 "Bonino" did not even last the full season.CBS had more luck with new live programs "Person to Person" and "My Favorite Husband" (which would later make the switch to film).ABC, perennially in third or fourth place among the four U.S. television networks, had been on the verge of bankruptcy, but the February 1953 merger of United Paramount Theaters with ABC had given ABC a $30 million cash infusion.