Of course, none of these programs ran on this date, as all of these stations were airing network coverage of the aftermath of President Kennedy’s assassination the previous afternoon.
Source: Carolina-Tennessee Edition, TV Guide
STATIONS:
3 WBTV (CBS/ABC) Charlotte
4 WFBC-TV (NBC) Greenville, SC
5 WCYB-TV (NBC/ABC) Bristol, VA
6 WATE-TV (NBC) Knoxville
7 WSPA-TV (CBS) Spartanburg
9 WSOC-TV (NBC/ABC) Charlotte
10 WBIR-TV (CBS) Knoxville
11 WJHL-TV (CBS/ABC) Johnson City
13 WLOS-TV (ABC) Asheville
26 WTVK (ABC) Knoxville
40 WAIM (ABC/CBS) Anderson
[color] denotes color, except for WLOS-TV, which did not have color capacity at this date.
MORNING
6:00
5 Great Ideas of the Bible
6:30
3 Sunrise Semester (Byzantine Art Under Justinian and Theodora)
4 Modern Almanac (farm news)
6:45
7 Sunrise Semester (The Ethics of Conscience)
7:00
3 Carolina Calling
4 Farm News (Leonard)
5 Rural Tenneva (farm news)
6 Farm Information (Wilson)
9 Film Feature (nursing)
10 Light Time (religious drama)
11 Movie (Western, title not listed)
13 Aspect (agriculture)
7:15
7 Almanac (nature)
10 Davey and Goliath (Davey plays with a “Mechanical Man”)
7:30
4 Hi-Way Show (Billy Fallaw)
5 Cartoons
6 Movie (to be announced)
9 Top Cat
10 Supercar
13 Popeye
7:45
4 Lessons for Living (Anderson)
7 Cartoons
9 Country Style, U.S.A. (music)
8:00
3 Fun House
4 Monty’s Rascals
7 Party Time
9 Swingin’ Society (cartoons)
10/11/40 Captain Kangaroo (Guest is juggler Cal Claude)
8:30
3 Pirate’s Cove
5 Danger Is My Business
9 Bullwinkle
13 Supercar
9:00
3/7/10/11/40 Alvin
5 Popeye
9 Bugs Bunny
13 Mr. Bill and Bozo
9:30
3/7/10/11/40 Tennessee Tuxedo
4/5/6/9 Ruff and Reddy [color]
10:00
3/7/10/11/40 Quick Draw McGraw
4/5/6/9 Hector Heathcote [color]
10:30
3/7/10/40 Mighty Mouse
4/5/6/9 Fireball XL-5
11 Junior Auction
13/26 The Jetsons
11:00
3 Supercar
4/5/6 Dennis The Menace
7/10/11 Rin Tin Tin
9/13/26/40 Casper
11:30
3/7/10/11 Roy Rogers
4/5/6/9 Fury
13/26/40 Beany and Cecil
AFTERNOON
12:00
3/10/11 Sky King
4/5/6 Sergeant Preston
7 Farmer Gray (music)
9 Kilgo’s Kanteen (variety)
13/26/40 Bugs Bunny
12:30
3 Pastor’s Study (religion)
4/5/6 Bullwinkle [color]
10 Do You Know? (Dr. James Shenton of Columbia University analyses Ralph K. Andritt’s book The California Gold Rush)
11 Virgil Wacks (variety)
13/26/40 Allakazam (magic-based children’s show)
1:00
3 The Wilburn Brothers
4/5/6/9 Exploring [color] (Lorne Greene narrates a cartoon of Mark Twain’s The Celebrated Jumping Frog)
10 News
11 Mighty Mouse
13/26/40 My Friend Flicka
1:30
3/7/10/11/40 Football Feature (Paul Dietzel and Ara Parseghian discuss this afternoon’s Harvard-Yale game)
13/26 American Bandstand (for a celebrity Thanksgiving Day party, Dick Clark welcomes Annette Funicello, Nino Tempo & April Stevens, Donna Loren, The Challengers, Dick & Dee Dee, Johnny Mathis, Connie Stevens, Nick Adams, George Hamilton, Connie Francis, Paul Petersen and Trini Lopez)
1:45
3/7/10/11/40 College Football (Clemson at South Carolina, Bill Flemming and Frank Albert report from Carolina Stadium in Columbia, SC)
2:00
4 Riverboat
5/6 Mr. Wizard
9 Movie (It! The Terror from Beyond Space, 1958 science fiction, starring Marshall Thompson and Shawn Smith)
2:30
5 American Bandstand (Dick Clark welcomes Brian Hyland and Bobby Bare; delayed from November 16th)
6 Championship Bowling
13 Movie (The Revenge of Frankenstein, 1958 British horror, starring Peter Cushing)
26 Movie (The Awful Truth, 1937 comedy, starring Cary Grant and Irene Dunne)
3:00
4 Bowling (Greenville)
3:30
5 To Be Announced
6 Wrestling (Knoxville, perhaps the same tape made that morning at WBIR-TV)
9 Wide World of Sports (Charlie Brockman reports the World’s Championship Demolition Derby from Langhorne, Pennsylvania, and Jim McKay reports the U.S. vs. Argentina water polo match. Delayed from November 16th.)
3:45
13 Movie (Tank Force, 1958 British WW2 story, starring Victor Mature and Anthony Newley)
4:00
4 NFL Highlights (Jim Leaming narrates films of the previous weekend’s schedule)
4:30
3/10/11/40 Football Scoreboard
4 Captain Gallant
6 Bonny Lou and Buster
7 Wide World of Sports (see 3:30 Channel 9)
26 AFL Highlights (Paul Christman and Curt Gowdy narrate films of the previous weekend’s schedule)
4:45
3 Tackling (football instruction)
10/11 To Be Announced
40 Film Feature
5:00
3 Football Scoreboard
4/5 Wrestling (probably tapes of the WBTV Charlotte shows of previous weeks, promoted by Jim Crockett, Sr.)
6 Captain Gallant
7 The Big Picture
9 NFL Highlights
11 Hootenanny (at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Jack Linkletter welcomes Theodore Bikel, Bob Gibson, Judy Collins, The Journeymen, Ian & Sylvia, The Wanderers Three, Clara Ward & Her Gospel Singers, Freddie Powers & His Powerhouse Five and comic Dave Astor; delayed from November 16th)
13 Saturday Jamboree (Ledford)
26/40 Wide World of Sports (WAIM delays the previous week’s show; WTVK carries ABC’s [color] direct feed, featuring a tarpon fishing duel off Big Pine Key, FL, between Al McLane and Joe Brooks, with commentary from Curt Gowdy, and Jim McKay covering The Giant International Ski Jump competition from Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles.)
5:15
10 Great Moments in Music
5:30
3/10 Wrestling (WBTV’s show was the long-time Live Championship Wrestling Charlotte production from Jim Crockett, Sr.; WBIR-TV’s show was from promoter Ron Cazana and usually “taped live” at Channel 10’s Knoxville studios Saturday mornings for playback that afternoon)
6 International Showtime (Don Ameche introduces the Copenhagen Circus)
9 Mr. Novak
5:45
4 Football Scoreboard
EVENING
6:00
4/5 The Wilburn Brothers
7 To Be Announced
11 The Outer Limits (David Duncan’s story The Human Factor, featuring Harry Guardino, Gary Merrill, Joe de Santis, Ivan Dixon and Sally Kellerman; delayed from November 11th)
13 News
6:15
7 Great Moments in Music
13 Movie (Edge of Eternity, 1959 drama, starring Cornel Wilde)
6:25
3 Early Report (Bill Currie)
6:30
3/5/6 Porter Wagoner
4 Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs
7 News
9 The Outer Limits (Oren Borsten’s adaptation of the Louis Charbonneau novel Corpus Earthling, starring Robert Culp and Salome Jens; delayed from November 18th)
26 Preview: Winter Olympics (Goalies Jack McCartan and Robert Riger discuss ice hockey with Jim McKay)
40 Preview: Winter Olympics (Bob Beattie, Buddy Werner and Penny Pitou discuss skiing; delayed from November 16th)
6:45
7 Football Scoreboard
7:00
3 Mister Ed
4 Porter Wagoner
5 Ozzie and Harriet
6 The Wilburn Brothers
7 Dragnet
10 Mull’s Sing (music)
11 My Three Sons
26 Password (Robert Horton is a guest celebrity; CBS, postponed from November 21st while WBIR-TV ran “Battle Line”)
40 Playhouse 40
7:30
3/7/10/11 Jackie Gleason
4/6 Lieutenant (starring Gary Lockwood, with guests Ricardo Montalban, Louis Nye and Bobby Pickett)
5 Ben Casey
9/13/26/40 Hootenanny (at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, Jack Linkletter welcomes The Chad Mitchell Trio, Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs, Val Pringle, Judy Henske, Grier Reynolds, Glenn Yarborough, Stan Rubin & His Tigertown Five, The Anchormen and comic Charlie Manna)
8:30
3/7/10/11 The Defenders (Ernest Kinoy’s comedy “Claire Cheval Died in Boston,” starring E.G. Marshall and Robert Reed, and guest starring Barbara Baxley, Herschel Bernardi, Barbara Harris and Elliottt Reid)
4/6 Joey Bishop [color] (Vic Damone guests)
5/9/13/26/40 Lawrence Welk
9:00
4/6 Saturday Night at the Movies (Imitation General, 1958 WW2 comedy starring Glenn Ford, Red Buttons and Dean Jones)
9:30
3/7/10/11 Phil Silvers
5 Wagon Train
9/13/26/40 Jerry Lewis (scheduled guests: opera stars Patrice Munsel and Salvatore Baccaloni, Chubby Checker, comic Al Kelly and the Marquis Chimps)
10:00
3/7/10/11 Gunsmoke
11:00
3/5/7 News
4 Movie (Uncle Was a Vampire, 1959 Italian horror satire, starring Renato Rascel and Christopher Lee; ironically for this weekend, Rascel’s character name translated into English as “Oswald”)
6 Movie (The Harder They Fall, 1956 sports drama starring Humphrey Bogart [in his last performance] and Rod Steiger)
10 Movie (Force of Arms, 1951 WW2 romance starring William Holden and Nancy Olson)
11 News (Ed McKinney)
11:15
3 Movie (Blowing Wild, 1953 romance starring Barbara Stanwyck and Gary Cooper)
7 Movie (The Pride and the Passion, 1957 drama starring Cary Grant, Frank Sinatra and Sophia Loren)
11 Movie (The Wonderful Country, 1959 Western starring Robert Mitchum and Julie London)
11:30
5 Movie (Riding Shotgun, 1955 Western starring Randolph Scott)
9 Double Feature Movie (Monkey on My Back, 1957 biography of boxer and war hero Barney Ross, starring Cameron Mitchell; and Take a Letter, Darling, 1942 comedy starring Rosalind Russell and Fred MacMurray)
13 Movie (The Man Inside, 1958 British mystery starring Jack Palance, Anita Ekberg and Anthony Newley)
26 Movie (The Mummy, 1932 melodrama starring Boris Karloff)
Source: Carolina-Tennessee Edition, TV Guide
STATIONS:
3 WBTV (CBS/ABC) Charlotte
4 WFBC-TV (NBC) Greenville, SC
5 WCYB-TV (NBC/ABC) Bristol, VA
6 WATE-TV (NBC) Knoxville
7 WSPA-TV (CBS) Spartanburg
9 WSOC-TV (NBC/ABC) Charlotte
10 WBIR-TV (CBS) Knoxville
11 WJHL-TV (CBS/ABC) Johnson City
13 WLOS-TV (ABC) Asheville
26 WTVK (ABC) Knoxville
40 WAIM (ABC/CBS) Anderson
[color] denotes color, except for WLOS-TV, which did not have color capacity at this date.
MORNING
6:00
5 Great Ideas of the Bible
6:30
3 Sunrise Semester (Byzantine Art Under Justinian and Theodora)
4 Modern Almanac (farm news)
6:45
7 Sunrise Semester (The Ethics of Conscience)
7:00
3 Carolina Calling
4 Farm News (Leonard)
5 Rural Tenneva (farm news)
6 Farm Information (Wilson)
9 Film Feature (nursing)
10 Light Time (religious drama)
11 Movie (Western, title not listed)
13 Aspect (agriculture)
7:15
7 Almanac (nature)
10 Davey and Goliath (Davey plays with a “Mechanical Man”)
7:30
4 Hi-Way Show (Billy Fallaw)
5 Cartoons
6 Movie (to be announced)
9 Top Cat
10 Supercar
13 Popeye
7:45
4 Lessons for Living (Anderson)
7 Cartoons
9 Country Style, U.S.A. (music)
8:00
3 Fun House
4 Monty’s Rascals
7 Party Time
9 Swingin’ Society (cartoons)
10/11/40 Captain Kangaroo (Guest is juggler Cal Claude)
8:30
3 Pirate’s Cove
5 Danger Is My Business
9 Bullwinkle
13 Supercar
9:00
3/7/10/11/40 Alvin
5 Popeye
9 Bugs Bunny
13 Mr. Bill and Bozo
9:30
3/7/10/11/40 Tennessee Tuxedo
4/5/6/9 Ruff and Reddy [color]
10:00
3/7/10/11/40 Quick Draw McGraw
4/5/6/9 Hector Heathcote [color]
10:30
3/7/10/40 Mighty Mouse
4/5/6/9 Fireball XL-5
11 Junior Auction
13/26 The Jetsons
11:00
3 Supercar
4/5/6 Dennis The Menace
7/10/11 Rin Tin Tin
9/13/26/40 Casper
11:30
3/7/10/11 Roy Rogers
4/5/6/9 Fury
13/26/40 Beany and Cecil
AFTERNOON
12:00
3/10/11 Sky King
4/5/6 Sergeant Preston
7 Farmer Gray (music)
9 Kilgo’s Kanteen (variety)
13/26/40 Bugs Bunny
12:30
3 Pastor’s Study (religion)
4/5/6 Bullwinkle [color]
10 Do You Know? (Dr. James Shenton of Columbia University analyses Ralph K. Andritt’s book The California Gold Rush)
11 Virgil Wacks (variety)
13/26/40 Allakazam (magic-based children’s show)
1:00
3 The Wilburn Brothers
4/5/6/9 Exploring [color] (Lorne Greene narrates a cartoon of Mark Twain’s The Celebrated Jumping Frog)
10 News
11 Mighty Mouse
13/26/40 My Friend Flicka
1:30
3/7/10/11/40 Football Feature (Paul Dietzel and Ara Parseghian discuss this afternoon’s Harvard-Yale game)
13/26 American Bandstand (for a celebrity Thanksgiving Day party, Dick Clark welcomes Annette Funicello, Nino Tempo & April Stevens, Donna Loren, The Challengers, Dick & Dee Dee, Johnny Mathis, Connie Stevens, Nick Adams, George Hamilton, Connie Francis, Paul Petersen and Trini Lopez)
1:45
3/7/10/11/40 College Football (Clemson at South Carolina, Bill Flemming and Frank Albert report from Carolina Stadium in Columbia, SC)
2:00
4 Riverboat
5/6 Mr. Wizard
9 Movie (It! The Terror from Beyond Space, 1958 science fiction, starring Marshall Thompson and Shawn Smith)
2:30
5 American Bandstand (Dick Clark welcomes Brian Hyland and Bobby Bare; delayed from November 16th)
6 Championship Bowling
13 Movie (The Revenge of Frankenstein, 1958 British horror, starring Peter Cushing)
26 Movie (The Awful Truth, 1937 comedy, starring Cary Grant and Irene Dunne)
3:00
4 Bowling (Greenville)
3:30
5 To Be Announced
6 Wrestling (Knoxville, perhaps the same tape made that morning at WBIR-TV)
9 Wide World of Sports (Charlie Brockman reports the World’s Championship Demolition Derby from Langhorne, Pennsylvania, and Jim McKay reports the U.S. vs. Argentina water polo match. Delayed from November 16th.)
3:45
13 Movie (Tank Force, 1958 British WW2 story, starring Victor Mature and Anthony Newley)
4:00
4 NFL Highlights (Jim Leaming narrates films of the previous weekend’s schedule)
4:30
3/10/11/40 Football Scoreboard
4 Captain Gallant
6 Bonny Lou and Buster
7 Wide World of Sports (see 3:30 Channel 9)
26 AFL Highlights (Paul Christman and Curt Gowdy narrate films of the previous weekend’s schedule)
4:45
3 Tackling (football instruction)
10/11 To Be Announced
40 Film Feature
5:00
3 Football Scoreboard
4/5 Wrestling (probably tapes of the WBTV Charlotte shows of previous weeks, promoted by Jim Crockett, Sr.)
6 Captain Gallant
7 The Big Picture
9 NFL Highlights
11 Hootenanny (at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Jack Linkletter welcomes Theodore Bikel, Bob Gibson, Judy Collins, The Journeymen, Ian & Sylvia, The Wanderers Three, Clara Ward & Her Gospel Singers, Freddie Powers & His Powerhouse Five and comic Dave Astor; delayed from November 16th)
13 Saturday Jamboree (Ledford)
26/40 Wide World of Sports (WAIM delays the previous week’s show; WTVK carries ABC’s [color] direct feed, featuring a tarpon fishing duel off Big Pine Key, FL, between Al McLane and Joe Brooks, with commentary from Curt Gowdy, and Jim McKay covering The Giant International Ski Jump competition from Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles.)
5:15
10 Great Moments in Music
5:30
3/10 Wrestling (WBTV’s show was the long-time Live Championship Wrestling Charlotte production from Jim Crockett, Sr.; WBIR-TV’s show was from promoter Ron Cazana and usually “taped live” at Channel 10’s Knoxville studios Saturday mornings for playback that afternoon)
6 International Showtime (Don Ameche introduces the Copenhagen Circus)
9 Mr. Novak
5:45
4 Football Scoreboard
EVENING
6:00
4/5 The Wilburn Brothers
7 To Be Announced
11 The Outer Limits (David Duncan’s story The Human Factor, featuring Harry Guardino, Gary Merrill, Joe de Santis, Ivan Dixon and Sally Kellerman; delayed from November 11th)
13 News
6:15
7 Great Moments in Music
13 Movie (Edge of Eternity, 1959 drama, starring Cornel Wilde)
6:25
3 Early Report (Bill Currie)
6:30
3/5/6 Porter Wagoner
4 Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs
7 News
9 The Outer Limits (Oren Borsten’s adaptation of the Louis Charbonneau novel Corpus Earthling, starring Robert Culp and Salome Jens; delayed from November 18th)
26 Preview: Winter Olympics (Goalies Jack McCartan and Robert Riger discuss ice hockey with Jim McKay)
40 Preview: Winter Olympics (Bob Beattie, Buddy Werner and Penny Pitou discuss skiing; delayed from November 16th)
6:45
7 Football Scoreboard
7:00
3 Mister Ed
4 Porter Wagoner
5 Ozzie and Harriet
6 The Wilburn Brothers
7 Dragnet
10 Mull’s Sing (music)
11 My Three Sons
26 Password (Robert Horton is a guest celebrity; CBS, postponed from November 21st while WBIR-TV ran “Battle Line”)
40 Playhouse 40
7:30
3/7/10/11 Jackie Gleason
4/6 Lieutenant (starring Gary Lockwood, with guests Ricardo Montalban, Louis Nye and Bobby Pickett)
5 Ben Casey
9/13/26/40 Hootenanny (at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, Jack Linkletter welcomes The Chad Mitchell Trio, Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs, Val Pringle, Judy Henske, Grier Reynolds, Glenn Yarborough, Stan Rubin & His Tigertown Five, The Anchormen and comic Charlie Manna)
8:30
3/7/10/11 The Defenders (Ernest Kinoy’s comedy “Claire Cheval Died in Boston,” starring E.G. Marshall and Robert Reed, and guest starring Barbara Baxley, Herschel Bernardi, Barbara Harris and Elliottt Reid)
4/6 Joey Bishop [color] (Vic Damone guests)
5/9/13/26/40 Lawrence Welk
9:00
4/6 Saturday Night at the Movies (Imitation General, 1958 WW2 comedy starring Glenn Ford, Red Buttons and Dean Jones)
9:30
3/7/10/11 Phil Silvers
5 Wagon Train
9/13/26/40 Jerry Lewis (scheduled guests: opera stars Patrice Munsel and Salvatore Baccaloni, Chubby Checker, comic Al Kelly and the Marquis Chimps)
10:00
3/7/10/11 Gunsmoke
11:00
3/5/7 News
4 Movie (Uncle Was a Vampire, 1959 Italian horror satire, starring Renato Rascel and Christopher Lee; ironically for this weekend, Rascel’s character name translated into English as “Oswald”)
6 Movie (The Harder They Fall, 1956 sports drama starring Humphrey Bogart [in his last performance] and Rod Steiger)
10 Movie (Force of Arms, 1951 WW2 romance starring William Holden and Nancy Olson)
11 News (Ed McKinney)
11:15
3 Movie (Blowing Wild, 1953 romance starring Barbara Stanwyck and Gary Cooper)
7 Movie (The Pride and the Passion, 1957 drama starring Cary Grant, Frank Sinatra and Sophia Loren)
11 Movie (The Wonderful Country, 1959 Western starring Robert Mitchum and Julie London)
11:30
5 Movie (Riding Shotgun, 1955 Western starring Randolph Scott)
9 Double Feature Movie (Monkey on My Back, 1957 biography of boxer and war hero Barney Ross, starring Cameron Mitchell; and Take a Letter, Darling, 1942 comedy starring Rosalind Russell and Fred MacMurray)
13 Movie (The Man Inside, 1958 British mystery starring Jack Palance, Anita Ekberg and Anthony Newley)
26 Movie (The Mummy, 1932 melodrama starring Boris Karloff)