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Source: Pittsburgh Press and Post-Gazette
This was the day Pittsburgh-based Mister Rogers' Neighborhood (then known as "Misterogers' Neighborhood" until 1971) made its national NET debut.
2 KDKA (CBS)
AM
6:00 Fair Adventure
6:30 Sunrise Semester
7:00 Eyewitness News
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Contact
10:00 Candid Camera
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies
11:00 Andy Griffith (as "Andy of Mayberry")
11:30 Dick Van Dyke
PM
12:00 Eyewitness News
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
1:00 Mike Douglas - Co-host: Jack E. Leonard; Guests: Vincent Price, Paul Anka, Jean Nidetch, Al Caiola, William Kaufman
2:30 House Party - Art Linkletter
3:00 To Tell the Truth - Bud Collyer
3:30 Edge of Night
4:00 Secret Storm
4:30 Merv Griffin - Guests: Lynn Kellogg, Robert Merrill, David Frost, Doris Lilly, Georgie Kaye, Peter Maas
6:00 Twilight Zone: "Nervous Man"
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 Eyewitness News
7:30 Gunsmoke
8:30 Lucy Show
9:00 Andy Griffith
9:30 Family Affair
10:00 Carol Burnett - Guests: Art Carney, Nanette Fabray
11:00 Eyewitness News
11:30 Movie: "The Long Ships" (1964, Adventure) - Richard Widmark, Sidney Poitier, Russ Tamblyn, Rosanna Schiaffino; Narrator: Edward Judd
AM
1:30 Movie: "Among the Living" (Drama/Mystery) - Albert Dekker, Susan Hayward, Harry Carey, Frances Farmer
4 WTAE (ABC)
AM
7:30 Spider-Man
8:00 Ricki Reports
8:05 Romer Room (WTAE version)
9:00 Pat Boone
10:00 Dating Game
10:30 Movie: "Let's Make it Legal" (1951, Comedy) - Claudette Colbert, Macdonald Carey, Zachary Scott, Barbara Bates
PM
12:00 Bewitched
12:30 Treasure Isle - John Bartholomew Tucker
1:00 Fugitive
2:00 Newlywed Game
2:30 Baby Game - Richard Hayes (first TV game show to feature babies)
3:00 General Hospital
3:30 Adventure Time
4:25 Movie: "The Great Sioux Uprising" (1953, Western) - Jeff Chandler, Faith Domergue
6:00 4-Star News
6:30 Perry Mason
7:30 Cowboy in Africa
8:30 Rat Patrol
9:00 Felony Squad
9:30 Peyton Place
10:00 Big Valley
11:00 4-Star News
11:30 Movie: "Four Desperate Men" (US Title)/"The Siege of Pinchgut" (UK Title) (1959, Drama/Action) - Aldo Ray, Heather Sears
AM
1:25 Joey Bishop - Guests: Dizzy Gillespie, Polly Bergen, Robert Morse, Sidney Skolsky
11 WIIC (NBC)
AM
6:00 Quest
6:30 Farm Report
6:35 Devotional Moment
6:40 Music With Morgan
7:00 Today
9:00 Virginia Graham's Girl Talk
9:30 Give It a Whirl
10:00 Snap Judgment - Ed McMahon
10:25 NBC Midday News
10:30 Concentration - Hugh Downs
11:00 Personality - Larry Blyden
11:30 Hollywood Squares - Panel: Gene Rayburn, Frances Nuyen, Charley Weaver, Nanette Fabray, Wally Cox, Rose Marie, Robert Culp, Ruta Lee, Jack Cassidy
PM
12:00 TV 11 News
12:30 Eye Guess - Bill Cullen (Pittsburgh native)
1:00 Jeopardy
1:30 Let's Make a Deal (moved to ABC Dec. 30, 1968)
2:00 Days of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3:00 Another World
3:30 You Don't Say! - Tom Kennedy
4:00 The Match Game (as it was known, with far different and more subtle gameplay than the more popular 1973-82 version) - Guests: Rita Moreno, Eli Wallach
4:30 The Big Show
5:30 McHale's Navy
6:00 TV 11 News
6:30 Truth or Consequences
7:00 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7:30 Monkees
8:00 Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
9:00 Movie: "Marriage Italian Style" (1968, Comedy/Drama/Romance, Italian) - Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni
(locally pre-empting The Danny Thomas Hour and I Spy)
11:00 TV 11 News
11:30 Tonight Show - (from Hollywood/Burbank) Guests: James Garner, Milton Berle, Richard Crenna; Performers: The King Cousins
AM
1:00 Hotline After Dark (among the guests was Don "Chef" Brockett from Mister Rogers' Neighborhood)
13 WQED (NET)
AM
8:55 Reading
9:20 Scienceland
9:40 4th Grade Science
10:15 Dr. Posin's Giants
10:45 En France
11:15 Tell Me a Story
11:45 Kindergarten
PM
12:00 Misterogers Neighborhood (national debut; in black & white until the following year)
12:30 Spectrum: "Drugs Against Cancer: The Search"
1:00 People and Their World
1:20 Alive and About
1:40 Americans All
2:00 Talking Town
2:15 Young People's Concert
2:35 Planet Earth
3:00 World Press Review
4:00 Friendly Giant
4:15 Kindergarten
4:30 Misterogers Neighborhood
5:00 What's New
5:30 Exploring Math
6:10 People and Their World
6:30 Who Will Watch the Watchers?
7:00 What's New
7:30 Opinion: Washington
8:00 NET Journal
9:30 Repretory Theater
10:30 Speaking Freely
This was the day Pittsburgh-based Mister Rogers' Neighborhood (then known as "Misterogers' Neighborhood" until 1971) made its national NET debut.
2 KDKA (CBS)
AM
6:00 Fair Adventure
6:30 Sunrise Semester
7:00 Eyewitness News
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Contact
10:00 Candid Camera
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies
11:00 Andy Griffith (as "Andy of Mayberry")
11:30 Dick Van Dyke
PM
12:00 Eyewitness News
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
1:00 Mike Douglas - Co-host: Jack E. Leonard; Guests: Vincent Price, Paul Anka, Jean Nidetch, Al Caiola, William Kaufman
2:30 House Party - Art Linkletter
3:00 To Tell the Truth - Bud Collyer
3:30 Edge of Night
4:00 Secret Storm
4:30 Merv Griffin - Guests: Lynn Kellogg, Robert Merrill, David Frost, Doris Lilly, Georgie Kaye, Peter Maas
6:00 Twilight Zone: "Nervous Man"
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 Eyewitness News
7:30 Gunsmoke
8:30 Lucy Show
9:00 Andy Griffith
9:30 Family Affair
10:00 Carol Burnett - Guests: Art Carney, Nanette Fabray
11:00 Eyewitness News
11:30 Movie: "The Long Ships" (1964, Adventure) - Richard Widmark, Sidney Poitier, Russ Tamblyn, Rosanna Schiaffino; Narrator: Edward Judd
AM
1:30 Movie: "Among the Living" (Drama/Mystery) - Albert Dekker, Susan Hayward, Harry Carey, Frances Farmer
4 WTAE (ABC)
AM
7:30 Spider-Man
8:00 Ricki Reports
8:05 Romer Room (WTAE version)
9:00 Pat Boone
10:00 Dating Game
10:30 Movie: "Let's Make it Legal" (1951, Comedy) - Claudette Colbert, Macdonald Carey, Zachary Scott, Barbara Bates
PM
12:00 Bewitched
12:30 Treasure Isle - John Bartholomew Tucker
1:00 Fugitive
2:00 Newlywed Game
2:30 Baby Game - Richard Hayes (first TV game show to feature babies)
3:00 General Hospital
3:30 Adventure Time
4:25 Movie: "The Great Sioux Uprising" (1953, Western) - Jeff Chandler, Faith Domergue
6:00 4-Star News
6:30 Perry Mason
7:30 Cowboy in Africa
8:30 Rat Patrol
9:00 Felony Squad
9:30 Peyton Place
10:00 Big Valley
11:00 4-Star News
11:30 Movie: "Four Desperate Men" (US Title)/"The Siege of Pinchgut" (UK Title) (1959, Drama/Action) - Aldo Ray, Heather Sears
AM
1:25 Joey Bishop - Guests: Dizzy Gillespie, Polly Bergen, Robert Morse, Sidney Skolsky
11 WIIC (NBC)
AM
6:00 Quest
6:30 Farm Report
6:35 Devotional Moment
6:40 Music With Morgan
7:00 Today
9:00 Virginia Graham's Girl Talk
9:30 Give It a Whirl
10:00 Snap Judgment - Ed McMahon
10:25 NBC Midday News
10:30 Concentration - Hugh Downs
11:00 Personality - Larry Blyden
11:30 Hollywood Squares - Panel: Gene Rayburn, Frances Nuyen, Charley Weaver, Nanette Fabray, Wally Cox, Rose Marie, Robert Culp, Ruta Lee, Jack Cassidy
PM
12:00 TV 11 News
12:30 Eye Guess - Bill Cullen (Pittsburgh native)
1:00 Jeopardy
1:30 Let's Make a Deal (moved to ABC Dec. 30, 1968)
2:00 Days of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3:00 Another World
3:30 You Don't Say! - Tom Kennedy
4:00 The Match Game (as it was known, with far different and more subtle gameplay than the more popular 1973-82 version) - Guests: Rita Moreno, Eli Wallach
4:30 The Big Show
5:30 McHale's Navy
6:00 TV 11 News
6:30 Truth or Consequences
7:00 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7:30 Monkees
8:00 Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
9:00 Movie: "Marriage Italian Style" (1968, Comedy/Drama/Romance, Italian) - Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni
(locally pre-empting The Danny Thomas Hour and I Spy)
11:00 TV 11 News
11:30 Tonight Show - (from Hollywood/Burbank) Guests: James Garner, Milton Berle, Richard Crenna; Performers: The King Cousins
AM
1:00 Hotline After Dark (among the guests was Don "Chef" Brockett from Mister Rogers' Neighborhood)
13 WQED (NET)
AM
8:55 Reading
9:20 Scienceland
9:40 4th Grade Science
10:15 Dr. Posin's Giants
10:45 En France
11:15 Tell Me a Story
11:45 Kindergarten
PM
12:00 Misterogers Neighborhood (national debut; in black & white until the following year)
12:30 Spectrum: "Drugs Against Cancer: The Search"
1:00 People and Their World
1:20 Alive and About
1:40 Americans All
2:00 Talking Town
2:15 Young People's Concert
2:35 Planet Earth
3:00 World Press Review
4:00 Friendly Giant
4:15 Kindergarten
4:30 Misterogers Neighborhood
5:00 What's New
5:30 Exploring Math
6:10 People and Their World
6:30 Who Will Watch the Watchers?
7:00 What's New
7:30 Opinion: Washington
8:00 NET Journal
9:30 Repretory Theater
10:30 Speaking Freely