From TV Guide, Central Florida Edition:
WESH Ch. 2 Daytona Beach/Orlando (NBC)
6:10 Sunshine Almanac
6:25 World Tomorrow (Garner Ted Armstrong)
6:55 Sportsclub (Fritos)
7 AM Today (Edwin Newman subs for Frank McGee;
guest is Frances Fitzgerald, author of "Fire In
The Lake: The Vietnamese and Americans in
Vietnam")
9 AM Phil Donahue (topic: kidney disease and dialysis)
10 AM Dinah's Place (Richard Chamberlain shows how to
make stained glass windows)
10:30 Concentration
11 AM Sale Of The Century
11:30 Hollywood Squares (guests: Sandra Dee, Eva Gabor,
Rose Marie, Kent McCord, Jan Murray, Tony Randall,
Karen Valentine; regulars: Wally Cox and Paul Lynde)
12 N Jeopardy!
12:30 Newscope
12:55 NBC News (Floyd Kalber)
1 PM Somerset
1:30 Dick Van Dyke
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 Return To Peyton Place
4 PM I Love Lucy (by the following year this and "Somerset"
will have swapped times)
4:30 High Chaparral
5:30 News, Sports, Weather
6:30 NBC News (John Chancellor)
7 PM I Dream Of Jeannie
7:30 To Tell The Truth (will move to 7 PM in a few weeks as
the access rule forbids reruns from 7-8 on the top 50 markets'
affiliates)
8 PM Baseball Pre-Game Show
8:15 Baseball: Red Sox-White Sox or Orioles-Twins
11 PM News, Sports, Weather (time approximate)
11:30 Tonight Show (guest host Joey Bishop, Helen Gurley Brown)
WEDU Ch. 3 Tampa (PBS)
4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Sesame Street
7 PM Sew Easy
7:30 Joyce Chen Cooks (wonder if she's related to Julie Chen?
8 PM The Old Maid And The Thief (opera originally aired on radio
in 1939)
9 PM Boboquivari (Odetta sings the music of Paul McCartney, Elton
John, and John Buckley Williams)
9:30 Book Beat
10 PM Jean Shepherd's America
10:30 Jazz Set
sign off 11 PM
WDBO (WKMG) Ch. 6 Orlando (CBS)
6:15 Sunshine Almanac
6:30 Summer Semester: "Evolution Of Cities"
7 AM CBS News (John Hart)
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Romper Room
9:30 Merv Griffin (from Las Vegas: Sammy Davis Jr.,
comic Jackie Kahane, Bobby Vinton, Charo)
11 AM Family Affair
11:30 Love Of Life
12 N Where The Heart Is
12:25 CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM What's My Line?
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
2:30 Guiding Light
3 PM Secret Storm
3:30 Edge Of Night
4 PM My Three Sons
4:30 Perry Mason
5:30 Green Acres
6 PM News, Sports, Weather
6:30 CBS News (Walter Cronkite)
7 PM Truth Or Consequences
7:30 Hogan's Heroes
8 PM Gunsmoke
9 PM Here's Lucy (guest Allen Funt)
9:30 Doris Day
10 PM Cade's County
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:30 CBS Movie: "The Sleeping Car Murder"
WFLA Ch. 8 Tampa (NBC)
6:15 Today In Florida
7 AM Today
9 AM Movie: "Live Fast, Die Young"
10:20 Lucille Rivers
10:30 Concentration
11 AM Sale Of The Century
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N Jeopardy!
12:30 Who, What Or Where (in this week's Time magazine
I saw where the composer of this show's theme song,
George David Weiss, passed away at age 89)
12:55 NBC News
1 PM News, Weather, Outdoor Report
1:30 Three On A Match
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 Return To Peyton Place
4 PM Somerset
4:30 Merv Griffin (guests: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Melba
Moore, Tina Sinatra)
5:30 To Tell The Truth (will move to 7:30 in September)
6 PM News, Sports, Weather
6:30 NBC News
7 PM What's My Line?
7:30 Golden Voyage (skiing in Switzerland)
8 PM Baseball Pre-Game Show
8:15 Baseball (see Ch. 2 for details)
11 PM News, Sports, Weather (time approximate)
11:30 Tonight Show
WFTV Ch. 9 Orlando (ABC)
6 AM Sunrise Jubilee (Slim Mims)
7 AM Bozo
8 AM Mike Douglas (co-host Rich Little, James Darren,
Jim Brown, Neil Solomon (author of "The Truth
About Weight Control"))
9 AM Movie: "Sandokan Against The Leopard Of Sarawak"
10:50 Lucille Rivers
11 AM Password (guests Pat Carroll, Jack Cassidy--at least
a week's delay from noon)
11:30 Bewitched
12 N News, Sports, Weather
12:30 Split Second
1 PM All My Children
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 Dating Game
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 One Life To Live
4 PM Movie: "The Sad Horse" (sounds like a real tearjerker:
a race horse is starved for affection)
5:30 News, Sports, Weather
6:30 ABC News (Howard K. Smith/Harry Reasoner)
7 PM Dragnet
7:30 Let's Make A Deal
8 PM Summer Olympics (from Munich: basketball, boxing,
diving (women's 3m. springboard), gymnastics (wonder
if this is when America first saw Olga Korbut--I was in
the hospital that night having been run down by a garbage
truck that afternoon), swimming (men's 200 butterfly and
400 relay, women's 200 individual medley), volleyball, weightlifting
(bantamweight), wrestling)
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:30 Movie: "The Time, The Place And The Girl"
WLCY (WTSP) Ch. 10 St. Petersburg (ABC)
7 AM 4-H Spotlight
7:15 Involvement 10
7:45 News
8 AM Russ Byrd
8:30 Fran Carlton (exercises)
9 AM Romper Room
10 AM Leave It To Beaver
10:30 Dick Van Dyke
11 AM What Every Woman Wants To Know
(guests: Rep. Ed Koch, film critic Pauline
Kael, food consultant Eileen Gaden)
11:30 Bewitched
12 N Password (guests Tony Randall, Betty White--
hope he didn't give his partner any clues like
"Aristophanes"
12:30 Split Second
1 PM All My Children
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 Dating Game
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 One Life To Live
4 PM Love, American Style
4:30 Daniel Boone
5:30 News, Sports, Weather
6 PM ABC News
6:30 I Dream Of Jeannie
7 PM Circus! (Bert Parks)
7:30 Dick Van Dyke
8 PM Summer Olympics
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:30 Dick Cavett (the Muppets are guests)
WINK Ch. 11 Ft. Myers (CBS)
6:30 Sunshine Almanac
6:45 Good Morning
7 AM CBS News
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Jack LaLanne
9:30 Sesame Street
10:30 The Saint
11:30 Love Of Life
12 N News, Weather
12:25 CBS News
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Where The Heart Is
1:25 News
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
2:30 Guiding Light
3 PM Secret Storm
3:30 Edge Of Night
4 PM My Three Sons
4:30 Mike Douglas (writer-producer-director and
author of "Tracy And Hepburn" Garson Kanin,
Karen Valentine, Rodney Dangerfield, the West
Point Glee Club, singer Marilyn Maye)
6 PM News, Sports, Weather
7 PM CBS News
7:30 What's My Line?
8 PM Gunsmoke
9 PM Here's Lucy
9:30 Doris Day
10 PM Cade's County
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:30 CBS Movie: "The Sleeping Car Murder"
WTVT Ch. 13 Tampa (CBS)
6 AM Breakfast Beat
7 AM CBS News
7:30 Breakfast Beat
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Mike Douglas (same as Ch. 9 with the addition
of Chico Marx's daughter Maxine)
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies
11 AM Family Affair
11:30 Love Of Life
12 N News, Weather
12:25 CBS News
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Where The Heart Is
1:25 Tampa Bay Topics
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
2:30 Guiding Light
3 PM Secret Storm
3:30 Edge Of Night
4 PM Mayberry R.F.D.
4:30 Perry Mason
5:30 Dragnet
6 PM News, Sports, Weather
7 PM CBS News (ironically, at the time Ch. 6 was the
only CBS affiliate in this edition to carry the network
news at 6:30; today it would be the only one carrying
it at 7, as WTSP and WINK have it at 6:30)
7:30 Truth Or Consequences
8 PM Movie: "Banning"
10 PM Cade's County
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:30 CBS Movie: "The Sleeping Car Murder"
WUSF Ch. 16 Tampa (PBS)
off air until fall
WBBH Ch. 20 Ft. Myers (NBC/ABC)
6:55 Something To Think About
7 AM Today
9 AM What's Happening? (community events)
9:05 Star Trek
10 AM Dinah's Place
10:30 Concentration
11 AM Sale Of The Century
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N Jeopardy!
12:30 Who, What Or Where
12:55 Today In Florida
1 PM Brad Lacey (local talk show)
1:30 Three On A Match
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 Return To Peyton Place
4 PM Somerset
4:30 Petticoat Junction
5 PM The Fugitive
6 PM News, Sports, Weather
6:30 NBC News
7 PM It Takes A Thief
8 PM Baseball Pre-Game Show (the rest of the week,
Ch. 20 will have the Olympics)
8:15 Baseball (see Ch. 2)
11 PM News, Sports, Weather (time approximate)
11:30 Tonight Show
1 AM Something To Think About
WMFE Ch. 24 Orlando (PBS)
4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Sesame Street
7 PM Feedback (candidates for sheriff of Orange
County take viewers' questions)
9 PM Boboquivari
9:30 Book Beat
10 PM French Chef
10:30 Love, Tennis
sign off 11 PM
WXLT (WWSB) Ch. 40 Sarasota (ABC)
9 AM New Zoo Revue
9:30 TV Talk (candidates for Sarasota County commissioner,
school board, and Florida House of Representatives)
10:30 Movie Game
11 AM Galloping Gourmet
11:30 Bewitched
12 N Password
12:30 Split Second
1 PM All My Children
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 Dating Game
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 One Life To Live
4 PM Love, American Style
4:30 Movie: "Affair In Reno" (watch for
Doris Singleton, aka Carolyn Appleby
on "I Love Lucy")
6 PM News, Sports, Weather
6:30 ABC News
7 PM The Defenders (the original, and I'll bet
the new CBS show of the same name
doesn't come close to matching the quality
of this one)
8 PM Summer Olympics
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:30 Dick Cavett
WTOG Ch. 44 St. Petersburg (Ind.)
11:25 Professor Kitzel
11:30 Peyton Place
12 N The Saint
1 PM Movie: "Born Yesterday"
3 PM New Zoo Revue
3:30 Underdog
3:55 Fritos Sportsclub
4 PM My Favorite Martian
4:30 Star Trek
5:30 Munsters
6 PM Get Smart
6:30 Gomer Pyle, USMC
7 PM Petticoat Junction
7:30 Hogan's Heroes
8 PM Movie: "The Harder They Fall" (Humphrey
Bogart is a good guy in this, his last picture,
from 1956--he died the following year)
10 PM Wild Wild West
11 PM One Step Beyond
11:30 Name Of The Game
1 AM Peter Gunn
WESH Ch. 2 Daytona Beach/Orlando (NBC)
6:10 Sunshine Almanac
6:25 World Tomorrow (Garner Ted Armstrong)
6:55 Sportsclub (Fritos)
7 AM Today (Edwin Newman subs for Frank McGee;
guest is Frances Fitzgerald, author of "Fire In
The Lake: The Vietnamese and Americans in
Vietnam")
9 AM Phil Donahue (topic: kidney disease and dialysis)
10 AM Dinah's Place (Richard Chamberlain shows how to
make stained glass windows)
10:30 Concentration
11 AM Sale Of The Century
11:30 Hollywood Squares (guests: Sandra Dee, Eva Gabor,
Rose Marie, Kent McCord, Jan Murray, Tony Randall,
Karen Valentine; regulars: Wally Cox and Paul Lynde)
12 N Jeopardy!
12:30 Newscope
12:55 NBC News (Floyd Kalber)
1 PM Somerset
1:30 Dick Van Dyke
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 Return To Peyton Place
4 PM I Love Lucy (by the following year this and "Somerset"
will have swapped times)
4:30 High Chaparral
5:30 News, Sports, Weather
6:30 NBC News (John Chancellor)
7 PM I Dream Of Jeannie
7:30 To Tell The Truth (will move to 7 PM in a few weeks as
the access rule forbids reruns from 7-8 on the top 50 markets'
affiliates)
8 PM Baseball Pre-Game Show
8:15 Baseball: Red Sox-White Sox or Orioles-Twins
11 PM News, Sports, Weather (time approximate)
11:30 Tonight Show (guest host Joey Bishop, Helen Gurley Brown)
WEDU Ch. 3 Tampa (PBS)
4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Sesame Street
7 PM Sew Easy
7:30 Joyce Chen Cooks (wonder if she's related to Julie Chen?
8 PM The Old Maid And The Thief (opera originally aired on radio
in 1939)
9 PM Boboquivari (Odetta sings the music of Paul McCartney, Elton
John, and John Buckley Williams)
9:30 Book Beat
10 PM Jean Shepherd's America
10:30 Jazz Set
sign off 11 PM
WDBO (WKMG) Ch. 6 Orlando (CBS)
6:15 Sunshine Almanac
6:30 Summer Semester: "Evolution Of Cities"
7 AM CBS News (John Hart)
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Romper Room
9:30 Merv Griffin (from Las Vegas: Sammy Davis Jr.,
comic Jackie Kahane, Bobby Vinton, Charo)
11 AM Family Affair
11:30 Love Of Life
12 N Where The Heart Is
12:25 CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM What's My Line?
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
2:30 Guiding Light
3 PM Secret Storm
3:30 Edge Of Night
4 PM My Three Sons
4:30 Perry Mason
5:30 Green Acres
6 PM News, Sports, Weather
6:30 CBS News (Walter Cronkite)
7 PM Truth Or Consequences
7:30 Hogan's Heroes
8 PM Gunsmoke
9 PM Here's Lucy (guest Allen Funt)
9:30 Doris Day
10 PM Cade's County
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:30 CBS Movie: "The Sleeping Car Murder"
WFLA Ch. 8 Tampa (NBC)
6:15 Today In Florida
7 AM Today
9 AM Movie: "Live Fast, Die Young"
10:20 Lucille Rivers
10:30 Concentration
11 AM Sale Of The Century
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N Jeopardy!
12:30 Who, What Or Where (in this week's Time magazine
I saw where the composer of this show's theme song,
George David Weiss, passed away at age 89)
12:55 NBC News
1 PM News, Weather, Outdoor Report
1:30 Three On A Match
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 Return To Peyton Place
4 PM Somerset
4:30 Merv Griffin (guests: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Melba
Moore, Tina Sinatra)
5:30 To Tell The Truth (will move to 7:30 in September)
6 PM News, Sports, Weather
6:30 NBC News
7 PM What's My Line?
7:30 Golden Voyage (skiing in Switzerland)
8 PM Baseball Pre-Game Show
8:15 Baseball (see Ch. 2 for details)
11 PM News, Sports, Weather (time approximate)
11:30 Tonight Show
WFTV Ch. 9 Orlando (ABC)
6 AM Sunrise Jubilee (Slim Mims)
7 AM Bozo
8 AM Mike Douglas (co-host Rich Little, James Darren,
Jim Brown, Neil Solomon (author of "The Truth
About Weight Control"))
9 AM Movie: "Sandokan Against The Leopard Of Sarawak"
10:50 Lucille Rivers
11 AM Password (guests Pat Carroll, Jack Cassidy--at least
a week's delay from noon)
11:30 Bewitched
12 N News, Sports, Weather
12:30 Split Second
1 PM All My Children
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 Dating Game
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 One Life To Live
4 PM Movie: "The Sad Horse" (sounds like a real tearjerker:
a race horse is starved for affection)
5:30 News, Sports, Weather
6:30 ABC News (Howard K. Smith/Harry Reasoner)
7 PM Dragnet
7:30 Let's Make A Deal
8 PM Summer Olympics (from Munich: basketball, boxing,
diving (women's 3m. springboard), gymnastics (wonder
if this is when America first saw Olga Korbut--I was in
the hospital that night having been run down by a garbage
truck that afternoon), swimming (men's 200 butterfly and
400 relay, women's 200 individual medley), volleyball, weightlifting
(bantamweight), wrestling)
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:30 Movie: "The Time, The Place And The Girl"
WLCY (WTSP) Ch. 10 St. Petersburg (ABC)
7 AM 4-H Spotlight
7:15 Involvement 10
7:45 News
8 AM Russ Byrd
8:30 Fran Carlton (exercises)
9 AM Romper Room
10 AM Leave It To Beaver
10:30 Dick Van Dyke
11 AM What Every Woman Wants To Know
(guests: Rep. Ed Koch, film critic Pauline
Kael, food consultant Eileen Gaden)
11:30 Bewitched
12 N Password (guests Tony Randall, Betty White--
hope he didn't give his partner any clues like
"Aristophanes"
12:30 Split Second
1 PM All My Children
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 Dating Game
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 One Life To Live
4 PM Love, American Style
4:30 Daniel Boone
5:30 News, Sports, Weather
6 PM ABC News
6:30 I Dream Of Jeannie
7 PM Circus! (Bert Parks)
7:30 Dick Van Dyke
8 PM Summer Olympics
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:30 Dick Cavett (the Muppets are guests)
WINK Ch. 11 Ft. Myers (CBS)
6:30 Sunshine Almanac
6:45 Good Morning
7 AM CBS News
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Jack LaLanne
9:30 Sesame Street
10:30 The Saint
11:30 Love Of Life
12 N News, Weather
12:25 CBS News
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Where The Heart Is
1:25 News
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
2:30 Guiding Light
3 PM Secret Storm
3:30 Edge Of Night
4 PM My Three Sons
4:30 Mike Douglas (writer-producer-director and
author of "Tracy And Hepburn" Garson Kanin,
Karen Valentine, Rodney Dangerfield, the West
Point Glee Club, singer Marilyn Maye)
6 PM News, Sports, Weather
7 PM CBS News
7:30 What's My Line?
8 PM Gunsmoke
9 PM Here's Lucy
9:30 Doris Day
10 PM Cade's County
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:30 CBS Movie: "The Sleeping Car Murder"
WTVT Ch. 13 Tampa (CBS)
6 AM Breakfast Beat
7 AM CBS News
7:30 Breakfast Beat
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Mike Douglas (same as Ch. 9 with the addition
of Chico Marx's daughter Maxine)
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies
11 AM Family Affair
11:30 Love Of Life
12 N News, Weather
12:25 CBS News
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Where The Heart Is
1:25 Tampa Bay Topics
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
2:30 Guiding Light
3 PM Secret Storm
3:30 Edge Of Night
4 PM Mayberry R.F.D.
4:30 Perry Mason
5:30 Dragnet
6 PM News, Sports, Weather
7 PM CBS News (ironically, at the time Ch. 6 was the
only CBS affiliate in this edition to carry the network
news at 6:30; today it would be the only one carrying
it at 7, as WTSP and WINK have it at 6:30)
7:30 Truth Or Consequences
8 PM Movie: "Banning"
10 PM Cade's County
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:30 CBS Movie: "The Sleeping Car Murder"
WUSF Ch. 16 Tampa (PBS)
off air until fall
WBBH Ch. 20 Ft. Myers (NBC/ABC)
6:55 Something To Think About
7 AM Today
9 AM What's Happening? (community events)
9:05 Star Trek
10 AM Dinah's Place
10:30 Concentration
11 AM Sale Of The Century
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N Jeopardy!
12:30 Who, What Or Where
12:55 Today In Florida
1 PM Brad Lacey (local talk show)
1:30 Three On A Match
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 Return To Peyton Place
4 PM Somerset
4:30 Petticoat Junction
5 PM The Fugitive
6 PM News, Sports, Weather
6:30 NBC News
7 PM It Takes A Thief
8 PM Baseball Pre-Game Show (the rest of the week,
Ch. 20 will have the Olympics)
8:15 Baseball (see Ch. 2)
11 PM News, Sports, Weather (time approximate)
11:30 Tonight Show
1 AM Something To Think About
WMFE Ch. 24 Orlando (PBS)
4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Sesame Street
7 PM Feedback (candidates for sheriff of Orange
County take viewers' questions)
9 PM Boboquivari
9:30 Book Beat
10 PM French Chef
10:30 Love, Tennis
sign off 11 PM
WXLT (WWSB) Ch. 40 Sarasota (ABC)
9 AM New Zoo Revue
9:30 TV Talk (candidates for Sarasota County commissioner,
school board, and Florida House of Representatives)
10:30 Movie Game
11 AM Galloping Gourmet
11:30 Bewitched
12 N Password
12:30 Split Second
1 PM All My Children
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 Dating Game
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 One Life To Live
4 PM Love, American Style
4:30 Movie: "Affair In Reno" (watch for
Doris Singleton, aka Carolyn Appleby
on "I Love Lucy")
6 PM News, Sports, Weather
6:30 ABC News
7 PM The Defenders (the original, and I'll bet
the new CBS show of the same name
doesn't come close to matching the quality
of this one)
8 PM Summer Olympics
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:30 Dick Cavett
WTOG Ch. 44 St. Petersburg (Ind.)
11:25 Professor Kitzel
11:30 Peyton Place
12 N The Saint
1 PM Movie: "Born Yesterday"
3 PM New Zoo Revue
3:30 Underdog
3:55 Fritos Sportsclub
4 PM My Favorite Martian
4:30 Star Trek
5:30 Munsters
6 PM Get Smart
6:30 Gomer Pyle, USMC
7 PM Petticoat Junction
7:30 Hogan's Heroes
8 PM Movie: "The Harder They Fall" (Humphrey
Bogart is a good guy in this, his last picture,
from 1956--he died the following year)
10 PM Wild Wild West
11 PM One Step Beyond
11:30 Name Of The Game
1 AM Peter Gunn