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Opening Night consisted of reruns of episodes of the ABC series Ford Theatre from the 1956–1957 season. The Polly Bergen Show and Club Oasis alternated in the time slot, each show airing every other week. During the summer of 1958, Opening Night and Club Oasis with Spike Jones alternated in the time slot, each show airing every other week.
DuMont aired no programs against Gleason's new TV series. [3] One DuMont show, the 60-minute public affairs program New York Times Youth Forum began airing Sundays at 5 p.m. EST on September 14, 1952—outside of prime time—and ran until
(PBS does offer its member stations packages of Amanpour & Company and BBC World News to air in late night timeslots Monday–Friday, and optional overnight access to its satellite feed, which rebroadcasts prime time programs shown either the previous evening or earlier in the week).
NBA Saturday Primetime: CBS: Crimetime Saturday: 48 Hours: The CW Fall CW Sports programming Local programming Winter I Am: Fox Fall Fox College Football (continued to game completion) Winter Fox Primetime Hoops: Local programming Spring Baseball Night in America (7:00 p.m.) NBC Fall Big Ten Saturday Night/Notre Dame Football on NBC [h] (7:30 p ...
The Dick Clark Saturday Night Beech-Nut Show: The Billy Graham Crusade: Lawrence Welk's Dodge Dancing Party: Sammy Kaye's Music from Manhattan: Local November Jubilee USA: Winter The Billy Graham Crusade: CBS Fall Perry Mason (19/27.5) Wanted Dead or Alive (16/28.0) (Tied with Peter Gunn) The Gale Storm Show: Have Gun – Will Travel (3/34.3 ...
"Despite the big budget variety shows in its schedule, though, CBS felt that situation comedy was actually a more stable television form that would be easier to exploit in the long run." [ 1 ] In many time slots, the underfunded DuMont Network did not bother to compete against NBC's or CBS's hit series, instead airing what some TV historians ...
The series "proved the strength and acceptability of TV sitcoms, giving [CBS] a strong weapon against NBC's flashy comedy-variety hours". [ 1 ] DuMont , too, avoided flashy comedy series when in February 1952, in desperation the network added Bishop Fulton Sheen 's program, Life Is Worth Living , to its Tuesday night schedule.
ABC had contracted with Walt Disney to produce a new series called Disneyland (as part of the deal, the network provided funding towards the construction of Walt's amusement park of the same name, opening in July 1955). The series was an instant hit, and marked the beginning of the networks allowing Hollywood programs into their schedules.