--- description: For the week starting Wednesday Oct. 5. Times are E.D.T., subject to change. TELEVISION Screen Directors' Playhouse (Wed. 8 p.m., NBC). Meet the Governor, with Herb Shriner, Barbara Hale. 20th... title: TELEVISION: Program Preview, Oct. 10, 1955 image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [U.S.](/section/us/) # TELEVISION: Program Preview, Oct. 10, 1955 by [TIME](/author/time/) Oct 10, 1955 4:00 AM CUT by [TIME](/author/time/) Oct 10, 1955 4:00 AM CUT For the week starting Wednesday Oct. 5\. Times are E.D.T., subject to change. TELEVISION Screen Directors’ Playhouse (Wed. 8 p.m., NBC). Meet the Governor, with Herb Shriner, Barbara Hale. 20th Century-Fox Hour (Wed. 10 p.m. CBS). Noel Coward’s Cavalcade, with Michael Wilding. Merle Oberon. Shower of Stars (Thurs. 8:30 p.m., CBS). Time Out for Ginger, with Jack Benny, Gary Crosby, Edward Everett Horton. Football (Sat. 1:45 p.m., NBC) Villanova v. Boston College. The Honeymooners (Sat. 8:30 p.m., CBS). With Jackie Gleason. Audrey Meadows, Art Carney. George Gobel Show (Sat. 10 p.m., NBC). Last year’s best comic back for a new season. Dr. Spock (Sun. 3 p.m., NBC). Famed baby specialist begins a series on child care. Show Biz (Sun. 7:30 p.m., NBC). Salute to 53 years of theater, with Groucho Marx, Rosemary Clooney, Buster Keaton, Eartha Kitt, Bert Lahr. Ed Sullivan Show (Sun. 8 p.m., CBS) Guests. Marlon Brando. Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra. Alfred Hitchcock Presents (Sun. 9:30 p.m., CBS). Premonition, starring John Forsythe. Studio One (Mon. 10 p.m., CBS). Jackie Gleason in Uncle Ed and Circumstance. Martha Raye Show (Tues. 8 p.m., NBC). With Douglas Fairbanks Jr. RADIO This Is Moscow (Wed. 10:20 p.m., NBC). Ten-minute discussion of Soviet art, science and civic affairs. X Minus One (Thurs. 9:05 p.m., NBC). Adult science-fiction series. Football Roundup (Sat. 2:05 p.m., CBS). Red Barber reports on 20 major games. Edgar Bergen Show (Sun. 7:05 p.m., CBS). With Charlie McCarthy, Gary Crosby. TELEVISION: Program Preview, Oct. 10, 1955 ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6870344/television-program-preview-oct-10-1955/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6870344/television-program-preview-oct-10-1955/"},"headline":"TELEVISION: Program Preview, Oct. 10, 1955","datePublished":"1955-10-10T04:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-13T21:26:11.773Z","description":"For the week starting Wednesday Oct. 5. Times are E.D.T., subject to change. TELEVISION Screen Directors' Playhouse (Wed. 8 p.m., NBC). Meet the Governor, with Herb Shriner, Barbara Hale. 20th...","url":"https://time.com/archive/6870344/television-program-preview-oct-10-1955/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/author/time/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/archive/6870344/television-program-preview-oct-10-1955/","name":"TELEVISION: Program Preview, Oct. 10, 1955"}}]}] ```