1951 in American television

Television related events in the USA during 1951

List of years in American television:

* 1948
* 1949
* 1950
* 1951
* 1952
* 1953
* 1954

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1950–51 United States network television schedule
1951–52 United States network television schedule
List of American television programs currently in production

This is a list of American television-related events in 1951.

## Events

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March 22  | RCA introduces an eight-pound (3.6 kg) monochrome television camera with a 53-pound (24 kg) backpack transmitter, both operated by batteries. It is the first portable television camera.  |
May 28  | The Federal Communications Commission's approval of the Columbia Broadcasting System's color television system is upheld by the United States Supreme Court.  |
June 25  | CBS presents its first commercial color telecast, featuring Arthur Godfrey, Ed Sullivan, and Faye Emerson.  |
August 11  | A double-header between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Boston Braves becomes the first baseball game to be televised in color.  |
September 4  | The first live transcontinental television broadcast occurs in San Francisco, California from the Japanese Peace Treaty Conference.  |
September 29  | CBS presents the first American football game to be presented in color, a college game between the University of California Bears and the University of Pennsylvania Quakers, taking place in Philadelphia  |
NBC broadcasts the first live sporting event coast-to-coast, in all time zones. It was a college football game between the Duke University Blue Devils and the University of Pittsburgh Panthers.  |
October 3  | The first-ever color telecast of a World Series baseball game.  |
October 20  | CBS debuts its trademark eye logo.  |
November 11  | Bing Crosby Enterprises demonstrates black-and-white video recording through using a modified Ampex tape recorder.  |
December 6  | The National Association of Radio and Television Broadcasters (NARTB) establishes the Television Code, a set of ethical standards for television broadcasting in the public interest. It would be abolished in January 1983.  | [1]
December 23  | The 1951 NFL Championship Game becomes the first professional football game ever to be telecast on a live, coast-to-coast basis on the DuMont Television Network. DuMont purchased the rights to broadcast the championship game for the next five years. The game resulted in the Los Angeles Rams winning their second pre-Super Bowl era NFL championship by defeating the Cleveland Browns, 24-17.  | [2][3]

## Television programs

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### Debuts

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January 8  | Say It with Acting | NBC
January 21  | With This Ring | DuMont  |
February[4] | Public Prosecutor | NBC
February 3[5] | The Victor Borge Show | NBC |
February 28  | Ladies Before Gentlemen | DuMont  |
March 3 [6][7] | Watch Mr. Wizard | NBC |
March 6  | Once Upon a Tune | DuMont  |
March 12[8] | Miss Susan | NBC | Later retitled as Martinsville, U.S.A.
March 23  | Beat the Clock | CBS
April 5  | The Range Rider | First-run syndication
April 7  | Major Dell Conway of the Flying Tigers | DuMont  |
April 12  | DuMont Royal Theater | DuMont |
April 15[9] | The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok | First-run syndication
April 15  | Music From Chicago | DuMont |
April 19  | Casey, Crime Photographer | CBS
April 29  | Not for Publication | DuMont  |
May 2  | Stage Entrance | DuMont  |
May 6  | Pentagon | DuMont  |
May 7  | Jacqueline Susann's Open Door | DuMont  |
Strike It Rich | CBS
May 11  | The Lawrence Welk Show | KTLA
May 22  | Washington Report | DuMont  |
May 30  | Down You Go | DuMont  |
International Playhouse | DuMont  |
June  | At Home With Billie Burke | DuMont  |
June 2[10] | A Date with Judy | ABC
June 6  | Shadow of the Cloak | DuMont |
June 7  | Racket Squad | CBS
June 15[11] | Midwestern Hayride | NBC |
June 25  | What's the Story? | DuMont  |
June 28[12][13] | The Amos 'n Andy Show | CBS
July 3  | Georgetown University Forum | DuMont  |
July 6[14] | Front Page Detective | DuMont
July 13[15] | Hollywood Opening Night | CBS
August 3  | The Ad-Libbers | CBS
August 3  | Tales of Tomorrow | ABC
August 11[16] | The Adventures of Kit Carson | First-run syndication
August 27  | The Gallery of Madame Liu-Tsong | DuMont  |
September  | Boston Blackie | First-run syndication
September 1  | Kids and Company | DuMont  |
September 3[17] | Search for Tomorrow | CBS
September 6  | Crawford Mystery Theatre | DuMont  |
News Gal | DuMont  |
NFL on DuMont | DuMont  |
Take the Break | DuMont  |
September 16[18][19] | Sky King | NBC
September 24[20] | Love of Life | CBS |
September 30[21][22][23][24] | The Red Skelton Show | NBC
October 2  | Cosmopolitan Theatre | DuMont
October 3[25] | Celanese Theatre | ABC |
October 5  | ABC Mystery Theater | ABC
October 5  | Schlitz Playhouse of Stars | CBS
October 9  | Keep Posted | DuMont  |
October 11  | Football This Week | DuMont  |
October 13  | The Talent Shop | DuMont  |
October 14  | Goodyear Television Playhouse | NBC
October 15  | I Love Lucy | CBS
October 18  | Foreign Intrigue | First-run syndication
October 28[26] | Out There | CBS
November 3  | City Hospital | ABC
November 18  | See It Now | CBS
November 23[27][28] | The RCA Victor Show | NBC
November 27  | The Dinah Shore Show | NBC |
November 29  | This Is Music | DuMont  |
December 1  | The Pet Shop | DuMont  |
December 5  | The Name's the Same | ABC
December 14  | Dragnet | NBC
December 24[29] | Hallmark Hall of Fame | NBC |
December 30  | The Roy Rogers Show | NBC |

### Changes of network affiliation

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Author Meets the Critics | ABC  | NBC
Candid Camera | NBC  | First-run syndication
Twenty Questions | ABC  | Dumont
Pro Football Highlights | ABC  | Dumont

### Ending this year

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Date  | Show  | Network  | Debut  | Notes

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January 7  | Rhythm Rodeo | DuMont | August 6, 1950  |
January 16  | The Alan Dale Show | DuMont | 1948  |
January 19  | Time for Reflection | DuMont | June 27, 1949  |
January 22  | Visit with the Armed Forces | DuMont | July 3, 1950  |
January 30  | Buck Rogers | ABC | April 15, 1950  |
March 11  | With This Ring | DuMont | January 21, 1951  |
March 15  | The Nash Airflyte Theater | CBS | September 21, 1950  |
March 27  | The Billy Rose Show | ABC | October 3, 1950  |
Prudential Family Playhouse | CBS | October 10, 1950  |
March 31  | Saturday Night at the Garden | DuMont | October 7, 1950  |
April  | Eloise Salutes the Stars | DuMont | October 1950  |
April 3  | Sure as Fate | CBS | July 4, 1950  |
April 7  | Dick Tracy | ABC | September 11, 1950  |
April 17  | Our Secret Weapon: The Truth | DuMont | October 22, 1950  |
April 20  | Manhattan Spotlight | DuMont | January 17, 1949  |
May 2  | Ladies Before Gentlemen | DuMont | February 28, 1951  |
May 15  | Once Upon a Tune | DuMont | March 6, 1951  |
June 17  | Music from Chicago | DuMont | April 15, 1951  |
June 23  | Small Fry Club | DuMont  | March 11, 1947 (with the title "Movies for Small Fry")  |
June 23  | Foodini the Great | CBS | August 23, 1948  |
June 26  | Court of Current Issues | DuMont | February 9, 1948  |
June 29  | Jacqueline Susann's Open Door | DuMont | May 7, 1951  |
June 30  | The Victor Borge Show | NBC | February 3, 1951  |
July 6  | Okay, Mother | DuMont  | November 6, 1948 (on WABD)  |
July 18  | Four Star Revue | unknown  | unknown  | [30]
August 9  | The Al Morgan Show | DuMont | September 2, 1949  |
August 24  | Broadway Open House | NBC | May 29, 1950  |
August 29  | Stars Over Hollywood | NBC | September 6, 1950  |
August 31  | The Ad-Libbers | CBS | August 3, 1951  |
September 25  | Cavalcade of Bands | DuMont | January 17, 1950  |
September 27  | Crawford Mystery Theatre | DuMont | September 6, 1951  |
September 28  | Club Seven | ABC  | August 12, 1948  |
November 1  | Washington Exclusive | DuMont  | June 21, 1953  |
November 14  | International Playhouse | DuMont  | May 30, 1951  |
November 21  | The Gallery of Madame Liu-Tsong | DuMont | August 27, 1951  |
November 23  | Mohawk Showroom | NBC | May 2, 1949  |
December 6  | Football This Week | DuMont  | October 11, 1951  |
December 11  | Hands of Murder | DuMont | August 24, 1949  |
December 10  | Somerset Maugham TV Theatre | CBS
NBC | October 18, 1950  |
December 25  | Cosmopolitan Theatre | DuMont | October 2, 1951  |
December 27  | The Bigelow Theatre | CBS
DuMont | December 10, 1950  |
December 28  | Miss Susan | NBC  | March 12, 1951  | Also known as Martinsville, U.S.A.

## Television stations

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### Station launches

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Date  | City of License/Market | Station | Channel  | Affiliation  | Notes/Ref.

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September 15  | Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico
(Brownsville/McAllen, Texas, USA) | XELD-TV | 7  | CBS (primary)
ABC (secondary)  | First Mexican-licensed television station meant to serve an American-based audience
September 30  | Atlanta, Georgia | WLTV | 11  | ABC | now WXIA-TV, an NBC affiliate.

### Network affiliation changes

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Date  | City of license/Market  | Station  | Channel  | Old affiliation  | New affiliation  | Notes/Ref.

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January 1  | Los Angeles, California | KTSL | 2  | DuMont | CBS | Now CBS O&O station KCBS-TV.

## Births

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Main article: 1951 in television § Births

## Deaths

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Main article: 1951 in television § Deaths

## References

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1. ^ Television History – The First 75 Years: Code of Practices for Television Broadcasters
2. ^ "DuMont buys rights to pro title contest". Milwaukee Journal. May 22, 1951. p. 6, part 2.
3. ^ "Pro Football and DuMont Sign a $475,000 TV Pact" (PDF). The New York Times. May 22, 1951. Retrieved November 23, 2022.
4. ^ "Brewers Ogle TV As Spring Nears", Billboard, February 24, 1951, p. 6.
5. ^ McNeil, Alex (1996). Total Television: the Comprehensive Guide to Programming from 1948 to the Present (4th ed.). New York, New York: Penguin Books USA, Inc. p. 884\. ISBN 0-14-02-4916-8.
6. ^ "Watch Mr. Wizard at Encyclopedia of Television". Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved November 20, 2022.
7. ^ "Watch Mr. Wizard". Mr. Wizard Studios, Inc. 2004. Retrieved 2012-05-24.
8. ^ Erickson, Hal (2009). Encyclopedia of Television Law Shows: Factual and Fictional Series About Judges, Lawyers, and the Courtroom, 1948-2008. McFarland. p. 189\. ISBN 9780786438280.
9. ^ Woolery, George W. (1985). Children's Television: The First Thirty-Five Years, 1946-1981, Part II: Live, Film, and Tape Series. The Scarecrow Press. pp. 34–37\. ISBN 0-8108-1651-2.
10. ^ McNeil, Alex (1996). Total Television (4th ed.). New York, New York: Penguin Books USA, Inc. p. 199\. ISBN 0-14-02-4916-8.
11. ^ Brooks, Tim; Marsh, Earle (1992), The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows, Ballantine Books, ISBN 0-345-37792-3
12. ^ "Amos And Andy Name Subs For Television Roles". St. Petersburg Times. 18 June 1951. Retrieved 11 October 2010.
13. ^ "'Amos 'n' Andy' Characters Use Satire, Not Comedy". Baltimore Afro-American. 18 August 1951. Retrieved 17 March 2011.
14. ^ Brooks, Tim & Marsh, Earle (1979). The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows: 1946-Present. Ballantine Books. ISBN 0-345-25525-9. P. 213.
15. ^ Brooks, Tim; Marsh, Earle F. (2009). The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows, 1946-Present. Random House Publishing Group. p. 623\. ISBN 978-0-307-48320-1. Retrieved January 31, 2022.
16. ^ "The Adventures of Kit Carson Season 1 Episodes". TVGuide.com. Retrieved 2021-05-06.
17. ^ Schemering, Christopher (1987). The Soap Opera Encyclopedia (2nd ed.). Ballantine Books. pp. 200–212\. ISBN 0-345-35344-7.
18. ^ Brooks, Tim; Marsh, Earle F. (2007). The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows, 1946-Present. New York: Ballantine Books. p. 932\. ISBN 978-0-345-49773-4. Retrieved May 28, 2021.
19. ^ McNeil, Alex (1996). Total Television: the Comprehensive Guide to Programming from 1948 to the Present. New York: Penguin Books. p. 763\. ISBN 0-14-02-4916-8. Retrieved May 28, 2021.
20. ^ Schemering, Christopher (1987). The Soap Opera Encyclopedia (2nd ed.). Ballantine Books. pp. 151–156\. ISBN 0-345-35344-7.
21. ^ Skelton To Air Live as TVA Waives 60-Day Kine Limit. Billboard. 16 June 1951. Retrieved 28 May 2011.
22. ^ Rubber Face on TV. Life. 22 October 1951. Retrieved 21 May 2011.
23. ^ Skelton, P& G Stew Boiling. Billboard. 22 November 1952. Retrieved 28 May 2011.
24. ^ Craig Resigns as B&B Veepee For Radio-TV/Skelton Plans Variety Format. Billboard. 30 May 1953. Retrieved 28 May 2011.
25. ^ Brooks, Tim; Marsh, Earle F. (2009). The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows, 1946-Present. Random House Publishing Group. p. 228\. ISBN 9780307483201. Retrieved 2 December 2017.
26. ^ Brooks, Tim; Marsh, Earle (1999). The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows 1946-Present (7th ed.). New York: The Ballentine Publishing Group. p. 770\. ISBN 0-345-42923-0.
27. ^ Brooks, Tim; Marsh, Earle F. (June 24, 2009). The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows, 1946-Present. Random House Publishing Group. p. 1127\. ISBN 978-0-307-48320-1. Retrieved June 23, 2022.
28. ^ McNeil, Alex (1996). Total Television: the Comprehensive Guide to Programming from 1948 to the Present (4th ed.). New York, New York: Penguin Books USA, Inc. p. 267\. ISBN 0-14-02-4916-8.
29. ^ "The Paley Center for Media \- Hallmark Hall of Fame Amahl and the Night Visitors - Gian Carlo Minotti and Nicholas Magallanes on paleycenter.org". Archived from the original on 2018-06-12. Retrieved 2018-05-29.
30. ^ McNeil, Alex (1996). Total Television. Penguin Books USA, Inc. ISBN 0-14-02-4916-8.

## External links

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* List of 1951 American television series at IMDb

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