My first encounter with the Carolina-Tennessee edition of TV Guide:
WSJK (WETP) Ch. 2 Knoxville (Sneedville, TN) (NET)
off air on Saturday
WBTV Ch. 3 Charlotte (CBS)
6:45 News Of The Church
7 AM Rascal's Club (Fred Kirby)
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Frankenstein Jr. And The Impossibles
9:30 Herculoids
10 AM Shazzan!
10:30 Space Ghost
11 AM Moby Dick And The Mighty Mightor
11:30 Superman/Aquaman Hour Of Adventure
12:30 Jonny Quest
1 PM Lone Ranger (animated)
1:30 Pastors Face Your Questions
2 PM Movie: "Callaway Went Thataway" (Fred MacMurray
as a cowboy actor whose movies are making it big
on TV--now if the promoters could only find him.
From '51.)
3:30 Country Style Roundup (future Congressman Bill Hefner
hosts this local show)
5 PM Championship Wrestling (from Charlotte: Aldo Bogni and
Bronco Lubich vs. Les Thatcher and Bob Ramstad; Mr.
Wrestling vs. Johnny Heidman; Pepe Gomez vs. Paul Jones)
6 PM Early Report
6:30 Death Valley Days
7 PM Win With The Stars (Allen Ludden hosts this musical game show
with a grocery-chain tie-in (Winn Dixie in the Carolinas)--two
celebrity-contestant teams not only try to identify the song but
sing the first two lines; viewers win if their cards correctly predict
the winning team and score in each game.)
7:30 The Prisoner (Patrick McGoohan)
8:30 My Three Sons (Maureen McCormick appears as a girl with a crush
on Ernie.)
9 PM Hogan's Heroes
9:30 Petticoat Junction
10 PM Miss North Carolina Pageant (Ty Boyd hosts from Ovens Auditorium
in Charlotte, pre-empts "Mannix.")
12 M Movie: "Perfect Strangers" (no, this is definitely not Larry and Balki;
it's about a romance between two jurors played by Ginger Rogers
and Dennis Morgan, from '50, time approximate)
WFBC (WYFF) Ch. 4 Greenville, SC (NBC)
6:30 Farm News (Ben Leonard)
7:30 Leave It To Beaver
8 AM Monty's Rascals (Monty DuPuy)
9 AM Super 6
9:30 Super President
10 AM Flintstones
10:30 Samson And Goliath
11 AM Birdman (as in Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law)
11:30 Atom Ant/Secret Squirrel
12 N Cool McCool
12:30 Big Picture
1 PM Stoneman Family
1:30 Wilburn Brothers (guests: country-music pioneers Sam
and Kirk McGee)
2 PM Baseball: Tigers-White Sox (alternate game: Red Sox-Indians)
5 PM Wrestling (from Raleigh, time approximate)
5:55 News
6 PM Porter Wagoner (guest: Jimmy C. Newman)
6:30 Flatt And Scruggs (guest: Boyce Hawkins who, IIRC, was their
announcer)
7 PM Win With The Stars
7:30 The Saint
8:30 Get Smart
9 PM NBC Movie: "Prescription: Murder" (pilot for "Columbo," with Gene
Barry as the villain)
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:15 Movie: "M.M.M. 83"
WCYB Ch. 5 Bristol, VA (NBC/ABC)
7 AM Rural Tenneva
7:25 News (Merrill Moore)
7:30 Comedy Time
8:30 Popeye
9 AM Super 6
9:30 Super President
10 AM Flintstones
10:30 Samson And Goliath
11 AM Birdman And The Galaxy Trio
11:30 Atom Ant/Secret Squirrel
12 N Cool McCool
12:30 American Bandstand (Merrilee Rush, Albert King,
live feed from ABC0
1:30 Social Security In Action
1:45 Reel, Keel, Rifle
2 PM Baseball (see Ch. 4)
5 PM Eddie Skelton (local country-music show; I doubt if
he's related to Red Skelton, time approximate)
5:30 Bonnie Lou And Buster
6 PM Flatt And Scruggs
6:30 Porter Wagoner
7 PM Frank McGee Report
7:30 The Saint
8:30 Get Smart
9 PM NBC Movie: "Prescription: Murder"
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:15 Saturday Tonight Show
WATE Ch. 6 Knoxville (NBC)
7 AM RFD 6 (Tom Reed)
7:30 Movie: "Adventures Of Mark Twain"
9 AM Super 6
9:30 Super President
10 AM Flintstones
10:30 Samson And Goliath
11 AM Birdman And The Galaxy Trio
11:30 Atom Ant/Secret Squirrel
12 N Cool McCool
12:30 Forest Rangers
1 PM Bill Anderson (guest: Stonewall Jackson--yes, that
is the name of a country singer)
1:30 Stoneman Family
2 PM Baseball (see Ch. 4)
5 PM Wilburn Brothers (guest: Sammy Wright, time approximate)
5:30 Porter Wagoner (guest: ventriloquist Alex Houston)
6 PM Star Time (local talent show)
6:30 Flatt And Scruggs (same as Ch. 4)
7 PM Frank McGee Report
7:30 The Saint
8:30 Get Smart
9 PM NBC Movie: "Prescription: Murder"
11 PM Movie: "Over-exposed" (romance between a reporter and a
would-be photographer, watch for Richard Crenna, from '56)
WSPA Ch. 7 Spartanburg, SC (CBS)
7 AM Summer Semester: "Latin America"
7:30 At Home (farm show)
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Frankenstein Jr. And The Impossibles
9:30 Herculoids
10 AM Shazzan!
10:30 Space Ghost
11 AM Moby Dick And The Mighty Mightor
11:30 Superman/Aquaman Hour Of Adventure
12:30 Billy Dilworth (local country-music show)
1 PM Junior America Jubilee
1:30 Farmer Gray (Cliff Gray with music and farm news)
2 PM Jonny Quest
2:30 Lone Ranger (animated)
3 PM Movie: "Visit To A Small Planet" (Jerry Lewis, from '60)
4:30 Bill Anderson
5 PM Lost In Space (delay from Wed 7:30 PM)
6 PM Greyhound Derby
6:30 News (Dave Handy)
6:35 Rawhide
7:30 The Prisoner
8:30 My Three Sons
9 PM Hogan's Heroes
9:30 Petticoat Junction
10 PM Mannix
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:15 Movie: "Smash Up--The Story Of A Woman" (Susan Hayward
as a nightclub singer who becomes an alcoholic after her husband
forgets about her, from '47)
WSOC Ch. 9 Charlotte (NBC)
8 AM Cisco Kid
8:30 Astroboy
9 AM Super 6
9:30 Super President
10 AM Flintstones
10:30 Samson And Goliath
11 AM Birdman And The Galaxy Trio
11:30 Atom Ant/Secret Squirrel
12 N Cool McCool
12:30 Dobie Gillis
1 PM Kilgo's Kanteen (Jimmy Kilgo)
2 PM Baseball (see Ch. 4)
5 PM TBA
5:30 1968 Indianapolis 500 Highlights
6 PM The Virginian (delay from Wed 7:30 PM)
7:30 The Saint
8:30 Get Smart
9 PM NBC Movie: "Prescription: Murder"
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Movie: "Strangler On The Tower"
WBIR Ch. 10 Knoxville (CBS)
7 AM Judge Roy Bean (Edgar Buchanan)
7:30 Movie: "Lost" (the search for a stolen baby, not a group
of people on a weird island)
9 AM Frankenstein Jr. And The Impossibles
9:30 Herculoids
10 AM Shazzan!
10:30 Space Ghost
11 AM Moby Dick And The Mighty Mightor
11:30 Superman/Aquaman Hour Of Adventure
12:30 Jonny Quest
1 PM Lone Ranger (animated)
1:30 Road Runner
2 PM Leave It To Beaver
2:30 Patty Duke
3 PM Movie: "Mighty Joe Young"
5 PM Bonnie Lou And Buster
5:30 Gunsmoke (delay from Mon 7:30 PM)
6:30 CBS News (Roger Mudd)
7 PM Cathy Hill (country music)
7:30 The Prisoner
8:30 My Three Sons
9 PM Hogan's Heroes
9:30 Petticoat Junction
10 PM Mannix
11 PM Movie: "The Hoodlum Priest"
WJHL Ch. 11 Johnson City, TN (CBS/ABC)
7 AM New Casper Cartoon Show (ABC, delay from 9 AM)
7:30 Fantastic Four (ABC, delay from 9:30 AM)
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Frankenstein Jr. And The Impossibles
9:30 Herculoids
10 AM Shazzan!
10:30 Space Ghost
11 AM Moby Dick And The Mighty Mightor
11:30 Superman/Aquaman Hour Of Adventure
12:30 Jonny Quest
1 PM Lone Ranger (animated)
1:30 Road Runner
2 PM Movie: "Tarzan Finds A Son"
3:30 1968 Indianapolis 500 Highlights
4 PM Golf: U.S. Open (third round, from Rochester, NY,
ABC)
5:30 Wild Wild West (delay from Fri 7:30 PM)
6:30 Lawrence Welk (scheduled was a salute to Welk's home
state of North Dakota; this show was pre-empted on the
network the previous Saturday due to coverage of Bobby
Kennedy's funeral train and burial, so I would guess Ch. 11
showed the June 1 show--a salute to California)
7:30 The Prisoner
8:30 My Three Sons
9 PM Hogan's Heroes
9:30 Petticoat Junction
10 PM Mannix
11 PM News, Weather, Sports (Ch. 11 was still doing local programs
in black and white.)
11:15 Movie: "The Nun And The Sergeant" (watch for "Daktari"'s Hari
Rhodes, from '62)
WLOS Ch. 13 Asheville, NC (ABC)
7 AM Aspect (farm show)
7:30 New Casper Cartoon Show
8 AM Mr. Bill And Bumbo (station legends Bill Norwood and Bob Caldwell)
9:30 Fantastic Four
10 AM Spider-Man
10:30 Journey To The Center Of The Earth
11 AM King Kong (animated)
11:30 George Of The Jungle
12 N Beatles
12:30 American Bandstand
1:30 Happening '68 (Carol Burnett, Hollywood reporter Kathy Orloff;
on film: Jimi Hendrix, Christopher George ("Rat Patrol"), Stephen
Young ("Judd For The Defense"), and Michael Christian ("Peyton Place"))
2 PM Royal Flying Doctor (local teen dance-party show)
2:30 Movie: "Tarzan And The She-Devil"
3:55 Outdoor World
4 PM Golf: U.S. Open (third round)
5:30 Wide World Of Sports (Indy 500 highlights)
6:30 No Time For Sergeants (North Carolina native Sammy Jackson takes the
role of Will Stockdale, made famous by fellow Tar Heel Andy Griffith.)
7 PM Password
7:30 Dating Game (celebrity guest: Marilyn Michaels, later of "The Kopycats" fame)
8 PM Newlywed Game
8:30 Lawrence Welk (salute to Father's Day)
9:30 Joe Pyne (Roderick Thorp, author of "The Detective"; circus acrobatics, civilian
medics in Vietnam, pre-empts "The Hollywood Palace" and continues after the
Miss North Carolina Pageant)
10 PM Miss North Carolina Pageant
12 M Joe Pyne continues (time approximate)
1 AM Movie: "The Dark At The Top Of The Stairs" (watch for Eve Arden and Angela
Lansbury, from '60)
WCCB Ch. 18 Charlotte (ABC)
8:30 Cowboy Bob
9 AM New Casper Cartoon Show
9:30 Fantastic Four
10 AM Spider-Man
10:30 Journey To The Center Of The Earth
11 AM King Kong (animated)
11:30 George Of The Jungle
12 N Beatles
12:30 American Bandstand
1:30 Happening '68
2 PM Upbeat
3 PM Big Picture
3:30 Film Feature
4 PM Golf: U.S. Open (third round)
5:30 Wide World Of Sports
6:30 Ernest Tubb
7 PM Greyhound Derby
7:30 Dating Game
8 PM Newlywed Game
8:30 Lawrence Welk
9:30 Hollywood Palace (host Eddie Fisher; Agnes Moorehead reads
from Marcel Proust's "Remembrance of Things Past," the Young
Americans, comedian Joey Forman, singer-dancers Alice and Ellen
Kessler, the Canestrelli Family trampoline act, the Swordsmen of
the Lido)
10:30 Movie: "The Night Of Nights" (don't let this make you think of
Bugs Bunny's theme song: "Overture, curtain, lights..."; it's another
one about somebody hitting the bottle too hard: Pat O'Brien as a
playwright just before the opening night of one of his plays, from '40)
12 M ABC News (Keith McBee)
WTVK Ch. 26 (WVLT Ch. 8) Knoxville (ABC)
8:30 Agricultural Science In Action
9 AM New Casper Cartoon Show
9:30 Fantastic Four
10 AM Spider-Man
10:30 Journey To The Center Of The Earth
11 AM King Kong (animated)
11:30 George Of The Jungle
12 N Beatles
12:30 American Bandstand
1:30 Happening '68
2 PM Movie: "The Prisoner" (Alec Guinness as a cardinal arrested
in an Iron Curtain country on a charge of treason and subjected
to mental torture--sounds vaguely familiar, from '55)
3:30 Gilligan's Island
4 PM Golf: U.S. Open (third round)
5:30 Wide World Of Sports
6:30 Let's Talk Sports
7 PM Ernest Tubb
7:30 Dating Game
8 PM Newlywed Game
8:30 Lawrence Welk
9:30 Hollywood Palace
10:30 Zane Grey Theater
11 PM ABC News
sign off 11:15 PM
WNTV Ch. 29 Greenville, SC (NET)
4:45 Everybody's Business
5:15 Agricultural Panorama
5:30 Folk Guitar
6 PM Sportsmanlike Driving
6:30 College Bound (topic: use of the library)
7 PM Cineposium (films discussed are "Scarface and Aphrodite"
and "The Abbey Stevenson Story" (an actress's homemade
film test of herself)
7:30 NET Festival (Hungarian pianist Lili Kraus plays selections from
her Mozart concert at New York's Town Hall.)
9 PM Jazz Casual (the Paul Winter sextet)
sign off 9:30 PM
WCTU (WCNC) Ch. 36 Charlotte (Ind.)
3 PM Putt Putt Golf
3:30 Pancho's Corral
4 PM Country Music
4:30 Movie: "The Desperadoes"
6 PM Ken Linker (local country-music show)
7 PM Auto Racing
8:30 Championship Wrestling From Florida
9:30 Bullfights From Mexico
10:30 Movie: "Night Tide"
WAIM (WMYA) Ch. 40 Anderson, SC (ABC/CBS)
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Frankenstein Jr. And The Impossibles
9:30 Fantastic Four
10 AM Spider-Man
10:30 Journey To The Center Of The Earth
11 AM King Kong (animated)
11:30 George Of The Jungle
12 N Beatles
12:30 American Bandstand
1:30 Happening '68
2 PM Jonny Quest
2:30 Lone Ranger (animated)
3 PM Quest For Adventure
3:30 1968 24 Hours Of Daytona Highlights
4 PM Golf: U.S. Open (third round)
5:30 Wide World Of Sports
6:30 The Actor (Alec Guinness and members of the British
theater scene--director Tyrone Guthrie, actors Robert
Morley and Nicol Williamson, and playwright Harold Pinter
among them--discussing the acting profession, ABC, delay
from Sun 4 PM)
7:30 Dating Game
8 PM Newlywed Game
8:30 Lawrence Welk
9:30 Petticoat Junction
10 PM Mannix
sign off 11 PM
WSJK (WETP) Ch. 2 Knoxville (Sneedville, TN) (NET)
off air on Saturday
WBTV Ch. 3 Charlotte (CBS)
6:45 News Of The Church
7 AM Rascal's Club (Fred Kirby)
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Frankenstein Jr. And The Impossibles
9:30 Herculoids
10 AM Shazzan!
10:30 Space Ghost
11 AM Moby Dick And The Mighty Mightor
11:30 Superman/Aquaman Hour Of Adventure
12:30 Jonny Quest
1 PM Lone Ranger (animated)
1:30 Pastors Face Your Questions
2 PM Movie: "Callaway Went Thataway" (Fred MacMurray
as a cowboy actor whose movies are making it big
on TV--now if the promoters could only find him.
From '51.)
3:30 Country Style Roundup (future Congressman Bill Hefner
hosts this local show)
5 PM Championship Wrestling (from Charlotte: Aldo Bogni and
Bronco Lubich vs. Les Thatcher and Bob Ramstad; Mr.
Wrestling vs. Johnny Heidman; Pepe Gomez vs. Paul Jones)
6 PM Early Report
6:30 Death Valley Days
7 PM Win With The Stars (Allen Ludden hosts this musical game show
with a grocery-chain tie-in (Winn Dixie in the Carolinas)--two
celebrity-contestant teams not only try to identify the song but
sing the first two lines; viewers win if their cards correctly predict
the winning team and score in each game.)
7:30 The Prisoner (Patrick McGoohan)
8:30 My Three Sons (Maureen McCormick appears as a girl with a crush
on Ernie.)
9 PM Hogan's Heroes
9:30 Petticoat Junction
10 PM Miss North Carolina Pageant (Ty Boyd hosts from Ovens Auditorium
in Charlotte, pre-empts "Mannix.")
12 M Movie: "Perfect Strangers" (no, this is definitely not Larry and Balki;
it's about a romance between two jurors played by Ginger Rogers
and Dennis Morgan, from '50, time approximate)
WFBC (WYFF) Ch. 4 Greenville, SC (NBC)
6:30 Farm News (Ben Leonard)
7:30 Leave It To Beaver
8 AM Monty's Rascals (Monty DuPuy)
9 AM Super 6
9:30 Super President
10 AM Flintstones
10:30 Samson And Goliath
11 AM Birdman (as in Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law)
11:30 Atom Ant/Secret Squirrel
12 N Cool McCool
12:30 Big Picture
1 PM Stoneman Family
1:30 Wilburn Brothers (guests: country-music pioneers Sam
and Kirk McGee)
2 PM Baseball: Tigers-White Sox (alternate game: Red Sox-Indians)
5 PM Wrestling (from Raleigh, time approximate)
5:55 News
6 PM Porter Wagoner (guest: Jimmy C. Newman)
6:30 Flatt And Scruggs (guest: Boyce Hawkins who, IIRC, was their
announcer)
7 PM Win With The Stars
7:30 The Saint
8:30 Get Smart
9 PM NBC Movie: "Prescription: Murder" (pilot for "Columbo," with Gene
Barry as the villain)
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:15 Movie: "M.M.M. 83"
WCYB Ch. 5 Bristol, VA (NBC/ABC)
7 AM Rural Tenneva
7:25 News (Merrill Moore)
7:30 Comedy Time
8:30 Popeye
9 AM Super 6
9:30 Super President
10 AM Flintstones
10:30 Samson And Goliath
11 AM Birdman And The Galaxy Trio
11:30 Atom Ant/Secret Squirrel
12 N Cool McCool
12:30 American Bandstand (Merrilee Rush, Albert King,
live feed from ABC0
1:30 Social Security In Action
1:45 Reel, Keel, Rifle
2 PM Baseball (see Ch. 4)
5 PM Eddie Skelton (local country-music show; I doubt if
he's related to Red Skelton, time approximate)
5:30 Bonnie Lou And Buster
6 PM Flatt And Scruggs
6:30 Porter Wagoner
7 PM Frank McGee Report
7:30 The Saint
8:30 Get Smart
9 PM NBC Movie: "Prescription: Murder"
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:15 Saturday Tonight Show
WATE Ch. 6 Knoxville (NBC)
7 AM RFD 6 (Tom Reed)
7:30 Movie: "Adventures Of Mark Twain"
9 AM Super 6
9:30 Super President
10 AM Flintstones
10:30 Samson And Goliath
11 AM Birdman And The Galaxy Trio
11:30 Atom Ant/Secret Squirrel
12 N Cool McCool
12:30 Forest Rangers
1 PM Bill Anderson (guest: Stonewall Jackson--yes, that
is the name of a country singer)
1:30 Stoneman Family
2 PM Baseball (see Ch. 4)
5 PM Wilburn Brothers (guest: Sammy Wright, time approximate)
5:30 Porter Wagoner (guest: ventriloquist Alex Houston)
6 PM Star Time (local talent show)
6:30 Flatt And Scruggs (same as Ch. 4)
7 PM Frank McGee Report
7:30 The Saint
8:30 Get Smart
9 PM NBC Movie: "Prescription: Murder"
11 PM Movie: "Over-exposed" (romance between a reporter and a
would-be photographer, watch for Richard Crenna, from '56)
WSPA Ch. 7 Spartanburg, SC (CBS)
7 AM Summer Semester: "Latin America"
7:30 At Home (farm show)
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Frankenstein Jr. And The Impossibles
9:30 Herculoids
10 AM Shazzan!
10:30 Space Ghost
11 AM Moby Dick And The Mighty Mightor
11:30 Superman/Aquaman Hour Of Adventure
12:30 Billy Dilworth (local country-music show)
1 PM Junior America Jubilee
1:30 Farmer Gray (Cliff Gray with music and farm news)
2 PM Jonny Quest
2:30 Lone Ranger (animated)
3 PM Movie: "Visit To A Small Planet" (Jerry Lewis, from '60)
4:30 Bill Anderson
5 PM Lost In Space (delay from Wed 7:30 PM)
6 PM Greyhound Derby
6:30 News (Dave Handy)
6:35 Rawhide
7:30 The Prisoner
8:30 My Three Sons
9 PM Hogan's Heroes
9:30 Petticoat Junction
10 PM Mannix
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:15 Movie: "Smash Up--The Story Of A Woman" (Susan Hayward
as a nightclub singer who becomes an alcoholic after her husband
forgets about her, from '47)
WSOC Ch. 9 Charlotte (NBC)
8 AM Cisco Kid
8:30 Astroboy
9 AM Super 6
9:30 Super President
10 AM Flintstones
10:30 Samson And Goliath
11 AM Birdman And The Galaxy Trio
11:30 Atom Ant/Secret Squirrel
12 N Cool McCool
12:30 Dobie Gillis
1 PM Kilgo's Kanteen (Jimmy Kilgo)
2 PM Baseball (see Ch. 4)
5 PM TBA
5:30 1968 Indianapolis 500 Highlights
6 PM The Virginian (delay from Wed 7:30 PM)
7:30 The Saint
8:30 Get Smart
9 PM NBC Movie: "Prescription: Murder"
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Movie: "Strangler On The Tower"
WBIR Ch. 10 Knoxville (CBS)
7 AM Judge Roy Bean (Edgar Buchanan)
7:30 Movie: "Lost" (the search for a stolen baby, not a group
of people on a weird island)
9 AM Frankenstein Jr. And The Impossibles
9:30 Herculoids
10 AM Shazzan!
10:30 Space Ghost
11 AM Moby Dick And The Mighty Mightor
11:30 Superman/Aquaman Hour Of Adventure
12:30 Jonny Quest
1 PM Lone Ranger (animated)
1:30 Road Runner
2 PM Leave It To Beaver
2:30 Patty Duke
3 PM Movie: "Mighty Joe Young"
5 PM Bonnie Lou And Buster
5:30 Gunsmoke (delay from Mon 7:30 PM)
6:30 CBS News (Roger Mudd)
7 PM Cathy Hill (country music)
7:30 The Prisoner
8:30 My Three Sons
9 PM Hogan's Heroes
9:30 Petticoat Junction
10 PM Mannix
11 PM Movie: "The Hoodlum Priest"
WJHL Ch. 11 Johnson City, TN (CBS/ABC)
7 AM New Casper Cartoon Show (ABC, delay from 9 AM)
7:30 Fantastic Four (ABC, delay from 9:30 AM)
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Frankenstein Jr. And The Impossibles
9:30 Herculoids
10 AM Shazzan!
10:30 Space Ghost
11 AM Moby Dick And The Mighty Mightor
11:30 Superman/Aquaman Hour Of Adventure
12:30 Jonny Quest
1 PM Lone Ranger (animated)
1:30 Road Runner
2 PM Movie: "Tarzan Finds A Son"
3:30 1968 Indianapolis 500 Highlights
4 PM Golf: U.S. Open (third round, from Rochester, NY,
ABC)
5:30 Wild Wild West (delay from Fri 7:30 PM)
6:30 Lawrence Welk (scheduled was a salute to Welk's home
state of North Dakota; this show was pre-empted on the
network the previous Saturday due to coverage of Bobby
Kennedy's funeral train and burial, so I would guess Ch. 11
showed the June 1 show--a salute to California)
7:30 The Prisoner
8:30 My Three Sons
9 PM Hogan's Heroes
9:30 Petticoat Junction
10 PM Mannix
11 PM News, Weather, Sports (Ch. 11 was still doing local programs
in black and white.)
11:15 Movie: "The Nun And The Sergeant" (watch for "Daktari"'s Hari
Rhodes, from '62)
WLOS Ch. 13 Asheville, NC (ABC)
7 AM Aspect (farm show)
7:30 New Casper Cartoon Show
8 AM Mr. Bill And Bumbo (station legends Bill Norwood and Bob Caldwell)
9:30 Fantastic Four
10 AM Spider-Man
10:30 Journey To The Center Of The Earth
11 AM King Kong (animated)
11:30 George Of The Jungle
12 N Beatles
12:30 American Bandstand
1:30 Happening '68 (Carol Burnett, Hollywood reporter Kathy Orloff;
on film: Jimi Hendrix, Christopher George ("Rat Patrol"), Stephen
Young ("Judd For The Defense"), and Michael Christian ("Peyton Place"))
2 PM Royal Flying Doctor (local teen dance-party show)
2:30 Movie: "Tarzan And The She-Devil"
3:55 Outdoor World
4 PM Golf: U.S. Open (third round)
5:30 Wide World Of Sports (Indy 500 highlights)
6:30 No Time For Sergeants (North Carolina native Sammy Jackson takes the
role of Will Stockdale, made famous by fellow Tar Heel Andy Griffith.)
7 PM Password
7:30 Dating Game (celebrity guest: Marilyn Michaels, later of "The Kopycats" fame)
8 PM Newlywed Game
8:30 Lawrence Welk (salute to Father's Day)
9:30 Joe Pyne (Roderick Thorp, author of "The Detective"; circus acrobatics, civilian
medics in Vietnam, pre-empts "The Hollywood Palace" and continues after the
Miss North Carolina Pageant)
10 PM Miss North Carolina Pageant
12 M Joe Pyne continues (time approximate)
1 AM Movie: "The Dark At The Top Of The Stairs" (watch for Eve Arden and Angela
Lansbury, from '60)
WCCB Ch. 18 Charlotte (ABC)
8:30 Cowboy Bob
9 AM New Casper Cartoon Show
9:30 Fantastic Four
10 AM Spider-Man
10:30 Journey To The Center Of The Earth
11 AM King Kong (animated)
11:30 George Of The Jungle
12 N Beatles
12:30 American Bandstand
1:30 Happening '68
2 PM Upbeat
3 PM Big Picture
3:30 Film Feature
4 PM Golf: U.S. Open (third round)
5:30 Wide World Of Sports
6:30 Ernest Tubb
7 PM Greyhound Derby
7:30 Dating Game
8 PM Newlywed Game
8:30 Lawrence Welk
9:30 Hollywood Palace (host Eddie Fisher; Agnes Moorehead reads
from Marcel Proust's "Remembrance of Things Past," the Young
Americans, comedian Joey Forman, singer-dancers Alice and Ellen
Kessler, the Canestrelli Family trampoline act, the Swordsmen of
the Lido)
10:30 Movie: "The Night Of Nights" (don't let this make you think of
Bugs Bunny's theme song: "Overture, curtain, lights..."; it's another
one about somebody hitting the bottle too hard: Pat O'Brien as a
playwright just before the opening night of one of his plays, from '40)
12 M ABC News (Keith McBee)
WTVK Ch. 26 (WVLT Ch. 8) Knoxville (ABC)
8:30 Agricultural Science In Action
9 AM New Casper Cartoon Show
9:30 Fantastic Four
10 AM Spider-Man
10:30 Journey To The Center Of The Earth
11 AM King Kong (animated)
11:30 George Of The Jungle
12 N Beatles
12:30 American Bandstand
1:30 Happening '68
2 PM Movie: "The Prisoner" (Alec Guinness as a cardinal arrested
in an Iron Curtain country on a charge of treason and subjected
to mental torture--sounds vaguely familiar, from '55)
3:30 Gilligan's Island
4 PM Golf: U.S. Open (third round)
5:30 Wide World Of Sports
6:30 Let's Talk Sports
7 PM Ernest Tubb
7:30 Dating Game
8 PM Newlywed Game
8:30 Lawrence Welk
9:30 Hollywood Palace
10:30 Zane Grey Theater
11 PM ABC News
sign off 11:15 PM
WNTV Ch. 29 Greenville, SC (NET)
4:45 Everybody's Business
5:15 Agricultural Panorama
5:30 Folk Guitar
6 PM Sportsmanlike Driving
6:30 College Bound (topic: use of the library)
7 PM Cineposium (films discussed are "Scarface and Aphrodite"
and "The Abbey Stevenson Story" (an actress's homemade
film test of herself)
7:30 NET Festival (Hungarian pianist Lili Kraus plays selections from
her Mozart concert at New York's Town Hall.)
9 PM Jazz Casual (the Paul Winter sextet)
sign off 9:30 PM
WCTU (WCNC) Ch. 36 Charlotte (Ind.)
3 PM Putt Putt Golf
3:30 Pancho's Corral
4 PM Country Music
4:30 Movie: "The Desperadoes"
6 PM Ken Linker (local country-music show)
7 PM Auto Racing
8:30 Championship Wrestling From Florida
9:30 Bullfights From Mexico
10:30 Movie: "Night Tide"
WAIM (WMYA) Ch. 40 Anderson, SC (ABC/CBS)
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Frankenstein Jr. And The Impossibles
9:30 Fantastic Four
10 AM Spider-Man
10:30 Journey To The Center Of The Earth
11 AM King Kong (animated)
11:30 George Of The Jungle
12 N Beatles
12:30 American Bandstand
1:30 Happening '68
2 PM Jonny Quest
2:30 Lone Ranger (animated)
3 PM Quest For Adventure
3:30 1968 24 Hours Of Daytona Highlights
4 PM Golf: U.S. Open (third round)
5:30 Wide World Of Sports
6:30 The Actor (Alec Guinness and members of the British
theater scene--director Tyrone Guthrie, actors Robert
Morley and Nicol Williamson, and playwright Harold Pinter
among them--discussing the acting profession, ABC, delay
from Sun 4 PM)
7:30 Dating Game
8 PM Newlywed Game
8:30 Lawrence Welk
9:30 Petticoat Junction
10 PM Mannix
sign off 11 PM