What's on TV? Wednesday, May 1, 1968

After a fairly lengthy break, we're back in the Twin Cities this week, and I for one am grateful for being able to look at the listings without needing a magnifying glass. There were interesting programs scattered throughout this week, most of which you read about on Saturday. Here's a look at what Wednesday had to offer.

	KTCA, Channel 2 (NET)
	Morning
	09:00a	Classroom
	10:25a	Film Short
	10:40a	Classroom
	11:15a	Film Short
	11:30a	Cities of the World
	Afternoon
	12:00p	Film Feature
	12:35p	Classroom
	03:00p	Making Decisions
	03:30p	Film Short
	03:40p	Classroom
	04:00p	The Teaching Role
	04:30p	Continental Comment
	05:00p	Kindergarten
	05:30p	Teaching English
	Evening
	06:30p	Management Objectives
	07:00p	Business Roundtable
	07:30p	Inquiry
	08:00p	To Be Announced
	08:30p	American Social History
	09:00p	Europe in the Mid-Sixties
	10:00p	Student Symposium

The epitome of educational programming, don't you think? There are still programs such as NET Festival and NET Playhouse, but for the most part this is what KTCA showed back in the '60s.

	WCCO, Channel 4 (CBS)
	Morning
	06:00a	Sunrise Semester (color)
	06:30a	Siegfried and His Flying Saucer (color)
	07:00a	Clancy & Carmen (color)
	07:30a	Clancy & Willie (color)
	08:00a	Captain Kangaroo (color)
	09:00a	Live Today (color)
	09:05a	Merv Griffin (guests Xavier Cugat and Charo, Larry Blyden, Ronnie Martin, Lovelace Watkins) (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)
	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	Love is a Many Splendored Thing (color)
	01:30p	House Party (guest Bobby Riha) (color)
	02:00p	To Tell the Truth (color)
	02:25p	CBS News (Douglas Edwards) (color)
	02:30p	The Edge of Night (color)
	03:00p	The Secret Storm (color)
	03:30p	The Beverly Hillbillies
	04:00p	Mike Douglas (co-host Michael Landon, Tony Bennett, Rick Little, Wes Montgomery) (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	He & She (color)
	09:00p	Dom DeLuise (guest Susan Barrett) (debut) (color)
	10:00p	The Scene Tonight (color)
	10:45p	Movie – “Congo Crossing” (color)

CBS has an interesting prime-time lineup, don't you think? The corny Lost in Space, the rural comedies Beverly Hillbillies and Green Acres, the stylish He & She (starring real-life marrieds Richard Benjamin and Paula Prentiss), which many have seen as a kind of prototype for Mary Tyler Moore's program, and Dom DeLuise in a summer replacement variety show. To the extent that CBS was able to hold the viewers through all those different shows, it demonstrates how different programming was, when you could schedule for a broad audience.

	KSTP, Channel 5 (NBC)
	Morning
	06:15a	David Stone
	06:30a	City and Country (color)
	07:00a	Today (guests bullfighter Conchita Cintron, author John Fuller)
	09:00a	Snap Judgment (guests Sheila MacRae, Flip Wilson) (color)
	09:25a	NBC News (Nancy Dickerson) (color)
	09:30a	Concentration (color)
	10:00a	Personality (guests William Shatner, Peter Fonda, Joan Fontaine, Rod Serling (color)
	10:30a	The Hollywood Squares (guests Jim Backus, Shelley Berman, Judy Carne, John Gary, June Lockhart, Morey Amsterdam, Wally Cox, Rose Marie, Charley Weaver) (color)
	11:00a	Jeopardy (color)
	11:30a	Eye Guess (color)
	11:55a	NBC News (Edwin Newman) (color)
	Afternoon
	12:00p	News (Gene Berry) (color)
	12:15p	Dialing for Dollars (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 Vincent Price, Betty White) (color)
	03:00p	The Match Game (guests Gordon MacRae, Jessica Walter) (color)
	03:25p	NBC News (Floyd Kalber) (color)
	03:30p	Dialing for Dollars (color)
	04:30p	Of Lands and Seas (color)
	05:25p	News (Gene Barry)
	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	Kraft Music Hall (host Eddy Arnold, guests Margaret Whiting, the Everly Brothers, the Montford Mission, Mark Wilson, John Byner) (color)
	09:00p	Run For Your Life (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 (color)
	12:00a	Henry Wolf (guests Met Opera quizmaster Edward Downes, Rev. Gioele Settembrini) (color)

When Kraft Music Hall was on the radio, its longtime host was singer Bing Crosby; when the program made the move to television in 1958, its first host was Milton Berle. From 1959 to 1967 the host was Perry Como, but by 1968 the show had moved to a series of rotating hosts. This week we see Eddy Arnold hosting the subtitled "Country Fair" segment, which focused (not surprisingly) on Country music. This one is really more of a pop crossover program, but even though I'm not much of a Country fan, I always found Eddy Arnold, who often wore a tuxedo when performing, to be extremely stylish.

	KMSP, Channel 9 )ABC)
	Morning
	07:30a	77 Sunset Strip
	08:30a	Wedding Party (color)
	09:00a	Romper Room (color)
	09:30a	Dick Cavett (guests Mort Sahl, Kenneth Tynan) (color)
	11:00a	Bewitched
	11:30a	Treasure Isle (color)
	Afternoon
	12:00p	Dream House (color)
	12:30p	News (Jerry Smith) (color)
	01:00p	The Newlywed Game (color)
	01:30p	The Baby Game (color)
	01:55p	The Children’s Doctor (color)
	02:00p	General Hospital (color)
	02:30p	Dark Shadows (color)
	03:00p	The Dating Game (color)
	03:30p	Movie – “The Well”
	04:55p	News (Jerry Smith) (color)
	05:00p	ABC Evening News with Bob Young (color)
	05:30p	McHale’s Navy
	Evening
	06:00p	Truth or Consequences (color)
	06:30p	The Avengers (color)
	07:30p	Leslie Uggams (guests Robert Morse, Noel Harrison, the Young Rascals) (special) (color)
	08:30p	Movie – “Paths of Glory”
	10:00p	News (Bill Fahan/Jim Steer) (color)
	10:25p	Sports (Tony Parker) (color)
	10:30p	Joey Bishop (guests Ross Martin, Henny Youngman, Jerry Butler) (color)
	12:00a	Naked City

Following the mixed success of the United Nations dramas sponsored by Xerox, the socially-conscious company moved on to sponsor other specials they considered socially relevant. Tonight, it's a special broadcast of the brilliant anti-war movie "Paths of Glory," directed by Stanley Kubrick and starring Kirk Douglas. Not only is it a rare offering in prime time of a black-and-white movie, it is presented without commercial interruption. Coming at the height of the Vietnam War, the message passed on by Xerox was unmistakable.

	WTCN, Channel 11 (Ind.)
	Morning
	08:40a	News (Gil Amundson)
	08:45a	The King and Odie
	09:00a	Sea Hunt
	09:30a	Bill Burrud
	10:00a	Woody Woodbury (guests Buddy Ebsen, Cesare Danova, Dana Valerie, the Pair Extraordinaire) (color)
	11:30a	News (Gil Amundson/Warren Martin)
	Afternoon
	12:00p	Lunch With Casey
	01:00p	Movie – “Vengeance of Ursus”
	02:30p	Mel’s Notebook
	03:00p	Virginia Graham (guests Betty Walker, E47lsa Lanchester, Diana Sands) (color)
	03:30p	Patty Duke
	04:00p	Popeye and Pete
	04:30p	Casey and Roundhouse
	05:00p	The Flintstone (color)
	05:30p	Gilligan’s Island
	Evening
	06:00p	The Twilight Zone
	06:30p	Harmon Killebrew (color)
	06:40p	Halsey Hall (color)
	06:55p	Baseball (Minnesota vs. Detroit) (color)
	10:00p	Baseball Scoreboard (time approximate)
	10:15p	News, Weather, Sports
	10:30p	Movie – “Texas” (time approximate)

Here's a typical summertime lineup for WTCN, with the Minnesota Twins taking center stage. In 1967 the Twins had battled down to the last day of the American League season before winding up in a tie for second place with the Tigers, one game behind the Boston Red Sox. This year the Twins never quite get it going, and the Tigers romp to the AL pennant before rallying to defeat the St. Louis Cardinals in the World Series. The pre-game shows consist of a ten-minute program hosted by Twins star Harmon Killebrew interviewing a fellow player, followed by legendary local broadcaster Halsey Hall talking about the lead-in to the game. Following the action, WTCN sports director Frank Beutel (who also does basketball and hockey play-by-play for the station) brings us the scores from around the league. I used to wait for that scoreboard show; before things like ESPN and the internet, it was the only way to find out what else was going on. TV