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On NBC, Kukla, Fran and Ollie was reduced from 30 to 15 minutes in November 1951, and Bob and Ray was added at 7:15 p.m. Bob and Ray ran in the 7:15 p.m. time slot Monday through Friday until March 1952 and then on Tuesday and Thursday only until May 1952, while Kukla, Fran and Ollie continued in its 15-minute format at 7:00 p.m. until June 1952.
Side one concludes with a faux test announcement of the Emergency Broadcast System, leading into the "Duck and Cover" song (from the 1951 Civil Defense education film of the same name.) Side two concludes with easy-listening music and Pardo making announcements of the "station" having technical difficulties and to please stand by.
"Mama Will Bark" is a novelty song written by Dick Manning and recorded as a duet between Frank Sinatra and Dagmar in 1951. When buxom hostess Dagmar appeared on Sinatra's CBS-TV show on April 7, 1951, Columbia Records A&R head Mitch Miller became intrigued by the comic chemistry he perceived between the unlikely duo.
September 24 – Love of Life on CBS (1951–1980) October 15 – Situation comedy I Love Lucy, starring Lucille Ball with her real-life husband, Desi Arnaz, on CBS (1951–1957); produced on film in front of a studio audience, using three film cameras, instead of being broadcast live, and making Ball the world's first major female television star
Notes: On CBS, Big Top aired from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Eastern Time from September 1950 to January 6, 1951, after which it moved to Saturdays from noon to 1:00 p.m., where it ran for another seven years. Faye Emerson's Wonderful Town began on June 16, 1951, and concluded its 42-episode run at 9 p.m. on April 12, 1952.
March 6, 1951 June 17 Music from Chicago: DuMont: April 15, 1951 June 23 Small Fry Club: DuMont March 11, 1947 (with the title "Movies for Small Fry") June 23 Foodini the Great: CBS: August 23, 1948 June 26 Court of Current Issues: DuMont: February 9, 1948 June 29 Jacqueline Susann's Open Door: DuMont: May 7, 1951 June 30 The Victor Borge Show ...
This table displays the top-rated primetime television series of the 1951–52 season as measured by Nielsen Media ... CBS: 34.5 26: Robert Montgomery Presents: NBC ...
A version of "The Syncopated Clock" recorded by Percy Faith in 1951 (released by Columbia Records with the flip side "On Top of Old Smokey" [6]) was noticed by the producers of a new WCBS-TV program called The Late Show, a nightly program of old movies that was the station's first venture into late night television.