December 2, 2019

What's on TV? Friday, December 9, 1960

This may be the last time we see the TV listings without some kind of Christmas special (then again, it may not be; you don't expect me to know what's on tap for next week, do you), but it has familiar faces (Rawhide, Route 66, and The Twilight Zone on CBS alone), not to mention one of Frank Baxter's famous science shows. And then there are the ones you might not recognize, such as CBS's The Garlund Touch, which I confess I have never heard of prior to this very minute. But then, I don't pretend to know everything—or even most things. I just try to get by.

This week's listings are from the Minneapolis-St. Paul edition.




 2  KTCA (EDUC.)

   MORNING   

    9:15
YA HABLAMOS ESPANOL

    9:30
NATIONALISM AND COLONIALISM—Discussion

  10:15
YA HABLAMOS ESPANOL

  10:30
LANGUAGE—Education

  11:00
YA HABLAMOS ESPANOL

  AFTERNOON 

    1:30
FROM THE RECORD SHOP

    1:50
KOMM, LACH UND LERNE

    2:05
SCIENCE—Education

    2:30
MAPS—Education

     EVENING    

    6:15
SING HI SING LO—Bash Kennett

    6:30
AMERICAN MIND—Education

    7:00
THIS IS YOUR P.T.A.—Bangstrom

    7:30
LAB 30—Science

    8:00
CARLETON HOUR—Education

    8:30
FACES OF PERFECTION—Art

    9:00
REPERTORY THEATER—Drama

    9:30
FACULTY BOARD—Education

  10:00
BIG PICTURE—Army

  10:30
BACKGROUND—News Analysis

  10:40
TO BE ANNOUNCED

I know I've pointed this out in the past, but you have to ask about the quality of education at Carleton College, when The Carleton Hour lasts only 30 minutes.


 4  WCCO (CBS)

    MORNING   

    7:00
FLYING SAUCER—Siegfried

    8:00
NEWS—Richard C. Hottelet

    8:15
CAPTAIN KANGAROO

    9:00
NEWS—Dean Montgomery

    9:10
DR. REUBEN K. YOUNGDAHL

    9:20
WHAT’S NEW?—Arle Haeberle

    9:30
VIDEO VILLAGE—Monty Hall

  10:00
I LOVE LUCY—Comedy

  10:30
CLEAR HORIZONS—Serial

  11:00
LOVE OF LIFE—Serial

  11:30
SEARCH FOR TOMORROW—Serial

  11:45
GUIDING LIGHT—Serial

  AFTERNOON 

  12:00
NEWS—Dave Moore

  12:15
SOMETHING SPECIAL—Merriman

  12:20
WEATHER—Bud Kraehling

  12:30
AS THE WORLD TURNS—Serial

    1:00
FULL CIRCLE—Serial

    1:30
HOUSE PARTY—Art Linkletter
Guest: Lt. Col. William H. Rankin

    2:00
MILLIONAIRE—Drama

    2:30
VERDICT IS YOURS—Drama

    3:00
BRIGHTER DAY—Serial

    3:15
SECRET STORM—Serial

    3:30
EDGE OF NIGHT—Serial

    4:00
AROUND THE TOWN—Haeberle

    4:30
SANTA CLAUS PARTY

    4:45
BOZO THE CLOWN—Children

    5:00
AXEL AND DOG—Clellan Card

    5:30
CLANCY THE COP—Children

    5:55
SPORTS—Rollie Johnson

     EVENING    

    6:00
NEWS—Dean Montgomery

    6:10
WEATHER—Bud Kraehling

    6:15
NEWS—Douglas Edwards

    6:30
RAWHIDE—Western

    7:30
ROUTE 66—Adventure

    8:30
GARLUND TOUCH—Mystery

    9:00
TWILIGHT ZONE—Drama

    9:30
EYEWITNESS TO HISTORY

  10:00
NEWS—Dave Moore

  10:15
WEATHER—Bud Kraehling

  10:20
SPORTS—Dick Enroth

  10:30
MOVIE—Comedy
“Wee Geordie” (English; 1955)

Lieutenant Colonel William H. Rankin, Art Linkletter's guest on House Party, talks about "parachuting from a disabled jet." That's underselling it a bit; Rankin, the author of The Man Who Rode the Thunder, is "the only known person to survive a fall from the top of a cumulonimbus thunderstorm cloud." The jump, from a height of 47,000 feet, took 40 minutes from beginning to end, due to wind, hail, and torrential rain—among other things.


 5  KSTP (NBC)

    MORNING   

    6:00
CONTENENTAL CLASSROOM   COLOR 
Chemistry: “An Equilibrium Constant”

    6:30
CONTENENTAL CLASSROOM   COLOR 
Modern Algebra: “Powers and Roots”

    7:00
DAVE GARROWAY—Variety

    9:00
DOUGH RE MI—Quiz

    9:30
PLAY YOUR HUNCH   COLOR 

  10:00
PRICE IS RIGHT—Cullen   COLOR 

  10:30
CONCENTRATION—Contest

  11:00
TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES

  11:30
IT COULD BE YOU   COLOR 

  11:55
NEWS—Ray Scherer

  AFTERNOON 

  12:00
NEWS—John MacDougall

  12:15
WEATHER—Johnny Morris

  12:20
TREASURE CHEST—Variety

    1:00
JAN MURRAY—Contest   COLOR 

    1:30
LORETTA YOUNG—Drama

    2:00
YOUNG DOCTOR MALONE—Serial

    2:30
FROM THESE ROOTS—Drama

    3:00
MAKE ROOM FOR DADDY

    3:30
HERE’S HOLLYWOOD—Interview
Guests: Bill Leyden, Connie Francis

    4:00
MY LITTLE MARGIE—Comedy

    4:30
T.N. TATTERS—Children

    5:15
TOPPER

    5:45
NEWS—Huntley, Brinkley

     EVENING    

    6:00
NEWS—Bob Ryan

    6:15
WEATHER—Johnny Morris

    6:30
DAN RAVEN—Mystery

    7:30
WESTERNER—Drama

    8:00
SCIENCE SERIES—Documentary   SPECIAL   COLOR 
“The Thread of Life”

    9:00
MICHAEL SHAYNE—Mystery

  10:00
NEWS—John MacDougall

  10:15
WEATHER—Johnny Morris

  10:20
SPORTS—Dick Nesbitt

  10:30
JACK PAAR—Variety

  12:00
NEWS—Roger Krupp

We might have gone over this before, but it's interesting to see Today not only listed as "Dave Garroway" (it was, after all, The Dave Garroway Today Show), but to have it classified as "Variety." I think that fits the show very well. 


 9  KMSP (IND.)

    MORNING   

    9:50
CHAPEL OF THE AIR

    9:55
NEWSBEAT—Tony Parker

  10:00
PHYSICAL CULTURE—La Lanne

  10:30
MOVIE—Adventure
“The Kid from Kansas” (1941)

  11:30
I MARRIED JOAN—Comedy

  AFTERNOON 

  12:00
KARTOONTIME—Children

  12:30
CHUCK CARSON—Variety

    1:00
FOLLOW THAT MAN—Mystery

    1:30
RACKET SQUAD—Police

    2:00
MOVIE—Comedy-Mystery
“There’s That Woman Again” (1939)

    4:00
HOW TO MARRY A MILLIONAIRE—Comedy

    4:30
MR. ADAMS AND EVE—Comedy

    5:00
SUSIE—Comedy

    5:30
OUR MISS BROOKS—Comedy

     EVENING    

    6:00
LOONEY TUNERS CLUB—Children

    7:00
CANNONBALL—Adventure

    7:30
FLIGHT—Drama

    8:00
STORIES OF THE CENTURY

    8:30
CALIFORNIANS—Western

    9:00
MOVIE—Drama
“Shanghai Story” (1954)

  10:35
NEWS—Paul Sevareid

  10:50
SPORTS—Tony Parker

  10:55
WEATHER—Jere Smith

  11:00
MOVIE—Melodrama
“Scandal, Inc.” (1956)

I don't think I've ever seen Jack LaLanne's program referred to as Physical Culture, although it's a perfectly appropriate moniker. Jack was always about more than just exercise; he saw physical fitness as part of an overall holistic approach to physical and mental health. 


11 WTCN (ABC)

    MORNING   

    7:40
AMERICANS AT WORK

    7:55
FARM NEWS—Frank Seifert

    8:00
GOOD MORNING, MINNESOTA!

    8:30
CARTOONS—Children

    9:00
ROMPER ROOM—Miss Betty

    9:45
SHAPE UP—Louraine Larson

  10:15
PEOPLE AND PLACES—Lindman

  10:30
LIFE OF RILEY—Comedy

  11:00
MORNING COURT—Drama

  11:30
LOVE THAT BOB!—Comedy

  AFTERNOON 

  12:00
TEXAN—Western

  12:30
BEAT THE CLOCK—Bud Collyer

    1:00
ABOUT FACES—Ben Alexander

    1:30
PAUL COATES—Interview

    2:00
DAY IN COURT—Drama

    2:30
ROAD TO REALITY—Drama

    3:00
QUEEN FOR A DAY—Bailey

    3:30
WHO DO YOU TRUST—Quiz

    4:00
AMERICAN BANDSTAND—Clark
Guests: The Viscounts

    5:00
CASEY JONES WITH POPEYE

    5:30
RIN TIN TIN—Adventure

     EVENING    

    6:00
WHIRLYBIRDS—Adventure

    6:30
MATTY’S FUNDAY FUNNIES

    7:00
HARRIGAN AND SON—Comedy

    7:30
FLINTSTONES—Cartoon

    8:00
77 SUNSET STRIP—Mystery

    9:00
DETECTIVES—Robert Taylor

    9:30
CLOSEUP!—Documentary   SPECIAL 
“Law and Mr. Jones” will not be seen tonight.

  10:00
NEWS—Chick McCuen

  10:15
WEATHER—Stuart A. Lindman

  10:20
SPORTS—Beutel, Horner

  10:30
TWO FACES WEST—Western

  11:00
MOVIE—Drama
Theater 11: “Desert Fury” (1947)

  12:30
NEWS—Jerry Rosholt


The Viscounts, Dick Clark's guests on American Bandstand, are there to play "Wabash Blues," but their best-known (and only) hit is "Harlem Nocturne," which we all recognize as the theme from Stacy Keach's Mike HammerTV  

3 comments:

  1. The "Bell Telephone Science Special" pre-empted the "Bell Telephone Hour", so the Bell System didn't have to pre-empt a program sponsored by anyone else! ;)

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  2. The correct title of "Jan Murray" was "Jan Murray's Charge Account", which was a game show and in several ways, was a predecessor to "Wheel Of Fortune".

    Although "Charge Account" only ran for a couple of years at the start of the 1960's, a box-game version was sold in toy and department stores and was one of the top-selling "home game" versions of TV game shows.

    You can often find the "Charge Account" home game on E-Bay.

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  3. It appears that KSTP Channel 5 pre-empted the first fifteen minutes of Jack Paar's "Tonight Show".

    An increasing number of NBC affiliates would do so through the early and mid 1960's, eventually forcing NBC to drop the 11:15-11:30 P.M. (Eastern; 10:15-10:30 Central) segment of "Tonight" (by then hosted by Johnny Carson at the start of 1967.

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