1968 World Series question

[ixnay]

I was 13 in the fall of 1968. In those days, few kids were complaining about baseball games being too late at night to watch, expecially since most weekday night games weren't televised at all. But all those World Series games during the day were a huge nuisance, and with the game being played at a much faster pace back then, it was rare for a kid to see more than the last couple of innings, if that, after getting home from school.

I imagine weekday WS games were a nuisance to housewives forced to miss their soaps, too. My mother hates when Y&R is preempted by CBS for the round of 64 of March Madness every year. I always have to remind her of when NBC would preempt soaps and game shows for the Fall Classic.

And thanks for mentioning Eye Guess and You Don't Say! I vaguely remember those shows, which were the first time I heard of Bill Cullen and Tom Kennedy respectively (I turned 7 in the summer of '68).

ixnay

 

[CTListener]

I imagine weekday WS games were a nuisance to housewives forced to miss their soaps, too. My mother hates when Y&R is preempted by CBS for the round of 64 of March Madness every year. I always have to remind her of when NBC would preempt soaps and game shows for the Fall Classic.

And thanks for mentioning Eye Guess and You Don't Say! I vaguely remember those shows, which were the first time I heard of Bill Cullen and Tom Kennedy respectively (I turned 7 in the summer of '68).

ixnay

I loved game shows as a kid and Bill Cullen was by far my favorite host. He seemed to be hosting one or two new shows every season -- some of them midseason replacements -- and always brought enthusiasm and humor to the job.

Kennedy was excellent as well, and who can ever forget the line with which he closed every "You Don't Say!" program: "Remember, it's not what you say that counts. It's what you don't say!"

 

[paulsonj72]

My mom was different when she was alive. Soaps being preempted for NCAA tournament basketball didn't bother her. In fact she preferred hoops to the soap operas being aired.

 

[danderson6500]

I imagine weekday WS games were a nuisance to housewives forced to miss their soaps, too. My mother hates when Y&R is preempted by CBS for the round of 64 of March Madness every year. I always have to remind her of when NBC would preempt soaps and game shows for the Fall Classic.

And thanks for mentioning Eye Guess and You Don't Say! I vaguely remember those shows, which were the first time I heard of Bill Cullen and Tom Kennedy respectively (I turned 7 in the summer of '68).

ixnay

My grandmom watched AW, but that's the only NBC show she watched regularly. CBS ruled the day then. Cronkite, the soaps(expect AW), and prime time. She did watch Concentration on NBC and Jeopardy.

 

[Ccook55]

You Don't Say! and The Match Game were afterschool must-see-TV for me back then. I practically grew up on watching Bill Cullen on the original Price Is Right.

 

[danderson6500]

As I go through listings of newspapers from Google News Archive, game 6 of the 1968 World Series started at 1:30 PM ET. Local programming preceded it, so it would have aired straight through the rest of NBC's daytime programming up to 4 PM ET (Let's Make a Deal, Days of Our Lives, The Doctors, Another World, You Don't Say!). In the west, it's not clear what aired after the game as it would have ended at 1 PM, where The Doctors, Another World, You Don't Say! and The Match Game would normally air at that point. Perhaps the morning shows bumped for the game were aired on delay.

Wow. That was my grandmom's lineup then! (Let's Make a Deal, Days of Our Lives, The Doctors, Another World, You Don't Say!). But when the World Series was on, switch to CBS...Search For Tomorrow, As The World Turns, The Guiding Light, Love Is a Many Splendored Thing, To Tell The Truth, The Edge Of Night, Secret Storm. She did go out of order once, for GL's first half hour ep, when Bill Bauer had a heart transplant...

 

[danderson6500]

I loved game shows as a kid and Bill Cullen was by far my favorite host. He seemed to be hosting one or two new shows every season -- some of them midseason replacements -- and always brought enthusiasm and humor to the job.

Kennedy was excellent as well, and who can ever forget the line with which he closed every "You Don't Say!" program: "Remember, it's not what you say that counts. It's what you don't say!"

My grandmom loved Cullen on Price is Right. One her favorite parts was that Bill also livened up one of the least interesting parts of the show with a running gag. Each day's announcement of the Showcase contest included Don Pardo rattling off an exhaustive list of rules("Entries must be postmarked no later than midnight on June 13. Employees and their families of NBC and RCA are not eligible...") that took about a full minute. Bill would play with a different wind-up toy on each show as Pardo rattled off the script. Guiding Light, Another World and Edge of Night were her other favorites in the mid-60s. Not to mention Concentration with Hugh Downs.

 

[danderson6500]

As I go through listings of newspapers from Google News Archive, game 6 of the 1968 World Series started at 1:30 PM ET. Local programming preceded it, so it would have aired straight through the rest of NBC's daytime programming up to 4 PM ET (Let's Make a Deal, Days of Our Lives, The Doctors, Another World, You Don't Say!). In the west, it's not clear what aired after the game as it would have ended at 1 PM, where The Doctors, Another World, You Don't Say! and The Match Game would normally air at that point. Perhaps the morning shows bumped for the game were aired on delay.

My grandmother always said that NBC had no business preempting Days of Our Lives, The Doctors, and Another World for baseball, she'd always say that "why don't they put that on after the soap operas?" like if she only knew that. My grandad was so glad about it though.

 

[Deus Ex Machiato]

My grandmother always said that NBC had no business preempting Days of Our Lives, The Doctors, and Another World for baseball, she'd always say that "why don't they put that on after the soap operas?" like if she only knew that. My grandad was so glad about it though.

My mom watched Days religiously in the 70s and 80s, so I can understand your grandma's frustration. Then again, my dad got to be friends and fishing buddies with Jim Northrup and Bill Freehan from the 68 Tigers, so I think she'd be forgiving.