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Retro: Carolina/Tennessee Saturday, May 18, 1963

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bpatrick

From TV Guide, Carolina-Tennessee Edition:

WBTV Ch. 3 Charlotte (CBS/ABC)

7 AM Carolina Calling (Arthur Smith and
an hour of country music)
8 AM Supercar
8:30 Pirate's Cove
9 AM Captain Kangaroo
10 AM The Alvin Show
10:30 Mighty Mouse
11 AM Beany And Cecil (ABC, delay from 11:30)
11:30 Roy Rogers
12 N Sky King
12:30 Pastor's Study
12:45 Baseball: Angels-Yankees (Dizzy Dean
and Pee Wee Reese report)
3:25 TBA (time approximate)
3:45 Industry On Parade
4 PM Grand Ole Opry
4:30 The Preakness (Candy Spots, third in the
Kentucky Derby, denies Chateaugay the
Triple Crown. Chateaugay won the Derby
and will win the Belmont.)
5 PM Flatt And Scruggs
5:30 Wrestling (from the studio)
6:15 Wrestling And News
6:30 I'm Dickens, He's Fenster (ABC, delay from
Friday 9 PM)
7 PM The Lucy Show (delay from Monday 8:30)
7:30 Jackie Gleason
8:30 The Defenders
9:30 Have Gun, Will Travel
10 PM Gunsmoke
11 PM News
11:15 Movie: "Highway 301" (which actually runs
through North Carolina)

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

6:30 Modern Almanac
7 AM Farm News With Ben Leonard
7:30 Hiway Show With Billy Fallaw
7:45 Lessons For Living
8 AM Monty's Rascals (Monty DuPuy and Stowe
Hoyle as Mr. Doohickey--one of the Upstate's
two premier kids' shows, the other being "Mr.
Bill's Friends" on WLOS)
9:30 Ruff And Reddy (COLOR)
10 AM Shari Lewis (COLOR)
10:30 King Leonardo (COLOR)
11 AM Fury
11:30 Make Room For Daddy
12 N Mr. Wizard
12:30 Exploring (COLOR)
1:30 Film Feature
2 PM Bowling From Greenville
3 PM Baseball: Pirates-Dodgers (Bob Wolff and
Joe Garagiola report)
5:30 Greenville Wrestling (time approximate)
6 PM Grand Ole Opry
6:30 Flatt And Scruggs (they still held this time
slot when I moved to Greenville in '68)
7 PM Trails West (selected reruns of "Death
Valley Days")
7:30 Sam Benedict (COLOR)
8:30 Joey Bishop (his sitcom) (COLOR)
9 PM NBC Movie: "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes"
(COLOR)
11 PM Movie: "Operation Secret"

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

7 AM Rural Tenneva (long-running farm show)
7:30 Cartoons
8:30 The Californians
9 AM Cartoons
9:30 Ruff And Reddy (COLOR)
10 AM Shari Lewis (COLOR)
10:30 King Leonardo (COLOR)
11 AM Fury
11:30 Bugs Bunny (ABC, delay from noon)
12 N Mr. Wizard
12:30 Exploring (COLOR)
1:30 Bowling From Bristol
2:30 Three Stooges
3 PM Baseball: Pirates-Dodgers
5:30 TBA (time approximate)
6 PM Wide Country (delay from Thursday 7:30)
7 PM Wilburn Brothers
7:30 Sam Benedict (COLOR)
8:30 Joey Bishop (COLOR)
9 PM NBC Movie: "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes"
(COLOR)
11 PM News (unusual for a weekend in '63: 30 minutes)
11:30 Movie: "The Deadliest Sin"

WATE Ch. 6 Knoxville (NBC)

7 AM Farm Information
7:30 Cartoons
8 AM Movie: "King Of The Cowboys" (who else
but Roy Rogers?)
9 AM Cartoons
9:30 Ruff And Reddy (COLOR)
10 AM Shari Lewis (COLOR)
10:30 King Leonardo (COLOR)
11 AM Fury
11:30 Make Room For Daddy
12 N Mr. Wizard
12:30 Exploring (COLOR)
1:30 Movie: "Canyon Passage"
3 PM Baseball: Pirates-Dodgers
5:30 TBA (time approximate)
5:45 Horse Race: The Acorn Stakes (taped
earlier in the day at Aqueduct)
6 PM Talent Showcase
6:45 NBC News (Sander Vanocur)
7 PM Wilburn Brothers
7:30 Sam Benedict (COLOR)
8:30 Political Talk
9 PM NBC Movie: "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes"
(COLOR)
11 PM Movie: "Tight Spot"

WSPA Ch. 7 Spartanburg, SC (CBS)

7:30 Modern Almanac
8 AM Cartoons
8:30 State Trooper
9 AM Captain Kangaroo
10 AM The Alvin Show
10:30 Mighty Mouse
11 AM Rin Tin Tin
11:30 Roy Rogers
12 N Farmer Gray (Cliff Gray with music
and farm news)
12:45 Baseball: Angels-Yankees
3:25 TBA (time approximate)
4 PM My Friend Flicka (ABC, delay from 1 PM)
4:30 The Preakness
5 PM Sky King
5:30 Surfside 6
6:30 Local News, Weather
6:45 Sports
7 PM How To Marry A Millionaire (a pre-Jeannie
Barbara Eden got a break on this show
in 1958)
7:30 Jackie Gleason
8:30 The Defenders
9:30 Have Gun, Will Travel
10 PM Gunsmoke
11 PM News
11:15 Roaring 20's
12:15 Movie: "Green Hell"

WSOC Ch. 9 Charlotte (NBC/ABC)

7:15 Aspect (farm show seen all over North
Carolina for years)
7:45 Country Style, U.S.A.
8 AM Sportsmen (Brooks Lindsay, better known
for Ch. 9's kids' show "Clown Carnival")
8:30 Ramar Of The Jungle
9 AM Cartoonies (ABC, delay from 11 AM--Paul
Winchell, Jerry Mahoney, and Knucklehead
Smith introduce Harvey cartoons like Casper
the Friendly Ghost)
9:30 Ruff And Reddy (COLOR)
10 AM Shari Lewis (COLOR)
10:30 Bugs Bunny (ABC, delay from noon)
11 AM Fury
11:30 Make Room For Daddy
12 N Kilgo's Kanteen (local "American Bandstand"-
type show)
1 PM Wide World Of Sports (ABC, delay from 5 PM)
2:30 American Bandstand (I don't get this at all--
the show didn't move to Saturdays until that
fall.)
3:30 Movie: "The Great Jesse James Raid"
5 PM Take Two (ABC, delay from Sunday 4:30)
5:30 Hootenanny (ABC, delay from 8:30)
6 PM Cheyenne (ABC, delay from Friday 7:30)
7 PM The Dakotas (ABC, delay from Monday 7:30)
8 PM 77 Sunset Strip (ABC, delay from Friday 9:30)
9 PM Lawrence Welk (ABC) (a very un-Welk group,
the Chantays, perform their surf hit "Pipeline")
10 PM Sam Benedict
11 PM Movies: "The System" and "One Night In
Lisbon"

WBIR Ch. 10 Knoxville (CBS)

7:30 Farm Information
8 AM Jeff's Collie (the Tommy Rettig "Lassie"s)
8:30 Supercar
9 AM Captain Kangaroo
10 AM The Alvin Show
10:30 Mighty Mouse
11 AM Rin Tin Tin
11:30 Roy Rogers
12 N Sky King
12:30 CBS News (Robert Trout)
12:45 Baseball: Angels-Yankees
3:25 Famous Artists (time approximate)
4 PM Pastor's Study
4:30 The Preakness
5 PM Knoxville Wrestling
7 PM Funtime With Cas Walker (longtime
Knoxville personality and supermarket
owner)
7:30 Jackie Gleason
8:30 The Defenders
9:30 Have Gun, Will Travel
10 PM Gunsmoke
11 PM Movie: "Gunga Din"

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

8 AM Movie: "Trailing Trouble"
9 AM Captain Kangaroo
10 AM The Alvin Show
10:30 Junior Auction
11 AM Rin Tin Tin
11:30 Roy Rogers
12 N Sky King
12:30 Virgil Wacks (later on WKPT, this
seemed to be all over the place in
Tennessee and Kentucky)
12:45 Baseball: Angels-Yankees
3:25 TBA (time approximate)
4 PM Wide World Of Sports
4:30 The Preakness
5 PM Wide World Of Sports continues
5:30 Mighty Mouse
6 PM Going My Way (ABC, delay from Wed 8:30)
7 PM My Three Sons (ABC, delay from Thu 9 PM)
7:30 Jackie Gleason
8:30 The Defenders
9:30 Have Gun, Will Travel
10 PM Gunsmoke
11 PM News
11:15 Movie: "Odds Against Tomorrow"

WLOS Ch. 13 Asheville, NC (ABC)

7 AM Aspect
7:30 Casper The Friendly Ghost
8 AM Popeye
8:30 Cartoonies
9 AM Supercar
9:30 Mr. Bill And Bozo (around 1966, longtime
station personality Bob Caldwell will come
to Ch. 13 and become Bumbo the clown)
11:30 Beany And Cecil
12 N Bugs Bunny
12:30 Magic Land Of Allakazam
1 PM Movie: "Phantom Of The Rue Morgue"
2:15 Movie: "The Good Humor Man'
4 PM Cheyenne
5 PM Saturday Jamboree
6 PM News
6:10 Movie: "Miss Grant Takes Richmond"
(Lucille Ball and William Holden work together
six years before their classic "I Love Lucy"
episode)
7:30 The Gallant Men
8:30 Hootenanny
9 PM Lawrence Welk
10 PM Fight Of The Week: Joey Archer vs. Victor
Zalazar, middleweights, 10 rounds, from
Madison Square Garden
10:45 Make That Spare (time approximate)
11 PM News
11:10 Movie: "Home Before Dark"

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

11 AM Cartoonies
11:30 Beany And Cecil
12 N Bugs Bunny
12:30 Magic Land Of Allakazam
1 PM My Friend Flicka
1:30 Magic Ranch
2 PM Big Picture
2:30 Japan Today
3 PM Theater "30"
3:30 For Your Information
4 PM Compass
4:30 Holiday Time (I think this is
a travelogue)
5 PM Wide World Of Sports
6:30 Children (documentary)
7 PM All Star Theater
7:30 The Gallant Men
8:30 Hootenanny
9 PM Lawrence Welk
10 PM Fight Of The Week
10:45 Make That Spare (time approximate)

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

11 AM Cartoonies
11:30 Beany And Cecil
12 N Bugs Bunny
12:30 Cartoons
12:45 Baseball: Angels-Yankees
3:25 TBA (time approximate)
4:30 The Preakness
5 PM Wide World Of Sports
6:30 Top Star Bowling
7:30 The Gallant Men
8:30 Beverly Hillbillies (CBS, delay from Wed 9 PM)
9 PM Lawrence Welk
10 PM Fight Of The Week
10:45 Make That Spare (time approximate)
 
bpatrick said:
WBTV Ch. 3 Charlotte (CBS/ABC)

7 AM Carolina Calling (Arthur Smith and
an hour of country music)
Click to expand...

I have vague memories of Smith airing on some Florida station or other back in the day (although I seem to recall it under the generic title The Arthur Smith Show). Might have even been WFTV, but where it fits chronolgically with The Slim Mims Show and Sunrise Jubilee (uh...yeah, let's not get into all THAT again...), I don't know. Do you recall him offhand popping up in any of your Central or Northern Florida TVGs?
 
Not offhand. He did have an early-morning show that
was seen as far west as Austin in the '70s and early '80s
but don't recall its ever being on in Florida.
 
I wonder if anyone knows that Stan Laurel was a
big fan of "I'm Dickens, He's Fenster." Interviewed
by Steve Allen for his book "More Funny People,"
producer Leonard Stern said that Laurel would often
write to him with comments and suggestions; the show
did resemble Laurel and Hardy's work (even the theme
song sounded a little like "The Cuckoo Song"). I wouldn't
mind seeing this show again myself.

BTW, John Astin and Marty Ingels got to work together
again--on Phyllis Diller's sitcom in 1967, after the format
of "The Pruitts Of Southampton" changed and Phyllis began
running a boardinghouse; the show was retitled "The Phyllis
Diller Show."
 
I mentioned above that the Chantays appeared on Lawrence Welk
that night, doing "Pipeline." I think it's on YouTube, but there's a
clip of a 1966 episode of "Ted Mack's Amateur Hour" which originated
at Television City in Hollywood and featured a group of L.A.-area
seventh-graders who did a credible version of that surf classic.

But that's not Welk's greatest inadvertent contribution to rock music.
In 1971 he allowed "One Toke Over The Line" to be sung on the show,
even though some radio stations had banned the song since "toke"
refers to smoking marijuana. According to the story, Welk didn't know
what "toke" meant; he thought it was a religious song from the opening
line, "One toke over the line, sweet Jesus..." Sounds like an urban legend,
but as far as I can tell, the story's true.
 
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