2 KTCA (Educ.)
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Morning
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8:55
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FRENCH – Grade 4
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9:10
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SPANISH – Grade 4
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9:30
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SPANISH – Grade 5
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9:45
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PORTFOLIO – Grade 11
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10:10
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SPANISH – Grade 6
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10:25
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GERMAN – Grade 5
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10:40
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EARTH AND SPACE SCIENCE
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11:00
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PORTFOLIO – Grade 11
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11:45
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KINDERGARTEN
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Afternoon
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12:30
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MAN’S LIVING BODY – Dearden
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1:00
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SPANISH – Grade 4
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1:20
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SPANISH – Grade 5
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1:35
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GERMAN – Grade 4
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1:50
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SCIENCE – Grade 6
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2:20
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GERMAN – Grade 6
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2:35
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SPANISH – Grade 6
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2:50
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EXPLORING SCIENCE – Grade 6
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3:15
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GERMAN FAIRY TALES
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3:45
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SPANISH – Preview
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5:30
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KINDERGARTEN
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Evening
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6:00
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BALANCE OF FEAR
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6:30
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GENERAL SCIENCE
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7:00
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INQUIRY – Discussion
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7:30
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CONTINENTAL COMMENT
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8:00
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FOLK MUSIC NOW AND THEN
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8:30
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MACALESTER COLLEGE
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9:00
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LABOR PROBLEMS – Panel
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10:00
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PROFILE – History
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10:30
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FACES OF A GIANT – Education
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Not really much to say about this lineup, is there? Except that in some way it seems like what educational television ought to be.
4 WCCO (CBS)
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Morning
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6:30
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SUNRISE SEMESTER
Outlines of Art
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7:00
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SIEGFRIED, AXEL, CLANCY
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8:00
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CAPTAIN KANGAROO
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9:00
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NEWS – Dean Montgomery
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9:15
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WHAT’S NEW? – Women
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9:25
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DR. REUBEN K. YOUNGDAHL
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9:30
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I LOVE LUCY – Comedy
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10:00
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McCOYS – Comedy
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10:30
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PETE AND GLADYS – Comedy
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11:00
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LOVE OF LIVE – Serial
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11:25
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NEWS – Harry Reasoner
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11:30
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SEARCH FOR TOMORROW
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11:45
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GUIDING LIGHT – Serial
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Afternoon
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12:00
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NEWS – Dave Moore
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12:15
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SOMETHING SPECIAL
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12:25
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WEATHER – Bud Kraehling
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12:30
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AS THE WORLD TURNS – Serial
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1:00
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PASSWORD – Allen Ludden
Guests: Sydney
Chaplin, Marjorie Lord
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1:30
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HOUSE PARTY – Art Linkletter
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2:00
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TO TELL THE TRUTH – Lewis
Panel: Darren
McGavin, Orson Bean, Bess Myerson, Phyllis Newman
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2:25
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NEWS – Douglas Edwards
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2:30
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EDGE OF NIGHT – Serial
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3:00
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SECRET STORM – Serial
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3:30
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BEST OF GROUCHO – Quiz
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4:00
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AROUND THE TOWN – Harvey
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4:30
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AXEL AND DEPUTY DAWG
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5:00
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CLANCY AND HIS FRIENDS
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5:30
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NEWS – Walter Cronkite
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Evening
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6:00
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NEWS – Dean Montgomery
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6:15
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SPORTS – Don Dahl
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6:20
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SPOTLIGHT – George Rice
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6:25
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WEATHER – Don O’Brien
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6:30
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CBS REPORTS – Documentary
“The Great American
Funeral”
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7:30
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GLYNIS – Comedy
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8:00
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BEVERLY HILLBILLIES
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8:30
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DICK VAN DYKE – Comedy
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9:00
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DANNY KAYE – Variety
Guests: Gene Kelly,
Michele Lee, Clinger Sisters
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10:00
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NEWS – Dave Moore
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10:15
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WEATHER – Bud Kraehling
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10:20
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SPORTS – Hal Scott
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10:30
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ROUNDY PREDICTS – Football
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11:00
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STEVE ALLEN – Variety
Guests: Telly
Savales, Lulu Porter, Stiller and Meara
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1:00
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MOVIE – Drama
“Fighter Attack”
(1953)
News will follow the
movie
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Ironic that we're seeing Danny Kaye's show this week, considering Saturday's discussion surrounding Judy Garland. From what I've read, CBS first offered (or scheduled) Kaye the Sunday night slot opposite Bonanza, which he refused precisely because he knew the toughness of the competition. I have nothing to go on in this speculation, but I wonder - by allowing Kaye to veto that Sunday spot (thereby putting Garland there instead), were they suggesting that they valued Danny's show more, that it was more likely to have a long run without its star blowing up?
5 KSTP (NBC)
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Morning
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6:30
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CITY AND COUNTRY
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7:00
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TODAY – Hugh Downs
Guests: Sterling
Hayden, Raymond Massey, Adam Keefe
Local news at 7:25
A.M. and 8:25 A.M.
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9:00
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SAY WHEN – Art James
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9:25
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NEWS – Edwin Newman
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9:30
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WORD FOR WORD C
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10:00
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CONCENTRATION – Hugh Downs
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10:30
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MISSING LINKS – Ed McMahon
Panel: Ann Sheridan,
Nipsey Russell, Sam Levenson
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11:00
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YOUR FIRST IMPRESSION
Panel: Dennis James,
Ruth Warrick, Corbett Monica
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11:30
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TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES
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11:55
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NEWS – Ray Scherer
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Afternoon
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12:00
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NEWS – MacDougall
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12:15
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WEATHER – Morris
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12:25
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WOMAN’S WORLD
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12:30
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TREASURE CHEST
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1:00
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PEOPLE WILL TALK
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1:25
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NEWS – Floyd Kalber
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1:30
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DOCTORS – Drama
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2:00
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LORETTA YOUNG – Drama
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2:30
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YOU DON’T SAY – Kennedy
Panelists: Diana
Lynn, Richard Conte
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3:00
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MATCH GAME – Gene Rayburn
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3:25
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NEWS – Sander Vanocur
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3:30
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MAKE ROOM FOR DADDY
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4:00
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MOVIE – Mystery
“So Long at the
Fair” (English; 1951)
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5:25
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DOCTOR’S HOUSE CALL – Fox
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5:30
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NEWS – Huntley, Brinkley
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Evening
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6:00
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NEWS – Bob Ryan
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6:15
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WEATHER – Morris
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6:25
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SPORTS – Al Tighe
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6:30
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VIRGINIAN – Western
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8:00
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ESPIONAGE – Drama
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9:00
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ELEVENTH HOUR – Drama
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10:00
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NEWS – MacDougall
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10:15
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WEATHER – Morris
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10:20
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SPORTS – Al Tighe
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10:30
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JOHNNY CARSON – Variety
Guest: Sterling
Hayden
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12:00
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NEWS AND SPORTS
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Sterling Hayden's busy making the rounds, isn't he? I think he also pops up elsewhere during the course of the week. He's probably plugging his book Wanderer, his fascinating (and controversial) memoir of life away from Hollywood, in which he defied both movie bosses and his ex-wife by taking his children and sailing the sea.
9 KMSP (ABC)
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Morning
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7:40
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CHAPEL OF THE AIR – Religion
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7:45
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BREAKFAST – Grandpa Ken
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9:00
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ROMPER ROOM – Miss Betty
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10:00
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PRICE IS RIGHT – Bill Cullen
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10:30
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SEVEN KEYS – Jack Narz
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11:00
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ERNIE FORD – Variety
Guest: Leo Diamond
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11:30
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PEOPLE ARE FUNNY – Linkletter
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Afternoon
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12:00
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GENERAL HOSPITAL – Serial
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12:30
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FATHER KNOWS BEST – Comedy
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1:00
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PEOPLE’S CHOICE – Comedy
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1:30
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DAY IN COURT – Drama
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1:55
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NEWS – Lisa Howard
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2:00
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QUEEN FOR A DAY – Bailey
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2:30
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WHO DO YOU TRUST?
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3:00
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TRAILMASTER – Western
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4:00
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ADVENTURES IN PARADISE
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5:00
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NEWS – Bob Allard
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5:15
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NEWS – Ron Cochran
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5:30
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LEAVE IT TO BEAVER – Comedy
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Evening
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6:00
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DOBIE GILLIS – Comedy
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6:30
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OZZIE AND HARRIET – Comedy
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7:00
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PATTY DUKE – Comedy
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7:30
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PRICE IS RIGHT – Bill Cullen
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8:00
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BEN CASEY – Drama
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9:00
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CHANNING – Drama
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10:00
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NEWS, WEATHER, SPORTS
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10:30
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DETECTIVES – Police
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11:30
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TARGET: CORRUPTORS – Drama
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12:30
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NEWS
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We have an interesting theme developing on some of tonight's shows - on Patty Duke, "The girls are planning a slumber party, but kid brother Ross is not asleep at the switch - he's planning to tape their conversation for blackmail purposes." Interesting use of the word there; usually Ross' actions would be considered "hijinks" or something like that. "Blackmail" puts me in mind of Perry Mason. Later, on Channing, a candidate for state's attorney "knows that his opponent will expose him for having once stolen some college funds." Meanwhile, over on CBS, Rob accidentally overhears what Jerry and Millie really think of them, thanks to Ritchie's toy intercom, and NBC's Espionage has the British government dealing with a security leak of top-secret information. What a suspicious night!
11 WTCN (IND.)
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Morning
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10:45
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KUKLA AND OLLIE – Children
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11:00
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EN FRANCE - Education
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11:30
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DATELINE: MINNESOTA,
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11:45
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TAKE FIVE – Jan Werner
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Afternoon
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12:00
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LUNCH WITH CASEY – Children
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12:45
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KING AND ODIE – Cartoon
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1:00
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MOVIE – Musical Comedy
“So This Is Love”
(1953)
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2:45
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LEE PHILIP – Women
Guest: Peggy Wood
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3:00
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DECEMBER BRIDE – Comedy
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3:30
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ROBIN HOOD – Adventure
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4:00
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BEETLE AND PETE – Dave Lee
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4:30
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MICKEY MOUSE CLUB – Children
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5:00
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SUPERMAN – Adventure
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5:30
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LONE RANGER – Western
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Evening
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6:00
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WHIRLYBIRDS – Adventure
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6:30
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BOLD JOURNEY – Travel
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7:00
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EXPEDITION – Documentary
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7:30
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STONEY BURKE – Drama
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8:30
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DESILU PLAYHOUSE – Drama
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9:30
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NEWS – Dick Ford
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9:45
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WEATHER – Stuart A. Lindman
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9:50
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SPORTS – Buetel, Horner
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10:00
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MOVIE – Drama
“The Lost Weekend”
(1945)
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Just a thought - it's a heck of a way to kick off your broadcasting day with Kukla and Ollie, isn't it? Frankly, I wish more stations would do it today - I rather like the idea of starting your morning with a smile on your face. TV
Briefly:
ReplyDelete- The accounts I've read are that Danny Kaye was even more temperamental than Judy Garland during this season.
As to time slots, the Armstrong Cork Company controlled the Wednesday slot on CBS. They were offered a choice between Kaye and Garland, and chose Kaye - staying with him for most of his CBS tenure.
As to Garland:
Several years afterward, Mel Torme, who worked on the Garland show as a creator of special musical material, wrote a book about the experience: The Other Side Of The Rainbow.
In its own time, this book was blasted as "peep-and-prattle" gossip; in the years since, it's come to be regarded as one of the more compassionate portraits of Garland's life during this period.
- I was surprised to see Lee Phillip's mid-day talk show on a Minneapolis station.
I wasn't aware that CBS was syndicating the show, which aired live on Channel 2 Monday through Saturday for years, to other Midwestern stations (not limited to CBS outlets).
Naturally, I'm wondering if this was a "bicycle" show that had aired a week or so earlier in Chicago, or if it was specially made for export (my guess would be the former; correction welcomed, if needed).
What I do know is that Lee Phillip kept her daily Chicago show going into the '80s - until she and her husband Bill Bell decided to move to California, to be closer to their soap operas, Young & Restless and Bold & Beautiful, which continue to the present day.
- Burr Tillstrom never considered Kukla And Ollie to be a "children's show"; his Kuklapolitans were very real to him, and he prided himself on never "talking down" to his audience - not even to the adults.
Tillstrom never married, and left no surviving family, which is why Kukla And Ollie ended with his passing.
- Noting that Who Do You Trust? is still on ABC in the afternoon, more than a year since Johnny Carson departed for that late night show whose title escapes me at the moment ...
As you may remember, Carson's replacement was Woody Woodbury, whose name seems to crop up here every now and then. From all I've heard, Woody did a pretty good job, but ABC was getting restless, and so in midseason Trust was dropped in favor of a new soap: General Hospital.
*... and the rest is history ...*
- On a personal note:
I will soon be making a "new" addition to my DVD Wall: Target: The Corruptors, which ran one season on ABC a couple of years before this.
This was Four Star's attempt at "social significance", an hour drama starring the usually villainous Stephen McNally as an investigative reporter who took on white-collar crooks and such.
KMSP is running the repeats in a late-night slot, as many local stations would in the pre-stripping days.
I'm really looking forward to seeing this one again; my DVD Wall is positively groaning with shows like this that may well have been "ahead of their time".
(I should have mentioned this yesterday, but I already have the complete run of Arrest And Trial, which you mentioned last time.)
Interested to hear your opinion of Target: The Corruptors, and whether or not it would be worth the investment.
DeleteCBS broadcast THE LEE PHILLIP SHOW to its Midwestern affiliates in the 1963-64 season, running at 3:30 CT--when WCCO aired THE BEST OF GROUCHO. So WTCN picked it up, likely on a tape delay.
DeleteAnd look who was being blackmailed on CHANNING...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUTt1fWSKVM
It took me a while but I finally found it ...
Delete... TV Guide (Chicago edition) for the week of June 2-8, 1962. Mary Tyler Moore on the cover.
And billboarded across the top:
'Target: The Corruptors' - A Case History - see page 4
It's a first-person account of the series's creation by Lester Velie, an investigative reporter for Reader's Digest, among others.
Velie tells here about how he came to partner up with Four Star (Dick Powell's company, as you'll recall) and ABC to make the Corruptors series.
There was a lot of back-and-forth over whether they were going to make a gangster show (a la The Untouchables) or steer more toward white-collar crime; Velie and Four Star were able to persuade ABC that 30 or so episodes in a season would enable them to move around a bit.
In Velie's account, Target: The Corruptors was a hit in the big cities, where ABC had more affiliate strength, but not so much in "the C and D counties"; thus, only one season.
If you've got this issue in your files, I'd suggest you give it a read; it's very informative.
As to the DVD set, it's a "collectors edition" from Martin Grams.
It's supposed to be the whole series; I'm looking forward to seeing a two-parter from midway through the run, involving corruption in a big labor union.
Jack Warden plays the union boss, 'Jerry Skala' (sound familiar?)
Hey, for 1961-62, this was pretty daring ...
"Worth the investment"?
I'd say so, even before I get the bloody thing.
Let me know about the quality - I might be interested in that!
DeleteTook delivery this AM of Target: The Corruptors, from Martin Grams.
DeleteIf by 'quality', you mean the picture, it's as good as anything Grams is selling, and considerably better than most Four Star c2cs on any market.
If you mean the episode content ...
... I'll just say that it's a Different Time, and let it go at that.
But you really ought to get a load of some of the actors who turn up here (Dick Powell must have called in a lot of chits ...).
As a TV obsessed, precocious 10 year old in October 1963, this edition fascinates me 54 years later as I take a retrospective look.
ReplyDelete1. 50's movies, CBS comedies (both rural and suburban) yet sprinkled in are signs of the future of TV...Eleventh Hour, Ben Casey, Espionage, etc---that is until the 70's took away dramatic TV's cutting edge until sometime around 1981-82 (HSB, St Elsewhere).
2. Somehow, the ETV schedule gave me a warm feeling once I got used to 5:30 pm Kindergarten (6:30 Eastern, 7 pm in Newfoundland and Labrador).
3. Knowing the JFK assassination was just around the corner, I can sense a level of foreboding while enjoying all these great 5th grade TV memories and remembering the voices of Chet and David.
RE: point 3- my wife made a very similar observation. With just one month before the assassination, knowing what we know, it does shade everything. All of a sudden a lot of shows out there are going to start to look very naïve and innocent...
DeleteAgreed, Mitchell. A scan of the 1964 GUIDES clearly shows the steel on steel change....several of the ones in your collection show harder edged white papers and documentaries, several in prime time. Add the Goldwater campaign to it and you had a very different tone.
DeleteI was too young to notice, but I've read several accounts of how the entire holiday season in 1963 was a melancholy one (naturally, since JFK's funeral was Monday of Thanksgiving week), and of course the White House Christmas tree wasn't lighted until December 22, which marked the end of the 30-day mourning period.
DeleteThere's a scene in Garry Moore's Christmas special from that year - I think it was Dorothy Collins singing, and there was something sorrowful, almost angry, in the way that she sings. (Or am I just reading this into it?) It would be interesting to look at the shows written and shot in, say, the three months following the assassination and see if that same heaviness exists.
The Dick Van Dyke episode you mentioned is called "All About Evesdropping"!!!
ReplyDeleteLee Phillips' guest this day is Peggy Wood-star of the early TV show "I Remember Mama", with a young Dick Van Patten starring as Niles. By 1965, business would pick up for CBS on Wednesday nights when Jed and his kin, Dick Van Dyke and Danny Kaye would be joined by the sci fi classic Lost In Space, and the rual sitcom Green Acres. As the world became more sinister in the post-JFK era, spies and secret agents took over tele screens with shows like The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Get Smart, The Avengers and others.
ReplyDeleteTo John Rowe, I too get a warm feeling from Public TV, especially memories of shows like Sesame Street, The Electric Company, Mister Rogers, Villa Alegre (to a lesser extent), plus Evening At Pops, Soul!, Austin City Limits and Masterpiece Theatre in its' early days. All this coming from the era in which I lived. On a personal standpoint, when you're 10 years old, it's okay to be TV obsessed-I was rather precocious at that age myself. :)
Ken and Mitchell-
ReplyDeleteAh, if only my mother had felt the same way and not thrown out my entire mid to late 60's collection of Upstate NY Guides....Mitchell would have been set for a few years. I even had them numbered.
Then again everyone would have gotten tired of listings from WSYR (NBC, Syracuse) that preempted the second AFL game each Sunday and the entire NBC Monday lineup in 1966 for black and white C Rated movies from the '40's....
The comic highlight of that evening's DANNY KAYE SHOW
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gx-yrVWsjrs