Friday, November 6th, 2009
WX2BS Schedule, Week of August 20th, 1939
Here’s the schedule for NBC’s experimental station W2XBS in New York City for the week starting Sunday, August 20th, 1939, straight from television listings printed in The New York Times. There were several feature films, including The Marines Are Coming from 1934 and Abraham Lincoln from 1930. According to the IMDb, the movie shown on Friday, August 25th (A Man and His Wife) was a French film called Un homme et sa femme. Interestingly, it was released only five months earlier on March 27th.
Then, on Saturday, August 26th, the very first major league baseball games were broadcast when the Brooklyn Dodgers faced the Cincinnati Reds in a doubleheader at Ebbets Field. An article in The New York Times reviewed the game the following day:
It was not the first time baseball was televised by the NBC. Last May at Baker Field a game between Columbia and Princeton was caught by the cameras. However, to those who, over the television receivers, saw last May’s contest as well as those yesterday, it was apparent that considerable progress has been made in the technical requirements and apparatus for this sort of outdoor pick-up, where the action is fast. At times it was possible to catch a fleeting glimpse of the ball as it sped from the pitcher’s hand toward home plate. [6]
Read more about the May 1939 baseball game here.
from MPI Home Video. Included are all 24 episodes from the 1969-1970 season. Bonus features, according to MPI’s 
. It includes all 22 episodes from the 1972-1973 season. There are no extras that I am aware of. Available from Universal Home Video is 
, a 2-disc collection with four telefilms originally broadcast between 1994 and 1996, more than a decade after the series went off the air.
also includes a two-part special titled “Zorro: El Bandido” (originally broadcast in 1960); 
has two one-hour specials: “Zorro: The Postponed Wedding” and “Zorro: Auld Acquaintance” (both originally broadcast in 1961).
, with seven Christmas episodes of classic television sitcoms, including Window On Main Street, That Girl, The Donna Reed Show and McHale’s Navy.