Full Issue of 1951 TV Showtime
This version of TV Showtime was a local viewer guide that listed television programs (and radio highlights) on the air in Nebraska and Iowa. It billed itself as “The Midwest’s Own Television and Radio Magazine” and began publication in 1950. Stations included in November of 1951 were KMTV (Channel 3), WOI-TV (Channel 4) and WOW-TV (Channel 6). It was published by TV Showtime Publishing, Co. out of Omaha, Nebraska. L. Wm. Baker served as editor and publisher of the company, with Opal Nelson as art editor, James C. Keith as production manager, Claire Wright as comptroller and P. E. Baker as business manager.
Very little is known about TV Showtime. In November of 1951 each issue cost 15 cents. A six month subscription cost $3, a full year $5 and two years $9. In addition to the television listings, issues included short news articles, advertisements and a column titled “Record Hit Parade” by Don Sarooian.
The entire November 5th, 1951 issue, with listings for November 5th through November 11th of that year, has been scanned. Click on the cover for a larger version and to begin reading the whole issue.
TV Showtime, Volume 2, Number 45 – Published November 5th, 1951
It is not known when TV Showtime stopped publishing.
Last Updated April 30th, 2012
I love looking through these old local TV listing books, not only for the shows that are sadly long gone but more for the local ads…I think that is so neat
Ironic that Margaret Sullavan was smiling on the cover, because the agreement she made with CBS and the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company to appear regularly on “SCHLITZ PLAYHOUSE OF STARS” (then a live hour-long series, it became a half-hour filmed anthology by 1955) in the fall of 1951 eventually fell through. Her last movie was “No Sad Songs For Me” the previous year, in 1950 {a mother discovers she has inoperable cancer, deciding to keep it a secret while “ensuring” the rest of her family will endure without her}, and refused to appear in any further Hollywood films, preferring stage productions instead. She mostly appeared on Broadway during the ’50s, but declared by 1959, “I loathe acting”. She was often depressed during the last years of her life [suffered a nervous breakdown in 1955]; while preparing for a new play, she was found dead of a barbituate overdose on January 1, 1960 (the coroner however, ruled it “accidental”). She was only 50.
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