What's on TV: Thursday, October 3, 1968

It's always nice to be back in the Twin Cities, even though there isn't a lot of remarkable programming this week. The World Series, still an all-daytime affair in 1968, is of course the big show of the week, but I'm sure you can find some other interesting tidbits here.

	KTCA, Channel 2 (NET)
	Morning
	08:45a	Classroom
	Afternoon
	02:30p	Misota Preview
	03:30p	Teaching English
	04:00p	Science Review
	05:00p	Kindergarten
	05:30p	To Be Announced
	Evening
	06:00p	Population Problem
	06:30p	Misota Preview
	07:00p	Your Schools Today
	07:30p	The French Chef
	08:00p	Town Meeting (color)
	08:30p	Private College Concerts (return)
	09:00p	The Many Faces of 4-H
	09:30p	Town and Country (color)
	10:00p	Folio
	10:30p	Insight

The French Chef, the famous cooking show starring Julia Child, is probably one of the first NET/PBS series to gain lasting national notoriety. Bon Appetit!

	WCCO, Channel 4 (CBS)
	Morning
	06:00a	Sunrise Semester (color)
	06:30a	Siegfried and His Flying Saucer (color)
	06:45a	Commercial (music)
	07:00a	Clancy & Carmen (color)
	07:45a	Clancy and Willie (color)
	08:00a	Captain Kangaroo (color)
	09:00a	Live Today (color)
	09:05a	Merv Griffin (guests David Soul, Milt Kamen, Maxine Greene, Ruth McFadden) (color)
	10:00a	Andy Griffith (color)
	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 (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	The Guiding Light (color)
	02:00p	The Secret Storm (color)
	02:30p	The Edge of Night (color)
	03:00p	House Party (guest Duke Fisher) (color)
	03:25p	CBS News (Douglas Edwards) (color)
	03:30p	The Lucy Show (color)
	04:00p	Mike Douglas (co-host Gordon MacRae, guests Carols Montoya, Grace Markaye, Arthur King) (color)
	05:30p	CBS Evening News With Walter Cronkite (color)
	Evening
	06:00p	News (local) (color)
	06:30p	Blondie (color)
	07:00p	Hawaii Five-O (color)
	08:00p	CBS Thursday Night Movie – “The Night of the Iguana” (color)
	10:00p	The Scene Tonight (color)
	10:45p	Movie – “Scandal at Scourie” (color)
	12:30a	Charlie Chaplin

Kind of nice to see WCCO playing Charlie Chaplin shorts before going off the air. Wonder if this wasn't part of the Laurel & Hardy/Three Stooges revival going on in the '60s.

	KSTP, Channel 5 (NBC)
	Morning
	06:30a	City and Country (color)
	07:00a	Today (guests Donald Pleasance, Susan Saint James) (color)
	09:00a	Snap Judgment (guests Robert Vaughn, Florence Henderson) (color)
	09:25a	NBC News (Nancy Dickerson) (color)
	09:30a	Concentration (color)
	10:00a	Personality (color)
	10:30a	The Hollywood Squares (color)
	11:00a	Jeopardy (color)
	11:30a	Eye Guess (color)
	11:55a	NBC News (Edwin Newman) (color)
	Afternoon
	12:00p	News (local) (color)
	12:15p	Dialing For Dollars (color)
	12:30p	World Series Pre-Game (special) (color)
	01:00p	World Series (Detroit vs. St. Louis, Game 2) (special) (color)
	03:30p	Dialing For Dollars (color)
	04:30p	What’s My Line? (panelists Bert Convy, Arlene Francis, Soupy Sales, Joanna Simon) (color)
	05:00p	News (local) (color)
	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	Daniel Boone (color)
	07:30p	Ironside (color)
	08:30p	Dragnet (color)
	09:00p	Dean Martin (guests Lorne Greene, Juliet Prowse, Dom DeLuise, Sammy Shore, Barbara Heller) (color)
	10:00p	News (John MacDougall) (color)
	10:15p	Weather (Johnny Morris) (color)
	10:25p	Sports (Al Tighe) (color)
	10:30p	The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (color)
	12:00a	Crusader

Game 2 of the World Series. Yesterday, Bob Gibson set the (still-standing) strikeout record of 17 in beating the Tigers and Denny McLain. Today Mickey Lolich pitches the Tigers to victory 8-1. He'll do it twice more, the last coming in the seventh and deciding game.

	KMSP, Channel 9 (ABC)
	Morning
	07:45a	Timmy and Lassie
	08:00a	Dennis the Menace
	08:30a	It’s Happening (guests Johnny Nash, Rip Taylor)
	08:55a	The Children’s Doctor
	09:00a	Romper Room (color)
	09:30a	Dick Cavett (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 Dating Game (color)
	02:00p	General Hospital (color)
	02:30p	One Life to Live (color)
	03:00p	Dark Shadows (color)
	03:30p	Movie – “Slander”
	04:55p	News (Jerry Smith)
	05:00p	ABC Evening News (Frank Reynolds) (color)
	05:30p	McHale’s Navy
	Evening
	06:00p	Truth or Consequences (color)
	06:30p	The Ugliest Girl in Town (color)
	07:00p	The Flying Nun (color)
	07:30p	Bewitched (color)
	08:00p	That Girl (color)
	08:30p	Journey to the Unknown (color)
	09:30p	College Talent (guests Ginger Rogers, Ken Berry, Paul Lynde, Della Reese) (color)
	10:00p	News (Bill Fahan, Jim Steer) (color)
	10:25p	Sports (Tony Parker) (color)
	10:30p	Joey Bishop (guests Frank Fontaine, Sonny James) (color)
	12:00a	77 Sunset Strip

This ad ran in the Thursday listings, for KMSP's Saturday night movie - possibly the one that preempts The Hollywood Palace to Sunday afternoon. Lolita, which was such a shock back in the day, would likely be tame today. Not just the movie (which actually was a black comedy as much as anything), but Nabokov's book as well.

And so the question remains: how did they ever make a movie out of Lolita? The answer: not very well.

	WTCN, Channel 11 (Ind.)
	Morning
	09:00a	Mister Ed
	09:30a	Sea Hunt
	10:00a	The Munsters
	10:30a	Patty Duke
	11:00a	Famous Playhouse
	11:30a	News (Gil Amundson, Warren Martin)
	Afternoon
	12:00p	Lunch With Casey
	01:00p	Virginia Graham (guests Hermoine Gingold, Pamela Mason) (color)
	01:30p	Movie – “Ramar and the Burning Barrier”
	03:00p	News (Stuart A. Lindman)
	03:05p	Mel’s Notebook
	03:30p	Popeye and Pete
	04:00p	Casey and Roundhouse
	04:30p	Gilligan’s Island (color)
	05:00p	The Flintstones (color)
	05:30p	Batman (color)
	Evening
	06:00p	The Invaders (color)
	07:00p	Run For Your Life (color)
	08:00p	Perry Mason
	09:00p	Movie – “Boccaccio ‘70” (color)
	11:30p	News, Weather, Sports (local)
	12:00a	Bat Masterson

I have a pretty good memory for WTCN's syndicated lineup, but I almost always forget that The Invaders was part of that for a time, just after it had gone off ABC. TV