Retro: Central Pennsylvania Thurs, Dec 8, 1966

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from TV Guide-Central Pennsylvania edition

KYW 3-NBC Philadelphia
5:55 Farm & Market News
6:00 Market News
6:05 On Stage: The Actor's Art (compares the proscenium stage and theater-in-the round)
6:35 Farm & Garden
6:45 News
7:00 Today (c/guests Ken Purdy (wrote a book on antique cars), and designer Emilio Pucci)
9:00 Contact (guest Dr. Timothy Leary)
9:55 News
10:00 Eye Guess (c)
10:25 NBC News (c)
10:30 Concentration (c)
11:00 Pat Boone (c/guest Shelley Berman)
11:30 Hollywood Squares (c)
noon News/Weather/Sports
12:30 Mike Douglas (co-host Edie Adams/guests not listed)
2:00 Days of Our Lives (c)
2:30 Doctors (c)
3:00 Another World (c)
3:30 You Don't Say! (c)
4:00 Match Game (c)
4:25 NBC News (c)
4:30 Merv Griffin (no info listed)
6:00 News
6:30 NBC News (c)
7:00 Mister Ed "Ed, the Beachcomber"
7:30 Daniel Boone (c)
8:30 Star Trek (c)
9:30 Hero (c)
10:00 Dean Martin (c/guests Robert Goulet, Gisele MacKenzie, Jonathan Winters, Rowan & Martin, and Dean's daughter Deana's TV debut)
11:00 News
11:30 Tonight Show (c/no info listed)
1:00 News

WFIL 6-ABC Philadelphia
6:05 News
6:15 RFD #6
6:30 Cartoon Carnival (c)
7:00 Wordland Workshop
7:30 Cartoon Circus (c)
9:00 Girl Talk
9:45 Schoolhouse (c)
10:00 Ben Casey
11:00 Supermarket Sweep
11:30 Dating Game
noon Movie "Wings and the Woman"
2:00 Newlywed Game
2:30 A Time for Us
2:55 ABC News
3:00 General Hospital
3:30 Nurses
4:00 Popeye Theater (c)
5:30 Movie "The Phony American"
7:00 News/Weather/Sports (c)
7:15 ABC News
7:30 Batman "The Bird's Last Jest" (c/conclusion)
8:00 F Troop (c)
8:30 Dating Game (c)
9:00 Bewitched (c)
9:30 That Girl (c)
10:00 Hawk (c)
11:00 News/Sports/Weather (c)
11:30 Movie "The Pirates of the Coast" (c)
1:25 Peter Gunn

WGAL 8-NBC Lancaster
7:00 Today (c)
9:00 Mike Douglas (no info listed)
10:00 Eye Guess (c)
10:25 NBC News (c)
10:30 Concentration (c)
11:00 Pat Boone (c)
11:30 Hollywood Squares (c)
noon Noonday on 8 (c)
12:30 Swingin' Country (c/guest Connie Smith)
12:55 NBC News (c)
1:00 Merv Griffin (no info listed)
1:30 Let's Make a Deal (c)
1:55 News
2:00 Days of Our Lives (c)
2:30 Doctors (c)
3:00 Another World (c)
3:30 You Don't Say! (c)
4:00 Match Game (c)
4:25 NBC News (c)
4:30 Mister Ed "Ed's Mother"
5:00 Woody Woodpecker (c)
5:30 Superman (c)
6:00 News/Weather/Sports (c)
6:30 NBC News (c)
7:00 Across the Seven Seas (c)
7:30 Daniel Boone (c)
8:30 Star Trek (c)
9:30 Hero (c)
10:00 Dean Martin (c)
11:00 News/Sports/Weather (c)
11:30 Tonight Show (c)
1:00 News

WCAU 10-CBS Philadelphia
5:40 News
5:45 Sunrise Semester
6:15 Fundamental French
6:45 Bill Bennett's Almanac (Ray Geiger and Paul Dobin looks at the Old Farmer's Almanac forecast for 1967)
7:00 News
7:05 CBS News (c)
7:30 Gene London
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Pixanne (c)
9:30 Dennis the Menace "Wilson Sleeps Over"
10:00 Candid Camera
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies (cameo from Bob Cummings)
11:00 Andy Griffith
11:30 Dick Van Dyke
noon Love of Life
12:25 CBS News (c)
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1:00 Leave It to Beaver
1:25 News (c)
1:30 As the World Turns
2:00 Password (c)
2:30 House Party (c/guests sociologist James Peterson and singer Bob Fletcher)
3:00 To Tell the Truth
3:25 CBS News (c)
3:30 Edge of Night
4:00 Secret Storm
4:30 Movie "Tarzan and the Lost Safari" (c)
6:00 News/Weather/Sports (c)
7:00 CBS News (c)
7:30 Jericho "Long Journey Across a Short Street" (c)
8:30 My Three Sons (c)
9:00 Glass Menagerie (c/pre-empts the CBS Thursday Night Movie)
11:00 News/Sports/Weather (c)
11:25 Movie "Jolson Sings Again" (c)
1:15 Movie "Decameron Nights"
2:55 News

Keystone Network: WLYH 15-Lancaster/Lebanon, WHP 21-Harrisburg, WSBA 43-York (CBS)
6:00 (21 only) Town & Country
6:30 (15/21 only) Sunrise Semester
7:00 (15/21 only) News
7:05 (15/21 only) CBS News (c)
7:30 Cartoons (c)
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 (15) Bob Keller
9:00 (21) Roundtable
9:00 (43) Breakfast Club
9:30 (21) Jack LaLanne
9:30 (43) Exercise for Health
10:00 Candid Camera
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies
11:00 Andy Griffith
11:30 Dick Van Dyke
noon Love of Life
12:25 CBS News (c)
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1:00 Girl Talk (toys are that day's topic with guests Antonio Fraser (author of History of Toys), consumer researcher Joy Temme, and toy manufacturer Lynn Pressman)
1:30 As the World Turns
2:00 Password (c)
2:30 House Party (c)
3:00 To Tell the Truth
3:25 CBS News (c)
3:30 Edge of Night
4:00 Secret Storm
4:30 Hopalong Cassidy
5:30 Santa Claus
6:00 News
6:30 CBS News (c)
7:00 Rifleman "Flowers by the Door"
7:30 Jericho "Long Journey Across a Short Street" (c)
8:30 My Three Sons (c)
9:00 Glass Menagerie (c)
11:00 News
11:30 Bill Veeck
mid. Movie "The Great Lie"

WNEP 16-ABC Scranton
8:00 Hatchy Milatchy
9:00 Where the Action is (guests Lee Mallory, Steve Alaimo, and the Hard Times)
9:30 Dialing for Dollars
10:00 Nurses
10:30 Dark Shadows
11:00 Supermarket Sweep
11:30 Dating Game
noon Donna Reed
12:30 Father Knows Best
1:00 Ben Casey
2:00 Newlywed Game
2:30 A Time for Us
2:55 ABC News
3:00 General Hospital
3:30 Mike Douglas (guests Tim Conway, Matt Monro, Dukes of Dixieland, Mary Hemingway (Ernest's wife), and Dorothy Sara)
5:00 Santa Claus
5:15 Cartoon Carousel (c)
5:30 Woody Woodpecker (c)
6:00 News
6:15 ABC News
6:30 Lawman "The Exchange"
7:00 Rifleman "Flowers by the Door"
7:30 Batman "The Bird's Last Jest" (c/conclusion)
8:00 F Troop (c)
8:30 Dating Game (c)
9:00 Bewitched (c)
9:30 That Girl (c)
10:00 Hawk (c)
11:00 News
11:30 Movie "Vengeance of Ursus"

WDAU 22-CBS Scranton
5:45 Sunrise Semester
6:15 Fundamental French
6:45 Bill Bennett's Almanac
7:00 News
7:05 CBS News (c)
7:55 Community Calendar
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Dennis the Menace "Dennis and the Signpost"
9:30 Nancy Dolphin
10:00 Candid Camera
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies
11:00 Andy Griffith
11:30 Dick Van Dyke
noon Love of Life
12:25 CBS News (c)
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1:00 Alfred Hitchcock "Final Arrangements"
1:30 As the World Turns
2:00 Password (c)
2:30 House Party (c)
3:00 To Tell the Truth
3:25 CBS News (c)
3:30 Edge of Night
4:00 Secret Storm
4:30 Merv Griffin (guests Eli Wallach, Anne Jackson (aka Mrs. Wallach), Robert Morley, Rocky Graziano, Tiger Hynes, Elaine Melbin, and Nai Bonet)
6:00 Honey West
6:30 CBS News (c)
7:00 News/Weather
7:30 Jericho "Long Journey Across a Short Street" (c)
8:30 My Three Sons (c)
9:00 Glass Menagerie (c)
11:00 News
11:35 Movie "Sentimental Journey"
1:10 News
1:15 Movie "The Big Combo"

WTPA 27-ABC Harrisburg
7:55 Bulletin Board
8:00 Caravan (c)
8:30 Fun Fair
8:45 King Leonardo
9:00 Romper Room (Miss Marcia Kaplan)
9:30 Movie "Tennessee Champ"
11:00 Supermarket Sweep
11:30 Dating Game
noon Donna Reed
12:30 Father Knows Best
1:00 Ben Casey
2:00 Newlywed Game
2:30 A Time for Us
2:55 ABC News
3:00 General Hospital
3:30 Nurses
4:00 Dark Shadows
4:30 Where the Action is (guests Paul Revere & the Raiders)
5:00 Cartoon Time
6:00 ABC News
6:15 News/Sports
6:30 Movie "It Happens Every Spring"
7:30 Batman "The Bird's Last Jest" (c/conclusion)
8:00 F Troop (c)
8:30 Dating Game (c)
9:00 Bewitched (c)
9:30 That Girl (c)
10:00 Hawk (c)
11:00 News
11:30 Movie (rerun of the morning movie)

WBRE 28-NBC Wilkes-Barre
6:30 Faith for Today (c)
7:00 Today (c)
9:00 Sea Hunt
9:30 Bat Masterson
10:00 Eye Guess (c)
10:25 NBC News (c)
10:30 Concentration (c)
11:00 Pat Boone (c)
11:30 Hollywood Squares (c)
noon Jeopardy (c)
12:30 Swingin' Country (c)
12:55 NBC News (c)
1:00 Highway Patrol
1:30 Let's Make a Deal (c)
2:00 Days of Our Lives (c)
2:30 Doctors (c)
3:00 Another World (c)
3:30 You Don't Say! (c)
4:00 Match Game (c)
4:25 NBC News (c)
4:30 Sea Hunt
5:00 Bachelor Father
5:30 Leave It to Beaver "Farewell to Penny"
6:00 News/Weather/Sports (c)
6:30 NBC News (c)
7:00 McHale's Navy
7:30 Daniel Boone (c)
8:30 Star Trek (c)
9:30 Hero (c)
10:00 Dean Martin (c)
11:00 News/Sports/Weather (c)
11:15 Tonight Show (c)

 

[azumanga]

WFIL 6-ABC Philadelphia
10:00 Hawk (c)

Was this Burt Reynolds' TV series? If so, I thought this was a black and white program? I recall NBC repeating "Hawk" around 1976-1977, and again in syndication in the 1980s -- in both instances, it was in black and white.

 

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WFIL 6-ABC Philadelphia
10:00 Hawk (c)

Was this Burt Reynolds' TV series? If so, I thought this was a black and white program? I recall NBC repeating "Hawk" around 1976-1977, and again in syndication in the 1980s -- in both instances, it was in black and white.

It is indeed Burt's series, TVG has it listed in color.

 

[bpatrick]

Save for an occasional movie all network primetime programming
was in color by this time.

 

[FreddyE1977]

TV Guide had an interesting definition of "Central Pennsylvania".
All of those places are pretty far to the east. When I think Central
Pennsylvania the Altoona-State College area comes to mind. And
perhaps Harrisburg.

 

[mleach]

TV Guide had an interesting definition of "Central Pennsylvania".
All of those places are pretty far to the east. When I think Central
Pennsylvania the Altoona-State College area comes to mind. And
perhaps Harrisburg.

Kinda like TV Guide's "central Virginia" edition and the lack of "central Virginia" stations such as Richmond's.

 

[bpatrick]

TV Guide had an interesting definition of "Central Pennsylvania".
All of those places are pretty far to the east. When I think Central
Pennsylvania the Altoona-State College area comes to mind. And
perhaps Harrisburg.

Central Pennsylvania, by TV Guide logic, also included all the New York
VHFs except Ch. 13. Johnstown-Altoona had its own edition, which, IIRC,
included Pittsburgh and Wheeling/Steubenville.

Probably Richmond could have been included as black-on-white channel "bullets"
in the Central Virginia edition (as Greensboro/Winston-Salem/High Point and
Raleigh/Durham were), but the way TV Guide divided the country, most of
Richmond's coverage area was in the eastern part of the state, overlapping
Norfolk in some cases, such as Williamsburg. Keep in mind that to qualify for
inclusion in a particular edition, a station had to reach 15% of that edition's
circulation area. The Richmond/Petersburg stations have a decent coverage
area to the west, but a lot of it is toward Charlottesville and Harrisonburg, which
were also placed in the Eastern Virginia Edition, rather than toward Lynchburg
and Roanoke.

Quite frankly, I've seen some Adelphia Cable editions whose channel lineups
make more sense; for example, Southwest Virginia included Roanoke/Lynchburg,
Bristol/Kingsport/Johnson City, Bluefield/Beckley/Oak Hill, and Greensboro/Winston-
Salem/High Point. Virginia-Carolina had Richmond, Norfolk, Raleigh/Durham, and
WITN and WNCT from Greenville/New Bern/Washington.

TV Guide's system of dividing the country was somewhat esoteric and not easy
to explain.

However, near the end of the digest-size TV Guide era, Norfolk, Richmond, Roanoke/
Lynchburg, Charlottesville, and Harrisonburg were combined into a new Virginia State
Edition. Bluefield and the North Carolina stations were dropped.

 

[mleach]

However, near the end of the digest-size TV Guide era, Norfolk, Richmond, Roanoke/
Lynchburg, Charlottesville, and Harrisonburg were combined into a new Virginia State
Edition. Bluefield and the North Carolina stations were dropped.

For some reason I seem to recall the Washington and most of the Baltimore stations were included in the Virginia state edition too.

I do remember what was the old Baltimore-Washington ecition was split between the two even though other than the cable conversion section I don't think there was any difference between the two as far as the actual listings were concerned.

 

[bpatrick]

Washington and Baltimore were not included in the 2004-05
Virginia State Edition, but you're right that the editions circulating
in Washington and Baltimore were the same except for the cable
conversion sections.

Another question: how is "Girl Talk" a 45-minute show on Ch. 6?
Assuming it's Virginia Graham's show, and I'm sure it is, it should
be only 30 minutes. What gives here?

 

[azumanga]

how is "Girl Talk" a 45-minute show on Ch. 6?
Assuming it's Virginia Graham's show, and I'm sure it is, it should
be only 30 minutes. What gives here?

Were they running "Dialing for Dollars" at the time? If so, that may explain the odd time slot.

 

[stdjsb25]

If I recall correctly, the "Star Trek" episode aired that night was "Balance of Terror", which introduced the Romulans, and Mark Lenard to the ST universe.

 

[mleach]

Washington and Baltimore were not included in the 2004-05
Virginia State Edition, but you're right that the editions circulating
in Washington and Baltimore were the same except for the cable
conversion sections.

The funny thing about these TV Guide listings, easy to overlook it now but back in the 60's thru the 90's, to have your own local edition of TV Guide for some folks ( mainly those who didn't have a life ) well it meant pretty much the same as having your own pro-sports team, the local airport becomes a hub, having your own Nordstrom, your own theme park..etc...it all meant BIG METRO AREA..YOU HAVE ARRIVED ! ! Back in the 70's I can remember when a handful of people who tried to get TV Guide to create a strictly Baltimore edition ( NO DC listings ) because they felt that by having a Baltimore and Washington sharing the same edition somehow it gave people the idea that both are "small towns". I can also remember that letter that appeared in TV Guide in the summer of 1984 from someone in Indianapolis who bitched because Indy was in the "Central Indiana" edition since these wasn't one strictly for Indianapolis. The letter writter wrote that since Indy has their own NFL football team for TV Guide not to offer a "Indianapolis metro " edition was a "slap in the face" to the viewers in Indy. Ah....hmmmmmm