Retro: Carolina-Tennessee Wednesday, February 22, 1961

[bpatrick]

From TV Guide, Carolina-Tennessee Edition:

WBTV Ch. 3 Charlotte (CBS/ABC)

6:20 Daily Word
6:25 Reading
6:55 Farm Journal
7 AM Carolina Calling (Arthur Smith)
8 AM CBS News (Richard Hottelet)
8:15 Captain Kangaroo
9 AM U.S. History (probably being picked up
from WUNC)
9:30 Life Of Riley
10 AM December Bride
10:30 Video Village
11 AM I Love Lucy (Ricky puts Lucy on a time schedule.)
11:30 Clear Horizon
12 N Love Of Life
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1 PM Betty Feezor
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Dr. Hudson's Secret Journal
2:30 Art Linkletter's House Party (Virginia Thomas and Dr.
Irene Dunn (not the actress Irene Dunne), two passengers
on the wild voyage of the Portuguese liner "Santa Maria,"
are guests.)
3 PM Millionaire
3:30 Verdict Is Yours
4 PM Brighter Day
4:15 Secret Storm
4:30 Edge Of Night
5 PM Five O'Clock Fun (Fred Kirby)
5:30 Quick Draw McGraw
6 PM Amos 'n' Andy
6:25 Sports
6:30 News
6:45 CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
7 PM Movie: "Yankee Doodle Dandy"
8:30 Wanted: Dead Or Alive
9 PM My Sister Eileen
9:30 I've Got A Secret
10 PM U.S. Steel Hour (Mona Freeman and Cliff Robertson
in "The Two Worlds Of Charlie Gordon": after an operation
improves a mouse's IQ, Charlie Gordon, who has limited brain
power, undergoes the same operation with astounding results.)
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:15 Movie: "Overland Pacific"

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

"Continental Classroom," which normally airs at 6:30 AM, is pre-empted
for Washington's Birthday. Ch. 4's engineers get an extra 30 minutes of
sleep.

7 AM Dave Garroway Today Show
9 AM I Married Joan
9:30 Burns And Allen
10 AM Say When!
10:30 Play Your Hunch (COLOR)
11 AM Price Is Right (COLOR)
11:30 Concentration
12 N Truth Or Consequences
12:30 It Could Be You (COLOR)
12:55 NBC News (Ray Scherer)
1 PM News
1:10 Movie: "Barnacle Bill" (Marie Dressler, Wallace Beery)
2:30 Loretta Young
3 PM Young Dr. Malone
3:30 From These Roots
4 PM Make Room For Daddy
4:30 Here's Hollywood (Dean Miller interviews Cliff
Robertson.)
5 PM Monty's Rascals (Monty DuPuy)
6 PM Quick Draw McGraw
6:30 News, Weather
6:45 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7 PM Third Man
7:30 Wagon Train
8:30 Price Is Right (COLOR)
9 PM Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall (Anne Bancroft,
Jimmy Durante, Ray Charles (the African-American
Ray Charles; Como's chorus leader was the white
Ray Charles of Ray Charles Singers fame)
10 PM Peter Loves Mary (Peter Lind Hayes, Mary Healy)
10:30 Trackdown
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:30 Jack Paar Tonight Show (designer Oleg Cassini is the guest, COLOR)

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

Ch. 5 carries both half-hours of "Continental Classroom"; the show
is off today so the engineers get an extra hour of sleep.

7 AM Dave Garroway Today Show
9 AM Popeye Show (Ed Spiegel)
9:30 Life Of Riley
10 AM Say When!
10:30 Play Your Hunch (COLOR)
11 AM Price Is Right (COLOR)
11:30 Concentration
12 N Truth Or Consequences
12:30 It Could Be You (COLOR)
12:55 NBC News
1 PM News
1:15 Matinee (Ed Spiegel)
1:30 Burns And Allen
2 PM Jan Murray (Charge Account) (COLOR)
2:30 Loretta Young
3 PM Young Dr. Malone
3:30 From These Roots
4 PM Make Room For Daddy
4:30 Here's Hollywood
5 PM Looney Tunes (Georgia Sims)
5:30 Quick Draw McGraw
6 PM Silent Service
6:30 News
6:45 Amos 'n' Andy
7:15 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7:30 Wagon Train
8:30 Price Is Right (COLOR)
9 PM Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall (COLOR)
10 PM Peter Loves Mary
10:30 Alcoa Presents (One Step Beyond, ABC,
delay from Tue 10 PM)
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:30 Jack Paar Tonight Show (COLOR)

WATE Ch. 6 Knoxville (NBC)

Like Ch. 5, Ch. 6's engineers get an extra hour's sleep.

7 AM Dave Garroway Today Show
9 AM Children And Science
9:30 Homemakers (Mary Starr)
10 AM Say When!
10:30 Play Your Hunch (COLOR)
11 AM Price Is Right (COLOR)
11:30 Concentration
12 N Truth Or Consequences
12:30 It Could Be You (COLOR)
12:55 NBC News
1 PM News
1:05 Movie: "The Gunfighter" (Gregory Peck)
2:30 Loretta Young
3 PM Young Dr. Malone
3:30 From These Roots
4 PM Make Room For Daddy
4:30 Here's Hollywood
5 PM Popeye And His Friends
5:30 Quick Draw McGraw
6 PM News (Ken Johnson)
6:15 Cas Walker Time (the Knoxville grocer and one-time mayor hosts
a country-music show)
6:45 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7 PM Coronado 9
7:30 Wagon Train
8:30 Price Is Right (COLOR)
9 PM Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall (COLOR)
10 PM Peter Loves Mary
10:30 This Is Your Life (delay from Sun 10:30 PM)
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:30 Jack Paar Tonight Show (COLOR)

WSPA Ch. 7 Spartanburg, SC (CBS)

7:30 School Story
8 AM CBS News
8:15 Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Tim The Squirrel
9:30 Cartoon Caravan
10 AM December Bride
10:30 Video Village
11 AM I Love Lucy
11:30 Clear Horizon
12 N Love Of Life
12:30 Movie: "Plunder Road" (which came out the same year
as "Thunder Road" (1958), and that's where the similarity
ends)
2 PM Full Circle
2:30 Art Linkletter's House Party
3 PM Millionaire
3:30 Verdict Is Yours
4 PM Brighter Day
4:15 Secret Storm
4:30 Edge Of Night
5 PM Mister Dutch (Rene Royards)
5:30 Annie Oakley
6 PM Amos 'n' Andy
6:30 News
6:45 Douglas Edwards With The News
7 PM Ernie Kovacs ("Take A Good Look" with panel Edie
Adams, Cesar Romero, and Hans Conried, ABC, pre-
empted on Ch. 13, delay from Thu 10:30 PM)
7:30 Aquanauts (look for June Blair, aka Mrs. David Nelson,
in this episode)
8:30 Wanted: Dead Or Alive
9 PM My Sister Eileen
9:30 I've Got A Secret
10 PM U.S. Steel Hour
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:25 Trouble With Father (Stu Erwin)
11:55 News (Dave Handy)

WSOC Ch. 9 Charlotte (NBC/ABC)

6:30 Farm And Home (Ch. 9 carried only the 6:30 half-hour of "Continental
Classroom" so no sleep-in for its engineers.)
7 AM Dave Garroway Today Show
9 AM Cartoon Carnival
10 AM Say When!
10:30 Play Your Hunch (COLOR)
11 AM Price Is Right (COLOR)
11:30 Concentration
12 N Truth Or Consequences
12:30 News, Weather (Ted Austin)
12:45 Movie: "Those Were The Days" (William Holden)
2 PM Day In Court (ABC)
2:30 Road To Reality (this might be considered ABC's first soap; I
don't, since it involved a different member of a psychological
therapy group each day)
3 PM Queen For A Day (ABC)
3:30 Who Do You Trust? (ABC)
4 PM Make Room For Daddy
4:30 Kilgo's Kanteen (Jimmy welcomes students from East Mecklenburg
High School in Charlotte.)
5 PM Clown Carnival (Brooks Lindsay welcomes children from Charlotte.)
6 PM Flintstones (ABC, delay from Fri 8:30 PM)
6:30 News
6:45 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7 PM Shotgun Slade
7:30 Wagon Train
8:30 Price Is Right (COLOR)
9 PM Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall (COLOR)
10 PM Untouchables (ABC, delay from Thu 9:30 PM)
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:30 Jack Paar Tonight Show (COLOR)

WBIR Ch. 10 Knoxville (CBS)

7 AM Farm And Home (Cas Walker--he had enough pull
to have shows on two stations.)
8 AM CBS News
8:15 Captain Kangaroo
9 AM University Of Tennessee Telecourse
9:30 Birthday Dog
10 AM December Bride
10:30 Video Village
11 AM I Love Lucy
11:30 Clear Horizon
12 N Love Of Life
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1 PM I Married Joan
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Edge Of Night
2:30 Art Linkletter's House Party
3 PM Millionaire
3:30 Verdict Is Yours
4 PM Brighter Day
4:15 Secret Storm
4:30 Movie: "Calcutta"
6 PM Three Stooges
6:15 News, Weather
6:30 Whirlybirds
7 PM Mister Ed (still a syndicated show, IIRC)
7:30 The Aquanauts
8:30 Wanted: Dead Or Alive
9 PM My Sister Eileen
9:30 I've Got A Secret
10 PM U.S. Steel Hour
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:15 Movie: "Deadline At Dawn"

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

7 AM Hi, Neighbor (country music)
8 AM CBS News
8:15 Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Little Rascals
9:15 Uncle Hank
9:30 On Campus
10 AM December Bride
10:30 Video Village
11 AM I Love Lucy
11:30 Clear Horizon
12 N Love Of Life
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1 PM News
1:05 Memo From Ilo
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Full Circle
2:30 Art Linkletter's House Party
3 PM Millionaire
3:30 Verdict Is Yours
4 PM Brighter Day
4:15 Secret Storm
4:30 Edge Of Night
5 PM Lone Ranger (this appears to be ABC, delay from 5:30 PM)
5:30 Bozo The Clown
6 PM Courageous Cat
6:30 Leave It To Beaver (ABC, delay from Sat 8:30 PM)
7 PM News, Weather
7:15 Douglas Edwards With The News
7:30 The Aquanauts
8:30 Wanted: Dead Or Alive
9 PM My Sister Eileen
9:30 I've Got A Secret
10 PM U.S. Steel Hour
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:30 Movie: "A Bell For Adano"

WLOS Ch. 13 Asheville, NC (ABC)

6:50 Daily Word
6:55 News For Farmers
7 AM Mr. Bill's Cartoons
9:45 Debbie Drake
10 AM Highway Patrol
10:30 Star Theater (drama anthology)
11 AM Morning Court (spinoff of "Day In Court" with one
of television's first female judges, Georgiana Hardy)
11:30 Love That Bob! (Bob Cummings)
12 N Camouflage
12:30 Number Please
1 PM About Faces (Ben Alexander as a game show host?
He was here, but more memorable is that his announcer
went on to bigger things; his name was Tom Kennedy.)
1:30 Movie: "The Perfect Marriage"
3 PM Queen For A Day
3:30 Who Do You Trust?
4 PM American Bandstand (Roy Hamilton sings "You Can Have Her";
Ch. 13 carries only the first hour.)
5 PM Three Stooges
5:30 Movie: "The Searchers" (Part 1, John Wayne stars)
6:10 News (Don Robertson)
6:15 Movie continues
7:15 News, Weather
7:30 Hong Kong
8:30 Ozzie And Harriet
9 PM Hawaiian Eye (watch for Frank de Kova, Wild Eagle on "F Troop")
10 PM Naked City
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:15 Movie: "Lady Luck" (this one from '46 stars two future TV legends:
Robert Young and Barbara Hale)

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

11 AM Morning Court
11:30 Love That Bob!
12 N Camouflage
12:30 Number Please
1 PM About Faces
1:30 University of Tennessee Spanish (instructional)
2 PM Day In Court
2:30 Road To Reality
3 PM Queen For A Day
3:30 Who Do You Trust?
4 PM American Bandstand (Ch. 26 carries the full 90 minutes)
5:30 Lone Ranger
6 PM ABC News (anchor not given--this is in the period of
revolving anchors, after John Daly and before Ron Cochran)
6:15 News, Weather
6:30 Inner Sanctum
7 PM Medic
7:30 Hong Kong
8:30 Ozzie And Harriet
9 PM Hawaiian Eye
10 PM Naked City
sign off 11 PM

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

11 AM Morning Court
11:30 Love That Bob!
12 N Camouflage
12:30 Number Please
1 PM About Faces
1:30 Home Agent
2 PM Showcase (drama anthology)
3 PM Queen For A Day
3:30 Who Do You Trust?
4 PM American Bandstand (Ch. 40 also carries only
the first hour.)
5 PM Cartoon Carnival
6:30 Playhouse 40
7 PM Silent Service
7:30 Hong Kong
8:30 Ozzie And Harriet
9 PM Hawaiian Eye
10 PM Naked City
sign off 11 PM

 

[oldiesfan6479]

Regarding Continental Classroom...

Since there was no Early Today or local newsers from 4:30-7 AM in 1961, what time
did NBC feed Continental Classroom? 6-7 AM ET, or during down time the day before,
like CBS with Sunrise Surprise?

And if you were in the midwest, under example A, did you have to record it from
5-6 AM CT? I won't even ask about the Mountain Time Zone--maybe they were
sent kinnies a week late.

 

[bpatrick]

All I know is that NBC had two different courses being offered at
any given time on "Continental Classroom," one at 6 AM; the other
at 6:30. The program must have aired on a clock-time schedule;
if you'll look at some of the Kentucky retros from this period (when
Lexington was on Eastern time and Louisville still on Central), you'll
see "Classroom" airing in Lexington an hour before it did in Louisville.

While Castleman and Podrazik mention "Sunrise Semester" as airing on
CBS stations at 1 PM (ET) (which is, I suspect, the time when affiliates
got the feed, since only one course aired per day), they show "CC" as
airing from 6-7 AM, so apparently no closed-circuit feed while NBC was
down from 1-2 PM (ET). My guess is that those CBS stations that carried
"Semester" taped the show at 1 PM and played it back the next morning;
after all, the title "Sunrise Semester" doesn't seem very apt at 1:00 in the
afternoon.

Things must have gotten a little crazy at NBC, since the "Today" show
was airing at 7 AM (ET) while "CC" was airing at 6 AM (CT).

 

[bpatrick]

A couple of minor points from these listings that I ought to explain:

1. Usually, when I list "Here's Hollywood" (4:30 PM, NBC), I list Jack
Linkletter as one of the hosts; he was the second male host, after
Dean Miller either left or was pink-slipped.

2. I mentioned in the Perry Como listings that there were two singers
named Ray Charles: the better-known African-American singer and
the white leader of the Ray Charles Singers. ASCAP let them get
away with using the same name, since both had changed their names
earlier in life. The white Ray Charles teamed with singer Julia Rinker to
sing the theme song for "Three's Company," and is still alive and active
at age 93. (Discount the fact that Brooks & Marsh say that the African-
American Ray Charles sang that duet; the male singer sounds nothing
like him.) Off-topic, but I wonder if there's been any confusion over the
existence of two musicians named Dick Dale: the pioneer of surf music and
the regular on "The Lawrence Welk Show," neither of whom (I presume) would
ever venture into the other's territory.

 

[Ultimajock]

A couple of minor points from these listings that I ought to explain:

2. I mentioned in the Perry Como listings that there were two singers
named Ray Charles: the better-known African-American singer and
the white leader of the Ray Charles Singers. ASCAP let them get
away with using the same name, since both had changed their names
earlier in life. The white Ray Charles teamed with singer Julia Rinker to
sing the theme song for "Three's Company," and is still alive and active
at age 93. (Discount the fact that Brooks & Marsh say that the African-
American Ray Charles sang that duet; the male singer sounds nothing
like him.)

...as well, both of them were under contract to divisions of ABC-Paramount Records in the 1960s; the Genius of Soul was one of the primary label's stars, while The Ray Charles Singers recorded for the Command Records subsidiary label...

 

[Bob1370]

The CBS affiliates at 10 PM that night were carrying this;
"10 PM U.S. Steel Hour (Mona Freeman and Cliff Robertson
in "The Two Worlds Of Charlie Gordon": after an operation
improves a mouse's IQ, Charlie Gordon, who has limited brain
power, undergoes the same operation with astounding results.)"

Inspired by the novel "A Flower for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes. The same basic plotline was taken to the big screen in 1968 as the film "Charly", also starring Cliff Robertson in a reprise of the Charlie Gordon role (he bought the rights to the story after he did it on TV because he thought it would make a good film someday).
He got an Emmy nomination (but didn't win) for this TV performance. Eight years later he was nominated for a Best Actor Oscar for the same role--and won.