ABC - The Walter Winchell Show - (December 13th 1953)
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Columnist Walter Winchell had been a mainstay on the early years of ABC television with a simulcast of his 15-minute weekly time radio show until he left ABC in 1955 in a dispute with executives. The Walter Winchell Show of 1956 was the result of his agreement to return with a half hour, television-only broadcast.
In his five-year absence from ABC, the number of television programs linked directly to radio had dwindled greatly, as the still-newish medium had developed its own actors, and the remaining radio holdovers had learned how to play to the camera. Winchell would have none of this. Still wearing his felt "reporter" hat on the air, and punching out bogus "Morse Code" with his telegraph key to punctuate his stories, Winchell came across as a relic of another era. Even his trademark opening line, "Good evening Mr. and Mrs. North and South America and all the ships at sea ... let's go to press!" seemed obsolete by 1960. NBC's Jack Paar relentlessly mocked Winchell on his own show Tonight, a feud that effectively ended Winchell's career.
The revived Winchell program was a Nielsen ratings disaster and was cancelled after only six broadcasts. Winchell's only real association with ABC or television after this was his continued narration of The Untouchables until that program was cancelled three years later.
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THE UNTOUCHABLES would not be the same without his unique narration.
It's interesting how Winchell gradually shifted over the years from mostly show-biz stories to political news.
I wonder if all that twisting and turning before HUAC two years earlier kept Sterling Hayden's self-winding Gruen wristwatch running on time.
This dude was evil. His last years were pathetic. Larry King: “He was so sad. You know what Winchell was doing at the end? Typing out mimeographed sheets with his column, handing them out on the corner. That's how sad he got. When he died, only one person came to his funeral: his daughter.”
How does handing out "mimeographed sheets with his column" make him evil?
For a quick laugh,double the playback speed on your phone.
How would you do that? 😂
14:09 - The spokesman for alternate "Walter Winchell" sponsor Rise shaving cream sounds like Carl Caruso, who did lots of commercials and TV show billboards during the 1950's and early '60s, before transitioning to a staff announcer position at ABC-New York.
Was Winchell one of the first to publicly comment on cigarettes and lung cancer?
man-love this guy's delivery ✔
Legend
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How much coffee did this guy drink.
None except for a caffecito also known as little cup of espresso coffee. Which I drank in my uncle's family home. We are Cuban.
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with or without Benzedrine?
@@luislaplume8261 Walter Winchell would have made the perfect Walter White.
Too bad that ribbon mike is a prop
Fascinating segment at 5:49 on Winchell's perspective on whether cigarettes cause cancer. It was a very controversial topic in the early 1950s. Although he was a smoker, Winchell would ultimately die of prostate cancer.
Tobacco products use is the Mother of all Cancers of the Human Body.
I remember hearing Walter Winchell's staccato delivery with my parents gathered around the radio in the early 50's. I also remember the sound effects and though he was getting the news directly off the wire. Another radio show I listened to was Sgt. Preston of the Northwestern Mounted Police. His dog, King, was so good at identifying suspects. At the time I never realized all of his whines and growls were just some guy in the studio making the sounds with his voice. But every time I hear the Donna Diana Overture I never fail to visualize the dog team trotting across some snowy trail in the Yukon.
Notice his early warning about cigarettes. I read the bio of John Barrymore written in the 1940s and it was clear that people in those days (when every soldier got cig rations) did not consider cigarettes dangerous and pooh-poohed fears expressed when Barrymore was in college in the 1890s. Some doctors indeed in the 1950s thought that (I paraphrase) "the risks associated with smoking are too small to forgo the pleasure".
Every time I go up and down the dial I wish I could hear something like this
Walter Winchell sounds so Philosophical.
was winchell the first to warn about usa involvement in vietnam?
The Rush Limbaugh of his day...
Walter Winchell was the Matt Drudge of the 20th century no doubt about it. Admire them both.
Although Winchell, I would say,was to the left of Drudge.