PABST BLUE RIBBON BOUTS (CBS TELEVSION WEDNESDAY NIGHTS)
October 28, 1948 - May 25, 1955

This the CBS Radio Broadcast of the fight. 

Undefeated Heavyweight Boxing Champion, Joe Louis, meets Ezzard Charles for the heavyweight boxing  championship of the world. Charles wins a unanimous fifteen round decision becoming the only man to go the full fifteen rounds with Louis and win. 

Opening of the broadcast with Pabst commercial is recorded with Jack Brickhouse and Russ Hodges discussing the significance of this match even taking away back page headlines during New York Yankess pennant race. 

The fight is called by Russ Hodges. Every round is recorded. After 15 rounds of boxing, official announcements from judges and referee declaring unanimous decisive win for Ezzard Charles.
Ted Husing in the ring interviews Ezzard Charles and a number of his corner men. Wrap-up evaluations with Jack Brickhouse and Russ Hodges signing off.  





                      

President Harry S. Truman presents a talk on the Korean war.            

In 1952, the Progressive Party ran attorney Vincent Hallinan for President of the United States and Charlotta Bass for Vice-President, making her the first African-American woman ever to run for National office. The campaign attracted little media attention and few votes, and was not even on the ballot in many states.   

Topic: Discussion of the Korean war.                

Minnesota Congressman Walter Judd speaks for Republican Presidential candidate Dwight D. Eisenhower, days before the Presidential election.       

President Dwight Eisenhower speaks at the Dartmouth Commencement Exercises in Hanover, New Hampshire. 

October 18, 1954-June 24, 1957.
 Presented on "PRODUCER'S SHOWCASE." Some of television's most notable single programs were presented on this highly acclaimed series, one of the most costly to be produced during the "Golden Age Of Television."



Frank Sinatra stars in this story of family life in the fictional town of Grover's Corners, New Hampshire.             

President Dwight Eisenhower gives a campaign speech in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.                                       

            October 18, 1954-May 27, 1957. 
Live ninety minute productions aired every fourth week. The range of material was vast, from dramas to musicals.

Presented on "PRODUCER'S SHOWCASE." A romantic musical comedy about feminist and abolitionist Dolly Bloomer. This was the only adaptation of the 1944 Broadway hit to be presented on television. A proposed film version in the late 40's and early 50's never materialized due to the blacklist. Partial open, no end credits.                          

                 October 18, 1954-May 27, 1957.
 Live ninety minute productions aired every fourth week. The range of material was vast, from dramas to musicals.

Presented on "PRODUCER'S SHOWCASE." Edwin Lester- Los Angeles-San Francisco Light Opera Association operetta about a case of mistaken identity concerning Rosalinda, her husband, their maid and a tenor, all involved in a romantic quadrangle.             

               October 18, 1954-May 27, 1957.
 Live ninety minute productions aired every fourth week. The range of material was vast, from dramas to musicals.

Presented on "PRODUCER'S SHOWCASE." Patrick Malloy's short story about a small traveling circus stranded in a Kansas town in 1905, experiencing a drought.             

            October 18, 1954-May 27, 1957
Live ninety minute productions aired every fourth week. The range of material was vast, from dramas to musicals.

Presented on "PRODUCER'S SHOWCASE." This special color broadcast opens with the words, "The following program is brought to you in compatible color." For the first few years, NBC introduced all broadcasts presented in color with this introduction, prior to replacing the word "compatible" with the word "living" in 1957.
 
Classic fairy tale about a farm boy who trades the family cow for magic beans and climbs the beanstalk that grows from the beans, confronting an ogre. There are ten different songs presented in this live musical fantasy.                          

               October 18, 1954-May 27, 1957.
 Live ninety minute productions aired every fourth week. The range of material was vast, from dramas to musicals.

Mickey Rooney plays song and dance man, George M. Cohan one of the great figures of Broadway. He was for years successful in every aspect of the theater - actor, producer, manager, playwright, song writer, and song and dance man. The focus of this musical biography reflects Cohan's last decade or two of his life when he lost his touch as a creator of popular musicals.

The play emphasizes Cohan's days as a vaudevillian with the Four Cohans (George, his father, mother and sister Josie) and the musical comedies he wrote and starred in. 

Garry Moore narrates.

Songs include:
 "Give My Regards To Broadway," "Harrigan," "Shoes That Hurt," "The Lively Bootblack," "They're All My Friends," "I'm Going to Telegraph My Baby," "I'm Awfully Strong for You," "Why Did Nellie Leave Her Home?" "Grand Old Flag," "Yankee Doodle Dandy," "Mary Is a Grand Old Name," "So Long Mary," "The ABC Song," "Life Is Like a Musical Comedy," "Over There," "An Old Guy Like Me," "You Remind Me of My Mother," "Indians and Trees," and finale by entire cast: "Give My Regards To Broadway."

Directed by Sidney Lumet who recently directed his first motion picture, " Twelve Angry Men."

Considered a "LOST" broadcast by The Paley Center For Media.


                                       

Pinocchio is a fictional character and the protagonist of the children's novel, "The Adventures Of Pinocchio" (1883) by Italian writer Carlo Collodi of Florence, Tuscany. Pinocchio was carved by a woodcarver named Geppetto in a Tuscan village. Pinocchio is known for his long nose which grows when he lies. This 1957 adaptation stars Mickey Rooney, Walter Slezak, Stubby Kaye, and a cast of others.       

Pinocchio is a fictional character and the protagonist of the children's novel, "The Adventures Of Pinocchio" (1883) by Italian writer Carlo Collodi of Florence, Tuscany. Pinocchio was carved by a woodcarver named Geppetto in a Tuscan village. Pinocchio is known for his long nose which grows when he lies. This 1957 adaptation stars Mickey Rooney, Walter Slezak, Stubby Kaye, and a cast of others.      

Collodi's classic children's story seen in a one-hour TV version, a verse play with music. The story is of "Geppetto, an old carpenter with only a cat as a friend. Lonely, he fashions out of wood a little boy, who magically is able to walk and talk and be a companion to Geppetto. But he's naughty too and his guardian angel tells him he has but a year and a day to conquer his greed; after which he may become a real, human little boy.
Yasha Frank wrote the script and is staging the production. Music by Alec Wilder, lyrics by William Engvick. Glen Osser conducts. Mickey Rooney heads a cast of stars.

Highlights: 

"Happy News"- Stubby Kaye
"Pinocchio's Song"- Mickey Rooney, Walter Slezak
"Pinocchio's Lullaby"- Walter Slezak 
"The Fox's Pitch"- Martyn Green 
"Listen To Your Heart"- Fran Allison 
"Undersea Ballet"- Mata and Hari
"Jolly Coachman's Song"- Jerry Colonna
"The Birthday Party"- Ensemble 

Cast:
Pinocchio- Mickey Rooney 
Papa Geppetto- Walter Slezak 
Fairy Queen- Fran Allison 
Town Crier- Stubby Kaye
Jolly Coachman- Jerry Colonna
Fox- Martyn Green
Marionettes- Mata and Hari, Imalda De Martin
Geppetto's Cat- Sondra Lee
Cat Friend Of Fox- Matt Mattox




Duplicate of 10494.  

A panel discussion by scientists on the current state of US science in light of the latest Russian space feats. Also commentary on President Eisenhower's speech given earlier.
Howard Whitman is the host. The opening of the "Gray Ghost"  Western movie is heard.                                                    

A look back at the year 1957. Highlights include, the Russians launch Sputnik satellite, Bigots and segregationists riot in the South, includes a report from John Secondari, labor corruption, a detailed report by ABC correspondents, Dave Beck and Jimmy Hoffa denounced by Senator John McClellan, Senate committee excerpts
including Senator McClellan, Robert Kennedy, Senator Irving Ives, Jimmy Hoffa plays dumb, many unions are investigated for possible corruption, integration problems, riots in Little Rock, Arkansas, spurred on by Gov. Orval Faubus, Federal troops restore order, comments by Faubus, Eisenhower, and Negro students, Sputnik launched US prestige is lowered, US values need changing, Khrushchev threatens US "Sputnik Diplomacy," comments by Dr. Edward Teller, Werner Von Braun, General Jimmy Doolittle, on space crisis. Comment on Khrushchev by Cecil Brown, President Eisenhower's illnesses, Nato troubles and Nato summit meeting in Paris not much accomplished, reports from France and England, Quincy Howe comments on the potential crisis from the Middle East and Asia to be capitalized by Russia, US suffers a further setback in failure to launch a satellite. 

John Daly is the host.                                                                            

Phil Silvers stars in a live variety show, with the accent on comedy.     

Duplicate of #7351.                                                

Phil Silvers stars in a live variety show, with the accent on comedy.                                                    

A series of specials broadcast on NBC-TV. 

The Pontiac Star Parade presents Phil Silvers in "KEEP IN STEP."

Phil Silvers is seen as himself and as Sgt. Bilko in a one-hour musical comedy. His is joined by Diana Dors and Sydney Chaplin, as well as the members of Bilko's platoon (The Phil Silvers Show).

The plot finds Chaplin arranging to use Bilko's life story as the theme of an Army musical. Bilko goes to Hollywood to look over the star who has been selected to play him - none other than Phil Silvers, himself. 

Original songs were composed by Ronnie Graham. 
They include:

"I've Got the World on a String"............................Sydney Chaplin
"Plea to Col Hall".............................................Bilko, Platoon
"Famous Beauties...........................................Bilko, Platoon
"Emma".................................................................Sydney Chaplin
"Freeze".........................................................................All                                                     

President Dwight Eisenhower talk on Berlin and US security.            

Eugene Ormandy conducts the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra in this musical concert.                       

Fred Allen narrates a chronicle of America and Americans from the end of World War I to Oct. 29, 1929. Robert Russell Bennett's musical score is made up of popular songs of the period. First telecast Dec. 6, 1956, this documentary was written and produced by Henry Salomon.             

NBC Live radio coverage of the 1960 Presidential Election returns between Senator John F. Kennedy and Vice-President Richard M. Nixon. 

This rare archived off the air recording begins with 4% of the vote counted. Commercials during this radio broadcast are included.    

Live coverage of the 1960 Presidential Election Returns on WRCV-TV, an NBC affiliate in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Chet Huntley, David Brinkley, and Tom Pettit report. 

A one hour video taped tuneful tour of the ragtime era reliving the excitement of the horse-and-buggy days when ragtime was born. 

Hoagy Carmichael introduces us to the ragtime era (1900-1917) with over fourteen songs and instrumentals being performed by performers Dorothy Loudon, Mae Barnes, Robin Roberts, Billy B. Quartet, Eubie Blake, Ralph Sutton, Dick Wellstood, the Wilbur de Paris Band and the Clara Ward Singers. Musical score by Robert Russell Bennett. Executive producer Donald B. Hyatt. Produced and written by William Nichols. Directed by William Graham. Broadcast live, tape and film.  

                                     

On December 16th, 1960, a United Airlines Douglas DC-8 collided in mid-air with a TWA-Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation descending toward La Guardia Airport. The Constellation crashes on Miller Field in Staten Island while DC-8 goes down in Park Slope, Brooklyn. All 128 people aboard the two aircraft were killed, including six people on the ground. 

Additional CBS-TV coverage of mid-air plane crash begins twelve hours after accident with Walter Cronkite and Harry Reasoner. 

Alexander Scourby narrates this documentary showing the rise and fall of Adolf Hitler.  Produced by Henry Salomon and Richard Hanser.  Musical score by Robert Russell Bennett.  NBC news bulletins with Wilson Hall interrupts programming, stating that "President Eisenhower has broken off U.S. relations with Castro's Cuba."  This program originally aired on March 14, 1956.

NOTE:
This was the second of over 30 different NBC PROJECT XX documentaries made for television (1954-1970). This broadcast depicts a chronicle of the rise and fall of Adolf Hitler, dictator of Germany. The story begins with scenes of Hitler as a shabby  street-corner orator in Munich Germany. It shows his rise to a position of supreme power in his homeland and eventually in much of Europe. 

High Nazi officials are seen strutting about at the height of their success. Goering, Goebbels, Himmler and Hess are among the figures seen in addition to Adolph Hitler. Aside from newsreel shots of concentration camps there are reconstructed scenes of Nazi victims being prepared for extermination. 
There are scenes of mass Nazi rallies. 

As Nazi power begins to fail, there are scenes of Germans fleeing for shelter from "Allied bomb s. From a recent German movie comes re-enacted details of the abortive bomb lot against Hitler's life  on July 20, 1944. Newsreels show Der Fuhrer being congratulated on his escape from death. But in fact his health is broken. While he broods in his bunker, Berlin falls in ruins above him. As the Russians advance on the doomed capitol Hitler takes his own life.

An exceptional original music score is composed by Robert Russell Bennett to compliment and give impact to the visuals, and the narrative by Alexander Scourby is superb. He would continue to narrate over half of all Project XX events during its 16 year television cycle. 

Presented on "PLAY OF THE WEEK." Orson Bean and Kaye Ballard lead this potpourri of music, songs and sketches about New York City.             

Gary Cooper narrates the story of the American West between 1840 and 1900. The accent is on the "real"... the people, the land and the hardships that wed one to the other. Score by Robert Russell Bennett. Produced and directed by Donald B. Hyatt, and written by Philip Reisman, Jr.   

Duplicate of #77.           

America's participation in World War I is chronicled.  Alexander Scourby narrates.  Produced by Henry Salomon.  Written by Salomon and Richard Hanser.  Music by Robert Russell Bennett.  Premiere broadcast was Oct. 16, 1956.    

A Reviewer's Comment:

   I am a professional musician, so I am probably a little more aware of the background music than many other viewers, but I need to mention that one can shut the picture or one's eyes and just concentrate on the score and Alexander Scourby's voice to have a rather enjoyable hour, for the music is non-stop for the entire hour. 

July 14, 1961-September 22, 1961. 
Pilot TV shows for potential series. Eleven half-hour series. Benny Goodman, "The King of Swing," is seen with his band at a dance session taped at Disneyland. Joining in are the Yachtsmen vocal quartet and a Dixieland group and a swing quintet, made up of members of the band.    
On this broadcast, "Let's Dance," "Ridin' High," 'Stealin' Apples," "Roll 'em," "You Turned the Tables on Me," and "That's A-Plenty."                     

President John F. Kennedy addresses the nation regarding the Berlin crisis.                          

Singers Caterina Valente and her brother Silvio Francesco and comedian Don Adams are guests at Perry's New Year's Eve party. Peter Gennaro is featured with his dancers. Also appearing are series regulars Kaye Ballard, Sandy Stewart, Jack Duffy, and Paul Lynde. Ray Charles Singers, Mitchell Ayres Orchestra.

Highlights:

"Hoop-Dee Dee" "Auld Lang Syne"- All
"Moon River"- Perry Como
Sketch: "Musical Report On 1961"- Perry Como, Don Adams 
Twist Dance- Peter Gennaro, Caterina Valente.
"Big Bad John"- Frank Gallop, Men Singers
Dance: "Never On Sunday"- Peter Gennaro
"Tower Of Strength"- Jack Duffy 

Pianist Peter Nero stars in his own special with guests Florence Henderson and Bill Hayes.