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...Jerry Colonna Show (Mon. 8 p.m., ABC-TV), thus far unsponsored, originates in California but owes more to Minsky's than to Hollywood, as Colonna is propelled with quivering mustache, freewheeling eyes and hog-calling tenor through a series of burlesque skits. As a barber, he uses a chamberpot for a shaving mug; on a rocket to the moon, he nuzzles a blonde stowaway; as a TV repairman, he pulls a battered corset from a TV set, crying: "Your condenser is weak!" Best example of Colonna's Klaxon charm: his screech-voiced assault on the popular song...
Laraine Day Show (Sat. 1 p.m., ABC-TV) stakes out another half-hour of daytime TV for the ladies. Actress Day, wife of the New York Giants' Manager Leo Durocher, hustles through half a dozen interviews (Author Fannie Hurst, Actress Barbara Britton, Singer Connie Moore, a barber, a general, and a wounded Korean veteran on a stretcher), and tosses off gaily professional asides about baseball that may confuse her housewife listeners. The " mood of something for everyone is heightened by two minutes of The Pocahontas Polka followed by two minutes of Ibsen's A Doll's House...
Q.E.D. (Tues. 9 p.m., ABC-TV) is a new, unsponsored quiz program devoted to brain teasers ("There are two windows, each four feet from top to bottom, and four feet across-why does one give twice as much light as the other?").* On the opening show, M. C. Doug Browning and his panel of experts (Actors Nina Foch and Charles Korvin, ex-Governor Hoffman of New Jersey, Producer Hi Brown) ended up in nearly as much confusion as the TV audience...
After polling U.S. radio & TV editors the tradesheet Radio Daily last week an nounced their favorite shows and perform ers of 1950. In the TV documentary field MARCH OF TIME'S filmed Crusade in Eu rope (ABC-TV) scored a repeat win (first telecast in 1949, Crusade won a Peabody Award). Documentary honors in radio went to NBC's four-part atomic program The Quick and the Dead, starring Bob Hope...
...Year: Sid Caesar (NBCTV) Woman of the Year: Faye Emerson (NBCTV and CBS-TV). Drama Show: Studio One (CBS-TV). Comedy Show: MiltonBerle (NBCTV). Musical Show: Fred Waring (CBS-TV)' Commentator: John Cameron Swayze (NBC-TV). Quiz Show: Stop the Music (ABC-TV). Sportcaster: Jimmy Powers (NBC-TV)! Children's Show: Kukla, Fran & Olli'e (NBC-TV...