Ross reports -- television index. (1958)

ROSS REPORTS—TELEVISION INDEX DECEMBER 3, 1958 Me 551 Fifth Avenue » New York 17 + MUrray Hill 2-5910 PUBLISHED BY TELEVISION INDEX, INC. ~ P— Mihi SWsES Keke Ie BA‘ — EDITOR: Jerry Leichter toy NEWS COMMENT POSSIBILITIES A The first break in ABC's "Operation Daybreak" will appear next Monday when Music Bingo replaces Chance for Romance in the Monday thru Friday, 2-2:30pm NYT & LAT slot. Chance received a less than kind reception from the critics as a "friendship club of the air" and it was considered (after the opening) the weakest of the new ABC daytime strip shows. Music Bingo is the Harry Salter package that was an NBC summer replacement from May 29 thru Sept 11, Thursdays, 10:30-llpm NYT this past season.......Paul Lambert will play the role of Al Capone and Dennis Patrick will play George "Bugs" Moran in the Dec 11 Playhouse 90 dramatization of the plot behind the 1929 St. Valentine's Day massacre in Chicago, under the title, "Seven Against the Wall."........ a Women's Major League Bowling, a Peter DeMet filmed series out of Chicago, will go network on Dec 13, over NBC, Saturdays, 5-5:30pm NYT. Alternate week sponsor is Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co thru McCann-Erickson, Inc. Each program will include the final frames of the second game and the entire third game of a three-game match between two top women bowlers, with the winner returning the following week to meet another challenger. The format is exactly the same as that used in televised men's match game bowling. Fred Wolf will announce the matches. The series will be preempted on Dec 27 and Jan 3 by post-season football games and on March 14 and 21 by NIT basketball telecasts. Siobhan McKenna and James Donald will co-star in "What Every Woman Knows," the James M. Barrie comedy to be presented as the Du Pont Show of the Month on Jan 28, Wednesday, 9:30-llpm NYT (8:30-10pm LAT). Don Murray, Jackie Cooper and Barbara Bel Geddes are co-starring in December's Show of the Month, "The Hasty Heart" on Dec 18, Thursday, 9:30-llpm NYT (8:30-10pm LAT). Both are Talent Associates productions..... .. NBC will record its Dec 5, Friday boxing bout on videotape so that if the fight, a welterweight title match, ends in a knockout, it will be shown again, along with the action leading up to it, immediately following the fight. The bout will originate on Olympic Auditorium in Los Angeles. The videotape equipment will thus serve the same purpose as the slow motion camera which used to be used to record fight action to show key points in bouts for movie patrons (and later on TV when the films of famous fights were prime program fare).......Reuven Frank will produce the NBC telecasts of the 1960 conventions and elections, with Eliot Frankel as associate producer and Jack Sughrue as director. Frank is currently producer of NBC News, Chet Huntley Reporting and NBC Kaleidoscope.......Frank McGee, NBC Washington correspondent, will act as anchor man for the net's Projection '59, the special year-end review and forecast program on Dec 28, Sunday, 5-Opm NYT. Chet Hagan will produce the program, one of the news specials in the NBC Kaleidoscope series.......Tales of the Texas Rangers, last of the 5-5:30pm NYT programs still on the ABC schedule from last season, cutting into the American Bandstand schedule on Thursdays, will leave that spot after Dec 18 and move to a new evening berth. Starting Dec 22, the film series will be seen Mondays, 7:30-8pm NYT, still sponsored by Sweets Corp. of America. It will be seen Page 1 (MORE ) ROSS REPORTS—TELEVISION INDEX, Service Subscription Rates: $125 per year (or $33 quarterly, minimum one year subscription). Additional or multiple subscriptions at lower rates. 4 7 Service includes: Weekly reports on current television production, programs, advertisers, talent movements; unlimited telephone and mail information service; periodic reports on special aspects of television; semi-annual and annual industry surveys, and The Television Index card file.