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Programs

The Paramount Television Network aired several television series during its years of operations. The following is a partial list:

  • Armchair Detective, a half-hour crime reenactment series produced at KTLA that aired on CBS and Paramount stations
  • Bandstand Revue, a 30-minute long music program sponsored by Ralston Purina
  • Dixie Showboat, a weekly Country and Western musical variety program
  • Frosty Frolics, an ice skating show which also briefly aired (for four weeks) on ABC
  • Harry Owens' Royal Hawaiians, a series featuring Hawaiian music airing in Los Angeles and San Francisco that later moved to CBS
  • Hollywood Opportunity, a talent show
  • Hollywood Reel, a Hollywood gossip program narrated by Hollywood columnist Erskine Johnson
  • Hollywood Wrestling, an early professional wrestling series
  • Latin Cruise, a musical series starring Bobby Ramos
  • Magazine of the Week, a women's program
  • Meet Me in Hollywood, a man on the street interview series that was broadcast from the famed intersection of Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street
  • Movietown, RSVP, a charades program
  • Olympic Wrestling, another professional wrestling series
  • Sandy Dreams, a children's program that also briefly aired on ABC stations.
  • The Spade Cooley Show, a variety program hosted by Spade Cooley and which featured Dick Lane, Anita Aros, Phil Gray, and Kay Cee Jones
  • Time for Beany, a children's series that received an Emmy award in 1949, in the category Best Children's Show
  • Yer Ole Buddy, a comedy program

Various press releases indicated that other KTLA series would be offered on the network. There is no indication, however, that the following series aired outside Los Angeles:

  • Girls Only, a comedy/drama starring Mary Gordon as an aging ex-actress with four young female charges
  • The Ina Ray Hutton Show, a series featuring bandleader Ina Ray Hutton
  • The Lawrence Welk Show, a musical program starring Lawrence Welk which moved to ABC in summer 1955
  • Mayfair Mystery House, a 39-episode drama filmed in England
  • Spade Cooley's Western Varieties, another series featuring Spade Cooley

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