I don't know if, in all this chaos, I've taken the time to mention that this week's issue is from Iowa, including listings for the Quad Cities in Illinois. They're good listings - enjoy them!
2 WMT (CEDAR RAPIDS) (CBS)
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Morning
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7:00
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CAPTAIN KANGAROO
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8:00
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HECKLE AND JECKLE—Cartoons
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8:30
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TENNESSEE TUXEDO—Cartoons
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9:00
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MIGHTY MOUSE
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9:30
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LINUS
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10:00
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TOM AND JERRY—Cartoons
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10:30
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QUICK DRAW McGRAW—Cartoons
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11:00
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SKY KING—Adventure
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11:30
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LASSIE—Drama
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Afternoon
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12:00
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MY FRIEND FLICKA—Drama
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12:30
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TO BE ANNOUNCED
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12:45
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FILM FEATURE
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1:00
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NATIONAL BIBLE COURSE
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1:15
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COLLEGE BASKETBALL—Tulsa vs.
Cincinnati
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3:00
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BIG TEN BASKETBALL—Iowa vs. Ohio
State
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5:00
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FAMILY THEATER—Drama
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5:30
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COMMERCIAL—Art, Music
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5:45
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LEO GRECO—Music
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Evening
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6:00
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NEWS
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6:30
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JACKIE GLEASON
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7:30
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SECRET AGENT
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8:30
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LONER—Western
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9:00
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GUNSMOKE
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10:00
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NEWS
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10:30
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MOVIE—Drama
“Darby’s Rangers”
(1958)
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3 KTVO (OTTUMWA) (CBS, NBC)
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Morning
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7:00
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CAPTAIN KANGAROO
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8:00
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HECKLE AND JECKLE—Cartoons
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8:30
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TENNESSEE TUXEDO—Cartoons
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9:00
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MIGHTY MOUSE
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9:30
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LINUS
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10:00
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TOM AND JERRY—Cartoons
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10:30
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QUICK DRAW McGRAW—Cartoons
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11:00
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BUGS BUNNY—Cartoons
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11:30
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LASSIE—Drama
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Afternoon
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12:00
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MY FRIEND FLICKA—Drama
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12:30
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CBS GOLF CLASSIC
Weaver/Aaron vs.
Nichols/Floyd
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1:30
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PRO BOWLERS TOUR
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3:00
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BIG TEN BASKETBALL—Iowa vs. Ohio
State
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5:00
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GIDGET—Comedy
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5:30
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NEWS—Mudd
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Evening
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6:00
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POLKA PARADE
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6:30
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JACKIE GLEASON
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7:30
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LAWRENCE WELK
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8:30
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LONER—Western
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9:00
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GUNSMOKE
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10:00
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NEWS
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10:15
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COMMERCIAL—Chinchilla
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10:30
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TRIALS OF O’BRIEN—Drama
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11:30
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NEWS—Hal Oyler
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11:40
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MOVIE—Western
“South of St. Louis”
(1949)
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4 WHBF (ROCK ISLAND) (CBS)
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Morning
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7:00
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CAPTAIN KANGAROO
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8:00
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HECKLE AND JECKLE—Cartoons
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8:30
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TENNESSEE TUXEDO—Cartoons
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9:00
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MIGHTY MOUSE
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9:30
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LINUS
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10:00
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TOM AND JERRY—Cartoons
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10:30
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QUICK DRAW McGRAW—Cartoons
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11:00
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SKY KING—Adventure
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11:30
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LASSIE—Drama
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Afternoon
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12:00
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MY FRIEND FLICKA—Drama
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12:30
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BEST OF GROUCHO—Quiz
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2:00
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CBS GOLF CLASSIC
Snead/Dickinson vs.
Dan/Dick Sikes
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3:00
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BIG TEN BASKETBALL—Iowa vs. Ohio
State
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4:30
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HORSE RACE—Hialeah COLOR
Widener Handicap
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5:00
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RACKET SQUAD—Police
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5:30
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NEWS—Mudd
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Evening
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6:00
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POLKA PARADE
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6:30
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JACKIE GLEASON
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7:30
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SECRET AGENT
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8:30
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LONER—Western
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9:00
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GUNSMOKE
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10:00
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NEWS
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10:15
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THE SAINT—Mystery
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11:15
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MOVIE—Science Fiction
“Earth vs. the
Flying Saucers” (1956)
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5 WOI (AMES) (CBS)
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Morning
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7:30
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HOPPITY HOOPER—Cartoons
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8:00
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SUPERMAN—Adventure
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8:30
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ROBIN HOOD—Adventure
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9:00
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PORKY PIG
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9:30
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BEATLES—Cartoons
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10:00
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CASPER
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10:30
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MAGILLA GORILLA—Cartoons
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11:00
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BUGS BUNNY—Cartoons
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11:30
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MILTON THE MONSTER—Cartoons
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Afternoon
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12:00
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FARM AND MARKET DIGEST
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12:30
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AMERICAN BANDSTAND—Variety
Guests: The Mamas
and the Papas, Bob Lind
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1:30
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OZZIE AND HARRIET—Comedy
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2:00
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FILM SHORT
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2:15
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COMMERCIAL—Magazine
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2:30
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PRO BOWLERS TOUR
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4:00
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WORLD OF SPORTS COLOR
Track and Field
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5:30
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BASKETBALL REVIEW
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5:45
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NEWS, WEATHER
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Evening
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6:00
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HONEY WEST—Mystery
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6:30
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POLKA PARADE—Hollywood
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7:00
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DONNA REED—Comedy
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7:30
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LAWRENCE WELK
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8:30
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HOLLYWOOD PALACE COLOR
Host: Bing Crosby.
Guests: Rosemary Clooney, Gary Crosby, Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy,
Henny Youngman, Hugh Lambert, Roger Ray, Fiji military band
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9:30
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MOVIE—Adventure COLOR
“Terror of the
Steppe” (Italian; 1963)
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11:00
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MOVIE—Mystery
“The Hand” (English;
1960)
Time approximate
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6 WOC (DAVENPORT) (NBC)
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Morning
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7:30
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POPEYE—Cartoons
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8:00
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JETSONS—Cartoon
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8:30
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ATOM ANT
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9:00
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SECRET SQUIRREL—Cartoons
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9:30
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UNDERDOG—Cartoons
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10:00
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TOP CAT—Cartoon
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10:30
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FURY—Drama
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11:00
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FIRST LOOK
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11:30
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EXPLORING
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Afternoon
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12:00
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WORLD IN COLOR
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12:30
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BIG PICTURE—Army
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1:00
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MOVIE—Double Feature
1. “Stranglehold”
(Drama; 1962)
2. “The Fearmakers”
(Drama; 1958)
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4:00
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SHELL’S WONDERFUL WORLD OF GOLF COLOR
Nichols vs. Sota
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5:00
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GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY—Parker
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5:30
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WYATT EARP—Western
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Evening
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6:00
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ZANE GREY—Western
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6:30
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FLIPPER—Drama
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7:00
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I DREAM OF JEANNIE—Comedy
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7:30
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GET SMART C
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8:00
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MOVIE—Musical
Saturday Night at the Movies: “Meet Me in Las
Vegas” (1956)
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10:15
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NEWS, WEATHER, SPORTS
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10:35
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MOVIE—Drama
“Run Silent, Run
Deep” (1958)
News follows the
movie
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7 KWWL (WATERLOO) (NBC)
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Morning
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7:30
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THIS IS THE ANSWER—Religion
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8:00
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JETSONS—Cartoon
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8:30
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ATOM ANT
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9:00
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SECRET SQUIRREL—Cartoons
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9:30
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UNDERDOG—Cartoons
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10:00
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TOP CAT—Cartoon
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10:30
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FURY—Drama
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11:00
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FIRST LOOK
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11:30
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EXPLORING
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Afternoon
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12:00
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ACTION A GO-GO—Music
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12:30
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SERGEANT PRESTON
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1:00
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CHAMPIONSHIP BOWLING
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2:00
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ROLLER DERBY
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3:00
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MOVIE—Western
“Lights of Old Santa
Fe” (1944)
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4:00
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SHELL’S WONDERFUL WORLD OF GOLF COLOR
Nichols vs. Sota
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5:00
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ALL STAR WRESTLING
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Evening
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6:00
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NEWS
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6:30
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FLIPPER—Drama
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7:00
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I DREAM OF JEANNIE—Comedy
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7:30
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GET SMART
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8:00
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MOVIE—Musical
Saturday Night at the Movies: “Meet Me in Las
Vegas” (1956)
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10:15
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MOVIE—Western
“Garden of Evil”
(1954)
News follows the
movie
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8 WQAD (MOLINE) (ABC)
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Morning
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8:30
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LET’S READ A BOOK
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9:00
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PORKY PIG
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9:30
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BEATLES—Cartoons
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10:00
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CASPER
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10:30
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MAGILLA GORILLA—Cartoons
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11:00
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BUGS BUNNY—Cartoons
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11:30
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MILTON THE MONSTER—Cartoons
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Afternoon
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12:00
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HOPPITY HOOPER
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12:30
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AMERICAN BANDSTAND—Variety
Guests: The Mamas and
the Papas, Bob Lind
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1:30
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YOUTH SPEAKS—Moline
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2:00
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COLLEGE CLOSE-UP
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2:30
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PRO BOWLERS TOUR
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4:00
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WORLD OF SPORTS COLOR
Track and Field
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5:30
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HONEY WEST—Mystery
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Evening
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6:00
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RAMAR—Adventure
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6:30
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OZZIE AND HARRIET
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7:00
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DONNA REED—Comedy
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7:30
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LAWRENCE WELK
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8:30
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HOLLYWOOD PALACE COLOR
Host: Bing Crosby.
Guests: Rosemary Clooney, Gary Crosby, Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy,
Henny Youngman, Hugh Lambert, Roger Ray, Fiji military band
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9:30
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JIMMY DEAN—Variety
Guests: Molly Bee,
Roy Clark, Jerry Caterino
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10:30
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NEWS—Don Raymond
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10:45
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ALL STAR WRESTLING
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8 KRNT (DES MOINES) (CBS)
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Morning
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6:30
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RURAL AMERICA—Farming
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7:00
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CAPTAIN KANGAROO
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8:00
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HECKLE AND JECKLE—Cartoons
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8:30
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TENNESSEE TUXEDO—Cartoons
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9:00
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MIGHTY MOUSE
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9:30
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HERCULES—Cartoons
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10:00
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TOM AND JERRY—Cartoons
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10:30
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QUICK DRAW McGRAW—Cartoons
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11:00
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SKY KING—Adventure
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11:30
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LASSIE—Drama
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Afternoon
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12:00
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MY FRIEND FLICKA—Drama
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12:30
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LINUS—Cartoons
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1:00
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FILM SHORT
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1:15
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COLLEGE BASKETBALL—Tulsa vs.
Cincinnati
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3:00
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BIG TEN BASKETBALL—Iowa vs. Ohio
State
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5:00
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FAMILY THEATER—Drama
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5:30
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NEWS—Mudd
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Evening
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6:00
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NEWS
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6:30
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JACKIE GLEASON
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7:30
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SECRET AGENT
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8:30
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LONER—Western
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9:00
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GUNSMOKE
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10:00
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NEWS
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10:30
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MOVIE—Adventure COLOR
“Saskatchewan”
(1954)
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9 KCRG (CEDAR RAPIDS) (ABC)
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Morning
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9:00
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PORKY PIG
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9:30
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BEATLES—Cartoons
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10:00
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CASPER
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10:30
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MAGILLA GORILLA—Cartoons
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11:00
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BUGS BUNNY—Cartoons
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11:30
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MILTON THE MONSTER—Cartoons
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Afternoon
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12:00
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HOPPITY HOOPER
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12:30
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AMERICAN BANDSTAND—Variety
Guests: The Mamas
and the Papas, Bob Lind
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1:30
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MAVERICK—Western
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2:30
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PRO BOWLERS TOUR
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4:00
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WORLD OF SPORTS COLOR
Track and Field
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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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POLKA PARADE
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6:30
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OZZIE AND HARRIET
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7:00
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DONNA REED—Comedy
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7:30
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LAWRENCE WELK
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8:30
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HOLLYWOOD PALACE COLOR
Host: Bing Crosby.
Guests: Rosemary Clooney, Gary Crosby, Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy,
Henny Youngman, Hugh Lambert, Roger Ray, Fiji military band
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9:30
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JESSE JAMES—Western
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10:00
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MOVIE—Drama
“Man
in the Shadow” (1957)
“ABC
News and Sports” follows the movie
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13 WHO (DES MOINES) (NBC)
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Morning
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7:00
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AGRICULTURE U.S.A.
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7:30
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ATOM ANT
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8:00
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JETSONS—Cartoon
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8:30
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POPEYE—Cartoons
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9:00
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SECRET SQUIRREL—Cartoons
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9:30
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UNDERDOG—Cartoons
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10:00
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TOP CAT—Cartoon
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10:30
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FURY—Drama
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11:00
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FIRST LOOK
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11:30
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EXPLORING
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Afternoon
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12:00
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AT HOME—Bob Williams
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12:15
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FILM SHORT—Farming
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12:30
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FARMING
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1:00
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SPECTRUM—Junior Achievement
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1:30
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MOVIE—Adventure
“The Golden Hawk”
(1952)
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3:00
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DISCOTHEQUE—Music
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4:00
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SHELL’S WONDERFUL WORLD OF GOLF COLOR
Nichols vs. Sota
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5:00
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CAMP RUNAMUCK—Comedy
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5:30
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NEWS—Ray Scherer, Robert MacNeil
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Evening
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6:00
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NEWS
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6:15
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SPORTS DESK—Bob Graham
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6:30
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FLIPPER—Drama
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7:00
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I DREAM OF JEANNIE—Comedy
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7:30
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GET SMART
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8:00
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MOVIE—Drama COLOR
“Pillars of the Sky”
(1956)
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10:00
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NEWS
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10:30
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MOVIE—Adventure COLOR
“River of No Return”
(1954)
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21 KQTV (FORT DODGE) (NBC)
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Morning
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7:30
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ATOM ANT
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8:00
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JETSONS—Cartoon
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8:30
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NAVY SHOW OF THE WEEK
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9:00
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SECRET SQUIRREL—Cartoons
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9:30
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UNDERDOG—Cartoons
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10:00
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TOP CAT—Cartoon
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10:30
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FURY—Drama
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11:00
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FIRST LOOK
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11:30
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EXPLORING
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Afternoon
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12:00
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ROY ROGERS—Western
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2:00
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CHAMPIONSHIP BOWLING
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3:00
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TEEN HOP—Music
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4:00
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SHELL’S WONDERFUL WORLD OF GOLF COLOR
Nichols vs. Sota
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5:00
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BIG PICTURE—Army
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5:30
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NEWS—Ray Scherer, Robert MacNeil
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Evening
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6:00
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NEWS
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6:15
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FILM SHORT
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6:30
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FLIPPER—Drama
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7:00
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I DREAM OF JEANNIE—Comedy
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7:30
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GET SMART
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8:00
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MOVIE—Drama
“Pursued” (1947)
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10:00
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NEWS
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10:15
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BARN DANCE—Bobby and Dee
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11:15
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MOVIE—Biography
“The Court Martial
of Billy Mitchell” (1955)
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Ray Scherer and Robert MacNeil anchoring the NBC newscast. Man, the NBC News bench back then was not only deep, but solid.
ReplyDeleteI've been wracking my mind trying to remember the piece that played as the NBC News theme. Anyone????
DeleteIowa sure loved its polka in 1966.
ReplyDeleteI'm surprised to see "Commercial" in a number of listings, especially the one for chinchilla. I though infomercials weren't allowed until the 80s. Anyone got some background?
Note "Gidget" is on Saturdays (its network airing was Thursday), but it's not in color. My first assumption was the Iowa stations couldn't air color--a lot of small stations could only air color on live feeds--but then the polka show is in color. Why was "Gidget" in monochrome then?
Infomercials were ALWAYS permitted under the law - there were likely some NAB rules about infomercials but no laws against them. TV Guide would list them as "Commercial" or "Commercial Program" but wouldn't give details because, that would be a commercial in itself.
DeleteIn 1966, ABC was still transitioning from an all-monochrome network to color. So some sitcoms were still in B&W. The Polka hour was likely color if the originating station had in-studio color cameras.
Gidget was filmed in color, but most stations preferred to show other shows instead. That's why it airs in B&W on KTVO. Note that Ozzie and Harriet's final season was shot in color, but it's in B&W on WOI as is Hoppity Hooper-they are episodes from the previous week.
DeleteWOI-TV out of Ames, IA, was and is still today an ABC affiliate, and all its programs listed are from ABC. Did TV Guide mistakenly list its affiliation with CBS here?
ReplyDeleteAt one point, channel 5 carried shows from all four nets (ABC, CBS, NBC and the late DuMont network). DM gave up its' ghost in '56; they lost NBC when WHO-TV came on in '54, then shared CBS with 5 until KRNT's (now KCCI) arrival on 7/31/1955. So yes, that IS a misprint.
DeleteAll-Star Wrestling...staple of Saturday night TV in the Midwest. It was sponsored by Gera-Speed. Verne Gagne promoted it in some areas, but in Nebraska it was Joe Zweiback's Gera-Speed. Zweiback even owned a parking lot near the Omaha Civic Auditorium.
ReplyDeleteThis show was the embryo that soon evolved into WWE.
DeleteKTVO is listed as a CBS/NBC affiliate, but it also carried some ABC shows in this listing.
ReplyDeleteCBS was KTVO's primary network during these years. They did carry a few NBC shows, mostly Bonanza and MLB/ASG/World Series telecasts-and some cartoons like Underdog. As fate would have it, ABC is now their only net.
DeleteIs it just me, or does the color get drained from shows airing at 9 AM? Obviously, they made some mistakes here. Secret Squirrel and Mighty Mouse Playhouse were shown in color-and there is positive proof. It's kinda ironic that NBC, with most of its' shows in color, would have the nerve to show a B&W print of a Technicolor musical-or is that listing misleading? (John Daly alert!)
ReplyDeleteMy award for most eclectic scheduling here goes to KTVO, which also serves Kirksville, MO. They have last week's Pro Bowlers Tour right behind this week's CBS Golf Classic, then a color college basketball game. Then later, they join the ABC network for Lawrence Welk, then back to CBS for The Loner and Gunsmoke. Trials of O'Brien is delayed from Friday at 9 PM (they obviously switched to ABC for The Jimmy Dean Show-or maybe NBC for Man from U.N.C.L.E.?).
Gotta like WOI's double feature after Bing at the Palace-both are foreign films (one was made in Italy, the other in Great Britain), and WOC (now KWQC) with 3 hours of fine drama, and two great westerns (both syndicated). And how about KQTV (now PBS station KTIN on ch. 25) going against the grain with their own Saturday Night Movie? Pretty ballsy move for a small market station. And speaking of wrestling, WWE superstar Seth Rollins hails from Davenport, one of those "Quad Cities"-the others are all in Illinois (Moline, East Moline and Rock Island).
Nothing like relaxin' with the telly on a weekend in Ioway.