Retro: Central Florida Friday, July 1, 1966

[bpatrick]

From TV Guide, Central Florida Edition:

WESH Ch. 2 Daytona Beach/Orlando (NBC)

6:15 Sunshine Almanac
6:30 Junior College And You
7 AM Today (guest Jerry Lewis) (COLOR)
9 AM Best Of Groucho
9:30 People Are Funny
10 AM Eye Guess (COLOR)
10:25 NBC News (Edwin Newman)
10:30 Concentration
11 AM Morning Star (COLOR) (Last episode of this
soap; on Monday "Chain Letter," a game show
hosted by Jan Murray and produced by Stefan
Hatos and Monty Hall, will debut.)
11:30 Paradise Bay (COLOR) (Adios to this soap as well;
on Monday the game show "Showdown"--not to
be confused with "The Big Showdown" on ABC in
the '70s--will debut, and Joe Pyne will be the host.)
12 N Jeopardy! (COLOR)
12:30 Let's Play Post Office (COLOR) (It seemed to have everything
going for it--"Jeopardy!" as lead-in, Merv Griffin as
producer--but today is its last show, having lasted just
over nine months. On Monday "Swingin' Country," a
variety show with Roy Clark, Molly Bee, and Rusty Draper,
takes over the timeslot.)
12:55 NBC News (Sander Vanocur)
1 PM News, Sports, Weather
1:15 Focus 2
1:30 Let's Make A Deal (COLOR)
1:55 NBC News (Floyd Kalber)
2 PM Days Of Our Lives (COLOR)
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World (COLOR)
3:30 You Don't Say! (COLOR) (guests are Fred and Mickie Finn,
ragtime-Dixieland musicians whose variety show airs Thursday
nights on NBC)
4 PM Match Game (COLOR) (guests are John Forsythe and Betty White)
4:25 NBC News (Nancy Dickerson)
4:30 Mike Douglas (co-host Frank "Crazy Guggenheim" Fontaine; guests
are Eddie Foy Jr. and George Carlin)
5:30 Newscope
6:30 Huntley-Brinkley Report (COLOR)
7 PM Westerner ("Johnny Ringo")
7:30 Camp Runamuck (COLOR)
8 PM Hank (COLOR)
8:30 Sing Along With Mitch (reruns; COLOR)
9:30 Mister Roberts (COLOR)
10 PM Man From U.N.C.L.E. (COLOR)
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:30 Tonight Show (COLOR)

WEDU Ch. 3 Tampa (NET)

9 AM Classroom (world history, U.S. history, and
"Book Fair")
11:20 off the air
3:25 Book Fair
3:45 Front Desk
4 PM French Chef
4:30 Film Feature: "King Tut's Treasures"
5 PM What's New
5:30 Discovery At The Zoo (don't know if this is any
way related to ABC's "Discovery")
6 PM World History
7 PM American History
8 PM Tropical Gardener
8:30 Casals Master Class
9 PM Ghosts (a BBC production about a man who finds
out his late father wasn't exactly as his mother
made him out to be)
10 PM Open Mind

WDBO (WKMG) Ch. 6 Orlando (CBS)

6:15 Sunshine Almanac
6:30 Summer Semester: "Afro-Asian Politics"
7 AM Local News
7:05 CBS News (Mike Wallace)
7:30 World At Large (I guess this is the same show that
filled very-early-morning slots on TBS for years.)
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Romper Room
9:30 Gypsy Rose Lee (talk show)
10 AM I Love Lucy
10:30 Real McCoys
11 AM Andy Griffith
11:30 Dick Van Dyke
12 N Love Of Life
12:25 CBS News (anchor not given)
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1 PM Girl Talk
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Password (guests Florence Henderson and
Paul Anka)
2:30 Art Linkletter's House Party (guest is John Peer
Nugent, author of "Call Africa 999") (COLOR)
3 PM To Tell The Truth
3:25 CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
3:30 Edge Of Night
4 PM Secret Storm
4:30 Uncle Walt (local kids' show)
5 PM Forest Rangers (COLOR)
5:30 Leave It To Beaver
6 PM News, Sports, Weather
6:30 CBS News (Walter Cronkite) (COLOR)
7 PM Colt .45
7:30 Wild Wild West
8:30 Hogan's Heroes (COLOR)
9 PM Gomer Pyle, USMC (COLOR)
9:30 Movie: "The Old Man And The Sea" (COLOR)
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:30 Movie: "The Counterfeit Plan"

WFLA Ch. 8 Tampa (NBC)

6 AM Continental Classroom (this couldn't be the NBC
series, which left the air in 1963, unless these
are reruns, and I don't know of another station
that reran the series)
6:30 RFD Florida
7 AM Today (COLOR)
9 AM Movie: "Look Who's Laughing" (Edgar Bergen and
Charlie McCarthy)
10:30 Concentration
11 AM Morning Star (COLOR)
11:30 Paradise Bay (COLOR)
12 N Jeopardy! (COLOR)
12:30 Let's Play Post Office (COLOR)
12:55 NBC News
1 PM News, Sports, Weather
1:20 Kitchen Korner
1:25 News, Sports, Weather
1:30 Let's Make A Deal (COLOR)
1:55 NBC News
2 PM Leave It To Beaver
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World (COLOR)
3:30 You Don't Say! (COLOR)
4 PM Match Game (COLOR)
4:25 NBC News
4:30 Merv Griffin (guests Jack Cassidy, George
Carlin, singer Rita Gardner)
6 PM News, Sports, Weather
6:30 Huntley-Brinkley Report (COLOR)
7 PM Movie: "Lost City Of Gold" (full-length "Lone Ranger"
movie from 1958) (COLOR)
8:30 Sing Along With Mitch (COLOR)
9:30 Mister Roberts (COLOR)
10 PM Man From U.N.C.L.E. (COLOR)
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:25 Tonight Show (COLOR)
1 AM Movie: "The Ape Man" (not Tarzan, but a man turned
into an ape in a scientific experiment--Bela Lugosi stars)

WFTV Ch. 9 Orlando (ABC)

7 AM Bill Herson (local news and talk)
9 AM Exercise For Women (Fran Carlton)
9:30 Movie: "Combat Squad" (watch for a pre-"$64,000 Question"
Hal March in this 1953 war drama)
11 AM Supermarket Sweep
11:30 Dating Game
12 N Donna Reed
12:30 News, Weather, Sports
12:55 Arlene Dahl's Beauty Spot
1 PM Ben Casey
2 PM Confidential For Women (Jane Wyatt is hostess; will be
replaced on July 11 by "The Newlywed Game")
2:30 A Time For Us
2:55 ABC News (Marlene Sanders)
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 The Nurses
4 PM 77 Sunset Strip
5 PM Where The Action Is (don't know how much of a delay;
guests are the Association, Petula Clark, Paul Revere and
the Raiders, Keith Allison)
5:30 News, Sports, Weather
5:55 Editorial
6 PM ABC News (Peter Jennings)
6:15 News, Sports, Weather
6:30 A Man Called Shenandoah (delay from Mon 9 PM)
7 PM The Saint (new syndicated episodes; NBC would start
airing the series the following summer)
8 PM Tammy (COLOR)
8:30 Addams Family
9 PM Honey West
9:30 The Farmer's Daughter (COLOR)
10 PM Twilight Zone (one of the hour episodes)
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:20 Editorial
11:25 Weather
11:30 Movie: "Tower Of London"

WLCY (WTSP) Ch. 10 St. Petersburg (ABC)

7:25 Pastor's Study
7:30 Sunshine Almanac
7:45 Local News
8 AM Good Morning With Tom Cary
8:30 Jack LaLanne (COLOR)
9 AM Romper Room
10 AM Divorce Court
11 AM Supermarket Sweep
11:30 Dating Game
12 N Donna Reed
12:30 Father Knows Best
1 PM Ben Casey
2 PM Confidential For Women
2:30 A Time For Us
2:55 ABC News
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 The Nurses
4 PM Dark Shadows
4:30 Where The Action Is (guests Del Shannon,
Martha and the Vandellas, Steve Alaimo)
5 PM Movie: "Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes"
(Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, of course)
6:30 News, Sports, Weather
7 PM ABC News
7:15 Weather, Sports
7:30 Flintstones (COLOR)
8 PM Tammy (COLOR)
8:30 Addams Family
9 PM Honey West
9:30 The Farmer's Daughter (COLOR)
10 PM Court-Martial (Peter Graves stars)
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:30 Open Mike

WINK Ch. 11 Ft. Myers (CBS)

7 AM Edison Junior College
7:30 CBS News
7:55 Informacast
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Jack LaLanne
9:30 Loretta Young
10 AM I Love Lucy
10:30 Real McCoys
11 AM Andy Griffith
11:30 Dick Van Dyke
12 N News, Weather
12:15 Agricultural News
12:25 CBS News
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1 PM Love Of Life
1:25 News, Sports, Weather
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Password
2:30 Art Linkletter's House Party (COLOR)
3 PM To Tell The Truth
3:25 CBS News
3:30 Edge Of Night
4 PM Secret Storm
4:30 Leave It To Beaver
5 PM Sea Hunt
5:30 Let's Play Golf
6 PM News, Sports, Weather
6:30 CBS News (COLOR)
7 PM McKeever And The Colonel
7:30 Wild Wild West
8:30 Hogan's Heroes (COLOR)
9 PM Gomer Pyle, USMC (COLOR)
9:30 Smothers Brothers (as you all know, I'm sure,
this is the sitcom where Tommy was an angel)
10 PM Wayne And Shuster Take An Affectionate Look
At... (this week it's W.C. Fields)
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:15 Movie: "The Juggler"

WTVT Ch. 13 Tampa (CBS)

5:55 Summer Semester
6:25 Bible Readings
6:30 Florida Farmer (COLOR)
7 AM A.M. (COLOR)
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Mike Douglas (guests are singers Earl Wrightson
and Lois Hunt)
10:30 Real McCoys
11 AM Andy Griffith
11:30 Dick Van Dyke
12 N News, Weather
12:20 Farm, Livestock Report
12:25 CBS News
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1 PM Love Of Life
1:25 Tampa Bay Topics (COLOR)
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Password
2:30 Art Linkletter's House Party (COLOR)
3 PM To Tell The Truth
3:25 CBS News
3:30 Edge Of Night
4 PM Secret Storm
4:30 Dennis The Menace
5 PM Cartoons With Ernie (COLOR)
5:30 News, Sports, Weather (COLOR)
5:45 Editorial (COLOR)
5:50 Stock Market Report (COLOR)
5:55 Pulse Extra (COLOR)
6 PM News, Sports, Weather (COLOR)
6:30 CBS News (COLOR)
7 PM Rifleman
7:30 Wild Wild West
8:30 Hogan's Heroes (COLOR)
9 PM Gomer Pyle, USMC (COLOR)
9:30 Smothers Brothers
10 PM Midwestern Hayride (COLOR)
11 PM News, Weather, Sports (COLOR)
11:20 Editorial (COLOR)
11:25 News Wrap-Up (COLOR)
11:30 Movies: "The Son Of Dr. Jekyll" and
"Attack Of The Giant Leeches"

WSUN Ch. 38 St. Petersburg (Ind.)

3:50 Movies: TBA
4:30 Ladies Day
6 PM The Pioneers ("Death Valley Days" reruns)
6:30 Trails West (more of the same)
7 PM Bold Journey
7:30 Movies: TBA
sign-off time is not given

 

[Corky Marlowe]

11:30 Paradise Bay (COLOR) (Adios to this soap as well;
on Monday the game show "Showdown"--not to
be confused with "The Big Showdown" on ABC in
the '70s--will debut, and Joe Pyne will be the host.)

Joe Pyne, huh? Was this a precursor to "Press Your Luck", only with a hippie instead of a whammy?

 

[oldiesfan6479]

WESH Ch. 2 Daytona Beach/Orlando (NBC)
7:30 Camp Runamuck (COLOR)
8 PM Hank (COLOR)
8:30 Sing Along With Mitch (reruns; COLOR)
9:30 Mister Roberts (COLOR)
10 PM Man From U.N.C.L.E. (COLOR)

WFLA Ch. 8 Tampa (NBC)
7 PM Movie: "Lost City Of Gold" (full-length "Lone Ranger"
movie from 1958) (COLOR)
8:30 Sing Along With Mitch (COLOR)
9:30 Mister Roberts (COLOR)
10 PM Man From U.N.C.L.E. (COLOR)

The WFLA-TV prime sked reveals that KVOA-TV Tucson was not the only
NBC affil to pass on Camp Runamuck (7:30/6:30).

Mitch (8:30/7:30) was the summer replacement for the short-lived Sammy
which second-season replaced the also short-lived (and B&W) Convoy.

Has Mr. Roberts (9:30/8:30) ever surfaced on DVD? Not knock-offs, I'd like
to see the show copied from the pristine 35mm negatives, if they still exist.

WFTV Ch. 9 Orlando (ABC)
6:30 A Man Called Shenandoah (delay from Mon 9 PM)
7 PM The Saint (new syndicated episodes; NBC would start
airing the series the following summer)
8 PM Tammy (COLOR)
8:30 Addams Family
9 PM Honey West
9:30 The Farmer's Daughter (COLOR)
10 PM Twilight Zone (one of the hour episodes)

WLCY (WTSP) Ch. 10 St. Petersburg (ABC)
7:30 Flintstones (COLOR)
8 PM Tammy (COLOR)
8:30 Addams Family
9 PM Honey West
9:30 The Farmer's Daughter (COLOR)
10 PM Court-Martial (Peter Graves stars)

Any idea where WFTV shunted The Flintstones (7:30/6:30) to?

 

[bpatrick]

The Flintstones[/i aired on Ch. 9 Sundays at 5.

Showdown was a game that pitted a team of
men against a team of women; each team had something
in common (for example, a team of fighter pilots against a
team of hairdressers). Pyne would ask a multiple-choice
question and if a contestant missed, that player (seated on
a breakaway chair) would drop to the floor, accompanied
by an insult from Joe. The game continued until one team was
completely eliminated. The show also featured a juvenile rock
group, the Bantams, and they--along with announcer Kenny
Williams--got their share of insults as well. The whole mess was
produced by Merrill Heatter and Bob Quigley, who would produce
the show's much more successful replacement, Hollywood Squares.

 

[Tim L]

WFLA Ch. 8 Tampa (NBC)

  9 AM Movie: "Look Who's Laughing" (Edgar Bergen and
          Charlie McCarthy)

While Bergen/McCarthy had large parts in this movie, Radio stars Fibber McGee and Molly (Jim and Marian Jordan) actually had Co-Star billing here..With Harold Peary (Gildersleeve), Isabel Randolph (Mrs. Uppington). and Harlow Wilcox from the Fibber/Molly show...A young Lucille Ball is seen as Bergen's secretary and Neil Hamilton (Batman TV series) is also featured..

 

[bpatrick]

That's all true. The action takes place mainly
in Wistful Vista, where Fibber McGee and Molly
lived; Bergen and McCarthy happen to land there
and the fun begins. I guess for reasons of space
TV Guide didn't point out that the "Fibber" cast
and--yes--Lucille Ball were featured in the movie.

 

[bpatrick]

Re "Showdown," I'm not sure I get the meaning of "Press
Your Luck" with a hippie instead of a whammy, so perhaps
I should explain to those of you who are too young (or weren't
born yet) who Joe Pyne was.

Pyne was a radio and television talk-show host of conservative
bent whose specialty was insulting people he didn't agree with
(his favorite insult was to tell a guest to "gargle with razor blades");
he was a forerunner of Wally George and Morton Downey Jr. in the
'80s (and I didn't believe Downey for one minute when he claimed he'd
never heard of Pyne). Pyne had a daily radio show and a weekly syndicated
talk show that usually aired on weekends (late Saturday night was a common
time). His heyday was from around 1965 until his death of lung cancer in 1970;
he was only 45 at the time of his passing.

Pyne served in the Marines in World War II and was wounded in the leg; he
lost the same leg to a rare form of cancer years later. An urban legend which
has never been verified is that he once asked Frank Zappa, "Does your long hair
make you a woman?" Zappa's supposed reply: "Does your wooden leg make you
a table?" Another guest (and apparently this story is true) asked Pyne if his
wooden leg made it difficult for him to have sex with his wife.

Pyne's show was sometimes the equivalent of wrestling, with chairs being thrown
or Pyne tossing a guest off the set (if the guest didn't leave voluntarily), the latter
being a common practice of Wally George years later.

For "Showdown" he toned down his act a little. It was his only game show.

Ironically, Pyne often called cigarettes "coffin nails." Yet he was a chain smoker
and, as I pointed out, died of lung cancer.