The long-running "Don McNeill's Breakfast Club" radio show debuts as a TV series from Chicago. Regulars include singers Johnny Desmond and Patsy Lee, and comics Sam Cowling and Cliff Petersen, with the Eddie Ballantine orchestra. Guest Gloria Swanson who played femme fatale to McNeill's Latin lover in a sketch. Lee and Petersen perform "At the Nickelodeon Movie Show." Desmond sings "C'est Ci Bon" and "Ain't She Sweet" with Cowling. Satire of TV puppet shows had a human with strings being manipulated by a puppet.
—Jay Phelps <jaynashvil@aol.com>