title: 1958–59 United States network television schedule (late night)
text: # 1958–59 United States network television schedule (late night)
  
  These are the late night Monday-Friday schedules on all three networks for each calendar season beginning September 1958. All times are Eastern and Pacific.
  
  Talk shows are highlighted in yellow, local programming is white.
  
  ## Schedule
  
  | | | 11:00 PM | 11:30 PM | 12:00 AM | 12:30 AM | 1:00 AM | 1:30 AM | 2:00 AM | 2:30 AM | 3:00 AM | 3:30 AM | 4:00 AM | 4:30 PM | 5:00 AM | 5:30 AM |
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  | ABC | ABC | local programming or sign-off | local programming or sign-off | local programming or sign-off | local programming or sign-off | local programming or sign-off | local programming or sign-off | local programming or sign-off | local programming or sign-off | local programming or sign-off | local programming or sign-off | local programming or sign-off | local programming or sign-off | local programming or sign-off | local programming or sign-off |
  | CBS | CBS | local programming or sign-off | local programming or sign-off | local programming or sign-off | local programming or sign-off | local programming or sign-off | local programming or sign-off | local programming or sign-off | local programming or sign-off | local programming or sign-off | local programming or sign-off | local programming or sign-off | local programming or sign-off | local programming or sign-off | local programming or sign-off |
  | NBC | Fall | 11:15 PM: The Jack Paar Show+ | 11:15 PM: The Jack Paar Show+ | 11:15 PM: The Jack Paar Show+ | 11:15 PM: The Jack Paar Show+ | local programming or sign-off | local programming or sign-off | local programming or sign-off | local programming or sign-off | local programming or sign-off | local programming or sign-off | local programming or sign-off | local programming or sign-off | local programming or sign-off | local programming or sign-off |
  | NBC | July | 11:15 PM: The Jack Paar Show/The Best Of Paar* (F) | 11:15 PM: The Jack Paar Show/The Best Of Paar* (F) | 11:15 PM: The Jack Paar Show/The Best Of Paar* (F) | 11:15 PM: The Jack Paar Show/The Best Of Paar* (F) | | | | local programming or sign-off | local programming or sign-off | local programming or sign-off | local programming or sign-off | local programming or sign-off | local programming or sign-off | local programming or sign-off | local programming or sign-off | local programming or sign-off | local programming or sign-off |
  
  + formerly The Tonight Show
  
  * Beginning July 10, 1959, the Friday night shows were repeats of previous shows.
  
  ## Sources
  
  * Castleman & Podrazik, The TV Schedule Book, McGraw-Hill Paperbacks, 1984
  * Brooks & Marsh, The Complete Directory To Prime-Time Network TV Shows, Ballantine, 1984
  * TV schedules, NEW YORK TIMES, September 1958-September 1959 (microfilm)
  