These are the late-night Monday–Friday schedules for all three networks for the 1958–59 season. All times are Eastern and Pacific.
Talk shows are highlighted in yellow, local programming is white.
Schedule
edit| 11:00 PM | 11:30 PM | 12:00 AM | 12:30 AM | 1:00 AM | 1:30 AM | 2:00 AM | 2:30 AM | 3:00 AM | 3:30 AM | 4:00 AM | 4:30 PM | 5:00 AM | 5:30 AM | ||
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| ABC | local programming or sign-off | ||||||||||||||
| CBS | local programming or sign-off | ||||||||||||||
| NBC | Fall | 11:15 PM: The Jack Paar Show+ | local programming or sign-off | ||||||||||||
| July | 11:15 PM: The Jack Paar Show/The Best Of Paar* (F) | ||||||||||||||
+ formerly The Tonight Show.
- Beginning on July 10, 1959, the Friday night shows were repeats of previous shows.
Sources
edit- Castleman & Podrazik, The TV Schedule Book, McGraw-Hill Paperbacks, 1984
- Brooks & Marsh, The Complete Directory To Prime-Time Network TV Shows, Ballantine, 1984
- TV schedules, The New York Times, September 1958–September 1959 (microfilm)