Retro: Central Florida Tues, June 13, 1961

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50 years ago today, from TV Guide-Central Florida edition

WESH 2-NBC Daytona Beach
7:00 Dave Garroway (Today)
9:00 Morning Theater "Sometimes It Happens"
9:30 Crossroads "Home is the Sailor"
10:00 Say When
10:30 Play Your Hunch (c)
11:00 Price is Right (c)
11:30 Concentration
noon Truth or Consequences
12:30 It Could Be You (c)
12:55 NBC News
1:00 Focus
2:00 Jan Murray (c)
2:30 Loretta Young "The Man on Top" (starring Ricardo Montalban as a shoeshiner)
3:00 Young Dr. Malone
3:30 From These Roots
4:00 Make Room for Daddy
4:30 Here's Hollywood (Helen O'Connell joins Dean Miller as a regular)
5:00 Movie "Clipper Ship"
6:15 News
6:45 NBC News
7:00 Jim Backus "The Plant"
7:30 Laramie "Widow in White"
8:30 Alfred Hitchcock "Coming Home"
9:00 Thriller "The Grim Reaper"
10:00 TV Guide Awards (c/in the first 45 min, Nanette Fabray and Jackie Cooper join host Efrem Zimbalist Jr. in sketches that spoof television; awards will be presented in the final 15)
11:00 News
11:30 Jack Paar (c/guests include George Burns and Judy Lynn)
1:00 News

WEDU 3-Edu Tampa
(ch 3 ran educational programs during the morning and early afternoon...except on Tuesdays for some reason)
3:15pm Bulletin Board
3:30 Homemaking Today
4:00 Young Worlds
4:30 Red Myth
5:00 Children's Corner
5:30 Quest for Adventure
6:00 Music Hall
6:30 Compass
7:00 Frontiers of Science
7:30 Big Picture
8:00 TBA
8:30 Written Word
9:00 Two for Physics
9:30 Great Issues of Conscience in Modern Medicine (the first of 3 panel shows on problems concerning the medical profession; starting off with "The Issues of Man and His Environment)

WDBO 6-CBS Orlando
7:20 Weather/News
7:30 Cartoons
7:55 News/Weather
8:00 CBS News
8:15 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Romper Room
9:45 News (Bill Taylor)
10:00 I Love Lucy
10:30 Video Village
11:00 Double Exposure
11:30 Your Surprise Package
noon Love of Life
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1:00 Dr. Hudson's Secret Journal "Faulkner Story"
1:30 As the World Turns
2:00 Face the Facts
2:30 House Party (Jack Linkletter gets a member of the studio audience to play Baby Detecto, where they have to figure out which of 3 babies belongs to one of 3 moms on stage)
3:00 Millionaire "Bedelia Buckley"
3:30 Verdict is Yours
4:00 Brighter Day
4:15 Secret Storm
4:30 Edge of Night
5:00 Popeye (with Uncle Walt)
5:30 Quick Draw McGraw
6:00 News/Weather
6:20 Weather (Russ Blair)
6:25 Milestones of the Century (Ed Herlihy looks at "Hot-Air Specialists")
6:30 News
6:45 Whirlybirds "Guilty of Old Age"
7:15 CBS News
7:30 Breakthrough (Florida State's Dr. Sheline discusses nuclear physics and chemistry)
8:00 Father Knows Best "Grandpa Retires"
8:30 Dobie Gillis "Goodbye Mr. Pomfritt-Hello Mr. Chips"
9:00 Tom Ewell
9:30 Red Skelton "Freddie Gets Sick" (guests Jack Kirkwood and Jackie Coogan)
10:00 Garry Moore (guests Jerry Lewis and Carol Lawrence)
11:00 News
11:20 Weather (Dan Burton)
11:25 Movie "Belle of Old Mexico"

WFLA 8-NBC Tampa
6:30 RFD Florida (Mardi Liles)
6:45 Fishing (Bobby Hicks)
6:50 Weather/News
7:00 Dave Garroway (Today)
9:00 Movie: TBA
10:00 Say When
10:30 Play Your Hunch (c)
11:00 Price is Right (c)
11:30 Concentration
noon Truth or Consequences
12:30 It Could Be You (c)
1:00 News/Weather
1:15 Consult Dr. Brothers
1:30 I Married Joan "Pop Retires"
2:00 Jan Murray (c)
2:30 Loretta Young "The Man on Top"
3:00 Young Dr. Malone
3:30 From These Roots
4:00 Make Room for Daddy
4:30 Movie: TBA
5:45 Clutch Cargo
6:00 Quick Draw McGraw
6:30 News
6:45 NBC News
7:00 Sea Hunt
7:30 Laramie "Widow in White"
8:30 Alfred Hitchcock "Coming Home"
9:00 Thriller "The Grim Reaper"
10:00 TV Guide Awards
11:00 News
11:15 Jack Paar (c)

WLOF 9-ABC Orlando
9:00 Kartoon Kapers
9:45 My Little Margie "The Two Lieutenants"
10:15 San Francisco Beat
10:45 Magazine 9 (Ben Aycrigg)
11:00 Gale Storm "Ghosts Aboard"
11:30 Love That Bob!
noon Camouflage
12:30 Number Please
1:00 About Faces
1:25 ABC News
1:30 Playhouse 9
2:00 Day in Court
2:30 Seven Keys
3:00 Queen for a Day
3:30 Who Do You Trust?
4:00 American Bandstand (guests Linda Scott, and the Cleftones; ch 9 only carried the first hour)
5:00 Popeye Playhouse
5:30 Rocky & His Friends (Bullwinkle)
6:00 ABC News
6:15 News (Johathan Dunn-Rankin)
6:25 Weather (Andy Wilson)
6:30 Cannonball "The Big Ambulance"
7:00 Expedition! (final episode, Focus on America debuts next week featuring Expedition! programs produced by various local stations across the country)
7:30 Bugs Bunny
8:00 Rifleman "Lariat"
8:30 Wyatt Earp "Just Before the Battle" (OK Corral, pt 3)
9:00 Stagecoach West "The Swindler"
10:00 Close-up! "The Troubled Land" (life in modern-day Brazil)
10:30 Dangerous Robin
11:00 News
11:15 Movie "The Gorilla Man"

WINK 11-CBS/ABC Fort Myers
10:30 Video Village
11:00 Double Exposure
11:30 Your Surprise Package
noon News/Weather
12:15 Agricultural News
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1:00 Love of Life
1:30 As the World Turns
2:00 People's Choice
2:30 House Party
3:00 Millionaire "Bedelia Buckley"
3:30 Verdict is Yours
4:00 Brighter Day
4:15 Secret Storm
4:30 Edge of Night
5:00 Lazy Bar Fun Time
6:15 News/Sports/Weather
6:45 CBS News
7:00 Hook, Line & Sinker
7:30 Tombstone Territory "Society of Death"
8:00 Real McCoys "The Sorority Girl"
8:30 Dobie Gillis "Goodbye Mr. Pomfritt-Hello Mr. Chips"
9:00 Tom Ewell
9:30 Red Skelton "Freddie Gets Sick"
10:00 Garry Moore
11:00 News
11:30 Grand Jury "Parole"

WTVT 13-CBS Tampa
6:30 Farm News/Weather
6:55 Pastor's Study
7:00 Good Day (Ernie Lee)
8:00 CBS News
8:10 Almanac Newsreel
8:15 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Jack LaLanne
9:30 Cameo Theater
10:30 Video Village
11:00 Double Exposure
11:30 Your Surprise Package
noon News/Weather
12:15 Ernie Lee
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1:00 Love of Life
1:30 As the World Turns
2:00 Life of Riley
2:30 House Party
3:00 Millionaire "Bedelia Buckley"
3:30 Verdict is Yours
4:00 Brighter Day
4:15 Secret Storm
4:30 Edge of Night
5:00 Highway Patrol
5:30 Mary Ellen
6:00 News/Sports/Weather
6:35 News (Crawford Rice)
6:45 CBS News
7:00 Movie "Little Miss Broadway"
8:30 Dobie Gillis "Goodbye Mr. Pomfritt-Hello Mr. Chips"
9:00 Tom Ewell
9:30 Red Skelton "Freddie Gets Sick"
10:00 Garry Moore
11:00 News
11:15 Sports (Russ Benedict)
11:30 Movie "The Golden Mask"

WSUN 38-ABC St. Petersburg
10:55 News
11:00 Gale Storm "Ghosts Aboard"
11:30 Love That Bob!
noon Camouflage
12:30 Number Please
1:00 About Faces
1:25 ABC News
1:30 Florian ZaBach
2:00 Day in Court
2:30 Seven Keys
3:00 Queen for a Day
3:30 Who Do You Trust?
4:00 American Bandstand (ch 38 ran the full 90 min)
5:30 Rocky & His Friends (Bullwinkle)
6:00 ABC News
6:15 News/Sports/Weather
6:30 Whirlybirds "Seven Were Trapped"
7:00 American Civil War
7:30 Bugs Bunny
8:00 Rifleman "Lariat"
8:30 Wyatt Earp "Just Before the Battle"
9:00 Stagecoach West "The Swindler"
10:00 Close-Up "The Troubled Land"
10:30 Movie "Outcasts of Poker Flat"
mid. News/Weather/Sports

 

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The TV Guide Award nominees...TVG publisher James T. Quirk presented awards in Hollywood, with Michael J. O'Neill doing the honors in New York:

Favorite Series
Bonanza
Hennesey
Perry Mason
The Untouchables
Wagon Train

Favorite New Series
Checkmate
Andy Griffith Show
Hong Kong
My Three Sons
Route 66

Best Single Musical or Variety Program
Astaire Time
Belafonte...New York 19
Bobby Darin & Friends
An Hour with Danny Kaye
premiere of Sing Along with Mitch

Best Single Dramatic Program
The Heiress
Macbeth
The Prisoner of Zenda
Time Remembered
Vanity Fair

Best Single News or Information Program
Inauguration Coverage: CBS and NBC were both nominated
NBC Convention Coverage
NBC Election Night Coverage
Panama-Danger Zone

Best News or Information Series
CBS Reports
Douglas Edwards News
Eyewitness to History
Huntley-Brinkley News
The Twentieth Century

Favorite Male Performer
Raymond Burr
Perry Como
Jack Paar
Red Skelton
Robert Stack

Favorite Female Performer
Carol Burnett
Donna Reed
Dinah Shore
Barbara Stanwyck
Loretta Young

 

[bpatrick]

First, do you have any Central Florida schedules from '62,
particularly the summer?

Second, I noticed "Detecto" being played on "House Party."
Columnist Harriet Van Horne once accused Art Linkletter and
John Guedel from stealing the idea from "To Tell The Truth,"
when, in fact, "Detecto" came long before. Linkletter and
Guedel sued Mark Goodson and Bill Todman, but NBC, which
was carrying Linkletter-Guedel's "People Are Funny" and Goodson-
Todman's "The Price Is Right," negotiated a settlement satisfactory
to all; I only wish I knew what the terms were.

The series of documentaries from ABC affiliates around the country
is typical Ollie Treyz; he was always looking for show ideas from local
stations, ABC affiliates or not. For example, Bugs Bunny came to be
a network show on ABC when Treyz learned that WGN was carrying the
pre-1948s at 6:30 (CT) and beating the networks. I'd like to see something
like "Expedition!"/"Focus On America" today; it might encourage local stations
to produce documentaries and give viewers an inside look at other parts of the
country. Something along those lines happened in the early '80s, when ABC
affiliates WCVB, WJLA, KSTP, KOMO, and then-ABC affiliate WRAL combined to
form the "Eighth Decade Consortium," with each producing a documentary on
a given topic, which would be incorporated into a longer program. After WRAL
went to CBS I never heard any more about this.

 

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First, do you have any Central Florida schedules from '62,
particularly the summer?

Unfortunately, I don't-I've only got one early 60s from Central Florida in my archives. Google News Archive might have some, I would think- I know quite a few Florida papers are on there...

 

[Tim L]

I'd like to see something
like "Expedition!"/"Focus On America" today; it might encourage local stations
to produce documentaries and give viewers an inside look at other parts of the
country. Something along those lines happened in the early '80s, when ABC
affiliates WCVB, WJLA, KSTP, KOMO, and then-ABC affiliate WRAL combined to
form the "Eighth Decade Consortium," with each producing a documentary on
a given topic, which would be incorporated into a longer program.

Westinghouse produced a series of monthly specials called Intertel, in cooperation with British and Canadian Producers..These ran from 1961-71 on all the Westinghouse stations and certain English Language TV Networks all over the world..

 

[bpatrick]

Did that program ever air on what was then NET? I seem to recall
some NET stations carrying it; the only time I ever lived in a Westinghouse
market was Baltimore in 1983.

 

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I'd like to see something
like "Expedition!"/"Focus On America" today; it might encourage local stations
to produce documentaries and give viewers an inside look at other parts of the
country. Something along those lines happened in the early '80s, when ABC
affiliates WCVB, WJLA, KSTP, KOMO, and then-ABC affiliate WRAL combined to
form the "Eighth Decade Consortium," with each producing a documentary on
a given topic, which would be incorporated into a longer program.

Westinghouse produced a series of monthly specials called Intertel, in cooperation with British and Canadian Producers..These ran from 1961-71 on all the Westinghouse stations and certain English Language TV Networks all over the world..

CBC ran it north of the border, I've come across it in some of my Toronto supplements...

 

[DToTheJ]

11:00 Double Exposure
11:30 Your Surprise Package

Does anyone think that, forty years later, it's still safe to air programs with these titles back to back? :

 

[Tim L]

Did that program ever air on what was then NET? I seem to recall
some NET stations carrying it; the only time I ever lived in a Westinghouse
market was Baltimore in 1983.

Probably so, though I've only seen in listings where WVIZ-Channel 25 Cleveland as early as 1966 carried Intertel, though part of that may have had to so with the recent Philly-Cleveland Westinghouse TV swap..

 

[Tim L]

In researching Cleveland Plain Dealer Archives, KYW-TV 3 aired Intertel possibly for the last time June 13, 1965, while NET affiliate WVIZ-25 carried the Program as early as February 17, 1965, a few days after signing on for the first time..Intertel was never carried on WKYC