What's on TV? Saturday, February 11, 1967

It's fitting that we're looking at a Saturday listing this week; one of the feature stories in this issue is about Saturday morning television.  It's entitled "Where Did All The People Go," and it discusses how animated cartoons dominate the schedule.  Parents find them acceptable, networks appreciate how sponsors flock to them*, cartoonists everywhere are kept in business - and, of course, kids love them.  Gone are the days of live-action shows like Lassie, Fury, Flicka, Dennis the Menace, Howdy Doody, and Sherri Lewis and her puppets, and the Saturday morning Westerns.

*Fred Silverman, 29-year-old CBS VP, says that Kellogg and General Mills drove the trend; as recently as four years ago, CBS had but two cartoons, Alvin and Mighty Mouse on the Saturday schedule.

This will change eventually; today, there aren't any cartoons on Saturday morning on the networks, and marathon blocks of local news and infomercials have become dependable products for local stations.  So let's enjoy this while we can!

This week's listing is, in case we haven't mentioned it, from the Twin Cities edition of TV Guide, with selected outstate stations included.

	KGLO, Channel 3 (Mason City IA) (CBS)
	Morning
	07:00a	Captain Kangaroo
	08:00a	Mighty Heroes (color)
	08:30a	Underdog (color)
	09:00a	Frankenstein Jr. (color)
	09:30a	Space Ghost (color)
	10:00a	Superman (color)
	10:30a	The Lone Ranger (color)
	11:00a	Road Runner (color)
	11:30a	The Beagles (color)
	Afternoon
	12:00p	Tom and Jerry (color)
	12:30p	Here’s Allen
	01:00p	College Basketball (North Texas St. vs. Bradley)
	03:00p	College Basketball (Iowa vs. Ohio State)
	05:00p	Phoenix Open Golf (special) (color)
	05:30p	CBS Evening News (Roger Mudd) (color)
	Evening
	06:00p	News (local)
	06:15p	Western Music
	06:30p	The Jackie Gleason Show (The Honeymooners) (color)
	07:30p	Mission: Impossible (color)
	08:30p	Pistols ‘n’ Petticoats (color)
	09:00p	Gunsmoke (color)
	10:00p	News (local)
	10:20p	Movie – “Leave Her to Heaven”

See what I mean about the cartoons?  I find it interesting that the 1:00pm basketball game, North Texas State vs. Bradley, is part of the Missouri Valley Conference Game of the Week package.  It's on Channel 11 as well; with the Big Ten Game of the Week on Channel 4, there weren't many other packages available.  How things have changed.

	WCCO, Channel 4 (CBS)
	Morning
	06:00a	Sunrise Semseter
	06:30a	Siegfried and His Flying Saucer
	07:00a	Captain Kangaroo
	08:00a	Mighty Heroes (color)
	08:30a	Underdog (color)
	09:00a	Frankenstein Jr. (color)
	09:30a	Space Ghost (color)
	10:00a	Superman (color)
	10:30a	The Lone Ranger (color)
	11:00a	Road Runner (color)
	11:30a	The Beagles (color)
	Afternoon
	12:00p	News (local) (color)
	12:30p	Woodcraft Hobby Show (color)
	01:00p	CBS Golf Classic (Bo Winninger and Tommy Bolt vs. R. H Sikes and Bob Goalby)
	02:00p	Championship Bowling (Dave Soutar vs. Bud Horn) (color)
	03:00p	College Basketball (Iowa vs. Ohio State)
	05:00p	Phoenix Open Golf (special) (color)
	Evening
	06:00p	News (local) (color)
	06:30p	The Jackie Gleason Show (The Honeymooners) (color)
	07:30p	Mission: Impossible (color)
	08:30p	Pistols ‘n’ Petticoats (color)
	09:00p	Gunsmoke (color)
	10:00p	News (local) (color)
	10:30p	Movie – “Blue Denim”
	12:15a	The Bedtime Nooz (color)
	12:30a	Weather (local)
	12:35a	This Must Be the Place (color)
	01:05a	Changing Times
	01:20a	Nite Kappers

I loved Channel 4's late-nite programming.  After Critics Award Theater at 10:3, which was at one time sponsored by the iron-mining industry in northern Minnesota and featured limited commercial interruptions in return for a long infomercial about the industry at the beginning), there was The Bedtime Nooz, anchorman Dave Moore's hilarious news satire.  Following a brief weather update, This Must Be the Place was a local variety show hosted by local newsman and entertainment reporter Bill Carlson (whose wife Nancy Nelson did the weather update), an infomercial for Changing Times magazine, and then Carlson returning for the comedy show Nite Kappers before signing off.  You don't have local programming like that anymore.

	KSTP, Channel 5 (NBC)
	Morning
	06:30a	Movie – “Ride, Tenderfoot, Ride”
	07:30a	Animal Secrets (color)
	08:00a	Super 6 (color)
	08:30a	Atom Ant (color)
	09:00a	The Flintstones (color)
	09:30a	Space Kidettes (color)
	10:00a	Secret Squirrel (color)
	10:30a	The Jetsons (color)
	11:00a	Cool McCool (color)
	11:30a	Smithsonian (color)
	Afternoon
	12:00p	Movie – “Light of Old Santa Fe”
	01:00p	Movie – “The Boogie Men Will Get You”
	02:15p	Movie – “The Man Who Lived Twice”
	03:30p	Car 54, Where Are You?
	04:00p	Science Fiction Theater
	04:30p	The Outer Limits
	05:30p	NBC News (Scherer-MacNeil) (color)
	Evening
	06:00p	News (local) (color)
	06:30p	Flipper (color)
	07:00p	Please Don’t Eat the Daisies (color)
	07:30p	Get Smart (color)
	08:00p	Saturday Night at the Movies – “Dark City”
	10:00p	News (local) (color)
	10:30p	Johnny Carson (guests Sam Levenson, Billy Eckstein, Luba Lisa, Jeannine Pivoteau) (color)
	12:00a	Movie – “Black Friday”

Ah, some human beings still exist on Saturday mornings.  In addition to the obligatory Western movie short to kick off the day, there's Animal Secrets, hosted by the distinguished educator and writer Dr. Loren Eisley.  The morning rounds out with NBC's Smithsonian, hosted by my friend Marc Ryan's father Bill.

	KMMT, Channel 6 (Austin) (ABC)
	Morning
	08:30a	Porky Pig (color)
	09:00a	King Kong (color)
	09:30a	The Beatles (color)
	10:00a	Casper (color)
	10:30a	Milton the Monster (color)
	11:00a	Bugs Bunny (color)
	11:30a	Magilla Gorilla (color)
	Afternoon
	12:00p	Hoppity Hooper (color)
	12:30p	American Bandstand (guests Mojo Men, Jimmy Castor)
	01:30p	Film Feature
	02:00p	Cartoons
	02:30p	Pro Bowlers Tour
	04:00p	Wide World of Sports (Clay vs. Terrell heavyweight championship, Ski Jumping)
	05:30p	Death Valley Days
	Evening
	06:00p	News (local)
	06:30p	The Dating Game (guest Tina Sinatra) (color)
	07:00p	The Newlywed Game (color)
	07:30p	Lawrence Welk (guest Harry Middlebrooks) (color)
	08:30p	The Hollywood Palace (Sammy Davis Jr., Mickey Rooney, Liberace, Kaye Stevens, Lee Tully, Mascots, Mr. and Mrs. Bob Top) (color)
	09:30p	Movie – “Ten North Frederick”
	11:30a	News (local)

That title fight between Muhammad Ali (or Cassius Clay, if you will) and Ernie Terrell was a unification bout, as Terrell had won a share of the title after Ali had been stripped for granting an automatic rematch with Sonny Liston.  It was Ali at his ugliest (a side so many sycophants prefer to overlook); Terrell had referred to him in the buildup to the fight as "Cassius Clay" and Ali mercilessly taunted him throughout the fight, repeatedly snarling at him "What's my name?" and once even spitting at Terrell's feet.  He strung him along for 15 rounds, inflicting as much pain on him as he could.  The affection in which Ali is held today is a remarkable testament to the power of revisionist history.

	KCMT, Channel 7 (Alexandria) (NBC/ABC)
	Morning
	07:00a	St. Cloud State College
	08:00a	Super 6 (color)
	08:30a	Atom Ant (color)
	09:00a	The Flintstones (color)
	09:30a	Space Kidettes (color)
	10:00a	Secret Squirrel (color)
	10:30a	The Jetsons (color)
	11:00a	Cool McCool (color)
	11:30a	Smithsonian (color)
	Afternoon
	12:00p	Animal Secrets (color)
	12:30p	Discovery ‘67
	01:00p	Milton the Monster
	01:30p	Sergeant Preston
	02:00p	To Be Announced
	02:30p	Pro Bowlers Tour
	04:00p	Shell’s Wonderful World of Golf (Billy Casper vs. Miguel Sala) (color)
	05:00p	The Dating Game
	05:30p	F Troop
	Evening
	06:00p	News (local)
	06:30p	Flipper (color)
	07:00p	Please Don’t Eat the Daisies (color)
	07:30p	Get Smart (color)
	08:00p	Saturday Night at the Movies – “Dark City”
	10:00p	News (local)
	10:30p	Movie – “High Flight”

A nice mix of networks for Channel 7 this week - in addition to their NBC schedule, they've inserted the ABC shows Discovery '67, Milton the Monster, the Pro Bowlers Tour, The Dating Game and F Troop.

	WKBT, Channel 8 (LaCrosse) (CBS)
	Morning
	07:00a	Captain Kangaroo
	08:00a	Mighty Heroes (color)
	08:30a	Underdog (color)
	09:00a	Frankenstein Jr. (color)
	09:30a	Space Ghost (color)
	10:00a	Superman (color)
	10:30a	The Lone Ranger (color)
	11:00a	Road Runner (color)
	11:30a	The Beagles (color)
	Afternoon
	12:00p	Tom and Jerry (color)
	12:30p	American Bandstand (guests Mojo Men, Jimmy Castor)
	01:30p	CBS Golf Classic (Ken Venturi and Johnny Pott vs. Frank Beard and Miller Barber)
	02:30p	Pro Bowlers Tour
	04:00p	Wide World of Sports (Clay vs. Terrell heavyweight championship, Ski Jumping)
	05:30p	Coliseum
	Evening
	06:30p	The Jackie Gleason Show (The Honeymooners) (color)
	07:30p	Lawrence Welk (guest Harry Middlebrooks) (color)
	08:30p	The Rat Patrol (color)
	09:00p	Gunsmoke (color)
	10:25p	News (local) Film Short
	10:30p	Movie – “The Man With the Golden Arm”

Although WKBT was not shown as an ABC affiliate, they had room to fit in Lawrence Welk in their Saturday night lineup.  Gotta please that demographic, you know!  They also have American Bandstand for the kids, The Rat Patrol for the veterans, the Pro Bowlers Tour for blue-collar people, and Wide World of Sports for the rest of us.

	KMSP, Channel 9 (ABC)
	Morning
	08:00a	Grandpa Ken
	08:30a	Porky Pig (color)
	09:00a	King Kong (color)
	09:30a	The Beatles (color)
	10:00a	Casper (color)
	10:30a	Milton the Monster (color)
	11:00a	Bugs Bunny (color)
	11:30a	Magilla Gorilla (color)
	Afternoon
	12:00p	Hoppity Hooper (color)
	12:30p	American Bandstand (guests Mojo Men, Jimmy Castor)
	01:30p	Linus the Lionhearted
	02:00p	This Week in Sports
	02:15p	Changing Times
	02:30p	Pro Bowlers Tour
	04:00p	Wide World of Sports (Clay vs. Terrell heavyweight championship, Ski Jumping)
	05:30p	The Lieutenant
	Evening
	06:30p	The Dating Game (guest Tina Sinatra) (color)
	07:00p	The Newlywed Game (color)
	07:30p	Lawrence Welk (guest Harry Middlebrooks) (color)
	08:30p	The Hollywood Palace (Sammy Davis Jr., Mickey Rooney, Liberace, Kaye Stevens, Lee Tully, Mascots, Mr. and Mrs. Bob Top) (color)
	09:30p	Death Valley Days (color)
	10:00p	News (local)
	10:30p	Movie – “Halls of Montezuma” (color)
	12:40a	News and Sports (local) (color)

I'm pretty sure that the Changing Times infomercial at 2pm is the same one that Channel 4 shows later in the night.  Changing Times was a financial magazine published by Kiplinger, and you really couldn't escape their infomercials on television Saturday afternoons in the '60s and early '70s.  I miss those.

	KROC, Channel 10 (Rochester) (NBC)
	Morning
	08:00a	Super 6 (color)
	08:30a	Atom Ant (color)
	09:00a	The Flintstones (color)
	09:30a	Space Kidettes (color)
	10:00a	Secret Squirrel (color)
	10:30a	The Jetsons (color)
	11:00a	Cool McCool (color)
	11:30a	Smithsonian (color)
	Afternoon
	12:00p	Championship Bowling
	01:00p	Film Feature (Auto Racing) (color)
	02:00p	NHL Hockey (Montreal vs. Toronto) (color)
	04:00p	Shell’s Wonderful World of Golf (Billy Casper vs. Miguel Sala) (color)
	05:00p	Captain Nice (color)
	05:30p	NBC News (Scherer-MacNeil) (color)
	Evening
	06:00p	It’s a Small World (color)
	06:30p	Flipper (color)
	07:00p	Please Don’t Eat the Daisies (color)
	07:30p	Get Smart (color)
	08:00p	Saturday Night at the Movies – “Dark City”
	10:00p	News and Sports (local) (color)
	10:20p	Movie – “Never Love a Stranger”

Hockey!  Or as it's actually listed in TV Guide, Canadian Hockey.  I suppose this is because it's Montreal vs. Toronto, although it's the same version of hockey we play in the states.  The game wasn't live; I suspect it was some kind of syndicated package similar to the Canadian Football games that were on Channel 11 on Saturdays in the '60s.  This was probably taped on January 25, the last time the two teams had played.  It is the last season of the classic six-team NHL.

	WTCN, Channel 11 (Ind.)
	Morning
	09:00a	Farm Forum
	09:30a	Understanding Our World
	10:00a	Abbott and Costello
	10:30a	Whirlybirds
	11:00a	Mac & Meyer for Hire
	11:30a	Lunch With Casey
	Afternoon
	12:30p	Rocky and Friends (color)
	01:00p	College Basketball (North Texas St. vs. Bradley)
	03:00p	Upbeat (guests Dana Rollin, the Dovells, Connie Youngblood, Dick Wittington’s Cats, Tommy Hunt, Kicks Incorporated, Music Machine, Clyde McPhatter, Gigi and the Charmains)
	04:00p	Shell’s Wonderful World of Golf (Billy Casper vs. Miguel Sala) (color)
	05:00p	Laramie (color)
	Evening
	06:00p	All Star Wrestling
	07:30p	Perry Mason
	08:30p	Alfred Hitchcock Hour
	09:30p	News, Weather, Sports (local)
	10:00p	Movie – “Death of a Salesman”

I don't know why Channel 5 didn't show Shell's Wonderful World of Golf, preferring instead to offer a local block of movies and syndicated programming.  It was the same with the Bell Telephone Hour on Sunday afternoon, which also appeared frequently on Channel 11.  Wrong demographic, I guess.

	WEAU, Channel 13 (Eau Claire) (NBC)
	Morning
	07:00a	Sergeant Preston
	07:30a	Salvation Army
	07:45a	Light Time
	08:00a	Super 6 (color)
	08:30a	Atom Ant (color)
	09:00a	The Flintstones (color)
	09:30a	Space Kidettes (color)
	10:00a	Secret Squirrel (color)
	10:30a	The Jetsons (color)
	11:00a	Cool McCool (color)
	11:30a	Smithsonian (color)
	Afternoon
	12:00p	Animal Secrets (color)
	12:30p	Bullwinkle
	01:00p	Wide World of Sports (U.S. Figure Skating Championships, Auto Racing)
	02:30p	The American Sportsman
	03:30p	Vietnam Weekly Review (color)
	04:00p	Shell’s Wonderful World of Golf (Billy Casper vs. Miguel Sala) (color)
	05:00p	Death Valley Days (color)
	05:30p	Ernie Reck
	Evening
	06:00p	This Day of Grace
	06:15p	Sports, Weather, News
	06:30p	Flipper (color)
	07:00p	The Porter Wagoner Show (guests The Glaser Brothers)
	07:30p	Get Smart (color)
	08:00p	Saturday Night at the Movies – “Dark City”
	10:00p	News (local)
	10:30p	Combat!
	11:30a	Movie – “The Maltese Falcon”

Ah, The Porter Wagoner Show.  There were two very good reasons to watch that program; anyone remember what? TV