1955-56 United States network television schedule is for the period beginning in September 1955 and lasted until March 1956.
The $ 64,000 Question has debuted on CBS during the summer of 1955 and became the # 1 program on US television. The three networks "scramble to copy this latest hit format, quickly fill in prime time with similar contests". (It will not be until the fall of 1958 that it will be confirmed that some of these new quiz shows are rigged.)
Over the years, ABC has been "struggling to collect TV schedules", but after a huge networking success with Disney-produced Disneyland series in 1954, other Hollywood film companies began to embrace television. MGM collects clips for MGM Parade at ABC; ABC also hired Warner Bros. for Tuesday night program called Warner Brothers Presents. A one-hour umbrella series featured a TV adaptation of three Warner Brothers movies: Cheyenne , Casablanca and Kings Row . Of the three new series, only Cheyenne were a hit with the audience, and ABC started contracting with other Hollywood studios for Western. Soon after Warner Brothers Presents, ABC is scheduled The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp . The West is also produced together with Hollywood studios: Desilu Productions.
CBS has its own Western hit with Gunsmoke , which also debuted in the fall of 1955. Over the next few years, "rush to Western has become a virtual invasion so, in the fall of 1959, viewers had their choice of shocking twenty-eight series of different Western-based time series. "Around 1955, live drama anthologies, the subject of the initial television show, were gradually phased out by networks supporting film costs: Western, police dramas, quiz shows, and adventure series.
The struggling DuMont Television network offered little during the 1955-56 television season. DuMont's final program consists of What's Story on Wednesday night at 9.30 and Boxing From St. Nicholas Arena on Monday night at 9:00. On September 23rd, What's Story is on the air. DuMont honored the remaining network commitments until August 6, 1956, when it ceased operations as a major television network. DuMont hopes to enter into independent television production; the company's studio facilities and the Electronicam system were used to produce CBS's The Honeymooners during the 1955-1956 season. DuMont's disadvantage is the advantage of ABC, as some of DuMont's most popular programs, including Life Is Worth Living, Lifetime Opportunity, Life Begins in the Eighty , and Down You Go , found their way to the prime time schedule of 1955-1956 ABC.
The decline and eventual death of the old DuMont Network meant the 1955-1956 television season would be the first year in which the remaining three major US television networks would be the only full-time commercial participants in prime time, a situation that would remain for the next 30 years until Fox began operating on the network in October 1986, although Fox would not enter prime time until Sunday, April 5, 1987.
New series highlighted in bold .
All time is Eastern and US Pacific time (except for some sports or live events). Reduce one hour for Central and Mountain time.
Each of the 30 highest rated events is listed with ratings and ratings as determined by Nielsen Media Research.
Video 1955-56 United States network television schedule
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Maps 1955-56 United States network television schedule
Sunday
* The Ed Sullivan Show used to be Toast of the Town .
** previous The Colgate Comedy Hour .
- In NBC, Color Deployment is served as a monthly series, 7: 30-9 p.m.
- Appointment with Adventure aired on CBS on April 3, 1955, and lasted until September 1955, before starting its second regular season in the same time slot on October 2, 1955. The anthology series did not have a host.
Monday
Note: On NBC, Showcase Producer is aired as a monthly series of 8-9: 30 pm. No longer network operations, DuMont continues to show Boxing From St. Nicholas Arena occasionally over individual stations until 6 August 1956. In CBS, in most areas, Douglas Edwards With News was aired at 6:45 pm, while several cities (including New York) aired a 7:15 pm edition.
Tuesday
Note: The Martha Raye Show and The Chevy Show appear every month. Starting November 1st, You're Not Getting Rich officially becomes The Phil Silvers Show , changing the time period with Navy Log .
Wednesday
* Previously Pabst Blue Ribbon Bouts on CBS.
** What Stories were aired only until September 23, before being canceled.
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Note:
- On ABC, Grand Ole Opry debuts as a monthly series, airing 8-9 nights. from October 15, 1955, to September 26, 1956. On CBS, Ford Star Jubilee debuted as a monthly series, airing 9: 30-11 pm. On NBC, Max Liebman Presents aired as a monthly series, 9-10: 30 pm.
- High Finance , hosted by Dennis James, debuted on July 7, 1956, at 10:30 on CBS. It lasted until December 15, 1956. It replaced The Damon Runyon Theater.
- In NBC, the 1956 version of the Encore Teens summer series consisted of episodes of Pepsi Cola Playhouse and Studio 57 .
References
- Castleman, H. & amp; Podrazik, W. (1982). Watching TV: Four Decades of American Television . New York: McGraw-Hill. 314 pp.
- McNeil, Alex (1996). Total Television: A Comprehensive Guide to Programming from 1948 to Now . Fourth edition. New York: Penguin Books. ISBN: 0-14-024916-8.
- Brooks, Team & amp; Marsh, Earle (1964). Full Directory for Prima Network Time Network (3rd ed.). New York: Ballantine. ISBNÃ, 0-345-31864-1.
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