A word about these archives, which are truly magnificent - unlike any other big city newspaper that I've been able to identify, the Trib has digitized all of their past issues, and make them all available free to anyone who cares to seek them out. No accounts, no logins, no subscriptions. It's not only a wonderful research resource, it's just plain fun to read through.
I may have to do this again sometime. Depending on how the unpacking goes, it may be as soon as next week. Speaking of which, I'm sure you'll understand if I dispense with the commentary, other than to note that the times listed for the educational stations are the most precise I've ever seen. Perhaps Mike Doran can fill in the blanks for us.
WBBM, Channel 2 (CBS)
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Morning
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05:40a
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Early Report (color)
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05:45a
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Sunrise Semester
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06:15a
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Farm Report
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06:30a
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Seminar ‘66
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07:00a
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Morning News
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07:05a
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CBS Morning News with Mike Wallace
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07:30a
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Clown Alley
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07:55a
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Junior Newsroom
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08:00a
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Captain Kangaroo
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09:00a
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I Love Lucy
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09:30a
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The McCoys
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10:00a
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Andy of Mayberry
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10:30a
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Dick Van Dyke
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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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Noon Report
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12:15p
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Lee Phillip
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12:30p
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As the World Turns
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01:00p
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Password
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01:30p
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House Party (color)
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02:00p
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To Tell the Truth
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02:30p
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The Edge of Night
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03:00p
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The Secret Storm
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03:30p
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Leave it to Beaver
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04:00p
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The Early Show – “The Mysterians”
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05:30p
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CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite (color)
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Evening
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06:00p
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News (Fahey
Flynn)
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06:25p
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Standpoint
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06:30p
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Daktari (color)
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07:30p
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Red Skelton (guests Ed Wynn, Donna Loren) (color)
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08:30p
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Petticoat Junction (color)
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09:00p
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CBS Reports – “The Divorce Dilemma”
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10:00p
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News (Fahey
Flynn)
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10:25p
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Sports (Johnny
Morris)
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10:30p
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The Late Show – Pete Kelly’s Blues” (color)
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12:25a
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Between Shows
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12:30a
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The Late, Late Show – “Above Us the Waves”
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02:15a
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Late Report (color)
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WMAQ, Channel 5 (NBC)
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Morning
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05:45a
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Town and Farm (color)
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06:00a
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The Heroic Years (color)
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06:30a
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Today in Chicago (color)
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07:00a
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Today (color)
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09:00a
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I Guess (color)
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09:30a
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Concentration
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10:00a
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Morning Star (color)
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10:30a
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Paradise Bay (color)
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11:00a
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Jeopardy (color)
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11:30a
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Post Office (color)
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Afternoon
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12:00p
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P.D.Q. (color)
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12:30p
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Let’s Make a Deal (color)
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01:00p
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Days of Our Lives (color)
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01:30p
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The Doctors
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02:00p
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Another World
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02:30p
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You Don’t Say! (color)
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03:00p
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The Match Game (color)
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03:30p
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The Letter Game (color)
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04:00p
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Lloyd Thaxton (color)
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05:00p
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Chicago Report
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Evening
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06:00p
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The Huntley-Brinkley Report (color)
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06:30p
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My Mother, the Car (color)
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07:00p
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Please Don’t Eat the Daisies (color)
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07:30p
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Dr. Kildare (color)
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08:00p
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Tuesday Night at the Movies – “Forever Female”
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10:00p
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Night Report (color)
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10:30p
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The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (color)
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12:00a
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Merv Griffin
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WBKB, Channel 7 (ABC)
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Morning
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06:25a
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Reflections
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06:30a
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The Arts
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07:00a
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The New Three Stooges
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08:00a
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Jim Conway
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09:30a
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Gypsy Rose Lee
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10:00a
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Supermarket Sweep
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10:30a
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The Dating Game
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11:00a
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Donna Reed
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11:30a
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Father Knows Best
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Afternoon
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12:00p
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Ben Casey
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01:00p
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The Nurses
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01:30p
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A Time for Us
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02:00p
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General Hospital
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02:30p
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Young Marrieds
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03:00p
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Never Too Young
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03:30p
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Where the Action Is
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04:00p
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The Big Show – “I Was a Teenage Frankenstein”
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05:30p
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News (Glen
Hanson)
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05:45p
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Peter Jennings with the News
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Evening
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06:00p
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Passage to Adventure (color)
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06:30p
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Combat!
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07:30p
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McHale’s Navy
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08:00p
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F-Troop
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08:30p
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Peyton Place
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09:00p
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ABC News Special – “Anatomy of Pop: The Music Explosion”
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10:00p
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News (Joe
Templeton)
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10:25p
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Tuesday Night Movie – “Musketeers and the Sea”
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12:40a
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News (local)
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12:45a
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Sam Benedict
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01:45a
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News (local)
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WGN, Channel 9 (Ind.)
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Morning
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06:45a
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News (local)
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07:00a
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Top o’ the Morn (color)
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07:30a
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Rayner and Friends (color)
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08:15a
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The King and Odie (color)
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08:30a
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Treetop House (color)
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09:00a
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Romper Room (color)
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09:30a
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Exercise with Gloria (color)
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10:00a
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Girl Talk
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10:30a
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Loretta Young
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11:00a
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Divorce Court
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Afternoon
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12:00p
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Bozo’s Circus (color)
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01:00p
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Mike Douglas
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02:30p
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M Squad
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03:00p
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Sea Hunt
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03:30p
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The Three Stooges
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04:00p
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Dick Tracy (color)
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04:30p
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The Mickey Mouse Club (color)
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05:00p
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Garfield Goose (color)
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05:45p
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News (local)
(color)
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05:55p
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Sports (local)
(color)
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Evening
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06:00p
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Yogi Bear (color)
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06:30p
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Cartoon Cut-Ups (color)
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07:00p
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McKeever and the Colonel
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07:30p
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Dobie Gillis
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08:00p
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Step This Way
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08:30p
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The Twilight Zone
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09:00p
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The Saint
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10:00p
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News
(Park-Ruddle) (color)
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10:15p
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WGN-TV Presents – “The Barbarian and the Geisha” (color)
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12:20a
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News (Carl
Greyson)
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12:40a
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M Squad
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01:10a
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San Francisco Beat
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WTTW, Channel 11 (Educ.)
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Morning
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09:15a
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Your State Today
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09:39a
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Science
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10:03a
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Parlons Francais
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10:40a
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Quest for the Best
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Afternoon
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12:50p
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Your State Today
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01:14p
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Science Land
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01:40p
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Spanish
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02:02p
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Literature
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02:21p
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Exploring Nature
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04:30p
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Folk Guitar
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05:00p
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What’s New?
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05:30p
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Children’s Fair
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Evening
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06:45p
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TV College (Oral Interpretation)
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07:15p
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TV College (American History)
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08:00p
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Foreign Review
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08:30p
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The French Chef
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09:00p
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You and Your Career
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09:30p
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Medically Speaking
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10:00p
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Insight
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10:30p
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TV College
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WXXW, Channel 20 (Educ.)
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Morning
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09:00a
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Spanish
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09:39a
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Music
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10:03a
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Arithmetic
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10:40a
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Science
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11:05a
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Law and the Nurses
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Afternoon
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12:30p
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Franklin to Frost
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01:21p
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Parlons Francais
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01:40p
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Science
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02:02p
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Parlons Francais
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02:21p
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Science
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WCJU, Channel 26 (Ind.)
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Afternoon
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04:00p
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Western Adventure
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05:00p
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Our Miss Brooks
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05:30p
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December Bride
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Evening
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06:00p
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News; Spanish
Serial
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06:30p
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Noticias
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06:35p
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Sulver Screen
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08:00p
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The Buccaneers
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08:30p
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Cross-Current
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09:00p
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Wire Service
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10:00p
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Star Performance
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10:30p
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Mr. Adams and Eve
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WFLD, Channel 32 (Ind.)
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Afternoon
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04:00p
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Kaleidoscope (color)
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04:30p
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Great Art (color)
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04:45p
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Kaleidoscope (color)
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05:30p
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Great Art (color)
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05:45p
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Kaleidoscope (color)
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Evening
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06:00p
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Newscope
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06:30p
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Scarlett Hill
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07:00p
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College
Basketball – St. John’s vs. Notre Dame
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08:45p
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Newscope
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09:00p
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George Pierrot Presents (color)
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10:30p
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Journey of a Lifetime (color)
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11:00p
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Newscope
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TV
At our house we didn't get TV Guide for a long time, so we used newspaper listings as our guide. We took three papers when I was growing up, the Holdrege (NE) Daily Citizen Monday-through-Friday, the Hastings (NE) Daily Tribune from Monday-through-Saturday, and the Omaha Sunday World-Herald on Sunday. The Sunday World-Herald had an Entertainment section which had the TV listings for the week. Not only did they have the listings for Omaha, Lincoln, and western Iowa stations, they had prime-time listings for other Nebraska and western Iowa stations. They even had listings for KOA-TV in Denver! The Tribune started printing TV listings around 1975 in their Saturday paper too. Now that I live in Grand Island, I get the Independent's TV listings in the Sunday paper. I have DirecTV and use those instead.
ReplyDelete"I Guess"? My guess is WMAQ-TV or the Chicago Tribune hadn't seen EYE GUESS yet. It had only been on the air a bit over a month at that time, so that's understandable.
ReplyDeleteJon H:
DeleteMy honest-to-pete TV Guide - Chicago edition - calls the show Eye Guess, so this would be a Trib typo.
We're still in the era when newspapers - even the Trib, which owned Channel 9 - regarded TV as competition for ad dollars; coverage tended to be grudging.
"Fill in the blanks"?
ReplyDeleteDaily newspaper listings were generally nothing but blanks.
This is going to be a bit at a time, due to the Curse of 4096:
WBBM, Channel 2:
- Junior Newsroom was a five minute newsbreak aimed at kids, anchored by ch2's farm reporter, George Menard.
Several Chicago stations did shows like this, off-and-on, but this one was the longest-running - and it ended its run not long after this.
- Standpoint at 6:25pm andBetween Shows at 12:25am were news commentaries delivered by John Justin Smith, who came to ch2 from the Chicago Daily News, to which he returned not long after this.
WMAQ, Channel 5:
- Chicago Report, at 5pm, was the first hour-long afternoon/evening news show in Chicago (note for yourself how short the other stations's news blocks are).
Ch5's principal anchorman for this show was Charles McCuen, a name you might recognize from your earlier term in Minneapolis.
WBKB, Channel 7:
- ABC News Special: Anatomy Of Pop is pre-empting The Fugitive this week.
To me, this is a head-scratcher; February was a Sweeps month, and The Fugitive was one of ABC's few dependable rating-getters at that point.
- I think I've mentioned Joe Templeton, the 10pm news anchor, in connection with some of your Texas posts from several years before.
Templeton came to ch7 as an emergency replacement for Frank Reynolds, when ABC poached him for network duty a couple of years before.
This was a period when newscasters were mainly migratory; Chicago was a favored way station on the way up the network chain.
- Ch7 ran old syndie shows in late night; Tuesday's offering was Sam Benedict, Edmond O'Brien's 1962 lawyer show.
I mention it here because Benedict just came out on DVD; I've been watching some of them, and they strike me as a cut above much of the other network fare of that time (Benedict only ran one season; it fell to Jackie Gleason's comeback show on CBS).
WGN, Channel 9, WCIU, Channel 26, and WFLD, Channel 32:
Not much to write up here,really.
Ch9 had kid shows in the morning and late afternoon, syndie reruns in the evening, movies late at night.
Ch26 started late in the afternoon, with B-movies and syndies, quite a bit older than the ones on ch9.
Ch32 had only launched about a month before this; they were still hunting down syndie fare that the other stations hadn't yet bought up.
I'm skipping the educational stations because that's all they were back then; PBS was still half a decade away.
You picked a slow day here.
if had had chosen Monday, I would have had more to work with.