Source – TV Guide, Eastern New England edition
WKBG-TV 56 debuted this day, but is not listed. Here’s the write-up from the TV Guide:
Complete programing information for WKBG-TV, Ch. 56, Boston’s fifth commercial station, will be listed in next week’s issue of this edition. The new UHF station will colorcast and feature a variety of programs including live telecasts of the Boston Celtics and Boston Bruins road games. There will be approximately four full-length movies featured daily and special programs designed for young adults. Ch. 56 will sign on at 11:30 A.M. weekdays and at 8 A.M. Saturdays and Sundays.
Note: There will be no in-school programs on Chs. 2 and 38, due to the Christmas holidays. Classes will resume on Monday, January 2, 1967.
2 - WGBH Boston (Educational)
12:30p Brother Buzz – children (color)
02:00p Joyce Chen – cooking
02:30p Child Reading
04:45 The Friendly Giant
05:00p Brother Buzz (color)
05:30p What’s New – children; following a veterinarian at the Washington Zoo
06:00p Opinion in the Capital
06:30p News – Louis Lyons
06:45p Backgrounds
07:00p United States History
07:30p Master Class – Segovia
08:00p The French Chef “Buche de Noel” (yule log)
08:30p Museum Open House
09:00p N.E.T. Journal “A Second Chance” (examining Federal aid to the underprivileged)
10:00p News
10:30p Marketing on the Move “Marketing Goes International”
3 – WTIC Hartford (CBS)
06:30a Sunrise Semester
07:00a News, Weather
07:05a CBS News – Joseph Benti (color)
07:30a Perception – Dick Bertel
07:45a Your Community (color)
08:00a Captain Kangaroo – live animals: lamb, skunk
09:00a Hap Richards (color)
09:15a Wally Gator (color)
09:30a Leave it to Beaver “Beaver, the Bunny”
10:00a Candid Camera
10:30a Movie “I’d Climb the Highest Mountain” 1951 – Susan Hayward
12:00p Love of Life
12:25p CBS News – Joseph Benti (color)
12:30p Search for Tomorrow
12:45p The Guiding Light
01:00p Movie “Miracle in the Rain” part 1 1956
01:30p As The World Turns
02:00p Password – guests: Florence Henderson and Frank Gifford (color)
02:30p House Party (color)
03:00p To Tell the Truth
03:25p CBS News – Douglas Edwards
03:30p Dick Van Dyke
04:00p Ranger Andy (color)
04:30p Movie “Heidi” 1937 – Shirley Temple
06:05p Sports – Bob Steele
06:15p News – Bruce Kern
06:25p Weather
06:30p CBS Evening News – Walter Cronkite (color)
07:00p Movie “Kathy O’” 1958 – Patty McCormack (not sure when “Gilligan’s Island” and “Run, Buddy, Run”air; “The Lucy Show” airs Saturday @ 7p)
09:00p Andy Griffith “Goober Makes History” (color)
09:30p Family Affair “Mrs. Beasley, Where Are You?” (color)
10:00p Branded “Fill No Glass for Me” (color)
10:30p I’ve Got a Secret (color)
11:00p News, Sports, Weather
11:20p Movie “Mr. Soft Touch” 1949 – Glenn Ford
4 – WBZ Boston (NBC)
06:15a Sign On Seminar
06:45a Daily Almanac – Jack Chase, Don Kent
07:00a Today – novelist John Dos Pasos; producer/director Robert Wise; George Brockman, a civilian doctor who recently returned from Vietnam; a film report on Christmas in Germany (color)
09:00a Contact! – Bob Kennedy “Fashion forecast 1967”
10:25a NBC News – Sander Vanocur (color)
10:30a Concentration (color)
11:00a Pat Boone – guests: Sandy Baron from “Hey, Landlord!” and singer Susan Barrett (color)
11:30a Hollywood Squares – guests: Jan Murray, Ruta Lee, Vera Miles, Robert Morse, Morey Amsterdam, Wally Cox, Cliff “Charley Weaver” Arquette and Abby Dalton (color)
12:00p News – Jack Chase, Shelby Scott
12:15p Interview – Terry Carter
12:25p Weather – Don Kent
12:30p Mike Douglas – co-host is Peter Lawford; guests are John Davidson, Ann Howard, fashion designer Oleg Cassini, and Art Arfons, former holder of the world land speed record
02:00p Days of Our Lives (color)
02:30p The Doctors (color)
03:00p Another World (color)
03:30p You Don’t Say – guests: June Lockhart and Guy Williams (color)
04:00p Match Game – guests: Dr. Joyce Brothers and Robert Q. Lewis (color)
04:30p Leave it to Beaver
05:00p Merv Griffin – guests: Frank Sinarta Jr. , humorist S.J. Perelman and Art Linkletter
06:30p News – Arch Macdonald, Gene Pell, Shelby Scott
06:45p Sports – Bob Starr
06:55p Weather – Norm Macdonald
07:00p NBC Nightly News – Chet Huntley, David Brinkley (color)
07:30p The Monkees “Too Many Girls” (color)
08:00p Christmas Show – Merv Griffin (special); guests: Garry Moore, Arthur Treacher, ballet dancers Lupe Serrano and Scott Douglas; singer-actress Patricia Marland; singers Gilbert Price and David Soul; 12 year old singer-actor Frankie Michaels; and the choir from St. Michael’s Orphan Home on Staten Island (color) (“I Dream of Jeannie” and “Roger Miller” are pre-empted)
09:00p Perry Como (special) – guests: Metropolitan Opera star Anna Moffo and comic Senor Wences (color) (“Road West” will not be seen)
10:00p Run for Your Life “Time and a Half on Christmas Eve” (color)
11:00p News – Gene Pell, Duke Wade
11:10p Weather – Norm Macdonald
11:15p Sports – Bob Starr
11:20p News – Duke Wade
11:30p Johnny Carson – guests: Steve McQueen, George Carlin (color)
01:00a Movie “Paris Model” 1953
5 – WHDH Boston (CBS)
06:00a Sunrise Semester
06:30a Farming – Joe Kelly (color)
06:45a We Believe – religion (color)
07:00a The A.M. Show – Jack Hynes, Ray Walker, Judy Fraser (color)
08:00a Captain Kangaroo – live animals: lamb, skunk
09:00a Romper Room – Miss Jean (color)
09:30a Classroom Five – Education; Norman D. Harris, Needham Science Center, discusses and shows four typical mammals
10:00a Candid Camera
10:30a The Beverly Hillbillies
11:00a Andy Griffith
11:30a Dick Van Dyke
12:00p Love of Life
12:25p CBS News – Joseph Benti (color)
12:30p Search for Tomorrow
12:45p The Guiding Light
01:00p PDQ – game; guests are Shari Lewis, Dick Patterson and Robert Q. Lewis (color)
01:30p As The World Turns
02:00p Password – guests: Florence Henderson and Frank Gifford (color)
02:30p House Party (color)
03:00p To Tell the Truth
03:25p CBS News – Douglas Edwards
03:30p The Edge of Night
04:00p The Secret Storm
04:30p Bozo the Clown (color)
05:30p Lawman “The Lady Belle”
06:00p News – Vin Maloney (color)
06:15p Sports – Don Gillis (color)
06:25p Weather – Bob Copeland (color)
06:30p CBS Evening News – Walter Cronkite (color)
07:00p Channel 5 Reports (color)
07:30p Children’s Classic (special) – a musical version of “Jack and the Beanstalk” (color) (“Gilligan’s Island” and “Run, Buddy, Run” will not be seen tonight)
08:30p Lucille Ball (The Lucy Show) “Lucy and the Submarine” (color)
09:00p Andy Griffith “Goober Makes History” (color)
09:30p Family Affair “Mrs. Beasley, Where Are You?” (color)
10:00p To Tell the Truth (color)
10:30p I’ve Got a Secret (color)
11:00p News – Peter Hyams, Roger Goodrich (color)
11:15p Weather – Bob Copeland (color)
11:20p Sports – Don Gillis (color)
11:30p News – Peter Hyams, Roger Goodrich (color)
12:00a Cheyenne “The Brand”
6 – WTEV New Bedford (ABC)
06:45a News – Jack Delaney
07:00a B’Wana Don – children
07:30a Funtime – Uncle Bruce (color)
08:45a News – Jack Delaney
09:00a Woman – Athena Parker
09:25a News – Jack Delaney
09:30a Highway Patrol
10:00a Community – Bob Bassett; members of the Trinity Square Playhouse discuss their current production
10:25a News – Jack Delaney
10:30a Dark Shadows
11:00a Supermarket Sweep
11:30a Dating Game
12:00p Donna Reed
12:30p Father Knows Best
01:00p Ben Casey
02:00p Newlywed Game
02:30p Dream Girl (debut) – single girls compete for the “Dream Girl” title (the show would run through 1967); guests: Troy Donahue, Ross Martin, Lee Meriwether and Paul Peterson; host: Dick Stewart
02:55p ABC News – Marlene Sanders
03:00p General Hospital
03:30p The Nurses
04:00p Funtime – Uncle Bruce (color)
04:30p The Cisco Kid (color)
05:00p Where the Action Is – performers: Peter and Gordon, Keith Allison
05:30p News – Truman Taylor
05:35p Weather – Bill O’Brien
05:40p Sports – Bob Bassett
05:45p ABC Evening News – Peter Jennings
06:00p The Rifleman “End of the Hunt”
06:30p Twilight Zone “Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up”
07:00p Lawman “The Juror”
07:30p Iron Horse “A Dozen Ways to Kill a Man” (color)
08:30p Rat Patrol “The Last Harbor Raid Episode I” (color)
09:00p Felony Squad “A Penny Game, a Two-Bit Murder” (color)
09:30p Peyton Place (color)
10:00p The Big Valley “Hide The Children” (color)
11:00p News – Truman Taylor
11:10p Sports – Bob Bassett
11:15p Movie “Forever Amber” 1947
01:00a Checkmate “The Bold and the Tough”
7 – WNAC Boston (ABC)
06:25a Farm and Market Report
06:30a Understanding Our World
07:00a Cartoons – Major Mudd
08:30a Linus, the Lionhearted
09:00a Gypsy Rose Lee – panel; guests are Gisele MacKenzie and Sybil Leek, who claims to be a witch (color)
09:30a Girl Talk – Virginia Graham; guests are actress Maureen Stapleton and comedienne Kaye Ballard
10:00a Newlywed Game
10:30a General Hospital
11:00a Supermarket Sweep
11:30a Dating Game
12:00p Donna Reed
12:30p Father Knows Best
01:00p Ben Casey
02:00p Movie “China Girl” 1942
03:25p News, Weather
03:30p 77 Sunset Strip “The Valley Caper”
04:30p Super Heroes (color)
05:00p Dennis the Menace “Dennis Runs Away”
05:30p Superman
06:00p News – John Henning
06:10p Weather – Roland Boucher
06:15p ABC Evening News – Peter Jennings
06:30p Mr. Ed “Ed’s Ancestors”
07:00p Have Gun-Will Travel
07:30p Iron Horse “A Dozen Ways to Kill a Man” (color)
08:30p Rat Patrol “The Last Harbor Raid Episode I” (color)
09:00p Felony Squad “A Penny Game, a Two-Bit Murder” (color)
09:30p Peyton Place (color)
10:00p Movie “Ma and Pa Kettle at Home” 1954 (“The Big Valley” airs Saturday @ 10:30p)
11:00p News – John Henning
11:10p Sports – John Callaghan
11:15p Movie – continuation of “Ma and Pa Kettle at Home”
12:00a Movie “Rock Island Trail” 1950
8 – WNHC New Haven (ABC)
06:40a News
06:45a Conversations – religion
07:00a Operation Alphabet
07:30a Mr. Goober – children (color)
08:30a Mickey Mouse Club
09:00a Girl Talk – panel; guests are singer-actress Sally Ann Howes, actress Lila Burkeman and columnist Maggi Daly
09:30a Divorce Court
10:30a Dark Shadows
11:00a Supermarket Sweep
11:30a Dating Game
12:00p Mike Douglas (no guests listed)
01:30p The Nurses
02:00p Newlywed Game
02:30p Dream Girl (debut) – single girls compete for the “Dream Girl” title (the show would run through 1967); guests: Troy Donahue, Ross Martin, Lee Meriwether and Paul Peterson; host: Dick Stewart
02:55p ABC News – Marlene Sanders
03:00p General Hospital
03:30p Mr. Goober – children (color)
04:55p Mike Douglas – co-host is Peter Lawford; guests are John Davidson, Ann Howard, fashion designer Oleg Cassini, and Art Arfons, former holder of the world land speed record
06:25p Skiing – Steen Erickson
06:30p News, Weather (color)
06:45p ABC Evening News – Peter Jennings
07:00p Twilight Zone “The Passerby”
07:30p Iron Horse “A Dozen Ways to Kill a Man” (color)
08:30p Rat Patrol “The Last Harbor Raid Episode I” (color)
09:00p Felony Squad “A Penny Game, a Two-Bit Murder” (color)
09:30p Peyton Place (color)
10:00p The Big Valley “Hide The Children” (color)
11:00p News, Weather (color)
11:20p Movie “Roughly Speaking” 1945 – Rosalind Russell
01:05a Tell Me, Dr. Brothers
9 – WMUR Manchester (ABC)
09:30a Clyde Joy – music
10:00a News- Ron Ripley
10:05a Movie “Sagebrush Troubador” – Gene Autry
11:00a Supermarket Sweep
11:30a Dating Game
12:00p Donna Reed
12:30p Father Knows Best
01:00p Ben Casey
02:00p Newlywed Game
02:30p Dream Girl (debut) – single girls compete for the “Dream Girl” title (the show would run through 1967); guests: Troy Donahue, Ross Martin, Lee Meriwether and Paul Peterson; host: Dick Stewart
02:55p ABC News – Marlene Sanders
03:00p General Hospital
03:30p The Nurses
04:00p Dark Shadows
04:30p Where the Action Is – guests: Roger Williams and Tommy Roe
05:00p Uncle Gus – cartoons
06:00p Highway Patrol
06:30p News – Ron Ripley
06:40p Weather – Gus Bernier (this may have been “The Atlantic Weatherman”)
06:45p ABC Evening News – Peter Jennings
07:00p Sea Hunt
07:30p Iron Horse “A Dozen Ways to Kill a Man” (color)
08:30p Rat Patrol “The Last Harbor Raid Episode I” (color)
09:00p Felony Squad “A Penny Game, a Two-Bit Murder” (color)
09:30p Peyton Place (color)
10:00p The Big Valley “Hide The Children” (color)
11:00p News, Weather – Ron Ripley
11:15p Movie “It! The Terror from Beyond Space” 1958
10 – WJAR Providence (NBC)
06:25a TV Classroom
06:55a Today in New England
07:00a Today – novelist John Dos Pasos; producer/director Robert Wise; George Brockman, a civilian doctor who recently returned from Vietnam; a film report on Christmas in Germany (color)
09:00a Talk of the Town – Jay Kroll
09:30a The World Around Us – nature
09:55a News, Weather
10:25a NBC News – Sander Vanocur (color)
10:30a Concentration (color)
11:00a Pat Boone – guests: Sandy Baron from “Hey, Landlord!” and singer Susan Barrett (color)
11:30a Hollywood Squares – guests: Jan Murray, Ruta Lee, Vera Miles, Robert Morse, Morey Amsterdam, Wally Cox, Cliff “Charley Weaver” Arquette and Abby Dalton (color)
12:00p Jeopardy (color)
12:30p Swingin’ Country – guest: LeRoy Van Dyke, host: Rusty Draper (color)
12:55p Doctor’s House Call
01:00p Gypsy Rose Lee – panel; guests: actress Arlene Harris and cookbook author Ruth Horowitz
01:30p Let’s Make a Deal (color)
01:55p NBC News – Nancy Dickerson (color)
02:00p Days of Our Lives (color)
02:30p The Doctors (color)
03:00p Another World (color)
03:30p You Don’t Say – guests: June Lockhart and Guy Williams (color)
04:00p Match Game – guests: Dr. Joyce Brothers and Robert Q. Lewis (color)
04:30p Leave it to Beaver “The Dramatic Club”
05:00p Movie “Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation” 1938
06:15p News – Dick Wood
06:25p Weather – Bunny North
06:30p NBC Nightly News – Chet Huntley, David Brinkley (color)
07:00p Movie “Gideon of Scotland Yard” 1958 (WJAR did not clear “The Monkees” – it ran on WTEV on Saturday @ 7p; WJAR aired “I Dream of Jeannie” Saturday @ 6:30p and “Roger Miller” Saturday @ 7p)
09:00p Perry Como (special) – guests: Metropolitan Opera star Anna Moffo and comic Senor Wences (color) (“Road West” will not be seen)
10:00p Run for Your Life “Time and a Half on Christmas Eve” (color)
11:00p News – Bob Cain
11:10p Weather – Bunny North
11:20p Johnny Carson – guests: Steve McQueen and George Carlin (color)
12 – WPRO Providence (CBS)
06:30a Face the News – panel
07:00a Three Stooges, Popeye
07:45a The King and Odie – cartoon
08:00a Captain Kangaroo – live animals: lamb, skunk
08:30a Romper Room – Miss Bonnie
09:00a Dialing for Dollars
10:00a Candid Camera
10:30a Mike Douglas – co-host is Peter Lawford; guests are John Davidson, Ann Howard, fashion designer Oleg Cassini, and Art Arfons, former holder of the world land speed record
11:30a Dick Van Dyke
12:00p Love of Life
12:25p CBS News – Joseph Benti (color)
12:30p Search for Tomorrow
12:45p The Guiding Light
01:00p Girl Talk – Virginia Graham; guests: British actress Patricia Routledge (who would become better known for “Keeping Up Appearances”), magazine writer Muriel Davidson and handwriting expert Dorothy Sara.
01:30p As The World Turns
02:00p Direct Question – interview
02:30p House Party (color)
03:00p To Tell the Truth
03:25p CBS News – Douglas Edwards
03:30p The Edge of Night
04:00p Super Heroes – cartoon
05:00p Merv Griffin – guests: Frank Sinarta Jr. , humorist S.J. Perelman and Art Linkletter
06:25p Ski Tips – Stein (color)
06:30p CBS Evening News – Walter Cronkite (color)
07:00p News – Ed Kane, Steve Schatz
07:15p Sports – Chris Clark
07:20p Weather – Howie Holland
07:25p Master Key – Hank Bouchard
07:30p Children’s Classic (special) – a musical version of “Jack and the Beanstalk” (color) (“Gilligan’s Island” and “Run, Buddy, Run” will not be seen tonight)
08:30p Lucille Ball (The Lucy Show) “Lucy and the Submarine” (color)
09:00p Andy Griffith “Goober Makes History” (color)
09:30p Family Affair “Mrs. Beasley, Where Are You?” (color)
10:00p To Tell the Truth (color)
10:30p I’ve Got a Secret (color)
11:00p News – Mort Blender, Steve Schatz
11:15p Weather – Hank Bouchard
11:25p Sports – Chris Clark
11:30p Movie “Sky Full of Moon” 1952
14 – WJZB Worcester (Ind) – channel 14 does not colorcast
06:20p Sports – Bill Rasmussen (from WWLP Springfield)
06:30p NBC Nightly News – Chet Huntley, David Brinkley
07:00p News, Weather (from WWLP Springfield)
07:15p Highlights – Tom Colton (also from WWLP)
07:30p Men Into Space
08:00p Cannonball
08:30p Highway Patrol
09:00p Championship Bowling
38 – WSBK Boston (Ind)
11:30a Jack LaLanne (color)
12:00p Concentration (color ) – from NBC
12:30p Swingin’ Country – guest: LeRoy Van Dyke, host: Rusty Draper (color) – from NBC
12:55p NBC News – Edwin Newman – from NBC
01:00p I Led Three Lives
01:30p Let’s Make a Deal (color) – from NBC
01:55p NBC News – Nancy Dickerson (color) – from NBC
02:00p Ann Sothern
02:30p Dream Girl (debut) – single girls compete for the “Dream Girl” title (the show would run through 1967); guests: Troy Donahue, Ross Martin, Lee Meriwether and Paul Peterson; host: Dick Stewart – from ABC
02:55p ABC News – Marlene Sanders – from ABC
03:00p Mr. District Attorney
03:30p The Nurses – from ABC
04:00p Dark Shadows – from ABC
04:30p Where the Action Is – guests: Roger Williams and Tommy Roe – from ABC
05:00p The Munsters
05:30p Cartoons
06:00p Supercar
06:30p Soupy Sales
07:00p You Asked For It – Jack Smith
07:30p Perry Mason
08:30p Movie “Flamingo Road” 1949 – Joan Crawford
10:30p Stump the Stars – Mike Stokey
11:00p Movie “Jezebel” 1938- Bette Davis, Henry Fonda
WKBG-TV 56 debuted this day, but is not listed. Here’s the write-up from the TV Guide:
Complete programing information for WKBG-TV, Ch. 56, Boston’s fifth commercial station, will be listed in next week’s issue of this edition. The new UHF station will colorcast and feature a variety of programs including live telecasts of the Boston Celtics and Boston Bruins road games. There will be approximately four full-length movies featured daily and special programs designed for young adults. Ch. 56 will sign on at 11:30 A.M. weekdays and at 8 A.M. Saturdays and Sundays.
Note: There will be no in-school programs on Chs. 2 and 38, due to the Christmas holidays. Classes will resume on Monday, January 2, 1967.
2 - WGBH Boston (Educational)
12:30p Brother Buzz – children (color)
02:00p Joyce Chen – cooking
02:30p Child Reading
04:45 The Friendly Giant
05:00p Brother Buzz (color)
05:30p What’s New – children; following a veterinarian at the Washington Zoo
06:00p Opinion in the Capital
06:30p News – Louis Lyons
06:45p Backgrounds
07:00p United States History
07:30p Master Class – Segovia
08:00p The French Chef “Buche de Noel” (yule log)
08:30p Museum Open House
09:00p N.E.T. Journal “A Second Chance” (examining Federal aid to the underprivileged)
10:00p News
10:30p Marketing on the Move “Marketing Goes International”
3 – WTIC Hartford (CBS)
06:30a Sunrise Semester
07:00a News, Weather
07:05a CBS News – Joseph Benti (color)
07:30a Perception – Dick Bertel
07:45a Your Community (color)
08:00a Captain Kangaroo – live animals: lamb, skunk
09:00a Hap Richards (color)
09:15a Wally Gator (color)
09:30a Leave it to Beaver “Beaver, the Bunny”
10:00a Candid Camera
10:30a Movie “I’d Climb the Highest Mountain” 1951 – Susan Hayward
12:00p Love of Life
12:25p CBS News – Joseph Benti (color)
12:30p Search for Tomorrow
12:45p The Guiding Light
01:00p Movie “Miracle in the Rain” part 1 1956
01:30p As The World Turns
02:00p Password – guests: Florence Henderson and Frank Gifford (color)
02:30p House Party (color)
03:00p To Tell the Truth
03:25p CBS News – Douglas Edwards
03:30p Dick Van Dyke
04:00p Ranger Andy (color)
04:30p Movie “Heidi” 1937 – Shirley Temple
06:05p Sports – Bob Steele
06:15p News – Bruce Kern
06:25p Weather
06:30p CBS Evening News – Walter Cronkite (color)
07:00p Movie “Kathy O’” 1958 – Patty McCormack (not sure when “Gilligan’s Island” and “Run, Buddy, Run”air; “The Lucy Show” airs Saturday @ 7p)
09:00p Andy Griffith “Goober Makes History” (color)
09:30p Family Affair “Mrs. Beasley, Where Are You?” (color)
10:00p Branded “Fill No Glass for Me” (color)
10:30p I’ve Got a Secret (color)
11:00p News, Sports, Weather
11:20p Movie “Mr. Soft Touch” 1949 – Glenn Ford
4 – WBZ Boston (NBC)
06:15a Sign On Seminar
06:45a Daily Almanac – Jack Chase, Don Kent
07:00a Today – novelist John Dos Pasos; producer/director Robert Wise; George Brockman, a civilian doctor who recently returned from Vietnam; a film report on Christmas in Germany (color)
09:00a Contact! – Bob Kennedy “Fashion forecast 1967”
10:25a NBC News – Sander Vanocur (color)
10:30a Concentration (color)
11:00a Pat Boone – guests: Sandy Baron from “Hey, Landlord!” and singer Susan Barrett (color)
11:30a Hollywood Squares – guests: Jan Murray, Ruta Lee, Vera Miles, Robert Morse, Morey Amsterdam, Wally Cox, Cliff “Charley Weaver” Arquette and Abby Dalton (color)
12:00p News – Jack Chase, Shelby Scott
12:15p Interview – Terry Carter
12:25p Weather – Don Kent
12:30p Mike Douglas – co-host is Peter Lawford; guests are John Davidson, Ann Howard, fashion designer Oleg Cassini, and Art Arfons, former holder of the world land speed record
02:00p Days of Our Lives (color)
02:30p The Doctors (color)
03:00p Another World (color)
03:30p You Don’t Say – guests: June Lockhart and Guy Williams (color)
04:00p Match Game – guests: Dr. Joyce Brothers and Robert Q. Lewis (color)
04:30p Leave it to Beaver
05:00p Merv Griffin – guests: Frank Sinarta Jr. , humorist S.J. Perelman and Art Linkletter
06:30p News – Arch Macdonald, Gene Pell, Shelby Scott
06:45p Sports – Bob Starr
06:55p Weather – Norm Macdonald
07:00p NBC Nightly News – Chet Huntley, David Brinkley (color)
07:30p The Monkees “Too Many Girls” (color)
08:00p Christmas Show – Merv Griffin (special); guests: Garry Moore, Arthur Treacher, ballet dancers Lupe Serrano and Scott Douglas; singer-actress Patricia Marland; singers Gilbert Price and David Soul; 12 year old singer-actor Frankie Michaels; and the choir from St. Michael’s Orphan Home on Staten Island (color) (“I Dream of Jeannie” and “Roger Miller” are pre-empted)
09:00p Perry Como (special) – guests: Metropolitan Opera star Anna Moffo and comic Senor Wences (color) (“Road West” will not be seen)
10:00p Run for Your Life “Time and a Half on Christmas Eve” (color)
11:00p News – Gene Pell, Duke Wade
11:10p Weather – Norm Macdonald
11:15p Sports – Bob Starr
11:20p News – Duke Wade
11:30p Johnny Carson – guests: Steve McQueen, George Carlin (color)
01:00a Movie “Paris Model” 1953
5 – WHDH Boston (CBS)
06:00a Sunrise Semester
06:30a Farming – Joe Kelly (color)
06:45a We Believe – religion (color)
07:00a The A.M. Show – Jack Hynes, Ray Walker, Judy Fraser (color)
08:00a Captain Kangaroo – live animals: lamb, skunk
09:00a Romper Room – Miss Jean (color)
09:30a Classroom Five – Education; Norman D. Harris, Needham Science Center, discusses and shows four typical mammals
10:00a Candid Camera
10:30a The Beverly Hillbillies
11:00a Andy Griffith
11:30a Dick Van Dyke
12:00p Love of Life
12:25p CBS News – Joseph Benti (color)
12:30p Search for Tomorrow
12:45p The Guiding Light
01:00p PDQ – game; guests are Shari Lewis, Dick Patterson and Robert Q. Lewis (color)
01:30p As The World Turns
02:00p Password – guests: Florence Henderson and Frank Gifford (color)
02:30p House Party (color)
03:00p To Tell the Truth
03:25p CBS News – Douglas Edwards
03:30p The Edge of Night
04:00p The Secret Storm
04:30p Bozo the Clown (color)
05:30p Lawman “The Lady Belle”
06:00p News – Vin Maloney (color)
06:15p Sports – Don Gillis (color)
06:25p Weather – Bob Copeland (color)
06:30p CBS Evening News – Walter Cronkite (color)
07:00p Channel 5 Reports (color)
07:30p Children’s Classic (special) – a musical version of “Jack and the Beanstalk” (color) (“Gilligan’s Island” and “Run, Buddy, Run” will not be seen tonight)
08:30p Lucille Ball (The Lucy Show) “Lucy and the Submarine” (color)
09:00p Andy Griffith “Goober Makes History” (color)
09:30p Family Affair “Mrs. Beasley, Where Are You?” (color)
10:00p To Tell the Truth (color)
10:30p I’ve Got a Secret (color)
11:00p News – Peter Hyams, Roger Goodrich (color)
11:15p Weather – Bob Copeland (color)
11:20p Sports – Don Gillis (color)
11:30p News – Peter Hyams, Roger Goodrich (color)
12:00a Cheyenne “The Brand”
6 – WTEV New Bedford (ABC)
06:45a News – Jack Delaney
07:00a B’Wana Don – children
07:30a Funtime – Uncle Bruce (color)
08:45a News – Jack Delaney
09:00a Woman – Athena Parker
09:25a News – Jack Delaney
09:30a Highway Patrol
10:00a Community – Bob Bassett; members of the Trinity Square Playhouse discuss their current production
10:25a News – Jack Delaney
10:30a Dark Shadows
11:00a Supermarket Sweep
11:30a Dating Game
12:00p Donna Reed
12:30p Father Knows Best
01:00p Ben Casey
02:00p Newlywed Game
02:30p Dream Girl (debut) – single girls compete for the “Dream Girl” title (the show would run through 1967); guests: Troy Donahue, Ross Martin, Lee Meriwether and Paul Peterson; host: Dick Stewart
02:55p ABC News – Marlene Sanders
03:00p General Hospital
03:30p The Nurses
04:00p Funtime – Uncle Bruce (color)
04:30p The Cisco Kid (color)
05:00p Where the Action Is – performers: Peter and Gordon, Keith Allison
05:30p News – Truman Taylor
05:35p Weather – Bill O’Brien
05:40p Sports – Bob Bassett
05:45p ABC Evening News – Peter Jennings
06:00p The Rifleman “End of the Hunt”
06:30p Twilight Zone “Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up”
07:00p Lawman “The Juror”
07:30p Iron Horse “A Dozen Ways to Kill a Man” (color)
08:30p Rat Patrol “The Last Harbor Raid Episode I” (color)
09:00p Felony Squad “A Penny Game, a Two-Bit Murder” (color)
09:30p Peyton Place (color)
10:00p The Big Valley “Hide The Children” (color)
11:00p News – Truman Taylor
11:10p Sports – Bob Bassett
11:15p Movie “Forever Amber” 1947
01:00a Checkmate “The Bold and the Tough”
7 – WNAC Boston (ABC)
06:25a Farm and Market Report
06:30a Understanding Our World
07:00a Cartoons – Major Mudd
08:30a Linus, the Lionhearted
09:00a Gypsy Rose Lee – panel; guests are Gisele MacKenzie and Sybil Leek, who claims to be a witch (color)
09:30a Girl Talk – Virginia Graham; guests are actress Maureen Stapleton and comedienne Kaye Ballard
10:00a Newlywed Game
10:30a General Hospital
11:00a Supermarket Sweep
11:30a Dating Game
12:00p Donna Reed
12:30p Father Knows Best
01:00p Ben Casey
02:00p Movie “China Girl” 1942
03:25p News, Weather
03:30p 77 Sunset Strip “The Valley Caper”
04:30p Super Heroes (color)
05:00p Dennis the Menace “Dennis Runs Away”
05:30p Superman
06:00p News – John Henning
06:10p Weather – Roland Boucher
06:15p ABC Evening News – Peter Jennings
06:30p Mr. Ed “Ed’s Ancestors”
07:00p Have Gun-Will Travel
07:30p Iron Horse “A Dozen Ways to Kill a Man” (color)
08:30p Rat Patrol “The Last Harbor Raid Episode I” (color)
09:00p Felony Squad “A Penny Game, a Two-Bit Murder” (color)
09:30p Peyton Place (color)
10:00p Movie “Ma and Pa Kettle at Home” 1954 (“The Big Valley” airs Saturday @ 10:30p)
11:00p News – John Henning
11:10p Sports – John Callaghan
11:15p Movie – continuation of “Ma and Pa Kettle at Home”
12:00a Movie “Rock Island Trail” 1950
8 – WNHC New Haven (ABC)
06:40a News
06:45a Conversations – religion
07:00a Operation Alphabet
07:30a Mr. Goober – children (color)
08:30a Mickey Mouse Club
09:00a Girl Talk – panel; guests are singer-actress Sally Ann Howes, actress Lila Burkeman and columnist Maggi Daly
09:30a Divorce Court
10:30a Dark Shadows
11:00a Supermarket Sweep
11:30a Dating Game
12:00p Mike Douglas (no guests listed)
01:30p The Nurses
02:00p Newlywed Game
02:30p Dream Girl (debut) – single girls compete for the “Dream Girl” title (the show would run through 1967); guests: Troy Donahue, Ross Martin, Lee Meriwether and Paul Peterson; host: Dick Stewart
02:55p ABC News – Marlene Sanders
03:00p General Hospital
03:30p Mr. Goober – children (color)
04:55p Mike Douglas – co-host is Peter Lawford; guests are John Davidson, Ann Howard, fashion designer Oleg Cassini, and Art Arfons, former holder of the world land speed record
06:25p Skiing – Steen Erickson
06:30p News, Weather (color)
06:45p ABC Evening News – Peter Jennings
07:00p Twilight Zone “The Passerby”
07:30p Iron Horse “A Dozen Ways to Kill a Man” (color)
08:30p Rat Patrol “The Last Harbor Raid Episode I” (color)
09:00p Felony Squad “A Penny Game, a Two-Bit Murder” (color)
09:30p Peyton Place (color)
10:00p The Big Valley “Hide The Children” (color)
11:00p News, Weather (color)
11:20p Movie “Roughly Speaking” 1945 – Rosalind Russell
01:05a Tell Me, Dr. Brothers
9 – WMUR Manchester (ABC)
09:30a Clyde Joy – music
10:00a News- Ron Ripley
10:05a Movie “Sagebrush Troubador” – Gene Autry
11:00a Supermarket Sweep
11:30a Dating Game
12:00p Donna Reed
12:30p Father Knows Best
01:00p Ben Casey
02:00p Newlywed Game
02:30p Dream Girl (debut) – single girls compete for the “Dream Girl” title (the show would run through 1967); guests: Troy Donahue, Ross Martin, Lee Meriwether and Paul Peterson; host: Dick Stewart
02:55p ABC News – Marlene Sanders
03:00p General Hospital
03:30p The Nurses
04:00p Dark Shadows
04:30p Where the Action Is – guests: Roger Williams and Tommy Roe
05:00p Uncle Gus – cartoons
06:00p Highway Patrol
06:30p News – Ron Ripley
06:40p Weather – Gus Bernier (this may have been “The Atlantic Weatherman”)
06:45p ABC Evening News – Peter Jennings
07:00p Sea Hunt
07:30p Iron Horse “A Dozen Ways to Kill a Man” (color)
08:30p Rat Patrol “The Last Harbor Raid Episode I” (color)
09:00p Felony Squad “A Penny Game, a Two-Bit Murder” (color)
09:30p Peyton Place (color)
10:00p The Big Valley “Hide The Children” (color)
11:00p News, Weather – Ron Ripley
11:15p Movie “It! The Terror from Beyond Space” 1958
10 – WJAR Providence (NBC)
06:25a TV Classroom
06:55a Today in New England
07:00a Today – novelist John Dos Pasos; producer/director Robert Wise; George Brockman, a civilian doctor who recently returned from Vietnam; a film report on Christmas in Germany (color)
09:00a Talk of the Town – Jay Kroll
09:30a The World Around Us – nature
09:55a News, Weather
10:25a NBC News – Sander Vanocur (color)
10:30a Concentration (color)
11:00a Pat Boone – guests: Sandy Baron from “Hey, Landlord!” and singer Susan Barrett (color)
11:30a Hollywood Squares – guests: Jan Murray, Ruta Lee, Vera Miles, Robert Morse, Morey Amsterdam, Wally Cox, Cliff “Charley Weaver” Arquette and Abby Dalton (color)
12:00p Jeopardy (color)
12:30p Swingin’ Country – guest: LeRoy Van Dyke, host: Rusty Draper (color)
12:55p Doctor’s House Call
01:00p Gypsy Rose Lee – panel; guests: actress Arlene Harris and cookbook author Ruth Horowitz
01:30p Let’s Make a Deal (color)
01:55p NBC News – Nancy Dickerson (color)
02:00p Days of Our Lives (color)
02:30p The Doctors (color)
03:00p Another World (color)
03:30p You Don’t Say – guests: June Lockhart and Guy Williams (color)
04:00p Match Game – guests: Dr. Joyce Brothers and Robert Q. Lewis (color)
04:30p Leave it to Beaver “The Dramatic Club”
05:00p Movie “Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation” 1938
06:15p News – Dick Wood
06:25p Weather – Bunny North
06:30p NBC Nightly News – Chet Huntley, David Brinkley (color)
07:00p Movie “Gideon of Scotland Yard” 1958 (WJAR did not clear “The Monkees” – it ran on WTEV on Saturday @ 7p; WJAR aired “I Dream of Jeannie” Saturday @ 6:30p and “Roger Miller” Saturday @ 7p)
09:00p Perry Como (special) – guests: Metropolitan Opera star Anna Moffo and comic Senor Wences (color) (“Road West” will not be seen)
10:00p Run for Your Life “Time and a Half on Christmas Eve” (color)
11:00p News – Bob Cain
11:10p Weather – Bunny North
11:20p Johnny Carson – guests: Steve McQueen and George Carlin (color)
12 – WPRO Providence (CBS)
06:30a Face the News – panel
07:00a Three Stooges, Popeye
07:45a The King and Odie – cartoon
08:00a Captain Kangaroo – live animals: lamb, skunk
08:30a Romper Room – Miss Bonnie
09:00a Dialing for Dollars
10:00a Candid Camera
10:30a Mike Douglas – co-host is Peter Lawford; guests are John Davidson, Ann Howard, fashion designer Oleg Cassini, and Art Arfons, former holder of the world land speed record
11:30a Dick Van Dyke
12:00p Love of Life
12:25p CBS News – Joseph Benti (color)
12:30p Search for Tomorrow
12:45p The Guiding Light
01:00p Girl Talk – Virginia Graham; guests: British actress Patricia Routledge (who would become better known for “Keeping Up Appearances”), magazine writer Muriel Davidson and handwriting expert Dorothy Sara.
01:30p As The World Turns
02:00p Direct Question – interview
02:30p House Party (color)
03:00p To Tell the Truth
03:25p CBS News – Douglas Edwards
03:30p The Edge of Night
04:00p Super Heroes – cartoon
05:00p Merv Griffin – guests: Frank Sinarta Jr. , humorist S.J. Perelman and Art Linkletter
06:25p Ski Tips – Stein (color)
06:30p CBS Evening News – Walter Cronkite (color)
07:00p News – Ed Kane, Steve Schatz
07:15p Sports – Chris Clark
07:20p Weather – Howie Holland
07:25p Master Key – Hank Bouchard
07:30p Children’s Classic (special) – a musical version of “Jack and the Beanstalk” (color) (“Gilligan’s Island” and “Run, Buddy, Run” will not be seen tonight)
08:30p Lucille Ball (The Lucy Show) “Lucy and the Submarine” (color)
09:00p Andy Griffith “Goober Makes History” (color)
09:30p Family Affair “Mrs. Beasley, Where Are You?” (color)
10:00p To Tell the Truth (color)
10:30p I’ve Got a Secret (color)
11:00p News – Mort Blender, Steve Schatz
11:15p Weather – Hank Bouchard
11:25p Sports – Chris Clark
11:30p Movie “Sky Full of Moon” 1952
14 – WJZB Worcester (Ind) – channel 14 does not colorcast
06:20p Sports – Bill Rasmussen (from WWLP Springfield)
06:30p NBC Nightly News – Chet Huntley, David Brinkley
07:00p News, Weather (from WWLP Springfield)
07:15p Highlights – Tom Colton (also from WWLP)
07:30p Men Into Space
08:00p Cannonball
08:30p Highway Patrol
09:00p Championship Bowling
38 – WSBK Boston (Ind)
11:30a Jack LaLanne (color)
12:00p Concentration (color ) – from NBC
12:30p Swingin’ Country – guest: LeRoy Van Dyke, host: Rusty Draper (color) – from NBC
12:55p NBC News – Edwin Newman – from NBC
01:00p I Led Three Lives
01:30p Let’s Make a Deal (color) – from NBC
01:55p NBC News – Nancy Dickerson (color) – from NBC
02:00p Ann Sothern
02:30p Dream Girl (debut) – single girls compete for the “Dream Girl” title (the show would run through 1967); guests: Troy Donahue, Ross Martin, Lee Meriwether and Paul Peterson; host: Dick Stewart – from ABC
02:55p ABC News – Marlene Sanders – from ABC
03:00p Mr. District Attorney
03:30p The Nurses – from ABC
04:00p Dark Shadows – from ABC
04:30p Where the Action Is – guests: Roger Williams and Tommy Roe – from ABC
05:00p The Munsters
05:30p Cartoons
06:00p Supercar
06:30p Soupy Sales
07:00p You Asked For It – Jack Smith
07:30p Perry Mason
08:30p Movie “Flamingo Road” 1949 – Joan Crawford
10:30p Stump the Stars – Mike Stokey
11:00p Movie “Jezebel” 1938- Bette Davis, Henry Fonda
