Retro: Carolina-Tennessee Wednesday, November 7, 1962

[bpatrick]

From TV Guide, Carolina-Tennessee Edition:

WBTV Ch. 3 Charlotte (CBS/ABC)

6:25 Daily Word
6:30 Fun House
6:50 Farm Journal
7 AM Carolina Calling
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Romper Room
9:45 Foot In The Door (not to be confused
with the 1983 sitcom, this was a local
program hosted by Carolina legend Ty
Boyd, who later turned down an offer
from CBS to replace Arthur Godfrey after
he'd subbed for the Old Redhead a few times)
10 AM Calendar (Harry Reasoner)
10:30 Jane Wyman (ABC, delay from noon)
11 AM Tennessee Ernie Ford Show (ABC)
11:30 Pete And Gladys
12 N Love Of Life
12:25 CBS News (Harry Reasoner)
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1 PM Betty Feezor
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Gale Storm
2:30 Art Linkletter's House Party
3 PM Millionaire (today's check goes to one
of two men who have been hunting for
uranium)
3:30 To Tell The Truth
3:55 CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
4 PM Secret Storm
4:30 Edge Of Night
5 PM Three Ring Circus
6 PM Rescue 8
6:25 Sports
6:30 News
6:45 CBS News (Walter Cronkite)
7 PM Hennesey
7:30 Campaign '62 (review of the results)
8:30 Dobie Gillis
9 PM Beverly Hillbillies
9:30 Dick Van ---- (the episode where Ritchie
learns his middle name is Rosebud)
10 PM Armstrong Circle Theater ("Tunnel To
Freedom," about a group of East Berliners
who tunneled under the Berlin Wall)
11 PM News
11:15 Movie: "Fort Apache" (the Western, not
"Fort Apache, The Bronx")

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

6:30 Continental Classroom (COLOR): "American
Government"
7 AM Today
9 AM Riverboat
10 AM Say When!
10:25 NBC News (Edwin Newman)
10:30 Play Your Hunch (COLOR) (Gene Rayburn
is interim host between Merv Griffin and
Robert Q. Lewis)
11 AM Price Is Right (COLOR)
11:30 Concentration
12 N Your First Impression
12:30 Truth Or Consequences
12:55 NBC News (Ray Scherer)
1 PM Tele-Scope
2 PM Merv Griffin (COLOR)
2:55 NBC News (Floyd Kalber)
3 PM Loretta Young
3:30 Young Dr. Malone
4 PM Make Room For Daddy
4:30 Monty's Mickey Mouse Club (Monty
is Monty DuPuy, host of Ch. 4's long-
running "Monty's Rascals")
5:30 Quick Draw McGraw
6 PM Sea Hunt
6:30 News
6:45 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7 PM Third Man
7:30 Virginian (COLOR)
9 PM Perry Como (COLOR)
10 PM Eleventh Hour (about psychiatrists)
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show (COLOR)

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

6 AM Continental Classroom: "Atomic Age
Physics"
6:30 Continental Classroom (COLOR)
7 AM Today
9 AM Best Of Groucho
9:30 Jane Wyman
10 AM Say When!
10:25 NBC News
10:30 Play Your Hunch (COLOR)
11 AM Price Is Right (COLOR)
11:30 Concentration
12 N Your First Impression
12:30 Truth Or Consequences
12:55 NBC News
1 PM News
1:15 Matinee
1:30 Tennessee Ernie Ford Show
2 PM Merv Griffin (COLOR)
2:55 NBC News
3 PM Loretta Young
3:30 Young Dr. Malone
4 PM Make Room For Daddy
4:30 Here's Hollywood
4:55 NBC News (Sander Vanocur)
5 PM Looney Tunes
5:30 Quick Draw McGraw
6 PM Highway Patrol
6:30 News
6:45 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7 PM Biography (which would eventually
expand into the Biography Channel)
7:30 Virginian (COLOR)
9 PM Perry Como (COLOR)
10 PM Eleventh Hour
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show (COLOR)

WATE Ch. 6 Knoxville (NBC)

6 AM Continental Classroom
6:30 Continental Classroom (COLOR)
7 AM Today
9 AM Children And Science
9:30 Homemakers (I think was still on in
the '70s)
10 AM Say When!
10:25 NBC News
10:30 Play Your Hunch (COLOR)
11 AM Price Is Right (COLOR)
11:30 Concentration
12 N Your First Impression
12:30 Truth Or Consequences
12:55 NBC News
1 PM News
1:05 Movie: TBA
2:30 Merv Griffin (joined in progress)
2:55 NBC News
3 PM Loretta Young
3:30 Young Dr. Malone
4 PM Make Room For Daddy
4:30 Here's Hollywood
4:55 NBC News
5 PM Popeye Theater
5:15 Quick Draw McGraw
5:45 News
6:15 Cas Walker Time
6:45 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7 PM Biography
7:30 Virginian (COLOR)
9 PM Perry Como (COLOR)
10 PM Eleventh Hour
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show (COLOR)

WSPA Ch. 7 Spartanburg, SC (CBS)

6:15 Social Security In Action
6:30 College Of The Air
7 AM Mr. Dutch
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Mr. Dutch
9:30 Jack LaLanne
10 AM Calendar
10:30 I Love Lucy
11 AM Real McCoys
11:30 Pete And Gladys
12 N Love Of Life
12:25 CBS News
12:30 Movie: "Holiday"
2 PM Password
2:30 Art Linkletter's House Party
3 PM Millionaire
3:30 To Tell The Truth
3:55 CBS News
4 PM Secret Storm
4:30 Edge Of Night
5 PM Frontier Circus
6 PM Dragnet (the original, with Ben Alexander
as Jack Webb's partner)
6:25 Sports
6:30 News
6:45 CBS News
7 PM Man From Cochise
7:30 Campaign '62
8:30 Dobie Gillis
9 PM Beverly Hillbillies
9:30 Dick Van ----
10 PM Armstrong Circle Theater
11 PM News
11:15 Playhouse 7

WSOC Ch. 9 Charlotte (NBC/ABC)

6:30 Continental Classroom (COLOR)
6:45 Farm And Home
7 AM Today
9 AM Debbie Drake
9:15 Consult Dr. Brothers
9:30 Club Nine
10 AM Say When!
10:25 NBC News
10:30 Play Your Hunch (COLOR)
11 AM Price Is Right (COLOR)
11:30 Concentration
12 N News
12:30 Yours For A Song (ABC, delay from
11:30 AM)
1 PM Best Of Groucho
1:30 Camouflage (ABC, delay from 12:30)
although not listed, I seem to recall Ch. 9 carrying
Alex Dreier's ABC newscast at 1:55
2 PM Merv Griffin (COLOR)
2:55 NBC News
3 PM Loretta Young
3:30 Young Dr. Malone
4 PM Ramar Of The Jungle
4:30 Discovery '62 (here's a bit of cross-promotion:
the guest is magician Mark Wilson of ABC's
"Magic Land Of Allakazam")
4:55 American Newsstand (ABC)
5 PM Clown Carnival
6 PM Quick Draw McGraw
6:30 News
6:45 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7 PM Biography
7:30 Wagon Train (ABC, guest star is Russell
Johnson, the Professor on "Gilligan's Island")
8:30 Our Man Higgins (ABC, delay from 9:30)
9 PM Perry Como (COLOR)
10 PM Naked City (ABC, guest star is Robert Duvall)
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show (COLOR)

WBIR Ch. 10 Knoxville (CBS)

6:30 Farm And Home
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM UT Telecourse
9:30 Birthday Dog
9:45 Stop, Look And Listen
10 AM Calendar
10:30 I Love Lucy
11 AM Real McCoys
11:30 Pete And Gladys
12 N Love Of Life
12:25 CBS News
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1 PM Best Of Groucho
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Edge Of Night
2:30 Art Linkletter's House Party
3 PM Millionaire
3:30 To Tell The Truth
3:55 CBS News
4 PM Secret Storm
4:30 Movie: "Till We Meet Again"
6 PM Three Stooges
6:15 News
6:30 Highway Patrol
7 PM Mull's Singing Convention
7:30 Campaign '62
8:30 Dobie Gillis
9 PM Beverly Hillbillies
9:30 Dick Van ----
10 PM Armstrong Circle Theater
11 PM News
11:15 Movie: "Plunder Of The Sun"

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

6:30 College Of The Air
6:55 News
7 AM Rise And Shine
7:30 Gospel Time
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Cartoon Carnival
9:30 Psychology
9:45 News
10 AM Calendar
10:30 I Love Lucy
11 AM Real McCoys
11:30 Pete And Gladys
12 N Love Of Life
12:25 CBS News
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 Password
2:30 Art Linkletter's House Party
3 PM Millionaire
3:30 To Tell The Truth
3:55 CBS News
4 PM Secret Storm
4:30 Edge Of Night
5 PM Robin Hood
5:30 Brave Stallion (Fury)
6 PM Variety Roundup
6:30 Leave It To Beaver (ABC, delay
from Thursday 8:30)
7 PM News
7:15 CBS News
7:30 Wagon Train
8:30 Roy Acuff's Open House
9 PM Beverly Hillbillies
9:30 Dick Van ----
10 PM Armstrong Circle Theater
11 PM News
11:15 Movie: "The Gunfighter"

WLOS Ch. 13 Asheville, NC (ABC)

6:25 Daily Word
6:30 Mr. Bill's Cartoons (Bill Norwood just
recently retired)
6:55 News For Farmers
7 AM Mr. Bill's Cartoons continues
9:30 Movie: "Adventure In Diamonds"
10:55 News
11 AM Tennessee Ernie Ford Show
11:30 Yours For A Song
12 N Jane Wyman
12:30 Camouflage
12:55 ABC News
1 PM Divorce Court
2 PM Day In Court
2:30 Seven Keys
3 PM Queen For A Day
3:30 Who Do You Trust?
4 PM American Bandstand
4:30 Discovery '62
4:55 Maverick
5:55 Weather
6 PM News
6:15 ABC News (Ron Cochran)
6:30 Lone Ranger
6:55 Weather
7 PM Bat Masterson
7:30 Wagon Train
8:30 Going My Way (Gene Kelly takes the
role of Father O'Malley, made famous
by Bing Crosby in the 1944 movie; Dick
York also appears)
9:30 Our Man Higgins
10 PM Naked City
11 PM News
11:20 Movie: "Behind The Mask"

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

11 AM Tennessee Ernie Ford Show
11:30 Yours For A Song
12 N Jane Wyman
12:30 Camouflage
12:55 ABC News
1 PM Jane Wyman (no explanation as to why
Ch. 26 takes the Central time zone feed)
1:30 UT French
2 PM Day In Court
2:30 Seven Keys
3 PM Queen For A Day
3:30 Who Do You Trust?
4 PM American Bandstand
4:30 Discovery '62
4:55 American Newsstand
5 PM Modern Farming Almanac
5:30 Yoga For Health (I didn't know Richard
Hittelman's show went back that far)
6 PM ABC News
6:15 Burns And Allen
6:45 CBS News
7 PM Outlook
7:30 Wagon Train
8:30 Going My Way
9:30 Our Man Higgins
10 PM Naked City
11 PM ABC News (Bill Shadel)
sign off 11:10 PM

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

8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Algebra
9:30 South Carolina History
10 AM Calendar
10:30 I Love Lucy
11 AM Tennessee Ernie Ford Show
11:30 Yours For A Song
12 N Jane Wyman
12:30 Camouflage
12:55 ABC News
1 PM Farm And Home Hour
1:30 Science
2 PM Day In Court
2:30 Seven Keys
3 PM Queen For A Day
3:30 Who Do You Trust?
4 PM American Bandstand
4:30 Discovery '62
4:55 Magic Carpet
5:30 Sports Time
6 PM Industry On Parade
6:15 ABC News
6:30 Evening Vespers
6:45 ABC News (for some reason, Ch. 40
repeats the Cochran newscast)
7 PM Variety Time
7:30 Campaign '62
8:30 Going My Way
9:30 Our Man Higgins
10 PM Naked City
sign off 11 PM

 

[oldiesfan6479]

WFBC (WYFF) Ch. 4 Greenville, SC (NBC)
10 PM Eleventh Hour (about psychiatrists)

A rather dour duo of shrinks, IIRC, who were nowhere near as wacky
as Dr. Bellows...who was driven wacky by Majors Nelson and Healey.

 

[bpatrick]

Which, indeed, was the criticism most often
leveled at it, that it needed some humor.
Interestingly, it had the same producer as
"Dr. Kildare"--Norman Felton (not to be confused
with Norman Fell)--but none of the chemistry of
Richard Chamberlain and Raymond Massey (and no
one with Chamberlain's unbeatable appeal to women).
Nevertheless, "The Eleventh Hour" lasted two seasons
(1962-64) and even had an imitator in 1963-64, ABC's
"Breaking Point."

 

[oldschooler1]

From TV Guide, Carolina-Tennessee Edition:


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

11 AM Tennessee Ernie Ford Show
11:30 Yours For A Song
12 N Jane Wyman
12:30 Camouflage
12:55 ABC News
1 PM Jane Wyman (no explanation as to why
Ch. 26 takes the Central time zone feed)
1:30 UT French
2 PM Day In Court
2:30 Seven Keys
3 PM Queen For A Day
3:30 Who Do You Trust?
4 PM American Bandstand
4:30 Discovery '62
4:55 American Newsstand
5 PM Modern Farming Almanac
5:30 Yoga For Health (I didn't know Richard
Hittelman's show went back that far)
6 PM ABC News
6:15 Burns And Allen
6:45 CBS News
7 PM Outlook
7:30 Wagon Train
8:30 Going My Way
9:30 Our Man Higgins
10 PM Naked City
11 PM ABC News (Bill Shadel)
sign off 11:10 PM

Sounds like a teeny-tiny ABC UHF affiliate, like WBJA-Binghamton (which went on the air the same year)...And how many stations carried TWO evening network news casts...? And signed off at 11:10 PM on a weeknight, even in 1962?!

 

[bpatrick]

Obviously a station lacking for money; this is
still the era before UHF tuners were required.

WAII (WXIA)/11 Atlanta carried two network
newscasts for a time around early 1963. WAGA
didn't carry Cronkite at the time, so 11 carried
Cochran at 6:45 and Cronkite at 7:15, with local
news sandwiched in between. Neither made a
dent on Huntley-Brinkley on WSB, and both were
dropped; 11 did carry Peter Jennings (the first time)
and WAGA eventually did pick up Cronkite, in 1966.

 

[wbhist]

Which, indeed, was the criticism most often leveled at it, that it needed some humor. Interestingly, it had the same producer as "Dr. Kildare"--Norman Felton (not to be confused with Norman Fell)--but none of the chemistry of Richard Chamberlain and Raymond Massey (and no one with Chamberlain's unbeatable appeal to women). Nevertheless, "The Eleventh Hour" lasted two seasons (1962-64) and even had an imitator in 1963-64, ABC's "Breaking Point."

Wasn't this the same Norman Felton who later produced The Man from U.N.C.L.E.? Methinks I detect MGM Television here. (Certainly with Dr. Kildare.)

 

[bpatrick]

It's the same Norman Felton. Obviously he had
a successful career in the '60s; don't know if he's
still living.

 

[LKellerIII]

It's the same Norman Felton. Obviously he had
a successful career in the '60s; don't know if he's
still living.

Norman Felton was busiest in the 60s, but continued to produce and executive produce up until 1979. Imdb lists no date of death, so Norman would appear to still be with us at age 95

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0271653/

 

[fortmill]

From TV Guide, Carolina-Tennessee Edition:


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

11 AM Tennessee Ernie Ford Show
11:30 Yours For A Song
12 N Jane Wyman
12:30 Camouflage
12:55 ABC News
1 PM Jane Wyman (no explanation as to why
Ch. 26 takes the Central time zone feed)
1:30 UT French
2 PM Day In Court
2:30 Seven Keys
3 PM Queen For A Day
3:30 Who Do You Trust?
4 PM American Bandstand
4:30 Discovery '62
4:55 American Newsstand
5 PM Modern Farming Almanac
5:30 Yoga For Health (I didn't know Richard
Hittelman's show went back that far)
6 PM ABC News
6:15 Burns And Allen
6:45 CBS News
7 PM Outlook
7:30 Wagon Train
8:30 Going My Way
9:30 Our Man Higgins
10 PM Naked City
11 PM ABC News (Bill Shadel)
sign off 11:10 PM

Sounds like a teeny-tiny ABC UHF affiliate, like WBJA-Binghamton (which went on the air the same year)...And how many stations carried TWO evening network news casts...? And signed off at 11:10 PM on a weeknight, even in 1962?!

Actually, I don't think the practice was too unusual back in the days when stations held more than one network afiliation. I know WBTW/13 in Florence SC carried both the ABC and CBS newscasts for years, all the way up to the early 80s when WPDE/15 came on there and took the ABC affilation. I wonder if WAIM/40 in Anderson SC was also carrying CBS and ABC news in the listing above rather than a repeat of ABC news. I know WAIM carried both the 30 minute versions of ABC and CBS news in later years.

 

[bpatrick]

WAIM carried only Cochran in 1962, but yes, they
did carry Smith/Reasoner at 6 and Cronkite at 6:30
in the '70s. Likewise, WBTW carried Smith/Reasoner
at 6, local news at 6:30, and Cronkite at 7.

I do believe, though, that by the beginning of 1963
WAIM was carrying both Cochran and Cronkite.

Keep in mind that in the mid-'60s there were a few
CBS affiliates that didn't carry Cronkite (WAGA first
and foremost), either because Chet Huntley and David
Brinkley were so far ahead in the ratings, or the backlash
over the "CBS Reports" documentary "Who Speaks For
Birmingham?" (Howard K. Smith narrated that one, his
last assignment at CBS.) I tend to believe my first theory.
So in some cases, such as Atlanta and Knoxville, the ABC
affiliate, with time to fill and maybe hoping for a little prestige,
picked up Cronkite (one exception was Birmingham, where he
didn't come on at all until WBMG signed on in 1965).