KTCA, Channel 2 (NET)
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Morning
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09:15a
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Classroom
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11:40a
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Film Short
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Afternoon
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12:00p
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In Service
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12:30p
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Classroom
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03:00p
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Supervisory Practices
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03:30p
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Teaching English
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04:00p
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Nine to Get Ready
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04:30p
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Big Easel
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05:00p
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Kindergarten
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05:30p
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Science Reporter
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Evening
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06:00p
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Innovations
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06:30p
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Success Through Words
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07:00p
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Antiques
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07:30p
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Seminar for Seniors
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08:00p
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Your Right to Say It (color)
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08:30p
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Classical Mythology
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09:00p
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Skiing (color)
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09:30p
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Confrontation
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10:00p
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News in Perspective
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Nothing much to see here, and no real surprises. By now KTCA has formally identified itself as an affiliate of NET. For the most part, however, the emphasis remains on truly educational shows, and most of them are in black and white.
WCCO, Channel 4 (CBS)
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Morning
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06:00a
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Sunrise Semester
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06:30a
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Siegfried and His Flying Saucer (color)
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07:00a
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Clancy & Carmen (color)
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07:30a
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Clancy & Willie (color)
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08:00a
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Captain Kangaroo (color)
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09:00a
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Dr. Reuben K. Youngdahl (color)
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09:05a
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Merv Griffin (guests Henry Morgan, Pat Paulsen,
Aliza Kashi)
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10:00a
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Andy Griffith
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10:30a
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Dick Van Dyke
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11:00a
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Love of Life (color)
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11:25a
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CBS News
(Joseph Benti) (color)
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11:30a
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Search for Tomorrow (color)
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11:45a
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The Guiding Light (color)
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Afternoon
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12:00p
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News (local)
(color)
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12:20p
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Something Special (color)
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12:30p
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As the World Turns (color)
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01:00p
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Love is a Many-Splendored Thing (color)
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01:30p
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House Party (guest Robert Stack) (color)
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02:00p
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To Tell the Truth (color)
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02:25p
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CBS News
(Douglas Edwards) (color)
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02:30p
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The Edge of Night (color)
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03:00p
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The Secret Storm (color)
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03:30p
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The Beverly Hillbillies (color)
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04:00p
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Mike Douglas (guests Richard M. Nixon, Johnny
Mercer, Sandler and Young, Margaret Whiting, Stella Stevens, Philadelphia
Brass Ensemble) (color)
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05:30p
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CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite (color)
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Evening
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06:00p
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News (local)
(color)
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06:15p
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Weather
(local) (color)
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06:20p
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Sports (local)
(color)
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06:30p
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Daktari (color)
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07:30p
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Red Skelton (guests Herschel Bernardi, Diane Linkletter)
(color)
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08:30p
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Good Morning World (color)
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09:00p
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WCCO Reports (special) (color)
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09:30p
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CBS News Special (color)
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10:00p
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The Scene Tonight (local news) (color)
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10:45p
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Movie – “Three
Little Words” (color)
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Quite a lineup on Mike Douglas' show, eh? The Scene Tonight, Channel 4's 10pm news program, was among the first to abandon the traditional news/weather/sports format in which each segment was presented as a separate show with its own sponsor. On The Scene Tonight, one large desk held the entire on-air crew - news, weather, sports, consumer affairs and editorial. Here's a picture of how it looked:
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KSTP, Channel 5 (NBC)
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Morning
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06:15a
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David Stone (color)
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06:30a
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City and Country (color)
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06:55a
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Doctor’s House Call (color)
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07:00a
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Today (guests Albert Finney, Maj. Gen. Robert
Fredericks) (color)
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09:00a
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Snap Judgment (color)
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09:25a
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NBC News
(Nancy Dickerson)
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09:30a
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Concentration (color)
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10:00a
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Personality (celebrities Soupy Sales, Dick Shawn,
Meredith MacRae, Woody Allen) (color)
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10:30a
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Hollywood Squares (guests Kaye Ballard, Nanette Fabray,
Van Johnson, Paul Lynde, Robert Morse, Morey Amsterdam, Wally Cox, Abby
Dalton, Charley Weaver) (color)
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11:00a
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Jeopardy (color)
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11:30a
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Eye Guess (color)
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11:55a
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NBC News
(Edwin Newman) (color)
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Afternoon
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12:00p
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News (local) (color)
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12:10p
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Weather (local) (color)
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12:15p
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Dialing for Dollars (color)
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12:30p
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Let’s Make a Deal (color)
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01:00p
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Days of Our Lives (color)
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01:30p
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The Doctors (color)
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02:00p
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Another World (color)
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02:30p
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You Don’t Say! (guests Harvey Lembeck, Susan Oliver)
(color)
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03:00p
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The Match Game (guests Cliff Robertson, Phyllis
Newman) (color)
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03:25p
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NBC News (Floyd
Kalbur) (color)
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03:30p
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Dialing for Dollars (color)
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04:30p
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Of Lands and Seas (color)
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05:25p
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News (local)
(color)
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05:30p
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Huntley-Brinkley Report (color)
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Evening
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06:00p
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News (local)
(color)
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06:15p
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Weather
(local) (color)
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06:20p
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Sports (local)
(color)
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06:30p
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I Dream of Jeannie (color)
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07:00p
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Jerry Lewis (guests Ernest Borgnine, Baja Marimba
Band, Donnie Osmond) (color)
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08:00p
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Movie – “McHale’s
Navy Joins the Air Force” (color)
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10:00p
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News (local) (color)
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10:15p
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Weather
(local) (color)
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10:20p
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Sports (local)
(color)
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10:30p
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Tonight (guest host Harry Belafonte, Zero
Mostel, Diahann Carroll, Petula Clark, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, Ken
White) (color)
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12:00a
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I Led Three Lives (color)
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McHale's Navy Joins the Air Force was so bad, speculated Judith Crist, the reason why Ernest Borgnine wasn't in it was because he'd seen a copy of the script beforehand. As long as we're talking about local news, I should note that KSTP was the first local station to present its news in color. No surprise, since it was an NBC affiliate from way back, and we know NBC was heavily invested in colorcasts.
KMSP, Channel 9 (ABC)
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Morning
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08:40a
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News (local)
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07:45a
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Winter Olympics Opening Ceremonies (live) (special) (color)
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09:30a
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Romper Room (color)
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10:00a
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Temptation (color)
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10:25a
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ABC News
(Marlene Sanders)
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10:30a
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How’s Your Mother-In-Law?
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11:00a
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Bewitched
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11:30a
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Treasure Isle (color)
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Afternoon
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12:00p
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The Fugitive
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01:00p
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The Newlywed Game (color)
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01:30p
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The Baby Game (color)
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01:55p
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Children’s Doctor (color)
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02:00p
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General Hospital (color)
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02:30p
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Dark Shadows (color)
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03:00p
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The Dating Game (color)
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03:30p
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Movie – “Magnificent
Roughnecks”
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04:55p
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News (local)
(color)
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05:00p
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ABC News with Bob Young (color)
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05:30p
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Dobie Gillis
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Evening
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06:00p
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McHale’s Navy
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06:30p
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Winter Olympics (special) (color)
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07:30p
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It Takes a Thief (color)
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08:30p
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N.Y.P.D. (color)
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09:00p
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The Invaders
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10:00p
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News (local)
(color)
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10:25p
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Sports (local)
(color)
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10:30p
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Movie – “The
Little Hut” (color)
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12:25a
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Joey Bishop (guests Louis Prima, Gia Malone, Sam
Butera and the Witnesses) (color)
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WTCN, Channel 11 (Ind.)
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Morning
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08:40a
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News (local)
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08:45a
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The King and Odie
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09:00a
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Sea Hunt
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09:30a
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Ed Allen (color)
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10:00a
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Woody Woodbury (guests Ike Cole, Roddy McDowall,
Mickey Shaughnessy, Jan Sterling (color)
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11:30a
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News (local)
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11:55a
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Hank’s Cooking Tips
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Afternoon
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12:00p
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Lunch With Casey
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01:00p
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Movie – “The
Tijuana Story”
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02:30p
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Mel’s Notebook
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03:00p
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Virginia Graham (guests Lisa Hoffman, Eve Brown, Pamela
Mason) (color)
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03:30p
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Patty Duke
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04:00p
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Popeye and Pete
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04:30p
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Casey and Roundhouse
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05:00p
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The Flintstones (color)
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05:30p
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Gilligan’s Island (color)
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Evening
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06:00p
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The Twilight Zone
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06:30p
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Burke’s Law
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07:30p
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Perry Mason
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08:30p
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Alfred Hitchcock Presents
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09:00p
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Movie – “Ring
of Fear” (color)
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11:00p
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News (local)
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11:15p
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Weather
(local)
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11:20p
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Sports (local)
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11:30p
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Bat Masterson
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The Woody Woodbury Show ran for a little less than two years, on a syndicated basis. Woody Woodbury was a comedian who'd replaced Johnny Carson as host of Who Do You Trust? when the later headed for The Tonight Show. Funny thing about this show - you'll notice a period of time when Channel 11 presented a half-hour of it during the late-night hour, with a note that the remaining hour would be seen the next morning. Perhaps that was because of Woodbury's off-color reputation, perhaps it was a way of teasing the next day's hour, to get it in front of more people. Don't know, but it's a very strange way to program, no? TV
Your nitwit mechanism has once again wiped a lengthy comment without any justification at all.
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Except I'm not gonna do it.
Now, anyway.
Later, maybe ...
One Day Later (and less angry):
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- The celebrity talkers of this period are all on their bicycles, one week after they aired in Chicago.
I note here that we got one show that Minn-StP didn't get: Pat Boone In Hollywood, 90 minutes daily, which WGN ran as part of a block alongside Mike Douglas and Woody Woodbury.
The Boone show was showbiz all the way; religion at a minimum, politics not at all ( the Great Meltdown wasn't until later that year).
I remember liking all these shows, which were mainly about music and laughs at this point.
- I understand that in about a week, Woody Woodbury will be turning 91, and that he can still be found doing his stand-up (or rather sit-down-at-the-piano) act occasionally, in and around the Fort Lauderdale area.
Woody's "party records", which were so racy back in the '60s, were mainly double-entendre, with a large stock of drinking jokes that likely wouldn't play well today (on the TV show, Woody was already cutting back on these).
- You Don't Say!:
It probably wasn't this week, but I do recall one time when Harvey Lembeck had to guess the name of actor Nehemiah Persoff.
This is how I recall Lembeck's play:
"Soft ... soft, per ... per, soft ... per-soff ... Nicky Per -- NEHEMIAH PERSOFF!"
After: " Nehemiah Persoff is an old pal and a great actor - I've known him for years - we call him Nicky - and is he gonna be thrilled that his name was an answer on a game show!"
Of course, "Nicky Persoff" would have been called an incorrect answer, so Harvey Lembeck stopped himself just in time.
- Locally:
Channel 2's afternoon movie (The Early Show) was "The Man With A Cloak" from 1951, starring Barbara Stanwyck, Joseph Cotten, and a very young Leslie Caron.
This may be one of the most "spoilered" movies ever made; it's based on "The Gentleman From Paris", a prize-winning short story by John Dickson Carr.
When MGM bought the story for a movie, it was supposed to start a deal between the studio and Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine for other prize-winning stories from EQMM's annual contest; this deal fell through for some reason - but that, as Mr. Kipling said, is another story ...
The "spoiler" part: Carr's original tale ends with a major surprise twist that -
- actually, just telling you that there is a twist is kind of a giveaway; far too many reference books give it away, and the box copy on the DVD gives a "cute hint", that made me wince when I read it.
"The Man With A Cloak", even "spoiled", is still a pretty good little MGM B-movie (and MGM's Bs looked way better than many studios's As) - and if you get a chance, you ought to read "The Gentleman From Paris", which was a tour de force for John Dickson Carr, very deserving of its award and its frequent use in anthologies.
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(As I did last time I tried to post this ...)