What's on TV? Friday, December 1, 1967

We're now in the week after Thanksgiving, and there's not a holiday special stirring anywhere. Nowadays, you can't start the Christmas season too early - I've seen Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer in November, for crying out loud - but back in the late '60s it seems as if they at least waited until December started. Next week's issue would tell us for sure, but we're not worried about that - we want to know what's on now!

The listings come from Minneapolis-St. Paul.

	KTCA, Channel 2 (Educ.)
	Morning
	09:00a	Classroom
	11:15a	British Calendar
	11:30a	Your Dollar’s Worth
	Afternoon
	12:00p	To Be Announced
	12:35p	Classroom
	03:00p	Managers in Action
	03:30p	Teaching English
	04:00p	Your Right to Say It (color)
	04:30p	Smart Sewing
	05:00p	Kindergarten
	05:30p	Big Easel
	Evening
	06:00p	Experiment (color)
	06:30p	Communication Skills
	07:00p	Folk Guitar
	07:30p	Continental Comment
	08:00p	Your World This Week
	08:30p	The Creative Person
	09:00p	You Too Can Write
	10:00p	NET Playhouse

As I mentioned on Saturday, NET has a number of very interesting programs this week. Just not tonight.

	WCCO, Channel 4 (CBS)
	Morning
	06:00a	Sunrise Semester
	06:30a	Siegfried and His Flying Saucer (color)
	07:00a	Clancy & Carmen
	07:30a	Clancy & Willie
	08:00a	Captain Kangaroo (color)
	09:00a	Dr. Reuben K. Youngdahl (color)
	09:05a	Merv Griffin (guests George Jessel, Betsy Palmer, Pat Cooper) (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 Tennessee Ernie Ford) (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
	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	The Wild Wild West (color)
	07:30p	Gomer Pyle, USMC (color)
	08:00p	Movie – “The Horizontal Lieutenant” (color)
	10:00p	News (Dave Moore) (color)
	10:15p	Weather (Bud Kraehling) (color)
	10:20p	Sports (Hal Scott) (color)
	10:30p	Bud Grant (color)
	10:40p	Movie – “Town Without Pity”
	12:40a	Sports (Jack Lavalier (color)
	12:50a	Movie – “Fury of Apache” (color)

I like how The Merv Griffin Show is followed by The Andy Griffith Show. Always reminds me of this bit:

	KSTP, Channel 5 (NBC)
	Morning
	06:15a	David Stone (color)
	06:30a	City and Country (color)
	06:55a	Doctor’s House Call (color)
	07:00a	Today (guests Judith Crist, Alec McCowen, Chuck Eisenmann and the Hobos) (color)
	09:00a	Snap Judgment (guests Soupy Sales, Jane Withers) (color)
	09:25a	NBC News (Nancy Dickerson) (color)
	09:30a	Concentration (color)
	10:00a	Personality (guest Alan King) (color)
	10:30a	The Hollywood Squares (guests Frankie Avalon, Barbara Bain, Buddy Hackett, Martin Landau, Shari Lewis, Jan Murray, Wally Cox, Abby Dalton, Charley Weaver) (color)
	11:00a	Jeopardy (color)
	11:30a	Eye Guess (color)
	11:55a	NBC News (Edwin Newman)
	Afternoon
	12:00p	News (Gene Berry) (color)
	12:10p	Weather (Morris) (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 Rod Serling, Rose Marie) (color)
	03:00p	The Match Game (guests Allen Ludden, Betty White) (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 Berry) (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	Tarzan (color)
	07:30p	Star Trek (color)
	08:30p	Accidental Family (color)
	09:00p	NBC News Special – “Same Mud, Same Blood” (special) (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 (guest Peggy Cass) (color)
	12:00a	Alan Burke (guest Milton Waldor) (color)

There was an article in this week's issue about Lois Nettleton, one of the stars of Accidental Family. The gist was that she was the thinking man's actress, a serious actress appearing in a comedy, someone whose name is more familiar to the industry than viewers. Of course we have the benefit of hindsight, but you see her in so many classic television episodes, it's hard to imagine that people didn't know who she was. One thing that's right - George Roy Hill describes her as "a rare example of a woman who grows sexier as she grows older."

	KMSP, Channel 9 (ABC)
	Morning
	07:30a	Dateline: Hollywood
	08:00a	Gypsy Rose Lee (color)
	08:30a	Morning Show (color)
	09:00a	Romper Room (color)
	09:30a	Dobie Gillis
	10:00a	The Honeymoon Race (last show of the series) (color)
	10:30a	The Family Game
	11:00a	Everybody’s Talking (celebrities Pat Carroll, Paul Lynde, Peter Falk)
	11:30a	Donna Reed
	Afternoon
	12:00p	The Fugitive
	01:00p	The Newlywed Game (color)
	01:30p	Dream Girl (guests Polly Bergen, Ted Bessell, Ron Harper, Rich Little) (color)
	01:55p	ABC News (Marlene Sanders) (color)
	02:00p	General Hospital (color)
	02:30p	Dark Shadows (color)
	03:00p	The Dating Game (color)
	03:30p	Movie – “Hollow Triumph”
	04:55p	News (Jerry Smith)
	05:00p	Peter Jennings with the News (color)
	05:30p	Leave it to Beaver
	Evening
	06:00p	McHale’s Navy
	06:30p	Off to See the Wizard  (color)
	07:30p	Hondo (color)
	08:30p	The Guns of Will Sonnett (color)
	09:00p	Judd, for the Defense (color)
	10:00p	News (Bill Fahan, Jim Steer) (color)
	10:25p	Sports (Tony Parker) (color)
	10:30p	Movie – “Inherit the Wind”

Off to See the Wizard is an anthology series, similar to Walt Disney's, showcasing MGM's library of movies. This week's presentation is part one of the 1963 movie Flipper, which spawned the TV series of the same name that ended its three-season run earlier this year - on NBC.

	WTCN, Channel 11 (Ind.)
	Morning
	08:55a	News (Gil Amundson)
	09:00a	Cartoon Carnival (color)
	09:30a	Ed Allen (color)
	10:00a	Mr. Blackwell (color)
	10:30a	Virginia Graham (guests Patricia Routledge, Muriel Davidson, Dorothy Sara)
	11:00a	Brunch Bunch
	11:30a	Cooking with Hank
	11:45a	News (Gil Amundson)
	Afternoon
	12:00p	Lunch with Casey
	01:00p	Movie – “Her First Romance”
	02:30p	Woody Woodbury (guests Mitzi McCall and Charlie Brill, Teddy Neeley, Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band) (color)
	04:00p	Popeye and Pete
	04:30p	Casey and Roundhouse
	05:30p	The Flintstones (color)
	Evening
	06:00p	Gilligan’s Island (color)
	06:30p	Perry Mason
	07:30p	Freedom’s Finest Hour (special) (color)
	08:30p	Belafonte Premiere (special) (color)
	09:30p	News (Stuart A. Lindman)
	09:45p	Weather (Rodger Kent)
	09:50p	Sports (Frank Beutel)
	10:00p	Movie – “Boots Malone”

Following Freedom's Finest Hour, about which I wrote on Saturday, is a special with highlights of Harry Belafonte's opening night at "a Las Vegas hotel," which a casual Google search suggests was Caesar's Palace. Even though it's just highlights, with interviews and rehearsal clips interspersed, it's the kind of concert you don't see on television anymore. TV