Variety (February 1959)

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P’Snifffr Wednesday, February 4, 1959, .1 /fitiil> In / t hru/tr>; jiroyrams of Kjtt’na! h)t< rest In m t ifoitr ^ ^ -igr g # n ho hx' v < n r v/tiif : You’ve probably said that at one time or another. Perhaps it was when you read the headlines about Anastas Mikoyan on “Meet the Press .” If It happens to all of us. It happens par- ticularly to people who are not regular TV-viewers, and do not consult daily program listings, if The following list is designed to alert you to those February programs about which, if you - were to miss them, you might indeed echo the words of our headline: 96 If I’d only known....” If These Special programs cover a wide range of entertainment and public affairs. Music, comedy and drama, education, history and science. They re¬ flect a philosophy of programming upon which the entire NBC schedule—regular programs and Specials alike—is based. That is, totality of program service...rewarding television for every program taste * HallmarkHall of Fame presents “Berkeley Square” (February 5, 9:30-11:00 pjru) John Kerr, Jeannie Carson and Edna Best star, and Janet Munro makes hej^bneri- can debut, in this modern clas^ about an American who inherits an ancestral Lon¬ don home and is transported to the year 1784. In COLOR and black and white. The Phil Harris Show (February 6, 8:00- 9:00 p.m.) Dean Martin, Alice Faye and Betty Hutton join the ebullient Mr. Harris in a special hour-loUg program of musi¬ cal-comedy-variety entertainment In COLOR and black and white.' Wisdom (February 8, 2:00-2:30 p.m.) Premiere of a new series of Conversations with Distinguished Persons. Today, Miss Edith Hamilton, authority on Classical Gvilization, discusses with Huntington Cairns, Secretary of the National Gallery of Art, the similarities and differences between the civilizations of the Greek Empire and atomic-age America. NBC Kaleidoscope presents “The Third Commandment” (February 8, 5:00-6:00 p.m.) Charles Van Doren is host, and Arthur Kennedy stars in Ben Hecht’s first full-hour play for television. It is a mod¬ ern morality play—an iconoclastic comedy about a newspaperman who becomes a false evangelist... and thus violates the Third Commandment The Bell Telephone Hour presents “Ameri¬ can Festival” (February 10, 8:00-9:00 p.m.) A panorama of American music and musical artists, with Rise Stevens, Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington and-his orchestra. Martha Wright, Russel Nype, Grant Johannesen, the New York City Ballet starring Jacques D’Amboise and Melissa Hayden, and Donald Vcorhees THE NBC TELEVISION NETWORK