October 8, 2018

What's on TV? Monday, October 9, 1967

There's a note at the beginning of today's listing that if the World Series requires a fifth game, it will air on NBC starting at 1:00 p.m., with a pre-game show at 12:30. The Minnesota Twins were eliminated on the final day of the season; had they won today's game would have been telecast by WTCN as well as NBC. In this case, I've chosen to show what TV Guide lists, rather than what actually aired. Since the game ran two hours and twenty minutes, you can probably figure out what was shown and what was preempted. Needless to say, the listings are from the Twin Cities.



 2  KTCA (EDUC.)

Morning

    9:00
CLASSROOM—Education

  11:55
NET JOURNAL—Report

Afternoon

  12:55
CLASSROOM

    3:00
EFFICIENT READING—Brown

    4:00
GEN. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

    4:30
ANTIQUES—Education

    5:00
KINDERGARTEN—Marron

    5:30
4-H ACTION CLUB

Evening

    6:00
NOW SEE THIS

    6:30
MANAGERS IN ACTION

    7:00
TEACHING MUSIC

    8:00
PROFILE—Arnold Walker

    8:30
TIME FOR RENEWAL

    9:00
AFTER SCHOOL, WHAT?

    9:30
FOLIO—Arnold Walker

  10:00
MONDAY FOR MEDICINE

Arnold Walker, the host of both Profile and Folio, was one of the pioneers of Twin Cities educational television. You can see a rare video clip of Walker on Folio here. At that website, you'll also read that among Folio's distinguished guests were Buster Keaton and Claire Bloom.



 4  WCCO
(CBS)

Morning

    6:00
SUNRISE SEMESTER

    6:30
SIEGFRIED—Children

    7:00
CLANCY—Children  COLOR 

    8:00
CAPTAIN KANGAROO—Children  COLOR 

    9:00
DR. YOUNGDAHL C

    9:05
MERV GRIFFIN—Variety  COLOR 
Guests: Red Buttons, Jay North, Sajid Kahn, Aliza Kashi, Eddie Hazel

  10:00
ANDY GRIFFITH—Comedy

  10:30
DICK VAN DYKE—Comedy

  11:00
LOVE OF LIFE—Serial  COLOR 

  11:25
NEWS  COLOR 

  11:30
SEARCH FOR TOMORROW—Serial  COLOR 

  11:45
GUIDING LIGHT—Serial  COLOR 

Afternoon

  12:00
NEWS  COLOR 

  12:20
SOMETHING SPECIAL  COLOR 

  12:30
AS THE WORLD TURNS—Serial  COLOR 

    1:00
LOVE IS A MANY SPLENDORED THING  COLOR 

    1:30
HOUSE PARTY  COLOR 
Guest: Sheila Graham

    2:00
TO TELL THE TRUTH—Game  COLOR 

    2:25
NEWS  COLOR 

    2:30
EDGE OF NIGHT—Serial  COLOR 

    3:00
SECRET STORM—Serial  COLOR 

    3:30
BEVERLY HILLBILLIES—Comedy

    4:00
MIKE DOUGLAS—Variety  COLOR 
Guests: Sheldon Leonard, Joanie Sommers, Al Martino, Dick Contino, Robert Kent

    5:30
NEWS—Walter Cronkite  COLOR 

Evening

    6:00
NEWS  COLOR 

    6:30
GUNSMOKE  COLOR 

    7:30
LUCILLE BALL  COLOR 

    8:00
ANDY GRIFFITY—Comedy  COLOR 

    8:30
FAMILY AFFAIR—Comedy  COLOR 

    9:00
CAROL BURNETT  COLOR 
Guests: Imogene Coca, Lanie Kazan

  10:00
NEWS  COLOR 

  10:30
MINNESOTA FOOTBALL  COLOR 

  11:30
MOVIE—Adventure  COLOR 
“The Bandit of Zhobe” (1959)

On Carol Burnett's show tonight, Carol and Harvey spoof one of the hot movies of the year, as they portray "Bonnie and Clod."


 5  KSTP
(NBC)

Morning

    6:15
DAVID STONE—Music  COLOR 

    6:30
CITY AND COUNTRY  COLOR 

    6:55
DOCTOR’S HOUSE CALL—James Rogers Fox  COLOR 

    7:00
TODAY  COLOR 
Guests: Dr. James Goddard, Eddie Rickenbacker, acts from the Moscow Circus

    9:00
SNAP JUDGMENT  COLOR 
Guests: Noel Harrison, Joanna Barnes

    9:25
NEWS  COLOR 

    9:30
CONCENTRATION—Game  COLOR 

  10:00
PERSONALITY  COLOR 
Celebrities: Ed Ames, Peter Falk, Genevieve, Alan King

  10:30
HOLLYWOOD SQUARES—Game  COLOR 
Guests: Morey Amsterdam, Jim Brown, Tim Conway, Wally Cox, Abby Dalton, Nanette Fabray, Sally Field, Mike Connors, Charley Weaver

  11:00
JEOPARDY—Game  COLOR 

  11:30
EYE GUESS—Game  COLOR 

  11:55
NEWS C

Afternoon

  12:00
NEWS  COLOR 

  12:15
DIALING FOR DOLLARS—Game  COLOR 

  12:30
LET’S MAKE A DEAL—Game  COLOR 

    1:00
DAYS OF OUR LIVES—Serial  COLOR 

    1:30
DOCTORS—Serial  COLOR 

    2:00
ANOTHER WORLD—Serial  COLOR 

    2:30
YOU DON’T SAY!—Game  COLOR 
Guests: Ken Berry, Barbara McNair

    3:00
MATCH GAME  COLOR 
Guests: Lesley Gore, Soupy Sales

    3:25
NEWS  COLOR 

    3:30
DIALING FOR DOLLARS—Game  COLOR 

    4:30
OF LANDS AND SEAS  COLOR 

    5:25
NEWS—Gene Berry  COLOR 

    5:30
NEWS—Chet Huntley, David Brinkley  COLOR 

Evening

    6:00
NEWS  COLOR 

    6:30
MONKEES  COLOR 

    7:00
MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E.—Adventure  COLOR 

    8:00
DANNY THOMAS—Drama  COLOR 
“The Demon Under the Bed”

    9:00
I SPY—Drama  COLOR  

  10:00
NEWS  COLOR 

  10:30
JOHNNY CARSON—Variety  COLOR  

  12:00
MEN INTO SPACE—Adventure

It's a landmark day on The Tonight Show; Johnny and the gang return from a stint in Hollywood, with the show's "new musical director," Doc Severinsen. With Doc's addition, replacing Skitch Henderson, you now have the trio that will be the signature of Tonight for the next 25 years. 



 9  KMSP
(ABC)

Morning

    7:30
TO BE ANNOUNCED

    7:55
CHILDREN’S DOCTOR—Smith

    8:00
GYPSY ROSE LEE  COLOR 

    8:30
MORNING SHOW  COLOR 

    9:00
ROMPER ROOM  COLOR 

    9:30
DOBIE GILLIS—Comedy

  10:00
TO BE ANNOUNCED

  10:30
FAMILY GAME

  11:00
EVERYBODY’S TALKING—Game
Guests: Stan Freberg, Ryan O’Neal, Kaye Stevens

  11:30
DONNA REED—Comedy

Afternoon

  12:00
FUGITIVE—Drama

    1:00
NEWLYWED GAME  COLOR 

    1:30
DREAM GIRL—Contest  COLOR 
Celebrities: Kathryn Crosby, Chad Everett, Greg Morris, Louis Nye

    1:55
NEWS  COLOR 

    2:00
GENERAL HOSPITAL—Serial  COLOR 

    2:30
TO BE ANNOUNCED

    3:00
DATING GAME  COLOR 

    3:30
MOVIE—Drama
“Moss River” (1947)

    4:55
NEWS—Jerry Smith  COLOR 

    5:00
NEWS—Peter Jennings  COLOR 

    5:30
LEAVE IT TO BEAVER—Comedy

Evening

    6:00
McHALE’S NAVY—Comedy

    6:30
COWBOY IN AFRICA  COLOR 

    7:30
RAT PATROL  COLOR 

    8:00
FELONY SQUAD  COLOR 

    8:30
PEYTON PLACE—Serial  COLOR 

    9:00
BIG VALLEY  COLOR 

  10:00
NEWS  COLOR 

  10:30
MOVIE—Drama  COLOR 
“The Naked Maja” (1959)

  12:35
JOEY BISHOP—Variety  COLOR 
Time approximate

Stan Freberg in Everybody's Talking—that would have been fun to see. And Ryan O'Neal! Kaye Stevens, who was frequently on TV, rounds out an interesting cast. Interesting also is this tidbit from the always-reliable Wikipedia that Everybody's Talking was the last American daytime program aired in black-and-white. 



11 WTCN
(IND.)

Morning

    8:55
NEWS—Gil Amundson

    9:00
CARTOON CARNIVAL  COLOR 

    9:30
ED ALLEN TIME  COLOR 

  10:00
MR. BLACKWELL—Variety  COLOR 
Guests: Joan Manning, Robert Abel

  10:30
VIRGINIA GRAHAM—Interviews
Guests: Doris Lilly, Millie Considine

  11:00
BRUNCH BUNCH—Woman

  11:30
COOKING WITH HANK

  11:45
NEWS—Gil Amundson

Afternoon

  12:00
LUNCH WITH CASEY—Children

    1:00
MOVIE—Musical
“His Butler’s Sister” (1943)

    2:30
WOODY WOODBURY—Variety  COLOR 
Guests: Johnnie Ray, Abby Dalton, Dick Clark, Jack Bailey, Peter Marshall, Dennis James

    4:00
POPEYE AND PETE—Children

    4:30
CASEY AND ROUNDHOUSE

    5:30
FLINTSTONES—Cartoons  COLOR 

Evening

    6:00
GILLIGAN’S ISLAND—Comedy  COLOR 

    6:30
PERRY MASON—Drama

    7:30
RACE TO RICHES  COLOR 

    8:00
MOVIE—Drama
“The Killers” (1946)

  10:00
NEWS
Time approximate

  10:30
MOVIE-Adventure  COLOR 
Time approximate “The Golden Blade” (1953)

Tonight's prime-time movie is one of the greats, The Killers, based on the Ernest Hemingway short story, starring Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, and Edmond O'Brian, We've talked before about the 1964 remake, which was originally intended to be the first made-for-TV movie before it was deemed too violent. That version starred Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, and (in his last role) Ronald Reagan. That was a pretty fair movie, too. TV  

3 comments:

  1. More Here & There:

    - Everybody's Talking! was a favorite game show of mine, and I remember how I looked forward to seeing Stan Freberg on it - and how disappointed I was when he canceled out at the last minute (reasons unknown, at least by me).
    I think (not entirely sure) that Lloyd Thaxton, the host, got his old college pal Paul Lynde to fill in.
    I do recall that Stan Freberg did appear a few weeks later, in the company of Ann Sothern (she'd appeared with Freberg in a Girl From UNCLE episode not long before) and Rick Jason (who'd just wrapped Combat!; his sense of fun was somewhat of a surprise).
    At the start of the week, Lloyd Thaxton greeted Stan Freberg thusly: "I've lip-synced so many of your records, sometimes I think I'm you."
    Freberg's reply: "That's not an easy thing to do, and you do it very well."

    - Also noting that Channel 9, the ABC station, is apparently bypassing Dark Shadows, which was just now getting into the spook stuff - then again, To Be Announced could mean anything …

    - Elsewhere, I Spy has a show wherein Culp & Cosby have to contend with an obnoxious kid musician from the Eastern Bloc who plays everybody for suckers; a standard plotline of shows like these.
    The Obnoxious Kid was scrawny, buck-toothed John Megna; I was surprised years later to learn that he was the younger brother of Connie Stevens, whom he resembled not at all.
    (Side Note: Ever notice that since Bill Cosby got into his Trouble, that the only photos you see of him show the dissipated Cos of today; the handsome Cos of the '60s doesn't seem to exist any more - probably just coincidence).

    - In the '60s, Lesley Gore was taking time off from her recording career to attend Columbia University.
    She'd entrusted herself to Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme, who were friends of her family, and who likely brokered her appearance this week on the old (clean) Match Game.

    - For those who are interested:
    The Criterion Collection has brought out both film versions of The Killers in a DVD set, so you may compare the two at your leisure.
    Interestingly, this was from a period when Ronald was actively seeking out villainous (or at least unsympathetic) roles, in an effort to break his long-standing good-guy typecast.
    As you may recall, that didn't work out exactly as he'd hoped, and he had to settle for politics - and that's another story …


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    1. What happens when I look at these old ones and get a belated Memory Surge:

      When Doc Severinsen took over the Tonight Show band, the man he replaced was Milton DeLugg, who'd held the job for a year after Skitch Henderson left.
      As memory serves, DeLugg took part in more comedy skits than Henderson did, or Severinsen would; he also provided more original compositions than either his predecessor or his successor.

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  2. Hey, what about the rest of the stations? This is more than just Minneapolis-St. Paul, this is the Minnesota State edition. What was on the stations in Duluth, La Crosse/Eau Claire and Mason City/Austin/Rochester? And MAMKATO! How could you forget Mankato?!

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