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Retro: Boston Sunday September 29, 1963

Source – Boston Globe TV Week (The Globe did not list stations and networks, just channel numbers. That information came from TV Guides of the era)

2 - WGBH Boston (Educational)
04:00p Dialogue
04:30p Japanese Brush Painting
05:00p Faces of Asia
06:00p Lyrics and Legends
06:30p Gardner’s Almanac
07:00p Art and Man
08:00p On Hearing Music
08:30p Playwright at Work
09:00p Brattle Street Forum

4 – WBZ Boston (NBC)
06:00a Industry on Parade
06:15a Jewish Chautauqua Society
06:30a Boomtown – Rex Trailer
09:30a It’s Your World
10:00a Our Believing World
10:30a Frontiers of Faith
11:00a Images
11:30a News, Weather
12:00p Movies – 1) “Black Knight” 1954 and 2) “Between Two Worlds” 1944
04:00p Odyssey – Herb Pomeroy Sextet, Stan Getz
04:30p Next Question
05:00p Starring the Editors
05:30p G.E. College Bowl (color)
06:00p Community Auditions – talent show
06:30p News, Weather
07:00p Jazz Scene USA
07:30p Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color “The Horse Without a Head” part 1 (color)
08:30p Grindl
09:00p Bonanza (color)
10:00p DuPont Show of the Week “The Bachelor Game” (color)
11:00p News
11:15p Stuart on Sports
11:30p Movies – 1) “Mr. 880” 1950 and 2) “Out of the Fog” 1941

5 – WHDH Boston (CBS)
06:00a Air Force Film
06:30a Life of Riley
07:00a Bozo’s Special (color)
08:30a Men of Annapolis
09:00a Off to Adventure
09:30a the Living Word
09:45a Sacred Heart
10:00a In the Last Place (Sylvia Sidney stars in a drama about a Jewish family in conflict over a son’s desire to visit the concentration camp where family members were killed)
11:00a Camera Three
11:30a Builder’s Showcase
12:00p Science Fiction Drama (Science Fiction Theater?)
12:30p Face the Nation
01:00p Curt Gowdy, sports (color)
01:15p Football Kickoff
01:30p Pro Football – New York Giants vs. Philadelphia Eagles
04:15p Ski Thrills with Warren Miller (color)
04:30p Winning Pins (junior candlepin bowling)
05:00p Youth on Parade (color)
06:00p The Twentieth Century “Czecho-Slovakia”
06:30p Mister Ed “Leo Durocher Meets Mister Ed”
07:00p Lassie (Timmy and Lassie help save some migrating birds)
07:30p My Favorite Martian (series premiere)
08:00p Ed Sullivan – guests: Jimmy Durante, Yankees players, Frank Sinatra Jr., Tommy Dorsey Band, Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, and Topo(gigio) the Italian mouse (season premiere)
09:00p The Judy Garland Show (featuring Jerry Van Dyke and Donald O’Connor) (series premiere)
10:00p Candid Camera (People are shown a picture of Vice President Lyndon Johnson and asked to identify it)
10:30p What’s My Line?
11:00p News (color)
11:15p Harry Reasoner, news
11:30p Meet the Press (color) – from NBC
12:00a Movie 5 (movie not listed)

6 – WTEV New Bedford (ABC)
09:00a Worship
09:30a Sword and Sail – educational series
10:00a Catholic Mass
11:00a Bold Journey
11:30a House Detective
12:30p Discovery ‘63
01:00p Adventures in Britain
01:30p Issues and Answers
02:00p Shirley Temple Theater
03:30p Adventures in Paradise
04:30p Pro Football – Kansas City Chiefs vs. San Diego Chargers
07:15p All Pro Scoreboard
07:30p The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters (starring a young Kurt Russell) “The Day of the First Suitor”
08:30p Arrest and Trial “Tears from a Silver Dipper” (90 minutes)
10:00p 100 Grand
10:30p Battleline
11:00p Movie “Roadhouse”
12:30a News, Weather
12:45a Cain’s Hundred

7 – WNAC Boston (ABC)
07:00a Jungle Adventures
08:00a My Friend Flicka
08:30a The Christophers
08:45a This is The Life
09:15a Sunday Mass
10:00a Bugs Bunny
10:30a Land of Allakazam
11:00a Discovery ‘63
11:30a Championship Bowling
12:00p Movies – 1) “Crossfire” 1947 and 2) “Boys’ Ranch” 1945
03:00p Issues and Answers
03:30p Outlaws – drama
04:30p Pro Football – Boston Patriots vs. Denver Broncos
07:15p All Pro Scoreboard
07:30p The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters
08:30p Arrest and Trial “Tears from a Silver Dipper” (90 minutes)
10:00p 100 Grand
10:30p The Beachcomber
11:00p News
11:15p ABC News Report
11:45p Movies – 1) “The Saint Takes Over” 1940 and 2) “The Falcon’s Brother” 1942

9 – WMUR Manchester (ABC)
12:30p Discovery ‘63
01:00p Oral Roberts
01:30p Allen’s Revival Hour
02:00p Air Force News
02:15p Faith for Today
02:45p The Living Word
03:00p Movie “Deep Waters”
04:30p Pro Football – Kansas City Chiefs vs. San Diego Chargers
07:15p All Pro Scoreboard
07:30p The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters
08:30p Arrest and Trial “Tears from a Silver Dipper” (90 minutes)
10:00p 100 Grand
10:30p ABC News Report
11:00p News

10 – WJAR Providence (NBC)
08:00a Sacred Heart
08:15a The Living Word
08:30a This is The Life
09:00a Book of Books
09:30a Frontiers of Faith
10:00a The Christophers
10:30a The World Around Us
11:00p How to Invest
11:30a Americans at Work
11:45a Industry on Parade
12:00p Roundtable
12:30p Championship Bridge
01:00p All Star Bowling
01:30p Movies – 1) “Pigskin Parade” 1936 and 2) “Lost Moment” 1947
05:00p Trails West
05:30p G.E. College Bowl (color)
06:00p Meet the Press
06:30p Theodore Francis Green – Salute to Rhode Island’s elder statesman
07:00p The Bill Dana Show
07:30p Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color (color)
08:30p Grindl
09:00p Bonanza (color)
10:00p DuPont Show of the Week (color)
11:00p News
11:15p Movie “Tomorrow is Another Day”

12 – WPRO Providence (CBS)
08:15a The Christophers
08:30a Comedy Time
09:30a Magic Tree
10:00a In the Last Place
11:00a Face the News
11:30a Gateway to Glamour
11:45a Home and Yard
12:00p What is Judaism?
12:15p Hire Now
12:30p Assignment Underwater
01:00p Football Kickoff
01:15p Chris Clark Show (probably sports – Chris Clark was WPRO’s sports announcer)
01:30p Pro Football
04:15p Great Music
04:30p Touchdown
05:00p Supercar
05:30p Amateur Hour
06:00p The Twentieth Century
06:30p Biography “Adolph Hitler”
07:00p Lassie
07:30p My Favorite Martian
08:00p Ed Sullivan
09:00p The Judy Garland Show
10:00p Candid Camera
10:30p What’s My Line?
11:00p News
11:15p Movie “Cell 2455, Death Row” 1955
 
Corky Marlowe said:
10:00p Candid Camera (People are shown a picture of Vice President Lyndon Johnson and asked to identify it)

Wow...How ironic would that listing be in less than 2 months?

According to a story about it in the guide, only 3 out of 10 people got it right. 7 weeks later it would be 10 out of 10.
 
MCarney said:
5 – WHDH Boston (CBS)
11:30p Meet the Press (color) – from NBC

Speaking of ironies . . . this one takes the cake, given that the current WHDH (on Channel 7, completely unrelated to this WHDH) is an NBC affiliate, has been since 1995.
 
MCarney said:
5 – WHDH Boston (CBS)
11:30p Meet the Press (color) – from NBC

Speaking of ironies . . . this one takes the cake, given that the current WHDH (on Channel 7, completely unrelated to this WHDH) is an NBC affiliate, has been since 1995.
 
WBZ was horrible about clearances back in the 60s. At one point WGBH was clearing both Meet the Press and the NBC Nightly News (sans commercials). WHDH also carried Tonight from the start of the Jack Paar era until September 1966. WBZ was running either movies or Group W programming at the time.
 
MCarney said:
WBZ was horrible about clearances back in the 60s. At one point WGBH was clearing both Meet the Press and the NBC Nightly News (sans commercials). WHDH also carried Tonight from the start of the Jack Paar era until September 1966. WBZ was running either movies or Group W programming at the time.
...of course, Westinghouse was still ticked off about having NBC strongarm them into swapping stations in Philadelphia and Cleveland. The Paar and Carson Tonight incarnations were never on KYW-TV/3 when that station was in Cleveland, being dumped off to ABC affiliate WEWS/5 (often Tonight was WEWS' only color offering of the day); KYW-TV and WBZ-TV/4 would run movies or the Westinghouse-produced Steve Allen, Regis Philbin and Merv Griffin talk shows against Paar/Carson until KYW returned to Philly...
 
Ultimajock said:
MCarney said:
WBZ was horrible about clearances back in the 60s. At one point WGBH was clearing both Meet the Press and the NBC Nightly News (sans commercials). WHDH also carried Tonight from the start of the Jack Paar era until September 1966. WBZ was running either movies or Group W programming at the time.
...of course, Westinghouse was still ticked off about having NBC strongarm them into swapping stations in Philadelphia and Cleveland. The Paar and Carson Tonight incarnations were never on KYW-TV/3 when that station was in Cleveland, being dumped off to ABC affiliate WEWS/5 (often Tonight was WEWS' only color offering of the day); KYW-TV and WBZ-TV/4 would run movies or the Westinghouse-produced Steve Allen, Regis Philbin and Merv Griffin talk shows against Paar/Carson until KYW returned to Philly...
...as well as the abortive PM East/PM West with Mike Wallace in New York and Terence O'Flaherty in San Francisco...
 
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