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

September 12, 1955-June 12, 1963. In the fall of 1955 Perry Como returned to NBC where he hosted a weekly hour show. From 1955 to 1959 it was seen Saturday evenings and was titled "The Perry Como Show." From 1959 to 1963 it was seen Wednesday evenings and was titled "The Kraft Music Hall." Regulars included Frank Gallop and the Ray Charles Singers. After his final weekly June 12, 1963 broadcast Perry Como appeared in scores of specials, beginning October 3, 1963, airing on NBC, CBS & ABC, and concluding on December 6, 1986. 

Perry's guest is Bing Crosby.                                                                 

December 24th, 1948- June 4th, 1950 (NBC) October  2nd, 1950-June 24th 1955 (CBS) September  17th 1955- June 12th, 1963 (NBC) 

In 1944, the year his first record was released, Perry Como appeared on radio in The Chesterfield Supper Club; when that show came to television late in 1948, Como came with it, and has remained on television for more than four decades. The Chesterfield Supper Club, which also featured The Mitchell Ayres Orchestra and the Fontane Sisters, was originally seen on Friday nights but soon shifted to a half-hour slot on Sundays, opposite Ed Sullivan's "Toast Of The Town." In the fall of 1950, Como shifted to CBS where he hosted his own show for the next five seasons; the fifteen-minute program was seen Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, following the network news. Also featured were the Mitchell Ayres Orchestra and The Fontane Sisters, together with announcer Frank Gallop. In the fall of 1955 Como returned to NBC, where he hosted a weekly hour show for the next eight years; from 1955 to 1959 it was seen Saturdays and was titled The Perry Como Show. From 1959 to 1963 it was seen on Wednesdays and was titled The Kraft Music Hall. The Mitchell Ayres Orchestra and Frank Gallop were again featured, along with The Ray Charles Singers and The Louis DaPron Dancers (later, The Peter Gennaro Dancers). The Como Music Hall Players included Don Adams, Paul Lynde, Kaye Ballard, Jack Duffy, and Sandy Stewart.

Show Of 4-13-60. This is the Easter show. Guests: The Lennon Sisters, Singer Dorothy Collins, Harmonica Player Johnny Puleo, and Bill Baird and His Marionettes. Ray Charles Singers, Louis DaPron Dancers. Mitchell Ayres Orchestra. 

Commercials included. Announcer Frank Gallop. 

Paul Harvey gives commentary on Nikita Khrushchev and the summit conference.

Paul Harvey reports.                                     

Archie Moore and Gene Autry are interviewed in two separate interviews, along with their respective wives, Joan Moore and Ina Autry.  

PERSON TO PERSON hosted by Edward R. Murrow - Oct. 2, 1953 thru June 29, 1959. Charles Collingwood hosted from Oct. 16, 1959 thru Sept. 15, 1961. 

When Collingwood took over as host about half of the series' programs originated from foreign locations and were pre-recorded on videotape. While many of the Murrow segments exist on kinescope, and can be accessed, most of the Collingwood segments are not available.            

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.             

September 12, 1955-June 12, 1963. In the fall of 1955 Perry Como returned to NBC where he hosted a weekly hour show. From 1955 to 1959 it was seen Saturday evenings and was titled "The Perry Como Show." From 1959 to 1963 it was seen Wednesday evenings and was titled "The Kraft Music Hall." Regulars included Frank Gallop and the Ray Charles Singers. After his final weekly June 12, 1963 broadcast Perry Como appeared in scores of specials, beginning October 3, 1963, airing on NBC, CBS & ABC, and concluding on December 6, 1986. 

                                                                                        

September 12, 1955-June 12, 1963. In the fall of 1955 Perry Como returned to NBC where he hosted a weekly hour show. From 1955 to 1959 it was seen Saturday evenings and was titled "The Perry Como Show." From 1959 to 1963 it was seen Wednesday evenings and was titled "The Kraft Music Hall." Regulars included Frank Gallop and the Ray Charles Singers. After his final weekly June 12, 1963 broadcast Perry Como appeared in scores of specials, beginning October 3, 1963, airing on NBC, CBS & ABC, and concluding on December 6, 1986. 

                                                                             

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. 

September 12, 1955-June 12, 1963. In the fall of 1955 Perry Como returned to NBC where he hosted a weekly hour show. From 1955 to 1959 it was seen Saturday evenings and was titled "The Perry Como Show." From 1959 to 1963 it was seen Wednesday evenings and was titled "The Kraft Music Hall." Regulars included Frank Gallop and the Ray Charles Singers. After his final weekly June 12, 1963 broadcast Perry Como appeared in scores of specials, beginning October 3, 1963, airing on NBC, CBS & ABC, and concluding on December 6, 1986. 

                                                                                          

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.  

                                     

December 24th, 1948- June 4th, 1950 (NBC) October  2nd, 1950-June 24th 1955 (CBS) September  17th 1955- June 12th, 1963 (NBC) 

In 1944, the year his first record was released, Perry Como appeared on radio in The Chesterfield Supper Club; when that show came to television late in 1948, Como came with it, and has remained on television for more than four decades. The Chesterfield Supper Club, which also featured The Mitchell Ayres Orchestra and the Fontane Sisters, was originally seen on Friday nights but soon shifted to a half-hour slot on Sundays, opposite Ed Sullivan's "Toast Of The Town." In the fall of 1950, Como shifted to CBS where he hosted his own show for the next five seasons; the fifteen-minute program was seen Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, following the network news. Also featured were the Mitchell Ayres Orchestra and The Fontane Sisters, together with announcer Frank Gallop. In the fall of 1955 Como returned to NBC, where he hosted a weekly hour show for the next eight years; from 1955 to 1959 it was seen Saturdays and was titled The Perry Como Show. From 1959 to 1963 it was seen on Wednesdays and was titled The Kraft Music Hall. The Mitchell Ayres Orchestra and Frank Gallop were again featured, along with The Ray Charles Singers and The Louis DaPron Dancers (later, The Peter Gennaro Dancers). The Como Music Hall Players included Don Adams, Paul Lynde, Kaye Ballard, Jack Duffy, and Sandy Stewart.

Show of 11-23-60. Guests: The Lennon Sisters, Frank Gorshin, Tommy Sands, Crosby Brothers. 

Commercials included. Announcer Frank Gallop. 

  1959-1961 PBS
THE PLAY OF THE WEEK was a New York - based dramatic anthology series that relied heavily on talent  from Broadway.
Executive Producer, David Susskind. 

Broadcast this evening is the best of "New Faces" a production which made  its theatrical performance on Broadway in the 1950's.

It is a sprightly, five-act musical romp which features the same performers and the best of th sketches and musical numbers for Leonard Sillman in 1952 and '56. "Oedipus Goes South" is a take-off on Truman Capote by Ronny Graham, "Love is a Simple Thing" features Ina Swenson and Robert Clary, Virginia DeLuce, and June Carroll. In "Time For Ten" Alice Ghostley and June  Carroll portray old maids.                           

  1959-1961 PBS
THE PLAY OF THE WEEK was a New York - based dramatic anthology series that relied heavily on talent  from Broadway.
Executive Producer, David Susskind. 

Broadcast this evening is the best of "New Faces" a production which made  its theatrical performance on Broadway in the 1950's.

It is a sprightly, five-act musical romp which features the same performers and the best of th sketches and musical numbers for Leonard Sillman in 1952 and '56. "Oedipus Goes South" is a take-off on Truman Capote by Ronny Graham, "Love is a Simple Thing" features Ina Swenson and Robert Clary, Virginia DeLuce, and June Carroll. In "Time For Ten" Alice Ghostley and June  Carroll portray old maids.     

Duplicate of #10,230.                       

December 24th, 1948- June 4th, 1950 (NBC) October  2nd, 1950-June 24th 1955 (CBS) September  17th 1955- June 12th, 1963 (NBC) 

In 1944, the year his first record was released, Perry Como appeared on radio in The Chesterfield Supper Club; when that show came to television late in 1948, Como came with it, and has remained on television for more than four decades. The Chesterfield Supper Club, which also featured The Mitchell Ayres Orchestra and the Fontane Sisters, was originally seen on Friday nights but soon shifted to a half-hour slot on Sundays, opposite Ed Sullivan's "Toast Of The Town." In the fall of 1950, Como shifted to CBS where he hosted his own show for the next five seasons; the fifteen-minute program was seen Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, following the network news. Also featured were the Mitchell Ayres Orchestra and The Fontane Sisters, together with announcer Frank Gallop. In the fall of 1955 Como returned to NBC, where he hosted a weekly hour show for the next eight years; from 1955 to 1959 it was seen Saturdays and was titled The Perry Como Show. From 1959 to 1963 it was seen on Wednesdays and was titled The Kraft Music Hall. The Mitchell Ayres Orchestra and Frank Gallop were again featured, along with The Ray Charles Singers and The Louis DaPron Dancers (later, The Peter Gennaro Dancers). The Como Music Hall Players included Don Adams, Paul Lynde, Kaye Ballard, Jack Duffy, and Sandy Stewart.

Show of 12-7-60. Guests: Juliet Prowse, Steve Lawrence, The Kingston Trio. 

Commercials included. Announcer Frank Gallop. 

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. 

         THE PLAY OF THE WEEK - Syndicated - 1959-1961
A New York-based dramatic anthology series that relied heavily on talent from Broadway, with occasional musical revues. 
Each Thursday night there was broadcast a staged different play  covering all genres, dramas, comedies, musicals, fantasies, mysteries, etc. 
Underwritten by Standard Oil of New Jersey, the series' executive producer was David Susskind.  

NEW YORK SCRAPBOOK

This was the second WNTA-TV review attempt for Play of the Week which presented two hours of song, dance and sketches about Manhattan and surrounding environs.   

Many bright moments in this program included "Demi Dozen" which had a solid run at Julius Monk's "Upstairs at the Downstairs" nitery.  "Mr. Off-Broadway" is sung by lead Orson Bean. and "Ballad of the Lexington Ave. Express" is sung by Jane Connell. There is a song narrative about a corner preacher by Gerry Matthews. 

Kaye Ballard also belts out a few songs of her own, as well as singers Kenneth Nelson and Maureen Bailey. 

Julian Stein's orchestrations were for piano and from time to time, drums. 
          

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

         THE PLAY OF THE WEEK - Syndicated - 1959-1961
A New York-based dramatic anthology series that relied heavily on talent from Broadway, with occasional musical revues. 
Each Thursday night there was broadcast a staged different play  covering all genres, dramas, comedies, musicals, fantasies, mysteries, etc. 
Underwritten by Standard Oil of New Jersey, the series' executive producer was David Susskind.  

NEW YORK SCRAPBOOK

This was the second WNTA-TV review attempt for Play of the Week which presented two hours of song, dance and sketches about Manhattan and surrounding environs.   

Many bright moments in this program included "Demi Dozen" which had a solid run at Julius Monk's "Upstairs at the Downstairs" nitery.  "Mr. Off-Broadway" is sung by lead Orson Bean. and "Ballad of the Lexington Ave. Express" is sung by Jane Connell. There is a song narrative about a corner preacher by Gerry Matthews. 

Kaye Ballard also belts out a few songs of her own, as well as singers Kenneth Nelson and Maureen Bailey. 

Julian Stein's orchestrations were for piano and from time to time, drums. 

Duplicate of #10524. 
          

September 12, 1955-June 12, 1963. In the fall of 1955 Perry Como returned to NBC where he hosted a weekly hour show. From 1955 to 1959 it was seen Saturday evenings and was titled "The Perry Como Show." From 1959 to 1963 it was seen Wednesday evenings and was titled "The Kraft Music Hall." Regulars included Frank Gallop and the Ray Charles Singers. After his final weekly June 12, 1963 broadcast Perry Como appeared in scores of specials, beginning October 3, 1963, airing on NBC, CBS & ABC, and concluding on December 6, 1986. 

                                                                                                       

September 12, 1955-June 12, 1963. In the fall of 1955 Perry Como returned to NBC where he hosted a weekly hour show. From 1955 to 1959 it was seen Saturday evenings and was titled "The Perry Como Show." From 1959 to 1963 it was seen Wednesday evenings and was titled "The Kraft Music Hall." Regulars included Frank Gallop and the Ray Charles Singers. After his final weekly June 12, 1963 broadcast Perry Como appeared in scores of specials, beginning October 3, 1963, airing on NBC, CBS & ABC, and concluding on December 6, 1986. 

The 2-15-61 program features a short excerpt only. 

                                                                                                                    

September 12, 1955-June 12, 1963. In the fall of 1955 Perry Como returned to NBC where he hosted a weekly hour show. From 1955 to 1959 it was seen Saturday evenings and was titled "The Perry Como Show." From 1959 to 1963 it was seen Wednesday evenings and was titled "The Kraft Music Hall." Regulars included Frank Gallop and the Ray Charles Singers. After his final weekly June 12, 1963 broadcast Perry Como appeared in scores of specials, beginning October 3, 1963, airing on NBC, CBS & ABC, and concluding on December 6, 1986. 



                                                                                                                                 

September 12, 1955-June 12, 1963. In the fall of 1955 Perry Como returned to NBC where he hosted a weekly hour show. From 1955 to 1959 it was seen Saturday evenings and was titled "The Perry Como Show." From 1959 to 1963 it was seen Wednesday evenings and was titled "The Kraft Music Hall." Regulars included Frank Gallop and the Ray Charles Singers. After his final weekly June 12, 1963 broadcast Perry Como appeared in scores of specials, beginning October 3, 1963, airing on NBC, CBS & ABC, and concluding on December 6, 1986. 



                                                                                                                                              

December 24th, 1948- June 4th, 1950 (NBC) October  2nd, 1950-June 24th 1955 (CBS) September  17th 1955- June 12th, 1963 (NBC) 

In 1944, the year his first record was released, Perry Como appeared on radio in The Chesterfield Supper Club; when that show came to television late in 1948, Como came with it, and has remained on television for more than four decades. The Chesterfield Supper Club, which also featured The Mitchell Ayres Orchestra and the Fontane Sisters, was originally seen on Friday nights but soon shifted to a half-hour slot on Sundays, opposite Ed Sullivan's "Toast Of The Town." In the fall of 1950, Como shifted to CBS where he hosted his own show for the next five seasons; the fifteen-minute program was seen Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, following the network news. Also featured were the Mitchell Ayres Orchestra and The Fontane Sisters, together with announcer Frank Gallop. In the fall of 1955 Como returned to NBC, where he hosted a weekly hour show for the next eight years; from 1955 to 1959 it was seen Saturdays and was titled The Perry Como Show. From 1959 to 1963 it was seen on Wednesdays and was titled The Kraft Music Hall. The Mitchell Ayres Orchestra and Frank Gallop were again featured, along with The Ray Charles Singers and The Louis DaPron Dancers (later, The Peter Gennaro Dancers). The Como Music Hall Players included Don Adams, Paul Lynde, Kaye Ballard, Jack Duffy, and Sandy Stewart.

Show of 3-22-61. Guests: Actress Julie Newmar, Actress Martha Raye, Child Pianist Ginny Tiu. 


Commercials included. Announcer Frank Gallop. 

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.           

September 12, 1955-June 12, 1963. In the fall of 1955 Perry Como returned to NBC where he hosted a weekly hour show. From 1955 to 1959 it was seen Saturday evenings and was titled "The Perry Como Show." From 1959 to 1963 it was seen Wednesday evenings and was titled "The Kraft Music Hall." Regulars included Frank Gallop and the Ray Charles Singers. After his final weekly June 12, 1963 broadcast Perry Como appeared in scores of specials, beginning October 3, 1963, airing on NBC, CBS & ABC, and concluding on December 6, 1986. 



                                                                                                                                                           

1955-1973

Dick Sinclair produced and hosted this polka program that was broadcast on KTLA television in Los Angeles. The show featured Tom Kennedy as announcer, singer Julia Hand and long-time Lawrence Welk accordionist Myron Floren.  

Regulars: Julia Hand, All Star Polka Band, Myron Floren.                       

October 24th,1959-1961. 

Playboy's Penthouse was an American talk/variety television program hosted by Playboy founder Hugh Hefner. First broadcast on October 24th, 1959, it ran in syndication for two seasons.
The show was recorded at the studios of WBKB-TV in Chicago.                                     

Charles Collingwood interviews Carol Burnett. Burnett's younger sister, Christine Burnett, joins them.             

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. 

September 12, 1955-June 12, 1963. In the fall of 1955 Perry Como returned to NBC where he hosted a weekly hour show. From 1955 to 1959 it was seen Saturday evenings and was titled "The Perry Como Show." From 1959 to 1963 it was seen Wednesday evenings and was titled "The Kraft Music Hall." Regulars included Frank Gallop and the Ray Charles Singers. After his final weekly June 12, 1963 broadcast Perry Como appeared in scores of specials, beginning October 3, 1963, airing on NBC, CBS & ABC, and concluding on December 6, 1986. 

Repeat Of 4-15-61 Program



                                                                                                                                                                        

Charles Collingwood interviews Jayne Mansfield who is joined by her husband Mickey Haggerty and daughter Jayne Marie Mansfield. Rebroadcast of October 6, 1960.                                       

Charles Collingwood interviews Spike Jones who is joined by his wife Helen Grayco.  Rebroadcast of December 8, 1960.                          

Charles Collingwood interviews Claire Trevor.             

Charles Collingwood interviews Chuck Connors.             

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."                     

Charles Collingwood Interviews Andy Williams. Rebroadcast of December 15, 1960.             

Charles Collingwood interviews Kim Novak. Rebroadcast of October 6, 1960.

Many topics are explored including Kim's love of hats, the many projects she is currently enamored with including her paintings and construction of a fallout shelter which in her opinion is vital to create.

Kim Novak's long time childhood friend, Barbara Mellon, is introduced. She assists Kim with her many projects.

Other topics are discussed including Kim's opportunity, through her actor friend Cantinflas to actually fight a bull for real.

Kim's latest film Strangers in the Night is mentioned (a working title, "Strangers Underneath," is  mentioned), and more thoughts on her passion of painting and one she did of a painter painting Kim Novak herself entitled, "An artist painting Kim."


Miss Novak relates her father and his personality...love of sculpting frames...making a snowman with her nephews out of clay...priorities in life.

Kim states that she has little social life, reads four scripts a day...
personally a frustrated writer, and her best way of choosing a role is to see if she can add dimension to the character she is playing.

Kim agrees that her career has developed very rapidly, and it has been challenging to evolve into the celebrity she has become, for she is actually a very shy person.

           

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