permit their carrying the full game which started at 1:30pm. On October 3, 1951 Ernie Harwell did play by play on NBC TV which to this day has never been archived in any manner. Only four years earlier Americans had owned only 17,000 TV sets v. 58 million radios. By 1951 video had become an irresistible object. Radio was the immovable object, some feeling TV cursory. Such a schism towered as Russ and Ernie “tossed a coin [about a possible Game Three],” Harwell laughed. When Ernie got TV, he joked, “I felt sympathy for ‘Ole’ Russ. All these radio networks and I was gonna’ be on TV, and I thought that I had the plum assignment.” New York won the opener, 3-1. Next day changed place (Polo Grounds) and outcome (Dodgers win 10-0). His plum then spoiled. The night before the final, Hodges stayed awake gargling. Worse, to test his voice, he kept talking into a microphone at home, hurting his throat. Next day, at 3:48 P.M., Ralph Branca threw a two-on one-out ninth-inning 0 & 1 pitch with Brooklyn up, 4-2. “There’s a long drive!” WMCA’s Russ began. “It’s going to be, I believe! … The Giants win the pennant! The Giants win the pennant! The Giants win the pennant! The Giants win the pennant! Bobby Thomson hits into the lower deck of the leftfield stands! The Giants win the pennant! And they’re going crazy! They are going crazy! Oh-oh! The Giants . . . have won it by a score of 5 to 4, and they’re picking Bobby Thomson up and carrying him off the field. I don’t believe it! I don’t believe it! I do not believe it. Bobby Thomson hit a line drive into the lower deck of the leftfield stands, and the whole place is going crazy!” NOTE: This broadcast moment is one of the greatest broadcasts ever aired on radio or television. And That's the Way it Was, October 3rd, 1951. This remastered 34-minute retrospective was remastered by Phil Gries. It is the most complete audio extant and available representing this radio broadcast with best possible sound created.1951-10-03, WCFL, 132 min.
- Duke Snider
- Jackie Robinson
- Alvin Dark
- Willie Mays
- Leo Durocher
- Ralph Branca
- Pee Wee Reese
- Monte Irvin
- Don Newcombe
- Sal Maglie
- Hank Thompson
- Whitey Lockman
- Eddie Stanky
- Bobby Thomson
- Wes Westrum
- Carl Furillo
- Gorden McLendon
- Andy Pafko
- Don Mueller
- Clint Hatung
- Bill Rigney
- Ray Noble
- Larry Jansen
The Liberty Network, WCFL, Chicago aircheck. The National League Championship game number three, that included the famous game-ending home run by Bobby Thompson ("The Shot Heard Round the World"). This radio broadcast is actually a re-creation, using data about the game sent in by wire. The announcer is Gordon McLendon, who owned the Liberty Network.#11038: KOREAN WAR PEACE SIGNING
Order1953-07-26, CBS, 90 min.
- Charles Collingwood
- Dwight Eisenhower
- Wilson Hall
- George Herman
- John Rich
- John Foster Dulles
- Larry LeSeur
- Robert Pierpont
- Ray Falk
- Walter Simmons
- Jim Robinson
- Robert Mackenzie
- David Schoenbren
- Bill Costello
- Daniel Shorr
- Charles Erwin Wilson
From the CBS radio network: (July 26th, 1953) 10:00-11:30PM EST (90 minutes). The end of the Korean War. After 37 months of fighting, the Korean War is over. Comments from President Dwight Eisenhower, UN report, Secretary of Defense Charles Erwin Wilson comments from Washington DC, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles speaks, George Herman reports from Korea, wrapup by Charles Collingwood.
1954-04-07, WNBC, min.
TEX AND JINX Radio & Television BROADCAST HISTORY: April 22, 1946- February 27, 1959. WEAF (WNBC, WRCA), New York weekdays at 8:30 A.M. until 1954; at 1:00pm,1954-1955; then at 6:30 and 10:35pm until July 31, 1958, moving briefly to WOR, broadcasting at 2:15pm. In addition to the Kollmars (Dorothy Kilgallen and husband Richard Kollmar) and the Fitzgeralds (Pegeen and husband Ed Fitzgerald), another well-recognized New York couple, newlyweds Tex McCrary and Jinx Falkenburg, added their own bread-and-bacon banter to the local airwaves between 1946 and 1959. Their gabfest, initially Hi Jinx but later revised to Tex and Jinx, was beamed over WEAF which was subsequently re-lettered WNBC and later WRCA. In limited doses, the flagship outlet of the National Broadcasting Company transmitted Meet Tex and Jinx to the whole country during 1947 and 1948. Tex and Jinx devoted most of their airtime to lofty and noble concepts, visitors and sidebars. Tex and Jinx [on WEAF-WNBC-WRCA] were interviewing Bernard Baruch, Margaret Truman, or Ethel Waters…. McCrary built the show on the assumption that the early morning audience was not stupid, as programmers generally assumed; that people in general had fresher minds and were more open to serious topics at the beginning of the day.” Their joint radio venture began in April 1946 just 10 months following their nuptials (June 10, 1945). Launched as a breakfast feature, the series later shifted to afternoons and finally into the evening hours before departing the ether a dozen years afterward. They were branded by one journalist “Mr. Brains and Mrs. Beauty.” In early 1947 NBC put them on its television network as a portion of a Sunday evening quarter-hour dubbed Bristol-Myers Tele-Varieties. “The McCrarys were naturals for TV,” wrote a reviewer, “with their combination of friendly chatter, interviews, and features.” That summer the web awarded them an exclusive Sunday night half-hour format under the appellation At Home with Tex and Jinx. A decade later, in the 1957-58 season, the duo hosted a daytime NBC-TV showcase, The Tex and Jinx Show. When hepatitis sidetracked Falkenburg in 1958 from their broadcast commitments, McCrary carried on solo on their radio show for another couple of years. In the 1980s, however, the couple separated, remaining on genial terms. McCrary died in New York on July 29, 2003 and Falkenburg expired just 29 days later in the same city, on August 27, 2003. NOTE:: The scores of TEX AND JINX SHOWS archived by Archival Television Audio, Inc. were originally obtained as original 16" Electronic Discs from Barry Farber, producer of the show (1957-1959), in 1960 after he had begun his own career in front of the mike at WINS Radio. These discs were subsequently transferred to 1/4" reel to reel tape, and then disposed. These broadcasts are rare and represent the largest known collection of TEX AND JINX extant broadcasts in the world. Headline News: Indochina crisis, Ted Williams. Today's Guests: Fred Allen, Billy Rose.#10940A: CBS NEWS WITH DOUGLAS EDWARDS
Order1954-05-31, CBS, min.
Bill Vukovich wins his second straight Indy 500. Host: Douglas Edwards
#11342: YOU ARE THERE
Order1954-09-05, CBS, 27 min.
- Walter Cronkite
- Mike Wallace
- Louis Armstrong
- Ned Calmer
- Lou Cioffi
- Cozy Cole
- Harry Marble
- Bobby Hackett
- Billy Taylor
October 1st, 1953-October 13th, 1957. September 11th, 1971-September 2nd, 1972. (CBS) Tonight's episode: Louis Armstrong stars as the Jazz great King Oliver in "The Emergence Of Jazz." The date is November 20th, 1917 when the Storyville section of New Orleans was closed. Walter Cronkite and the CBS newsmen trace the evolution of the American jazz form as it found a home in the dance halls of California and the bistros of Paris. An unusual Public Affairs series, You Are There began in 1947 as a radio show (it was originally titled CBS was There). Each week a well-known historical event was recreated, and the leading figures in each drama were interviewed by CBS news correspondents (the correspondents were always in modern-day dress, regardless of the setting of the story). The television version ran from 1953-1957 on Sunday afternoons, and was revived in 1971 as a Saturday-afternoon show, aimed principally at children. Walter Cronkite was the chief correspondent on both TV versions. Paul Newman guest-starred on one program as Nathan Hale (30 August 1953) and the 1971 premiere " The Mystery of Amelia Earhart" featured Geraldine Brooks and Richard Dreyfuss.1954-12-10, WNBC, 15 min.
September 27, 1954 - January 25, 1957 The first host of THE TONIGHT SHOW, which was then titled TONIGHT!, Steve Allen began his broadcast career as a disc jockey. On July 27, 1953 Steve Allen began hosting a local show over WRCA-TV which ran from 11:20 P.M. to Midnight , Mondays through Fridays, sponsored by Knickerbocker Beer, developed by station executive Ted Cott to lure a potential sponsor, Rupert Breweries, away from a late-night show on New York's Channel 7 (TALK OF THE TOWN), hosted by Louis Nye, who would later be featured on Steve Allen's Sunday Night Variety Show. After a successful fourteen-month local run, THE STEVE ALLEN SHOW became a network show. Beginning September 27, 1954, the show retitled TONIGHT!, and expanded to 105 minutes from 40 minutes. NOTE: Sound of this Television Audio Air Check is PRISTINE. A rare return to an early TONIGHT! STARRING STEVE ALLEN broadcast, and even more special with Carl Sandburg trading quips with Steve Allen, who states, "I hope someone is recording this show." When Late Night Television was so informal and relaxed with open ended time dedicated to a person, topic, music, or just impromptu comedy.
#10448: BEST OF BROADWAY, THE
Order1955-01-05, CBS, 60 min.
September 15th, 1954-May 4th, 1955 (CBS) Series of specials, every fourth Wednesday for one season, replacing the Pabst Blue Ribbon boxing matches. Martin Manulis was the producer. This episode: "Arsenic And Old Lace" starring Helen Hayes and Billie Burke.
#10426: "VARIETY: MAX LIEBMAN"
Order1955-01-30, NBC, 25 min.
- Bill Hayes
- Pat Carroll
- Max Liebman
- Gilbert and Sullivan
- Jack Russell
- Kitty Kallen
- Danny Scholl
- Claire Chatwin
- Ray Drakely
The big musical production is a jazz version of Gilbert and Sullivan's comic operetta "HMS Pinafore" Highlights: "Blue, Blue, Blue"- Chorus "Buttercup Baby"- Pat Carroll "Give Three Cheers"- Danny Scholl "Ah,Well-A Day"- Bill Hayes "Admiral's Boogie"- Jack Russell "De Queen's Navee Mambo"- Jack Russell "Ring The Merry Bells"- Jack Russell, Danny Scholl, Kitty Kallen "Carefully"- Bill Hayes, Kitty Kallen, Danny Scholl, Pat Carroll "All That Glitters"- Pat Carroll "Say It Ain't So"- Pat Carroll "Cool New Captain Of Pinafore"- Ensemble Note: Final 25 minutes of broadcast.
1956-02-26, NBC, 30 min.
- Art Linkletter
- Tony Randall
- Imogene Coca
- Bill Hayes
- Rod Alexander
- Eileen Barton
- Alan Dale
- Robert Gallagher
- Johnny Desmond
- Bambi Linn
- Bil and Cora Baird And Marionettes
Television comes in for 90 minutes of ribbing tonight. Heading the company of spoofers is Imogene Coca, once a regular Saturday-night ornament of Max Liebman's "Show Of Shows" series. Reunited with Liebman for this show, she is joined by actor Tony Randall, pop singers Eileen Barton, Alan Dale, Johnny Desmond, and another Show Of Shows alumnus, Bill Hayes, dancers Bambi Linn and Rod Alexander, Bil and Cora Baird and their marionettes, and musical-comedy performer Robert Gallagher. Highlights: Grand Opening-Ensemble "Faithfully-Unfaithfully" (film clip)-Coca, Gallagher Hollywood Star Interview-Coca, Randall Forgotten Songs-Barton, Dale, Desmond, Hayes, Linn, Alexander "Wide,Wide, Wonderland"- Coca, Randall "Get Your Audience"- Randall Tenacious Commercial- Coca, Marionettes "The Merriest Widow"- Ensemble "You'll Love Love In Paree"- Coca "Maxim's"- Hayes, Coca "Come To The Pavilion"- Coca "Merry Widow Waltz"- Ensemble Encores- Coca "Jim," "Maywalk", "Strip", "Tramp", Host: Art Linkletter.1956-03-06, NBC, 60 min.
- Steve Allen
- Skitch Henderson
- Andy Williams
- Steve Lawrence
- Doc Severinsen
- Eydie Gorme
- Joe Bushkin
- Meg Miles
- Pat Kirby
- Woody Herman and Orchestra
- Sam Taylor
- Will Bradley Jr
- Bill Harris Jr
- Victor Feldman
September 27th, 1954- January 25th, 1957 (NBC) Starring Steve Allen. The following are excerpts from Steve Allen Tonight Shows of March 6th, 7, 8, 9, 12, 1956 Highlights: Orchestra plays "Mambo The Most." Steve Lawrence and Doc Severinsen "Young Man With a Horn" Eydie Gorme sings "Too Close For Comfort" Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme sing "A Fine Romance" Joe Bushkin plays on piano "Hallelujah" from his album "Midnight Rhapsody" Bushkin also plays "September Song" "The Mouth Mansfield Blues" Skitch Henderson and Orchestra Pat Kirby sings "Young Love" Andy Williams sings "Caprice in May" Meg Miles sings "13 Men and Only One Gal in Town" and "Can't Help Loving Dat Man" on program of March 7th, 1956. Andy Williams sings "I'll Never Smile Again" Blues and jazz saxophonist Sam "The Man" Taylor plays "Harlem Nocturne" and "Cloud Burst" March 6th, 1956- Woody Herman and his Orchestra play "The Square Circle " Steve Allen and Woody Herman talk about drummer Will Bradley Jr. and Bill Harris, Jr. Victor Feldman playing vibes Woody Herman sings "Stars Fell On Alabama"#10423: BILL KEMP RADIO SHOW, THE
Order1956-03-10, ABC, 2 min.
Bill Kemp was an up and coming comic performer with a 1950s radio show heard on the ABC radio network. His daily radio show was expected to launch him into a television career, following a similar path to that of Merv Griffin. High powered guests such as Jonathan Winters, Ava Gardner, Will Jordan, and Robert Mitchum all made appearances on Kemp's show. Tragically, Kemp's television career never took off as he was plagued by a debilitating drinking problem. At times both Merv Griffin and Jim Backus, both of whom had radio shows on the ABC radio network at the time, would fill in for Kemp with "personal reasons" given for the absences. When the Bill Kemp radio show ended, he returned to his native Toronto, Canada home, his show business career ended. A sad ending to what could have been a very successful television career. On this two-minute segment, there is mention of WOR-TV's "Million Dollar Movie" and the television debut of the 1933 movie release, "King Kong." In a comedic moment, actress Fay Wray is heard screaming during the movie.
#10279: STEVE ALLEN SHOW, THE
Order1956-10-07, NBC, 00 min.
- Louis Nye
- Don Knotts
- Steve Allen
- Bill Dana
- Skitch Henderson
- Lou Costello
- Bud Abbott
- Tom Poston
- Pat Harrington
- Milt Kamen
- Kukla, Fran, and Ollie
- Lionel Hampton
- Mickey Mantle
- Peggy King
June 24, 1956-December 27, 1961. The multi-talented Steve Allen- musician, composer, singer, comedian,author- was the star of this live weekly variety series that bore a strong resemblance to his informal, late-night Tonight! Show. Although the program had elements of music and serious aspects, comedy was far and away its major component. Steve had with him one of the most versatile and talented collections of improvisational comics ever assembled. Among the features that were used at one time or another on a semi-regular basis were: "Letters to the Editor," "The Allen Report to the Nation," "Mad-Libs," "Crazy Shots," "Where Are They Now," "The Question Man," "The Allen Bureau of Standards," and "The Allen All Stars." The most frequently used feature, and by far the most memorable, was the "Man on the Street Interview." It was here that the comics on the show developed their best-remembered characters: Louis Nye as suave, smug Gordon Hathaway, Tom Poston as the man who can't remember his own name, Skitch Henderson as Sidney Ferguson, Don Knotts as the extremely nervous and fidgety Mr Morrison, Pat Harrington as Italian golf pro Guido Panzini, and Bill Dana as shy Jose Jimenez. Guests: Abbott and Costello perform their "Who's On First?" routine.
#13008: BILL HICKEY SPORTS NEWS
Order1956-10-08, , 1 min.
Sportscaster Bill Hickey reports on the fifth game of the 1956 World Series in which Don Larsen pitched a perfect game and reports on Jackie Robinson receiving an offer to manage the Montreal Royals Minor League baseball team for $25,000.
#7431: STEVE ALLEN SHOW, THE
Order1956-10-14, NBC, 00 min.
June 24, 1956-December 27, 1961. The multi-talented Steve Allen- musician, composer, singer, comedian,author- was the star of this live weekly variety series that bore a strong resemblance to his informal, late-night Tonight! Show. Although the program had elements of music and serious aspects, comedy was far and away its major component. Steve had with him one of the most versatile and talented collections of improvisational comics ever assembled. Among the features that were used at one time or another on a semi-regular basis were: "Letters to the Editor," "The Allen Report to the Nation," "Mad-Libs," "Crazy Shots," "Where Are They Now," "The Question Man," "The Allen Bureau of Standards," and "The Allen All Stars." The most frequently used feature, and by far the most memorable, was the "Man on the Street Interview." It was here that the comics on the show developed their best-remembered characters: Louis Nye as suave, smug Gordon Hathaway, Tom Poston as the man who can't remember his own name, Skitch Henderson as Sidney Ferguson, Don Knotts as the extremely nervous and fidgety Mr Morrison, Pat Harrington as Italian golf pro Guido Panzini, and Bill Dana as shy Jose Jimenez. Steve Allen Pays Tribute To James Dean On The First Anniversary Of His Death.
1956-10-31, WNBC, 35 min.
Opening. Billy Gilbert and Dagmar are introduced. Gene Rayburn is the announcer September 27,1954-January 25,1957 The basic format of The Tonight Show was established during Allen's tenure: an opening monologue, a segment involving the studio audience (through interviews or games such as "Stump the Band"), and a simple set (a desk and chair for the host, a couch for the guests) were all trademarks of the Allen era. Allen inaugurated the out-of-town broadcast (the first one was done from Miami), the one guest show (Carl Sandburg was the first solo guest), and the one topic show (entire programs were devoted to such subjects as narcotics, civil rights, and black music). Allen also established the practice of paying his guests only "scale," the minimum fee required by union-network contract (this practice led to a highly publicized feud between Steve Allen and Ed Sullivan and later between Jack Paar and Ed Sullivan, as Sullivan paid top dollar for his guests). Though Allen's Tonight! show closely resembled the shows of his successors, Jack Paar and Johnny Carson, it was a more musical show; Allen himself was an accomplished musician and composer (he wrote his theme, "This Could Be The Start of Something Big"), and he employed a nucleus of musical regulars on his show. In addition to announcer – sidekick Gene Rayburn, the show featured singers Steve Lawrence (who was only seventeen when he began singing on Allen's local show), Eydie Gormé (who subsequently married Steve Lawrence), Andy Williams (who later hosted several series of his own), and Pat Marshall (who was succeeded by Pat Kirby). Skitch Henderson led the Orchestra Opening of the program is heard by announcer Gene Rayburn. Steve Allen comments on the Hungarian / Soviet war. There is a commercial Life Magazine endorsement. Billy Gilbert and Dagmar are introduced. Gene Rayburn is the announcer.
#19289: NAT KING COLE SHOW,
Order1956-11-05, NBC, 13 min.
November 5, 1956 - June 24, 1957 (15 minutes) July 2, 1957 - December 17, 1957 (30 minutes) When Nat King Cole' NBC TV series began November 5, 1956 it originated from New York City while Cole was winding up his current stint at the Copacabana. After the fourth broadcast the series was broadcast from Los Angeles. where it would remain for its complete run. Nat King Cole became the first major black performer to headline a network variety series. His 15 minute show filled the remainder of the half hour in which NBC TV aired its nightly news program, THE HUNTLEY BRINKLY REPORT. On July 2, 1957 THE NAT KING COLE SHOW became a half hour program. Many stars appeared on the show for minimum fees as personal favors to him, in an effort to bolster low ratings. But the efforts were in vain, and it would be another decade before a black entertainer could begin to make a significant dent into he mass medium of television. Announcer: Bill Hanrahan A feature at the end of each show, Nat King Cole's "Musical Memories." NOTE: The broadcast of November 12, 1956 is rare and is not archived by any of the major entertainment museums in the country.
1956-11-12, WNBC, 54 min.
October 18, 1954-May 27, 1957 Live ninety minute productions aired every fourth week. The range of material was vast, from dramas to musicals. Presented on "PRODUCER'S SHOWCASE." This special color broadcast opens with the words, "The following program is brought to you in compatible color." For the first few years, NBC introduced all broadcasts presented in color with this introduction, prior to replacing the word "compatible" with the word "living" in 1957. Classic fairy tale about a farm boy who trades the family cow for magic beans and climbs the beanstalk that grows from the beans, confronting an ogre. There are ten different songs presented in this live musical fantasy.
#19290: NAT KING COLE SHOW,
Order1956-11-12, NBC, 13 min.
November 5, 1956 - June 24, 1957 (15 minutes) July 2, 1957 - December 17, 1957 (30 minutes) When Nat King Cole' NBC TV series began November 5, 1956 it originated from New York City while Cole was winding up his current stint at the Copacabana. After the fourth broadcast the series was broadcast from Los Angeles. where it would remain for its complete run. Nat King Cole became the first major black performer to headline a network variety series. His 15 minute show filled the remainder of the half hour in which NBC TV aired its nightly news program, THE HUNTLEY BRINKLY REPORT. On July 2, 1957 THE NAT KING COLE SHOW became a half hour program. Many stars appeared on the show for minimum fees as personal favors to him, in an effort to bolster low ratings. But the efforts were in vain, and it would be another decade before a black entertainer could begin to make a significant dent into he mass medium of television. Highlights sung by Nat King Cole: "This Can't Be Love," "This was the End of a beautiful Friendship," "I'm on the Way to Cuba," "In the Evenings May I come to You?" "Mona Lisa." There is a "musical memory" spot at the end of each show. Announcer: Bill Hanrahan NOTE: The broadcast of November 12, 1956 is rare and is not archived by any of the major entertainment museums in the country.
1956-11-20, , 4 min.
Longshore's strike in the US continues, UN resumes debate that Russia halt mass deportation, 5,000 Hungarians escape into Austria, 700,000 troops in Hungary.
#13105: WALTER WINCHELL SHOW, THE
Order1956-11-30, NBC, 7 min.
October 5, 1956-December 28, 1956 Walter Winchell attempted to bring to television a shortened variety show version of The Ed Sullivan Show. His half hour format was brief, and after 13 weeks his series was cancelled. Walter Winchell's guests are Shelley Winters and Jimmy Durante. Jimmy sings, "Toscannin, Iturbi & Me." Billy Glibert takes a bow from the audience, celebrating his 50th anniversary in show business.
1956-11-30, , 15 min.
- Archie Moore
- Floyd Patterson
- Don Dunphy
- Billy Gilbert
- Robert Merrill
- Winn Elliott
- Jimmy Powers
- Gypsy Rose Lee
The 1956 heavyweight boxing championship fight between Floyd Patterson and Archie Moore. Don Dunphy gives the blow-by-blow report of rounds 1 and 5 with commentary by Jimmy Powers. Patterson knocks out Moore in round 5. Patterson and Moore are interviewed after the fight with commentary by Winn Elliott.
#13122A: NEWS WITH BILL RIPPEY
Order1956-12-26, , 04 min.
Highlights: Bomb scares continue in New York City, the police seek "mad bomber," Eisenhower boosts Hungarian refugee numbers to the United States, above quotas, UN agreement reached in Suez Canal clearance. bus desegregation called off in Alabama.
#13151: I'VE GOT A SECRET
Order1957-04-03, CBS, 6 min.
June 19th, 1952- April 3rd, 1967 (CBS) Syndicated- 1972 June 15th, 1976-July 6th, 1976 (CBS) Popular prime time game show in which four panelists try to guess the secret of the contestant. Garry Moore hosted the show from 1952-1964 and was replaced by Steve Allen. Allen also hosted the 1972 syndicated version. Bill Cullen hosted the 1976 CBS version which had a brief run of less than one month. In this episode, the guest panelists are Henry Morgan, Faye Emerson, Jayne Meadows, and Bill Cullen. Lorraine Day is a guest. Garry Moore is the host.
1957-04-06, WNBC, 3 min.
Highlights: President Eisenhower shops for farm supplies, Truman says the United States slips because of blunders and vacillations in this administration.
#10506: SALUTE TO BASEBALL
Order1957-04-13, WNBC, 55 min.
- Gene Kelly
- Mel Allen
- Babe Ruth
- Joe DiMaggio
- Stan Musial
- Don Larsen
- Ted Williams
- Ed Gardner
- Johnny Antonelli
- Bob Friend
- Mel Ott
- Frank Lefty Odeul
- Robert Strauss
- Tony Bennett
- George Kell
- Herb Score
- Ernie Banks
- Ford Frick
- Mickey Mantle
- Ed Matthews
- Don Newcombe
- Billy Pierce
- Pee Wee Reese
- Robin Roberts
- Harry Simpson
- Eddie Yost
- Happy Felton and Knothole Gang
- Ted Kluszewski
- Harvey Kuenn
- Paul Winchell
- Jerry Mahoney
- Frank Fontaine
- Bill Hayes
- Pat Marshall
- Janis Paige
- Robert Alda
- Pie Traynor
- Gabby Hartnett
- Lefty Grove
Baseball personalities on this television special ushering in the start of the 1957 baseball season include Johnny Antonelli of the New York Giants, Don Larsen, Bob Friend, Billy Pierce, Ted Williams, Stan Musial, Joe DiMaggio, Mel Allen, Ernie Banks, George Kell, Harvey Kuenn, Ted Kluszewski, Ed Matthews, Don Newcombe, Pee Wee Reese, Robin Roberts, Herb Score, Harry (Suitcase) Simpson, Eddie Yost, and Happy Felton and his Knothole Gang. Mel Allen recreates Don Larsen's perfect game. Show Business guests include: comedians Ed "Archie" Gardner, Paul Winchell, Jerry Mahoney, Frank Fontaine, singers Tony Bennett, Pat Marshall, and Bill Hayes, Singer-comedienne Janis Paige, actors Robert Alda and Robert Strauss. Also participating are baseball commissioner Ford Frick, sportscaster Mel Allen, and baseball Hall Of Fame members Joe DiMaggio, Pie Traynor, Lefty Grove, and Gabby Hartnett. Gene Kelly is the host. Highlights: Gene talks to Don Larsen about his no windup pitching approach. Also, Gene in conversation with Billy Pierce, Johnny Antonelli, and Bob Friend. Kelly introduces Ed Gardner...comedy routine about Baseball's greatest pitchers. In a brief segment, Mel Allen states his dream outfield. Gene Kelly talks with Stan Musial, who states that his favorite ball player was Mel Ott, Ted Williams, chairman of the Jimmy Fund states that his favorite baseball player was Joe DiMaggio, and DiMaggio's favorite ball player was Frank Lefty Odeul. Gene Kelly mentions that his favorite Baseball Player of all time was Babe Ruth. Other Highlights: "This Is The Year" Ensemble 1956 Most Valuable Players: Mickey Mantle, Don Newcombe Sketch: "Rookie Of The Year" Robert Alda Song: Janis Paige World Series Film: Gene Kelly Interview: Don Larsen, Gene Kelly " Know-How" Kelly, Paige, Tony Bennett, Paul Winchell, Jerry Mahoney, Robert Alda Knothole Gang- Happy Felton Dugout Sketch- Paul Winchell, Jerry Mahoney Song- Tony Bennett Pitchers Interview- Gene Kelly "Two-top Gruskin" Ed Gardner, Robert Alda Baseball Medley- Ensemble Song- Pat Marshall Dream Outfield- DiMaggio, Williams, Musial Waite Hoyt's Tribute To Babe Ruth- Gene Kelly Old-Timer's Film- Mel Allen Rock-'n'Roll Number- Bill Hayes Comedy Interview- Robert.Alda Commissioner's Message: Ford Frick Hall Of Fame Sequence- Gene Kelly Finale- Ensemble1957-05-20, NBC, 6 min.
- Jose Greco
- Elaine Stritch
- George Gobel
- Beatrice Arthur
- Ray Bolger
- Bill Haley
- Kay Armen
- Richard Haydn
- Muriel Landers
- Vera-Ellen
October 21st, 1956-June 13th, 1957 (NBC) Hour-long musical comedy series scheduled approximately every other week. Series star Ray Bolger played himself and Elaine Stritch co-starred as the operator of the Greenwich Village Inn. Originally seen on Sunday afternoons,it later shifted to various time slots during the week. This episode is "The Old Soft Shoe."
#13198: I'VE GOT A SECRET
Order1957-06-05, CBS, 2 min.
June 19th, 1952- April 3rd, 1967 (CBS) Syndicated- 1972 June 15th, 1976-July 6th, 1976 (CBS) Popular prime time game show in which four panelists try to guess the secret of the contestant. Garry Moore hosted the show from 1952-1964 and was replaced by Steve Allen. Allen also hosted the 1972 syndicated version. Bill Cullen hosted the 1976 CBS version which had a brief run of less than one month. Among the panelists are Faye Emerson, Henry Morgan, and Bill Cullen. The guest is Eddie Cantor. Host: Garry Moore.
1957-06-23, CBS, 20 min.
June 20, 1948 - May 30, 1971 ED SULLIVAN SHOW, THE, (TOAST OF THE TOWN) Television's longest running variety series. Originally, titled, TOAST OF THE TOWN, the name of the series changed on September 18, 1955 to THE ED SULLIVAN SHOW. Most remembered for introducing many stand-up comedians, and musical acts, including The Rolling Stones, Elvis Presley, The Beatles. Most of the 1,087 broadcasts, encompassing 10,000 performers, have been archived. The major exceptions are the first half year of shows circa 1948 of which a few kinescope excerpts survive. The ED SULLIVAN SHOW was a spectacular show-case that for twenty-three years entertained the American family. In its prime, more than thirty million viewers, young and old, tuned in at the same time to view popular culture. Guests: Billy Williams, Julie Wilson, Gene Kelly, Dick Contino, Lou Holtz. 9th anniversary live broadcast from Long Island's Jones Beach Marine Theater. Highlights: "I'm Gonna Sit Right Down"..............................Billy Williams Cole Porter Medley- "You've Got That Thing," "You Do Something to Me."............................ Julie Wilson Gene Kelly and Ed Sullivan discuss dancers as athletes and invites Ed to be his dancing partner, lifting him off the floor. Dick Contino sings, "My Blue Heaven and "Granada" on his accordian. Comedian Lou Holtz does a stand-up.#10537A: NAT KING COLE SHOW,
Order1957-06-24, NBC, 13 min.
November 5, 1956 - June 24, 1957 (15 minutes) July 2, 1957 - December 17, 1957 (30 minutes) When Nat King Cole' NBC TV series began November 5, 1956 it originated from New York City while Cole was winding up his current stint at the Copacabana. After the fourth broadcast the series was broadcast from Los Angeles. where it would remain for its complete run. Nat King Cole became the first major black performer to headline a network variety series. His 15 minute show filled the remainder of the half hour in which NBC TV aired its nightly news program, THE HUNTLEY BRINKLY REPORT. On July 2, 1957 THE NAT KING COLE SHOW became a half hour program. Many stars appeared on the show for minimum fees as personal favors to him, in an effort to bolster low ratings. But the efforts were in vain, and it would be another decade before a black entertainer could begin to make a significant dent into he mass medium of television. Announcer: Bill Hanrahan This entire show is dedicated to the music compositions of song writer extraordinaire, Harry Warren. Harry tells Nat how he wrote such classics as "September in the Rain," and "Lullabye of Broadway" which Nat King Cole sings. Harry Warren at the piano with the Randy Van Horne Singers singing "We're in the Money." Nat sings "Plenty of Mohey and You," "Lu Lu's Back in Town," and "You'll Never Know." NOTE: Last 15 minute show.
#10538B: MIKE WALLACE INTERVIEW, THE
Order1957-07-07, ABC, 9 min.
April 28th, 1957-September 14th, 1958-ABC A half-hour interview series with host Mike Wallace. Nine minutes highlighting salient topics. Steve's discussion includes: -Ed Sullivan -Criticism of TV Awards -Impressions of Westbrook Pegler, Ted Williams, Eddie Cantor Billy Graham, Bob Harrison of Confidential Magazine.