New York City..Sunday, October 6, 1963

TimL · Jun 14, 2005

WCBS 2 (CBS)
WNBC 4 (NBC)
WNEW 5
WABC 7 (ABC)
WOR 9
WPIX 11
WNDT 13 (Educ.)
WNYC 31 (No listings)

Channels 3(WTIC) and 8(WNHC) of Hartford-New Haven Network Listings only

New York Journal-American

Some local TV Magazines took to critiquing the movies in the listings.These comments are included in the movie listings where applicable

Morning
7:30
5 Call To Prayer
7 The Christophers

7:40
4 Sermonette

7:45
2 Give Us This Day/News
4 Modern Farmer
5 Hour Of St. Francis

8AM
4 All Join Hands-Children
7 The Answer

8:10
9 News
11 This Is The Life

8:15
5 Off To Adventure

8:25
9 The Christophers

8:30
2 Around The Corner-Children
5 Light Time-Drama
7 Faith For Today
9 Greatest Drama
11 Evangel Hour

8:45
4 Library Lions-Education
5 Wonderama Cartoons
9 Count Your Blessings-Religion

9AM
5 Wonderama-Sonny Fox(4 hours)
7 Sunday Funnies (2 Hours)
9 TV Gospel Time
11 Superman-George Reeves

9:15
4 Protestant Fourth R-Religion

9:30
2 The Way To Go-Religion
4 Lets Talk About God
9 TalkBack
11 Rocky And His Friends

9:45
4 Jewish Fourth R-religion

10AM
2, 3 Lamp Unto My Feet
4 Inquiry-Religion
9 Senator Harrison B. Williams Reports
11 Let's Have Fun-Puppets-With Chuck McCann

10:15
9 Seator Keating Reports

10:30
2, 3 Look Up And Live
4 Adventure USA
9 Congressional Conference-Congressman John V. Lindsay

11AM
2, 3 Camera Three
4 Searchlight-Interviews
7 Youth Wants to Know
9 Point Of View

11:30
2 American Musical Theatre-Earl Wrightson
4 Your Senator Reports
7 NY, NY:The Fair Face Of Robert Moses
Premiere of a limited series Highlighting the coming 1964 NY Worlds Fair
9 Million Dollar Movie-The Big Sky 1952
"Well Acted"

Afternoon

Noon
2 NewsMakers
4 UN International Zone

12:30
2 Face The Nation
4 Youth Forum
7 Discovery 63

1PM
2 Love That Bob!
4 Science Age
5 Movie God Is My Co-Pilot 1945
"Occasionaly Exciting"

7 Directions 64
11 Jungle Jim

1:30
2 Frank Gifford Show
4 The Catholic Hour
7 Issues And Answers
9 Million Dollar Movie (Repeat of 11:30 AM)

1:45
2 Pro Football Kickoff-Kyle Rote

2PM
2, 3 NFL Football-NY Giants at Washington Redskins
4 Ex Libris-discussion
7 Page One-Guest: New Jersey Governor Richard Hughes

2:30
4 Direct Line-Interviews
7 Lone Ranger-Clayton Moore
11 Crime And The Student-Juvenile Delinquency Study

3PM
4 The Open Mind
5 Movie I Am A Fugitive 1932
"A Film Classic"

7 Jack Dempsey-Boxing
Boxing-The Final Round. Dempsey presents 6 steps to help "restore Boxing to It's former status"..(Times havent changed in 42 years)

3:30
7, 8 AFL Football Houston Oilers at Kansas City Chiefs
9 Million Dollar Movie-The Big Sky (3 times in a row)
11 To Be Announced

3:45
4 11 World Series Yankees at LA Dodgers

4:45
2 CBS News Dallas Townsend More well known as a Radio Newscaster for CBS

5PM
2 Eye On Housing-Host Mike Wallace
5 Cain's Hundred-Off Network NBC Drama (1861-62)

5:30
2 Ted Mack's Amateur Hour
9 Cheyenne
13 The Little Orchestra

Evening

2, 3 20th Century
5 Movie-One Foot In Heaven 1941
"Superbly Acted"

13 Don Pasquale-Opera

6:15
7, 8 All Pro Scoreboard

6:30
2, 3 Mister Ed
7 Movie Alladin And His Lamp 1952
9 Surfside 6
11 Brave Stallion-Western

7PM
2 Lassie
4 Bill Dana Show
Show about a Hotel Bellboy (Dana as Jose Jimenez)-Notable as being Don Adams first regular series..before heading to stardom in Get Smart!
11 To Be Announced
13 Mask, Myth And Dream

7:30
2, 3 My Favorite Martian
4 Walt Disney's World Of Color
7, 8 Travels of Jamie Mc Pheeters
9 Fractured Flickers-Hans Conreid
13 UN Review

8PM
2, 3 Ed Sullivan Guests:Kate Smith, Three Stooges
5 Joan Sutherland Show-Australian Soprano Diva sings
9 Big Preview-Samson 1961
"Some Good Action Scenes"

11 Great Music
13 Rise in The American Nation

8:30
4 Grindl-Imogene Coca
7, 8 Arrest And Trial

9PM
2, 3 Judy Garland-With Jerry Van Dyke
4 Bonanza
5 Under Discussion
11 Local Issue
13 The Art Of Film

9:30
9 International Movie Time-Ballad of A Soldier-Russian 1960
11 Naked City
13 The City

10PM
2, 3 Elizabeth Taylor In London-Special
4 A Man Named Mays-Special about Willie Mays
7 8 100 Grand-Game-Jack Clark
11 Checkmate
13 Festival Of The Arts

10:30
7, 8 ABC News Report

11PM
2, 4, 7 News
5 News Headlines
11 Wild Cargo

11:01
5 Entertainment Report (was how it was listed)

11:02
5 Opinion in The Capitol (again, listed this way)

11:15
2 CBS News Dallas Townsend
4 The Saint
7 Best Of Broadway-The Unfaithfuls

11:20
13 Reflections

11:25
2 Late Show Satellite In The Sky 1956

11:30
9 Editorial Page Conference
11 Encounter-Religious/Dr. Steven Olford

11:32
5 Congressional Report

11:37
5 Senate Report-New Jersey Senator Clifford B. Case

11:42
5 Movie-20,000 Men A Year 1939
"Loaded With Cliches"

Midnight
9 Understanding Our World-Education
11 Word Of Life-Jack Wyrtzen-Religion

12:15
4 Midnight Movie-The Crucible 1958
"Gripping version of Arthur Miller Play"

12:30
11 Twenty-Six Men-Western

1AM
9 News/Evening Prayer

1:05
2 Late Night News

1:10
2 Late Late Show- Marriage Is A Private Affair 1944
"Too Much Talk"

2:05
4 Sermonette

3:30
2 Late Late Show-The Longest Night 1936
"Average Mystery"

4:30
2 Late Late Show-Nick Carter, Master Detective 1939

Edited by TimL on 06/15/05 04:02 AM.

bpatrick · Jun 15, 2005

>
10 PM ABC 100 Grand. That show had been
canceled before your source went to press.
It had its last broadcast on Sept. 29, after
only three weeks. The complicated format,
with contestants answering questions submitted
by viewers, then by a panel of experts in the
contestants' category, bored the audience; besides,
I don't think the audience trusted a show which gave
away a top prize of $100,000, since the scandals were
still fresh in the public's memory.

WCBS 2 (CBS)
> WNBC 4 (NBC)
> WNEW 5
> WABC 7 (ABC)
> WOR 9
> WPIX 11
> WNDT 13 (Educ.)
> WNYC 31 (No listings)
>
> Channels 3(WTIC) and 8(WNHC) of Hartford-New Haven Network
> Listings only
>
> New York Journal-American
>
> Some local TV Magazines took to critiquing the movies in the
> listings.These comments are included in the movie listings
> where applicable
>
> Morning
> 7:30
> 5 Call To Prayer
> 7 The Christophers
>
> 7:40
> 4 Sermonette
>
> 7:45
> 2 Give Us This Day/News
> 4 Modern Farmer
> 5 Hour Of St. Francis
>
> 8AM
> 4 All Join Hands-Children
> 7 The Answer
>
> 8:10
> 9 News
> 11 This Is The Life
>
> 8:15
> 5 Off To Adventure
>
> 8:25
> 9 The Christophers
>
> 8:30
> 2 Around The Corner-Children
> 5 Light Time-Drama
> 7 Faith For Today
> 9 Greatest Drama
> 11 Evangel Hour
>
> 8:45
> 4 Library Lions-Education
> 5 Wonderama Cartoons
> 9 Count Your Blessings-Religion
>
> 9AM
> 5 Wonderama-Sonny Fox(4 hours)
> 7 Sunday Funnies (2 Hours)
> 9 TV Gospel Time
> 11 Superman-George Reeves
>
> 9:15
> 4 Protestant Fourth R-Religion
>
> 9:30
> 2 The Way To Go-Religion
> 4 Lets Talk About God
> 9 TalkBack
> 11 Rocky And His Friends
>
>
> 9:45
> 4 Jewish Fourth R-religion
>
> 10AM
> 2, 3 Lamp Unto My Feet
> 4 Inquiry-Religion
> 9 Senator Harrison B. Williams Reports
> 11 Let's Have Fun-Puppets-With Chuck McCann
>
> 10:15
> 9 Seator Keating Reports
>
> 10:30
> 2, 3 Look Up And Live
> 4 Adventure USA
> 9 Congressional Conference-Congressman John V. Lindsay
>
> 11AM
> 2, 3 Camera Three
> 4 Searchlight-Interviews
> 7 Youth Wants to Know
> 9 Point Of View
>
> 11:30
> 2 American Musical Theatre-Earl Wrightson
> 4 Your Senator Reports
> 7 NY, NY:The Fair Face Of Robert Moses
> Premiere of a limited series Highlighting the coming 1964 NY
> Worlds Fair
> 9 Million Dollar Movie-The Big Sky 1952
> "Well Acted"
>
> Afternoon
>
> Noon
> 2 NewsMakers
> 4 UN International Zone
>
> 12:30
> 2 Face The Nation
> 4 Youth Forum
> 7 Discovery 63
>
> 1PM
> 2 Love That Bob!
> 4 Science Age
> 5 Movie God Is My Co-Pilot 1945
> "Occasionaly Exciting"
>
> 7 Directions 64
> 11 Jungle Jim
>
> 1:30
> 2 Frank Gifford Show
> 4 The Catholic Hour
> 7 Issues And Answers
> 9 Million Dollar Movie (Repeat of 11:30 AM)
>

> 1:45
> 2 Pro Football Kickoff-Kyle Rote
>
>
> 2PM
> 2, 3 NFL Football-NY Giants at Washington Redskins
> 4 Ex Libris-discussion
> 7 Page One-Guest: New Jersey Governor Richard Hughes
>
> 2:30
> 4 Direct Line-Interviews
> 7 Lone Ranger-Clayton Moore
> 11 Crime And The Student-Juvenile Delinquency Study
>
> 3PM
> 4 The Open Mind
> 5 Movie I Am A Fugitive 1932
> "A Film Classic"
>
> 7 Jack Dempsey-Boxing
> Boxing-The Final Round. Dempsey presents 6 steps to help
> "restore Boxing to It's former status"..(Times havent
> changed in 42 years)
>
> 3:30
> 7, 8 AFL Football Houston Oilers at Kansas City Chiefs
> 9 Million Dollar Movie-The Big Sky (3 times in a row)
> 11 To Be Announced
>
> 3:45
> 4 11 World Series Yankees at LA Dodgers
>
> 4:45
> 2 CBS News Dallas Townsend More well known as a Radio
> Newscaster for CBS
>
> 5PM
> 2 Eye On Housing-Host Mike Wallace
> 5 Cain's Hundred-Off Network NBC Drama (1861-62)
>
> 5:30
> 2 Ted Mack's Amateur Hour
> 9 Cheyenne
> 13 The Little Orchestra
>
> Evening
>
> 2, 3 20th Century
> 5 Movie-One Foot In Heaven 1941
> "Superbly Acted"
>
> 13 Don Pasquale-Opera
>
> 6:15
> 7, 8 All Pro Scoreboard
>
> 6:30
> 2, 3 Mister Ed
> 7 Movie Alladin And His Lamp 1952
> 9 Surfside 6
> 11 Brave Stallion-Western
>
> 7PM
> 2 Lassie
> 4 Bill Dana Show
> Show about a Hotel Bellboy (Dana as Jose Jimenez)-Notable as
> being Don Adams first regular series..before heading to
> stardom in Get Smart!
> 11 To Be Announced
> 13 Mask, Myth And Dream
>
> 7:30
> 2, 3 My Favorite Martian
> 4 Walt Disney's World Of Color
> 7, 8 Travels of Jamie Mc Pheeters
> 9 Fractured Flickers-Hans Conreid
> 13 UN Review
>
> 8PM
> 2, 3 Ed Sullivan Guests:Kate Smith, Three Stooges
> 5 Joan Sutherland Show-Australian Soprano Diva sings
> 9 Big Preview-Samson 1961
> "Some Good Action Scenes"
>
> 11 Great Music
> 13 Rise in The American Nation
>
> 8:30
> 4 Grindl-Imogene Coca
> 7, 8 Arrest And Trial
>
> 9PM
> 2, 3 Judy Garland-With Jerry Van Dyke
> 4 Bonanza
> 5 Under Discussion
> 11 Local Issue
> 13 The Art Of Film
>
> 9:30
> 9 International Movie Time-Ballad of A Soldier-Russian 1960
> 11 Naked City
> 13 The City
>
> 10PM
> 2, 3 Elizabeth Taylor In London-Special
> 4 A Man Named Mays-Special about Willie Mays
> 7 8 100 Grand-Game-Jack Clark
> 11 Checkmate
> 13 Festival Of The Arts
>
> 10:30
> 7, 8 ABC News Report
>
> 11PM
> 2, 4, 7 News
> 5 News Headlines
> 11 Wild Cargo
>
> 11:01
> 5 Entertainment Report (was how it was listed)
>
> 11:02
> 5 Opinion in The Capitol (again, listed this way)
>
> 11:15
> 2 CBS News Dallas Townsend
> 4 The Saint
> 7 Best Of Broadway-The Unfaithfuls
>
> 11:20
> 13 Reflections
>
> 11:25
> 2 Late Show Satellite In The Sky 1956
>
> 11:30
> 9 Editorial Page Conference
> 11 Encounter-Religious/Dr. Steven Olford
>
> 11:32
> 5 Congressional Report
>
> 11:37
> 5 Senate Report-New Jersey Senator Clifford B. Case
>
> 11:42
> 5 Movie-20,000 Men A Year 1939
> "Loaded With Cliches"
>
> Midnight
> 9 Understanding Our World-Education
> 11 Word Of Life-Jack Wyrtzen-Religion
>
> 12:15
> 4 Midnight Movie-The Crucible 1958
> "Gripping version of Arthur Miller Play"
>
> 12:30
> 11 Twenty-Six Men-Western
>
> 1AM
> 9 News/Evening Prayer
>
> 1:05
> 2 Late Night News
>
> 1:10
> 2 Late Late Show- Marriage Is A Private Affair 1944
> "Too Much Talk"
>
> 2:05
> 4 Sermonette
>
> 3:30
> 2 Late Late Show-The Longest Night 1936
> "Average Mystery"
>
> 4:30
> 2 Late Late Show-Nick Carter, Master Detective 1939
>

KMRichards · Jun 15, 2005

> 11:30
> 9 Million Dollar Movie-The Big Sky 1952

> 1:30
> 9 Million Dollar Movie (Repeat of 11:30 AM)

> 3:30
> 9 Million Dollar Movie-The Big Sky (3 times in a row)

RKO was famous for this in the 1960s. The "Million Dollar Movie" was generally the best films from whatever library they could afford, repeated at the same time every weeknight for a week and/or two or three times in a row Saturday and/or Sunday.

I remember KHJ/9 Los Angeles doing the weeknight repeat as late as 1971.

______________

Eli Polonsky · Jun 16, 2005

> 8PM
> 2, 3 Ed Sullivan Guests: Kate Smith, Three Stooges

Now, that I would have liked to have seen!

I did see the Stooges live show at an amusement park stage that summer and they were definitely past their prime, but hey, it was the original Moe and Larry!

TimL · Jun 16, 2005

> > 8PM
> > 2, 3 Ed Sullivan Guests: Kate Smith, Three Stooges
>
> Now, that I would have liked to have seen!
>
> I did see the Stooges live show at an amusement park stage
> that summer and they were definitely past their prime, but
> hey, it was the original Moe and Larry!
>

The Stooges were in a revival because of the showing of their old shorts on Local TV across the USA. They would have shown their age in live shows by 1963. There are some public domain DVD's of their cartoons produced in 1965 which include live action wraparounds in color..Thats where they really show their age.

TVCOOL · Jun 27, 2015

Do you have Saturday listings as well?

joebtsflk1 · Jun 27, 2015

TimL said:
WCBS 2 (CBS)
WNBC 4 (NBC)
WNEW 5
WABC 7 (ABC)
WOR 9
WPIX 11
WNDT 13 (Educ.)
WNYC 31 (No listings)

Channels 3(WTIC) and 8(WNHC) of Hartford-New Haven Network Listings only

New York Journal-American

1:05
2 Late Night News

1:10
2 Late Late Show- Marriage Is A Private Affair 1944
"Too Much Talk"

2:05
4 Sermonette

3:30
2 Late Late Show-The Longest Night 1936
"Average Mystery"

4:30
2 Late Late Show-Nick Carter, Master Detective 1939

Edited by TimL on 06/15/05 04:02 AM.

Was WCBS-TV ch. 2 one pf the early pioneers of 24 hr television?

Gregg. · Jun 27, 2015

WCBS-TV 2 in NYC and KTTV 11 in Los Angeles were the two earliest stations to go all night. It wasn't quite 24 hours. WCBS-TV's all-night movies (The Late Show, The Late Late Show, etc.) ended around 5:30, then a test pattern ran till the station signed back on around 6am. They didn't bother to time out the movies to end at the beginning of the morning schedule. Sometimes the last movie ended about 30 minutes before the morning sign-on, where they could have inserted an old sitcom, but they didn't bother.

KTTV would end its late movies around 6am or 6:30 and sign back on around 7:30. So in effect, LA did have 24 hour TV before NYC, because KNXT 2 would sign on at 6am. At that time KNXT didn't run movies till dawn, but it did run movies till around 4am. So Los Angeles viewers had two stations to choose from except between 4 and 6am.

I haven't found any stations in other markets running all night till the 1970s. Even though the two CBS stations in NYC and LA stayed on late, CBS stations in other markets ran only one or two movies after the late news. It wasn't a company policy.

Gregg. · Jun 27, 2015

>>>
7:40
4 Sermonette

7:45
2 Give Us This Day/News
4 Modern Farmer
5 Hour Of St. Francis

8AM
4 All Join Hands-Children
7 The Answer

8:10
9 News
11 This Is The Life

8:15
5 Off To Adventure

8:25
9 The Christophers

8:30
2 Around The Corner-Children
5 Light Time-Drama
7 Faith For Today
9 Greatest Drama
11 Evangel Hour

-----

The listing at 7:45 for Channel 2 may have been a misprint. I doubt WCBS-TV did a 45 min. newscast at 7:45am on a Sunday. There probably was an 8am show but it got omitted. "Give Us This Day" was WCBS-TV's title for the opening three minute opening prayer. WNBC-TV 4 calls their opening prayer "Sermonette." Both stations had ministers, priests and rabbis come in and record these things for showing at sign-on and sign-off.

And notice Channel 4 at 7:45. "Modern Farmer" was a catch-all title for WNBC-TV running agricultural films early on weekend mornings, which I guess they used as an FCC favor, saying they were serving the farming communities around New York. I remember the films were all given out for free from various farm interests, such as the Dairy Council showing us where cheese comes from and how we should add more cheese in our menus. They might even show us a family that operates a dairy farm, and how dad, mom and the kids all do their chores for the cows, and that we should drink more milk.

ixnay · Jun 28, 2015

The 1965 Stooges cartoon shorts, I remember seeing on Philly's WFIL-6. Here's Wiki's article...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Three_Stooges

Notice it came in part from Cambria Studios. I emphasize that only because there's a Cambria County in my native state of Pennsylvania.

It wouldn't be the last time the Stooge property got the 'toon treatment. Their next one (by which time Moe and Larry had joined Curly and Shemp in the happy haunting ground) came from H-B...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Robonic_Stooges

ixnay

TVCOOL · Jun 28, 2015

Gregg. said:
>>>
7:40
4 Sermonette

7:45
2 Give Us This Day/News
4 Modern Farmer
5 Hour Of St. Francis

8AM
4 All Join Hands-Children
7 The Answer

8:10
9 News
11 This Is The Life

8:15
5 Off To Adventure

8:25
9 The Christophers

8:30
2 Around The Corner-Children
5 Light Time-Drama
7 Faith For Today
9 Greatest Drama
11 Evangel Hour

-----

The listing at 7:45 for Channel 2 may have been a misprint. I doubt WCBS-TV did a 45 min. newscast at 7:45am on a Sunday. There probably was an 8am show but it got omitted. "Give Us This Day" was WCBS-TV's title for the opening three minute opening prayer. WNBC-TV 4 calls their opening prayer "Sermonette." Both stations had ministers, priests and rabbis come in and record these things for showing at sign-on and sign-off.

And notice Channel 4 at 7:45. "Modern Farmer" was a catch-all title for WNBC-TV running agricultural films early on weekend mornings, which I guess they used as an FCC favor, saying they were serving the farming communities around New York. I remember the films were all given out for free from various farm interests, such as the Dairy Council showing us where cheese comes from and how we should add more cheese in our menus. They might even show us a family that operates a dairy farm, and how dad, mom and the kids all do their chores for the cows, and that we should drink more milk.

It was the first E/I program on TV then.

New York City..Sunday, October 6, 1963

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