Oh, by the way, this week's listings are from the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Let's get started.
KRLD, Channel 4 (Dallas) (CBS)
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Morning
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07:30a
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Cartoons
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07:45a
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News (Jim
Underwood)
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08:00a
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Captain Kangaroo (guest singer Lu Ann Simms)
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08:45a
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News
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09:00a
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Garry Moore (guest Dick Van Dyke)
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09:30a
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How Do You Rate?
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10:00a
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Arthur Godfrey
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10:30a
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Dotto
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11:00a
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Love of Life
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11:30a
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Search for Tomorrow
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11:45a
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The Guiding Light
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Afternoon
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12:00p
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News (Bill
Burkett)
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12:15p
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Beauty Hints
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12:30p
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As the World Turns
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01:00p
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Beat the Clock
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01:30p
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House Party
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02:00p
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The Big Payoff
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02:30p
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The Verdict is Yours
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03:00p
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The Brighter Day
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03:15p
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The Secret Storm
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03:30p
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The Edge of Night
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04:00p
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Dr. Christian
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04:30p
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City Detective
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05:00p
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Willy
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05:30p
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News
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05:40p
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News (Bob Brock)
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05:45p
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Douglas Edwards With the News
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Evening
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06:00p
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Weather (local)
Sports (local)
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06:15p
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News (local)
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06:30p
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Name That Tune
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07:00p
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Mr. Adams and Eve
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07:30p
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Playhouse
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08:00p
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To Tell the Truth (panelists Eamonn Andrews, Polly Bergen,
Hy Gardner)
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08:30p
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Red Skelton (guests Charlie Ruggles, Marie Windsor)
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09:00p
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The $64,000 Question
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09:30p
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Sea Hunt
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10:00p
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News (Bill
Burkett)
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10:10p
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Weather (Jack
Harrison)
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10:15p
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Movie – “I’ve
Always Loved You”
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11:45p
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News (Jay Hogan)
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At 9:30am, it's How Do You Rate? A question I've often found myself asking.
WBAP, Channel 5 (Ft. Worth) (NBC)
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Morning
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06:55a
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Weather (Gene
Reynolds)
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07:00a
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Today (National Governors Conference)
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09:00a
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Dough Re Mi
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09:30a
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Treasure Hunt
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10:00a
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The Price is Right
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10:30a
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Truth or Consequences
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11:00a
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Tic Tac Dough
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11:30a
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It Could Be You
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11:45a
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The Guiding Light
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Afternoon
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12:00p
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News (Tom
Whalen) (color)
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12:30p
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Kitty’s Wonderland (color)
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01:15p
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Margaret McDonald (color)
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01:30p
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Kitty Foyle
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02:00p
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Matinee Theater (color)
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03:00p
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Queen for a Day
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03:45p
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Modern Romances
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04:00p
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Blondie
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04:30p
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Drama Time
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05:00p
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Teen-Age Downbeat
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05:40p
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News, Weather
(Bob Vandeventer)
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05:45p
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The Huntley-Brinkley Report
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Evening
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06:00p
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Teen-Age Downbeat
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06:30p
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Treasure Hunt
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07:00p
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George Gobel (color)
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08:00p
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Meet McGraw
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08:30p
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Presidential
Address (special)
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09:00p
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The Californians
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09:30p
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State Trooper
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10:00p
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News (local)
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10:15p
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Weather (local)
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10:25p
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News (Charles
Murphy)
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10:30p
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Sports (Bud
Sherman)
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10:35p
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Jack Paar Tonight
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The answer to How Do You Rate? The encouraging answer is It Could Be You. That, or it's from a leftover fortune cookie.
KCEN, Channel 6 (Temple) (NBC)
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Morning
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07:00a
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Today (National Governors Conference)
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09:00a
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Dough Re Mi
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09:30a
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Treasure Hunt
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10:00a
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The Price is Right
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10:30a
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Truth or Consequences
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11:00a
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Tic Tac Dough
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11:30a
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It Could Be You
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Afternoon
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12:00p
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Weather
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12:05p
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Farm Report
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12:25p
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News (Jim Hamm)
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12:30p
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Curtain Time
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01:00p
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Your All Star Theater
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01:30p
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Kitty Foyle
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02:00p
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Matinee Theater (color)
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03:00p
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Queen for a Day
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03:45p
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Modern Romances
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04:00p
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Blondie
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04:30p
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Happy Hour
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05:00p
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Movie – “Ride,
Ranger, Ride”
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Evening
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06:00p
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News, Weather
(local)
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06:10p
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Sports (local)
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06:15p
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News
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06:30p
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Treasure Hunt
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07:00p
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George Gobel (color)
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08:00p
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Meet McGraw
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08:30p
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Presidential
Address (special)
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09:00p
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Star Performance
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09:30p
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Official Detective
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10:00p
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Douglas Fairbanks
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10:30p
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Weather, News,
Sports (local)
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11:00p
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Jack Paar Tonight
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It Could Be You if The Price Is Rightl
WFAA, Channel 8 (Dallas) (ABC)
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Morning
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08:45a
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Laurel and Hardy
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09:00a
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Romper Room
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10:00a
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Julie Benell
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10:30a
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Douglas Fairbanks
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11:00a
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Susie
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11:30a
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Meet Corliss Archer
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Afternoon
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12:00p
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Weather (local)
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12:05p
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News (Don
Norman)
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12:15p
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Movie – “Letter
from an Unknown Soldoier”
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02:00p
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Our Miss Brooks
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02:30p
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Topper
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03:00p
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American Bandstand (guest Gar Bacon)
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03:30p
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Do You Trust Your Wife?
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04:00p
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American Bandstand
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05:00p
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Sir Lancelot
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05:30p
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The Mickey Mouse Club
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Evening
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06:00p
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Weather (local)
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06:05p
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News (Dick
Wheeler)
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06:15p
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John Daly and the News
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06:30p
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Cheyenne
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07:30p
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The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
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08:00p
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Broken Arrow
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08:30p
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Pantomime Quiz
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09:00p
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West Point
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09:30p
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Studio 57
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10:00p
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Weather (Warren
Culbertson)
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10:05p
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News (Dick
Wheeler)
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10:15p
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Movie – “One
Touch of Venus”
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Or perhaps the real question is Do You Trust Your Wife?
KWTX, Channel 10 (Waco) (CBS, ABC)
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Morning
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08:00a
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Captain Kangaroo (guest singer Lu Ann Simms)
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08:45a
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News
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09:00a
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Garry Moore (guest Dick Van Dyke)
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09:30a
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How Do You Rate?
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10:00a
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Arthur Godfrey
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10:30a
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Dotto
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11:00a
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Woman’s News
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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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CBS News (Walter Cronkite)
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12:10p
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News (Russ
Grovener)
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12:15p
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Farms and Gardens
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01:00p
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Beat the Clock
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01:30p
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House Party
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02:00p
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The Big Payoff
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02:30p
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The Verdict is Yours
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03:00p
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Uncle Elihu
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04:00p
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American Bandstand
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05:00p
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Sir Lancelot
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05:30p
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The Mickey Mouse Club
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Evening
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06:00p
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News, Weather
(local)
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06:15p
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News
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06:30p
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Name That Tune
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07:00p
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Phil Silvers
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07:30p
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State Trooper
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08:00p
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To Tell the Truth (panelists Eamonn Andrews, Polly Bergen,
Hy Gardner)
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08:30p
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Harbor Command
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09:00p
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The $64,000 Question
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09:30p
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Whirlybirds
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10:00p
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News (local)
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10:15p
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Weather (local)
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12:25p
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Sports (Ben
Vaughn)
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10:30p
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Oh! Susanna
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11:00p
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Movie – “Lifeboat”
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So Do You Trust Your Wife? Well, To Tell the Truth, . . .
KFJZ, Channel 11 (Ft. Worth) (Ind.)
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Morning
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09:00a
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The Little Rascals
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09:30a
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Abbott and Costello
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10:00a
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Movie – “Meet
the People”
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Afternoon
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12:00p
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Cartoon Clubhouse
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01:00p
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Movie – “I’ll Be
Seeing You”
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02:45p
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Ann Alden
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03:00p
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Amos ‘n’ Andy
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03:30p
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Movie – “Young
Bill Hickok”
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04:30p
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Cartoon Clubhouse
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Evening
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06:00p
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Soldiers of Fortune
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06:30p
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Popeye
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07:00p
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Movie – “Luxury
Liner”
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09:00p
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Movie – “Rhapsody
in Blue”
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11:35p
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Movie – “I Sell
Anything”
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This has been several weeks in the stewing ...
ReplyDelete- As it happens, I have two copies of this issue: the Chicago edition, and the Michigan State edition.
Michigan State covers seven stations in seven different cities, thus:
Ch 3, WKZO-TV, Kalamazoo, ABC/CBS/NBC
Ch 5, WNEM-TV, Bay City, ABC/NBC
Ch 6, WJIM-TV, Lansing, ABC/CBS/NBC
Ch 7, WPBN-TV, Traverse City, NBC
Ch 8, WOOD-TV, Grand Rapids, ABC/NBC
Ch 13, WWTV, Cadillac, ABC/CBS
Ch 57, WKNX-TV, Saginaw, ABC/CBS
Here's the wild part:
ABC has secondary affiliations with six of the seven stations - but most ABC series don't air on any of them.
Not only that - the ones that do get on, don't air in their network time slots (a few exceptions, but the few ABC shows that get on are nearly all delayed broadcasts).
In the listings, NBC shows that clear the full network have this channel alignment:
5-6-7-8
CBS's alignment:
3-13-57
That's all seven stations accounted for.
ABC grabs what it can in fringe times and odd prime hours on the various stations, almost never in the network slots.
Just looking at all the mixing and matching can give you the bends - as it has to me.
So I went back to the Chicago edition, which is at least fully represented and organized.
You always seem to pick the least interesting nights to do your Monday full-day sum-up.
That may be your reason/excuse for the wordplay today.
I wish you'd have done Wednesday.
The U.S. Steel Hour has a really interesting one this week - it merited a Close-Up in both my copies; I'll guess that it did in yours as well.
Challenge:
Take a look at this Close-Up - the play is titled "Hour Of The Rat" - and see if you notice anything interesting in what you read there.
Get back to me on that, OK?
- This season, Mike Wallace had a Sunday night interview show on ABC.
This week, his guest was Aldous Huxley, the author of "Brave New World". He's there to promote a new book of essays titled "Enemies Of Freedom", about threats to freedom in the USA.
Wallace's show aired Sunday at 9 pm (CST); CBS had $64,000 Challenge, and NBC had Loretta Young - you can do the math from there.
And The Mike Wallace Interview didn't get on any of the Michigan stations -at all.
Think about that for a while ...
Mike, you don't happen to be in the Facebook group "Classic TV Listing Lovers?" It so happens I am from Paw Paw and would like you to send me a friend request, as that is my home area(SW Michigan): Or just send me a email of that day's(May 20) listings for WOOD(8) and WKZO(3), as I would like to share them with another Facebook group I am in devoted to vintage Kalamazoo stuff. cr3861@yahoo.com
Deletecr3861 (may I call you cr?):
DeleteFor various personal reasons, I have nothing to do with either Facebook or its mutant sibling Twitter.
As to Email, in the two+ years that I've had a confuser at home, I have never been able to get that to function at my end - I can receive at my address, and reply, but I cannot send.
Please spare me any advice or instructions; Technoslavian directions are a bête noire of mine.
As an alternative, here is my Email, for receiving only:
mike.doran9740@att.net
You send, and I reply.
Warning: it might take me a while; what I said above about scrambled scheduling really gives me the bends.
Your call from here on.