TV Guide (October 1, 1955)

Record Details:

Something wrong or inaccurate about this page? Let us Know!

Thanks for helping us continually improve the quality of the Lantern search engine for all of our users! We have millions of scanned pages, so user reports are incredibly helpful for us to identify places where we can improve and update the metadata.

Please describe the issue below, and click "Submit" to send your comments to our team! If you'd prefer, you can also send us an email to mhdl@commarts.wisc.edu with your comments.




We use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) during our scanning and processing workflow to make the content of each page searchable. You can view the automatically generated text below as well as copy and paste individual pieces of text to quote in your own work.

Text recognition is never 100% accurate. Many parts of the scanned page may not be reflected in the OCR text output, including: images, page layout, certain fonts or handwriting.

NEW YORK TV Teletype Bob Stahl reports: What might be a Jackpot to end all jackpots is being lined up for a future giveaway on Stop the Muslc --a two-week, all-expense- paid uranium prospecting trip to Canada. The winner will retain all rights to any uranium he turns up. It could mean millions. * * * Because RALPH EDWARDS is finding it more and more difficult to keep his secrets in Hollywood, he'll take his This Is Your Life to various cities again this year. Present plans call for the show to deal about 50-50 with celebrities and the "average man." * * * Sponsors of The Lawrence Welk Show , spurred by a flood of fav¬ orable viewer mail, renewed the program through next June. It's to continue in its present Saturday night time spot on ABC . . . Ethel and Albert , which was the summer replacement for December Bride , has been picked up by ABC and will replace Name 1 s the Same . on Friday nights beginning Oct. 14. * * * NBC's Wide Wide World starts on a regular basis Oct. l6 with W A Sunday Afternoon in Autumn, featuring part of New York's famous Radio City Music Hall stage show. World still hopes to inaugurate live transoceanic TV. Although he won't reveal specific plans, producer BARRY WOOD says, "We'll try to pick up signals from Europe when it is technically possible." * * * JACKIE GLEASON continuing his busy ways. For Studio One , he'll direct an adaptation of a short story he wrote. He'll produce and star in "Mard'i Gras" for a CBS "special," recreating his familiar comedy characterizations. And he's talking with BUDD SCHULBERG and ELIA KAZAN about starring in a movie version of SCHULBERG's "Arkansas Traveler," story of a comedian. All this, of course, in addition to The Honeymooners and Stage Show . HOLLYWOOD Pan Jenkins reports: "Alice Gobel" has been dropped from The George Gobel Show , so JEFF DONNELL is out of a TV Job. If "Alice" is ever needed in the script, JEFF will do the role . . . EVE ARDEN finished her Our Miss Brooks feature at Warners and went right to work on the TV series with no time off for good behavior . . . SID CAESAR will play a new comedy character on his show about once a month, to be called Professor Houdini Von Hoffmeyer, a magician. * * * BARBARA STANWYCK will film a TV dramatic series, act¬ ing in one out of every four and hosting the others. . . BOB CUMMINGS is bringing Miss Hawaii over to appear in one of his November shows. *Trade-mark, Teletype Corp. Continued on Inside Back Cover