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Retro: Carolina-Tennessee Friday, March 22, 1968

From TV Guide, Carolina-Tennessee Edition

NOTE: In-school programming is not indicated for Chs.
2 and 29. IIRC, Ch. 29 did have in-school programs but
for these two stations I'll start with the first posted listing.

WSJK (WETP) Ch. 2 Knoxville (Sneedville, TN) (NET)

6 PM What's New
6:30 All Aboard
7 PM Agricultural Science
7:30 Great Decisions--1968 (U.S. policy in Vietnam and
the winter offensives of North Vietnam and the
Viet Cong)
8 PM Casals Master Class (student Kay Newhouse performs
Beethoven's Sonata in C Major; Casals tells how to
diminish sound)
8:30 Heritage (Robert Frost discusses the fundamental meanings
of poetry, using his own works to illustrate. I don't know
when this was made; Frost died in 1962.)
9 PM NET Playhouse ("Home," about a futuristic society in which
everyone lives in a honeycomb of small rooms and can never
leave--the story focuses on nine people living in one room)
sign off 10:30 PM

WBTV Ch. 3 Charlotte (CBS)

6:20 Almanac (Gil Stamper)
6:30 Carolina Calling (Arthur Smith)
7:30 CBS News (Joseph Benti)
7:55 News
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Fred Kirby's Corral
9:05 Love Of Life (delay from 12 N)
9:30 Merv Griffin (Henry Morgan, comedian Pat Cooper, actress
Ethel Griffies, singer Frankie Randall)
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies
11 AM Andy Griffith
11:30 Secret Storm (delay from 4 PM)
12 N Noon Report (Ty Boyd's guest is Leah Porat, program manager
of the Israel Broadcasting System in Tel Aviv.)
12:25 Pat Lee
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1 PM Betty Feezor
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
2:30 Art Linkletter's House Party (assistant DA John Miner discusses
dieting hoaxes)
3 PM To Tell The Truth
3:25 CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
3:30 Edge Of Night
4 PM Superman
4:30 Mike Douglas (co-hostess Polly Bergen; Prof. Irwin Corey,
Frankie Valli)
6 PM News, Weather, Sports
6:25 Editorial
6:30 CBS News (Walter Cronkite)
7 PM Marshal Dillon
7:30 Wild Wild West
8:30 Gomer Pyle, USMC (guest: Jerry Van Dyke)
9 PM CBS Movie: "The Destructors"
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:25 Editorial
11:30 Movie: "Let's Make Love"

WFBC (WYFF) Ch. 4 Greenville, SC (NBC)

6:30 Tele-College
7 AM Today (E.R. Braithwaite, author of "To Sir, With Love";
New York Philharmonic assistant conductor Helen Quach;
singer Marilyn Lovell)
9 AM Today In The Piedmont
9:30 Romper Room
10 AM Snap Judgment (Phyllis Kirk, Bill Cullen)
10:25 NBC News (Nancy Dickerson)
10:30 Concentration
11 AM Personality (Joan Fontaine, Jack E. Leonard, Frank Sinatra Jr.;
on film: Don Rickles)
11:30 Hollywood Squares (Kaye Ballard, Shelley Berman, Janet Blair,
Mel Brooks, Roger C. Carmel, Jan Murray, Wally Cox, Abby Dalton,
Charley Weaver)
12 N Jeopardy!
12:30 Eye Guess
12:55 NBC News (Edwin Newman)
1 PM Match Game (Morey Amsterdam, Phyllis Newman, week-behind
from 4 PM)
1:25 News, Weather
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 You Don't Say! (in Florida: Leonard Nimoy, Pat Carroll)
4 PM Monty's Rascals (Monty DuPuy and Mr. Doohickey (Stowe Hoyle))
4:30 Timmy And Lassie
5 PM Merv Griffin (same as Ch. 3)
6 PM News, Weather, Sports
6:30 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7 PM Monkees (delay from Mon 7:30 PM)
7:30 Tarzan
8:30 Ringling Brothers And Barnum & Bailey Circus (Mike Douglas hosts
from Baltimore.)
9:30 Hollywood Squares (Wally Cox, Nanette Fabray, Sally Field, Zsa Zsa
Gabor, Buddy Hackett, Van Johnson, Walter Matthau, Jan Murray,
Charley Weaver)
10 PM Bell Telephone Hour ("Opera: Two To Six," ensemble scenes using
combinations from duets to sextets, with Joan Sutherland, Nicolai
Gedda, Phyllis Curtin, Tito Gobbi, Jerome Hines, Mildred Miller, and
Charles Anthony; program includes scenes from "Tosca," "Faust,"
"Rigoletto," "Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg," and "Lucia de Lammermoor")
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Tonight Show

WCYB Ch. 5 Bristol, VA (NBC/ABC)

7 AM Today
9 AM Open House
9:30 General Hospital (ABC, delay from 3 PM)
10 AM Snap Judgment
10:25 NBC News
10:30 Concentration
11 AM Personality
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N Jeopardy!
12:30 Eye Guess
12:55 News (Evelyn Boojer)
1 PM Divorce Court
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 You Don't Say!
4 PM Match Game (Steve Allen and Jayne Meadows)
4:25 NBC News (Floyd Kalber)
4:30 Looney Tunes
5 PM Rawhide
6 PM News, Weather, Sports
6:25 Editorial
6:30 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7 PM Klub Kwiz
7:30 Tarzan
8:30 Ringling Brothers And Barnum & Bailey Circus
9:30 Hollywood Squares
10 PM Bell Telephone Hour
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:25 Editorial
11:30 Tonight Show

WATE Ch. 6 Knoxville (NBC)

6 AM Harry Whittington
7 AM Today
9 AM Match Game (same as Ch. 4)
9:25 Today In Tennessee
9:30 Homemakers (Mary Starr)
10 AM Snap Judgment
10:25 NBC News
10:30 Concentration
11 AM Personality
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N Jeopardy!
12:30 Eye Guess
12:55 NBC News
1 PM Dr. Kildare
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 You Don't Say!
4 PM Popeye
4:30 Mike Douglas (co-host Allen Ludden; Betty White)
6 PM News, Weather, Sports
6:30 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7 PM Arthur Smith
7:30 Tarzan
8:30 Ringling Brothers And Barnum & Bailey Circus
9:30 Hollywood Squares
10 PM Bell Telephone Hour
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Tonight Show

WSPA Ch. 7 Spartanburg, SC (CBS)

6 AM Sunrise Semester: "Near East"
6:30 TV Party Line
7:30 CBS News
7:55 News
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Treasure Isle (ABC, pre-empted on Ch. 13,
delay from 12:30 PM)
9:30 Nancy Welch
10 AM Candid Camera (washroom towels deposit dirt on
people's hands; patrons at an auction are credited
with bids they haven't made)
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies
11 AM Andy Griffith
11:30 Dick Van Dyke (Vic Damone as Sally's latest marital
target)
12 N Love Of Life
12:25 News (John Gordon)
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1 PM Secret Storm
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
2:30 Art Linkletter's House Party
3 PM To Tell The Truth
3:25 News (Roger Davis)
3:30 Edge Of Night
4 PM Movie: "Jivaro"
6 PM News, Weather, Sports
6:30 CBS News
7 PM McHale's Navy
7:30 Wild Wild West
8:30 Gomer Pyle, USMC
9 PM CBS Movie: "The Destructors"
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Movie: "Terror Calls At Night"

WSOC Ch. 9 Charlotte (NBC)

6:15 Sergeant Preston Of The Yukon
6:45 On The House
7 AM Today
9 AM Today In The Carolinas
9:30 Girl Talk
10 AM Snap Judgment
10:25 NBC News
10:30 Concentration
11 AM Personality
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N Jeopardy!
12:30 Eye Guess
12:55 NBC News
1 PM Midday (Jimmy Kilgo)
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 Clown Carnival (Brooks Lindsay)
4 PM Movie: "Hot Blood"
6 PM News, Weather, Sports
6:30 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7 PM Monkees
7:30 Tarzan
8:30 Ringling Brothers And Barnum & Bailey Circus
9:30 Hollywood Squares
10 PM Bell Telephone Hour
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Tonight Show
1 AM Local News
1:05 Secret Agent

WBIR Ch. 10 Knoxville (CBS)

6 AM Sunrise Semester
6:30 Farm And Home
7:30 CBS News
7:55 News
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Divorce Court
9:30 Merv Griffin (same as Ch. 3)
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies
11 AM Andy Griffith
11:30 Dick Van Dyke
12 N Love Of Life
12:25 CBS News (Joseph Benti)
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1 PM Girl Talk
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
2:30 Art Linkletter's House Party
3 PM To Tell The Truth
3:25 CBS News
3:30 Edge Of Night
4 PM Secret Storm
4:30 Movie: "I Accuse"
6 PM News, Weather, Sports
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Marshal Dillon
7:30 Wild Wild West
8:30 Gomer Pyle, USMC
9 PM CBS Movie: "The Destructors"
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Movie: "Somebody Up There Likes Me" (Paul
Newman as boxing champ Rocky Graziano,
from '56)

WJHL Ch. 11 Johnson City, TN (CBS/ABC)

6:15 News, Devotions
6:25 Farm Report (Lou Thacker)
6:30 First Call
7:30 CBS News
7:55 News
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Bewitched (ABC, delay from 12 N)
9:30 Treasure Isle
10 AM Candid Camera
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies
11 AM Andy Griffith
11:30 Dick Van Dyke
12 N Love Of Life
12:25 CBS News
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1 PM News, Weather
1:05 Kathryn Willis
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
2:30 Art Linkletter's House Party
3 PM To Tell The Truth
3:25 CBS News
3:30 Edge Of Night
4 PM Secret Storm
4:30 Mike Douglas (co-host Jack E. Leonard, Jerry Vale
(a frequent guest of Mike's), actors David Watson,
Joi Lansing, and Jane Peters)
6 PM News, Sports, Weather (listed separately from the
other stations because Ch. 11 was still broadcasting
local programs in b&w)
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Branded
7:30 It Takes A Thief (ABC, delay from Tue 8:30 PM)
8:30 Gomer Pyle, USMC
9 PM CBS Movie: "The Destructors"
11 PM News, Weather, Sports (and don't ask why this is
different from 6 PM; I was happy when TV Guide
just started listing local newscasts as "News")
11:30 Movie: "Lost Lagoon" (Joey Bishop airs Sunday at
11:15 PM)

WLOS Ch. 13 Asheville, NC (ABC)

6:30 Mr. Bill's Cartoons (Bill Norwood)
9 AM Movie: "The Racket" (Robert Mitchum as a corruption-
fighting police captain, from '51)
10:25 News, Weather
10:30 Divorce Court
11 AM This Morning (Dick Cavett, joined in progress)
12 N Bewitched
12:30 Mike Douglas (same as Ch. 3)
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 Baby Game
2:55 Children's Doctor
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 Dark Shadows
4 PM Dating Game
4:30 Dennis The Menace
5 PM Perry Mason
6 PM News, Weather, Sports
6:25 Editorial
6:30 Truth Or Consequences
7 PM Password
7:30 Movie: "Thunder Bay"
9:30 Guns Of Will Sonnett
10 PM Judd For The Defense
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:25 Editorial
11:30 Joey Bishop (a tribute to producer-manager Richard
O. Linke on his 25th year in show business; helping:
Andy Griffith, Jim Nabors, Jerry Van Dyke, Ken Berry,
Ronnie Schell, Larry Hovis, singer Maggie Peterson,
composer-arranger Alan Copeland)

WCCB Ch. 18 Charlotte (ABC)

8:45 Cartoons
9 AM Romper Room
10 AM Jack LaLanne
10:30 This Morning
12 N Bewitched
12:30 Treasure Isle
1 PM The Fugitive
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 Baby Game
2:55 Children's Doctor
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 Dark Shadows
4 PM Dating Game
4:30 Movie: "The Mad Doctor" (Basil Rathbone, from '41)
6:30 ABC News (Bob Young)
7 PM True (Jack Webb narrates a story of a dead woman whom
her boyfriend and aunt claim to have seen alive.)
7:30 Off To See The Wizard (Part 1 of 2: the 1960 version of
"The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn" with Eddie Hodges
(of "Name That Tune" fame), Archie Moore, and Tony Randall)
8:30 Operation: Entertainment (from the USS Constellation anchored
at San Diego: host Dean Jones, Norm Crosby, Dionne Warwick,
the Lennon Sisters, Anthony and the Imperials, Homer and Jethro)
9:30 Guns Of Will Sonnett
10 PM Judd For The Defense
11 PM Peter Gunn
11:30 Joey Bishop

WTVK Ch. 26 (WVLT Ch. 8) Knoxville (ABC)

8:30 Jack LaLanne
9 AM Movie: "Larceny"
10:30 This Morning
12 N Bewitched
12:30 Treasure Isle
1 PM The Fugitive
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 Baby Game
2:55 Children's Doctor
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 Dark Shadows
4 PM Dating Game
4:30 Sea Hunt
5 PM Disc-O-Teen
6 PM ABC News
6:30 Tommy Covington (I think this is a local country-
music show.)
7 PM Gilligan's Island
7:30 Off To See The Wizard
8:30 Operation: Entertainment
9:30 Guns Of Will Sonnett
10 PM Judd For The Defense
11 PM Westerners
11:30 Joey Bishop

WNTV Ch. 29 Greenville, SC (NET)

5:15 Management Methods
5:45 Friendly Giant
6 PM B'wana Don In Jungle-La
6:30 June Bugg
7 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
7:30 Business Round Table (topic: "Business and
Businessmen In Politics")
8 PM What's New
8:30 Folk Guitar
9 PM ETV Reports (Gene Upright, longtime Columbia
newscaster)
9:30 NET Playhouse (teachers can probably relate to
"Unman, Wittering And Zigo," about an idealistic
young teacher whose enthusiasm soon gives way
to uneasiness and fear)
sign off 10:45 PM

WCTU (WCNC) Ch. 36 Charlotte (Ind.)

4:25 News
4:30 Ever-Ever Land
5:30 Movie: "Tiberius"
6:55 Financial Report
7 PM Movie: "The Tall Stranger"
8:30 Movie: "One Of Our Aircraft Is Missing"
10 PM News
10:30 Movie: "Buffalo Bill"
sign off 12 M

WAIM (WMYA) Ch. 40 Anderson, SC (ABC/CBS)

7:30 CBS News
7:55 News
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Morning Vespers
9:30 Ladies' Day
10 AM Candid Camera
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies
11 AM Andy Griffith
11:30 Dick Van Dyke
12 N Bewitched
12:30 Treasure Isle
1 PM Secret Storm
1:30 Compass
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 Baby Game
2:55 Children's Doctor
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 Dark Shadows
4 PM Dating Game
4:30 TBA
5:25 News (Al Joseph)
5:30 Evening Reflections
6 PM Highway Panorama
6:15 Agricultural Panorama
6:30 CBS News
7 PM He & She (CBS, delay from Wed 9:30 PM)
7:30 Wild Wild West
8:30 Good Morning World (CBS, delay from Tue 9:30 PM)
9 PM CBS Movie: "The Destructors"
sign off 11 PM
 
A special featuring the Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus pre-empted "Star Trek" that evening at 8:30 P.M. EST on NBC.

Does anyone know if the NBC affiliates in the Carolina-Tennessee area aired "Star Trek" "in pattern" on Friday nights between 8:30 and 9:30 in early 1968??
 
Joseph_Gallant said:
A special featuring the Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus pre-empted "Star Trek" that evening at 8:30 P.M. EST on NBC.

Does anyone know if the NBC affiliates in the Carolina-Tennessee area aired "Star Trek" "in pattern" on Friday nights between 8:30 and 9:30 in early 1968??

The last season 2 episode of Star Trek aired the next week. As early as January 1968, NBC wanted to cancel Star Trek but a group of letter writers wanted Star Trek back for a third season so after the episode of 3/29/1968 aired, an announcer told everyone that Star Trek was back for a third season and to stop writing letters but 29 of the 210 NBC stations refused to air Star Trek's 3rd season and I wonder if the Southern part of the United States were affected by this. And there was the episode that aired in November 1968 "Plato's Stepchildren" where Captain Kirk and Uhura kissed that may have been a part of the reason of why 29 stations didn't air Star Trek's 3rd season.
 
Joseph_Gallant said:
A special featuring the Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus pre-empted "Star Trek" that evening at 8:30 P.M. EST on NBC.

Does anyone know if the NBC affiliates in the Carolina-Tennessee area aired "Star Trek" "in pattern" on Friday nights between 8:30 and 9:30 in early 1968??

All four (Chs. 4, 5, 6, and 9) did, and continued to do so when it moved to 10 PM in the fall of 1968.
 
Thanks!

I had heard that some Southern affiliates didn't air "Star Trek" in it's second and third seasons.

Closer to my home, during the 1967/68 TV season, Providence's WJAR-10 aired "Star Trek" on Saturdays from 6:30 to 7:30 P.M., showing the episode WBZ-4 in Boston (and most other NBC stations) broadcast the previous evening.

In the 1968/69 seasons, WJAR aired "Trek" when NBC fed it on Fridays from 10 to11 P.,M. ET/PT.
 
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