What's on TV: Monday, November 18, 1968

This week we make our first visit to Iowa, where we've got programming from three metro areas: Cedar Rapids, Des Moines and the Quad Cities.*  The daytime lineup is making its transition from black-and-white to color programming, and only a couple of stations lack the facilities to broadcast in color.  The shows, as well, reflect the times, as we'll see. One thing I do appreciate about these issues from the Midwest is the emphasis on farm reporting, which remains an important part of the economy until the farm recession in the 80s.

*Bonus points for naming all four of them.

By the way, coming from Minnesota I have hundreds of Iowa jokes: it was time for the big football game between Minnesota and Iowa, and the two teams were going at it when a train that was passing the stadium sounded its horn. The Minnesota players thought that meant the half was over, and ran off the field.

Four plays later, Iowa scored.

Well, maybe not so much this season.

	WMT, Channel 2 (Cedar Rapids, IA) (CBS)
	Morning
	07:00a	Sunrise Semester
	07:30a	CBS Morning News with Joseph Benti (color)
	07:55a	Tales of the Riverbank
	08:00a	Captain Kangaroo (color)
	09:00a	Dr. Max (color)
	09:30a	The Beverly Hillbillies
	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)
	Afternoon
	12:00p	News (local) (color)
	12:15p	Farm News (color)
	12:30p	As the World Turns (color)
	01:00p	Home Fare (color)
	01:30p	The Guiding Light (color)
	02:00p	The Secret Storm (color)
	02:30p	The Edge of Night (color)
	03:00p	The Linkletter Show (guest Eva Gabor) (color)
	03:25p	News (local) (color)
	03:30p	Modern Woman (guest Adam Clayton Powell) (color)
	04:00p	Doctor Max (color)
	05:30p	CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite (color)
	Evening
	06:00p	News (local) (color)
	06:30p	Gunsmoke (color)
	07:30p	Here’s Lucy (color)
	08:00p	Mayberry R.F.D. (color)
	08:30p	Family Affair (color)
	09:00p	Carol Burnett (guests Ella Fitzgerald, Sid Caesar) (color)
	10:00p	News (local) (color)
	10:30p	Movie – “Fanfare for a Death Scene”

Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. (nickname: "The King of the Cats") guest on Modern Woman, was an influential black congressman from Harlem. He was powerful as well, becoming chairman of the important Education and Labor Committee, before being expelled from Congress in a corruption scandal. (Technically, the Democratic majority refused to seat him after his reelection in 1967. He later regained his seat through court action.) That is the topic of this program. He was defeated in his 1970 reelection bid by Charles Rangel, who continues to hold the seat to this day.

	KTVO, Channel 3 (Ottumwa) (ABC, NBC, CBS)
	Morning
	07:00a	This Day
	08:30a	Ed Allen (color)
	09:00a	Portraits of Americans
	09:30a	Dick Cavett (guest Haim Ginott) (color)
	11:00a	Jeopardy (color)
	11:30a	Search for Tomorrow (color)
	Afternoon
	12:00p	News, Weather (local)
	12:15p	Town and Country Forum
	12:30p	As the World Turns (color)
	01:00p	The Newlywed Game (color)
	01:30p	The Dating Game (color)
	02:00p	General Hospital (color)
	02:30p	The Edge of Night (color)
	03:00p	Dark Shadows (color)
	03:30p	One Life to Live
	04:00p	Dream House
	04:30p	Funny You Should Ask (guests Judy Carne, Abby Dalton, Stu Gilliam, Paul Lynde, Jan Murray)
	04:55p	The Children’s Doctor
	05:00p	Bewitched
	05:30p	ABC Evening News with Frank Reynolds (color)
	Evening
	06:00p	News, Weather, Sports (local)
	06:30p	The Avengers (color)
	07:30p	Peyton Place (color)
	08:00p	The Outcasts (color)
	09:00p	The Big Valley (color)
	10:00p	News, Weather, Sports (local)
	10:30p	Joey Bishop (guests Art Linkletter, Peggy Lee, Roy Clark, Grady Tate, the Turtles) (color)
	12:00a	News (local)

In an otherwise undistinguished lineup, I'm drawn to Joey Bishop's lineup. Nowadays the formula for talk shows seems to be monologue, skit, interview, musical guest, the end. Granted Bishop's show ran 90 minutes, but he has four musical guests for the evening, which is unusual even for the time.

	WHBF, Channel 4 (Quad Cities) (CBS)
	Morning
	07:30a	CBS Morning News with Joseph Benti (color)
	07:55a	News (local)
	08:00a	Captain Kangaroo (color)
	09:00a	The Lucy Show (color)
	09:30a	Jack LaLanne (color)
	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)
	Afternoon
	12:00p	Password (guests John Forsythe, Barbara Rush) (color)
	12:30p	As the World Turns (color)
	01:00p	Love is a Many-Splendored Thing (color)
	01:30p	The Guiding Light (color)
	02:00p	The Secret Storm (color)
	02:30p	The Edge of Night (color)
	03:00p	The Linkletter Show (guest Eva Gabor) (color)
	03:25p	CBS News (Douglas Edwards) (color)
	03:30p	Mike Douglas (guests Maureen Stapleton, Richard Tucker, the Lettermen, Erich Fromm) (color)
	05:00p	The Flintstones (color)
	05:30p	CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite (color)
	Evening
	06:00p	News (local) (color)
	06:30p	Gunsmoke (color)
	07:30p	Here’s Lucy (color)
	08:00p	Mayberry R.F.D. (color)
	08:30p	Family Affair (color)
	09:00p	Carol Burnett (guests Ella Fitzgerald, Sid Caesar) (color)
	10:00p	News (local) (color)
	10:30p	Hollywood Award Theatre – “Devil’s Agent”

A while back we looked at a TV Guide issue that featured Mike Douglas on the cover, and referred to him as something along the lines of the dean of housewives. And when I compare him to Paar, Cavett and Griffin, I often thing the same thing. Interesting, then, that one of Mike's guests today is the noted philosopher Erich Fromm, From the always-reliable Wikipedia:

The cornerstone of Fromm's humanistic philosophy is his interpretation of the biblical story of Adam and Eve's exile from the Garden of Eden. Drawing on his knowledge of the Talmud, Fromm pointed out that being able to distinguish between good and evil is generally considered to be a virtue, and that biblical scholars generally consider Adam and Eve to have sinned by disobeying God and eating from the Tree of Knowledge. However, departing from traditional religious orthodoxy on this, Fromm extolled the virtues of humans taking independent action and using reason to establish moral values rather than adhering to authoritarian moral values.

In other words, perfect psychology for the late '60s. Still, considering that as you go deeper into Fromm you get such descriptions as "Fromm considered love to be an interpersonal creative capacity rather than an emotion, and he distinguished this creative capacity from what he considered to be various forms of narcissistic neuroses and sado-masochistic tendencies that are commonly held out as proof of "true love," you have to think that either the audience level was raised very high for this show, or Fromm dumbed himself way, way down to reach them.

	WOI, Channel 5 (Des Moines) (ABC)
	Morning
	07:00a	Open Circuit (color)
	07:30a	Timmy and Lassie
	08:00a	The Newlywed Game
	08:30a	Jack LaLanne (color)
	09:00a	Magic Window (color)
	09:30a	Classroom
	10:00a	Dick Cavett (guest Haim Ginott) (JIP) (color)
	11:00a	Bewitched
	11:30a	Treasure Isle (color)
	Afternoon
	12:00p	News (local) (color)
	12:30p	Funny You Should Ask (guests Jack Carter, Stu Gilliam, Arte Johnson) (color)
	12:55p	The Children’s Doctor (color)
	01:00p	Truth or Consequences (color)
	01:30p	The Dating Game (color)
	02:00p	General Hospital (color)
	02:30p	One Life to Live (color)
	03:00p	Dark Shadows (color)
	03:30p	Dennis the Menace
	04:00p	The Flintstones (color)
	04:30p	Leave it to Beaver
	04:55p	News (local) (color)
	05:00p	ABC Evening News with Frank Reynolds (color)
	05:30p	The Naked City
	Evening
	06:00p	That Girl (color)
	06:30p	The Avengers (color)
	07:30p	Peyton Place (color)
	08:00p	The Outcasts (color)
	09:00p	The Big Valley (color)
	10:00p	News (local) (color)
	10:30p	Joey Bishop (guests Art Linkletter, Peggy Lee, Roy Clark, Grady Tate, the Turtles) (color)

I ask you - is the world really ready for The Newlywed Game at 8:00 in the morning? Before even watching Jack LaLanne?

	WOC, Channel 6 (Quad Cities) (NBC)
	Morning
	07:00a	Today (color)
	09:00a	Especially (color)
	09:30a	Concentration (color)
	10:00a	Personality (panel Hugh O’Brian, Betsy Palmer, Nipsey Russell, Pearl Bailey) (color)
	10:30a	The Hollywood Squares (panel Kaye Ballard, Wally Cox, Gypsy Rose Lee, Paul Lynde, Rose Marie, Greg Morris, Jan Murray, Charley Weaver, Gig Young) (color)
	11:00a	Jeopardy (color)
	11:30a	Eye Guess (color)
	11:55a	NBC News (color)
	Afternoon
	12:00p	News (local) (color)
	12:15p	Farm News (color)
	12:25p	Almanac (color)
	12:30p	Let’s Make a Deal (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 Richard Deacon, Herb Rudley) (color)
	03:00p	The Match Game (guests Lauren Bacall, Patrick O’Neal) (color)
	03:25p	NBC News (Floyd Kalber)
	03:30p	Timmy and Lassie
	04:00p	Cap’n Ernie (color)
	05:00p	Truth or Consequences (color)
	05:30p	The Huntley-Brinkley Report (color)
	Evening
	06:00p	News (local) (color)
	06:25p	Comment (color)
	06:30p	I Dream of Jeannie (color)
	07:00p	Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In (guests Victor Borge, the Banana Splits) (color)
	08:00p	Movie – “Viva Zapada”
	10:00p	News (local) (color)
	10:30p	The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (guests Phyllis Diller, Bob Crane, Darren McGavin, John Byner) (color)
	12:00a	News (local)
	12:05a	Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Johnny Carson is doing Tonight from Hollywood this week - continuing to do it, as the description reads, so he was probably out there for two or three weeks, reaching the guests that he couldn't get while he was in New York. Soon he'd move out there permanently, and while he went back to New York occasionally for the first few years, it was Beautiful Downtown Burbank which is most closely identified with the show.

	KWWL, Channel 7 (Waterloo) (NBC)
	Morning
	07:00a	Today (color)
	09:00a	Romper Room (color)
	09:30a	Concentration (color)
	10:00a	Personality (panel Hugh O’Brian, Betsy Palmer, Nipsey Russell, Pearl Bailey) (color)
	10:30a	The Hollywood Squares (panel Kaye Ballard, Wally Cox, Gypsy Rose Lee, Paul Lynde, Rose Marie, Greg Morris, Jan Murray, Charley Weaver, Gig Young) (color)
	11:00a	Jeopardy (color)
	11:30a	Eye Guess (color)
	11:55a	NBC News (color)
	Afternoon
	12:00p	Merv Griffin (guests Twiggy, Genevieve, Charlie Manna, Monti Rock III) (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 Richard Deacon, Herb Rudley) (color)
	03:00p	The Match Game (guests Lauren Bacall, Patrick O’Neal) (color)
	03:25p	NBC News (Floyd Kalber)
	03:30p	Let’s Make a Deal (color)
	04:00p	Mike Douglas (guests the Irish Rovers, Pat Cooper, Jerry Kramer) (color)
	05:00p	The Flintstones (color)
	05:30p	The Huntley-Brinkley Report (color)
	Evening
	06:00p	News (local) (color)
	06:30p	I Dream of Jeannie (color)
	07:00p	Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In (guests Victor Borge, the Banana Splits) (color)
	08:00p	Monday Night at the Movies – “El Cid” (part 1) (color)
	10:00p	News (local) (color)
	10:30p	The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (guests Phyllis Diller, Bob Crane, Darren McGavin, John Byner) (color)
	12:00a	News (local)

For some reason, I just can't see Victor Borge on Laugh-In. Not with the Banana Splits, at least.

	WQAD, Channel 8 (Quad Cities) (ABC)
	Morning
	07:30a	The Big Picture (Army) (color)
	08:00a	Sets and Systems
	08:30a	Social Security (color)
	08:45a	Inter-Act
	09:00a	Romper Room (Miss Jean) (color)
	09:30a	Word Game
	09:50a	News, Weather (local)
	10:00a	Dick Cavett (guest Haim Ginott) (JIP) (color)
	10:30a	Dick Van Dyke
	11:00a	Bewitched
	11:30a	On Q with Sandy
	Afternoon
	12:00p	Noon Farm Report
	12:30p	Funny You Should Ask (guests Jack Carter, Stu Gilliam, Arte Johnson) (color)
	12:55p	The Children’s Doctor (color)
	01:00p	The Newlywed Game (color)
	01:30p	The Dating Game (color)
	02:00p	General Hospital (color)
	02:30p	Scienceland
	02:50p	News (local)
	03:00p	Dark Shadows (color)
	03:30p	One Life to Live (color)
	04:00p	Perry Mason
	05:00p	Merv Griffin (guests Richard Boone, Hermoine Gingold, Enzo Stuarti, Julie Budd, Jackie Kannon, Lilly Tomlin)
	Evening
	06:00p	News (local)
	06:30p	The Avengers (color)
	07:30p	Peyton Place (color)
	08:00p	The Outcasts (color)
	09:00p	The Big Valley (color)
	10:00p	News (local) (color)
	10:30p	Joey Bishop (guests Art Linkletter, Peggy Lee, Roy Clark, Grady Tate, the Turtles” (color)
	12:00a	News (local)

In mentioning Mike Douglas' show above, I compared it somewhat unfavorably to Merv Griffin. I will admit that Merv's lineup here, doesn't exactly raise the intellectual level much, though the entertainment quotient is pretty good.

	KRNT, Channel 8 (Des Moines) (CBS)
	Morning
	06:30a	Sunrise Semester (color)
	07:00a	Pastor’s Study (color)
	07:05a	CBS Morning News with Joseph Benti (color)
	07:30a	Breakfast Club (color)
	08:00a	Captain Kangaroo (color)
	09:00a	Merv Griffin (guests George Jessel, Dick Shawn, Lillian Briggs, Lori Rogers) (color)
	10:00a	Andy Griffith
	11:00a	Love of Life (color)
	11:25a	CBS News (Joseph Benti) (color)
	11:30a	Search for Tomorrow (color)
	Afternoon
	12:00p	News (local) (color)
	12:15p	Don Soliday (color)
	12:30p	As the World Turns (color)
	01:00p	Love is a Many-Splendored Thing (color)
	01:30p	The Guiding Light (color)
	02:00p	The Secret Storm (color)
	02:30p	The Edge of Night (color)
	03:00p	The Linkletter Show (guest Eva Gabor) (color)
	03:25p	CBS News (Douglas Edwards) (color)
	03:30p	Mary Brubaker (color)
	04:00p	Mike Douglas (guets Mel Torme, Totie Fields, Ted Mack, Checkmates, Ltd.) (color)
	05:30p	CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite (color)
	Evening
	06:00p	News (local) (color)
	06:30p	Gunsmoke (color)
	07:30p	Here’s Lucy (color)
	08:00p	Mayberry R.F.D. (color)
	08:30p	Family Affair (color)
	09:00p	Carol Burnett (guests Ella Fitzgerald, Sid Caesar) (color)
	10:00p	News (local) (color)
	10:30p	Movie – “The Hanging Tree” (color)
	12:20a	News (local) (color)

When you see Carol Burnett and Friends on MeTV (and for years before that in syndication), you tend to forget that the show wasn't all comedy, and this week's episode with the great Ella Fitzgerald is a reminder of that. As is the case with any variety show, it's a great disservice when we ignore the musical guests.

	KCRG, Channel 9 (Cedar Rapids) (ABC)
	Morning
	08:25a	Market Report
	08:30a	Jack LaLanne
	09:00a	Classroom
	09:30a	Dick Cavett (guest Haim Ginott) (color)
	11:00a	Bewitched
	11:30a	Family Focus (color)
	Afternoon
	12:00p	Dream House (color)
	12:30p	Funny You Should Ask (guests Jack Carter, Stu Gilliam, Arte Johnson) (color)
	12:55p	The Children’s Doctor (color)
	01:00p	The Newlywed Game (color)
	01:30p	The Dating Game (color)
	02:00p	General Hospital (color)
	02:30p	One Life to Live (color)
	03:00p	Dark Shadows (color)
	03:30p	Movie – “The Belle of New York” (color)
	05:00p	ABC Evening News with Frank Reynolds (color)
	05:30p	News, Paul Harvey (local) (color)
	Evening
	06:00p	Truth or Consequences (color)
	06:30p	The Avengers (color)
	07:30p	Peyton Place (color)
	08:00p	The Outcasts (color)
	09:00p	The Big Valley (color)
	10:00p	News, Paul Harvey (local) (color)
	10:30p	Joey Bishop (guests Art Linkletter, Peggy Lee, Roy Clark, Grady Tate, the Turtles” (color)
	12:00a	News (local)

Dick Cavett's morning show, which has largely been forgotten in favor of his late-night program, is, I think, a cut or two (or seven or eight) above the kind of chick chat show that dominates daytime television today. Though he probably had a predominantly female audience (as the presence of educational psychologist Haim Ginott would suggest), his Thursday show with Otto Preminger and Sir Edmund Hillary would indicate he wanted his viewers to think, as well.

	KDPS, Channel 11 (Des Moines) (NET)
	Afternoon
	03:00p	KaDiPus (color)
	04:00p	KaDiPus (color)
	05:00p	KaDiPus (color)
	Evening
	06:00p	What’s New
	06:30p	Going Places
	07:00p	Skiing (color)
	07:30p	Glory Trail
	08:00p	NET Journal (color)
	09:00p	Heart Program (special) (color)

Had I not found this, I never would have known how KaDiPus was actually spelled.

	WHO, Channel 13 (Des Moines) (NBC)
	Morning
	07:00a	Today (color)
	09:00a	Snap Judgment  (guests Alan Alda, Estelle Parsons) (col0r)
	09:25a	NBC News (Nancy Dickerson) (color)
	09:30a	Concentration (color)
	10:00a	Personality (panel Hugh O’Brian, Betsy Palmer, Nipsey Russell, Pearl Bailey) (color)
	10:30a	The Hollywood Squares (panel Kaye Ballard, Wally Cox, Gypsy Rose Lee, Paul Lynde, Rose Marie, Greg Morris, Jan Murray, Charley Weaver, Gig Young) (color)
	11:00a	Jeopardy (color)
	11:30a	Eye Guess (color)
	11:55a	NBC News (color)
	Afternoon
	12:00p	News (local) (color)
	12:15p	Cartoons (color)
	12:30p	Movie – “The Milkman”
	01:30p	Pat Valentine (color)
	02:00p	Another World (color)
	02:30p	You Don’t Say! (guests Richard Deacon, Herb Rudley) (color)
	03:00p	The Match Game (guests Lauren Bacall, Patrick O’Neal) (color)
	03:25p	News (local) (color)
	03:30p	Floppy (color)
	04:00p	Movie – “Good Morning, Miss Dove” (color)
	05:00p	Birthday Party
	05:15p	People in Today’s News
	05:30p	The Huntley-Brinkley Report (color)
	Evening
	06:00p	News (local) (color)
	06:30p	I Dream of Jeannie (color)
	07:00p	Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In (guests Victor Borge, the Banana Splits) (color)
	08:00p	Monday Night at the Movies – “El Cid” (part 1) (color)
	10:00p	News (local) (color)
	10:30p	The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (guests Phyllis Diller, Bob Crane, Darren McGavin, John Byner) (color)

WHO, one of the most famous local stations in American television, though perhaps its radio counterpart was even more famous. And as for one of its most famous alums, that person will be on the cover of the issue we look at next week. Any guesses as to "who" it is?

	KVFD, Channel 21 (Fort Dodge) (NBC)
	Morning
	07:00a	Today (color)
	09:00a	Snap Judgment  (guests Alan Alda, Estelle Parsons) (col0r)
	09:25a	About Five
	09:30a	Concentration (color)
	10:00a	Personality (panel Hugh O’Brian, Betsy Palmer, Nipsey Russell, Pearl Bailey) (color)
	10:30a	The Hollywood Squares (panel Kaye Ballard, Wally Cox, Gypsy Rose Lee, Paul Lynde, Rose Marie, Greg Morris, Jan Murray, Charley Weaver, Gig Young) (color)
	11:00a	Jeopardy (color)
	11:30a	Eye Guess (color)
	11:55a	NBC News (color)
	Afternoon
	12:00p	News, Weather (local)
	12:15p	Farm News
	12:30p	Insight
	01:00p	Golden Door
	01:30p	Pop-Up Bingo
	02:00p	Another World (color)
	02:30p	You Don’t Say! (guests Richard Deacon, Herb Rudley) (color)
	03:00p	The Match Game (guests Lauren Bacall, Patrick O’Neal) (color)
	03:25p	News (local)
	03:30p	Romper Room (Miss Janet)
	04:00p	Eve’s Kitchen
	05:30p	The Huntley-Brinkley Report (color)
	Evening
	06:00p	News, Weather, Sports (local)
	06:30p	I Dream of Jeannie (color)
	07:00p	Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In (guests Victor Borge, the Banana Splits) (color)
	08:00p	Monday Night at the Movies – “El Cid” (part 1) (color)
	10:00p	News, Weather, Sports (local)
	10:30p	The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (guests Phyllis Diller, Bob Crane, Darren McGavin, John Byner) (color)

It's comforting that when you can search the Internet and find a picture like this, from Eve's Kitchen, you know that there really are very few parts of American television history that are completely forgotten.

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