What's on TV? Wednesday, August 16, 1967

We really are in the dog days of summer this week, straddling that line when returning series are in reruns, when summer replacement shows are winding down their time, and when cancelled programs run out the clock before disappearing into the mists of time.

This week's listings are once again from the Twin Cities.  Have a look!

	KTCA, Channel 2 (Educ.)
	Evening
	06:00p	Folk Guitar
	06:30p	Conversations
	07:00p	NET Playhouse – “The Importance of Being Earnest”
	08:00p	Violin Sonata
	09:00p	U.S.A.
	09:30p	Summer Folio
	10:00p	Nine to Get Ready
	10:30p	Antiques

NET's "Importance of Being Earnest" cast is a very strong one - Ian Carmichael, who did very well as Lord Peter Wimsey for Masterpiece Theatre; Patrick Macnee, John Steed himself; and Susannah York, who was in all kinds of British movies in the '60s and '70s.  Not a bad cast at all.

	WCCO, Channel 4 (CBS)
	Morning
	06:00a	Summer Semester
	06:30a	Siegfried and His Flying Saucer
	07:00a	Clancy & Carmen (color)
	07:30a	Clancy & Willie (color)
	08:00a	Captain Kangaroo
	09:00a	Dr. Reuben K. Youngdahl (color)
	09:05a	Merv Griffin
	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 (Dean Montgomery) (color)
	12:20p	Something Special (color)
	12:30p	As the World Turns (color)
	01:00p	Password (guests George Grizzard, Sheila MacRae) (color)
	01:30p	House Party (guest Lee Keener) (color)
	02:00p	To Tell the Truth (color)
	02:25p	CBS News (Douglas Edwards) (color)
	02:30p	The Edge of Night
	03:00p	The Secret Storm
	03:30p	The Beverly Hillbillies
	04:00p	Mike Douglas (guests Martha Raye, Gen. Lewis Walt, Warren Covington and the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, the Amazing Kreskin) (color)
	05:30p	CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite (color)
	Evening
	06:00p	News (Dave Moore) (color)
	06:15p	Weather (Bud Kraehling) (color)
	06:20p	Sports (Hal Scott) (color)
	06:30p	Lost in Space (color)
	07:30p	The Beverly Hillbillies (color)
	08:00p	Green Acres (color)
	08:30p	Gomer Pyle, USMC (color)
	09:00p	Steve Allen (guests Lou Rawls, the Love Generation, Stiller and Meara) (color)
	10:00p	News (Dave Moore) (color)
	10:15p	Weather (Bud Kraehling) (color)
	10:20p	Sports (Hal Scott) (color)
	10:30p	Marshal Dillon
	11:15p	Movie – “7th Cavalry” (color)
	12:30a	Movie – “Looking for Danger” (time approximate)

Steve Allen never seemed to be off television for too long at a time, did he?  He went from What's My Line? to Tonight, and then to his head-to-head battle against Ed Sullivan, before hosting the last days of I've Got a Secret.  In-between, he had another go at late-night on a syndicated program, and found time to do summer replacements such as the one above.  He went on other shows, including Meeting of Minds, and kept writing books and songs.  I'm tired just writing this.

	KSTP, Channel 5 (NBC)
	Morning
	06:15a	David Stone (color)
	06:30a	City and Country (color) 55
	06:55a	Doctor’s House Call (color)
	07:00a	Today (guest host Burgess Meredith, guests Rowan and Martin, authors Daniel A. Sugarman and Rolaine Hochstein) (color)
	09:00a	Snap Judgment (guests Bess Myerson, Stephen Strimpell) (color)
	09:25a	NBC News (Sander Vanocur) (color)
	09:30a	Concentration (color)
	10:00a	Personality (guests Claire Bloom, Joan Fontaine, Barry Nelson, Peter Falk) (color)
	10:30a	The Hollywood Squares (guests Sandy Baron, Nanette Fabray, Buddy Hackett, Sue Ann Langdon, Dick Patterson, Wally Cox, Rose Marie, Charley Weaver, Morey Amsterdam) (color)
	11:00a	Jeopardy (color)
	11:30a	Eye Guess (color)
	11:55a	NBC News (Edwin Newman) (color)
	Afternoon
	12:00p	News (Gene Berry) (color)
	12:1op	Weather (Johnny Morris) (color)
	12:15p	Dialing for Dollars (color)
	12:30p	Let’s Make a Deal
	12:55p	NBC News (Nancy Dickerson) (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 Tammy Grimes, Les Crane) (color)
	03:00p	The Match Game (guests Jal Holbrook, Dr. Joyce Brothers) (color)
	03:25p	NBC News (Floyd Kalbur) (color)
	03:30p	Dialing for Dollars (color)
	04:45p	Of Lands and Seas (color)
	05:25p	News (Gene Berry)
	05:30p	The Huntley-Brinkley Report (color)
	Evening
	06:00p	News (Bob Ryan) (color)
	06:15p	Weather (Johnny Morris) (color)
	06:20p	Sports (Al Tighe) (color)
	06:30p	The Virginian (color)
	08:00p	Bob Hope Chrysler Theater (color)
	09:00p	I Spy (color)
	10:00p	News (John MacDougall) (color)
	10:15p	Weather (Johnny Morris) (color)
	10:20p	Sports (Al Tighe) (color)
	10:30p	The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (guest Louis Armstrong) (color)
	12:00a	News and Sports (local) (color)
	12:15a	M Squad (time approximate)

Looking at that lineup for Hollywood Squares, it's always strange to see Paul Lynde's name missing, so much did he become synonymous with the show.  However, he hasn't yet become a regular, and Charley Weaver and Wally Cox are the two go-to figures on the panel.

	KMSP, Channel 9 (ABC)
	Morning
	07:30a	Morning Show (color)
	08:00a	Dateline: Hollywood (guests Louis Nye, Norman Alden)
	08:25a	The Children’s Doctor
	08:30a	Romper Room (color)
	09:30a	Jack LaLanne (color)
	10:00a	Honeymoon Race (color)
	10:30a	Family Game
	11:00a	Everybody’s Talking (guests Frankie Avalon, Ruta Lee, Selma Diamond)
	11:30a	Donna Reed
	Afternoon
	12:00p	The Fugitive
	01:00p	The Newlywed Game (color)
	01:30p	Dream Girl (guests Lee Ann Meriwether, Louis Nye, William Smith, Ron Soble) (color)
	01:55p	ABC News (Marlene Sanders) (color)
	02:00p	General Hospital
	02:30p	Dark Shadows (color)
	03:00p	The Dating Game (color)
	03:30p	Movie – “Wolf Larson”
	05:00p	ABC Evening News with Frank Reynolds and Keith McBee (color)
	05:30p	Timmy and Lassie
	Evening
	06:00p	McHale’s Navy
	06:30p	Batman (color)
	07:00p	The Monroes (color)
	08:00p	Movie – “Flaming Star” (color)
	10:00p	News (Fahan/Steer) (color)
	10:25p	Sports (Tony Parker) (color)
	10:30p	Movie – “Night People” (color)
	12:20a	Joey Bishop (guest Stevie Wonder) (color)

Ah, the Jack LaLanne program.  Loved the reruns that ran on ESPN Classic a few years ago.  Yes, his shtick might seem a little corny nowadays, but you still can get a surprisingly good workout by following his exercise plan.  He was a guest on a Peter Gunn episode I saw not too long ago; his segment was practically an infomercial!  Probably wrote all of his lines himself.

	WTCN, Channel 11 (Ind.)
	Morning
	08:55a	News (Gil Amundson)
	09:00a	Cartoon Carnival (color)
	09:30a	Gloria (color)
	10:00a	Abbott and Costello
	10:30a	Whirlybirds
	11:00a	Bachelor Father
	11:30a	Cooking With Hank
	11:45a	News (Gil Amundson)
	Afternoon
	12:00p	Lunch With Casey
	01:00p	Movie – “The Big Trees”
	02:45p	Mel’s Notebook
	03:00p	Virginia Graham (guests Lilo, Doris Lilly)
	03:30p	Bat Masterson
	04:00p	Popeye and Pete
	05:30p	The Flintstones (color)
	Evening
	06:00p	Woody Woodpecker (color)
	06:30p	Laramie
	07:30p	Perry Mason
	08:30p	The Rogues
	09:30p	News (Stuart A. Lindman)
	09:45p	Weather (Warren Martin)
	09;50p	Sports (Frank Beutel)
	10:00p	Movie – “Three for the Show”

For those of you who didn't go for Jack, Exercise with Gloria was a fine substitute.  I wasn't able to come up with a clip of the show; for some reason, Gloria apparently didn't have the staying appeal that Jack and Debbie Drake did, but here's a picture from one of her exercise albums.

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