• Get involved.
    We want your input!
    Apply for Membership and join the conversations about everything related to broadcasting.

    After we receive your registration, a moderator will review it. After your registration is approved, you will be permitted to post.
    If you use a disposable or false email address, your registration will be rejected.

    After your membership is approved, please take a minute to tell us a little bit about yourself.
    https://www.radiodiscussions.com/forums/introduce-yourself.1088/

    Thanks in advance and have fun!
    RadioDiscussions Administrators

Retro: Boston - Tuesday August 1, 1967

Source – TV Guide, Eastern New England edition

2 - WGBH Boston (Educational)
04:00p Teacher Training Project
05:15p The Friendly Giant
05:30p What’s New
06:00p Folk Guitar – Laura Webber
06:30p News – Louis Lyons
06:45p News – Robert Baram
07:00p Swedish Scene (color)
07:30p Elliot Norton – discussion
08:00p Play of the Week “’Four’ by Tennessee Williams” – four separate plays introduced by Williams himself
10:00p Struggle for Peace “Chaos and Conflict”
10:30p Cineposium – author-critic Ruth Waterbury and film animator Les Goldman discuss two cartoons, “Who Bravely Dares” and “Be Yourself”, by Sam Weiss

3 – WTIC Hartford (CBS)
06:30a Summer Semester – Comparative Politics: “The Prime Minister”
07:05a CBS News – Joseph Benti (color)
07:30a R.F.D. #3 – Atwood (color)
08:00a Captain Kangaroo
09:00a Hap Richards (color)
09:15a Wally Gator (color)
09:30a Make Room for Daddy
10:00a Candid Camera
10:30a Movie “A Lawless Street” 1955
12:00p Love of Life (color)
12:25p CBS News – Joseph Benti (color)
12:30p Search for Tomorrow (color)
12:45p The Guiding Light (color)
01:00p Movie “Hell and High Water” part 2
01:30p As the World Turns (color)
02:00p Password (color)
02:30p House Party (color)
03:00p To Tell the Truth (color)
03:25p CBS News – Douglas Edwards (color)
03:30p Dick Van Dyke
04:00p Ranger Andy (color)
04:30p Movie “Conqueror of the Orient” 1960 (color)
06:05p Sports – Ehrlich (color)
06:15p News – Bruce Kern (color)
06:25p Weather (color)
06:30p CBS Evening News – Walter Cronkite (color)
07:00p Movie “Target Unknown” 1951
08:30p Spotlight – variety; singer Trini Lopez, actor-impressionist Frank Gorshin, British musical-comedy star Georgia Brown (color)
09:30p Petticoat Junction – Billie Jo lands a singing job at a nightclub (color)
10:00p CBS News Special “The Tenement” (color)
May be preempted by a late-news show
11:00p News, Sports, Weather (color)
11:20p Movie “Knock on any Door” 1949

4 – WBZ Boston (NBC)
06:15a Sign On Seminar – The Actor’s Art: “The Actor Must Listen”
06:45a Daily Almanac – Jack Chase, Don Kent
07:00a Today – scheduled: TV Guide movie critic Judith Crist; Jack Webb and Harry Morgan of “Dragnet”, and mystery writer Mickey Spillane (color); Local news and weather at 7:25, 8:25
09:00a Contact! – Bob Kennedy
10:00a Snap Judgment – guests: singer Paul Anka and TV personality Phyllis Newman (color)
10:25a NBC News – Sander Vanocur (color)
10:30a Concentration (color)
11:00a Personality – celebrities: Morey Amsterdam, Rose Marie and Nipsey Russell (color)
11:30a Hollywood Squares – celebrities: Kay Ballard, Sandy Baron, Howard Duff, Noel Harrison, Maureen O’Hara and Susan Strasberg (color)
12:00p News – Jack Chase, Shelby Scott (color)
12:15p Interview – Terry Carter (color)
12:25p Weather – Don Kent (color)
12:30p Mike Douglas – same guests as Ch. 12 @ 10a (color)
02:00p Days of Our Lives (color)
02:30p The Doctors (color)
03:00p Another World (color)
03:30p You Don’t Say – celebrities: Burt Ward and Deborah Walley (color)
04:00p The Match Game – guests: ex-football great Y.A. Tittle and sportscaster Sandy Kofax (color)
04:25p NBC News – Floyd Kabler (color)
04:30p Merv Griffin – guests: singers Aliza Kashi and Rod Perry, and comedian Rip Taylor
06:00p Leave It to Beaver
06:30p News – Arch Macdonald, Gene Pell, Shelby Scott (color)
06:45p Sports – Bob Starr (color)
06:55p Weather – Norm Macdonald (color)
07:00p Huntley-Brinkley Report (color)
07:30p The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. “The Petit Prix Affair” (color)
08:30p Occasional Wife – Peter gets engaged to another girl (color)
09:00p Movie “That Certain Feeling” 1956; Bob Hope, Eva Marie Saint (color)
11:00p News – Duke Wade, Gene Pell (color)
11:10p Weather – Norm Macdonald (color)
11:15p Sports – Bob Starr (color)
11:20p News – Duke Wade (color)
11:30p Johnny Carson – guests: Guy Lombardo and the Royal Canadians (color)
01:00a Movie “My Friend Flicka” 1943

5 – WHDH Boston (CBS)
06:00a Summer Semester – Comparative Politics: “The Prime Minister”
06:30a Farming – Joe Kelly (color)
06:45a We Believe – religion (color)
07:00p News (color)
07:05a Bozo the Clown (color)
08:00a Captain Kangaroo – Story: “A Day of Your Own”; poem: “Music That I Like”
09:00a Romper Room (color)
09:30a Morning Startime “The Collar”
10:00a Candid Camera
10:30a Beverly Hillbillies
11:00a Andy Griffith
11:30a Dick Van Dyke
12:00p Love of Life (color)
12:25p CBS News – Joseph Benti (color)
12:30p Search for Tomorrow (color)
12:45p The Guiding Light (color)
01:00p Honey West
01:30p As the World Turns (color)
02:00p Password – guests: the comedy team of Marty Allen and Steve Rossi (color)
02:30p House Party (color)
03:00p To Tell the Truth (color)
03:25p CBS News – Douglas Edwards (color)
03:30p Edge of Night
04:00p The Secret Storm
04:30p Hollywood Showcase “Out of the Night”
05:00p Dr. Kildare
06:00p News – Jack Hynes (color)
06:15p Sports – Don Gillis (color)
06:25p Weather – Bob Copeland (color)
06:30p CBS Evening News – Walter Cronkite (color)
07:00p Mr. Roberts (color)
07:30p Big Bands – music (the first half of “Daktari” is preempted)
08:00p Baseball – Red Sox; the Kansas City Athletics meet the Red Sox at Fenway Park. Ken Coleman, Ned Martin and Mel Parnell report (color)
”Scoreboard” immediately follows
(the second half of “Daktari”, “Spotlight”, “Petticoat Junction” and “CBS News Special” are preempted)
11:00p News – Peter Hyams (color)
11:15p Weather – Bob Copeland (color)
11:20p Sports – Don Gillis (color)
11:30p Burke’s Law
12:30a Human Jungle

6 – WTEV New Bedford (ABC)
06:15a B’Wana Don
06:45a News – Jack Delaney
07:00a Funtime – Uncle Bruce (color)
07:30a Hercules (color)
07:55a News – Jack Delaney
08:00a Community –Bob Bassett; Portugese folk singers from the Portugese Festival in New Bedford are guests (Live)
08:25a News – Jack Delaney
08:30a Woman – Athena Parker
08:55a News – Jack Delaney
09:00a Funtime – Uncle Bruce (color)
09:55a News – Jack Delaney
10:00a Highway Patrol
10:30a Dateline: Hollywood
10:55a Children’s Doctor – advice (color)
11:00a Honeymoon Race (color)
11:30a Family Game
12:00p Everybody’s Talking
12:30p Donna Reed
01:00p The Fugitive
02:00p Newlywed Game (color)
02:30p Dream Girl – guests: Robert Colbert, Doug McClure, Ann Miller, Nipsey Russell (color)
02:55p ABC News – Marlene Sanders (color)
03:00p General Hospital
03:30p Dark Shadows
04:00p Lassie
04:30p Hercules (color)
04:55p Dating Game (color; delayed from 4p)
05:20p News – Truman Taylor
05:25p Weather – Bill O’Brien
05:30p ABC News – Peter Jennings (color)
06:00p The Flintstones (color)
06:30p Sea Hunt
07:00p The Cisco Kid (color)
07:30p Combat! (color)
08:30p The Invaders “Moonshot” (color)
09:30p Peyton Place (color)
10:00p The Fugitive “The Shattered Silence” (color)
11:00p News – Truman Taylor
11:15p Weather – Bill O’Brien
11:20p Sports – Bob Bassett
11:30p Joey Bishop (color)

7 – WNAC Boston (ABC)
06:25a Farm and Market Report
06:30a Understanding Our World “Style Is the Man”
07:00a Cartoons – Major Mudd
08:00a Dream Girl – celebrities: Sivi Aberg, James Drury, Tony Martin and Louis Nye (delayed from 2:30p)
08:25a News (color)
08:30a Dating Game (delayed from 4p)
09:00a General Hospital (delayed from 3p)
09:30a Virginia Graham – guests: singer Carmel Quinn, actress Beryle Reid and housewife Peggy Fleming
10:00a Newlywed Game (delayed from 2p)
10:30a Dateline: Hollywood – interviewed: Werner Klemperer of “Hogan’s Heroes” and actress Meredith MacRae; hostess: Joanna Barnes
10:55a Children’s Doctor – advice (color)
11:00a Honeymoon Race (color)
11:30a Family Game
12:00p Everybody’s Talking – guests: Judy Carne, Paul Lynde and Minnie Pearl; host: Lloyd Thaxton
12:30p Donna Reed
01:00p The Fugitive
02:00p Movie “The Skipper Surprised His Wife” 1950
04:00p 77 Sunset Strip
05:00p Superman
05:15p Super Heroes (color)
05:45p News – John Henning (color)
05:55p Weather – Boucher (color)
06:00p ABC News – Peter Jennings (color)
06:30p McHale’s Navy
07:00p Twilight Zone
07:30p Combat! – A mine cave-in forces a group of wartime enemies to work together for survival (color)
08:30p The Invaders “Moonshot” (color)
09:30p Peyton Place – Chandler escapes; Norman and Rita ponder a drastically changed future; Adrienne doubts that Peyton’s plan will work (color)
10:00p The Fugitive “The Shattered Silence” (color)
11:00p News – John Henning (color)
11:20p Weather – Fred Ward (color)
11:25p Sports – Callaghan (color)
11:30p Joey Bishop – guests: singer Tony Martin and actress Hermoine Baddeley (color)
01:00a Movie “I Wake Up Screaming” 1941

8 – WNHC New Haven (ABC)
06:10a News
06:15a To Be Announced
06:30a Awake – religion
07:00a Mr. Goober (color)
08:30a Mickey Mouse Club
09:00a Virginia Graham – guests: TV personality Sue Oakland and Col. Elizabeth Hoisington, director of the WACs.
09:30a Medic
10:00a PDQ – game (color)
10:30a Dateline: Hollywood
10:55a Children’s Doctor – advice (color)
11:00a Honeymoon Race (color)
11:30a Family Game
12:00p Mike Douglas (guests not listed)
01:30p Dating Game (color; delayed from 4p)
02:00p Newlywed Game (color)
02:30p Dream Girl (color)
02:55p ABC News – Marlene Sanders (color)
03:00p General Hospital
03:30p Mr. Goober (color)
04:30p Mike Douglas – same as channel 4 @ 12:30p (color)
06:00p News, Sports, Weather (color)
06:25p Outdoor World (color)
06:30p ABC News – Peter Jennings
07:00p Twilight Zone
07:30p Combat! (color)
08:30p The Invaders “Moonshot” (color)
09:30p Peyton Place (color)
10:00p The Fugitive “The Shattered Silence” (color)
11:00p News, Weather (color)
11:20p Sports – Dick Galiette (color)
11:30p Joey Bishop (color)

9 – WMUR Manchester (ABC)
09:30a Clyde Joy – music
10:00a Dating Game (color; delayed from 4p)
10:30a Dateline: Hollywood
10:55a Children’s Doctor – advice (color)
11:00a News, Weather – Ed Williams
11:30a Family Game
12:00p Everybody’s Talking
12:30p Donna Reed
01:00p The Fugitive
02:00p Newlywed Game (color)
02:30p Dream Girl (color)
02:55p ABC News – Marlene Sanders (color)
03:00p General Hospital
03:30p Dark Shadows
04:00p Uncle Gus
05:00p Science Fiction Theater
05:30p West Point
06:00p ABC News – Peter Jennings (color)
06:30p News, Sports, Weather
07:00p Sea Hunt
07:30p Combat! (color)
08:30p The Invaders “Moonshot” (color)
09:30p Peyton Place (color)
10:00p The Fugitive “The Shattered Silence” (color)
11:00p News, Weather
11:15p Film Feature
11:30p Joey Bishop (color)

10 – WJAR Providence (NBC)
06:25a TV Classroom
07:00a Today (color) – local news and weather at 7:25, 8:25
09:00a Talk of the Town – Jay Kroll (color)
09:25a News
09:30a World Around Us
09:55a News, Weather
10:00a Snap Judgment (color)
10:25a NBC News – Sander Vanocur (color)
10:30a Concentration (color)
11:00a Personality (color)
11:30a Hollywood Squares (color)
12:00p Jeopardy (color)
12:30p Eye Guess (color)
12:55p Doctor’s House Call
01:00p Gypsy Rose Lee (color)
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 (color)
04:00p The Match Game (color)
04:25p NBC News – Floyd Kabler (color)
04:30p Leave It to Beaver
05:00p Perry Mason
06:00p News – Dick Wood (color)
06:25p Weather – Bunny North (color)
06:30p Huntley-Brinkley Report (color)
07:00p McHale’s Navy
07:30p The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. “The Petit Prix Affair” (color)
08:30p Occasional Wife (color)
09:00p Movie “That Certain Feeling” 1956; Bob Hope, Eva Marie Saint (color)
11:00p News – Franz Laubert (color)
11:10p Weather – Bunny North (color)
11:15p Sports – Chris Barnes (color)
11:30p Johnny Carson (color)

12 – WPRO Providence (CBS)
06:30a Bible Telecourse
07:00a Three Stooges, Popeye
07:30a Romper Room (color)
07:45a The King and Odie
08:00a Captain Kangaroo
09:00a Dialing for Dollars (color)
10:00a Mike Douglas – guests: Dom DeLuise, Edward Platt of “Get Smart”, singer Janice Harper and guitarist Jean Toots Thielesmans (90 min)
11:30a Dick Van Dyke
12:00p Love of Life (color)
12:25p CBS News – Joseph Benti (color)
12:30p Search for Tomorrow (color)
12:45p The Guiding Light (color)
01:00p Virginia Graham – guests: Jessica Tandy, Marian Seldes and Rosemary Murphy
01:30p As the World Turns (color)
02:00p Password (color)
02:30p House Party (color)
03:00p To Tell the Truth (color)
03:25p CBS News – Douglas Edwards (color)
03:30p Edge of Night
04:00p Superman
04:30p Merv Griffin – guests: singers Aliza Kashi and Rod Perry, and comedian Rip Taylor
06:00p News – Ed Kane (color)
06:15p Sports – Chris Clark (color)
06:20p Weather – Holland (color)
06:25p Outdoor World (color)
06:30p CBS Evening News – Walter Cronkite (color)
07:00p Truth or Consequences (color)
07:30p Daktari – Paula tries to take a lion cub away from its mother who refuses to feed it
08:30p Spotlight – variety; singer Trini Lopez, actor-impressionist Frank Gorshin, British musical-comedy star Georgia Brown (color)
09:30p Petticoat Junction – Billie Jo lands a singing job at a nightclub (color)
10:00p CBS News Special “The Tenement” (color)
May be preempted by a late-news show
11:00p News – Mort Blender (color)
11:15p Weather – Hank Bouchard (color)
11:25p Sports – Chris Clark (color)
11:30p Movie “Fair Wind to Java” 1953

14 – WJZB Worcester (Ind) – channel 14 does not colorcast
06:00p Highlights – Tom Colton (from WWLP Springfield)
06:30p Huntley-Brinkley Report
07:00p News, Weather, Sports (from WWLP Springfield)
07:30p Sign-off (the 90 minutes nightly covered the license!)

38 – WSBK Boston (Ind) – secondary ABC/NBC/CBS
11:30a Jack LaLanne (color)
12:00p Jeopardy (color) NBC
12:30p Eye Guess (color) NBC
12:55p NBC News – Edwin Newman (color) NBC
01:00p Ann Sothern
01:30p Let’s Make a Deal (color) NBC
01:55p NBC News – Nancy Dickerson (color) NBC
02:00p Movie “Week-End Marriage” 1932
03:30p Dark Shadows ABC
04:00p Mr. District Attorney
04:25p Willie Whistle
04:30p Soupy Sales
05:00p West Point
05:30p Cartoons
06:00p Mr. Piper – cartoon
06:30p Cartoons
07:00p Alfred Hitchcock
08:00p Movie “Sweetheart of the Gods” 1960
10:00p M Squad
10:30p Movie “Wonder Bar” 1934

56 – WKBG Boston (Ind)
11:30a Dickory Doc (color)
12:30p Planet Control – space
01:00p Movie “Mrs. Mike” 1949
02:30p Jungle Jim
03:00p Captain Boston (color)
05:00p Astro Boy
05:30p Little Rascals
06:30p The Flintstones
07:00p Patty Duke
07:30p Truth or Consequences (color)
08:00p Movie “Temple of the White Elephants” 1963
10:00p Thriller
11:00p Movie “Dangerous Hideaway” 1962
 
I believe WGBH-2 got it's first color studio cameras during the Fall of 1967, which would have made it one of the first NET member stations to do so.

The one color program on Channel 2 that day was no doubt on film; WGBH had gotten the capability to show color film in mid-1966.

In fact, I believe the first WGBH Auction in 1966 was originally intended as a one-time event to raise funds to convert WGBH to "local-live/tape" color.
 
In fact WGBX 44 was supposed to start as an all-color facility, but that didn't happen for some years to come.

The listing I can't get over is the Sox game starting at 8pm. Games must have been shorter back then!
 
Maureen Carney commented: said:
The listing I can't get over is the Sox game starting at 8pm. Games must have been shorter back then!

I don't think that was the reason. An 8:05 P.M. EDT start for weeknight games just seemed to be the "norm" back then.

In fact, the old WHDH-5 even carrying a prime-time Boston Red Sox game was quite unusual then. In the late 1960's, the station only carried about 50 regular-season games a year (increased to between 56 and 60 games a year starting in 1968), and in the case of 1967 and previous years, there were only a handful of prime-time telecasts each season.

Most Red Sox TV games back then were on weekend afternoons.
 
Status
This thread has been closed due to inactivity. You can create a new thread to discuss this topic.


Back
Top Bottom