KTCA, Channel 2 (Educ.)
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Afternoon
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05:30p
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Kindergarten
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Evening
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06:00p
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Antiques
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06:30p
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St. Olaf College Choir
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07:00p
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Inquiry
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07:30p
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Irish Diary
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08:00p
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Rails West
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08:30p
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College of St. Thomas
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09:00p
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Television College
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10:00p
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Congress of Strings
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As befits an educational station, Channel 2 does not broadcast during the daytime while schools are on the Christmas break, as it was so quaintly called back in the day.
WCCO, Channel 4 (CBS)
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Morning
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07:00a
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Clancy and Axel
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08:00a
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Captain Kangaroo
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09:00a
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News (Dean
Montgomery)
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09:15a
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What’s New?
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09:25a
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Dr. Reuben K. Youngdahl
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09:30a
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Cotton Bowl Parade (hosts Allen Ludden and Marilyn Van
Derbur) (special)
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10:30a
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Rose Parade (hosts Bess Myerson, Ronald Reagan)
(special) (color)
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Afternoon
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12:45p
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Cotton Bowl (Nebraska vs. Arkansas) (special)
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04:00p
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News (Dean
Montgomery)
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04:15p
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Something Special
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04:25p
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Weather (Bud
Kraehling)
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04:30p
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Axel and Deputy Dawg
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05:00p
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Clancy and Company
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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 (Dave
Moore)
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06:15p
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Sports (Don
King)
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06:20p
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Direction
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06:25p
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Weather (Don
O’Brien)
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06:30p
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Rawhide
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07:30p
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Nuthouse (special)
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08:30p
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Gomer Pyle, USMC
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09:00p
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Slattery’s People
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10:00p
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News (Dave
Moore)
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10:15p
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Weather (Bud
Kraehling)
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10:20p
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Sports (Hal
Scott)
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10:30p
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Movie –
“Avenger of Venice”
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12:00a
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Sports (Hal
Scott)
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12:05a
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Movie – “Will
Success Spoil Rock Hunter”
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The Cotton Bowl parade was held at Fair Park in Dallas, home of the Cotton Bowl stadium. When the Cotton Bowl game moved to NBC some years ago, the network indicated it had no interest in televising the parade. Without TV, the parade went away. We now have a Christmas parade in downtown Dallas (and may have had it even when the Cotton Bowl parade was around), but it isn't the same thing.
KSTP, Channel 5 (NBC)
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Morning
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06:30a
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City and Country
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07:00a
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Today (guests the Swingle Singers)
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09:00a
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Make Room for Daddy
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09:30a
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What’s This Song? (guests Fess Parker, Vera Miles)
(color)
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09:55a
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NBC News (Edwin Newman)
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10:00a
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Orange Bowl Parade (host Dennis Weaver) (special) (color)
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10:30a
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Rose Parade (hosts Lorne Greene, Betty White)
(special) (color)
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Afternoon
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12:45p
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Sugar Bowl (Syracuse vs. LSU) (special) (color)
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03:30p
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Rose Bowl (Michigan vs. Oregon State)
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Evening
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06:45p
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Orange Bowl (Alabama vs. Texas) (special) (color)
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09:30p
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1964 Sports Roundup (time approximate) (special)
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10:00p
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News
(John MacDougall) (color)
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10:15p
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Weather
(Johnny Morris) (color)
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10:20p
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Sports (Al
Tighe) (color)
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10:30p
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The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
(color)
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12:15a
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Movie – “The
Mummy’s Ghost”
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The KSTP schedule is so short, it looks like KTCA, doesn't it? This was the first year of what someone once referred to as the football widow's nightmare, with NBC mounting a tripleheader of the Sugar, Rose and Orange Bowls. The Orange Bowl had previously resided on ABC, back when it was an afternoon game that played at the same time as the Sugar and Rose; I suspect NBC might have had something to do with persuading the Orange Bowl Committee to move the game to prime time. I loved this lineup, and rarely checked out the Cotton Bowl during those days. When ABC picked up the Sugar Bowl for 1970, it didn't feel right. Even though ABC televised regular season games, it just wasn't the same. Now that it's on ESPN, it really doesn't feel the same.
Lorne Greene and Betty White teamed up for many a parade on NBC; I think they did the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade for a number of years as well.
Lorne Greene and Betty White teamed up for many a parade on NBC; I think they did the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade for a number of years as well.
KMSP, Channel 9 (ABC)
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Morning
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07:45a
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Breakfast with Grandpa Ken
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08:30a
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Romper Room (Miss Betty)
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09:30a
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The Roaring 20’s
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10:30a
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The Price is Right
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11:00a
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Mummers Parade (hosts Les Crane, Kathy Nolan)
(special) (color)
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Afternoon
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12:30p
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Lois Leppart
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01:00p
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Flame in the Wind
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01:30p
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Day in Court
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01:55p
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ABC News (Marlene Sanders)
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02:00p
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General Hospital
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02:30p
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Young Marrieds
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03:00p
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Trailmaster
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04:00p
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Maverick
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05:00p
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ABC Evening Report (Ron Cochran)
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05:15p
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News and
Weather (local)
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05:30p
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Leave it to Beaver
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Evening
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06:00p
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Woody Woodpecker
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06:30p
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The Flintstones (color)
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07:00p
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The Farmer’s Daughter
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07:30p
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The Addams Family
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08:00p
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Valentine’s Day
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08:30p
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12 O’Clock High
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09:30p
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Death Valley Days (color)
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10:00p
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News (Bill
Fahan)
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10:15p
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Weather (Jerry
Smith)
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10:20p
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Sports (Tony
Parker)
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10:30p
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Movie – “Stars
and Stripes Forever”
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The Mummers parade is very, very strange. I've seen it a few times; it never became a regular feature on network TV, although it was on ABC off and on for awhile. Up against the Rose Parade, I don't think it ever had a chance.
WTCN, Channel 11 (Ind.)
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Morning
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10:00a
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News (local)
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10:15a
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Hank Meadows
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10:30a
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Movie – “The
Boy With Green Hair”
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11:55a
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News (Dick
Ford)
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Afternoon
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12:00p
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Lunch With Casey
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12:45p
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The King and Odie
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01:00p
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Movie – “Jack
and the Beanstalk”
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03:00p
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Bachelor Father
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03:30p
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Dave Lee and Pete
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04:30p
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Superman
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05:00p
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Magilla Gorilla
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05:30p
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Casey and Roundhouse
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05:45p
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Rocky and His Friends
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Evening
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06:00p
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The Rifleman
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06:30p
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Bold Journey
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07:00p
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Adventure Theater
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07:30p
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Movie – “David
and Goliath”
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09:30p
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News (Dick
Ford)
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09:45p
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Weather
(Stuart A. Lindman)
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09:50p
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Sports
(Buetel/Horner)
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10:00p
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Wanted – Dead or Alive
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10:30p
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Movie – “Safari”
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12:30a
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Amos ‘n’ Andy
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WTCN's choice of Jack and the Beanstalk tells me that it's still the holiday season - kids are still out of school, decorations are still up and shining. It's a regular lineup for Channel 11; no special movies, no marathons, nothing that would be commonplace today. TV
I wonder if anyone's ever made a study on which is a bigger bore: football or parades.
ReplyDeleteIn my experience, football games are interesting only to the extent of the bet you've got down on the outcome. Since I don't gamble, there's no interest for me.
Parades don't even have that interest for me.
In other words, Mitch - wrong day.
If you'd gone for Thursday instead - that would have been a different story.
I was on winter break from high school; game shows were my thing back then.
That week, among others, Jayne Mansfield and Orson Bean, who often teamed up on Broadway, were doing Password; this would have been about the time of Mariska Hargitay's birth (and how old does that make me feel).
In the evening, one of the best later Perry Mason cases, "TCO the Ruinous Road"; worth looking up (great twist at the end, and note how often in later shows Mason and Burger work together to solve the cases).
Truth to tell, this whole week is kinda blah anyway.
That said, I'll hark back to the previous post, and its passing mention of Katherine Crawford.
Do you ever check back on when you get mentioned on other blogs?
You came up on Mystery File a bit back in connection with Ms. Crawford.
A late '70s series called Gemini Man, in which Ms. Crawford had a supporting role, brought forth a number of comments, including one fro someone calling himself "Bill", who delivered his notion that Katherine Crawford got her professional name from Katharine Hepburn and Joan Crawford (see: 'wannabe').
Someone quoted your posting about a TV GUIDE profile of Ms. Crawford, mentioning her father, Roy Huggins, but this caused "Bill" to stand his ground, maintaining that his version was correct.
At this point I chimed in with the information that Katherine Huggins had used her own first name (Katherine), combined with her paternal grandmother's maiden name (Crawford); I even provided sourcing (a biography of Roy Huggins).
"Bill's" response was to dig in harder, in a manner I can only describe as personally insulting; "he'd" made a discovery, I was taking it away ... ugly, just ugly.
You can see this for yourself, if you're sufficiently masochistic: just go to Mystery File and search for Gemini Man.
And a Happy New Year to you too.
You know, one of my problems is that I can never tell when I've been mentioned somewhere else. (I'm glad you brought that up; I'm actually planning to mention it in the State of the Blog on Friday.) For some reason the trackbacks on the blog have never worked, so I'm never pinged when someone links to a story at another site. Every once in a while I do a Google search to see if "It's About TV" comes up, but it's very unreliable. If you - or anyone else - would like to dive into this and see if you can help me rectify it, because I love the interaction and would like to do it more often, please let me know either through the comments or via email.
DeleteAnd I do have to admit that I've always enjoyed the parades - when I was a wee lad, I used to set the alarm to make sure I was up in time to watch the Thanksgiving Day parades on CBS when they'd cover Philly, Detroit, New York and Toronto (and later Hawaii). We'll turn over to Hallmark on Friday (the only time we'll do so this year) to watch Bob Eubanks and Stephanie Edwards (two old TV hands) do the commercial-free coverage of the Rose Parade.
I love the history of bowl games, probably more than the contemporary games themselves. I have a modest collection of games from years past (on disc, combined with YouTube), and in years when the games have been particularly uninspiring I've been known to watch old Sugar, Rose and Orange Bowls from the late '60s or early '70s. (Once, I was able to watch all three from the same year.) I may do that this year; I tend to tone down my more eccentric behavior when we have company, and this year we're on our own, so I control the remote. But I do share your disdain for the commercial side of the game, which I think is one reason why I find the older games so appealing. Watching Oklahoma and Tennessee from the 1968 Orange Bowl or Stanford and Michigan in the 1972 Rose Bowl, is enormously fun, from the designs they used on the field to finding how well I recalled the games from when I saw them live in the day. I try hard not to get angry about how the game has changed since then.
In a later comment you mentioned Australian Rules Football, and I think your description is spot on. Now that's a game I really get into, though I was dismayed to see my Geelong Cats fall short once again.
Hey I think it's a great day to post Mitch. What on earth is "Nuthouse" on Ch.4? Why does ABC not broadcast any bowl games even though it has sole rights to regular season games? (That would end due to antitrust rulings in 1983.) And why are the parades as numerous as the football games? Let's not forget there were a lot less bowl games in the 60s, and Notre Dame famously didn't accept any bowl invites at all.
ReplyDeleteThe Nuthouse was a special that CBS ordered up from Jay Ward and Bill Scott of Rocky And Bullwinkle fame.
DeleteEssentially, it was Laugh-In before Laugh-In.
It aired the previous September, but CBS didn't pick it up for a series; running it again on New Year's Eve possibly meant that the network was still considering it, but no go.
By the way, New Year's Eve was when the network ran it; Channel 4 delayed it one day to preempt Password and Baileys Of Balboa - so what did they show on Thursday night at 8?
Notre Dame would begin accepting bowl invites in 1969.
DeleteThanks, Al! And a great description down further.
DeleteMike - on Thursday at 8 Channel 4 had Password, followed by Baileys of Balboa at 8:30.
Tom - I know the official story was that Notre Dame was able to adjust their schedule for semester finals so that it would no longer interfere with the schedule the football team would have to keep if they were in a bowl. Don't you think this was possible in part because Ara convinced the administration that since the AP had decided to do their final poll after the bowls, Notre Dame would never be able to consistently challenge for the championship if they continued to refuse to go to bowls?
Late Sudden Recollection:
DeleteThat winter saw CBS's primetime schedule in flux:
Password and Baileys Of Balboa were on Thursday night, and the regular Friday slot had The Entertainers,
the short-lived Carol Burnett/Bob Newhart hour.
As memory now serves, Entertainers was dropped around this time; the original plan was to move Password and Baileys to Friday, with Rudy Vallee's variety hour from the previous summer getting the Thursday hour. Nuthouse, the repeat special, was placeholding that week.
At the last minute, CBS decided against the switch, leaving Password and Baileys on Thursday and keeping Friday as a variety hour.
TV Guide's local program pages always had a closer print deadline than the color section; this apparently varied from city to city.
Minn-StPaul had a closer deadline than did Chicago, so they had the switchback while we didn't.
My family was watching ch7-ABC that night, mainly for 12-O'clock High (my dad's favorite show then).
So there too.
As I'm a foreigner to US television someone might need to explain to me about all the "bowls" and parades?? So many of them... and then there's actually an "Orange Bowl Parade" just to combine the two together??!
ReplyDeleteTrying to explain the sporting customs of one nation to another would require volumes.
DeleteIn this case, trying to explain the importance of college football, which at this point of history far outstripped that of the professional game, would probably take at least a university course.
I mentioned above that I had no interest in football, either pro or college; this is one of the major reasons why.
Years ago, when Channel 32 was carrying Don Lane's show, I remember his description of Australian Rules Football:
"... it's a combination of gridiron, basketball, kung fu, and the St. Valentine's Day Massacre."
That, as a Yank, was all I needed to know, really ...
Happy New Year to the Land Down Under (from the Land Up Over).
OK here it goes...
DeleteWay back when, tourism groups in warm weather cities starting setting up winter festivals. They quickly realized a great way to get people to these festivals was setting up exhibition games between top college football teams after their season was over. (Until very recently, there were no playoffs in big time college football.) These exhibitions (aka "bowls") became such big business that seemingly every locality wanted one; indeed they've become so big that a lot of them aren't linked to any festival, but are organized by corporate sponsors wanting an ad opportunity.
That's a very good summary, Al. Excellent description of how the games started! And you could add that until the mid '60s, so much so were the games considered exhibitions that they weren't used to determine the final rankings. Now, of course, it would be unthinkable to suggest that the bowl games didn't count.
DeleteOne thing I'd add to the original question - I think that the Rose Parade was probably the one parade among all these that was most firmly established many years before the football game was added. I know for sure that the late Cotton Bowl Parade came many years after the game was started; I believe there is still a Sugar Bowl Parade and the Orange Bowl festival, but because it preceded the bowl game, the "Tournament of Roses Parade" has never been known as the Rose Bowl Parade. I forgot sometimes just how foreign our culture looks to others!
DeleteJust as we've been talking about this... I noticed on the TV guide that at 12.30am on New Year's Day (just after the fireworks had finished) on one of the networks we were to get The 126th Rose Parade, which I'm guessing was from the year before. I don't recall if the Rose Parade had ever been aired in Australia before but it's bizarre that just as we talk about it I see it listed in the guide.
DeleteHappy New Year :)
You listed the Rose Bowl as being in black-and-white, and the Orange Bowl in color. Wasn't it the other way around in 1965, with both being in color starting in 1966?
ReplyDeleteJames T. Aubrey, CBS' ruthless president, made it clear "THE NUT HOUSE" would NEVER become a weekly series on HIS network, because one of his associates, Hunt Stromberg, Jr. loathed Jay Ward.....and Aubrey felt the same way. He didn't want any offbeat "zany" comedy shows on his schedule. He wanted "the same old shit", week after week, year after year. And if that meant more sitcoms like "THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES" and "MISTER ED".....so be it.
ReplyDeleteBesides, Aubrey was committed to two sitcoms produced by his "old buddy", Keefe Brasselle- "THE BAILEYS OF BALBOA" and "THE CARA WILLIAMS SHOW". The third series produced by Brasselle's "Richelieu Productions", "THE REPORTER", had already been axed.....and the other two were in ratings trouble. And then CBS began to investigate WHY Aubrey committed the network to those series WITHOUT formal pilot films {including Jack Chertok's "MY LIVING DOLL"}. That eventually led to Aubrey being removed as CBS' president that February. And those programs? They were all cancelled by the end of the season, and Keefe Brasselle never produced another TV show again.
ReplyDeleteThe Mummers Parade getting some early network clearance on ABC probably had something to do with Well, let's try it (ABC having to do a lot of that in its early decades) and also that WPVI, the ABC affiliate in Philadelphia, had arguably undue sway with the network...perhaps not least because it was the station belonging to the Annenbergs, also the owners of TV GUIDE and its Triangle Publications. Among other things.
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