What's on TV? Tuesday, October 2, 1962

You'll never know the troubles to which I go for you, dear readers, in pursuit of the full story. Oh, there are typos and misstatements that I occasionally make, and I'm grateful to you for pointing them out to me, because accuracy is important. But by and large, I like to give you the full picture of what's happening in these TV listings, and it was with that in mind that I found myself at the website of the Society of American Baseball Research and the Media Research Committee.

As I mentioned on Saturday, the 1962 World Series was delayed because of the best-of-three tiebreaker playoff between the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Francisco Giants for the National League pennant. With no disclaimer in TV Guide as to how the schedules would change in the event the pennant race ended in a tie (that's how unlikely it was, the Dodgers leading by four with a week to go), it was a challenge finding out how the playoff, which ran Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, would have affected the broadcast schedule. Finding out the start time of the games was relatively easy, but the network? NBC had the rights to the World Series and All Star Games, but CBS also broadcast weekly games. Which one would have carried the playoff? You'd think in this day and age that kind of information would have been close at hand, but it took more time than I'd care to have spent to come up with the data that NBC, indeed, televised the three games. I could have guessed that, but it wouldn't have been fair to you (not to mention someone would have pointed it out in the comments section). I could have simply gone with the schedule as printed in TV Guide, but that wouldn't have been the full picture. Therefore, I take it upon myself to change today's printed listings to accommodate Game 2 of the Giants-Dodgers series.

Before we get to it, one more thing. Game 2, won by the Dodgers 8-7, was - at four hours and 18 minutes - the longest nine-inning game ever played to that point. Am I going to block out all four over hours? No; I'll block out three, which is what TV Guide would have done (and should have done, if they'd included the playoff disclaimer), and you can keep in mind live sporting events sometimes run over. And now, if you're still with me, here's the day in review. The listings are from Minneapolis-St. Paul.

	2   KTCA (Educ.)
	MORNING
	8:35	SCIENCE – Grade 7
	9:00	ART – Grade 4
	9:25	FRENCH – Grade 4
	9:40	SCIENCE – Grade 7
	10:10	SINGING TOGETHER – Grade 3
	10:30	BRITISH CALENDAR – Travelog
	10:45	SCIENCE – Grade 7
	11:20	HORIZONS OF SCIENCE
	11:30	PSYCHOLOGY I – Lecture
	AFTERNOON
	12:05	SCIENCE – Grade 7
	1:05	SCIENCE – Grade 7
	1:30	BRITISH CALENDAR – Travelog
	1:50	SCIENCE – Grade 2
	2:15	SCIENCE – Grade 7
	2:40	EXPLORING SCIENCE – Grade 6
	3:05	PROBLEM SOLVING – Levy
	3:45	LEARNING AND TEACHING
	4:00	MAN’S LIVING BODY
	5:45	COLLEGE OF THE AIR
	EVENING
	6:15	PROBLEM SOLVING - Levy
	6:45	BACKGROUND – Dr. E.W. Ziebarth
	7:00	MUSIC FROM OHIO STATE
	7:30	AREA STUDY – Far East
	8:00	KEYNOTES – Professor Crown
	8:30	COLLEGE OF ST. THOMAS
	9:00	MEDIEVAL CIVILIZATION – Hoyt
	10:00	BIG PICTURE – Army
	10:30	SHAKESPEARE

	4   WCCO (CBS)
	MORNING
	6:30	COLLEGE OF THE AIR
	7:00	SIEGFRIED AND CLANCY
	7:45	ROCKY AND HIS FRIENDS
	8:00	CAPTAIN KANGAROO – Children
	9:00	NEWS – Dean Montgomery
	9:10	DR. REUBEN K. YOUNGDAHL
	9:20	WHAT’S NEW – Arle Haeberle
	9:30	I LOVE LUCY – Comedy
	10:00	McCOYS – Comedy
	10:30	PETE AND GLADYS – Comedy
	11:00	LOVE OF LIFE – Serial
	11:25	NEWS – Harry Reasoner
	11:30	SEARCH FOR TOMORROW
	11:45	GUIDING LIGHT – Serial
	AFTERNOON
	12:00	NEWS – Dave Moore
	12:15	SOMETHING SPECIAL – Merriman
	12:25	WEATHER – Bud Kraehling
	12:30	AS THE WORLD TURNS – Serial
	1:00	PASSWORD – Allen Ludden
	1:30	HOUSE PARTY – Art Linkletter Guest: Dick Powell
	2:00	MILLIONAIRE – Drama
	2:30	TO TELL THE TRUTH – Panel
	2:55	NEWS – Douglas Edwards
	3:00	SECRET STORM – Serial
	3:30	EDGE OF NIGHT – Serial
	4:00	AROUND THE TOWN – Haeberle
	4:30	AXEL AND BOMBA – Children
	5:30	ROCKY AND HIS FRIENDS
	EVENING
	6:00	NEWS – Dean Montgomery
	6:10	WEATHER – Don O’Brien
	6:15	NEWS – Walter Cronkite
	6:30	HUCKLEBERRY HOUND
	7:00	ROUNDY PREDICTS – Sports
	7:30	RED SKELTON – Comedy Guests: Juliet Prowse, Phil Harris
	8:30	JACK BENNY – Comedy Guest: Frank Sinatra, Jr.
	9:00	GARRY MOORE – Variety
	10:00	NEWS – Dave Moore
	10:15	WEATHER – Bud Kraehling
	10:20	SPORTS – Hal Scott
	10:30	STEVE ALLEN – Variety Guests: Frankie Avalon, Gabe Dell, Jennie Smith
	12:00	DANGER MAN – Adventure
	12:30	DRAGNET – Jack Webb
	1:00	NEWS – Dave Moore

	5   KSTP (NBC)
	MORNING
	6:00	CONTINENTAL CLASSROOM
	6:30	CONTINENTAL CLASSROOM – Education  COLOR
	7:00	TODAY – Hugh Downs World Series preview, hot-rod cars
	9:00	SAY WHEN – Art James  COLOR
	9:25	NEWS – Edwin Newman
	9:30	PLAY YOUR HUNCH – Lewis  COLOR  Guest: Chuck Connors
	10:00	PRICE IS RIGHT – Cullen  COLOR
	10:30	CONCENTRATION – Hugh Downs
	11:00	YOUR FIRST IMPRESSION – Bill Leyden  COLOR
	11:30	TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES – Bob Barker  COLOR
	11:55	NEWS – Ray Scherer
	AFTERNOON
	12:00	NEWS – John MacDougall
	12:15	WEATHER – Johnny Morris
	12:20	TREASURE CHEST  COLOR
	1:00	MERV GRIFFIN  COLOR
	1:55	NEWS – Floyd Kalber
	2:00	LORETTA YOUNG – Drama
	2:30	YOUNG DR. MALONE – Serial  COLOR
	3:00	BASEBALL  SPECIAL   COLOR  National League Playoff Game 2 – Giants vs. Dodgers
	EVENING
	6:00	NEWS – Bob Ryan
	6:15	WEATHER – Johnny Morris
	6:25	SPORTS – Al Wester
	6:30	LARAMIE – Western  COLOR
	7:30	EMPIRE – Drama  COLOR
	8:30	DICK POWELL – Drama
	9:30	CHET HUNTLEY – News Analysis  RETURN
	10:00	NEWS – John MacDougall
	10:15	WEATHER – Johnny Morris
	10:20	SPORTS – Al Wester
	10:30	TONIGHT – Johnny Carson Guests: Tallulah Bankhead, Shelley Berman, Artie Shaw, Fran Bennett
	12:00	MAN FROM COCHISE – Police
	12:30	NEWS AND SPORTS

	9   KMSP (ABC)
	MORNING
	7:55	CHAPEL OF THE AIR – Religion
	8:00	BREAKFAST WITH CAP’N KEN
	9:00	ROMPER ROOM – Miss Betty
	10:00	DEBBIE DRAKE – Exercise
	10:15	RANDOM – Variety
	11:00	ERNIE FORD – Variety
	AFTERNOON
	12:00	JANE WYMAN – Drama
	12:30	CAMOUFLAGE – Don Morrow
	12:55	NEWS – Alex Dreier
	1:00	COURTROOM U.S.A. – Drama
	1:30	OUR MISS BROOKS – Comedy
	2:00	DAY IN COURT – Drama
	2:30	SEVEN KEYS – Jack Narz
	3:00	QUEEN FOR A DAY – Bailey
	3:30	WHO DO YOU TRUST? – Woodbury
	4:00	AMERICAN BANDSTAND – Clark
	4:30	DISCOVERY ’62 – Children
	4:55	AMERICAN NEWSSTAND – Sharp
	5:00	PEOPLE ARE FUNNY – Linkletter
	5:30	WEATHER – Jere Smith
	5:35	NEWS – Bob Allard
	5:45	NEWS – Ron Cochran
	EVENING
	6:00	MIKE HAMMER – Mystery
	6:30	COMBAT! – Drama  DEBUT
	7:30	HAWAIIAN EYE – Mystery
	8:30	UNTOUCHABLES – Police
	9:30	REBEL – Western
	10:00	NEWS – George Grim
	10:15	WEATHER – Jere Smith
	10:20	SPORTS – Tony Parker
	10:30	MAVERICK – Western
	11:30	MOVIE – Drama “City of Shadows” (1955)

	11  WTCN (Ind.)
	MORNING
	11:25	WE LEARN TO LIVE – Religion
	11:30	CARTOON CIRCUS – Children
	11:45	NEWS – Bob Landon
	AFTERNOON
	12:00	LUNCH WITH CASEY – Children
	1:00	MOVIE – Drama “Behold My Wife” (1935)
	2:25	MAHALIA JACKSON SINGS
	2:30	STATE TROOPER – Police
	3:00	DECEMBER BRIDE – Comedy
	3:30	AMOS ‘N’ ANDY – Comedy
	4:00	POPEYE AND PETE – Dave Lee
	4:30	DICK TRACY - Cartoons
	5:00	MICKEY MOUSE CLUB – Children
	5:30	SUPERMAN – Adventure
	EVENING
	6:00	WHIRLYBIRDS – Adventure
	6:30	BIG PAYOFF – Quiz
	7:00	SEA HUNT – Adventure
	7:30	MOVIE – Drama “The Big Street” (1942)
	9:00	WYATT EARP – Western
	9:30	NEWS – Dick Ford
	9:45	WEATHER – Stuart A. Lindman
	9:50	SPORTS – Buetel, Horner
	10:00	HIGHWAY PATROL – Police
	10:30	VIKINGS HIGHLIGHTS - Buetel

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