Game Shows Past:July 3-9 1953

[Tim L]

The following is taken from the July3-9 1953 Issue of TV Guide..The earliest known Cleveland Edition with national articles..Taken from the Cleveland Public Library Microfilm.

Stations:

Cleveland
4 WNBK NBC
Later moved to Channel 3 and became KYW 1956-65 and WKYC 1966-Present

5 WEWS CBS
Moved to ABC by around 1954

9 WXEL DuMont/ABC
Moved to Channel 8 and became fulltime CBS (As WJW) 1954  

Youngstown
27 WKBN CBS, DuMont, ABC
73 WFMJ NBC

Both Youngstown stations had only been on the air a few months..WFMJ would be on Channel 21 within a year or so

The TV Guide listings went Friday-Thursday in the earliest issues..

Daytime
10AM

5 Wheel Of Fortune-Todd Russell
(absolutely NO relation to the current show)

11:30
5 Strike It Rich-Warren Hull
Guest:Geniveve Rowe, Soprano singer

Noon
5 Bride And Groom

2PM
5 Double Or Nothing-Bert Parks

3PM
4  73 Break The Bank-Bud Collyer
5 Big Payoff Randy Morrison, Bess Myerson, Betty Ann Grove

4PM
4   73 On Your Account

6:15
73 Viz Quiz
Sort of a telephone game done in a lot of cities.I think they showed a picture and a contestant was supposed to identify it.

Prime Time-Weekends

Friday July 3, 1953

9:30
4  73 Double Or Nothing-Parks..(five week limited run)

11PM
73 Viz Quiz

Saturday July 4. 1953

7:30
9 27 Beat The Clock-Bud Collyer
Regular CBS affiliate WEWS 5 Carried The Christophers at this time and a News Show, Periscope at 7:45(Hosted by Don Perris, longtime TV 5 General Manager)

9:30
5 Bank On The Stars-Jack Paar

Sunday July 5, 1953
2:30
5 Fun With Charades-Joe Berg
Local Pantomime show with civic and social groups playing against one another

8PM
4  73 Big Payoff-Morrison/Meyerson

10:30
5 What's My Line?-John Daly
Arlene Francis, Bennett Cerf, Dorothy Kilgallen, Steve Allen

Monday, July 6, 1953

7:30
9 Twenty Questions (DuMont)
Panel:Fred Van Deventer, Jay Jackson,Florence Rinard Johnny McPhee Herb Polesie-Being theis was a DuMont show might be why you never heard of the panel on this show

8PM
4  73 Name That Tune DEBUT-Red Benson
Vicki Mills, singer

9PM
4  73 Juvenile Jury-Jack Barry

9:30
5 Masquerade Party-Douglas Edwards
Panel:Ilka Chase, Ogden Nash, Peter Donald, Buff Cobb

10:30
4 Who Said That-Walter Kiernan
Panel:H. V. Kaltenborn, June Lockhart, Orson Bean, Frank Coniff
(73-Film Drama)

Tuesday July 7, 1953
8PM
9 27 Blind Date-DuMont Jan Murray

8:30
4 73 Break The Bank-Bert Parks

9PM
5 27 Follow The Leader-Vera Vague
(This show alternated Tuesdays at 9PM with "Anyone Can Win" with Al Capp)

10PM
4  73 Two For The Money-Herb Shriner

10:30
9 The Name's The Same Robert Q. Lewis-ABC
Panel:Carl Reiner Joan Alexander (No third pannel Member listed..possibly Meredith Willson or Gene Rayburn or Bill Stern)

Wednesday, July 8, 1953

9PM
9 27 Strike It Rich-Hull
Eddie Condon, Jazz Guitarist is Guest

(WEWS 5 had the Syndicated "March Of Time")

9:30 5 I've Got A Secret-Garry Moore
Henry Morgan, Bill Cullen, Jayne Meadows, Faye Emerson

27 Chance of A Lifetime-Dennis James-ABC


Thursday, July 9 1953

8PM
 4   73 You Bet Your Life-Groucho Marx

5 27 Take A Guess-John McCaffery
Panel:Margaret Lindsay, Ernie Kovacs, John Crawford, Dorothy Hart

8:30
4 73 Place The Face-Jack Smith

9 Chance Of A Lifetime-James-ABC

9:30
9 Quick As A Flash-Bud Collyer-ABC
(The Pilot for this  show was hosted by Bill Cullen)



In the case of Channels 9 and 27 I will try to indicate if a show is ABC Or DuMont..9 Carried more DuMont than ABC and 27 carried a bit more CBS programming..though it seemed to split evenly between the 3 networks..Channel 73 Cleared nearly all the NBC shows.

Tim Lones

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[quote name=\'Tim L\' date=\'Oct 14 2004, 01:32 PM\']7:30
9 Twenty Questions (DuMont)
Panel:Fred Van Deventer, Jay Jackson,Florence Rinard Johnny McPhee Herb Polesie-Being theis was a DuMont show might be why you never heard of the panel on this show

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Actually, this panel had been pretty much associated with the show from its beginnings on radio--and Mr. Van Deventer, IIRC, was the producer, so he could do pretty much anything he wanted to.  (Seems that at least one of the other panelists was also related to him.)

BBC Radio's UK version continued into the 70s--when I got a shortwave radio I remember hearing it on the World Service, with "Plink Plank Plunk" as the theme music--once associated with a panel show, always associated, I guess.

[Winkfan]

Noon
5 Bride And Groom

This was another radio-to-TV transplant. It was hosted by John Nelson, who originated the show on ABC radio from 1945-50. A later version aired on NBC in 1957 with Robert Paige and Frank Parker as hosts.

5 Big Payoff Randy Morrison, Bess Myerson, Betty Ann Grove

It's actually Randy MERRIMAN.

Cordially,
Tammy Warner--the 'Ruta Lee of the Big Board!'

[The Ol' Guy]

A certain Dastardly Dan once muttered that Mutual/DuMont's Twenty Questions was packed with family members, and it was. Producer Fred was joined by his wife, Florence Rinard, and for a while, son Bobby McGuire. Either there was a lot of show-biz aliasing going on, or it was a pretty open marriage for it's time...