What's on TV? Friday, January 13, 1967

Well, it's Friday the 13th, but have no fear - the listings this week are relatively nonthreatening.  Some weeks the listings contain hidden gems, but other times they're as ordinary as can be, a representative sample of how most television was and is.  And not a black cat to be seen.

	KTCA, Channel 2 (Educ.)
	Afternoon
	05:00p	Kindergarten
	05:30p	What’s in a Word?
	Evening
	06:00p	Learning Languages
	06:30p	Antiques
	07:00p	Folk Guitar
	07:30p	Inquiry
	08:00p	Let’s Lip Read
	08:30p	Macalester College
	09:00p	The Art of Teaching
	09:30p	Shakespeare
	10:15p	Italian Panorama
	10:30p	The Big Picture (Army)

KTCA has yet to make the move to color broadcasting, and unlike their counterpart Channel 8 in Duluth, the bulk of their programming remains local, rather than from NET.

	KGLO, Channel 3 (Mason City IA) (CBS)
	Morning
	07:30a	CBS Morning News (Joseph Benti) (color)
	07:55a	News (local)
	08:00a	Captain Kangaroo
	09:00a	Spanish
	09:30a	The Beverly Hillbillies
	10:00a	Andy Griffith
	10:30a	Dick Van Dyke
	11:00a	Love of Life
	11:25a	CBS News (color)
	11:30a	Search for Tomorrow
	11:45a	The Guiding Light
	Afternoon
	12:00p	News (local)
	12:30p	As the World Turns
	01:00p	Password (guests Betty White, Ross Martin) (color)
	01:30p	House Party (guest Charles Kirkham) (color)
	02:00p	To Tell the Truth
	02:25p	CBS News (color)
	02:30p	The Edge of Night
	03:00p	The Secret Storm
	03:30p	The Big Picture (Army)
	04:00p	Bart’s Clubhouse
	04:30p	Rocky and His Friends
	04:45p	Bart’s Clubhouse
	05:00p	Sergeant Preston
	05:30p	CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite (color)
	Evening
	06:00p	News (local)
	06:30p	The Wild Wild West (color)
	07:30p	Hogan’s Heroes (color)
	08:00p	Movie – “PT 109” (color)
	10:15p	News (local)
	10:55p	Movie – “The Dark Mirror”

Joseph Benti succeeded Mike Wallace as anchor of the CBS Morning News.  If you have a long memory and a YouTube account, you can see him as the main anchor of CBS' early-morning coverage of RFK's assassination, before Walter Cronkite takes over.  A solid anchorman.

	WCCO, Channel 4 (CBS)
	Morning
	06:00a	Sunrise Semester
	06:30a	Siegfried and His Flying Saucer
	07:00a	Clancy and Company
	08:00a	Captain Kangaroo
	09:00a	Dr. Reuben K. Youngdahl (color)
	09:05a	News (local) (color)
	09:10a	Hi Neighbor (color)
	09:30a	The Beverly Hillbillies
	10:00a	Andy Griffith
	10:30a	Dick Van Dyke
	11:00a	Love of Life
	11:25a	CBS News (color)
	11:30a	Search for Tomorrow
	11:45a	The Guiding Light
	Afternoon
	12:00p	News (local) (color)
	12:20p	Something Special (color)
	12:30p	As the World Turns
	01:00p	Password (guests Betty White, Ross Martin) (color)
	01:30p	House Party (guest Charles Kirkham) (color)
	02:00p	To Tell the Truth
	02:25p	CBS News (color)
	02:30p	The Edge of Night
	03:00p	The Secret Storm
	03:30p	Candid Camera (guest Woody Allen)
	04:00p	Mike Douglas (co-host Sergio Franchi, guests Ross Martin, January Jones, Jordan Klein, Bobby Troup, Sandy Baron)
	05:30p	CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite (color)
	Evening
	06:00p	News (local) (color)
	06:30p	The Wild Wild West (color)
	07:30p	Hogan’s Heroes (color)
	08:00p	Movie – “PT 109” (color)
	10:15p	News (local) (color)
	10:45p	Movie – “Experiment in Terror” (color)
	01:05a	Sports (local) (time approximate)
	01:15a	Movie – “Bronco Buster” (color) (time approximate)

I wish I could find an image of Siegfried and His Flying Saucer.  Siegfried wasn't really animated; rather, he was a series of still line drawings inserted between cartoons with a voiceover provided by a station announcer, probably John Gallos.  Us school kids never missed the weather forecast with Wallace the Weather Bear, which is a story for another day.

	KSTP, Channel 5 (NBC)
	Morning
	06:00a	Continental Classroom (American Government)
	06:30a	City and Country (color)
	07:00a	Today (15th Anniversary; Dave Garroway, John Chancellor, Lee Meriwether, Louise King) (color)
	09:00a	Reach for the Stars (color)
	09:25a	NBC News (color)
	09:30a	Concentration (color)
	10:00a	Pat Boone (guests Rowan and Martin) (color)
	10:30a	The Hollywood Squares (color)
	11:00a	Jeopardy (color)
	11:30a	Eye Guess (color)
	11:55a	NBC News (color)
	Afternoon
	12:00p	News (local) (color)
	12:15p	Dialing for Dollars (color)
	12:30p	Let’s Make a Deal (color)
	12:55p	NBC News (color)
	01:00p	Days of Our Lives (color)
	01:30p	The Doctors (color)
	02:00p	Another World (color)
	02:30p	You Don’t Say! (guests Susan Oliver, Wink Martindale) (color)
	03:00p	The Match Game (guests Alan Alda, Phyllis Newman) (color)
	03:25p	NBC News (color)
	03:30p	Dialing for Dollars (color)
	04:30p	Of Lands and Seas (color)
	05:25p	Doctor’s House Call (color)
	05:30p	Huntley-Brinkley Report (color)
	Evening
	06:00p	News (local) (color)
	06:30p	Tarzan (color)
	07:30p	The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (color)
	08:30p	T.H.E. Cat (color)
	09:00p	Project 20 – “The Island Called Ellis” (special) (color)
	10:00p	News (local) (color)
	10:30p	Tonight (guest host Pat Boone) (color)
	12:00a	Movie – “The Man Who Cried Wolf”

Quite something, the 15th anniversary of Today. Nice that they brought back the two previous hosts, Dave Garroway and John Chancellor.  Hugh Downs and Barbara Walters are the hosts at this point.  After going back and forth between being a news program and a daytime version of the Tonight show, it seems today to be more like the daytime talk shows - feathery-lite in content.

	KMMT, Channel 6 (Austin) (ABC)
	Morning
	10:00a	Market Sweep
	10:30a	The Dating Game
	11:00a	Donna Reed
	11:30a	Father Knows Best
	Afternoon
	12:00p	Ben Casey
	01:00p	The Newlywed Game
	01:30p	Dream Girl
	01:55p	ABC News (Marlene Sanders)
	02:00p	General Hospital
	02:30p	The Nurses
	03:00p	Dark Shadows
	03:30p	Where the Action Is (guests Otis Redding, Dino, Desi and Billy
	04:00p	Cheyenne
	05:00p	Peter Jennings with the News (color)
	05:30p	The Rifleman
	Evening
	06:00p	You Asked For It
	06:15p	News, Weather, Sports (local)
	06:30p	The Green Hornet (color)
	07:00p	The Time Tunnel (color)
	08:00p	Rango (debut) (color)
	08:30p	Phyllis Diller (color)
	09:00p	12 O’Clock High (color)
	10:00p	News (local)
	10:30p	Movie – TBA
	12:00a	News (local)

Undoubtedly, the 10am program Market Sweep was actually Supermarket Sweep, capitalizing on the relatively recent phenomenon of the supermarket, which changed the way American shopped.  It was produced by David Susskind, although his name doesn't appear on the credits.  Not surprisingly, he hated the show.

	KCMT, Channel 7 (Alexandria) (NBC/ABC)
	Morning
	07:00a	Today (15th Anniversary; Dave Garroway, John Chancellor, Lee Meriwether, Louise King) (color)
	09:00a	Reach for the Stars (color)
	09:25a	NBC News (color)
	09:30a	Concentration (color)
	10:00a	Pat Boone (guests Rowan and Martin) (color)
	10:30a	The Hollywood Squares (color)
	11:00a	Jeopardy (color)
	11:30a	Eye Guess (color)
	11:55a	NBC News (color)
	Afternoon
	12:00p	News (local)
	12:20p	Trading Post
	12:30p	Let’s Make a Deal (color)
	12:55p	NBC News (color)
	01:00p	Days of Our Lives (color)
	01:30p	The Doctors (color)
	02:00p	Another World (color)
	02:30p	You Don’t Say! (guests Susan Oliver, Wink Martindale) (color)
	03:00p	The Match Game (guests Alan Alda, Phyllis Newman) (color)
	03:25p	NBC News (color)
	03:30p	General Hospital
	04:00p	Welcome Inn
	04:30p	Magilla Gorilla
	05:00p	Batman
	05:30p	Huntley-Brinkley Report (color)
	Evening
	06:00p	News (local)
	06:30p	Tarzan (color)
	07:30p	The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (color)
	08:30p	T.H.E. Cat (color)
	09:00p	Project 20 – “The Island Called Ellis” (special) (color)
	10:00p	News (local)
	10:30p	Tonight (guest host Pat Boone) (color)

Project 20 (sometimes rendered as Project XX) was an occasional documentary series that seems to me to have above-average credentials.  I say this not of my own knowledge, since I've never seen an episode that I'm aware of , but the topics and narrators were of consistently high quality.

	WDSE, Channel 8 (Duluth) (Educ.)
	Afternoon
	05:00p	Kindergarten
	05:30p	Managers in Action
	Evening
	06:00p	The French Chef
	06:30p	What’s New?
	07:00p	N.E.T. Playhouse
	08:10p	Film Short
	08:30p	Houston Symphony (special)
	09:30p	Shakespeare
	10:15p	Italian Panorama
	10:30p	Badger Sports

You can see the NET influence here, with Julia Child's French Chef and N.E.T. Playhouse.  Some of these programs did air on Channel 2 as well, but as I've mentioned before, KTCA was one of the last holdouts against the PBS format.

	WKBT, Channel 8 (LaCrosse) (CBS)
	Morning
	07:30a	CBS Morning News (Joseph Benti) (color)
	07:55a	News (local)
	08:00a	Captain Kangaroo
	09:00a	Candid Camera
	09:30a	The Beverly Hillbillies
	10:00a	Andy Griffith
	10:30a	Dick Van Dyke
	11:00a	Love of Life
	11:25a	CBS News (color)
	11:30a	Search for Tomorrow
	11:45a	The Guiding Light
	Afternoon
	12:00p	News (local)
	12:30p	As the World Turns
	01:00p	Password (guests Betty White, Ross Martin) (color)
	01:30p	House Party (guest Charles Kirkham) (color)
	02:00p	To Tell the Truth
	02:25p	CBS News (color)
	02:30p	The Edge of Night
	03:00p	The Secret Storm
	03:30p	Dark Shadows
	04:00p	General Hospital
	04:30p	Where the Action Is (guests James Brown, Wilson Pickett, the Four Tops)
	05:00p	Magilla Gorilla
	05:30p	CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite (color)
	Evening
	06:00p	News (local)
	06:30p	The Wild Wild West (color)
	07:30p	Hogan’s Heroes (color)
	08:00p	Movie – “PT 109” (color)
	10:00p	News (local)
	10:40p	Film Short
	10:45p	Movie – “Valley of the Kings”

PT 109 tells the story of the navy heroics of John F. Kennedy, played by Cliff Robertson, as he saved his crew after their PT boat was cut in half by a Japanese destroyer.  Historians postulate that the accident could have been caused by JFK's own negligence, but audiences wouldn't have been in the mood to hear that, a little more than three years after his death.

	KMSP, Channel 9 (ABC)
	Morning
	07:30a	Morning Show
	08:00a	Where the Action Is (guests The Seeds, Mike Williams)
	08:30a	Romper Room
	09:30a	Jack LaLanne (color)
	10:00a	Market Sweep
	10:30a	The Dating Game
	11:00a	Donna Reed
	11:30a	Father Knows Best
	Afternoon
	12:00p	Ben Casey
	01:00p	The Newlywed Game
	01:30p	Dream Girl
	01:55p	ABC News (Marlene Sanders)
	02:00p	General Hospital
	02:30p	The Nurses
	03:00p	Dark Shadows
	03:30p	Movie – “Hit and Run”
	05:00p	Peter Jennings with the News (color)
	05:30p	Leave It to Beaver
	Evening
	06:00p	Woody Woodpecker (color)
	06:30p	The Green Hornet (color)
	07:00p	The Time Tunnel (color)
	08:00p	Rango (debut) (color)
	08:30p	Phyllis Diller (color)
	09:00p	12 O’Clock High (color)
	10:00p	News (local)
	10:30p	Movie – “Tribute to a Bad Man” (color)

Marlene Sanders, host of ABC's 1:55pm news update, was one of the earliest female on-air anchors.  She's the mother of CNN's legal analyst, Jeffrey Toobin, but you probably knew that already.

	KROC, Channel 10 (Rochester) (NBC)
	Morning
	07:00a	Today (15th Anniversary; Dave Garroway, John Chancellor, Lee Meriwether, Louise King) (color)
	09:00a	Reach for the Stars (color)
	09:25a	NBC News (color)
	09:30a	Concentration (color)
	10:00a	Pat Boone (guests Rowan and Martin) (color)
	10:30a	The Hollywood Squares (color)
	11:00a	Jeopardy (color)
	11:30a	Eye Guess (color)
	11:55a	NBC News (color)
	Afternoon
	12:00p	News (local)
	12:20p	Memos from Mary Bea
	12:30p	Let’s Make a Deal (color)
	12:55p	NBC News (color)
	01:00p	Days of Our Lives (color)
	01:30p	The Doctors (color)
	02:00p	Another World (color)
	02:30p	You Don’t Say! (guests Susan Oliver, Wink Martindale) (color)
	03:00p	The Match Game (guests Alan Alda, Phyllis Newman) (color)
	03:25p	NBC News (color)
	03:30p	Bachelor Father
	04:00p	Mister Ed
	04:30p	Leave It to Beaver
	05:00p	The Cisco Kid
	05:30p	Huntley-Brinkley Report (color)
	Evening
	06:00p	News (local)
	06:30p	Tarzan (color)
	07:30p	The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (color)
	08:30p	T.H.E. Cat (color)
	09:00p	Project 20 – “The Island Called Ellis” (special) (color)
	10:00p	News (local)
	10:30p	Tonight (guest host Pat Boone) (color)
	12:00a	Movie – “Earth vs. the Flying Saucers”

So do you think Earth vs. the Flying Saucers is appropriate programming for Friday the 13th?

	WTCN, Channel 11 (Ind.)
	Morning
	08:55a	News (local)
	09:00a	Cartoon Carnival (color)
	09:30a	Gloria (color)
	10:00a	PDQ (guests Peter Marshall, Ruta Lee, John McGiver)
	10:30a	Whirlybirds
	11:00a	Wild Cargo (color)
	11:30a	Cooking with Hank
	11:45a	News (local)
	Afternoon
	12:00p	Lunch with Casey
	01:00p	Movie – “Appointment for Love”
	02:30p	Mel’s Notebook
	03:00p	Girl Talk (guests Virginia Gilmore, Sheila Scott)
	03:30p	Mister Ed
	04:00p	Popeye and Pete
	04:30p	Casey and Roundhouse
	05:30p	The Flintstones (color)
	Evening
	06:00p	The Rifleman
	06:30p	Patty Duke
	07:00p	The Twilight Zone
	07:30p	Perry Mason
	08:30p	Alfred Hitchcock Hour
	09:30p	News, Weather, Sports (local)
	10:00p	Movie – “Fury at Smugglers Bay” (color)

Gloria, the 9:30am program, was an exercise show - the answer to Jack LaLanne, with a much shapelier host.

	WEAU, Channel 13 (Eau Claire) (NBC)
	Morning
	07:00a	Today (15th Anniversary; Dave Garroway, John Chancellor, Lee Meriwether, Louise King) (color)
	09:00a	Reach for the Stars (color)
	09:25	NBC News (color)
	09:30a	Concentration (color)
	10:00a	Pat Boone (guests Rowan and Martin) (color)
	10:30a	The Hollywood Squares (color)
	11:00a	Jeopardy (color)
	11:30a	Eye Guess (color)
	11:55a	NBC News (color)
	Afternoon
	12:00p	Farm and Home
	12:30p	Let’s Make a Deal (color)
	12:55p	NBC News (color)
	01:00p	Days of Our Lives (color)
	01:30p	The Doctors (color)
	02:00p	Another World (color)
	02:30p	You Don’t Say! (guests Susan Oliver, Wink Martindale) (color)
	03:00p	The Match Game (guests Alan Alda, Phyllis Newman) (color)
	03:25p	NBC News (color)
	03:30p	Father Knows Best
	04:00p	Dark Shadows
	04:30p	School Reporter
	05:00p	Tennessee Tuxedo
	05:30p	Huntley-Brinkley Report (color)
	Evening
	06:00p	News (local)
	06:30p	Tarzan (color)
	07:30p	The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (color)
	08:30p	T.H.E. Cat (color)
	09:00p	Project 20 – “The Island Called Ellis” (special) (color)
	10:00p	News (local)
	10:45p	Tonight (guest host Pat Boone) (color)
	12:00a	Movie – “There Goes the Groom”

You'd bet that a movie called There Goes the Groom would be a comedy, wouldn't you?  And you'd be right. TV