All of these show debuted June 30 1958
Lucky Partners was the first to go. On August 25 it was replaced by Truth or Consequences. The CBS competition was Beat The Clock. ABC was not programming that timeslot.
On Dec 29 Young Dr Malone replaced Today Is Ours. The CBS competition was The Big Payoff. ABC began a fuller daytime schedule and programmed Beat The Clock, previously on CBS.
Haggis Baggis was dropped June 29 1959 in favor of Court of Human Relations. Art Linkletter was the long time CBs opposition while ABC was showing repeats of Gale Storm Show.
From These Roots was the mainstay lasting all the way till 62 when it was replaced by Our Five daughters.
The article has the usual condescending tone but is amusing.
THE NEW DAYTIME LINE UP ON NBC By F. F. LAMPRECHT
Fevers and chills and a slight attack of the gout kept us at home last Monday. Smirking over the thought of being idle while millions toiled for their bread, we switched on the television set at 2:00 just in time to catch NBC-TV's new daytime summer lineup. We can manage the stairs all right now, thank you, but any prolonged exercise brings on deep sobs of hysteria.
"LUCKY PARTNERS" The first show was "Lucky Partners," an audience participation game so involved as to make the teeth ache with concentration. It involves a gigantic tote-board, five panelists, bingo-type playcards, the serial numbers on dollar bills and an emcee (Carl Cordell) who generates enough synthetic goodwill to stabilize our South American foreign policy. Apparently, in order to become eligible for the "giant giveaway," panelists, home viewers and audience players complete patterns on their cards; this, unhappily, is not all, for the jackpot chances of the home, and studio players ride with the answers given by the five panelists to questions put by Cordell. We were far ahead and ready to carry off 295 of the 300 home prises awarded daily when our UNIVAC sputtered incoherently and stripped its gears. "
"HAGGIS BAGGIS" Sponging our wee foreheads, we watched as the big bird spread bis multi-colored feathers to announce colorcast "Haggis Baggis." This one was relatively simple — four panelists, chosen from the studio audience, answers questions selected from a large board. A correct answer removes part of the board, revealing a small portion of a large photograph underneath. The first person to identify the photograph is the winner. After the first question was answered properly, we immediately identified the photograph as one of President Abdul Nasser, but it turned out to be Rosemary Clooney, an understandable error, surely.
The winner and the runner-up, the contestant who had more correct answers than any of his competitors, were then shown two sets of prizes—haggis snd baggis, both of approximately the same value, but different in content. The set was filled with luxury prises, the other with utility items., i. e.. tractors and cyclotrons. Home viewers get Into the act by sending in post cards. Fred Bobbins does the emcee-quizmaster chores with the serious demeanor of a man who's just swallowed a tennis ball.
"TODAY IS OURS" Introduced by an organ rumble so low and mournful that it had our Venetian blinds vibrating like harp strings was "Today Is Ours," a "dramatic" serial destined to have homemakers sobbing over their deep-fat fryers. The first installment established this: Laura (Pat Benoit of Mr. Peepers fame), a woman of "good humor," divides her time between her home (Bolton, Conn.) and her job. At home she raises a 12-year-old son and in New York City she is the assistant principal of Central High school. . The question, ladies and gentlemen is, can Laura, known as a good teacher who gets along with children, get along with adults? The writer, Julian Funt, explains the title of the program "Today Is Ours" with the added words: "and we had better make the most of it. For it may never come our way again." Well. Julian, if we ever find a certain Monday afternoon coming our way again we'll risk the fall-out and head for Bikini atoll.
FBOM THESE ROOTS" Our eyes, already swollen like Smyrna figs and berimmed with tears, were prepared to drip again over "From These Roots." another dramatic serial unfolding the story of the Fraser family, their friends and associates, in the small town of Strathfteld, U. S. A. The story "will treat the family as it comes to grips with the emotional stresses and conflicts of present day living." It was with Liz, Ben Fraser's youngest daughter, that the serial got underway. She is a budding writer coming into a bright career in journalism. But she is faced with the problem that many women face: Can she have a career and marriage, too? In a word; should she clip coupons or save green stamps? In case you're wondering about that title, writers Frank Provo and John Pickard have provided a dainty piece of embroidery suitable for framing and/or poisoning lawn moles: "From these roots grow branch, leaf and flower, children of the sheltering earth, ripening in the tumult of the season*—generation unto generation." If you have any fears of becoming a slippered poppinjay, a laughing skeptic whose tear duets are drying with disuse, then it might profit you to took in on NBC-TV from 2 through 4 each week-day afternoon— you'll be sobbing into your bolster by the time dinner burns to a crisp.
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