KTCA, Channel 2 (Educ.)
Morning
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10:00a
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Microbiology
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Afternoon
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12:00p
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Psychology
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02:50p
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Science
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03:15p
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Social
Science
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05:30p
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Kindergarten
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Evening
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06:00p
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The Big
Picture (Army)
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06:30p
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Man’s
Reach
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07:00p
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String Quartet
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07:30p
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Sense
of Sight
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08:00p
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Profile
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08:30p
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General
Science
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09:00p
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Going to
College
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09:30p
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Town
and Country
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10:00p
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Unreasonable
Men
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10:30p
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Public
Responsibility
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You can tell we're in to summer vacation season by the afternoon programs on Channel 2 - Psychology and Social Science don't sound exactly like the kinds of classroom programs they run during the school year.
WCCO, Channel 4 (CBS)
Morning
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06:30a
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Summer
Semester (Modern Comparative Drama)
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07:00a
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Siegfried,
Axel, Clancy
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08:00a
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Captain
Kangaroo
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09:00a
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News (Dean
Montgomery)
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09:15a
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What’s
New?
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09:25a
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Dr. Reuben K.
Youngdahl
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09:30a
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I
Love Lucy
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10:00a
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The McCoys
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10:30a
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Pete
and Gladys
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11:00a
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Love of Life
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11:25a
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CBS
News (Robert Trout)
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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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News
(Dave Moore)
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12:15p
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Something
Special
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12:25p
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Weather
(Bud Kraehling)
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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
(guests Barbara Rush, Robert Merrill)
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01:30p
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House Party
(guest Elaine McKenna)
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02:00p
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To
Tell the Truth (guests Phyllis Newman, Robert Alda, Mel Tormé, Joan Fontaine)
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02:25p
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CBS News
(Douglas Edwards)
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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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Danger
Man
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04:00p
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Around the
Town
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04:30p
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Axel
and Deputy Dawg
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05:00p
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Yogi Bear
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05:30p
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CBS
Evening News with Walter Cronkite
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Evening
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06:00p
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News
(Dave Moore)
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06:15p
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Sports (Don
Dahl)
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06:20p
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Spotlight
(George Rice)
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06:25p
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Weather (Bud
Kraehling)
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06:30p
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Password
(guests Laurence Harvey, Georgia Brown)
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07:00p
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Rawhide
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08:00p
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Perry
Mason
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09:00p
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Texaco Star Parade
(host Meredith Wilson, guests Caterina Valente, Sergio Franchi, Rini Wilson,
the Young Americans)
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10:00p
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News
(Dave Moore)
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10:15p
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Weather (Bud
Kraehling)
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10:20p
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Sports
(Hal Scott)
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10:30p
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Outdoor Sports
(Rollie Johnson)
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10:35p
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Steve
Allen (guests Gabe Dell, the Clancy Brothers, Tommy Makem)
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12:00a
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Movie – “Son
of Belle Starr” (1953) (News follows the movie)
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I don't know how many people remember Meredith Wilson. CBS signed him to host three musical specials in 1964; this was the first. He was a composer of musical comedies, as well as pop songs and even classical music. You might not remember him, but he did have a couple of reasonably big hits on Broadway - The Music Man and The Unsinkable Molly Brown. On the local side, I am interested that Channel 4 has Patrick McGoohan's Danger Man, the forerunner to The Prisoner, on in the afternoon - it just doesn't seem like that kind of show.
KSTP, Channel 5 (NBC)
Morning
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06:30a
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City
and Country
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07:00a
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Today (guests
Henry Wade, Judith Crist)
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09:00a
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Say
When
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09:25a
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NBC News
(Edwin Newman)
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09:30a
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Word
for Word
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10:00a
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Concentration
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10:30a
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Jeopardy
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11:00a
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Your First
Impression (guests John Gavin and Cicely Evans)
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11:30a
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Truth
or Consequences
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11:55a
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NBC News (Ray
Scherer)
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Afternoon
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12:00p
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News (John
MacDougall)
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12:15p
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Weather
(Johnny Morris)
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12:25p
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Woman’s World
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12:30p
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Treasure
Chest
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01:00p
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Let’s Make a
Deal
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01:25p
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NBC
News (Floyd Kalber)
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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!
(guests Pat Carroll, Ross Martin)
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03:00p
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The
Match Game (guests Milt Kamen, Dr. Joyce Brothers)
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03:25p
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NBC News
(Sander Vanocur)
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03:30p
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Make
Room for Daddy
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04:00p
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Movie – “Paris
After Dark” (1943)
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05:25p
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Doctor’s
House Call
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05:30p
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The
Huntley-Brinkley Report
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Evening
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06:00p
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News (Bob
Ryan)
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06:15p
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Weather
(Johnny Morris)
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06:25p
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Sports (Al
Tighe)
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06:30p
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Temple
Houston
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07:30p
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Dr. Kildare
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08:30p
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Hazel
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09:00p
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Kraft Suspense
Theatre
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10:00p
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News
(John MacDougall)
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10:15p
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Weather (Johnny
Morris)
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10:20p
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Sports
(Al Tighe)
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10:30p
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The Tonight
Show Starring Johnny Carson (guests Carol Lawrence, Don Adams)
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12:00a
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News
and Sports
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12:05a
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Movie – “Chinatown
Squad” (1935)
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I wrote about Kraft Suspense Theatre on Saturday; Kraft was a major sponsor of television shows over the years, among them being Kraft Television Theatre (one of the longest and best of the early anthology shows) and, of course, Kraft Music Hall, hosted by Milton Berle, Perry Como, and others.
KMSP, Channel 9 (ABC)
Morning
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07:45a
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Breakfast
with Grandpa Ken
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08:30a
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Romper Room
(Miss Betty)
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09:30a
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The
Price is Right (guest Virginia Graham)
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10:00a
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Get the
Message (guests Marty Ingels, Bennett Cerf, Betty White, Julia Meade)
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10:30a
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Missing
Links (guests Dorothy Kilgallen, Nipsey Russell, Tom Poston, Reginald
Gardiner)
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11:00a
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Father Knows
Best
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11:30a
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Ernie
Ford (guest Barbara McNair)
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Afternoon
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12:00p
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My
Little Margie
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12:30p
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Peter Gunn
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01:00p
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Lois
Leppart
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01:30p
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Day in Court
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01:55p
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ABC
News (Lisa Howard)
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02:00p
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General
Hospital
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02:30p
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Queen
for a Day
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03:00p
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Trailmaster
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04:00p
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Movie
(Western)
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05:00p
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News (Bob
Allard)
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05:15p
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ABC
Evening Report (Ron Cochran)
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05:30p
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Leave it to
Beaver
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Evening
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06:00p
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Hennesey
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06:30p
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The
Flintstones
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07:00p
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Donna Reed
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07:30p
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My
Three Sons
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08:00p
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Ensign O’Toole
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08:30p
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Jimmy
Dean (guests Jack Jones, Hank Snow, “Professor Backwards” [James Edmondson, Sr.])
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09:30p
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Stump the
Stars (guests Eartha Kitt, Mike Connors)
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10:00p
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News,
Weather, Sports
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10:30p
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The
Untouchables
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11:30p
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Thriller
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12:30a
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News
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Hank Snow and Jack Jones - what an interesting combination on Jimmy Dean's show. James Edmondson was an old vaudevillian whose shtick included writing and pronouncing words backwards. Something for everyone, I guess. Anyway, in a lurid footnote, Edmondson was murdered in Atlanta in 1976 by three armed gunmen. Chevy Chase presented the story on Saturday Night Live's "Weekend Update" as follows - and I kid you not: "Well, the popular TV personality known as Professor Backwards was slain in Atlanta yesterday, by three masked gunmen. According to reports, neighbors ignored the Professor's cries of 'Pleh! Pleh!' " It was a joke that, typical of SNL, was in very bad taste. It was also very funny.
WTCN, Channel 11 (Ind.)
Morning
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10:45a
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Kukla
and Ollie
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11:00a
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Eleven O’Clock
Scholar
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11:30a
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Dateline:
Minnesota
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11:50a
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Tricks for
Treats
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Afternoon
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12:00p
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Lunch with
Casey
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12:45p
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The
King and Odie
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01:00p
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Matinee Movie –
“Dr. Rhythm” (1938)
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03:00p
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Bachelor
Father
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03:30p
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Robin Hood
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04:00p
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Dave
Lee and Pete
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04:30p
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The Mickey
Mouse Club
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05:00p
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Superman
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05:30p
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Mac and Myer
for Hire
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05:45p
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Rocky
and His Friends
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Evening
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06:00p
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The
Rifleman
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06:30p
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Bold Journey
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07:00p
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Expedition!
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07:30p
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Movie – “The Vengeance
of Ursus” (Italian, 1962)
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09:30p
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News
(Dick Ford)
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09:45p
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Weather
(Stuart A. Lindman)
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09:50p
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Sports
(Frank Buetel, Jack Horner)
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10:00p
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Movie – “The
Affairs of Susan” (1945)
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12:15a
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One
Step Beyond
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I think I've made this comment before, but it bears repeating; Channel 11's schedule when they weren't broadcasting the Twins or Minnesota Gophers (or, later, the North Stars) wasn't much to write about. I have to think that The Vengeance of Ursus is going to wind up on Mystery Science Theater 3000 one of these days. TV
Here, There, but not quite Everywhere:
ReplyDelete- This being summertime, with rerun season underway, it might have helped if you'd included (at least) episode titles with the various series - you know, so those of us with the DVDs might actually find the shows in question (couldn't hurt ...).
- Meredith Willson:
Old Time Radio fans will recall that Willson was a performer on radio comedy shows (where he was already employed as musical director) in the '40s.
Being an Iowan, he was given a hayseed character to play, but he's remembered for ad-libbing a line to Tallulah Bankhead that became a catch phrase:
To an imperious order from Tallulah, Willson answered "Yes sir, Miss Bankhead!"
This show was ordered up because the Texaco boss was a fan of Willson's musicals - and Willson was an enthusiastic performer of his own work.
On YouTube, you can find the opening number from this show, which was an early example of outdoor video tape recording: a bunch of marching bands gathered together with a full chorus to play and sing "Seventy-six Trombones" while marching all around the grounds of CBS Television City in Hollywood.
This most American of songs is sung by Sergio Franchi (from Italy), Caterina Valente (from Spain), and Rini Willson (of French-Russian birth) - all with te expected ethnic accents.
Given the 1964 tech, this is all very impressive indeed. As I said, it's on YouTube - and when you look it up, remember that it's two 'l's in Willson.
_ I guess I should also mention a CD I got from Amazon not long ago.
Some years back, Meredith and Rini Willson made an LP for Capitol in which they re-created the "backer's audition" of The Music Man score and story that they did for Broadway producer Kermit Bloomgarden.
Bloomgarden loved the show and brought it to Broadway, so there's a happy ending, but the Willsons brought a lot to the performance on their own, and Capitol released it commercially, so there's that.
Now it's available on CD,and it's worth the effort to get it.
I was looking at the WTCN, Channel 11 (Independent) lineup for 6/4/1964, and I saw a name that, to me, looks familiar at the 9:30 slot.
ReplyDeleteHis name is Dick Ford, and if I'm not mistaken, that could very well be the same Dick Ford that would eventually be on St. Louis television, mainly on KSD-TV (later KSDK), channel 5 and later on KTVI, channel 2.
I agree that channel 11 line-up isn't real strong, but there's no way I would have missed Robin Hood at 3:30. Robin Hood, Robin Hood, riding through the glen----Great show.
ReplyDeleteMaybe the KTCA educational programs during summer daytime hours were meant to be watched by teachers who could learn new things about those subjects that they could in turn teach their students come the following September.
ReplyDeleteI didn't know "Professor Backwards" was a real person.
ReplyDeleteAt my house, The Professor Backwards joke got laughs that shook the walls.
ReplyDeleteIt was also an example of gallows humor.