Retro: Central Indiana/Evansville/Champaign-Decatur Sat, Nov 23, 1968

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2 WTWO Terre Haute (NBC-ABC)
3 WCIA Champaign (CBS)
4 WTTV Indianapolis (Ind)
6 WFBM Indianapolis (NBC)
7 WTVW Evansville (ABC)
8 WISH Indianapolis (CBS)
10 WTHI Terre Haute (CBS-ABC)
13 WLWI Indianapolis (ABC)
14 WFIE Evansville (NBC)
15 WICD Champaign (NBC)
17 WAND Decatur (ABC)
18 WLFI Lafayette (CBS)
20 WICS Springfield (NBC)

Morning

6:30 (fast time-Eastern)/5:30 (slow time-Central)
4 Hoosier Roundup

6/5:50
13 County Newsreel

7/6:00
6 Super Six
8 Sunrise Semester
13 Light Time

7/6:15
13 TBA

7/6:30
3 Sunrise Semester
4 Lessons for Living
6 Top Cat
8 Indiana Farmer
13 Saturday Almanac
14 Farm

8/7:00
2 Discovery
3-10-18 Go-Go Gophers
4 Popeye on Saturday
6 Three Stooges
7 George of the Jungle
8 Roads to Learning
13 Farm Front
14 Farm & Family

8/7:30
2 4H Science Club
3-8-10-18 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
7 4H in Action
13 Timothy Churchmouse
14 Abbott & Costello
17 Discovery

9/8:00
2-15-20 Super Six
7 Let's Talk
13-17 Casper
14 Big Little Show

9/8:30
2-15-20 Top Cat
3-8-10-18 Wacky Races
4 Underdog
7-13-17 Adventures of Gulliver

10/9:00
2-6-15-20 Flintstones
3-8-10-18 Archie
4 Kimba the White Lion
7-13-17 Spider-Man

10/9:30
2-6-14-15-20 Banana Splits
3-8-10-18 Batman/Superman
4 Laurel & Hardy
7-13-17 Fantastic Voyage

11/10:00
4 Thunderbirds
7-13-17 Journey to the Center of the Earth

11/10:30
2-6-14-15-20 Underdog
3-10-18 Herculoids
7 Top Ten Dance Party
8 Uncle Buster
13-17 Fantastic Four

Afternoon

Noon/11:00
2-6-15-20 Birdman
3-10-18 Shazzan (typo?)
4 Upbeat
13-17 George of the Jungle
14 McHale's Navy

12/11:30
2-7-13-17 American Bandstand
3-8-10-18 Jonny Quest
6 Job Line
14 Wells Fargo
15-20 Super President

1:00/Noon
3-8-10-18 Moby Dick
4 Flying Fisherman
6 Bible Telecourse "The Reign of God"
14 Flintstones
15-20 4H TV Science Club

1/12:30
2-7-13-17 Wide World of Sports (National Motorcycle Race of Champions/World Sky Diving Championships)
3-8-10-18 Lone Ranger
4 Action Movie "Destroyer"
14 Championship Bowling
15 Living Word
20 Education Today

2/1:00
3 Farm Report
6 Read Your Way Up
8 Saturday Theatre "Ma & Pa Kettle on Vacation"/"Thing That Couldn't Die"
10 Dr. Hopp & Friends
14 Country Music Hall
15-20 Saturday Afternoon Movie (movie not listed)
18 Continental Comment

2/1:30
3 What Do You Say?
6 Science Fiction Theatre
10 Path to Belief
14 Continental Comment
18 Saturday Afternoon Movie (movie not listed)

2/1:45
2-7-13-17 NCAA Football: Nebraska-Oklahoma (Oklahoma blanks the 'Huskers 47-0)
10 Flight of Apollo VII

3/2:00
3 Early Movie "Mr. Scoutmaster"
6 High School Bowl
10 Saturday Matinee "Queen of the Nile"
14 This is the Life

3/2:25
4 World of Sports

3/2:30
4 NFL Highlights
6 College Bowl
14 The Answer

4/3:00
4 Championship Wrestling
6 Championship Bowling: Skee Pomerensky/Bill Hardwick v Teata Semiz/Harry Smith
14 University of Michigan

4/3:30
3 Big Play
6 Country Music Hall
8 Early Show "Joe Dakota"
10 Ugliest Girl in Town
14 Entertainment Plus
15-20 Laramie

4/3:55
4 World of Sports

5/4:00
3 Championship Bowling
4 World of Country Music
6 Porter Wagoner
10 Big Valley
14 Listen
18 Up Beat

5/4:30
3 Car & Track
6 Grand Ole Opry
14-15-20 College Bowl

Evening

6/5:00
2-7-13-17 NCAA Football: USC-UCLA (USC comes out on top 28-16)
3 Marvin Lee
4 Perry Mason
6-8-10-18 News
14 Bill Anderson
15-20 Roller Derby

6/5:30
3 Petticoat Junction
6-14-15-20 Frank McGee Report
18 Pigskin Preview

7/6:00
3 News
4 Command Performance "Three Violent People"
6 Death Valley Days
8 McHale's Navy
10 TV Sportsman's Club
14 Project 14
15-20 Roller Derby
18 News

7/6:30
3-8-10-18 Jackie Gleason
6-14-15-20 Mouse on the Mayflower

8/7:30
3-8-10-18 My Three Sons
6-14-15-20 A Family Thing (Cowsills)

9/8:00
2-6-14-15-20 Movie "Companions in Nightmare"
3-8-10-18 Hogan's Heroes
4 John Gary
7-17 Lawrence Welk
13 Midwstern Hayride

9/8:30
3 Theatre 3 "Doomsday Flight"
8-10-18 Petticoat Junction

10/9:00
7-13 Hollywood Palace
8-10-18 Mannix
17 Bobby Lord

10/9:30
4 News
17 Cornbelt Country Style

11/10:00
2-13-18 NCAA Football (same-day tape): Indiana-Purdue (Purdue wins a squeaker 38-35)
4 Secret Agent
6-7-8-10-14-15-17-20 News

11/10:20
6 Best of Hollywood Double Feature "Sweet Bird of Youth"/"Sahara"

11/10:30
3 News
7 Big Movie "Sweet Smell of Success"
8 Late Show Double Feature "For Whom the Bell Tolls"/"The Lady Pays Off"
10 Late Movie "Operation Gold Ingot"
14 Auto Racing
15-20 Phyllis Diller
17 Hollywood Palace

Late Night

Midnight/11:00
3 Late Movie "Ice Palace"
4 Shock Theatre "Dracula's Daughter"
14 NCAA Football: same-day tape of Indiana-Purdue
15-20 Naked City

1/12:15
2 Celebrity Billiards
13 News

1/12:30
13 Saturday Almanac
17 Nightwatch Movie "Racing Blood"
2/1:00
13 Painting

2/1:30
13 After Eden


Station addresses:

Terre Haute:
2 WTWO: Box 299
10 WTHI: 918 Ohio St

Champaign:
3 WCIA: 509 S Neil St
15 WICD: 156 N Vermillion

Indianapolis
4 WTTV: 3490 Bluff Rd
6 WFBM: 1330 N Meridian
8 WISH: 1950 N Meridian
13 WLWI: 1401 N Meridian

Evansville:
7 WTVW: 405 Carpenter
14 WFIE: 1115 Mount Auburn

Decatur:
17 WAND: Box 631

Lafayette:
18 WLFI: McCarty Lane

Springfield:
20 WICS: 2680 E Cook St

 

[rugrats1]

> Noon/11:00
> 3-10-18 Shazzan (typo?)

No -- CBS had an animated series in the late-1960s called "Shazzan", where kids summon a genie by putting their special rings (marked "Shaz" and "Zan") together.

The similarly-named "Shazam" didn't appear on CBS until 1975.

 

[Joseph_Gallant]

Re: "Shazzan"

More about "Shazan":

The plot was two teenaged twins (brother and sister) who found the rings while exploring a cave on an island off the coast of (I believe) Maine.

By putting together the two halves of the ring, they were transported back to the time of the Arabian Nights. Shazzan was a giant male genie who the kids could summon whenever they were in trouble by putting the two halves of the ring together and yelling in unison "Shazzan!".

"Shazzan" was produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions. For many years, Alex Toth designed the characters for most of Hanna-Barbera's adventure cartoons; I know he designed the characters for "Space Ghost" and "The Herculoids"; I would think he also designed the characters for "Shazzan".

Seventeen episodes (two eleven-minute "Shazzan" stories per episode) were produced in 1967 and were broadcast from 1967 until 1969 (each episode was broadcast six times). This was actually common for Saturday-morning cartoons of the late 1960's and early 1970's: Seventeen episodes would be produced and each episode would get broadcast six times over the course of two years. Only if the show were a huge hit (such as "Scooby-Doo") would any additional episodes be produced beyond the original seventeen.