What's on TV! Tuesday, November 14, 1967

I've been doing these daily listings from the past Saturday's TV Guide on an irregular basis since the blog started (usually when I can't come up with anything else on short notice), but I think I'm going to make an effort to do it more often in the future.  People seem to like it, and I enjoy looking at the types of programming that aren't around any more.  If the Saturday features give you a macro look at the times, these listings are more of a micro examination, with a side of commentary thrown it.  This week's listing is from Tuesday, November 14, and covers the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area.

KTCA, Channel 2 (Educ.)

Morning
08:55a	Classroom
Afternoon
12:00p	In Service
12:30p	Classroom
02:35p	Film Short
03:00p	Aspects of Supervision
03:30p	Teaching English
04:00p	Profile
04:30p	Big Easel
05:00p	Kindergarten
05:30p	Observing Eye
Evening
06:00p	Business
06:30p	Efficient Reading (color)
07:00p	Antiques
07:30p	Seminar for Students
08:00p	Your Right to Say It (color)
08:30p	Macalester International
09:00p	Emeritus
09:30p	Confrontation
10:00p	News in Perspective

As you can see, Channel 2 still primarily provides classroom programming throughout the day - at various times in TV Guide's history, the shows are either detailed (e.g. Spanish (4th Grade) or, as here, listed simply as "Classroom."  Although virtually all of Channel 2's local programming is in black and white, note the first traces of color broadcasting - probably from NET's national feed.

WCCO, Channel 4 (CBS)

Morning
06:00a	Sunrise Semester
06:30a	Siegfried and His Flying Saucer
07:00a	Clancy and Carmen (color)
07:30a	Clancy and Willie (color)
08:00a	Captain Kangaroo (color)
09:00a	Dr. Reuben K. Youngdahl (color)
09:05a	Merv Griffin (guests: Jose Ferrer, Lillian Briggs, Sandler and Young) (color)
10:00a	Andy Griffith
10:30a	Dick Van Dyke
11:00a	Love of Life (color)
11:25a	CBS News (Joseph Benti) (color)
11:30a	Search for Tomorrow (color)
11:45a	The Guiding Light (color)
Afternoon
12:00p	News (local) (color)
12:20p	Something Special (color)
12:30p	As the World Turns (color)
01:00p	Love is a Many Splendored Thing (color)
01:30p	House Party (guest: former bank robber Teddy Green)
02:00p	To Tell the Truth (color)
02:25p	CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
02:30p	The Edge of Night (color)
03:00p	The Secret Storm (color)
03:30p	The Beverly Hillbillies
04:00p	Mike Douglas (guests: Rossano Brazzi, Carolyn Jones, Jimmie Rodgers, the Rhodes Brothers, Albert Gerber) (color)
05:30p	CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite (color)
Evening
06:00p	News (local) (color)
06:15p	Weather (local) (color)
06:20p	Sports (local) (color)
06:30p	Daktari (color)
07:30p	Red Skelton (guests: Vincent Price, Dionne Warwick) (color)
08:30p	Good Morning World (color)
09:00p	CBS News Special – “Eric Hoffer: The Passionate State of Mind” (special) (color)
10:00p	News (local) (color)
10:15p	Weather (local) (color)
10:20p	Sports (local) (color)
10:30p	Bud Grant: Vikings Football (color)
10:40p	Marshal Dillon
11:10p	Movie – “Kansas Raiders” (color)

Eric Hoffer, the subject of CBS' 9:00 report, was a remarkable man.  A longshoreman by profession, he wrote an incisive series of books on philosophy, beginning with his 1951 classic The True Believer, a book that analyzed the nature of mass movements and how they can evolve into something quite ugly - it's got a prize place on my bookshelf.

Marshal Dillon is, of course, the half-hour syndicated version of Gunsmoke.  It ran on local stations for quite a few years in tandem with the hour-long first-run color version.

KSTP, Channel 5 (NBC)

Morning
06:15a	David Stone (color)
06:30a	City and Country (color)
06:55a	Doctor’s House Call (color)
07:00a	Today (guests Pat Cooper, Dr. Leon J. Saul) (color)
09:00a	Snap Judgment (panelists Roddy McDowall, Vivian Vance) (color)
09:25a	NBC News (Nancy Dickerson) (color)
09:30a	Concentration (color)
10:00a	Personality (panelists Van Johnson, Totie Fields, Betsy Palmer, Rose Marie) (color)
10:30a	Hollywood Squares (panelists Marty Allen and Steve Rossi, Monty Hall, Eartha Kitt, Carol Lynley, Jan Murray, Wally Cox, Abby Dalton, Charley Weaver) (color)
11:00a	Jeopardy! (color)
11:30a	Eye Guess (color)
11:55a	NBC News (Edwin Newman (color)
Afternoon
12:00p	News (local) (color)
12:10p	Weather (local) (color)
12:15p	Dialing for Dollars (color)
12:30p	Let’s Make a Deal (color)
01:00p	Days of Our Lives (color)
01:30p	The Doctors (color)
02:00p	Another World (color)
02:30p	You Don’t Say! (panelists John Forsythe, Vera Miles) (color)
03:00p	The Match Game (panelists: George Kirby, Joan Rivers) (color)
03:25p	NBC News (Floyd Kalber) (color)
03:30p	Dialing for Dollars (color)
04:30p	Of Lands and Seas (color)
05:25p	News (local) (color)
05:30p	Huntley-Brinkley Report (color)
Evening
06:00p	News (local) (color)
06:15p	Weather (local) (color)
06:20p	Sports (local) (color)
06:30p	I Dream of Jeannie (color)
07:00p	Jerry Lewis (guests Audrey Meadows, the Buckinghams) (color)
08:00p	Movie – “Tammy and the Doctor” (color)
10:00p	News (local) (color)
10:15p	Weather (local) (color)
10:20p	Sports (local) (color)
10:30p	The Tonight Show (guest host Bob Newhart) (color)
12:00a	I Led Three Lives (color)

I've mentioned David Stone before; you've seen his name in many listings, but probably have no idea who he is.  Well, he had a remarkably long career with Channel 5.  He originally started out with the Grand Ole Opry as co-producer and announcer, before moving to KSTP, starting his first music show, The Sunset Valley Barn Dance, in 1948.  He early morning music show is a fixture in these listings, and he remained with Channel 5 as Farm Director until his retirement in 1986.  One of the true pioneers of Twin Cities television.

Was Dialing for Dollars as big a deal everywhere?  Probably.  Jim Hutton (not the movie star) was the host locally, and when he returned after having left Channel 5 for awhile, it was a big deal.  Local game shows are a charming relic from television's past, and a lot of big names in the business started out that way.  But whenever I hear Dialing for Dollars, I always think of this.

KMSP, Channel 9 (ABC)

Morning
07:30a	Dateline: Hollywood (guests Leslie Nielsen, Sherry Jackson)
07:55a	Children’s Doctor
08:00a	Gypsy Rose Lee (guests Pinky Lee, Iris Adrian) (color)
08:30a	Morning Show (color)
09:00a	Romper Room (color)
09:30a	Dobie Gillis
10:00a	Honeymoon Race (color)
10:30a	The Family Game
11:00a	Everybody’s Talking (panelists George Maharis, Pat Carroll, Cheryl Miller)
11:30a	Donna Reed
Afternoon
12:00p	The Fugitive
01:00p	The Newlywed Game (color)
01:30p	Dream Girl (panelists Tippi Hedren, Louis Nye, Peter Palmer, Paul Richards) (color)
01:55p	ABC News (Marlene Sanders)
02:00p	General Hospital (color)
02:30p	Dark Shadows (color)
03:00p	The Dating Game (color)
03:30p	Movie – “Beware, My Lovely”
05:00p	Peter Jennings with the News (color)
05:30p	Leave It to Beaver
Evening
06:00p	McHale’s Navy
06:30p	Garrison’s Gorillas (color)
07:30p	The Invaders (color)
08:30p	N.Y.P.D. (color)
09:00p	The Hollywood Palace (see Saturday’s entry for details) (color)
10:00p	News (local) (color)
10:25p	Sports (local) (color)
10:30p	Movie – “Broken Lance” (color)
12:20a	Joey Bishop (guests Bobby Vee, Judy Collins, Rob Reiner and Larry Bishop) (color)

Dateline: Hollywood sounds like one of those celebrity series you see today, but it was actually a half-hour interview show hosted by actress Joanna Barnes.  It was followed by the five-minute Children's Doctor, hosted by pediatrician Lendon Smith, whose sound advice and quirky humor made him a a frequent and popular guest on Johnny Carson's Tonight Show.*

*Johnny invariably introduced him as a baby doctor, "a little, teeny baby doctor."

Much of ABC's afternoon schedule has been pretty forgettable through the years, but you can see some of their more successful shows popping up - The Newlywed Game and The Dating Game, General Hospital, Dark Shadows.  Of course, you still have shows like Dream Girl...

WTCN, Channel 11 (Ind.)

Morning
08:55a	News (local)
09:00a	Cartoon Carnival (color)
09:30a	Ed Allen (color)
10:00a	Mr. Blackwell (guests Joyce Jameson, Bil Howard) (color)
10:30a	Virginia Graham (guests Cindy Adams, Myra Roper, Ariane Sheppard)
11:00a	Brunch Bunch
11:30a	Cooking With Hank
11:45a	News (local)
Afternoon
12:00p	Lunch With Casey
01:00p	Movie – “Fire Monsters Against the Son of Hercules”
02:30p	Woody Woodbury (guests Barbara Eden, Henny Youngman, John Faffney, the Yellow Balloon (color)
04:00p	Popeye and Pete
04:30p	Casey and Roundhouse
05:30p	The Flintstones (color)
Evening
06:00p	Gilligan’s Island (color)
06:30p	Perry Mason
07:30p	12 O’Clock High
08:30p	Alfred Hitchcock Hour
09:30p	News (local)
09:45p	Weather (local)
09:50p	Sports (local)
10:00p	Movie – “The Umbrellas of Cherbourg” (color)

WTCN, the independent station (after having been dumped by ABC in the early '60s), is kind of the stepchild of the local stations - as you can see, their locally produced programs are still in black-and-white, and they have a later start time than anyone else.

Ariane Sheppard, one of Virginia Graham's guests, is the second wife of Dr. Sam Sheppard, he of the infamous 1954 "Trial of the Century," and the landmark 1966 Supreme Court ruling.  Sheppard's second trial, in which he was acquitted of the murder of his first wife, had taken place the previous year.  I believe Sheppard and Ariane were separated at the time of this interview; they would divorce within two years.

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