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Retro: Central Florida Monday, March 18, 1968

From TV Guide, Central Florida Edition:

WESH Ch. 2 Daytona Beach/Orlando (NBC)

6:15 Sunshine Almanac
6:30 TV Classroom
7 AM Today (the entire program is devoted to
a discussion of foreign-policy issues facing
the U.S. in '68: Vietnam, the Middle East,
China, the dollar drain, and foreign aid)
9 AM News, Editorial, Weather (Ch. 2 still has its
local programs in black and white)
9:15 Focus 2
9:30 Hennesey
10 AM Snap Judgment (guests: Phyllis Kirk, Bill Cullen)
10:25 NBC News (Nancy Dickerson)
10:30 Concentration
11 AM Personality (Joan Fontaine, Jack E. Leonard, Frank
Sinatra Jr.; on film: Peter Fonda)
11:30 Hollywood Squares (Kaye Ballard, Shelley Berman,
Janet Blair, Mel Brooks, Roger C. Carmel, Wally Cox,
Abby Dalton, Jan Murray, Charley Weaver)
12 N Jeopardy!
12:30 Eye Guess
12:55 NBC News (Edwin Newman)
1 PM News
1:05 Match Game (Morey Amsterdam, Phyllis Newman,
delay from 4 PM)
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 You Don't Say! (from Florida: Leonard Nimoy,
Pat Carroll)
4 PM Mike Douglas (Allen Ludden, Stiller and Meara,
the Turtles, guitarist Laurindo Almeida, flower
arranger Blanche Scarlett Phelps)
5:30 Newscope
6 PM News, Weather, Sports
6:30 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7 PM Zane Grey Theater
7:30 Monkees
8 PM Bill Cosby Special (on this he performs "Little
Old Man," his version of Stevie Wonder's
"Up Tight")
9 PM Danny Thomas Hour ("The Wonderful World Of
Burlesque," with Carol Channing, Mickey Rooney,
Wayne Newton; cameos by Don Adams, Bill Cosby,
Robert Culp, Phil Harris, Dean Martin)
10 PM I Spy (Bill Cosby seems to be on all evening, but at
least in this--its last--season, Ch. 2 has seen fit
to carry the show.)
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:25 Editorial
11:30 Tonight Show (guest: Vince Edwards)

WEDU Ch. 3 Tampa (NET)

8:15 Americans
8:50 TBA
9:15 Book Fair
9:35 TBA
10 AM Navigator
10:25 TBA
10:45 United States History
11:10 Americans
11:40 Book Fair
12:05 TBA
12:35 Math Club
1 PM Musical Interlude
1:05 All About You
1:25 Horizons Of Science
1:50 TBA
2:15 Musical Interlude
2:20 Math On The Move
2:45 Americans
3:15 Humanities
3:45 Sew Easy
4:45 Friendly Giant
5 PM What's New
5:30 Misterogers (premiere of what will become
"Mister Rogers' Neighborhood")
6 PM Casals Master Class
6:30 Humanities
7 PM What's New
7:30 American Economy
8 PM Folk Guitar
8:30 Cultures And Continents (the cultural heritage
of the Philippines)
9 PM NET Journal ("Right Of Privacy," about eavesdropping
practices by business and government)
10 PM Trial Balance
10:30 Studio J.C.

WDBO (WKMG) Ch. 6 Orlando (CBS)

6:10 News, Weather
6:15 Sunshine Almanac
6:30 Sunrise Semester: "Near East"
7 AM News
7:05 CBS News (Joseph Benti)
7:30 Lone Ranger (the original)
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Romper Room
9:30 Merv Griffin (Robert Merrill, David Frost,
comedian Georgie Kaye, singer Lynn Kellogg,
society columnist Doris Lilly, "your obedient
servant" Arthur Treacher)
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies (Flatt and Scruggs take part
in a soap commercial)
11 AM Andy Griffith (Jack Burns' first appearance as
Warren, Barney's short-lived replacement)
11:30 Dick Van Dyke
12 N Love Of Life
12:25 CBS News (Joseph Benti)
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1 PM Girl Talk (Virginia Graham)
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
2:30 Art Linkletter's House Party (frequent guest
Dr. James Peterson)
3 PM To Tell The Truth
3:25 CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
3:30 Edge Of Night
4 PM Secret Storm
4:30 Flintstones
5 PM McHale's Navy
5:30 Truth Or Consequences
6 PM News, Sports, Weather
6:30 CBS News (Walter Cronkite)
7 PM Movie: "Johnny Tiger" (filmed in the Everglades,
from '66)
9 PM Andy Griffith
9:30 Family Affair (watch for Betty Lynn, a/k/a Thelma
Lou, in this one)
10 PM Carol Burnett (Jack Jones, Tim Conway)
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Movie: "Untamed Youth" (I read recently that Mamie
Van Doren, who starred in this '57 flick, is trying to
make a comeback as a country singer.)

WFLA Ch. 8 Tampa (NBC)

6:30 RFD Florida
7 AM Today
9 AM Pat Boone (Godfrey Cambridge, Don Rickles, Anna
Maria Alberghetti, Johnny Tillotson)
10:30 Concentration
11 AM Personality
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N Jeopardy!
12:30 Eye Guess
12:55 NBC News
1 PM News, Sports, Weather
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM Password (the 1965-67 color shows; Ch. 8 must
have felt it could win an audience away from Ch. 13
by airing it in its old CBS timeslot)
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 You Don't Say!
4 PM Match Game (Steve Allen, Jayne Meadows)
4:25 NBC News (Floyd Kalber)
4:30 Merv Griffin (same as Ch. 6)
6 PM News, Sports, Weather
6:30 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7 PM Thunderbirds
7:30 Monkees
8 PM Bill Cosby Special
9 PM Danny Thomas Hour
10 PM I Spy
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Tonight Show

WFTV Ch. 9 Orlando (ABC)

7 AM Milton The Monster (delay from Sun 9:30 AM,
bw)
7:30 Circus Parade
8 AM Journey To The Center Of The Earth (delay from
Sat 10:30 AM, bw)
8:30 Fran Carlton
9 AM The Fugitive (delay from 1 PM)
10 AM Dating Game (delay from 4 PM, color)
10:30 This Morning (Dick Cavett)
12 N Bewitched
12:30 Treasure Isle
1 PM Channel 9 Daytime (Jimmie Harper)
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 Baby Game
2:55 Children's Doctor
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 Dark Shadows
4 PM Movie: "Feudin', Fussin' And A Fightin'" (watch
for Marjorie Main and Percy Kilbride (Ma and Pa
Kettle) and Joe Besser in this one from '48)
5:30 ABC News (Bob Young)
6 PM News, Sports, Weather
6:25 Editorial (Ray Ruester)
6:30 Of Lands And Seas
7:30 Cowboy In Africa
8:30 Rat Patrol
9 PM Felony Squad (the Professor--Russell Johnson--
appears in this episode)
9:30 Peyton Place
10 PM Big Valley (watch for Regis Philbin as a reporter
covering a political campaign in which Jarrod tries
to prove that smears directed at a friend are lies)
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:20 Editorial, Sports
11:30 Joey Bishop (Jerry Vale, Lesley Gore)

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

7 AM Sunshine Almanac
7:15 Open Mike
7:45 News
8 AM Good Morning
8:30 Ed Allen Time
9 AM Romper Room
10 AM Loretta Young
10:30 This Morning
12 N Bewitched
12:30 Treasure Isle
1 PM The Fugitive
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 Baby Game
2:55 Children's Doctor
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 Dark Shadows
4 PM Dating Game
4:30 Gilligan's Island
5 PM News, Sports, Weather
5:30 ABC News
6 PM Untouchables
7 PM Travel And Adventure
7:30 Cowboy In Africa
8:30 Rat Patrol
9 PM Felony Squad
9:30 Peyton Place
10 PM Big Valley
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Movie: "Strike It Rich" (from '48 but nothing
to do with the game show--this one's about
an oil prospector who strikes it rich and becomes
a political influence)

WINK Ch. 11 Ft. Myers (CBS)

6:45 Sunshine Almanac
7 AM Edison Jr. College
7:30 CBS News
7:55 Informacast
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Jack LaLanne
9:30 PDQ (revived in 1973 as "Baffle")
10 AM Candid Camera (a driver finds his car floating
into the air; supermarket displays fall down
when customers blow a toy flute)
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies
11 AM Andy Griffith
11:30 Dick Van Dyke
12 N News, Weather
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 Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
2:30 Art Linkletter's House Party
3 PM To Tell The Truth
3:25 CBS News
3:30 Edge Of Night
4 PM Secret Storm
4:30 Flintstones
5 PM Mike Douglas (co-host Jack E. Leonard,
Vincent Price, Paul Anka, guitarist Al Caiola)
6:30 News, Sports, Weather
7 PM CBS News
7:30 Gunsmoke
8:30 The Lucy Show (Frankie Avalon as Mr. Cheever's
nephew Tommy)
9 PM Andy Griffith
9:30 Family Affair
10 PM Carol Burnett
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:15 Movie: "Make Mine Laughs" (this '49 musical-comedy
features a variety of nostalgia figures: Ray Bolger,
Anne Shirley, Dennis Day, Joan Davis, Jack Haley,
Leon Errol, Frances Langford)

WTVT Ch. 13 Tampa (CBS)

6:15 Weather
6:30 A.M.
7 AM News, Weather
7:05 CBS News
7:30 News, Weather
7:45 A.M.
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Mike Douglas (co-hostess opera singer Anna Moffo,
Vice President Hubert Humphrey, Miriam Makeba,
Pat Cooper)
10:30 Secret Storm
11 AM Andy Griffith
11:30 Dick Van Dyke
12 N News, Weather
12:20 Farm Report
12:25 CBS News
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1 PM Love Of Life
1:25 Tampa Bay Topics
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
2:30 Art Linkletter's House Party
3 PM To Tell The Truth
3:25 CBS News
3:30 Edge Of Night
4 PM Flintstones
4:30 Perry Mason
5:30 News, Sports, Weather
6 PM News, Sports, Weather
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Movie: "The Stratton Story" (Jimmy Stewart
as baseball pitcher Monty Stratton, who lost
a leg in a hunting accident, and his efforts to
return to the game with an artificial leg--one
of several pairings of Stewart and June Allyson,
from '49)
9 PM Andy Griffith
9:30 Family Affair
10 PM Carol Burnett
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:20 Editorial, News
11:30 Joey Bishop (pre-empted on Ch. 10--a few other
CBS affiliates carried this when the ABC station
opted to stick with movies; for example, the CBS
affiliates in Charlotte and Norfolk)

WSUN Ch. 38 St. Petersburg (Ind.)

2:30 Movie: "That Hamilton Woman"
4 PM Bozo The Clown
4:30 Astro Boy
5 PM Highway Patrol
5:30 Bat Masterson
6 PM Shotgun Slade
6:30 Hawaii Calls
7 PM Movie: "Doll Face"
8:30 Keyhole
sign off 9 PM
 
bpatrick said:
WTVT Ch. 13 Tampa (CBS)

11:30 Joey Bishop (pre-empted on Ch. 10--a few other
CBS affiliates carried this when the ABC station
opted to stick with movies; for example, the CBS
affiliates in Charlotte and Norfolk)
...which, according to a TV Guide report at the time, led CBS to consider having Jackie Gleason revive his post-You're In the Picture talk show and put it on against Carson and Bishop...
 
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