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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crime shows, CBS's Wanted (Thurs. 10:30 p.m.) and The Lineup (Fri. 10 p.m.), follow the Dragnet pattern of sticking to fact, however stranger fiction may be. Wanted told the unhappy story of a sadistic wife-beater and general no-good, who accidentally killed a girl by running her down with his car. After being sentenced to a maximum ten years for manslaughter, he jumped bail and is now WANTED. The deplorable principle of the show was to portray the villain as so abhorrent that all viewers would ride along to the very end having a happy hate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Week in Review | 11/14/1955 | See Source »

Person To Person (Fri. 10:30 p.m., CBS). Ed Murrow visits Actress Julie Harris, Writer John Gunther...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Program Preview, Oct. 24, 1955 | 10/24/1955 | See Source »

Having been thoroughly shellacked in audience ratings by CBS's $64,000 Question, the veteran Truth and Consequences last week moved to a new night and a new time (Fri. 8 p.m., NBC). M.C. Jack Bailey also decided that the only way to fight money is with money and this week will plunk down a $100,000 jackpot to outbid Question's $64,000. The gimmick: College Student Pat Morris, 19, after being hypnotized and told that she cannot leave her chair, will get the opportunity of picking up $100,000 from a table across the stage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio & TV: The Hypnotic Dollars | 10/10/1955 | See Source »

Cavalcade of Sports (Fri. 10 p.m., NBC). Rocky Castellani v. Tiger Jones in ten-round middleweight bout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Program Preview, Sep. 26, 1955 | 9/26/1955 | See Source »

Person to Person (Fri. 10:30 p.m., CBS). Edward R. Murrow interviews Jesse Owens, Leonard Bernstein...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Program Preview, Sep. 26, 1955 | 9/26/1955 | See Source »

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