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Retro: Birmingham Thursday, January 25, 1968

From the Birmingham News. For the record,
WBMG/42 was still broadcasting its local programs
in black and white.

WBRC Ch. 6 (ABC, some CBS)

4:30 World Around Us
5 AM Christophers
5:30 Morning Devotional
5:35 Farm Market Report
5:50 Country Boy Eddie
7 AM Morning Show
8:25 Children's Doctor (ABC, 1:55 PM)
8:30 Love Of Life (CBS, 11 AM)
8:55 News
9 AM Dating Game (ABC, 3 PM)
9:30 Secret Storm (CBS, 3 PM)
10 AM Temptation (Not to be confused with the
upcoming "Sale Of The Century" remake,
this one showed three contestants three
showcases. They each picked a showcase
and won it if neither opponent also picked it.
Host Art James was dressed as a riverboat
gambler, with tux, ruffled shirt, and cigar.)
10:25 ABC News--Marlene Sanders
10:30 How's Your Mother-In-Law? (Chuck Barris
flop on which three comedians "defended"
contestants' mothers-in-law and tried to
get their "client" voted best by the audience.)
11 AM Bewitched
11:30 Treasure Isle (the notorious outdoor game from
Florida)
12 N The Fugitive
1 PM Newlywed Game
1:30 Baby Game (No, babies weren't the contestants--
parents tried to predict how babies would act
in pre-filmed situations.)
1:55 Local News
2 PM General Hospital
2:30 Dark Shadows
3 PM Young People's World
3:05 Huck And Yogi
3:30 Addams Family
4 PM Mike Douglas
5:05 News And Weather
5:15 ABC News--Bob Young
5:45 News, Weather, Sports
6 PM Rawhide
7 PM Marshal Dillon (the half-hour Gunsmokes)
7:30 Bewitched
8 PM That Girl
8:30 Peyton Place
9 PM Wagon Train
10:30 Alfred Hitchcock
11 PM News
11:10 Alfred Hitchcock (different episode)
11:45 Joey Bishop
1:15 News Headlines, Weather

WBIQ Ch. 10 (NET)

8:30 Arithmetic III
8:45 Science 6
9:05 Arithmetic II
9:20 Biology
9:50 Math 5
10:15 Science 5
10:45 Health Science
11:15 Citizenship
11:45 Arithmetic IV
12 N Geography
12:15 World Geography
12:45 Let's Learn More
1:15 Music Time I
1:45 Improve Reading
2:15 World Of Tomorrow
2:45 Film Feature: "Holiday"
3 PM Engineering Special
3:30 French Chef
4 PM Industrial Education
4:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5 PM What's New
5:30 Today's Math
6 PM Answer (I don't know if this is
the religious program "The Answer.")
6:30 Today's Home
7 PM Education Report
7:30 Art Of Seeing
8 PM Public Affairs (NET special on
upcoming Presidential primaries)
9 PM Tip-Off (Auburn-Kentucky highlights)
9:30 Koltanowski On Chess
10 PM Engineering Special
sign off 10:30 PM

WAPI (WVTM) Ch. 13 (NBC/CBS)

5:30 Sunrise Semester
6 AM Country Music Caravan
6:55 Morning Report
7 AM Today
8 AM Romper Room
8:30 Popeye And Cousin Cliff
9 AM Snap Judgment
9:25 Invitation To Beauty
9:30 Concentration
10 AM Personality
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11 AM Jeopardy!
11:30 Search For Tomorrow
11:45 Guiding Light
12 N News
12:15 Mid-Day
12:30 As The World Turns
1 PM Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
1:30 Art Linkletter's House Party
2 PM Another World
2:30 You Don't Say!
3 PM Match Game
3:25 Movie: "Once Upon A Horse" (It
stars Dan Rowan and Dick Martin.
Coincidentally or not, this is the
week "Laugh-In" debuted on NBC.)
5 PM News
5:30 Huntley-Brinkley Report
6 PM News, Sports, Weather
6:30 Daniel Boone
7:30 Ironside
8:30 Dragnet 1968
9 PM Dean Martin
10 PM Mannix (delay from Saturday 9 PM)
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:30 Movie: "Murder He Says"

WBMG (WIAT) Ch. 42 (CBS/NBC)

7:50 Meditation, Salute
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Candid Camera
9:30 Beverly Hillbillies
10 AM Andy Griffith
10:30 Dick Van dyke
11 AM Star Performance
11:30 Eye Guess
11:55 NBC News--Edwin Newman
12 N Men Into Space
12:30 Let's Make A Deal
1 PM Days Of Our Lives
1:30 The Doctors
2 PM To Tell The Truth
2:25 CBS News--Douglas Edwards
2:30 Edge Of Night
3 PM Topper
3:30 Science Fiction Theater
4 PM Rocky And His Friends
4:30 Dennis The Menace
5 PM Dick Tracy And Sgt. Jack
5:30 CBS News--Walter Cronkite
6 PM News, Stocks, Weather, Sports
6:30 Cimarron Strip
8 PM CBS Movie: "Where The Spies Are"
10 PM News, Weather, Sports
10:30 Tonight Show
12 M Salute, Meditation
 
bpatrick said:
From the Birmingham News.

WAPI (WVTM) Ch. 13 (NBC/CBS)

3:25 Movie: "Once Upon A Horse" (It
stars Dan Rowan and Dick Martin.
Coincidentally or not, this is the
week "Laugh-In" debuted on NBC.)

...I suspect not coincidentially; after all, the pilot for "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In" had run as a special on September 9, 1967, and was a huge smash. More than enough time to coordinate a cross-promotional scheduling between the series premiere and the afternoon movie screening on Channel 13's part...
 
bpatrick said:
WBRC Ch. 6 (ABC, some CBS)

3:05 Huck And Yogi

Sadly, the 'unlisted' host of this show -- Ward McIntyre -- passed away last month. He started out as Birmingham's "Bozo" on Channel 6, but when owner Taft dropped that franchise in favor of its own H-B toons, they rechristened Ward as "Quick Fire McIntyre." Bozo's last show was in this timeslot less than three weeks earlier (last telecast was Jan. 5).

By May, WBRC brass said "Quick, fire McIntyre!" ... and the show was canceled. (that joke came from Ward himself)

WAPI (WVTM) Ch. 13 (NBC/CBS)
8 AM Romper Room
8:30 Popeye And Cousin Cliff

The beginning of the end for a Birmingham legend. 13 had recently changed Cliff Holman's longtime hour-long (live) afternoon program to a pre-taped half-hour 8:30 a.m. slot. Kids who appeared on the show during the school year couldn't even watch it!!

About 18 months later, Cliff would leave to help put WHMA-TV on the air in Anniston (channel 40, now part of the "ABC-33/40" machine).

Romper Room's Birmingham schoolmarm at the time was "Miss Jane" (Hooper). Eat at Jack's Hamburgers, sit down when told, color in the lines, and always buy your toys at V.J. Elmore's, and all will be okay.

For more on the city's colorful childrens' show history, may I plug: http://www.birminghamrewound.com/features/kidvid_main.htm

--Russell
 
Re: Channel 42

Who were the anchors on 42's newscast then? IIRC, it would have been Bill Bolen (the venerable "Mr. Bolen" on Fox 6's "Good Day Alabama") reading the news, and Charley Wideman doing the weather. So, who did sports? Anyone know?
 
Charles1 said:
Re: Channel 42

Who were the anchors on 42's newscast then? IIRC, it would have been Bill Bolen (the venerable "Mr. Bolen" on Fox 6's "Good Day Alabama") reading the news, and Charley Wideman doing the weather. So, who did sports? Anyone know?

Not sure who had the sports during the '60s. For part of the '70s, Tommy Charles was 42's sportscaster.

Robert Harper was main anchor for much of the early to mid 1970s -- countless TV GUIDE adverts tout his "experience."

--Russell
 
Country Boy Eddie...

the gold standard for those of us who try to emulate country bumpkin radio. Yard sales, obituaries, civic clubs, old-fashioned music and conversation.

WBRC-Channel 6 used to air in the Montgomery area when I was little, and I surely remember watching Eddie before school.
 
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