Word: nbc
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hard enough to figure how the handsome, hard-eyed guy in the Ivy League lapels keeps a straight face while he straightens out such impossible plots. It is even harder to figure how his audience keeps from collapsing with laughter. But they both manage. Introduced by NBC (Monday, 9-9:30 p.m. E.S.T.) this fall as a kind of literate Mike Hammer, Private Eye Gunn in less than two months was pressing the prizewinning Danny Thomas Show, in latest surveys ranks near the top of NBC programs...
...Meets Peter and the Wolf (TIME, Dec. 8), which gave millions of adults a chance to watch the Bairds' marionette fish, their nose-wrinkling rabbits, and even a Baird cat climbing a tree-all funny rather than cute. Next Baird TV appearance: The Bell Telephone Hour (Jan. 12, NBC), with the puppets livening the Saint-Saëns Carnival of Animals as Maurice Evans narrates. And next week the Bairds and their puppets will go on the road with an original musical fantasy by Bil Baird (score by Richard Rodgers' composer-daughter Mary...
...Patrick's Cathedral (NBC, 12-1:45 a.m.). Midnight Mass from New York's best-known Roman Catholic church...
...Omnibus (NBC, 5-6 p.m.). Gene Kelly, whose direction of the new Broadway hit Flower Drum Song has kept him busy with Oriental dancing girls, undertakes to prove that dancing is also a "man's game...
Shirley Temple's Storybook (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). "Mother Goose" will give Shirley's own children a chance to edge Mamma offstage. Color...