Word: nbc
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...boss of NBC-TV's Wagon Train, Major Seth Adams (Ward Bond), sometime Union cavalry officer, can be forgiven his aplomb. He has been tangling with oddballs ever since he started his first trek out of St. Joseph, Mo. a year ago last September, headed for Sacramento, Calif. Every week, while the train fights thirst, Indians and renegade whites, Bond has had to take time out to handle the wild and woolly characters with which his scriptwriters people the West. In A Man Called Horse, beefy Ralph ("Picnic") Meeker turned up as an ignorant settler who had been handed...
...Ford Show (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). An experiment in avant-garde orchestration, with the razorback rhythms of Tennessee Ernie as counterpoint to the Elgaresque swells of Charles Laughton...
Invitational Bowling (NBC, 10 p.m.-ad infinitum). The finals of the world series of bowling, broadcast live from the Chicago Coliseum...
Amahl and the Night Visitors (NBC, 5-6 p.m.). Gian Carlo Menotti's opera about the lame shepherd boy who pledges his crutch to the infant Jesus has been a yearly joy since 1951 and may well be one in 2051; with Kirk Jordan as Amahl, Rosemary Kuhlman as his mother...
...Chevy Show (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Dinah Shore takes the evening off, so Sid Caesar takes on about everything else...