TV Guide (June 25, 1955)

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Music: from songstress Patti Page. and Voice of Firestone can be heard on ABC. Stan Kenton’s Music 55 is a CBS Thursday night entry. Square dancers and those who like folk tunes are offered Midwestern Hayride on NBC, Ozark Jubilee on ABC and a new Pee Wee King show on ABC. Biggest news on the drama front, besides continuation of the Producers’ Showcase spectaculars, is the new Wednesday night U.S. Steel-G.E. se¬ ries. Off-Beat, a new half-hour dra¬ matic program, replaces The Loretta Young Show. Robert Montgomery again will have his repertory group and Lux Video yields to Lux Studio Workshop. Stu¬ dio One gives way to Westinghouse Summer Theater, basically the same show. Continuing will be TV Play¬ house, Kraft TV Theater and Climax! The Search replaces Ed Murrow’s Person to Person, and a new drama series. The Window, moves in for See It Now. The only half-hour live shows con¬ tinuing are Mr. Citizen and Appoint¬ ment with Adventure. Among film programs with new stories are Damon Runyon Theater and Stage 7. NBC is subbing The Soldiers, a Hal March-Tom D’Andrea situation com¬ edy, for The Mickey Rooney Show, and The Dunninger Show, featuring the mentalist, for So This Is Holly¬ wood. Two new comedy-variety shows moving into the CBS Tuesday night schedule are The Orson Bean Show and All in Fun, starring George De- Witt. The Arthur Murray Party re¬ turns to occupy the second half-hour of the Milton Berle-Martha Raye time. Ed Sullivan’s Toast of the Town continues with various guest emcees, as does the Monday night Arthur Godfrey show. The Frankie Laine Show replaces the Wednesday night Godfrey and Frierids. Two new situation comedies are scheduled. Those Whiting Girls, fea¬ turing Margaret and Barbara Whiting, replaces I Love Lucy. And Cliff Ar¬ quette and Dave Willock headline a show that satirizes the current do-it- yourself fad, replacing Mr. Peepers. Ethel and Albert, starring Peg Lynch and Alan Bunce, returns for Decem¬ ber Bride. Quiz and panel shows will be back in full force but there are only a few new ones. CBS has The $64,000 Ques¬ tion. ABC has launched Penny to a Million. NBC has scheduled the daily It Pays To Be Married, emceed by Bill Goodwin; and the Goodson-Todman panel program Make the Connection, is in for Justice. Break the Bank, Whafs My Line, Name’s the Same, Masquerade Party, I’ve Got a Secret, Dollar a Second, Who Said That and Beat the Clock continue. Returning are Pantomime Quiz, Down You Go and Place the Face. Today and Tonight will still wake viewers or put them to bed. The Morning Show is being revamped, and emcee Jack Paar moves to a half- hour midday CBS show July 4. Ar¬ lene Francis’ Home show will be on all summer, too. Most other daytime programs will continue business as usual.—Bob Stahl