1948-00-00, CBS, 28 min.
An unusual Public Affairs series, You Are There began in 1947 as a radio show (it was originally titled CBS was There). Each week a well-known historical event was recreated, and the leading figures in each drama were interviewed by CBS news correspondents (the correspondents were always in modern-day dress, regardless of the setting of the story). The television version ran from 1953-1957 on Sunday afternoons, and was revived in 1971 as a Saturday-afternoon show, aimed principally at children. Walter Cronkite was the chief correspondent on both TV versions. Paul Newman guest-starred on one program as Nathan Hale (30 August 1953) and the 1971 premiere " The Mystery of Amelia Earhart" featured Geraldine Brooks and Richard Dreyfuss.
A CBS Radio Network Production. In tonight's episode: "The Firing On Fort Sumpter, April 12th, 1861."
1948-06-13, CBS, 24 min.
An unusual Public Affairs series, You Are There began in 1947 as a radio show (it was originally titled CBS was There). Each week a well-known historical event was recreated, and the leading figures in each drama were interviewed by CBS news correspondents (the correspondents were always in modern-day dress, regardless of the setting of the story). The television version ran from 1953-1957 on Sunday afternoons, and was revived in 1971 as a Saturday-afternoon show, aimed principally at children. Walter Cronkite was the chief correspondent on both TV versions. Paul Newman guest-starred on one program as Nathan Hale (30 August 1953) and the 1971 premiere " The Mystery of Amelia Earhart" featured Geraldine Brooks and Richard Dreyfuss.
You Are There. June 13, 1948. CBS Radio Network - "The Sailing Of The Mayflower". The events of September 6, 1620.
1948-09-19, CBS, 29 min.
An unusual Public Affairs series, You Are There began in 1947 as a radio show (it was originally titled CBS was There). Each week a well-known historical event was recreated, and the leading figures in each drama were interviewed by CBS news correspondents (the correspondents were always in modern-day dress, regardless of the setting of the story). The television version ran from 1953-1957 on Sunday afternoons, and was revived in 1971 as a Saturday-afternoon show, aimed principally at children. Walter Cronkite was the chief correspondent on both TV versions. Paul Newman guest-starred on one program as Nathan Hale (30 August 1953) and the 1971 premiere " The Mystery of Amelia Earhart" featured Geraldine Brooks and Richard Dreyfuss.
You Are There. September 19, 1948. CBS Radio Network "The Ratification Of The Constitution". Sustaining. The events of June 25, 1788. Governor Randolph of Virginia changes his mind, ending the bitter divisiveness of the Constitutional Convention.
1949-00-00, CBS, 28 min.
An unusual Public Affairs series, You Are There began in 1947 as a radio show (it was originally titled CBS was There). Each week a well-known historical event was recreated, and the leading figures in each drama were interviewed by CBS news correspondents (the correspondents were always in modern-day dress, regardless of the setting of the story). The television version ran from 1953-1957 on Sunday afternoons, and was revived in 1971 as a Saturday-afternoon show, aimed principally at children. Walter Cronkite was the chief correspondent on both TV versions. Paul Newman guest-starred on one program as Nathan Hale (30 August 1953) and the 1971 premiere " The Mystery of Amelia Earhart" featured Geraldine Brooks and Richard Dreyfuss.
A CBS Radio Network broadcast. In tonight's episode: "The Opening Of The American Revolution, April 19th, 1775."
1949-00-00, CBS, 29 min.
An unusual Public Affairs series, You Are There began in 1947 as a radio show (it was originally titled CBS was There). Each week a well-known historical event was recreated, and the leading figures in each drama were interviewed by CBS news correspondents (the correspondents were always in modern-day dress, regardless of the setting of the story). The television version ran from 1953-1957 on Sunday afternoons, and was revived in 1971 as a Saturday-afternoon show, aimed principally at children. Walter Cronkite was the chief correspondent on both TV versions. Paul Newman guest-starred on one program as Nathan Hale (30 August 1953) and the 1971 premiere " The Mystery of Amelia Earhart" featured Geraldine Brooks and Richard Dreyfuss.
A CBS Radio Network Production. In tonight's episode: "The Battle Of Gettysburg, July 3rd, 1863."
1949-06-05, CBS, 28 min.
An unusual Public Affairs series, You Are There began in 1947 as a radio show (it was originally titled CBS was There). Each week a well-known historical event was recreated, and the leading figures in each drama were interviewed by CBS news correspondents (the correspondents were always in modern-day dress, regardless of the setting of the story). The television version ran from 1953-1957 on Sunday afternoons, and was revived in 1971 as a Saturday-afternoon show, aimed principally at children. Walter Cronkite was the chief correspondent on both TV versions. Paul Newman guest-starred on one program as Nathan Hale (30 August 1953) and the 1971 premiere " The Mystery of Amelia Earhart" featured Geraldine Brooks and Richard Dreyfuss.
You Are There. June 05, 1949. CBS Radio Network. "The Capture Of John Wilkes Booth". The events of April 26, 1865.
1955-09-10, CBS, min.
Miss America for 1956 is crowned. Sharon Richie, Miss Colorado, wins the top prize.
Co-hosts are Bert Parks, John Daly, Bess Meyerson, and Lee Meriwether, (Miss America 1955).
1956-10-07, WCBS, 2 min.
Announcer Hal Simms introduces the opening of the broadcast which includes guest panelist Phil Rizzuto who was the very first 'Mystery Guest" of this long running series premiering Feb. 2, 1950.
On the eve of Game Five of the 1956 World Series between the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Yankees Rizzuto predicts the Yankees will win which occurred when New York Yankee Don Larsen would pitch the only World Series Perfect game in history.
NOTE:
Archival Television Audio, Inc. has archived only the opening 95 seconds of this broadcast.
The complete program can be viewed (video - 25:50) on you tube
1956-11-04, WCBS, 5 min.
February 2nd, 1950-September 3rd, 1967 (CBS)
1968-1975- Syndicated
Television's longest-running primetime game show. The panelists would try and guess the occupation of the contestant. Cards would be flipped worth $5.00 each. If the panel could not guess the contestant's line of walk after $50.00 was reached, the contestant would be declared the winner. The final contestant would always be a mystery guest who was known to the public, with the panel wearing blindfolds. Some of the panelists over the years included Bennett Cerf, Arlene Francis, Dorothy Kilgallen, Steve Allen, and Fred Allen. John Daly was the show's host for its entire seventeen-year network run. The show's final episode aired on Sunday, September 3rd, 1967 with host John Daly appearing as the mystery guest. The show returned in syndication with the same format in 1968 with Wally Bruner as the host. He was replaced by Larry Blyden in 1972. Blyden remained the host until 1975 when the show ceased production. Blyden died in 1975 after suffering injuries from a car accident.
The guest is John Cameron Swayze. John Daly is the host.
Five-minute excerpt.
1956-12-07, WCBS, 6 min.
February 2nd, 1950-September 3rd, 1967 (CBS)
1968-1975- Syndicated
Television's longest-running primetime game show. The panelists would try and guess the occupation of the contestant. Cards would be flipped worth $5.00 each. If the panel could not guess the contestant's line of walk after $50.00 was reached, the contestant would be declared the winner. The final contestant would always be a mystery guest who was known to the public, with the panel wearing blindfolds. Some of the panelists over the years included Bennett Cerf, Arlene Francis, Dorothy Kilgallen, Steve Allen, and Fred Allen. John Daly was the show's host for its entire seventeen-year network run. The show's final episode aired on Sunday, September 3rd, 1967 with host John Daly appearing as the mystery guest. The show returned in syndication with the same format in 1968 with Wally Bruner as the host. He was replaced by Larry Blyden in 1972. Blyden remained the host until 1975 when the show ceased production. Blyden died in 1975 after suffering injuries from a car accident.
Mystery Guest: Jose Ferrer.
1957-05-11, WCBS, 6 min.
February 2nd, 1950-September 3rd, 1967 (CBS)
1968-1975- Syndicated
Television's longest-running primetime game show. The panelists would try and guess the occupation of the contestant. Cards would be flipped worth $5.00 each. If the panel could not guess the contestant's line of walk after $50.00 was reached, the contestant would be declared the winner. The final contestant would always be a mystery guest who was known to the public, with the panel wearing blindfolds. Some of the panelists over the years included Bennett Cerf, Arlene Francis, Dorothy Kilgallen, Steve Allen, and Fred Allen. John Daly was the show's host for its entire seventeen-year network run. The show's final episode aired on Sunday, September 3rd, 1967 with host John Daly appearing as the mystery guest. The show returned in syndication with the same format in 1968 with Wally Bruner as the host. He was replaced by Larry Blyden in 1972. Blyden remained the host until 1975 when the show ceased production. Blyden died in 1975 after suffering injuries from a car accident.
Adolph Menjou and Greer Garson join Dorothy Kilgallen and Bennett Cerf as guest panelists. The mystery guest is Walter Brennan.
Host: John Daly.
1957-09-29, WCBS, min.
February 2nd, 1950-September 3rd, 1967 (CBS)
1968-1975- Syndicated
Television's longest-running primetime game show. The panelists would try and guess the occupation of the contestant. Cards would be flipped worth $5.00 each. If the panel could not guess the contestant's line of walk after $50.00 was reached, the contestant would be declared the winner. The final contestant would always be a mystery guest who was known to the public, with the panel wearing blindfolds. Some of the panelists over the years included Bennett Cerf, Arlene Francis, Dorothy Kilgallen, Steve Allen, and Fred Allen. John Daly was the show's host for its entire seventeen-year network run. The show's final episode aired on Sunday, September 3rd, 1967 with host John Daly appearing as the mystery guest. The show returned in syndication with the same format in 1968 with Wally Bruner as the host. He was replaced by Larry Blyden in 1972. Blyden remained the host until 1975 when the show ceased production. Blyden died in 1975 after suffering injuries from a car accident.
Bennett Cerf subs for moderator John Daly.
1957-12-29, ABC, 11 min.
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.
1958-10-27, ABC, 00 min.
September 5, 1949-June 7, 1954 (NBC); June 14, 1954-June 16, 1963 (ABC). This was the first broadcast of the season. "Voice of Firestone," which began on radio in 1928, was a Monday-night perennial for more than two decades before coming to television in 1949; for the next five years it was simulcast on NBC radio and television, until a dispute between the sponsor and the network over the Monday time slot led Firestone to shift the program to ABC. The half-hour musical series presented all kinds of music, but emphasized classical and semiclassical selections. Each week a guest celebrity was featured, and for many years the principal guests came from the Metropolitan Opera Company. The Firestone Orchestra was conducted by Howard Barlow, and the show was hosted by John Daly during its years on ABC; Hugh James was the announcer. "Voice of Firestone" was seen as a series of specials from 1959 until 1962; it returned as a weekly series in the fall of 1962 for a final season (September 30, 1962-June 16, 1963).
John Daly, Narrator.
1958-11-16, WCBS, 4 min.
February 2nd, 1950-September 3rd, 1967 (CBS)
1968-1975- Syndicated
Television's longest-running primetime game show. The panelists would try and guess the occupation of the contestant. Cards would be flipped worth $5.00 each. If the panel could not guess the contestant's line of walk after $50.00 was reached, the contestant would be declared the winner. The final contestant would always be a mystery guest who was known to the public, with the panel wearing blindfolds. Some of the panelists over the years included Bennett Cerf, Arlene Francis, Dorothy Kilgallen, Steve Allen, and Fred Allen. John Daly was the show's host for its entire seventeen-year network run. The show's final episode aired on Sunday, September 3rd, 1967 with host John Daly appearing as the mystery guest. The show returned in syndication with the same format in 1968 with Wally Bruner as the host. He was replaced by Larry Blyden in 1972. Blyden remained the host until 1975 when the show ceased production. Blyden died in 1975 after suffering injuries from a car accident.
Mystery Guest: Harry Belafonte.
Host: John Daly.
1958-11-24, ABC, 00 min.
September 5, 1949-June 7, 1954 (NBC); June 14, 1954-June 16, 1963 (ABC). This was the first broadcast of the season. "Voice of Firestone," which began on radio in 1928, was a Monday-night perennial for more than two decades before coming to television in 1949; for the next five years it was simulcast on NBC radio and television, until a dispute between the sponsor and the network over the Monday time slot led Firestone to shift the program to ABC. The half-hour musical series presented all kinds of music, but emphasized classical and semiclassical selections. Each week a guest celebrity was featured, and for many years the principal guests came from the Metropolitan Opera Company. The Firestone Orchestra was conducted by Howard Barlow, and the show was hosted by John Daly during its years on ABC; Hugh James was the announcer. "Voice of Firestone" was seen as a series of specials from 1959 until 1962; it returned as a weekly series in the fall of 1962 for a final season (September 30, 1962-June 16, 1963).
"Best Of Opera."
Narrated By John Daly.
Wilfred Pelletier Conducts The Firestone Orchestra.
1958-12-01, ABC, 13 min.
September 5, 1949-June 7, 1954 (NBC);
June 14, 1954-June 16, 1963 (ABC)
This was the first broadcast of the season. "Voice of Firestone," which began on radio in 1928, was a Monday-night perennial for more than two decades before coming to television in 1949; for the next five years it was simulcast on NBC radio and television, until a dispute between the sponsor and the network over the Monday time slot led Firestone to shift the program to ABC. The half-hour musical series presented all kinds of music, but emphasized classical and semiclassical selections. Each week a guest celebrity was featured, and for many years the principal guests came from the Metropolitan Opera Company. The Firestone Orchestra was conducted by Howard Barlow, and the show was hosted by John Daly during its years on ABC; Hugh James was the announcer. "Voice of Firestone" was seen as a series of specials from 1959 until 1962; it returned as a weekly series in the fall of 1962 for a final season (September 30, 1962-June 16, 1963).
"Music of Hollywood"
Academy Award winning songs from 1934-1957 are featured.
Joined in progress, host, John Daly introduces
Roger Williams on the piano who plays "Three Coins in the Fountain."
Tony Martin and Shirley Jones duet "Three Coins in the Fountain."
"Somewhere Over the Rainbow"................................Shirley Jones
"Night and Day"............................................................Tony Martin
"Let's Face the Music and Dance"..............................Chorus
From SHOWBOAT, Shirley Jones and Tony Martin sing,
"Only Make Believe."
1959-03-12, ABC, 7 min.
Highlights: Hawaii to become the 50th State, Hawaii and Washington jubilant, comment by its Governor William Quinn, Correspondent John Edwards reports.
Prime Minister McMillan and President Eisenhower to have a meeting at Camp David, Secretary of State Dulles is ill, Khrushchev flies back to Russia after East Germany visit, more on labor racketeering in government work investigated by Senate racket investigative committee. Senator John McClellan and Robert Kennedy accuse witness Joey Glimco of being "yellow." He takes the 5th multiple times.
Host: John Daly
1959-11-16, CBS, 2 min.
The show's opening only.
Host: John Daly.
1960-07-28, WCBS, 121 min.
Highlights, including Richard M. Nixon's entire 52 min. acceptance speech are covered by newsmen Chet Huntley, David Brinkley, Walter Cronkite, Edward R. Murrow, John Daly and Martin Agronsky from all three networks. Additional speeches are heard from Henry Cabot Lodge and from Nelson Rockefeller. In a memorable moment of television, we listen to Richard M. Nixon, who chats with shoe shine boy Leon Thompson. They talk about baseball and politics. Nixon introduces his daughter Tricia Nixon to Leon. Back in the NBC studios, Edwin Newman comments with a chuckle and signs off.
1960-11-08, NBC, min.
Election returns, coverage from all three networks, CBS, NBC, and ABC. The Huntley-Brinkley returns on NBC sponsored by Texaco, CBS coverage with Prescott Robinson sitting in for Robert Trout, and ABC coverage with John Daly. Huntley and Brinkley turn over their broadcast to Dave Garroway and Frank Blair at the "Today" show.
The NBC RCA 501 Computer says that the odds are 6.3 to 1 that John F. Kennedy will win the election. However, the ABC computer Univac predicts that Richard M. NIxon will win the election. For the first time computers are used to predict a Presidential Election via television coverage.
1960-11-17, , min.
Presidential press secretary James Hagerty may replace John Daly at ABC news. Clark Gable dead.
1961-10-09, WNBC, 52 min.
"Sound of the Sixties" examines the sights and sounds associated with the way Americans live and may live in the decade ahead. John Daly narrates.
1962-04-15, WCBS, 4 min.
Mystery guest Casey Stengel, who had managed the New York Mets first baseball game five days ago, talks baseball with panelists Bennett Cerf, Dorothy Kilgallen, Arlene Francis, Tony Randall and John Daly.
1963-02-18, WNBC, 35 min.
Guests are John Daly, Charlton Heston and Diahann Carroll.
1963-05-07, ABC, min.
September 27, 1960 - June 4, 1963
BELL AND HOWELL CLOSE-UP! a series of reports produced in the main by ABC News' newly formed CLOSE-UP! unit headed by John Secondari, but often by Robert Drew and his team at Drew Associates in association with Time, Inc. Of particular interest is the fact that John Daly, ABC's vice-president of News and Public Affairs, resigned in protest following the broadcast of Drew's "YANKI NO!" Daly, who in 1953 had become that network's first nightly TV nightly news anchor quit his ABC post in disagreement with the network's new practice of farming out documentay assignments to independent producers.
Unfortunately for Robert Drew Associates, which were creating a new way of making documentaries ('DIRECT CINEMA'), only five different documentaries from his company, three of them filmed by documentary cinematographer Richard Leacock, were broadcast in total (one a two parter) from December 7, 1960 to May 16, 1961.
"YANKI NO!" broadcast December 7, 1960
"X-PILOT" broadcast February 6, 1961
"THE CHILDREN ARE WATCHING" broadcast
February 16, 1961
"ADVENTURES ON THE NEW FRONTIER broadcast
March 28, 1961
"KENYA: LAND OF THE WHITE GHOST, part 1" broadcast
May 9, 1961
"KENYA: LAND OF THE WHITE GHOST, part 2" broadcast
May 16, 1961
"MONEY FOR BURNING," A documentary about the Secret Service (protecting the president from harm and protection of US money from counterfeiters).
Deputy Chief Paul Paterney and agent Richard Roth describe and then raid a counterfeiting distribution center. Undercover agents explain their roles and methods. Tips on spotting bad bills are also offered. Interestingly, in 1962 five hundred thousand dollars' worth of bogus bills was passed in the USA. Three and a half million was intercepted before it went into circulation and 737 do-it-yourself currency producers were arrested.
Narrated by Oscar Rose.
Sponsored by Bell and Howell. 1964-05-25, WNBC, 94 min.
Hosts for the sixteenth annual Emmy Awards are Joey Bishop in Hollywood and E.G. Marshall in New York. Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore introduce this special telecast. Humorous excerpts from past Emmy Award telecasts are played. A galaxy of celebrities appear including Danny Kaye, Hugh Downs, Chet Huntley, Rod
Serling, Patty Duke, Jane Wyatt, Carl Reiner, David Janssen, Jerry Paris, James Franciscus, Dean Jagger, David Frost, John Daly, Don Defore, Shirley Booth, Tom Gries, James Drury, Roberta Shore, Polly Bergen, and Mel Brooks who with Reiner does a "2000 Year Old Man" skit. Other personalities appearing include Inger Stevens, Richard Deacon, Gene Barry, Ruth White, Zina Bethune, Shirl Conway, Garry Moore, Jack Klugman, Vince Edwards, Shelley Winters, Nat King Cole, Johnny Carson, Milton Berle, Lorne Greene. The cast from "That Was The Week That Was," Elliot Reid, Nancy Ames, Pat Englund, and David Frost satirize the 1963-64 television season. Jack Benny presents the Emmy Award for Program of the Year, "The Making of the President." Mel Stuart and David L. Wolper accept the award.
1965-02-14, WCBS, 26 min.
Steve Allen, a former "What's My Line"
panelist (1/11/53 clip is shown), returns
to help Dorothy Kilgallen, Arlene Francis, Bennett Cerf, and host John Daly celebrate the show's 15th Anniversary. Gloria Swanson is this evening's Mystery Guest. Also appearing on this 751st consecutive broadcast are Martin Gabel, Jayne Meadows, Phyllis Cerf and Richard Kollmar. Johnny Olsen is the announcer.
1965-12-28, , 45 min.
1970-11-00, KDKA, 294 min.
A fiftieth anniversary of Radio Broadcasting, 1920 to 1970, with narrators Ben Gross, Jimmy Wallington, Henry Morgan, George Hamilton Combs, Garry Moore and Jack Bogut. Tracks include Warren Barber, Rudy Vallee, Fanny Brice, Eddie Cantor, Al Smith, Amos 'N' Andy, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Lauder, Will Rogers, Ben Bernie's Orchestra, Jack Benny and Mary Livingston, Arthur Godfrey, Charlie McCarthy and W.C Fields, Victor
Borge, Herbert Hoover, Bob Hope, Ed Wynn, George Burns and Gracie Allen, Fibber McGee and Molly, Agnes Moorehead, "The Lone Ranger," "The Shadow," Irene Wicker, Jack Armstrong, "Young Dr.Malone," "Mary
Noble Backstage Wife," "Sybil Trent,
Eleanor Powell, Ziegfeld Follies with James Melton, Lanny Ross, Ben Grauer, "The March of Time," Huey Long, John Daly, Walter Winchell, Winston Churchill, Kay Kayser's Orchestra, Command Performance,
Wartime Songs, "Your Hit Parade," Harry S. Truman, "Stage Door Canteen, "Dwight D. Eisenhower, General Douglas MacArthur, Bing Crosby, Princess Elizabeth, Edward R.
Murrow, General Wainwright, Wendell Willkie, Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, Bruce Morrow, Stan Freberg, William B. Williams, Rod MacLeish, Barry Farber, Death of J.F.K., radio fluffs and commercials.
1975-05-28, WABC, 60 min.
John Daly, Arlene Francis and Mark Goodson host this tribute on : "What's My Line's 25th Anniversary." A nostalgic retrospect with scores of celebrity guests from the past, via kinescope and videotape, including longtime panelists Dorothy Kilgallen and Bennett Cerf.
