What's on TV? Friday, November 21, 1969

This week we travel to New York City for our pre-Thanksgiving listings. There were listings from a few other channels in New Jersey and Connecticut, but we're sticking with New York, New York. After all, if you can make it there, you can make it anywhere, right?

A note on the programs: by now, almost everything is in color, except for old movies and series from the '50s and '60s.  TV Guide, however, has yet to catch up with this, and its preferred methodology is still to let you know which programs are in color. That will be changed in the not-too-distant future but I'm not waiting until then, so if you happen to own an issue from this era, you'll see that I've decided to let you know only if a program is in B&W.

	WCBS, Channel 2 (CBS)
	Morning
	06:30a	Sunrise Semester (Geology)
	07:00a	CBS Morning News with Joseph Benti
	08:00a	Captain Kangaroo (guests the Borjevas)
	09:00a	Leave it to Beaver (B&W)
	09:30a	Donna Reed (B&W)
	10:00a	The Lucy Show
	10:30a	The Beverly Hillbillies (B&W)
	11:00a	Andy Griffith
	11:30a	Love of Life
	Afternoon
	12:00p	Where the Heart Is
	12:25p	CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
	12:30p	Search for Tomorrow
	01:00p	The Galloping Gourmet
	01:30p	As the World Turns
	02:00p	Love is a Many-Splendored Thing
	02:30p	The Guiding Light
	03:00p	The Secret Storm
	03:30p	The Edge of Night
	04:00p	Gomer Pyle, USMC
	04:30p	Mike Douglas (co-host Shelley Berman, guests Sen. Howard Baker, the Serendipity Singers)
	Evening
	06:00p	News (Jim Jensen)
	07:00p	CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite
	07:30p	Get Smart
	08:00p	The Good Guys
	08:30p	Hogan’s Heroes
	09:00p	CBS Friday Night Movies – “Fanny”
	11:30p	News (Bob Young)
	12:00a	Merv Griffin (guests Jennie’s Daughters)
	01:30a	News (local)
	01:40a	Movie – “Criss Cross” (B&W)
	03:20a	Movie – “The Gift of Love”

Senator Howard Baker of Tennessee, who guests on Mike Douglas' show, was the son-in-law of Everett Dirksen, the famed U.S. Senator from Illinois, who had been Senate Minority Leader until his death two months ago, in September. Baker barely lost the contest to replace Dirksen as Minority Leader to Hugh Scott, whom I mentioned on Saturday.

	WNBC, Channel 4 (NBC)
	Morning
	06:30a	Education Exchange
	07:00a	Today
	09:00a	For Women Only
	09:30a	PDQ (guests Ruta Lee, Scoey Mitchell, Bill Bixby)
	10:00a	It Takes Two (guests Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Campanella, Mr. & Mrs. Greg Morris, Kaye Ballard and Roger C. Carmel)
	10:25a	NBC News (Nancy Dickerson)
	10:30a	Concentration
	11:00a	Sale of the Century
	11:30a	The Hollywood Squares (guests Jim Backus, Sammy Davis Jr., Betty Grable, Lloyd Haynes, Ruta Lee, Alan Sues, Wally Cox, Abby Dalton, Charley Weaver)
	Afternoon
	12:00p	Jeopardy
	12:30p	Name Droppers (guests Jim Backus, Polly Bergen, Robert Brown)
	12:55p	NBC News (Floyd Kalber)
	01:00p	It’s Your Bet
	01:30p	You’re Putting Me On (guests Peggy Cass, Bill Cullen, Joan Fontaine, Corbett Monica, Alejandro Rey, Brenda Vaccaro)
	02:00p	Days of Our Lives
	02:30p	The Doctors
	03:00p	Another World
	03:30p	Bright Promise
	04:00p	Letters to Laugh-In (guests Jack Carter, Teresa Graves, Jill St. John, Alan Sues)
	04:25p	NBC News (Floyd Kalber)
	04:30p	Movie – “Mary Mary” (part 2)
	Evening
	06:00p	News (Lew Wood)
	07:00p	The Huntley-Brinkley Report
	07:30p	The High Chaparral
	10:00p	On Stage (special)
	11:00p	News (Jim Hartz)
	11:10p	Weather (Dr. Frank Field)
	11:15p	News (Jim Hartz)
	11:25p	Sports (Kyle Rote)
	11:30p	The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (guests Agnes Moorehead, Wayne Cochran, Jack Haley Jr.)
	01:00a	News (Jim Collins)
	01:15a	Movie – “The Snake Pit” (B&W)

I'm always impressed with the local talent on the New York network affiliates; so many of them are either future network stars, or already appear on the network. Look at WNBC's 11 p.m. news - Jim Hartz, who will succeed Frank McGee as host of Today, is the news anchor; Dr. Frank Field, who frequently appeared on Today as the network meteorologist, gives the weather; and former New York Giants great Kyle Rote, who also provides color on AFL games on Sunday, does the sports. Not bad.

	WNEW, Channel 5 (Ind.)
	Morning
	07:15a	Glenn Swengros
	07:30a	The Alvin Show
	08:00a	Prince Planet (B&W)
	08:30a	Marine Boy
	09:00a	Pixanne
	10:00a	Movie – “The Mad Doctor” (B&W)
	Afternoon
	12:00p	Movie – “Young Tom Edison” (B&W)
	01:45p	Fran Lee
	02:00p	The Naked Truth
	02:30p	Pay Cards!
	03:00p	Casper the Friendly Ghost
	03:30p	The Flintstones
	04:00p	Wonderama
	05:00p	My Favorite Martian (B&W)
	05:30p	McHale’s Navy (B&W)
	Evening
	06:00p	Lost in Space
	07:00p	I Love Lucy
	07:30p	Truth or Consequences
	08:00p	To Tell the Truth (panelists Orson Bean, Peggy Cass, Bill Cullen, Betsy Palmer)
	08:30p	David Frost (guests Harold Robbins, Dina Merrill, Julie Harris, Frank Gorshin)
	10:00p	News (Bill Jorgensen)
	11:00p	Peyton Place (B&W)
	11:30p	Movie – “San Antonio”
	01:40a	Reel Camp (B&W)

WNEW first went on the air in 1944 as WABD, the DuMont affiliate in New York. It remained WNEW until 1986, when it became a Fox affiliate and changed its call letters. It's a sister station to WOR - or, as it's known today, WWOR.

	WABC, Channel 7 (ABC)
	Morning
	07:00a	News (Tom Dunn)
	07:05a	Ed Nelson
	08:30a	Girl Talk (guests the Simon Sisters)
	09:00a	Movie – “South of Tana River” (B&W)
	11:00a	The Anniversary Game
	11:30a	The Movie Game (celebrities Carol Lynley, Agnes Moorehead, Louis Nye, Rudy Vallee)
	Afternoon
	12:00p	Bewitched
	12:30p	That Girl
	01:00p	Dream House
	01:30p	Let’s Make a Deal
	02:00p	The Newlywed Game
	02:30p	The Dating Game
	03:00p	General Hospital
	03:30p	One Life to Live
	04:00p	Dark Shadows
	04:30p	Movie – “The Pleasure Seekers”
	Evening
	06:00p	News (Roger Grimsby)
	07:00p	ABC Evening News with Frank Reynolds and Howard K. Smith
	07:30p	Let’s Make a Deal
	08:00p	The Brady Bunch
	08:30p	Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
	09:00p	Here Come the Brides
	10:00p	Jimmy Durante Presents the Lennon Sisters (guests Kate Smith, louis Nye, Rosey Grier)
	11:00p	News (Roger Grimsby)
	11:25p	Weather (Tex Antoine)
	11:30p	Joey Bishop (guest Cyril Ritchard)
	01:00a	Movie – “Who Are You, Mr. Sorge?” (B&W)

Jimmy Durante Presents the Lennon Sisters will move into the spot vacated by The Hollywood Palace when the latter is cancelled in February. The combination was not a good idea.

	WOR, Channel 9 (Ind.)
	Morning
	07:25a	News and Weather (local)
	07:30a	Daphne’s Castle
	09:00a	Romper Room
	10:30a	What’s My Line? (panelists Bennett Cerf, Arlene Francis, Anita Gillette, Soupy Sales)
	11:00a	Journey to Adventure
	11:30a	Movie – “The Enchanted Cottage” (B&W)
	Afternoon
	12:50p	Fashions in Sewing
	01:00p	Stock Market
	03:30p	Circus, Circus, Circus
	04:30p	Movie – “The Blob”
	Evening
	06:00p	Gilligan’s Island
	06:30p	Flipper
	07:00p	Dick Van Dyke (B&W)
	07:30p	Della Reese (guests Arthur Prysock, Molly Bee, Betty Walker)
	08:30p	Joe Namath (guests Sugar Ray Robinson, Rocky Graziano)
	09:00p	NBA Basketball – Knicks vs. 76ers (tape delay)
	11:00p	Divorce Court
	11:30p	Movie – “Vera Cruz”
	01:30a	Joe Franklin
	02:30a	News and Weather (local) (B&W)

I'm not entirely sure why the Knicks-Sixers game is being shown on a one-hour tape delay. I could understand it more if it were being played in New York, but it's in Philadelphia. Perhaps there was an ongoing relationship with the Knicks radio network, that because of sponsorship they got a one-hour head start. Oh well, it sounds convincing enough to me...

	WPIX, Channel 11 (Ind.)
	Morning
	07:15a	News (Marc Howard)
	07:30a	TV High School (B&W)
	08:00a	The Little Rascals (B&W)
	08:30a	Cartoons
	09:00a	Krazy Kat
	09:30a	Jack LaLanne
	10:00a	David Wade
	10:30a	Everywoman
	10:55a	News (local)
	11:00a	The Millionaire (B&W)
	11:30a	Gumby
	Afternoon
	12:00p	Underdog
	12:30p	Rocky and His Friends
	01:00p	The Little Rascals
	01:30p	Continental Miniatures
	02:00p	Steve Allen (guests Mort Sahl, John Gary, Jerry Shane)
	03:00p	Speed Racer
	03:30p	Superman
	04:00p	The Addams Family (B&W)
	04:30p	Skippy
	05:00p	Abbott and Costello (B&W)
	05:30p	The Munsters (B&W)
	Evening
	06:00p	Batman
	06:30p	Star Trek
	07:30p	Beat the Clock (guest Hugh O’Brian)
	08:00p	He Said! She Said!
	08:30p	Felony Squad
	09:00p	Ben Casey (B&W)
	10:00p	News (Lee Nelson)
	11:00p	Here’s Barbara
	11:30p	Perry Mason (B&W)
	12:30a	Phil Donahue
	01:00a	The Honeymooners (B&W)

I don't remember the original Beat the Clock in the '50s, but I do recall this version, which aired in syndication and featured a celebrity guest. I wouldn't have thought of Hugh O'Brian as one of the celebrities, though. I suppose needing work makes a man do strange things.

	WNDT, Channel 13 (NET)
	Morning
	08:25a	Classroom (B&W)
	11:30a	Sesame Street
	Afternoon
	12:30p	Classroom
	04:30p	Sesame Street
	05:30p	Misterogers
	Evening
	06:00p	What’s New (B&W)
	06:30p	Astronomy (B&W)
	07:00p	En Francais (B&W)
	07:30p	New Jersey Speaks (B&W)
	08:00p	Book Beat (guest George Thayer, “The War Business”
	08:30p	NET Playhouse
	10:00p	Newsfront (B&W)

The subject of NET Playhouse is the famed William Jennings Bryan, three-time nominee for the presidency (he lost all three times), giver of one of the most famous political speeches of all time, Secretary of State, and, at the end of his life, a major participant in the Scopes Monkey Trial. James Broderick plays Bryan in this play, with Roy Scheider as Clarence Darrow. I wonder how they chose to portray Bryan in this production - as a statesman, or as a fool?

	WNYC, Channel 31 (Ind.)
	Morning
	10:00a	Staff Meeting
	11:00a	Film
	11:30a	Community Action
	Afternoon
	12:00p	Film
	01:00p	Interlude
	03:00p	All About TV
	04:00p	Around the Clock
	04:30p	Navy Film
	05:00p	Films from France
	05:30p	Health Education
	Evening
	06:00p	Staten Island Today
	06:30p	News (Paul Manacher)
	06:45p	Film
	07:00p	Dramatic Experience (B&W)
	07:30p	Brooklyn College (B&W)
	08:00p	American History (B&W)
	09:00p	Sight and Sound
	09:30p	News (Herbert Boland)
	09:45p	Film
	10:00p	Your Right to Say It
	10:30p	Astronomy

WNYC is not an educational station, but I have to say that its schedule certainly looks like one. TV