Ross reports -- television index. (1958)

ROSS REPORTS -TELEVISION INDEX SEPTEMBER 2k, 1958 VOLUME 10 NUMBER 39 A EDITOR: Jerry Leichter MID-WEEK SPECIAL a PROGRAMS • ADVERTISERS • TALENT 55 1 Fifth Avenue • New York 1 7 • MUrray Hill 2-59 1 0 PUBLISHED BY TELEVISION INDEX, INC. NEWS COMMENT POSSIBILITIES Peter Kortner will be the producer of the last Studio One in Hollywood, on Sept 29., with Buzz Khlik as director . Marion Lome joins the cast on the second Garry Moore Show, Oct 7, Tuesday, 10-llpm NYT and remains thereafter as a regular . The new season production staff for U. S. Steel Hour, alternate Wednesdays, 10-llpm NYT, over CBS, includes George Kondolph and Alex Segal as producers. Bill Nichols as as¬ sociate producer, Alex Segal and others handling direction, and Arthur Heinemann as script editor . The first Timex All-Star Jazz Show of this season over CBS on Nov 10, Monday, 10-llpm NYT, will have everything but the kitchen sink in the way of pop jazz names. Hoagy Carmichael and Bob Crosby will be co-m.c.'s and starring with previously announced stars Louis Armstrong, Anita O'Day and Les Brown and his band will be Lionel Hampton, Gene Krupa, Jane Morgan, Bob Crosby leading the Bobcats, Chico Hamilton and his Quintet and trumpeter Roy Eldridge . Today will have a network TV first on Oct 8, Wednesday, 7 -9am NYT, when the entire two -hour program will originate live within a mental institution. The telecast, first in a series of reports scheduled for every three weeks on Wednesdays on mental health problems in the U. S., will be from Central Islip State Hospital, Central Islip, N. Y. The mental institution is the second largest hospital in the world. The first program, from the .hospital, will feature interviews with psychiatrists and other specialists and also interviews with adult patients. Westerns and quiz programs should take a back seat in the TV scheme of things when it comes to heavy saturation of a type of programming. The most specialized form since puppets had their heyday is the courtroom program or arbitration or concil¬ iation-type of meeting. They have been on the radio and TV nets for years, have been important public service programs for local stations (when connected with local law enforcement or judicial groups) and are now bursting out in increasing numbers on loc¬ al stations and nets. One of the big problems in scheduling the programs is finding a title that will not conflict with one previously used. Several network programs using "court" in the title have not been shown in some cities where local programs have the same names, to avoid conflict. The earliest of the "courtroom" programs on TV was Phillips Lord's Black Robe series and since those early days there have been and are : Public Defender, Traffic Court, Court of Human Relations, Courtroom, Juven¬ ile Court, They Stand Accused and its latter-day successor. The Verdict Is Yours; On Trial, Divorce Court, Court of Small Claims, Police Station, The Time and The Place, Confession, Parole, Perry Mason, Court of Last Resort, Criminal Court, Day in Court, plus others still to come. This multiplicity of titles and program themes creates problems at the networks in checking clearances and rights, to avoid conflicts with old programs. Among the specialists who have to check this type of program is Hay Murphy, manager of literary rights at ABC in New York, who maintains a checklist of titles that pertain to courtroomtype programs. One day there may even be a Supreme Court to handle the cases referred from the lower "courts." _ Page 1 _ (MORE ) ROSS REPORTS —TELEVISION INDEX, Service Subscription Rotes: $125 per year (or $33 quarterly, minimum one year subscription). Addi¬ tional or multiple subscriptions at lower rates. 1 i Service includes: Weekly reports on current television production, programs, advertisers, talent movements; unlimited telephone ond mail information service; periodic reports on special aspects of television; semi-annual and annual industry surveys, and The Television Index card file.