TV Life: Part 9


This issue of TV Life takes place in 1953. This is the cover of the issue we're going to look at.


All of the days programming fits nicely on one page. Me, I wish I was alive back then so I could see the wonderfully-titled "Religious Program." That and Orson Wells in "King Lear."


Thanks, but I don't care any more. That was last week. Or, I guess this might have come out before October 18. I wonder what the cartoons on Cartoon Time were like.


DuMont had its own network AND its own brand of television sets. This is why I'm wondering why a rival TV maker is sponsoring the Bishop's show. Fulton J. Sheen had his own program on the DuMont network. That is not him in the TV pictured though. Unless he grew two heads and one of them was a woman's. The cost of a TV back then was a lot. But hey, it's equipped for Channel 27.


I have never heard the word "fistic." It's a word meaning "pertaining to boxing." I thought it had something to do with fisticuffs. And hey, a new station for Hollywood Wrestling. Let me guess. It was previously on channel 27.


A nursery ad in TV Life. An odd placement for a short article. Nite Owl Theater looks interesting.


This has a whole bunch of questions. Why don't they know what's on channel 27 half the time? Why does channel 6 start its broadcast day at 6pm? What is "panoramic" football? Why does Ernest P. Duckweather star in a show called "Johnny Jupiter"? How big is Smilin' Ed's "giant" horse? Did Superman actually get defeated? Well, at least Gene Autry got warned of danger. It's nice to warn people about that.