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#10705: TEX AND JINX SHOW: TEX MCCRARY AND JINX FALKENBURG

1955-12-28, 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.

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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.

Today's Guests: Brooklyn Dodger catcher Roy Campanella, Andy Griffith, theater critic Brooks Atkinson, Brooklyn Dodger fan Hilda Chester, and actress Julie Harris.

#21: READING OUT LOUD WITH JACKIE ROBINSON

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1960-05-01, WNTA, 4 min.

February 7 - May 15, 1960 (Sundays 2:30-3:00pm)

READING OUT LOUD was a filmed series comprised of 15 shows. Famous people read favorite literary selections aloud to a small group of children, often relatives of the reader.

Jackie Robinson recites the Gettysburg Address to his son David Robinson, daughter Sharon Robinson and wife Rachel Robinson.

NOTE: Letter dated Feb. 26, 2008, sent by Rachel Robinson, related to this TV Audio Air Check recorded off the air by Phil Gries on May 1, 1960.

THE JACKIE ROBINSON FOUNDATION
One Hudson Square
75 Varick Street
New York, NY 10013

February 26, 2008

Phil Gries
Archival Television Audio, Inc.
209 Sea Cliff Avenue
Sea Cliff, NY 11579

Dear Phil,

My apologies for the long delay in responding to your kindness in sending me the exciting television audio air check of "Reading Out Loud" the TV program where Jack read the Gettysburg Address. The Jackie Robinson Foundation has moved and we are still locating material sent to us as we reorganize the archives.

I listened to the tape with ABSOLUE AMAZEMENT and DELIGHT. Sharon and I remember vividly the family trip to Washington, and we have one photo taken on that occasion. Unfortunately, I do not have any memory of the recording session.

It is thrilling for us to hear Jackie's reading of this profound speech, and we shall cherish and preserve it in our archives. Most importantly, we will share it with our visitors to the Jackie Robinson Museum now being designed.

Phil, I am deeply grateful to you for this historic gift, and we will appropriately attribute it's preservation to you.

Sincerely,

Rachel Robinson

cc: Della Britton Baeza
Len Coleman

In 1960, Virginia Winslow Hopper Mathews created the children's TV series Reading Out Loud with Westinghouse Broadcasting executive Mike Santangelo. Produced by Westinghouse for syndication, the show featured notable figures reading aloud their favorite books to children. It debuted February 7, 1960 on the five TV stations owned by Westinghouse in Baltimore, Boston, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, and San Francisco. READING OUT LOUD also opened on WNTA-TV, prior it becoming a Public Television Station (WNET-TV) in New York City and 46 educational TV stations around the U.S. It ran as a half-hour show for 15 episodes.

The following is a list of READING OUT LOUD guest appearances detailing the 15 broadcasts aired, and the dates when they were broadcast.

-First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt (reading Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling to a group of children)-March 13, 1960.

-Actress Julie Harris (reading selections from Kenneth Grahame's "The Wind in The Willows")-May 8, 1960.

-Actor José Ferrer (reading Huckleberry Finn)-March 20, 1960.

-Brooklyn Dodger baseball player (1947-1956) Jackie Robinson (reading excerpts from Stephen Crane's "The Red Badge of Courage" & Abraham Lincoln's "Gettysburg Address" to his family)-May 1, 1960.

-Entertainer Garry Moore (reading The Legend of Sleepy Hollow)-Feb. 28, 1960.

-Novelist Pearl S. Buck (reading Chinese fables)-April 17, 1960.

-Actor Cyril Ritchard (reading "Alice in Wonderland")-Feb. 14 or 21(?)1960.

-Singer/actor/activist Harry Belafonte (reading a collection of Jamaican folk tale about Anansi the Spider Man)-April 10, 1960.

-Senator John F. Kennedy (reading The Emergence of Lincoln)-March 27, 1960.

-Pulitzer Prize poet and author, Archibald MacLeish (reading poems of Walter de la Mare to his grandchildren)-Feb. 7, 1960

-Stage Actress Eva Le Gallienne (reading Hans Christian Anderson's "The Ugly Duckling.")-March 6, 1960.

-Vice President Richard M. Nixon (reading Carl Sandburg's "Abe Lincoln Grows Up" to his daughter Julie and her friends)-April 3, 1960.

-UCLA English Professor / TV Educator Dr. Frank Baxter (reading the poem "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.")-April 24, 1960.

-Industrialist Charles H. Percy (reading from James Daugherty's "Poor Richard" to his children)-May 15, 1960.

-Actor Richard Boone (reading Bret Harte's story "How Santa Claus Came to Simpson's Bar.")-February 21, 1960.

#13657: EMMY AWARDS: 14TH PRIMETIME, THE

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1962-05-22, NBC, min.

The 14th primetime Emmy Awards are held at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angelos, California. Among the personalities present are Leroy Collins, who served as the 33rd Governor of the state of Florida, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, and Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson. 

Host: Bob Newhart

#1393: BELL TELEPHONE HOUR: VALENTINE'S #11, THE

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1966-02-13, WNBC, 52 min.

January 12, 1959-April 26, 1968. This musical series ran semiregularly for almost ten seasons-sometimes weekly, sometimes biweekly, and sometimes as irregularly scheduled specials. All types of music were presented on the hour series; Donald Voorhees conducted the Bell Telephone Orchestra.

#3557: KRAFT MUSIC HALL, THE

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1968-11-13, WNBC, 52 min.

September 13, 1967-May 12, 1971. This was the "Comedy 2001" broadcast. The 1967 version of "The Kraft Music Hall" was an hour show, which lasted four seasons. It was hosted by a guest celebrity each week.

#8418: KRAFT MUSIC HALL, THE: "COMEDY 2001, GIVE OR TAKE A FEW WEEKS."

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1968-11-13, NBC, 52 min.

September 13, 1967-May 12, 1971. The 1967 version of "The Kraft Music Hall" was an hour show, which lasted four seasons. It was hosted by a guest celebrity each week. "Comedy 2001, Give Or Take a Few Weeks" is the theme of the broadcast.  

Steve Allen is the host for "Comedy 2001, Give Or Take a Few Weeks."

Duplicate Of #3557.

#17283A: TONY AWARDS, 27TH ANNUAL, THE

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1973-03-25, ABC, min.

Rex Harrison and Celeste Holm host the 27th Annual Tony Awards telecast at the Imperial Theater in New York City. This was the fourth time Julie Harris won a Tony Award and her sixth nomination.

#7545B: FAMILY HOLVAK

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1975-12-21, NBC, 59 min.

 September 7 - December 21, 1975       

Short lived filmed one hour series depicting life in the South during the Depression. Glen Ford plays Rev. Tom Holvak a poverty-stricken clergyman trying to scrape together enough money to support his wife and two children.  

This series has many of the family values that were seen in the long running series The Walton's, stressing family love and understanding and those challenges faced by all during the depression. 

Unfortunately, this series was never given a fixed time period so important for viewers to count on tuning in each week. Beside being pre-empted at times it aired on NBC in four different time and day slots, the final episode this one on December 21, 1975. 

In this final episode Tom Holvak must consider giving up the ministry in order to get a job that will pay him enough to finance an operation to cure his wife who was injured in a fall. 

Includes all original holiday commercials.

#9111: PHIL DONAHUE SHOW, THE

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1976-04-09, SYN, 60 min.

1970-1996- Nationally Syndicated. 

In 1977 Phil Donahue shifted his base of operations to Chicago from Dayton, Ohio and the show's title became known simply as "Donahue," a one-hour show usually devoted to a single topic or guest. 

The guest is actress Julie Harris.

#7693: BELLE OF AMHERST, THE

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1976-12-30, PBS, 60 min.

A portrait of 19th century American poet Emily Dickinson, based on her poems, letters and notes. A taped broadcast of a live one woman performance by Julie Harris.

10 records found for Julie Harris

#10705: TEX AND JINX SHOW: TEX MCCRARY AND JINX FALKENBURG

1955-12-28, WNBC, min.

#21: READING OUT LOUD WITH JACKIE ROBINSON

1960-05-01, WNTA, 4 min.

#13657: EMMY AWARDS: 14TH PRIMETIME, THE

1962-05-22, NBC, min.

#1393: BELL TELEPHONE HOUR: VALENTINE'S #11, THE

1966-02-13, WNBC, 52 min.

#3557: KRAFT MUSIC HALL, THE

1968-11-13, WNBC, 52 min.

#8418: KRAFT MUSIC HALL, THE: "COMEDY 2001, GIVE OR TAKE A FEW WEEKS."

1968-11-13, NBC, 52 min.

#17283A: TONY AWARDS, 27TH ANNUAL, THE

1973-03-25, ABC, min.

#7545B: FAMILY HOLVAK

1975-12-21, NBC, 59 min.

#9111: PHIL DONAHUE SHOW, THE

1976-04-09, SYN, 60 min.

#7693: BELLE OF AMHERST, THE

1976-12-30, PBS, 60 min.