Thanksgiving Day listings, from TV Guide-Central Indiana edition
The Hollywood stagehands strike could affect scheduling of live and taped programs
WTWO 2-NBC Terre Haute
7:00 Today (10th anniversary of JFK assassination)
9:00 Thanksgiving Day Parade (Macy's Parade from NYC)
noon Magic Man (Bill Bixby hosts a variety of magic acts including Marc Wilson (illusions), Jerry Bergman (pops ping-pong balls from his mouth), the Amazing Randi (straightjacket escape), and Peter Pitt (who has a dancing cane))
1:30 Alice Through the Looking Glass (a musical version from 1966 with Judi Rolin in the title role, and also featuring Agnes Moorhead (Red Queen), Jack Palance (Jabberwock), and Jimmy Durante (Humpty Dumpty))
3:00 NFL Pre-Game
3:30 NFL: Miami-Dallas
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 Truth or Consequences
7:30 Let's Make a Deal
8:00 Movie "My Fair Lady"
11:15 News
11:45 Tonight Show
WTTV 4-Ind Indianapolis
7:00 News
7:30 Janie
9:00 Movie "God is My Partner" (bw)
11:00 Second Cup Time
11:30 News
noon Chuckwagon Theater
1:00 Movie "The Adventures of Robin Hood"
3:00 Brady Bunch
3:30 Sergeant Preston
4:00 Debbie's Place
5:00 Flintstones
5:30 Green Acres
6:00 Beverly Hillbillies
6:30 Hogan's Heroes
7:00 Gomer Pyle, USMC
7:30 Andy Griffith
8:00 Truth or Consequences
8:30 What's My Line?
9:00 Merv Griffin (in Vegas with guests Abbe Lane, Shecky Greene, and Joe Louis)
10:30 News
11:00 Night Gallery
11:30 Twilight Zone (bw)
mid, Invaders
1:00 News
WRTV 6-NBC Indianapolis
6:15 Today in Indiana
7:00 Today
9:00 Thanksgiving Day Parade (Macy's)
noon Magic Man
1:30 Alice Through the Looking Glass
3:00 NFL Pre-Game
3:30 NFL: Miami-Dallas
6:30 News
7:00 NBC Nightly News
7:30 Wild, Wild World of Animals (impalas in East Africa)
8:00 Movie "My Fair Lady"
11:15 News
11:45 Tonight Show
1:15 Tomorrow
WISH 8-CBS Indianapolis
6:30 Sunrise Semester "Twentieth-Century Literature: Its Past and Present"
7:00 CBS Morning News
8:00 Captain Kangaroo (behind the scenes at the Macy's Parade)
9:00 Thanksgiving Day Parades (coverage of the Macy's, J.L. Hudson (Detroit), Gimbels (Philadelphia), and Toronto Santa Claus parades)
noon NFL Pre-Game
12:15 NFL: Washington-Detroit
3:30 A Man Named Lombardi (George C. Scott narrates a profile of the legendary Packers coach)
4:30 Amazing World of Kreskin
4:55 Famous Classic Tales "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea"
5:55 Weather
6:00 News
7:00 CBS Evening News
7:30 To Tell the Truth
8:00 Waltons "The Substitute"
9:00 Movie "Duel at Diablo"
11:00 News
11:30 Movie "The Lost Continent"
WTHI 10-CBS Terre Haute
7:00 CBS Morning News
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Thanksgiving Day Parades (see ch 8 for info)
noon NFL Pre-Game
12:15 NFL: Washington-Detroit
3:30 Famous Classic Tales (the same program as ch 8 at 4:55)
4:30 Telescope
4:55 Merv Griffin (guests Dom DeLuise, Sally Field, and David Carradine)
5:55 Paul Harvey
6:00 News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 To Tell the Truth
7:30 Hollywood Squares
8:00 Waltons "The Substitute"
9:00 Movie "Duel at Diablo"
11:00 News
11:30 Movie "The Lost Continent"
WLWI 13-ABC Indianapolis
6:30 Perspective 13
7:00 Across the Fence
7:30 Agriscope
8:00 Kindergarten College
9:00 Paul Dixon
10:30 Phil Donahue (guest Della Reese)
11:30 Password
noon 50-50 Club Holiday Hello (includes a tribute to the Ruth Lyons Christmas Fund)
1:00 College Football Preview
1:15 College Football: Air Force-Notre Dame
4:30 Bonanza
5:30 Pilgrim Journey (re-creating the voyage of the Mayflower)
6:00 News
6:30 College Football: Alabama-LSU
9:30 Movie "The Man Who Wanted to Live Forever"
11:00 News
11:30 A Salute to Humble Howard (yeah, right
...Cosell gets slammed by MC David Steinberg and roasters Don Rickles, Steve Allen, Don Adams, Redd Foxx, Ted Knight, Muhammad Ali, Slappy White, Merlin Olsen, and Dr. Joyce Brothers)
1:00 News
WLFI 18-CBS Lafayette
7:00 CBS Morning News
8:00 Sesame Street
9:00 Thanksgiving Day Parades (see ch 8 for info)
noon NFL Pre-Game
12:15 NFL: Washington-Detroit
3:30 Famous Classic Tales (same as ch 8, 4:55pm)
4:30 Movie "The Bob Mathias Story" (bw)
6:30 News
7:00 CBS Evening News
7:30 Police Surgeon
8:00 Waltons "The Substitute"
9:00 Movie "Duel at Diablo"
11:00 News
11:30 Movie "The Lost Continent"
WFYI 20-PBS Indianapolis
10:00 Sesame Street (cameo by Joe Namath)
11:00 Electric Company (Hattie Winston illustrates the plural S by stuffing her gob with peanuts, cookies, and raisins)
11:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood (talking about motion)
noon Instructional Programs
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6:00 Zoo Time
6:30 Blackboard on Bridge
7:00 TBA
7:30 Book Beat (interviewing detective writer Rex Stout at his home in Brewster NY)
8:00 Godspell Goes to Plimoth Plantation (the Boston cast celebrates Thanksgiving)
8:30 Challenging Seasons (visiting the Arnold Arboretum, Boston)
9:00 Men Who Made the Movies (the films of Howard Hawks)
10:00 Conflicts (Hollywood Television Theatre presenting short plays) "The Man of Destiny"
WVUT 22-PBS Vincennes
5pm Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6:00 Sesame Street
7:00 Today on 22
7:15 22 Report
7:30 Vincennes Showcase (producer John Howard on the motion picture inductry)
8:00 Godspell Goes to Plimoth Plantation
8:30 Changing Seasons
9:00 Men Who Made the Movies
10:00 Vincennes Showcase (discussing pollution; guests includes members of Vincennes U's Reading Theatre)
10:30 Film
11:00 News
WTIU 30-PBS Bloomington
4pm Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6:00 Hodgepodge Lodge (about corn and its products)
6:30 Your Turn (citizens against porn)
7:00 Killers "Heart Disease: The 20th Century Epidemic"
8:30 Changing Seasons
9:00 Men Who Made the Movies
10:00 Speaking Freely
WIIL 38-ABC Terre Haute (recently returned to ABC as WAWV after being with Fox with 16 years)
8:30 New Zoo Revue
9:00 Jack LaLanne
9:30 Movie "Temptation" (bw)
11:30 Brady Bunch
noon Password
12:30 Split Second
1:00 College Football Preview
1:15 College Football: Air Force-Notre Dame
4:30 Name of the Game
6:00 ABC Evening News
6:30 College Football: Alabama-LSU
9:30 ABC News (rerun of ABC Evening News?)
10:00 Kopykats (premiere; Tony Curtis reprises his Cary Grant impression from Some Like It Hot and spoofs some of his other films, Marilyn Michaels sings a Lena Horne/Ray Charles medley, and George Kirby does a take-off of monster flicks; also appearing are Frank Gorshin, Rich Little, Joe Baker, and Fred Travalena)
11:00 Alfred Hitchcock (bw)
11:30 A Salute to Humble Howard
WHMB 40-Ind/Rel Indianapolis
5:30pm Black Buffalo
6:30 Fury (bw)
7:00 Spiritual Gifts
7:30 Voice of Calvary
8:00 Challenge
8:30 Good News
9:00 Lester Sumrall Presents
WIPB 49-PBS Muncie
3:15pm Music of Williamsburg
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6:00 Sesame Street
7:00 Gunsmith of Williamsburg
8:00 Godspell Goes to Plimoth Plantation
8:30 Changing Seasons
9:00 Men Who Made the Movies
10:00 Weather
The Hollywood stagehands strike could affect scheduling of live and taped programs
WTWO 2-NBC Terre Haute
7:00 Today (10th anniversary of JFK assassination)
9:00 Thanksgiving Day Parade (Macy's Parade from NYC)
noon Magic Man (Bill Bixby hosts a variety of magic acts including Marc Wilson (illusions), Jerry Bergman (pops ping-pong balls from his mouth), the Amazing Randi (straightjacket escape), and Peter Pitt (who has a dancing cane))
1:30 Alice Through the Looking Glass (a musical version from 1966 with Judi Rolin in the title role, and also featuring Agnes Moorhead (Red Queen), Jack Palance (Jabberwock), and Jimmy Durante (Humpty Dumpty))
3:00 NFL Pre-Game
3:30 NFL: Miami-Dallas
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 Truth or Consequences
7:30 Let's Make a Deal
8:00 Movie "My Fair Lady"
11:15 News
11:45 Tonight Show
WTTV 4-Ind Indianapolis
7:00 News
7:30 Janie
9:00 Movie "God is My Partner" (bw)
11:00 Second Cup Time
11:30 News
noon Chuckwagon Theater
1:00 Movie "The Adventures of Robin Hood"
3:00 Brady Bunch
3:30 Sergeant Preston
4:00 Debbie's Place
5:00 Flintstones
5:30 Green Acres
6:00 Beverly Hillbillies
6:30 Hogan's Heroes
7:00 Gomer Pyle, USMC
7:30 Andy Griffith
8:00 Truth or Consequences
8:30 What's My Line?
9:00 Merv Griffin (in Vegas with guests Abbe Lane, Shecky Greene, and Joe Louis)
10:30 News
11:00 Night Gallery
11:30 Twilight Zone (bw)
mid, Invaders
1:00 News
WRTV 6-NBC Indianapolis
6:15 Today in Indiana
7:00 Today
9:00 Thanksgiving Day Parade (Macy's)
noon Magic Man
1:30 Alice Through the Looking Glass
3:00 NFL Pre-Game
3:30 NFL: Miami-Dallas
6:30 News
7:00 NBC Nightly News
7:30 Wild, Wild World of Animals (impalas in East Africa)
8:00 Movie "My Fair Lady"
11:15 News
11:45 Tonight Show
1:15 Tomorrow
WISH 8-CBS Indianapolis
6:30 Sunrise Semester "Twentieth-Century Literature: Its Past and Present"
7:00 CBS Morning News
8:00 Captain Kangaroo (behind the scenes at the Macy's Parade)
9:00 Thanksgiving Day Parades (coverage of the Macy's, J.L. Hudson (Detroit), Gimbels (Philadelphia), and Toronto Santa Claus parades)
noon NFL Pre-Game
12:15 NFL: Washington-Detroit
3:30 A Man Named Lombardi (George C. Scott narrates a profile of the legendary Packers coach)
4:30 Amazing World of Kreskin
4:55 Famous Classic Tales "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea"
5:55 Weather
6:00 News
7:00 CBS Evening News
7:30 To Tell the Truth
8:00 Waltons "The Substitute"
9:00 Movie "Duel at Diablo"
11:00 News
11:30 Movie "The Lost Continent"
WTHI 10-CBS Terre Haute
7:00 CBS Morning News
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Thanksgiving Day Parades (see ch 8 for info)
noon NFL Pre-Game
12:15 NFL: Washington-Detroit
3:30 Famous Classic Tales (the same program as ch 8 at 4:55)
4:30 Telescope
4:55 Merv Griffin (guests Dom DeLuise, Sally Field, and David Carradine)
5:55 Paul Harvey
6:00 News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 To Tell the Truth
7:30 Hollywood Squares
8:00 Waltons "The Substitute"
9:00 Movie "Duel at Diablo"
11:00 News
11:30 Movie "The Lost Continent"
WLWI 13-ABC Indianapolis
6:30 Perspective 13
7:00 Across the Fence
7:30 Agriscope
8:00 Kindergarten College
9:00 Paul Dixon
10:30 Phil Donahue (guest Della Reese)
11:30 Password
noon 50-50 Club Holiday Hello (includes a tribute to the Ruth Lyons Christmas Fund)
1:00 College Football Preview
1:15 College Football: Air Force-Notre Dame
4:30 Bonanza
5:30 Pilgrim Journey (re-creating the voyage of the Mayflower)
6:00 News
6:30 College Football: Alabama-LSU
9:30 Movie "The Man Who Wanted to Live Forever"
11:00 News
11:30 A Salute to Humble Howard (yeah, right
...Cosell gets slammed by MC David Steinberg and roasters Don Rickles, Steve Allen, Don Adams, Redd Foxx, Ted Knight, Muhammad Ali, Slappy White, Merlin Olsen, and Dr. Joyce Brothers)1:00 News
WLFI 18-CBS Lafayette
7:00 CBS Morning News
8:00 Sesame Street
9:00 Thanksgiving Day Parades (see ch 8 for info)
noon NFL Pre-Game
12:15 NFL: Washington-Detroit
3:30 Famous Classic Tales (same as ch 8, 4:55pm)
4:30 Movie "The Bob Mathias Story" (bw)
6:30 News
7:00 CBS Evening News
7:30 Police Surgeon
8:00 Waltons "The Substitute"
9:00 Movie "Duel at Diablo"
11:00 News
11:30 Movie "The Lost Continent"
WFYI 20-PBS Indianapolis
10:00 Sesame Street (cameo by Joe Namath)
11:00 Electric Company (Hattie Winston illustrates the plural S by stuffing her gob with peanuts, cookies, and raisins)
11:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood (talking about motion)
noon Instructional Programs
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6:00 Zoo Time
6:30 Blackboard on Bridge
7:00 TBA
7:30 Book Beat (interviewing detective writer Rex Stout at his home in Brewster NY)
8:00 Godspell Goes to Plimoth Plantation (the Boston cast celebrates Thanksgiving)
8:30 Challenging Seasons (visiting the Arnold Arboretum, Boston)
9:00 Men Who Made the Movies (the films of Howard Hawks)
10:00 Conflicts (Hollywood Television Theatre presenting short plays) "The Man of Destiny"
WVUT 22-PBS Vincennes
5pm Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6:00 Sesame Street
7:00 Today on 22
7:15 22 Report
7:30 Vincennes Showcase (producer John Howard on the motion picture inductry)
8:00 Godspell Goes to Plimoth Plantation
8:30 Changing Seasons
9:00 Men Who Made the Movies
10:00 Vincennes Showcase (discussing pollution; guests includes members of Vincennes U's Reading Theatre)
10:30 Film
11:00 News
WTIU 30-PBS Bloomington
4pm Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6:00 Hodgepodge Lodge (about corn and its products)
6:30 Your Turn (citizens against porn)
7:00 Killers "Heart Disease: The 20th Century Epidemic"
8:30 Changing Seasons
9:00 Men Who Made the Movies
10:00 Speaking Freely
WIIL 38-ABC Terre Haute (recently returned to ABC as WAWV after being with Fox with 16 years)
8:30 New Zoo Revue
9:00 Jack LaLanne
9:30 Movie "Temptation" (bw)
11:30 Brady Bunch
noon Password
12:30 Split Second
1:00 College Football Preview
1:15 College Football: Air Force-Notre Dame
4:30 Name of the Game
6:00 ABC Evening News
6:30 College Football: Alabama-LSU
9:30 ABC News (rerun of ABC Evening News?)
10:00 Kopykats (premiere; Tony Curtis reprises his Cary Grant impression from Some Like It Hot and spoofs some of his other films, Marilyn Michaels sings a Lena Horne/Ray Charles medley, and George Kirby does a take-off of monster flicks; also appearing are Frank Gorshin, Rich Little, Joe Baker, and Fred Travalena)
11:00 Alfred Hitchcock (bw)
11:30 A Salute to Humble Howard
WHMB 40-Ind/Rel Indianapolis
5:30pm Black Buffalo
6:30 Fury (bw)
7:00 Spiritual Gifts
7:30 Voice of Calvary
8:00 Challenge
8:30 Good News
9:00 Lester Sumrall Presents
WIPB 49-PBS Muncie
3:15pm Music of Williamsburg
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6:00 Sesame Street
7:00 Gunsmith of Williamsburg
8:00 Godspell Goes to Plimoth Plantation
8:30 Changing Seasons
9:00 Men Who Made the Movies
10:00 Weather