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ROSS REPORTS -TELEVISION INDEX
January 22-28, 1962
PROGRAMS • ADVERTISERS TALENT
VOLUME 14 NUMBER 4 EDITOR: Jerry Leichter
WEEKLY NETWORK REPORT
THIS WEEK
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ABC
7 :30-8pm NYT & LAT EVENING DEBUT WEEKLY SERIES Replaces Music For The Young, last show Jan 19.
SATURDAY JANUARY 27
THE SOUPY SALES SHOW TAPE, recorded in LA
Slapstick comedian Soupy Sales presents jokes, songs, skits, pie-inthe-face routines, assisted by various puppets handled by Clyde Adler.
SPONS: Open and co-op.
PKGR: Soupy Sales with ABC-TV (LA); Prod Soupy Sales; Dir William Carruthers.
HISTORY: As Lunch with Soupy Sales, program was local series over WXYZ-TV (Detroit); debuted on ABC net as Saturday daytime show on October 3, 1959; last show June 25, 1960. Return, August 27, 1960; changed origination from Detroit to LA, Jan 7, 1961; last show April 1, 1961. Continued as Mon thru Fri local daytime show over KABC-TV (LA). Evening debut, weekly series, Jan 26, 1962.
ABC
7 :30-8pm NYT 9 -9 :30pm LAT RETURN WEEKLY SERIES Replaces first half-hour of The Roaring Twenties, Jan 20.
CALVIN AND THE COLONEL FILM
Animated cartoon series concerning the big city adventures of Calvin Burnside, a slowwitted bear; Col. Montgomery J. Klaxon, a conniv¬ ing fox and their relatives and friends from the woods of Dixie. Charles Correll and Freeman Gosden do the voice of Calvin and the Colonel, respectively, with other voices by Virginia Gregg, Beatrice Kay and Paul Frees.
SPONS: Lever Bros. Co (Various Products) thru J. Walter Thompson Co (NY).
PKGR: Kayro, Inc (LA); Animation Film Prod Creston Studios, Hol¬ lywood, Cal.; Prods & Chief Writers Joe Connelly, Bob Mosher; Animation Prod & Dir Jerry Ray; Art Dir Norm Gottfredson.
HISTORY: Debut, October 3, 1961; last show November 14, 1961.
STATIONS: 90 stations net, 9 delayed.
ABC ■
88 :30pm NYT 9:30-10pm LAT DEBUT
WEEKLY SERIES Replaces second half-hour of The Roaring Twenties.
SUNDAY JANUARY 28
ROOM FOR ONE MORE FILM
Family comedy series, the story of George and Anna Rose, parents of two children and foster parents to two others, starring Andrew Duggan and Peggy McKay as the parents, with Ronnie Dapo as Flip and Carol Nicholson as Laurie, the two children, and Anna Capri as Mary and Timothy Rooney as Jeff, the two foster children.
SPONS: § Armour & Co thru Foote, Cone & Belding, Inc (Chi). §
Block Drug Co., Inc thru Grey Advertising, Inc (NY).
PKGR & Film Prod Warner Bros. TV Division, at Warners Studio, Burbank, Cal.; Prod Ed Jurist; Dirs & Writers Various; CastingHoyt Bowers (Warners).
HISTORY: Based on the characters in the book of the same title by Anna Perrott Rose and Warner Bros, motion picture produced in 1952.
TV series debut, January 27, 1962.
STATIONS: 99 stations net, 20 delayed.
NBC
6 :30-7pm NYT 3:30-4pm LAT SPECIAL SERIES Three Programs Preempts 1, 2, 3--Gol , on this date and Feb 4.
FCC HEARINGS ON NETWORK TELEVISION TAPE, from Washington Mews programs devoted to coverage of the Federal Communications Commission's hearings in Washington on television network program¬ ming with representatives of the three networks appearing during suc¬ cessive weeks. Each program will present the highlights of the prev¬ ious week's testimony and questioning in the hearing sessions, with background provided by Ray Scherer, NBC News. The first two pro¬ grams will be seen Sundays, 6:30-7pm NYT, with the third on Sunday, February 11, 5-5:30pm NYT.
SPONS: Sustaining.
PKGR: NBC News (representing pool coverage); Prod William Monroe.
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