John Guedel Productions
for
ABC
Director Stuart W. Phelps
US Talk Show 1950-52 60 episodes x 60 min (22-Sep-1950 to 02-May-1952)
Host Art Linkletter
Announcer Jack Slattery
Editor Martin Wark
Premise: Talk show and audience participation program.
1951 - 1952 season, this show alternated with "Say It With Acting"
###### Life With Linkletter ######
###### Season 1 1950-51 ########
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ABC Fridays 7:30pm
[01] Life With Linkletter [Premiere]
22Sep1950 KECA Fri 7:30pm [Long Beach Independent]
Host Art Linkletter
Guest
Ginny Simms
[02] Life With Linkletter
29Sep1950 [Long Beach Independent]
Host Art Linkletter
Guest
[03] Life With Linkletter
06Oct1950 [Long Beach Independent]
Host Art Linkletter
Guest
Jack Owens will present his Myna birds.
[04] Life With Linkletter
13Oct1950 [Long Beach Press Telegram]
Host Art Linkletter
Summary:
The one-time sidekicks of Carmen Miranda will appear tonight
with Art as he calls the session to order and proceeds with boffs and bounty.
[05] Life With Linkletter
20Oct1950 [Long Beach Independent]
Host Art Linkletter
Guest
Bob Crosby who sings "Dream a Little Dream of Me".
[06] Life With Linkletter
27Oct1950 [Oakland Tribune]
Host Art Linkletter
Guests
Make-up man Pere Westmore and 12 year old hula dancer Dolores Poole.
[07] Life With Linkletter
03Nov1950 [Long Beach Independent]
Host Art Linkletter
Guests
Frances Farwell who stands six-feet-two-inches in her nylons
and she'll sing to Muzzy Marcellino (5-feet-2) and if anyone
mentions Mutt and Jeff lookout.
[08] Life With Linkletter
10Nov1950 [UCLA]
Host Art Linkletter
Guests
Shirley Buchanan
Edith Head
Pinto Colvig
Summary:
Designer Edith Head shows off some sketches of her dress designs;
Shirley Buchanan (Miss ABC) models some clothes; Edith Head
gives advice to female members of the audience; Linkletter talks
with audience members; Linkletter talks with five children.
Pinto Colvig (as Bozo the Clown) does voices he created for Goofy
and other Disney characters.
[09] Life With Linkletter
17Nov1950 ABC Fri 7:30pm [Oakland Tribune]
Host Art Linkletter
Guests
famous boxing instructor John Indrisano
and a family from Bakersfield, father, mother and 20 children.
[10] Life With Linkletter
24Nov1950 [Long Beach Independent]
Host Art Linkletter
Summary:
Art searches through his studio audience seeking the fattest man
or woman. Whoever tops the scale will get a lot of prizes.
[11] Life With Linkletter
01Dec1950 [Long Beach Independent]
Host Art Linkletter
[12] Life With Linkletter
08Dec1950 [Long Beach Independent]
Host Art Linkletter
[13] Life With Linkletter
15Dec1950 [Long Beach Independent]
Host Art Linkletter
[14] Life With Linkletter
22Dec1950 [Long Beach Independent]
Host Art Linkletter
[15] Life With Linkletter
29Dec1950 [Long Beach Independent]
Host Art Linkletter
[16] Life With Linkletter
05Jan1951 ABC Fri 7:30pm [San Mateo Times]
Host Art Linkletter
Summary:
Art Linkletter plays host to a Christmas Party for children from
Los Angeles orphanages.
[17] Life With Linkletter
12Jan1951 ABC Fri 7:30pm [Long Beach Independent]
Host Art Linkletter
Guest
[18] Life With Linkletter
19Jan1951 ABC Fri 7:30pm [Long Beach Independent]
Host Art Linkletter
Guest
[19] Life With Linkletter
26Jan1951 ABC Fri 7:30pm [Long Beach Independent]
Host Art Linkletter
Guest
[20] Life With Linkletter
02Feb1951 ABC Fri 7:30pm [Long Beach Independent]
Host Art Linkletter
Guest
[21] Life With Linkletter
09Feb1951 ABC Fri 7:30pm [Long Beach Independent]
Host Art Linkletter
Guest
[22] Life With Linkletter
16Feb1951 ABC Fri 7:30pm [Corona Daily]
Host Art Linkletter
Guest
[23] Life With Linkletter
23Feb1951 ABC Fri 7:30pm [Long Beach Independent]
Associate Producer Irvin Atkins
Host Art Linkletter
Guest
Summary:
Art Linkletter is now selecting a 'Good Samaritan of the Week" on his show.
[24] Life With Linkletter
02Mar1951 ABC Fri 7:30pm [Long Beach Independent]
Host Art Linkletter
Guest
[25] Life With Linkletter
09Mar1951 ABC Fri 7:30pm [San Mateo Times]
Host Art Linkletter
Guest
Summary:
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Walsh and their three sets of twins are guests on the show.
[26] Life With Linkletter
16Mar1951 ABC Fri 7:30pm [San Mateo Times]
Host Art Linkletter
Guest
[27] Life With Linkletter
23Mar1951 ABC Fri 7:30pm [Long Beach Independent]
Host Art Linkletter
Guest
Mrs Spencer Tracy, head of the famed John Tracy Clinic is Art's guest.
[28] Life With Linkletter
30Mar1951 ABC Fri 7:30pm [Long Beach Independent]
Host Art Linkletter
Guest
Summary:
Art Linkletter will have a glass tank with a swimmer wrestling a shark.
[29] Life With Linkletter
06Apr1951 ABC Fri 7:30pm
Host Art Linkletter
[30] Life With Linkletter
13Apr1951 ABC Fri 7:30pm [Long Beach Independent]
Host Art Linkletter
Summary:
The Rev. James E. Smith of Carbondale, Ill., who is now 101 yearts of age
without benefit of the new Hadacol, has just become a father for the seventh
time, Mrs. Smith, 38, will not accompany her husband on his flight to Art's show.
[31] Life With Linkletter
20Apr1951 ABC Fri 7:30pm
Host Art Linkletter
[32] Life With Linkletter
27Apr1951 ABC Fri 7:30pm
Host Art Linkletter
[33] Life With Linkletter
04May1951 ABC Fri 7:30pm [Long Beach Independent]
Host Art Linkletter
Summary:
The winner of the famous Calaveras County Frog Jumping championship will visit.
[34] Life With Linkletter
11May1951 ABC Fri 7:30pm
Host Art Linkletter
[35] Life With Linkletter
18May1951 ABC Fri 7:30pm
Host Art Linkletter
[36] Life With Linkletter
25May1951 ABC Fri 7:30pm
Host Art Linkletter
[37] Life With Linkletter
01Jun1951 ABC Fri 7:30pm [San Mateo Times]
Host Art Linkletter
Guests
Benay Venuta
Desi Arnaz
Captain Joy Hancock.
[38] Life With Linkletter
08Jun1951 ABC Fri 7:30pm [Long Beach Independent]
Host Art Linkletter
Guests
Keye Luke
Wally Ford
and Teddy Horne, son of singer Lena Horne.
[39] Life With Linkletter
15Jun1951 ABC Fri 7:30pm [Long Beach Independent]
Host Art Linkletter
Summary:
Art Linkletter winds up his season tonight. He'll have a judo demonstration by the LA Police,
a silhouette sequence that seems to bea surgical operation and his usual panel of kid experts.
###### Life With Linkletter ######
###### Season 2 1951-52 ########
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ABC Fridays 7:30pm
Now airing on alternate weeks with "Say It With Acting" with Bud Collyer
2.01 [40] Life With Linkletter
31Aug1951 ABC Fri 7:30pm [Long Beach Independent]
Host Art Linkletter
Summary:
Art Linkletter has returned from his tour of Europe and begins a tour
of TV again tonight. Link will show some pictures he made while in
Europe of war orphans, any one of whom would appreciate having an
American foster parent. Among the pictures is one of the little fellow that
Linkletter adopted. Show will be on alternate weeks this season.
2.02 [41] Life With Linkletter
14Sep1951 ABC Fri 7:30pm [Long Beach Independent]
Host Art Linkletter
Summary:
Art Linkletter will offer enough lumber to build a five room bungalow
to the first person in the audience to raise his or her hand (probably a big tree).
2.03 [42] Life With Linkletter
12Oct1951 ABC Fri 7:30pm [Long Beach Independent]
Host Art Linkletter
Summary:
Art Linkletter is looking for the man or woman brave enough to defy his (or her) pet superstition.
When he finds the person he seeks, there'll be a handsome reward for the lucky or unlucky person.
2.04 [43] Life With Linkletter
26Oct1951 ABC Fri 7:30pm [Long Beach Independent]
Host Art Linkletter
Guest
John Barrymore Jr.
2.05 [44] Life With Linkletter
09Nov1951 ABC Fri 7:30pm [Long Beach Press Telegram / Independent]
Host Art Linkletter
Summary:
Art starts a baby photo guessing contest of famous persons tonight.
*Note: Art borrowed Peter Potter's idea and used the same format
as Pete's "A Star Is Born" showing a picture of some well known
person taken long before that person became famous.
2.06 [45] Life With Linkletter
23Nov1951 ABC Fri 7:30pm [San Mateo Times]
Host Art Linkletter
Summary:
A Fort Ord private gets to live like a general on Art's show.
2.07 [46] Life With Linkletter
07Dec1951 ABC Fri 7:30pm [Long Beach Independent]
Host Art Linkletter
Summary:
Art Linkletter will select a Republican and a Democrat
from the studio audience on his show.
2.08 [47] Life With Linkletter
21Dec1951 ABC Fri 7:30pm [Long Beach Independent]
Host Art Linkletter
Summary:
"The Brotherhood of Fatherhood" has been organized by Art Linkletter
and he'll give full details on his show. He'll show married vets what to
expect when they get home.
2.09 [48] Life With Linkletter
04Jan1952 ABC Fri 7:30pm [Long Beach Independent]
Host Art Linkletter
2.10 [49] Life With Linkletter
18Jan1952 ABC Fri 7:30pm [Long Beach Independent]
Host Art Linkletter
2.11 [50] Life With Linkletter
01Feb1952 ABC Fri 7:30pm [Long Beach Press Telegram]
Host Art Linkletter
2.12 [51] Life With Linkletter
15Feb1952 ABC Fri 7:30pm [Long Beach Independent]
Host Art Linkletter
2.13 [52] Life With Linkletter
29Feb1952 ABC Fri 7:30pm [Long Beach Independent]
Host Art Linkletter
2.14 [53] Life With Linkletter
14Mar1952 ABC Fri 7:30pm [Long Beach Independent]
Host Art Linkletter
*Note: Show goes weekly starting this Friday. ?
2.15 [54] Life With Linkletter
21Mar1952 ABC Fri 7:30pm [Long Beach Press Telegram]
Host Art Linkletter
2.16 [55] Life With Linkletter
28Mar1952 ABC Fri 7:30pm [Long Beach Press Telegram]
Host Art Linkletter
Summary:
Art Linkletter comes up with a novel contest in which the contestants
must say which wife belongs to which husband and which children
belong to which couple.
2.17 [56] Life With Linkletter
04Apr1952 ABC Fri 7:30pm [Long Beach Press Telegram]
Host Art Linkletter
2.18 [57] Life With Linkletter
11Apr1952 ABC Fri 7:30pm [Long Beach Independent]
Host Art Linkletter
2.19 [58] Life With Linkletter
18Apr1952 ABC Fri 7:30pm [Long Beach Press Telegram]
Host Art Linkletter
2.20 [59] Life With Linkletter
25Apr1952 ABC Fri 7:30pm [Long Beach Press Telegram]
Host Art Linkletter
Guest