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TALENT SHOWSHEET DECEMBER 21 DECEMBER 30 mmimnmrammmminimnmmmjnmmmmmminmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Most of the shows on December 21, 22, 23 were listed in last week's report. Changes and additions are included here for the record. Multiple and across-the-board shows are grouped together after the listing for Friday, December 28. Script identifications used are; (0) Original, (A) Adaptation, (SW) Staff -written, (SD) Staff -dire cted . Performers are identified as singer (S), dancer (D), co¬ mic (C), musician ^M). Actors who appear regularly are listed in the premiere cast, then subsequent¬ ly referred to as "regulars". Live shows are listed in caps in the left column; filmed shows are in upper and lower case letters, underlined.
Only first runs of a film series are listed. Running character series (not anthology) usually staff-written shows, and other programs which use regulars, are listed only when the names of extra actors are available.
FRIDAY DECEMBER 21 mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
COKE TIME (Eddie Fisher)
NBC 7:30pm
Eddie Cantor
WALTER WINCHELL
NBC 8:30pm
Add ; Debra Paget
The Vise
ABC 9 :30pm
A Hatful of Trouble; with regulars & Lesley Dudley, Wanda
(Donald Gray)
Godseli, Lloyd Lamble , Dulcie Bowman, Len Sharpe
SUNDAY DECEMBER 23 mmmmmnmimmmmmmmmmira
LAMP UNTO MY FEET (Dr. Lyman Bryson)
CBS 10am
The Blue Shawl (0) Clair Rcskam; with Colleen Dewhurst,
Paul Stevens, James Reese, Helen Ray, Judy Sanford, Glenn Walken; (SD)
CAMERA THREE
CBS 11:30am
The Victorian Era; Part III; with Norman Rose, Dulcie Cooper;
( SW&SD )
FRONTIERS OF FAITH
NBC l:30-m2
The Human Element (0) Will Lorin & Steven Gethers; with
Gene Saks, Michael Tolan, Joseph Julian, Ralph Bell, George Ebeling, Nancy Pollock, Alan Bergmann, Sandra Kolb
Mama
( Peggy Wood )
CBS 5pm
with regulars & Ruth Hammond, Marlly Siegel, Gigi Gerow; (SD) Don Richardson
ABC SPECIAL
ABC 5:30pm
The Story Princess Presents the Littlest Angel (0) Charles Tazewell; reading by Axene Dai ton; Dir Matt Harlib
OMNIBUS
(Alistair Cooke)
ABC 9pm
Columbus Boys Choir(s); Bil & Cora Baird & puppets ;Made line & the Bad Hat (0) Ludwig Bemelmans; with Evelyn Rudle, Renie Rlano; Clyde Sechler Singers; Dir Clark Jones
ALCOA HOUR
NBC 9pm
Add ( to cast); John McGiver, Robert Wright, Alice Frost, Den¬ nis Kohler, Olive Dunbar, Bryan Herbert, Philippa Be vans,
Ian Martin, Keith Harrington, Richard Morse, Karol Ann Traumm, Karson Woods, Karin Wolfe , John Heawood
MONDAY DECEMBER 24 mmmmmmmmrimimmmmmmnim
Sheriff of Cochise
WABD 7:30pm
The Shadow; with regulars & Stan Jones, Manuel Lopez
(John Bromfield)
Danny Thomas Show
ABC 8pra
Christmas & Clowns; with regulars & George Tobias, Diane Ro
binson, Patricia Reid; ( SW&SD )
Burns & Allen Show
CBS 8pm
with regulars & John Stevensen, George E. Stone, Paul Birch; (SW&SD)
VOICE OF FIRESTONE
ABC 8:30pm
Eleanor Steber
TALENT SCOUTS (Arthur Godfrey)
CBS 8:30pm
Abbott Lee Ruskin(M), The Blue Notes(M), Vicki Belmonte(S),
Jo Jo Vitale(S); (this is a children's show).
I Love Lucy
CBS 9pm
with regulars & Cameron Grant; (SW&SD )
December Bride (Spring Byington)
CBS 9 :30pm
Football Hero; with regulars & Gary Gray, Yvonne Lime, Joe Cohley, Parley Baer, Harry Cheshire, Frederick Ford, Ralph Sanford, Lennie Bremen, Burt Mustin, Joe Brown; (SW&SD)
ROSS REPORTS 12/23/56
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