KTCA, Channel 2 (PBS)
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Afternoon
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04:00p
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Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood
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04:30p
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Sesame Street
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05:30p
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The Electric Company
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Evening
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06:00p
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Reading
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06:30p
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Piano Technique (debut)
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07:00p
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Jean Shepherd’s America
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07:30p
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Jazz Set
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08:00p
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Hollywood Television Theatre
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09:00p
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Yard ‘n Garden
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09:30p
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Town and Country
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WCCO, Channel 4 (CBS)
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Morning
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06:30a
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Summer Semester (The Cold War and Beyond)
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07:00a
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Clancy and Carmen
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07:30a
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Clancy and Willie
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08:00a
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Captain Kangaroo
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09:00a
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The Lucy Show
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09:30a
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The Beverly Hillbillies
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10:00a
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Family Affair
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10:30a
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Love of Life
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11:00a
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Where the Heart Is
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11:25a
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Live Today
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11:30a
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Search for Tomorrow
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Afternoon
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12:00p
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Midday
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12:30p
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As the World Turns
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01:00p
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Love is a Many Splendored Thing
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01:30p
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The Guiding Light
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02:00p
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The Secret Storm
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02:30p
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The Edge of Night
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03:00p
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My Three Sons
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03:30p
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Movie – “The
Second Greatest Sex”
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05:30p
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CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite
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Evening
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06:00p
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News (local)
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06:30p
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Scene at the Fair
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07:00p
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My World and Welcome to It
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07:30p
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Horton Hears a Who (special)
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08:00p
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Movie – “Promise Her Everything”
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10:00p
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News (local)
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10:50p
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Movie – “Malaya”
(B&W)
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12:40a
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Movie – “The
Little Hut”
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KSTP, Channel 5 (NBC)
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Morning
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06:30a
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Minnesota Today
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07:00a
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Today (guest host Edwin Newman, guest Helen
Hayes)
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09:00a
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Dinah’s Place (guest Loretta Lynn)
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09:30a
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Concentration
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10:00a
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Sale of the Century
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10:30a
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The Hollywood Squares (guests Sandra Dee, Eva Gabor, Rose
Marie, Kent McCord, Jan Murray, Tony Randall, Karen Valentine, Wally Cox,
Paul Lynde)
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11:00a
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Jeopardy
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11:30a
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Who, What or Where Game
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11:55a
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NBC News (Floyd Kalber)
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Afternoon
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12:00p
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News, Weather (local)
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12:15p
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Dial 5 (guests
Bobby Goldsboro, Billy Thundercloude and the Chief Tones)
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01:00p
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Days of Our Lives
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01:30p
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The Doctors
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02:00p
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Another World
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02:30p
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Return to Peyton Place
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03:00p
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Somerset
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03:30p
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Mike Douglas (co-host Florence Henderson, guests
Robert Reed, Helen Gurley Brown, Karl Wallenda, Pete Hamill)
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04:30p
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Dick Van Dyke (B&W)
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05:00p
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Hogan’s Heroes
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05:30p
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NBC Nightly News (John Chancellor)
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Evening
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06:00p
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News (local)
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06:30p
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Circus!
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07:00p
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Magic Circus
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08:00p
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Ironside
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09:00p
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San Francisco: The City That Waits to
Die (special)
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10:00p
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News (local)
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10:30p
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The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
(guest host Joey
Bishop, guests Jerry Reed, Milt Kamen)
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12:00a
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Man in a Suitcase
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KMSP, Channel 9 (ABC)
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Morning
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07:00a
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CBS Morning News with John Hart
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08:00a
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News and Views
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08:30a
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Grandpa Ken
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09:00a
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Romper Room (Miss Jody)
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09:30a
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Beat the Clock (guest Rich Little)
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10:00a
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What’s My Line? (panelists Bert Convy, Arlene Francis,
Phyllis Newman, Gene Rayburn)
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10:30a
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Bewitched
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11:00a
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Password (guests Tony Randall, Betty White)
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11:30a
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Split Second
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Afternoon
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12:00p
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All My Children
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12:30p
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Let’s Make a Deal
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01:00p
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The Newlywed Game
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01:30p
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The Dating Game
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02:00p
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General Hospital
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02:30p
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One Life to Life
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03:00p
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Love, American Style
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03:30p
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Green Acres
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04:00p
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Lancer
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05:00p
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News, Weather, Sports (local)
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05:30p
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ABC Evening News with Howard K. Smith
and Harry Reasoner
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Evening
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06:00p
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To Tell the Truth (Panelists Kitty Carlisle, Peggy Cass,
Bill Cullen, Nipsey Russell)
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06:30p
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Truth or Consequences
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07:00p
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Summer Olympics (special)
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10:00p
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News (local)
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10:30p
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The Wild Wild West
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11:30p
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Dick Cavett
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01:00a
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News (local)
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WTCN, Channel 11 (Ind.)
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Morning
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07:30a
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New Zoo Revue
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08:00a
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Casey and Roundhouse
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09:00a
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What’s New?
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10:30a
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Movie – “Woman
in a Dressing Gown” (B&W)
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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
Informers” (B&W)
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02:50p
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Lucille Rivers
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03:00p
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It Takes a Thief
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04:00p
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Batman
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04:30p
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The Addams Family (B&W)
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05:00p
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The Munsters (B&W)
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05:30p
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Daniel Boone
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Evening
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06:30p
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I Dream of Jeannie
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07:00p
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Country Fair Roundup (special)
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07:30p
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It’s Your Bet (guests the Rod Serlings, Elke Sommer
and Joe Hyams)
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08:00p
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Merv Griffin (guests Otto Preminger, Peter Fonda,
Virginia Graham, Fred Williamson)
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09:30p
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News, Weather, Sports (local)
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10:00p
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Perry Mason (B&W)
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11:00p
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Movie – “Interlude”
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The Lucille Rivers show at 2:50pm is, believe it or not, a sewing show. You won't see that on television nowadays. The rest of Channel 11's schedule is basically MeTV before it was nostalgia: It Takes a Thief, Batman, The Addams Family, The Munsters, Daniel Boone and I Dream of Jeannie. They're all on one of the retro networks nowadays, but back then it was no big deal; people probably looked at them as the same-old, same-old. TV
"back then it was no big deal; people probably looked at them as the same-old, same-old."
ReplyDeleteI know I thought of them this way, and I took it for granted that these shows would always be there on one station or another whenever I wanted to watch them. It came as a bit of a shock to me when, in the late 1990s, these types of shows became harder and harder to find whenever I would cruise around the dial. Fortunately, the big TV-on-DVD boom was just around the corner and I took full advantage of it, fearing that it may be the only way to see them in the future. I didn't foresee the digital sub-channel nostalgia stations popping up. They are kind of like the modern version of the old UHF stations. But I don't regret building my own library while I could, as I'm not dependent on a cable TV subscription to get my classic TV fix.
This morning, I took delivery on several fair-sized packages, mainly of DVDs of movies and TV, old and not-so-new, now residing on my DVD wall.
DeleteI know where SaturdayMorningFan is coming from; I've lived there most of my life.
I'm a Fifties kid, born in 1950.
At that time, there were four commercial TV stations in Chicago, representing all four networks. CBS was ch2, NBC was ch5, ABC was ch7, and Dumont was ch9.
The nets didn't program 24/7 back then, and the daytime and late night hours were fair game for everything else.
Early syndicated film shows, really old B-movies, long-forgotten comedy shorts .. all running together with the 'new' prime time stuff on the networks. This is where I learned to read credit crawls, and noticed many of the same names in all of them.
Only one set in the house, and TV GUIDE to tell me what I was missing (and would likely never get to see at all) on the stations we weren't watching.
If you'd told ten-year-old me that one day I'd own my own copies of the TV shows I was watching - or for that matter the movies I was going to see with my parents -
- hell, at that point I wouldn't have believed color TV.
The DVD wall is now my defense against the constant copycatting of the digital nostalgia channels, who all seem to use the same shows - and lately seem intent on weeding out anything earlier than the onset of color.
At least in prime time. (Black-and-white is usually relegated to overnights).
My own tastes are all over the place. I can bounce back and forth between decades and color or its absence and genres and whatever ... it's all of a piece to me.
These days, I get catalogs and websites that can supply me with some really obscure shows that I was always sure I was the only one who remembered them.
Anybody here remember Soldiers Of Fortune?
Lee Marvin Presents Lawbreaker?
Craig Kennedy, Criminologist?
Tales Of Tomorrow?
Autolite presents .. Suspense?
... or any number of others I could call out at random from my wall?
There's a ton of stuff out there (much of it in surprisingly good condition) that the digital stations aren't touching ...
... and that's their mistake.
Born in the late 60's, but I think of myself as a 70's kid because I can't remember any of the 60's (fortunately). Like Chicago, the Boston market was a vibrant one with 3 network stations, 2-5 UHF stations depending upon if you had an aerial or not, and a PBS station that made original programming. So I was spoiled and didn't know it. My DVD wall is my defense against the seemingly inevitable transition to streaming as the only way to watch anything, if the studios have their way. Like you, 10-year-old me never even dreamed of owning all my favorite shows and movies in a personal collection, and I'm saddened to see the state of TV viewing essentially being thrown back to the 1970s. I get the feeling this is the Last Call for owning copies of shows in physical form, so get 'em while you still can. I've just about wrapped up my collection; I've got all the shows I know I want with the exception of a few odds'n'ends I may or may not pick up, and that should keep me entertained for the rest of my life (barring catastrophes, of course). However, I do occasionally read a review that convinces me to buy something sight unseen. I got Lee Marvin Presents Lawbreaker and Science Fiction Theater that way, and I was very pleased with both of them.
DeleteThe 1972 Summer Olympics represented the first time that a network would pre-empt an entire night's prime-time schedule night-after-night (three hours a night) for Olympic coverage.
ReplyDeleteThe only daytime coverage was on weekends; although I think ABC did add a couple of afternoon hours on Monday, September 4th (which was Labor Day in the U.S.), in part to show live Mark Spitz winning his record-breaking seventh gold medal in swimming (which I believe the network re-ran during their prime-time broadcast that night).
By contrast, I'm pretty sure NBC will carry fourteen hours of Olympic coverage on it's broadcast network (and many more hours each day on its cable siblings) each day of next summer's (2016) Olympics in Rio, which will likely be divided-up among eight hours of daytime coverage, five hours in prime-time, and one hour in late night (which may be a wrap-up).
Going back to Mark Spitz and 1972; sadly, the day after Spitz made Olympic history, terrorists stormed the Israeli dormitory at the Olympic Village. Spitz, whose events had finished, had planned to stay in Munich to attend other events for the rest of the Olympiad, but since he was a member of the Jewish faith, he decided to leave town ASAP after the attack.