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)
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Morning
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06:30a
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Sunrise Semester (Geology)
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07:00a
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CBS Morning News with Joseph Benti
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08:00a
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Captain Kangaroo (guests the Borjevas)
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09:00a
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Leave it to Beaver (B&W)
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09:30a
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Donna Reed (B&W)
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10:00a
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The Lucy Show
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10:30a
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The Beverly Hillbillies (B&W)
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11:00a
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Andy Griffith
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11:30a
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Love of Life
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Afternoon
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12:00p
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Where the Heart Is
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12:25p
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CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
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12:30p
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Search for Tomorrow
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01:00p
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The Galloping Gourmet
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01:30p
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As the World Turns
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02:00p
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Love is a Many-Splendored Thing
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02:30p
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The Guiding Light
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03:00p
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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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Gomer Pyle, USMC
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04:30p
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Mike Douglas (co-host Shelley Berman, guests Sen.
Howard Baker, the Serendipity Singers)
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Evening
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06:00p
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News (Jim
Jensen)
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07:00p
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CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite
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07:30p
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Get Smart
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08:00p
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The Good Guys
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08:30p
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Hogan’s Heroes
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09:00p
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CBS Friday Night Movies – “Fanny”
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11:30p
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News (Bob Young)
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12:00a
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Merv Griffin (guests Jennie’s Daughters)
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01:30a
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News (local)
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01:40a
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Movie – “Criss
Cross” (B&W)
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03:20a
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Movie – “The
Gift of Love”
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WNBC, Channel 4 (NBC)
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Morning
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06:30a
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Education Exchange
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07:00a
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Today
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09:00a
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For Women Only
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09:30a
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PDQ (guests Ruta Lee, Scoey Mitchell, Bill Bixby)
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10:00a
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It Takes Two (guests Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Campanella,
Mr. & Mrs. Greg Morris, Kaye Ballard and Roger C. Carmel)
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10:25a
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NBC News (Nancy Dickerson)
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10:30a
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Concentration
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11:00a
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Sale of the Century
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11:30a
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The Hollywood Squares (guests Jim Backus, Sammy Davis Jr.,
Betty Grable, Lloyd Haynes, Ruta Lee, Alan Sues, Wally Cox, Abby Dalton,
Charley Weaver)
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Afternoon
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12:00p
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Jeopardy
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12:30p
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Name Droppers (guests Jim Backus, Polly Bergen, Robert
Brown)
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12:55p
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NBC News (Floyd Kalber)
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01:00p
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It’s Your Bet
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01:30p
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You’re Putting Me On (guests Peggy Cass, Bill Cullen, Joan
Fontaine, Corbett Monica, Alejandro Rey, Brenda Vaccaro)
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02:00p
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Days of Our Lives
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02:30p
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The Doctors
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03:00p
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Another World
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03:30p
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Bright Promise
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04:00p
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Letters to Laugh-In (guests Jack Carter, Teresa Graves, Jill
St. John, Alan Sues)
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04:25p
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NBC News (Floyd Kalber)
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04:30p
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Movie – “Mary
Mary” (part 2)
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Evening
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06:00p
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News (Lew Wood)
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07:00p
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The Huntley-Brinkley Report
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07:30p
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The High Chaparral
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10:00p
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On Stage (special)
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11:00p
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News (Jim Hartz)
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11:10p
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Weather (Dr.
Frank Field)
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11:15p
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News (Jim Hartz)
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11:25p
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Sports (Kyle
Rote)
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11:30p
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The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (guests Agnes Moorehead, Wayne Cochran,
Jack Haley Jr.)
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01:00a
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News (Jim
Collins)
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01:15a
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Movie – “The
Snake Pit” (B&W)
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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.)
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Morning
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07:15a
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Glenn Swengros
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07:30a
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The Alvin Show
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08:00a
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Prince Planet (B&W)
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08:30a
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Marine Boy
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09:00a
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Pixanne
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10:00a
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Movie – “The Mad
Doctor” (B&W)
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Afternoon
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12:00p
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Movie – “Young
Tom Edison” (B&W)
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01:45p
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Fran Lee
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02:00p
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The Naked Truth
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02:30p
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Pay Cards!
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03:00p
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Casper the Friendly Ghost
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03:30p
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The Flintstones
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04:00p
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Wonderama
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05:00p
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My Favorite Martian (B&W)
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05:30p
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McHale’s Navy (B&W)
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Evening
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06:00p
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Lost in Space
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07:00p
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I Love Lucy
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07:30p
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Truth or Consequences
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08:00p
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To Tell the Truth (panelists Orson Bean, Peggy Cass, Bill
Cullen, Betsy Palmer)
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08:30p
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David Frost (guests Harold Robbins, Dina Merrill,
Julie Harris, Frank Gorshin)
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10:00p
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News (Bill
Jorgensen)
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11:00p
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Peyton Place (B&W)
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11:30p
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Movie – “San
Antonio”
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01:40a
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Reel Camp (B&W)
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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)
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Morning
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07:00a
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News (Tom Dunn)
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07:05a
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Ed Nelson
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08:30a
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Girl Talk (guests the Simon Sisters)
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09:00a
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Movie – “South
of Tana River” (B&W)
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11:00a
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The Anniversary Game
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11:30a
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The Movie Game (celebrities Carol Lynley, Agnes
Moorehead, Louis Nye, Rudy Vallee)
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Afternoon
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12:00p
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Bewitched
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12:30p
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That Girl
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01:00p
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Dream House
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01:30p
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Let’s Make a Deal
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02:00p
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The Newlywed Game
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02:30p
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The Dating Game
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03:00p
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General Hospital
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03:30p
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One Life to Live
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04:00p
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Dark Shadows
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04:30p
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Movie – “The
Pleasure Seekers”
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Evening
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06:00p
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News (Roger
Grimsby)
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07:00p
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ABC Evening News with Frank Reynolds and
Howard K. Smith
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07:30p
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Let’s Make a Deal
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08:00p
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The Brady Bunch
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08:30p
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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
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09:00p
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Here Come the Brides
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10:00p
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Jimmy Durante Presents the Lennon Sisters
(guests Kate Smith,
louis Nye, Rosey Grier)
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11:00p
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News (Roger
Grimsby)
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11:25p
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Weather (Tex
Antoine)
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11:30p
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Joey Bishop (guest Cyril Ritchard)
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01:00a
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Movie – “Who Are
You, Mr. Sorge?” (B&W)
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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.)
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Morning
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07:25a
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News and Weather
(local)
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07:30a
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Daphne’s Castle
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09:00a
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Romper Room
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10:30a
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What’s My Line? (panelists Bennett Cerf, Arlene Francis,
Anita Gillette, Soupy Sales)
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11:00a
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Journey to Adventure
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11:30a
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Movie – “The
Enchanted Cottage” (B&W)
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Afternoon
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12:50p
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Fashions in Sewing
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01:00p
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Stock Market
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03:30p
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Circus, Circus, Circus
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04:30p
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Movie – “The
Blob”
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Evening
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06:00p
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Gilligan’s Island
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06:30p
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Flipper
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07:00p
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Dick Van Dyke (B&W)
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07:30p
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Della Reese (guests Arthur Prysock, Molly Bee, Betty
Walker)
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08:30p
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Joe Namath (guests Sugar Ray Robinson, Rocky
Graziano)
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09:00p
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NBA Basketball – Knicks vs. 76ers (tape delay)
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11:00p
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Divorce Court
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11:30p
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Movie – “Vera
Cruz”
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01:30a
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Joe Franklin
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02:30a
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News and Weather
(local) (B&W)
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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.)
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Morning
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07:15a
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News (Marc
Howard)
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07:30a
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TV High School (B&W)
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08:00a
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The Little Rascals (B&W)
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08:30a
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Cartoons
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09:00a
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Krazy Kat
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09:30a
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Jack LaLanne
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10:00a
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David Wade
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10:30a
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Everywoman
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10:55a
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News (local)
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11:00a
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The Millionaire (B&W)
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11:30a
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Gumby
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Afternoon
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12:00p
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Underdog
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12:30p
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Rocky and His Friends
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01:00p
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The Little Rascals
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01:30p
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Continental Miniatures
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02:00p
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Steve Allen (guests Mort Sahl, John Gary, Jerry
Shane)
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03:00p
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Speed Racer
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03:30p
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Superman
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04:00p
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The Addams Family (B&W)
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04:30p
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Skippy
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05:00p
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Abbott and Costello (B&W)
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05:30p
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The Munsters (B&W)
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Evening
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06:00p
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Batman
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06:30p
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Star Trek
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07:30p
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Beat the Clock (guest Hugh O’Brian)
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08:00p
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He Said! She Said!
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08:30p
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Felony Squad
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09:00p
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Ben Casey (B&W)
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10:00p
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News (Lee
Nelson)
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11:00p
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Here’s Barbara
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11:30p
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Perry Mason (B&W)
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12:30a
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Phil Donahue
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01:00a
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The Honeymooners (B&W)
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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)
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Morning
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08:25a
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Classroom
(B&W)
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11:30a
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Sesame Street
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Afternoon
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12:30p
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Classroom
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04:30p
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Sesame Street
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05:30p
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Misterogers
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Evening
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06:00p
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What’s New (B&W)
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06:30p
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Astronomy (B&W)
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07:00p
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En Francais (B&W)
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07:30p
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New Jersey Speaks (B&W)
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08:00p
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Book Beat (guest George Thayer, “The War Business”
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08:30p
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NET Playhouse
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10:00p
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Newsfront (B&W)
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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.)
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Morning
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10:00a
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Staff Meeting
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11:00a
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Film
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11:30a
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Community Action
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Afternoon
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12:00p
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Film
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01:00p
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Interlude
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03:00p
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All About TV
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04:00p
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Around the Clock
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04:30p
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Navy Film
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05:00p
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Films from France
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05:30p
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Health Education
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Evening
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06:00p
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Staten Island Today
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06:30p
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News (Paul
Manacher)
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06:45p
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Film
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07:00p
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Dramatic Experience (B&W)
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07:30p
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Brooklyn College (B&W)
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08:00p
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American History (B&W)
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09:00p
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Sight and Sound
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09:30p
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News (Herbert
Boland)
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09:45p
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Film
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10:00p
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Your Right to Say It
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10:30p
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Astronomy
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WNYC is not an educational station, but I have to say that its schedule certainly looks like one. TV
WNYC is a interesting station, owned by the NYC government but officially licensed as a commercial station. (Among other things, that meant it couldn't do pledge breaks to raise money). And it wasn't a NET/PBS affiliate, but specialized in locally produced programs.
ReplyDeleteIn case you're wondering who the "Simon Sisters" were on Girl Talk, that's Carly Simon and her sister a few years before Carly achieved solo stardom.
Ah, I did not know that about the Simon Sisters! I'm always grateful for my readers; I think I learn more from them than they do from me!
DeleteLast things first:
ReplyDelete- The Simon sisters weren't an act, as you seem to believe (or at least how your post is written).
Joanna Simon, Carly's elder sister, was a star soprano with the Metropolitan Opera in NYC ( as you, of all people, should have known ...).
- My recollection of Hugh O'Brian is that he was a shrewd businessman who managed his money better than many other performers. He reached a point where he didn't have to look for work, and only took appearances that he thought he'd enjoy.
Thus, a week on Beat The Clock, which would count as strictly a fun gig for fast money and easy exposure; O'Brian probably spent some of the time promoting a stage appearance somewhere (as many of his contemporaries did - and still do).
- It Takes Two was a husband-and-wife game hosted by Vin Scully.
The interestng part of this week's shows was that there were two married couples (the Morrises and the Campanellas) and one couple who played a married couple - Kaye Ballard and Roger C. Carmel from The Mothers-In-Law.
The interesting part of that is that after his death, it was revealed that Roger Carmel was gay - and everybody in the business knew it (see under don't ask, don't tell).
Running dry for now; maybe back later.
Carmel only played Ballard's husband in the first season of MOTHERS-IN-LAW...when he refused to join the cast in forgoing a salary raise in return for sponsor Proctor & Gamble renewing for another year, and was replaced by Richard Deacon. Not to mention the show had been cancelled by the time this aired.
DeleteAlso, what is with PDQ? I understood it went out of production at the end of the 1968-69 season...rerun?
PDQ was a syndicated game show, so my guess it not enough stations took it. The format came back as a network show, Baffle, hosted by Dick Enberg (who also retired from baseball this year, along with Scully; Enberg had been the California Angels announcer before going full-time with NBC, when he left there, he finished out his career with San Diego).
DeleteI was going off this article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Simon_Sisters
ReplyDeleteLucy, not Joanna, was Carly's partner.
Oops.
DeleteI'd forgotten about Lucy Simon.
In my defense, so had everybody else ... :-)
Touché!
DeleteI couldn't think of the name Lucy when reading this...but I knew it wasn't Joanne
DeleteWhile Dr. Frank Field may have sometimes done weather on "The Today Show", he's best recalled outside of New York for doing weather reports on NBC space coverage in the 1960's and 1970's, often telling anchorman Frank McGee (and viewers) weather conditions at Cape Canaveral for the launch and the splashdown area in either the Atlantic or Pacific where the spacecraft would come down.
ReplyDeleteFrom 1965 through the Apollo lunar landings, NBC has a huge "Space Center" in studio 8-H which was big enough to hold full-sized lockups of fist, the Gemini two-man spacecraft, and later, the Apollo command and lunar modules.
Dr. Field has a rather large (about 30 feet long) area on one of the backdrops in 8-H where the weather data for the Cape and splashdown areas would be posted.
I meant to type that NBC's Studio 8-H in New York was "big enough to hold full-sized mockups of fist, the Gemini two-man spacecraft and later, the Apollo command and lunar modules".
DeleteBoy, I miss those days. That coverage was absolutely fascinating, and it was nice to see Dr. Field talking about something other than hurricanes! :)
DeleteI guess that you never saw Not For Women Only, a talk show that Dr. Field co-hosted with Barbara Walters, and then with Lynn Redgrave.
DeleteThe show was produced locally by WNBC-TV in New York, and syndicated to the other NBC owned-and-operated stations, including WMAQ in Chicago (for a time, NFWO sold decently to other stations across the country).
Dr. Field worked well with Walters, and later with Redgrave, and covered many newsworthy topics - although I can't recall if the subject of weather ever came up on this show ...
On the contrary - I know quite a bit about it, since it was always on Channel 5 in Minneapolis prior to the start of the Today show. I just didn't watch it, because I'm not a fan of Barbara Walters.
DeleteThe 8:30 PM listing (after HighChap) on WNBC-TV 4 is missing. It normally was Name Of The Game (8:30-10:00 ET).
ReplyDelete