Neville — KTTV television series (Channel 11, 1955–1956)

26 half-hour Sunday broadcasts on KTTV Channel 11, Los Angeles, in two blocks of thirteen: block 1 ~Mar 6 – May 29 1955 at 1:00 PM; block 2 Oct 16 1955 – Jan 8 1956 at 2:00–2:30 PM. Standing log description: "World-famous author, lecturer and teacher discusses the use of imagination to bring man's dreams to completion." Anchors: Billboard Dec 25 1954 p.8 ("readying a new Sunday show featuring Neville, philosopher, author and lecturer"); TV-Radio Life program logs and index (primary scans held); Neville's own count ("thirteen, a break of about three months, another thirteen"); 1957 press: "his own television program over KTTV for 26 weeks". A feature profile ran in TV-Radio Life Apr 15–22 1955, p.31 ("Who Is Neville?", by Jack Holland).

Contemporary confirmation: TV-Radio Life for 15-22 April 1955 (p.31, 'Who Is Neville?' by Jack Holland) describes the series as running on Channel 11 at one o'clock on Sundays, and gives its origin — a single KTTV telecast the previous year that drew 5,000 letters and prompted the station to commission the run.

Date (happened)

between 6 February 1955 and 8 January 1956

unresolved

between 6 February 1955 and 8 January 1956 estimated · probable · preferred

Reasoning the series' debut: 'DEBUT Feb 6; Sun' in the Ross Reports listing (217, 793), which 20406 dates 6 February 1955; 6 February 1955 was a Sunday, and the same listing's Jan 27 (Thursday) and Feb 9 (Wednesday) check for 1955; the end is 1637's own (M6 undated rows, 529; PM 7968)
between 6 March 1955 and 8 January 1956 stated · probable

Source Block boundaries from TV-Radio Life logs: attested Sundays Mar 13–Apr 24 1955 and Oct 16 1955–Jan 1 1956; boundary weeks checked-negative both sides
between 15 April 1955 and 22 April 1955 bound

Source 'This very interesting man appears on Channel 11 at one o'clock on Sundays.'

Why Falls inside block 1 (~6 March - 29 May 1955) as this event already describes it.

Reasoning The series is described in the present tense as currently running, on Channel 11, at one o'clock on Sundays, in an issue covering 15-22 April 1955. That bounds a week on which the series was demonstrably on air and independently confirms both the channel and the 1:00 pm Sunday slot already asserted in this event's description for block 1. It is a bound, not the series' start date.

Place

Los Angeles

Persons

Neville Goddard

Sources

Source

Article about, TV-Radio Life, undated, p. Thirty-one (clipping scan)
Radio/TV, undated (column: KTTV's (11) Neville and his Sunday afternoon 1 o'clock show; he sits at a desk with one or two of his own books)
Who Is Neville? The Untold Story of KTTV's New and Controversial Personality (TV-Radio Life, 15 April 1955, 'Who Is Neville?': he appears on Channel 11 at one o'clock on Sundays; after one telecast last year KTTV brought him back for a series of talks)
Radio/TV, 1955 (1955 column: KTTV's (11) Neville, 'his Sunday afternoon at 1 o'clock show', a half-hour at a desk with one or two of his books (907 is a copy))
Imagination Plus Faith ¶61 ('I had 26 in L.A. on Channel 11. There were thirteen, and then I had a break for about three months, and they brought me back for another thirteen. There were 26 half-hour shows')
Imagination Plus Faith ¶26 ('I had twenty TV appearances on Sunday afternoons between 2:00 and 2:30')
Radio/TV, Ross Reports, undated, p. 17 (Ross Reports listing: KTTV (ch. 11) Neville, DEBUT Feb 6, Sunday; its neighbours (Jan 27 a Thursday, Feb 9 a Wednesday) check for 1955)
Radio/TV, Ross Reports, undated, p. 17 (Ross Reports listing: KTTV (ch. 11), Neville, DEBUT Feb 6 (OCR prints the call letters as 'Errv'))
Article about, TV-Radio Life, undated (TV-Radio Life feature 'Who is Neville? The untold story of KTTV's new and controversial personality', Channel 11 at one o'clock on Sundays)