February 28, 2022

What's on TV? Tuesday, March 3, 1964




Change is in the air with this week's Portland (Oregon) edition. Effective Sunday, KATU, Channel 2, becomes the new ABC affiliate, while KPTV, Channel 12, is now an independent. The moves are accompanied with plenty of advertising; today's pages include ads for Combat! and The Fugitive from KATU, "Now ABC in Portland," while KPTV introduces a new slate of programs, including Thriller, Strikes and Spares, and tonight's debut of the excellent British series The Human Jungle (which I mentioned on Saturday). In sports, the old saying is that "you can't tell the players without a scorecard"; in the case of television, you can't tell the shows without TV Guide. Ah, what a great ad that would have been.

 
-2-  KATU (ABC)
 
Morning
 
    7:45
ALMANAC—Brumfield
 
    8:00
CARTOONIVAL—Rusty Nails
 
    8:30
ROMPER ROOM—Miss Gail
 
    9:00
NEWS—Bruce Baer
 
    9:30
OUR MISS BROOKS—Comedy
 
  10:00
DIVORCE COURT—Drama
 
  11:00
PRICE IS RIGHT—Bill Cullen
 
  11:30
OBJECT IS—Dick Clark
Guests: Arlene Dahl, Carl Ballantine, Barry Sullivan
 
Afternoon
 
  12:00
SEVEN KEYS—Jack Narz
 
  12:30
FATHER KNOWS BEST
 
    1:00
ERNIE FORD—Variety
 
    1:30
BARNEY AND FRIENDS
 
    1:50
NEWS—Doug Ramsey
 
    2:00
ANN SOTHERN—Comedy
 
    2:30
DAY IN COURT—Drama
 
    2:55
NEWS—Lisa Howard
 
    3:00
GENERAL HOSPITAL—Serial
 
    3:30
QUEEN FOR A DAY—Bailey
 
    4:00
TRAILMASTER—Western
 
    5:00
LEAVE IT TO BEAVER
 
    5:30
DOBIE GILLIS—Comedy
 
Evening
 
    6:00
NEWS—Pat Wilkins
 
    6:15
NEWS—Ron Cochran
 
    6:30
BEST OF GROUCHO—Game
 
    7:00
WINSTON CHURCHILL   RETURN 
 
    7:30
COMBAT!—Drama
 
    8:30
McHALE’S NAVY—Comedy
 
    9:00
GREATEST SHOW—Drama   COLOR 
 
  10:00
FUGITIVE—Drama
 
  11:00
NEWS
 
  11:30
STEVE ALLEN—Variety
Guest: Dorothy Dandridge
 
 
 
-6-  KOIN (CBS)
 
Morning
 
    7:00
SUNRISE SEMESTER
Outlines of Art: “The High Renaissance”
 
    7:30
WEATHER
 
    8:00
CAPTAIN KANGAROO—Children
 
    9:00
NEWS—Mike Wallace
 
    9:30
I LOVE LUCY—Comedy
 
  10:00
McCOYS—Comedy
 
  10:30
PETE AND GLADYS—Comedy
 
  11:00
LOVE OF LIFE—Serial
 
  11:25
NEWS—Robert Trout
 
  11:30
SEARCH FOR TOMORROW
 
  11:45
GUIDING LIGHT—Serial
 
Afternoon
 
  12:00
NEWS—Bill Hoyt
 
  12:05
HI NEIGHBOR—Variety
 
  12:30
AS THE WORLD TURNS
 
    1:00
KOIN KITCHEN—Betty Davis
 
    1:30
HOUSE PARTY—Art Linkletter
 
    2:00
TO TELL THE TRUTH—Panel
Panelists: Dick Shawn, Joan Fontaine, Barry Nelson, Phyllis Newman
 
    2:25
NEWS
 
    2:30
EDGE OF NIGHT—Serial
 
    3:00
SECRET STORM—Serial
 
    3:30
PASSWORD—Allen Ludden
 
    4:00
CARTOON CIRCUS—Children
 
    4:15
MOVIE—Adventure
“Shoot First” (1953)
 
    5:00
CARTOON CORRAL   COLOR 
 
Evening
 
    6:00
NEWS—Chuck Foster
 
    6:30
NEWS—Walter Cronkite
 
    7:00
CAIN’S HUNDRED—Police
 
    8:00
RED SKELTON—Comedy
Guest: Liberace
 
    9:00
PETTICOAT JUNCTION
 
    9:30
JACK BENNY—Comedy
 
  10:00
GARRY MOORE—Variety
Guests: Dorothy Provine, Charlotte Rae, Norm Crosby
 
  11:00
NEWS
 
  11:15
TEXAN—Western
 
 
 
-8-  KGW (NBC)
 
Morning
 
    6:25
TOWN AND COUNTRY—Jones
 
    6:30
CLASSROOM—Science
 
    7:00
TODAY—Hugh Downs
 
    8:00
CARTOONERS’ CLUB
 
    8:20
TELESCOPE—Variety   COLOR 
 
    9:00
25 NEWS—Edwin Newman
 
    9:30
WORD FOR WORDS   COLOR 
 
  10:00
CONCENTRATION—Hugh Downs
 
  10:30
MISSING LINKS—Ed McMahon   COLOR 
Guests: Phyllis Kirk, Nipsey Russell, Jerry Shayne
 
  11:00
YOUR FIRST IMPRESSION   COLOR 
Guests: Jeff Donnell, Dennis James. Host: Bill Leyden
 
  11:30
TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES—Bob Barker   COLOR 
 
  11:55
NEWS—Ray Scherer
 
Afternoon
 
  12:00
LET’S MAKE A DEAL   COLOR 
 
  12:25
NEWS—Floyd Kalber
 
  12:30
DOCTORS—Serial
 
    1:00
LORETTA YOUNG—Drama
 
    1:30
YOU DON’T SAY!—Kennedy   COLOR 
Guests: Gloria De haven, Pernell Roberts
 
    2:00
MATCH GAME—Gene Rayburn
Guests: Morey Amsterdam, Carmel Quinn
 
    2:25
NEWS
 
    2:30
MAKE ROOM FOR DADDY
 
    3:00
BACHELOR FATHER—Comedy
 
    3:30
MOVIE—Drama
“Laddie” (1940)
 
    5:30
YOGI BEAR—Cartoons
 
Evening
 
    6:00
NEWS—Huntley, Brinkley
 
    6:30
NEWS—Richard Ross
 
    7:00
BACHELOR FATHER
 
    7:30
MR. NOVAK—Drama  
 
    8:30
YOU DON’T SAY—Tom Kennedy   COLOR 
Guests: Pat Carroll, Gary Lockwood
 
    9:00
RICHARD BOONE—Drama
 
  10:00
OUR MAN IN WASHINGTON   SPECIAL    COLOR 
“Bell Telephone Hour” will not be seen.
 
  11:00
NEWS
 
  11:30
JOHNNY CARSON   COLOR 
 
 
 
10  KOAP (EDUC.)
 
Morning
 
    9:00
TELECOURSE—Hygiene
 
    9:45
LANGUAGE—Spanish
 
  10:00
TELECOURSE—Psychology
 
  10:45
PARLONS FRANCAIS I
 
  11:00
TELECOURSE—Hygiene
 
Afternoon
 
    1:00
PARLONS FRANCAIS I
 
    1:30
EXPLORING NATURE
 
    2:00
ROOTS AND BRANCHES
 
    2:30
LET’S EXPLORE SCIENCE
 
    2:45
INDUSTRY ON PARADE
 
    3:00
AMERICAN ECONOMY
 
    3:30
TEACHERS’ FRENCH
 
    4:00
SCIENCE FOR TEACHERS
 
Evening
 
    7:00
WHAT’S NEW-Children
 
    7:30
FAMILY CASTLE
 
    8:00
TELECOURSE—Literature
 
    8:30
HEADLINE REACTION
 
    9:00
TELECOURSE—Music
 
    9:30
POET’S EYE—Svendsen
 
  10:00
GREAT DECISIONS—1964
 
 
 
12  KPTV (IND.)
 
Morning
 
    7:30
THREE STOOGES—Comedy
 
    7:45
DR. ZOOM’S CARTOONS
 
    8:15
KING LEONARDO—Cartoons
 
    8:30
CARTOON CASTLE—Children
 
    9:00
JACK LA LANNE—Exercise
 
    9:30
MOVIE—Mystery
“The Gay Falcon” (1941)
 
  11:30
RAMAR OF THE JUNGLE
 
Afternoon
 
  12:00
ROBIN HOOD—Adventure
 
  12:30
BURNS AND ALLEN—Comedy
 
    1:00
LIFE OF RILEY—Comedy
 
    1:30
GIRL TALK—Panel
Panelists: Yvonne DeCarlo, Nancy Andrews, Joyce Gordon
 
    2:00
MOVIE—Comedy
“Honeymoon in Bali” (1939)
 
    4:00
NEWS—Ed Arndt
 
    4:15
PEOPLE ARE FUNNY
 
    4:45
MICKEY MOUSE CLUB
 
    5:15
ROCKY AND HIS FRIENDS
 
    5:30
POPEYE’S PIER 12—Children
 
Evening
 
    6:00
RIFLEMAN—Western
 
    6:30
WANTED—DEAD OR ALIVE
 
    7:00
LAWMAN—Western
 
    7:30
THRILLER—Mystery   RETURN 
 
    8:30
HUMAN JUNGLE—Drama   DEBUT 
 
    9:30
NEWS—Ed Arndt
 
  10:00
MOVIE-Drama
“Crack-up” (1946)
 
TV  

2 comments:

  1. I have a TV Guide from this market for the week of Sept. 28 - Oct. 4, 1963, and it shows that KATU-TV was an original station to carry LEAVE IT TO BEAVER in syndicated reruns on Monday, Sept. 30. ABC aired a rerun of the show for the last time on Thursday, Sept. 12.
    I've seen a kinescope of Tuesday night's YOU DON'T SAY! with "Pat Carols" and "Gary Lackeywood" at Paley Museum, probably the NYC branch. I wish the networks could still make a game show that fun & challenging.

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  2. At least KPTV got to show ABC's broadcast of the 1964 Winter Olympics before losing their affiliation.

    But back then, the Olympics weren't the major TV attraction they later became.

    Although KPTV had moved to VHF some years earlier (it began on UHF channel 27 and actually predated the VHF stations), it was the big loser as there wasn't very many attractive syndicated programming then, plus Portland, Oregon didn't have NBA, NHL, or MLB teams then.

    If Portland had teams in at least one of those leagues in 1964 (Portland would eventually get an NBA club but never has had an NHL or MLB franchise), KPTV could have carried quite a few games of such teams as they would have no conflicts with network programming.

    KATU was the big winner, for they got a network affiliation. Granted it was ABC, but ABC made big ratings strides from the end of the 1950's through the mid 1970's, and by 1976, was number one in overall prime-time ratings for the first time.

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