NOTE: ABC and NBC planned to cover Pope Paul VI's visit to
the Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima in Portugal via Early Bird satellite
(CBS had not announced its plans when this issue went to press).
Coverage could begin as early as 5 AM, pre-empting regular programming.
From TV Guide, Central Florida Edition:
WESH Ch. 2 Daytona Beach/Orlando (NBC)
7 AM Across The Fence (bw)
7:30 Burns And Allen (bw)
8 AM Saturday--Today (not to be confused with the current
Saturday version of NBC's "Today" show) (bw)
9 AM Super 6
9:30 Atom Ant
10 AM Flintstones (NBC)
10:30 Space Kidettes
11 AM Secret Squirrel
11:30 Jetsons
12 N Cool McCool
12:30 Survival! (the 1933 Southern California earthquake--
BTW, pictures were shown on W6XAO, now KCBS) (bw)
1 PM Laramie (bw)
2 PM Baseball: Braves-Pirates
5 PM Vietnam Report (time approximate)
5:30 GE College Bowl (Colorado vs. Oregon, delay from Sun
5:30 PM) (bw)
6 PM News, Sports, Weather (bw)
6:30 Scherer/MacNeil Report
7 PM It's A Small World
7:30 Flipper
8 PM Please Don't Eat The Daisies
8:30 Get Smart
9 PM NBC Movie: "The Man Who Knew Too Much" (where
Doris Day first sang "Que Sera, Sera")
11:30 News, Sports, Weather (bw)
12 M Movie: "Avenger Of Venice" (bw)
WEDU Ch. 3 Tampa (NET)
6:30 Past Imperfect (Martin Luther leaves the monastery
and becomes a lawyer; Montezuma has Cortez beheaded;
the United States joins the League of Nations; King James II
refuses to give up the throne of England--I assume these are
"what ifs" since none of them happened) (bw)
7 PM Open Mind (problems of Native Americans) (bw)
8 PM Modern Woman (the woman's role in the community) (bw)
8:30 NET Journal (the rise of neo-Nazism in Germany) (bw)
9:30 Spectrum (science) (bw)
10 PM Arnold Toynbee (how to improve the condition of underdeveloped
nations) (bw)
10:30 Creative Person (conductor Bruno Walter) (bw)
WDBO (WKMG) Ch. 6 Orlando (CBS)
6:30 Sunrise Semester: "Early Middle Ages" (bw)
7 AM Growers' Almanac (bw)
7:30 World At Large (bw)
8 AM Captain Kangaroo (bw)
9 AM Mighty Mouse And The Mighty Heroes
9:30 Underdog
10 AM Frankenstein Jr. And The Impossibles
10:30 Space Ghost
11 AM New Adventures Of Superman
11:30 Lone Ranger (animated)
12 N Road Runner
12:30 Beagles
1 PM Tom And Jerry
1:30 It's The Law (bw)
2 PM Championship Bowling
3 PM Movies: "Tarzan's Desert Mystery" (Johnny
Weissmuller) and "Sherlock Holmes And The
Secret Weapon" (the Sherlock Holmes mystery
"Dancing Men" updated to World War II) (both bw)
5 PM Let's Go To The Races
5:30 Daktari (delay from Tue 7:30 PM)
6:30 CBS News (Roger Mudd)
7 PM Central Florida Showcase (bw)
7:30 Jackie Gleason (the "Ralph and Jackie Gleason are friends"
episode--yeah, right)
8:30 Mission: Impossible
9:30 Pistols 'n' Petticoats
10 PM Gunsmoke
11 PM News, Sports, Weather (bw)
11:15 Movie: "The Unforgiven"
WFLA Ch. 8 Tampa (NBC)
6:30 RFD Florida
7 AM Movie: "Hercules, The Avenger" (bw)
8:30 Little Rascals (bw)
9 AM Super 6
9:30 Atom Ant
10 AM Flintstones
10:30 Space Kidettes
11 AM Secret Squirrel
11:30 Jetsons
12 N Cool McCool
12:30 Florida Gardenland
1 PM Hi-Time ("Bandstand"-type local show, guests:
students from Lake Wales Junior High)
2 PM Baseball: Braves-Pirates
5:30 Let's Go To The Races
6 PM News, Sports, Weather
6:30 Secret Agent (bw)
7:30 Flipper
8 PM Please Don't Eat The Daisies
8:30 Get Smart
9 PM NBC Movie: "The Man Who Knew Too Much"
11:30 News, Weather, Sports
11:55 Movie: "The Fugitive Kind" (bw)
WFTV Ch. 9 Orlando (ABC)
7:30 Agriculture Time (bw)
8 AM Movie: "Cannibal Attack" (Johnny Weissmuller
as Jungle Jim) (bw)
9 AM Jet Jackson (bw)
9:30 My Friend Flicka
10 AM King Kong (animated)
10:30 Beatles
11 AM New Casper Cartoon Show
11:30 Milton The Monster
12 N Bugs Bunny
12:30 Pockets' Circus Parade (bw)
1:30 American Bandstand (Jerry Butler, the Merry-Go-
Round) (bw)
2:30 Championship Wrestling From Florida (bw)
3:30 Movie: "The Phantom Planet" (bw)
5 PM Wide World Of Sports (World Invitational High Diving
Championship, International Parachuting Championship,
National AAU Gymnastics Championships)
6:30 Twilight Zone (bw)
7 PM One Step Beyond (bw)
7:30 Dating Game
8 PM Newlywed Game
8:30 Lawrence Welk (salute to Mother's Day)
9:30 Hollywood Palace (Bing Crosby welcomes Don Ameche
and Frances Langford--who do a Bickersons sketch--
Louis Nye, Barbara McNair, the King Family, comic pianist
Yonely, the Pollack Brothers' trained elephants)
10:30 Phyllis Diller (delay from Fri 9:30 PM)
11 PM ABC News
11:15 News, Weather, Sports (bw)
11:30 Movie: "My Uncle"
WLCY (WTSP) Ch. 10 St. Petersburg (ABC)
7:15 Light Time (bw)
7:30 Animal Kingdom
7:45 4-H Spotlight
8 AM Jet Jackson (bw)
8:30 Space Station
9:30 Porky Pig
10 AM King Kong
10:30 Beatles
11 AM New Casper Cartoon Show
11:30 Milton The Monster
12 N Bugs Bunny
12:30 Magilla Gorilla
1 PM Hoppity Hooper
1:30 American Bandstand (bw)
2:30 10-A-Go-Go
3 PM Open Mike
4 PM Sports Film
4:30 Sam Snead (he demonstrates the tee shot that
earned him the nickname Slammin' Sam)
5 PM Wide World Of Sports
6:30 News, Weather, Sports
7 PM Travel/Adventure Theatre
7:30 Dating Game
8 PM Newlywed Game
8:30 Lawrence Welk
9:30 Hollywood Palace
10:30 Movie: "The Sign Of The Ram" (bw)
12 M ABC News
12:15 ABC Scope (chaplains in Vietnam, delay from 10:30 PM)
WINK Ch. 11 Ft. Myers (CBS)
8 AM Captain Kangaroo (bw)
9 AM Mighty Mouse And The Mighty Heroes
9:30 Underdog
10 AM Frankenstein Jr. And The Impossibles
10:30 Space Ghost
11 AM New Adventures Of Superman
11:30 Lone Ranger (animated)
12 N Road Runner
12:30 Beagles
1 PM Tom And Jerry
1:30 Movie: "All This And Heaven Too" (satirized by
Bugs Bunny as "All This And Rabbit Stew") (bw)
4 PM Championship Wrestling From Florida (bw)
5 PM Coliseum (Woody Allen welcomes Paul Revere and
the Raiders, adagio dancers Nora Kovach and Istvan
Rabovsky, the U.S. Marines Drum and Bugle Corps,
Walsh's Leopards, fire-eater Tagora, the Christiani
Elephants, highwire artist Alzana, high diver Henry
La Mothe, magician Marvin Roy, delay from Thu 7:30 PM)
6 PM Forest Rangers
6:30 Hennesey (bw)
7 PM CBS News
7:30 Jackie Gleason
8:30 Mission: Impossible
9:30 Pistols 'n' Petticoats
10 PM Gunsmoke
11 PM News, Sports, Weather (bw)
11:15 Movie: "Johnny Belinda" (bw)
WTVT Ch. 13 Tampa (CBS)
6:15 Florida Fishing
6:30 Sunrise Semester (bw)
7 AM Local News
7:05 Cartoons (bw)
8 AM Captain Kangaroo (bw)
9 AM Mighty Mouse And The Mighty Heroes
9:30 Underdog
10 AM Frankenstein Jr. And The Impossibles
10:30 Space Ghost
11 AM New Adventures Of Superman
11:30 Lone Ranger (animated)
12 N Road Runner
12:30 Beagles
1 PM Tom And Jerry
1:30 Pyramid (not the game show, which didn't
start until '73)
1:55 Sen. Smathers (bw)
2 PM Behind The Weather
2:15 Lawful Rhythm
2:30 Maverick (bw)
3:30 Movie: "The Strange One" (bw)
5:30 Grand Ole Opry (may be Flatt and Scruggs)
6 PM News, Sports, Weather
6:30 Perry Mason (bw)
7:30 Jackie Gleason
8:30 Mission: Impossible
9:30 Pistols 'n' Petticoats
10 PM Gunsmoke
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Movie: "The Harder They Fall" (Humphrey Bogart's
last, from '56) (bw)
WSUN Ch. 38 St. Petersburg (Ind.)
3:50 Animal World (I don't think this is Bill
Burrud's show) (bw)
4 PM Flash Gordon (bw)
4:30 Robin Hood (bw)
5 PM Bozo The Clown (bw)
5:30 Magic Ranch (bw)
6 PM Movie: "San Fernando Valley" (Roy and Dale) (bw)
7 PM Scherer/MacNeil Report (pre-empted on Ch. 8)
7:30 Championship Wrestling From Florida (bw)
8:30 Movie: "The Master Race" (Nazi attempt to start
World War III) (bw)
the Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima in Portugal via Early Bird satellite
(CBS had not announced its plans when this issue went to press).
Coverage could begin as early as 5 AM, pre-empting regular programming.
From TV Guide, Central Florida Edition:
WESH Ch. 2 Daytona Beach/Orlando (NBC)
7 AM Across The Fence (bw)
7:30 Burns And Allen (bw)
8 AM Saturday--Today (not to be confused with the current
Saturday version of NBC's "Today" show) (bw)
9 AM Super 6
9:30 Atom Ant
10 AM Flintstones (NBC)
10:30 Space Kidettes
11 AM Secret Squirrel
11:30 Jetsons
12 N Cool McCool
12:30 Survival! (the 1933 Southern California earthquake--
BTW, pictures were shown on W6XAO, now KCBS) (bw)
1 PM Laramie (bw)
2 PM Baseball: Braves-Pirates
5 PM Vietnam Report (time approximate)
5:30 GE College Bowl (Colorado vs. Oregon, delay from Sun
5:30 PM) (bw)
6 PM News, Sports, Weather (bw)
6:30 Scherer/MacNeil Report
7 PM It's A Small World
7:30 Flipper
8 PM Please Don't Eat The Daisies
8:30 Get Smart
9 PM NBC Movie: "The Man Who Knew Too Much" (where
Doris Day first sang "Que Sera, Sera")
11:30 News, Sports, Weather (bw)
12 M Movie: "Avenger Of Venice" (bw)
WEDU Ch. 3 Tampa (NET)
6:30 Past Imperfect (Martin Luther leaves the monastery
and becomes a lawyer; Montezuma has Cortez beheaded;
the United States joins the League of Nations; King James II
refuses to give up the throne of England--I assume these are
"what ifs" since none of them happened) (bw)
7 PM Open Mind (problems of Native Americans) (bw)
8 PM Modern Woman (the woman's role in the community) (bw)
8:30 NET Journal (the rise of neo-Nazism in Germany) (bw)
9:30 Spectrum (science) (bw)
10 PM Arnold Toynbee (how to improve the condition of underdeveloped
nations) (bw)
10:30 Creative Person (conductor Bruno Walter) (bw)
WDBO (WKMG) Ch. 6 Orlando (CBS)
6:30 Sunrise Semester: "Early Middle Ages" (bw)
7 AM Growers' Almanac (bw)
7:30 World At Large (bw)
8 AM Captain Kangaroo (bw)
9 AM Mighty Mouse And The Mighty Heroes
9:30 Underdog
10 AM Frankenstein Jr. And The Impossibles
10:30 Space Ghost
11 AM New Adventures Of Superman
11:30 Lone Ranger (animated)
12 N Road Runner
12:30 Beagles
1 PM Tom And Jerry
1:30 It's The Law (bw)
2 PM Championship Bowling
3 PM Movies: "Tarzan's Desert Mystery" (Johnny
Weissmuller) and "Sherlock Holmes And The
Secret Weapon" (the Sherlock Holmes mystery
"Dancing Men" updated to World War II) (both bw)
5 PM Let's Go To The Races
5:30 Daktari (delay from Tue 7:30 PM)
6:30 CBS News (Roger Mudd)
7 PM Central Florida Showcase (bw)
7:30 Jackie Gleason (the "Ralph and Jackie Gleason are friends"
episode--yeah, right)
8:30 Mission: Impossible
9:30 Pistols 'n' Petticoats
10 PM Gunsmoke
11 PM News, Sports, Weather (bw)
11:15 Movie: "The Unforgiven"
WFLA Ch. 8 Tampa (NBC)
6:30 RFD Florida
7 AM Movie: "Hercules, The Avenger" (bw)
8:30 Little Rascals (bw)
9 AM Super 6
9:30 Atom Ant
10 AM Flintstones
10:30 Space Kidettes
11 AM Secret Squirrel
11:30 Jetsons
12 N Cool McCool
12:30 Florida Gardenland
1 PM Hi-Time ("Bandstand"-type local show, guests:
students from Lake Wales Junior High)
2 PM Baseball: Braves-Pirates
5:30 Let's Go To The Races
6 PM News, Sports, Weather
6:30 Secret Agent (bw)
7:30 Flipper
8 PM Please Don't Eat The Daisies
8:30 Get Smart
9 PM NBC Movie: "The Man Who Knew Too Much"
11:30 News, Weather, Sports
11:55 Movie: "The Fugitive Kind" (bw)
WFTV Ch. 9 Orlando (ABC)
7:30 Agriculture Time (bw)
8 AM Movie: "Cannibal Attack" (Johnny Weissmuller
as Jungle Jim) (bw)
9 AM Jet Jackson (bw)
9:30 My Friend Flicka
10 AM King Kong (animated)
10:30 Beatles
11 AM New Casper Cartoon Show
11:30 Milton The Monster
12 N Bugs Bunny
12:30 Pockets' Circus Parade (bw)
1:30 American Bandstand (Jerry Butler, the Merry-Go-
Round) (bw)
2:30 Championship Wrestling From Florida (bw)
3:30 Movie: "The Phantom Planet" (bw)
5 PM Wide World Of Sports (World Invitational High Diving
Championship, International Parachuting Championship,
National AAU Gymnastics Championships)
6:30 Twilight Zone (bw)
7 PM One Step Beyond (bw)
7:30 Dating Game
8 PM Newlywed Game
8:30 Lawrence Welk (salute to Mother's Day)
9:30 Hollywood Palace (Bing Crosby welcomes Don Ameche
and Frances Langford--who do a Bickersons sketch--
Louis Nye, Barbara McNair, the King Family, comic pianist
Yonely, the Pollack Brothers' trained elephants)
10:30 Phyllis Diller (delay from Fri 9:30 PM)
11 PM ABC News
11:15 News, Weather, Sports (bw)
11:30 Movie: "My Uncle"
WLCY (WTSP) Ch. 10 St. Petersburg (ABC)
7:15 Light Time (bw)
7:30 Animal Kingdom
7:45 4-H Spotlight
8 AM Jet Jackson (bw)
8:30 Space Station
9:30 Porky Pig
10 AM King Kong
10:30 Beatles
11 AM New Casper Cartoon Show
11:30 Milton The Monster
12 N Bugs Bunny
12:30 Magilla Gorilla
1 PM Hoppity Hooper
1:30 American Bandstand (bw)
2:30 10-A-Go-Go
3 PM Open Mike
4 PM Sports Film
4:30 Sam Snead (he demonstrates the tee shot that
earned him the nickname Slammin' Sam)
5 PM Wide World Of Sports
6:30 News, Weather, Sports
7 PM Travel/Adventure Theatre
7:30 Dating Game
8 PM Newlywed Game
8:30 Lawrence Welk
9:30 Hollywood Palace
10:30 Movie: "The Sign Of The Ram" (bw)
12 M ABC News
12:15 ABC Scope (chaplains in Vietnam, delay from 10:30 PM)
WINK Ch. 11 Ft. Myers (CBS)
8 AM Captain Kangaroo (bw)
9 AM Mighty Mouse And The Mighty Heroes
9:30 Underdog
10 AM Frankenstein Jr. And The Impossibles
10:30 Space Ghost
11 AM New Adventures Of Superman
11:30 Lone Ranger (animated)
12 N Road Runner
12:30 Beagles
1 PM Tom And Jerry
1:30 Movie: "All This And Heaven Too" (satirized by
Bugs Bunny as "All This And Rabbit Stew") (bw)
4 PM Championship Wrestling From Florida (bw)
5 PM Coliseum (Woody Allen welcomes Paul Revere and
the Raiders, adagio dancers Nora Kovach and Istvan
Rabovsky, the U.S. Marines Drum and Bugle Corps,
Walsh's Leopards, fire-eater Tagora, the Christiani
Elephants, highwire artist Alzana, high diver Henry
La Mothe, magician Marvin Roy, delay from Thu 7:30 PM)
6 PM Forest Rangers
6:30 Hennesey (bw)
7 PM CBS News
7:30 Jackie Gleason
8:30 Mission: Impossible
9:30 Pistols 'n' Petticoats
10 PM Gunsmoke
11 PM News, Sports, Weather (bw)
11:15 Movie: "Johnny Belinda" (bw)
WTVT Ch. 13 Tampa (CBS)
6:15 Florida Fishing
6:30 Sunrise Semester (bw)
7 AM Local News
7:05 Cartoons (bw)
8 AM Captain Kangaroo (bw)
9 AM Mighty Mouse And The Mighty Heroes
9:30 Underdog
10 AM Frankenstein Jr. And The Impossibles
10:30 Space Ghost
11 AM New Adventures Of Superman
11:30 Lone Ranger (animated)
12 N Road Runner
12:30 Beagles
1 PM Tom And Jerry
1:30 Pyramid (not the game show, which didn't
start until '73)
1:55 Sen. Smathers (bw)
2 PM Behind The Weather
2:15 Lawful Rhythm
2:30 Maverick (bw)
3:30 Movie: "The Strange One" (bw)
5:30 Grand Ole Opry (may be Flatt and Scruggs)
6 PM News, Sports, Weather
6:30 Perry Mason (bw)
7:30 Jackie Gleason
8:30 Mission: Impossible
9:30 Pistols 'n' Petticoats
10 PM Gunsmoke
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Movie: "The Harder They Fall" (Humphrey Bogart's
last, from '56) (bw)
WSUN Ch. 38 St. Petersburg (Ind.)
3:50 Animal World (I don't think this is Bill
Burrud's show) (bw)
4 PM Flash Gordon (bw)
4:30 Robin Hood (bw)
5 PM Bozo The Clown (bw)
5:30 Magic Ranch (bw)
6 PM Movie: "San Fernando Valley" (Roy and Dale) (bw)
7 PM Scherer/MacNeil Report (pre-empted on Ch. 8)
7:30 Championship Wrestling From Florida (bw)
8:30 Movie: "The Master Race" (Nazi attempt to start
World War III) (bw)