From TV Guide, Central Florida Edition:
NOTE: The NABET strike against ABC may still be in effect;
the strike has affected live programs and disrupted the taping
of others. Listings are as TV Guide has them.
WESH Ch. 2 Daytona Beach/Orlando (NBC)
7 AM Across The Fence
7:30 Biography (Mike Wallace narrates the story of Knute Rockne.)
8 AM Saturday--Today (no, this isn't NBC's Saturday "Today Show"--
a local prototype, possibly)
9 AM Super 6
9:30 Super President
10 AM Flintstones
10:30 Samson & Goliath
11 AM Birdman And The Galaxy Trio
11:30 Atom Ant/Secret Squirrel
12 N Top Cat
12:30 Cool McCool
1 PM Movie: "Manhunt In Space" (Richard Crane as Rocky Jones,
Space Ranger, from '54)
2:30 Film Feature: "With Their Eyes On The Stars"
3 PM Survival! (I don't think this is John Forsythe's "World Of Survival")
3:30 Laramie
4:30 Flatt And Scruggs
5 PM The Texan
5:30 GE College Bowl (UC-Riverside vs. either Wisconsin or Nebraska)
6 PM News, Weather, Sports (still not in color)
6:30 Frank McGee Report
7 PM It's A Small World
7:30 Maya
8:30 Get Smart
9 PM NBC Movie: "Mister Moses"
11:30 News, Weather, Sports
12 M Movie: "A Man Alone"
WEDU Ch. 3 Tampa (NET)
6:30 Observing Eye (how spiders use their legs to catch other insects)
7 PM Circus! (I don't think this is the Bert Parks-hosted show which aired
in syndication in the '70s; aerial acts are the focus: La Norma, Zacchini
& Munoz, The Nerveless Nocks, The Aerial Huestrels, Henri LaMothe)
7:30 Congress Of Strings (C.P.E. Bach's Symphony No. 2 in B Flat Major and
Alan Hovhaness' Psalm and Fugue for Strings are performed by the 1966
Congress of Strings Orchestra.)
8 PM Auto Mechanics (two- and four-cycle engines)
8:30 NET Journal (Barry Goldwater and William Miller look back, humorously, at
their disastrous 1964 Presidential campaign.)
9:30 Four Score (the Chicago Fine Arts Quartet perform the second movement
of Debussy's Quartet in G Minor)
10 PM Making Of A Doctor (three surgeons in training at Temple University Hospital,
Philadelphia)
10:30 Creative Person (German composer Hans Werner Henze)
sign off 11 PM
WDBO (WKMG) Ch. 6 Orlando (CBS)
6:30 Sunrise Semester: "Russian Literature"
7 AM Grower's Almanac
7:30 Tom And Jerry (delay from Sun 9 AM)
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Frankenstein Jr. And The Impossibles
9:30 Herculoids
10 AM Shazzan!
10:30 Space Ghost
11 AM Moby Dick And The Mighty Mightor
11:30 Superman/Aquaman Hour Of Adventure (some
interesting voices: Bud Collyer as Clark Kent/Superman;
Joan Alexander as Lois Lane; Jackson Beck as narrator of
the Superman segments; Marvin Miller ("The Millionaire") as
the voice of Aquaman; Ted Knight as narrator of the Aquaman
segments)
12:30 Jonny Quest
1 PM Lone Ranger (animated)
1:30 Road Runner
2 PM Underdog (delay from Sun 9:30 AM)
2:30 Forest Rangers
3 PM It's The Law
3:30 Branded
4 PM Lost In Space (delay from Wed 7:30 PM)
5 PM Daktari (delay from Tue 7:30 PM)
6 PM Wild Wild West (delay from Fri 7:30 PM)
7 PM Central Florida Showcase
7:30 Jackie Gleason (a Honeymooners episode where
Ralph tries to match his maiden aunt with a marriage-
shy butcher)
8:30 My Three Sons
9 PM Hogan's Heroes
9:30 Petticoat Junction
10 PM Mannix
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:15 Movie: "Battle Hymn"
WFLA Ch. 8 Tampa (NBC)
6:30 RFD Florida
7 AM Movie: "Lion Of Thebes"
8:30 Little Rascals
9 AM Super 6
9:30 Super President
10 AM Flintstones
10:30 Samson & Goliath
11 AM Birdman And The Galaxy Trio
11:30 Atom Ant/Secret Squirrel
12 N Top Cat
12:30 Florida Gardenland
1 PM Movie: "Journey To The Seventh Planet"
4 PM Hi-Time (local dance party)
5 PM TBA
5:30 GE College Bowl
6 PM News, Sports, Weather
6:30 Jerry Lewis (guests: Laurence Harvey, Joey Heatherton,
delay from Tue 8 PM)
7:30 Maya
8:30 Get Smart
9 PM NBC Movie: "Mister Moses"
11:30 News, Weather, Sports
11:55 Movie: "The McConnell Story" (Korean War hero Capt.
Joseph McConnell Jr., America's first triple jet ace)
WFTV Ch. 9 Orlando (ABC)
7:30 Agriculture Time
8 AM Movie: "Son Of Hercules In The Land Of Fire" (Part 1)
9 AM Movie: "The Lost Tribe" (Johnny Weissmuller as Jungle Jim,
from '49)
10 AM Robin Hood
10:30 My Friend Flicka
11 AM King Kong
11:30 George Of The Jungle
12 N Beatles
12:30 American Bandstand (the Grass Roots, the Watts 103rd Street
Rhythm Band)
1:30 Championship Wrestling From Florida
2:30 Wide World Of Sports (the National Hare and Hound Cross-Country
Motorcycle Championship from the Mojave Desert; a figure-skating
exhibiton from Vienna--Peggy Fleming is the star attraction)
4 PM NCAA Pre-Game
4:15 NCAA Football: Texas-Arkansas
7:15 ABC Sports Today (time approximate)
7:30 Dating Game
8 PM Newlywed Game
8:30 Lawrence Welk (no information, as the NABET strike left the taping
of this episode up in the air)
9:30 Midwestern Hayride (guest: Duane Dee)
10:30 Second Hundred Years (delay from Wed 8:30 PM)
11 PM ABC News (Keith McBee)
11:15 News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Movie: "The Captain's Paradise"
WLCY (WTSP) Ch. 10 St. Petersburg (ABC)
7:10 Local News
7:15 4-H Spotlight
7:30 Jet Jackson
8 AM Space Station
9 AM New Casper Cartoon Show
9:30 Fantastic Four
10 AM Spider-Man
10:30 Journey To The Center Of The Earth
11 AM King Kong
11:30 George Of The Jungle
12 N Beatles
12:30 American Bandstand
1:30 10's Bandstand
2:30 Wide World Of Sports
4 PM NCAA Pre-Game
4:15 NCAA Football: Texas-Arkansas
7:15 TBA
7:30 News, Weather, Sports
8 PM Newlywed Game
8:30 Lawrence Welk
9:30 Iron Horse
10:30 Movie: "Wings Of The Hawk"
12 M ABC News
12:15 ABC Scope (overseas attitudes on American foreign policy
are examined in a reporters' roundtable: Sam Jaffe in Hong
Kong; Don North, Vietnam; John Rolfson, Rome; Bob Young,
London; Frank Reynolds, Washington, delay from 10:30 PM)
12:45 Best Of Open Mike
WINK Ch. 11 Ft. Myers (CBS)
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Frankenstein Jr. And The Impossibles
9:30 Herculoids
10 AM Shazzan!
10:30 Space Ghost
11 AM Moby Dick And The Mighty Mightor
11:30 Superman/Aquaman Hour Of Adventure
12:30 Jonny Quest
1 PM Lone Ranger (animated)
1:30 Road Runner
2 PM Movie: "The Last Ride"
3 PM Championship Wrestling From Florida
4 PM Championship Bowling
5 PM Burke's Law
6 PM Branded
6:30 Fishing With Jim Thomas
7 PM CBS News (Roger Mudd)
7:30 Jackie Gleason
8:30 My Three Sons
9 PM Hogan's Heroes
9:30 Petticoat Junction
10 PM Mannix
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:15 Movie: "Make Your Own Bed"
WTVT Ch. 13 Tampa (CBS)
6:45 Florida Fishing
7 AM Local News
7:05 Cartoon Carnival
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Frankenstein Jr. And The Impossibles
9:30 Herculoids
10 AM Shazzan!
10:30 Space Ghost
11 AM Moby Dick And The Mighty Mightor
11:30 Superman/Aquaman Hour Of Adventure
12:30 Jonny Quest
1 PM Lone Ranger (animated)
1:30 Road Runner
2 PM Space Ghost (this makes no sense, as Ch. 13
carried the show in-pattern)
2:30 Insight (local discussion show)
2:55 Sen. George Smathers (political talk)
3 PM Town Meeting (educational problems in Hillsborough
County and Florida in general)
4:30 Championship Bowling (Nelson Burton Jr. vs. Harry Smith
(not CBS's ex-morning show host))
5:30 Gunsmoke (delay from Mon 7:30 PM)
6:30 Perry Mason
7:30 Jackie Gleason
8:30 My Three Sons
9 PM Hogan's Heroes
9:30 Petticoat Junction
10 PM Mannix
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:30 Movie: "Boom Town"
WSUN (WTTA) Ch. 38 St. Petersburg (Ind.)
2:30 Movie: "Sea Fury"
4 PM Sir Lancelot
4:30 Rocky Jones
5 PM Bozo The Clown
5:30 Sergeant Preston Of The Yukon
6 PM Western Movie
7 PM Adventures In Travel
7:30 Championship Wrestling From Florida
8:30 Film Feature
9 PM Movie: "The Great Man Votes"
sign off following the movie
NOTE: With Ch. 6 delaying three of CBS's 7:30 shows (actually four), I know
I'm going to be asked what the station aired at 7:30. The answers:
MON Movie (from 7 PM); October 23 it's "The Longest Hundred Miles"
with Doug McClure and Ricardo Montalban
TUE, FRI Perry Mason
WED Gunsmoke (from 7 PM), followed by "The Lucy Show" at 8
THU Here I'm assuming "Cimarron Strip," since "It's The Great Pumpkin,
Charlie Brown" aired on Oct. 26, followed by a Don Knotts special,
and Ch. 6 carried them both in-pattern (Andy Griffith was a guest
on Don's special).
SAT Jackie Gleason (in-pattern)
SUN Gentle Ben (in-pattern)
NOTE: The NABET strike against ABC may still be in effect;
the strike has affected live programs and disrupted the taping
of others. Listings are as TV Guide has them.
WESH Ch. 2 Daytona Beach/Orlando (NBC)
7 AM Across The Fence
7:30 Biography (Mike Wallace narrates the story of Knute Rockne.)
8 AM Saturday--Today (no, this isn't NBC's Saturday "Today Show"--
a local prototype, possibly)
9 AM Super 6
9:30 Super President
10 AM Flintstones
10:30 Samson & Goliath
11 AM Birdman And The Galaxy Trio
11:30 Atom Ant/Secret Squirrel
12 N Top Cat
12:30 Cool McCool
1 PM Movie: "Manhunt In Space" (Richard Crane as Rocky Jones,
Space Ranger, from '54)
2:30 Film Feature: "With Their Eyes On The Stars"
3 PM Survival! (I don't think this is John Forsythe's "World Of Survival")
3:30 Laramie
4:30 Flatt And Scruggs
5 PM The Texan
5:30 GE College Bowl (UC-Riverside vs. either Wisconsin or Nebraska)
6 PM News, Weather, Sports (still not in color)
6:30 Frank McGee Report
7 PM It's A Small World
7:30 Maya
8:30 Get Smart
9 PM NBC Movie: "Mister Moses"
11:30 News, Weather, Sports
12 M Movie: "A Man Alone"
WEDU Ch. 3 Tampa (NET)
6:30 Observing Eye (how spiders use their legs to catch other insects)
7 PM Circus! (I don't think this is the Bert Parks-hosted show which aired
in syndication in the '70s; aerial acts are the focus: La Norma, Zacchini
& Munoz, The Nerveless Nocks, The Aerial Huestrels, Henri LaMothe)
7:30 Congress Of Strings (C.P.E. Bach's Symphony No. 2 in B Flat Major and
Alan Hovhaness' Psalm and Fugue for Strings are performed by the 1966
Congress of Strings Orchestra.)
8 PM Auto Mechanics (two- and four-cycle engines)
8:30 NET Journal (Barry Goldwater and William Miller look back, humorously, at
their disastrous 1964 Presidential campaign.)
9:30 Four Score (the Chicago Fine Arts Quartet perform the second movement
of Debussy's Quartet in G Minor)
10 PM Making Of A Doctor (three surgeons in training at Temple University Hospital,
Philadelphia)
10:30 Creative Person (German composer Hans Werner Henze)
sign off 11 PM
WDBO (WKMG) Ch. 6 Orlando (CBS)
6:30 Sunrise Semester: "Russian Literature"
7 AM Grower's Almanac
7:30 Tom And Jerry (delay from Sun 9 AM)
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Frankenstein Jr. And The Impossibles
9:30 Herculoids
10 AM Shazzan!
10:30 Space Ghost
11 AM Moby Dick And The Mighty Mightor
11:30 Superman/Aquaman Hour Of Adventure (some
interesting voices: Bud Collyer as Clark Kent/Superman;
Joan Alexander as Lois Lane; Jackson Beck as narrator of
the Superman segments; Marvin Miller ("The Millionaire") as
the voice of Aquaman; Ted Knight as narrator of the Aquaman
segments)
12:30 Jonny Quest
1 PM Lone Ranger (animated)
1:30 Road Runner
2 PM Underdog (delay from Sun 9:30 AM)
2:30 Forest Rangers
3 PM It's The Law
3:30 Branded
4 PM Lost In Space (delay from Wed 7:30 PM)
5 PM Daktari (delay from Tue 7:30 PM)
6 PM Wild Wild West (delay from Fri 7:30 PM)
7 PM Central Florida Showcase
7:30 Jackie Gleason (a Honeymooners episode where
Ralph tries to match his maiden aunt with a marriage-
shy butcher)
8:30 My Three Sons
9 PM Hogan's Heroes
9:30 Petticoat Junction
10 PM Mannix
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:15 Movie: "Battle Hymn"
WFLA Ch. 8 Tampa (NBC)
6:30 RFD Florida
7 AM Movie: "Lion Of Thebes"
8:30 Little Rascals
9 AM Super 6
9:30 Super President
10 AM Flintstones
10:30 Samson & Goliath
11 AM Birdman And The Galaxy Trio
11:30 Atom Ant/Secret Squirrel
12 N Top Cat
12:30 Florida Gardenland
1 PM Movie: "Journey To The Seventh Planet"
4 PM Hi-Time (local dance party)
5 PM TBA
5:30 GE College Bowl
6 PM News, Sports, Weather
6:30 Jerry Lewis (guests: Laurence Harvey, Joey Heatherton,
delay from Tue 8 PM)
7:30 Maya
8:30 Get Smart
9 PM NBC Movie: "Mister Moses"
11:30 News, Weather, Sports
11:55 Movie: "The McConnell Story" (Korean War hero Capt.
Joseph McConnell Jr., America's first triple jet ace)
WFTV Ch. 9 Orlando (ABC)
7:30 Agriculture Time
8 AM Movie: "Son Of Hercules In The Land Of Fire" (Part 1)
9 AM Movie: "The Lost Tribe" (Johnny Weissmuller as Jungle Jim,
from '49)
10 AM Robin Hood
10:30 My Friend Flicka
11 AM King Kong
11:30 George Of The Jungle
12 N Beatles
12:30 American Bandstand (the Grass Roots, the Watts 103rd Street
Rhythm Band)
1:30 Championship Wrestling From Florida
2:30 Wide World Of Sports (the National Hare and Hound Cross-Country
Motorcycle Championship from the Mojave Desert; a figure-skating
exhibiton from Vienna--Peggy Fleming is the star attraction)
4 PM NCAA Pre-Game
4:15 NCAA Football: Texas-Arkansas
7:15 ABC Sports Today (time approximate)
7:30 Dating Game
8 PM Newlywed Game
8:30 Lawrence Welk (no information, as the NABET strike left the taping
of this episode up in the air)
9:30 Midwestern Hayride (guest: Duane Dee)
10:30 Second Hundred Years (delay from Wed 8:30 PM)
11 PM ABC News (Keith McBee)
11:15 News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Movie: "The Captain's Paradise"
WLCY (WTSP) Ch. 10 St. Petersburg (ABC)
7:10 Local News
7:15 4-H Spotlight
7:30 Jet Jackson
8 AM Space Station
9 AM New Casper Cartoon Show
9:30 Fantastic Four
10 AM Spider-Man
10:30 Journey To The Center Of The Earth
11 AM King Kong
11:30 George Of The Jungle
12 N Beatles
12:30 American Bandstand
1:30 10's Bandstand
2:30 Wide World Of Sports
4 PM NCAA Pre-Game
4:15 NCAA Football: Texas-Arkansas
7:15 TBA
7:30 News, Weather, Sports
8 PM Newlywed Game
8:30 Lawrence Welk
9:30 Iron Horse
10:30 Movie: "Wings Of The Hawk"
12 M ABC News
12:15 ABC Scope (overseas attitudes on American foreign policy
are examined in a reporters' roundtable: Sam Jaffe in Hong
Kong; Don North, Vietnam; John Rolfson, Rome; Bob Young,
London; Frank Reynolds, Washington, delay from 10:30 PM)
12:45 Best Of Open Mike
WINK Ch. 11 Ft. Myers (CBS)
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Frankenstein Jr. And The Impossibles
9:30 Herculoids
10 AM Shazzan!
10:30 Space Ghost
11 AM Moby Dick And The Mighty Mightor
11:30 Superman/Aquaman Hour Of Adventure
12:30 Jonny Quest
1 PM Lone Ranger (animated)
1:30 Road Runner
2 PM Movie: "The Last Ride"
3 PM Championship Wrestling From Florida
4 PM Championship Bowling
5 PM Burke's Law
6 PM Branded
6:30 Fishing With Jim Thomas
7 PM CBS News (Roger Mudd)
7:30 Jackie Gleason
8:30 My Three Sons
9 PM Hogan's Heroes
9:30 Petticoat Junction
10 PM Mannix
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:15 Movie: "Make Your Own Bed"
WTVT Ch. 13 Tampa (CBS)
6:45 Florida Fishing
7 AM Local News
7:05 Cartoon Carnival
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Frankenstein Jr. And The Impossibles
9:30 Herculoids
10 AM Shazzan!
10:30 Space Ghost
11 AM Moby Dick And The Mighty Mightor
11:30 Superman/Aquaman Hour Of Adventure
12:30 Jonny Quest
1 PM Lone Ranger (animated)
1:30 Road Runner
2 PM Space Ghost (this makes no sense, as Ch. 13
carried the show in-pattern)
2:30 Insight (local discussion show)
2:55 Sen. George Smathers (political talk)
3 PM Town Meeting (educational problems in Hillsborough
County and Florida in general)
4:30 Championship Bowling (Nelson Burton Jr. vs. Harry Smith
(not CBS's ex-morning show host))
5:30 Gunsmoke (delay from Mon 7:30 PM)
6:30 Perry Mason
7:30 Jackie Gleason
8:30 My Three Sons
9 PM Hogan's Heroes
9:30 Petticoat Junction
10 PM Mannix
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:30 Movie: "Boom Town"
WSUN (WTTA) Ch. 38 St. Petersburg (Ind.)
2:30 Movie: "Sea Fury"
4 PM Sir Lancelot
4:30 Rocky Jones
5 PM Bozo The Clown
5:30 Sergeant Preston Of The Yukon
6 PM Western Movie
7 PM Adventures In Travel
7:30 Championship Wrestling From Florida
8:30 Film Feature
9 PM Movie: "The Great Man Votes"
sign off following the movie
NOTE: With Ch. 6 delaying three of CBS's 7:30 shows (actually four), I know
I'm going to be asked what the station aired at 7:30. The answers:
MON Movie (from 7 PM); October 23 it's "The Longest Hundred Miles"
with Doug McClure and Ricardo Montalban
TUE, FRI Perry Mason
WED Gunsmoke (from 7 PM), followed by "The Lucy Show" at 8
THU Here I'm assuming "Cimarron Strip," since "It's The Great Pumpkin,
Charlie Brown" aired on Oct. 26, followed by a Don Knotts special,
and Ch. 6 carried them both in-pattern (Andy Griffith was a guest
on Don's special).
SAT Jackie Gleason (in-pattern)
SUN Gentle Ben (in-pattern)
