Retro: Central Pennsylvania Wed, Dec 7, 1966

[Bluenoser]

from TV Guide-Central Pennsylvania edition

KYW 3-NBC Philadelphia
5:55 Farm & Market News
6:00 News
6:30 On Stage: The Actor's Art "Vocal Projection"
6:35 Farm & Garden
6:45 News
7:00 Today (c/guests the One and Two-Thirds (musical comedy), Fred J. Cook (who wrote a book on crime syndicates), and Scotland Yard Commissioner Sir George Simpson)
9:00 Contact (guest Josette Frank of the Child Study Association of NY on teaching kids to read, host Tom Snyder)
9:55 News (Lou Davis)
10:00 Eye Guess (c)
10:25 NBC News (c)
10:30 Concentration (c)
11:00 Pat Boone (c/guests Shelley Berman and Julian Lee)
11:30 Hollywood Squares (c)
noon News/Weather/Sports
12:30 Mike Douglas (co-host Edie Adams)
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
6:00 News
6:30 NBC News (c)
7:00 Zorro "The Flaming Arrow"
7:30 Hallmark Hall of Fame "Blithe Spirit" (c/pre-empts Virginian)
9:00 Bob Hope "Storm Crossing" (c)
10:00 I Spy (c)
11:00 News
11:30 Tonight Show (c)
1:00 News

WFIL 6-ABC Philadelphia
6:05 News (Wes Sarginson)
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 (listed as the same one that aired at 1 on 16/27)
11:00 Supermarket Sweep
11:30 Dating Game
noon Movie "The Falcon in San Francisco"
1:30 Television Kitchen (c/Florence P. Hanford cooks Christmas dinner)
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 "King of the Vikings" (c)
7:00 News/Weather/Sports (c)
7:15 ABC News
7:30 Batman "The Penguin's Nest" (c/pt 1)
8:00 Saga of Western Man "Christ is Born" (c/re-enactment of the Nativity filmed in the Holy Land; pre-empts Monroes)
9:00 Bridgehampton '66 (c/Bridgehampton Grand Prix auto race highlights, taped in September)
9:30 Peyton Place (c)
10:00 ABC Stage 67 "On the Flip Side" (c/Ricky Nelson plays a fading rocker in dire need of a musical reboot)
11:00 News/Sports/Weather (c)
11:30 Movie "Cleo from 5 to 7"
1:10 Peter Gunn "Protection"

WGAL 8-NBC Lancaster
7:00 Today (c)
9:00 Mike Douglas
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 Bobby Vee)
12:55 NBC News (c)
1:00 Merv Griffin
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 "Missing Statue"
5:00 Huckleberry Hound (c)
5:30 Littlest Hobo "Hold Back the Stork"
6:00 News/Weather/Sports (c)
6:30 NBC News (c)
7:00 McHale's Navy "Three Girls on an Island"
7:30 Hallmark Hall of Fame "Blythe Spirit" (c)
9:00 Bob Hope "Storm Crossing" (c)
10:00 I Spy (c)
11:00 News/Weather/Sports (c)
11:30 Tonight Show (c)
1:00 News

WCAU 10-CBS Philadelphia
5:45 Sunrise Semester
6:15 History of the Theater
6:45 Bill Bennett's Almanac "Rutgers Newsreel"
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 "Woodman, Spare That Tree"
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 Leave It to Beaver
1:25 News (c/Rogers)
1:30 As the World Turns
2:00 Password (c)
2:30 House Party (c/concluding a show featuring women prominent in foreign TV)
3:00 To Tell the Truth
3:25 CBS News (c)
3:30 Edge of Night
4:00 Secret Storm
4:30 Movie "The Princess and the Pirate" (c)
6:00 News/Weather/Sports (c)
7:00 CBS News (c)
7:30 Lost in Space "A Visit to Hades" (c)
8:30 Beverly Hillbillies (c)
9:00 Frank Sinatra: A Man & His Music-Part II (c/Ol' Blue Eyes is joined by daughter Nancy, Nelson Riddle, and Gordon Jenkins)
10:00 Danny Kaye (c/guests Shirley Jones, Victoria Meyerink, and Segio Mendes & Brasil '66)
11:00 News/Sports/Weather (c)
11:25 Movie "The Fighting Seebees"
1:20 Movie "Sword of Venus"
2:45 News

Keystone Network: WLYH 15-Lancaster/Lebanon, WHP 21-Harrisburg, WSBA 43-York (CBS)
6:00 (21) Town & Country
6:30 (15-21) Sunrise Semester
7:00 (15-21) News
7:05 (15-21) CBS News (c)
7:30 (15-21) Cartoons (c)
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 (15) Bob Keller
9:00 (21) Roundtable (John Price)
9:00 (43) Breakfast Club
9:30 (21) Jack LaLanne
9:30 (43) Farm, Home & Garden
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 (guests Vivian Vance, Jane Kean, and Kathryn Murray)
1:30 As the World Turns
2:00 Password (c)
2:30 House Party (c)
3:00 To Tell the Truth (c)
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 "The Princess"
7:30 Lost in Space "A Visit to Hades" (c)
8:30 Beverly Hillbillies (c)
9:00 Frank Sinatra: A Man & His Music-Part II (c)
10:00 Danny Kaye (c)
11:00 News
11:30 Bill Veeck
mid. Movie "Footsteps in the Dark"

WNEP 16-ABC Scranton
8:00 Hatchy Milatchy
9:00 Where the Action is (guests J.J. Jackson and Johnny Tillotson)
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 Joan Rivers, the Platters, champion skiier Karl Schranz, and astronomer I.M. Levitt)
5:00 Santa Claus
5:15 Cartoon Carousel (c)
5:30 Huckleberry Hound (c)
6:00 News
6:15 ABC News
6:30 Night at the Races (c)
7:00 Rifleman "Death Never Rides Alone"
7:30 Batman "The Penguin's Nest" (c/pt 1)
8:00 Saga of Western Man "Christ is Born" (c)
9:00 Movie "Alcatraz Express"
11:00 News
11:30 Movie "Girls in Prison"

WDAU 22-CBS Scranton
5:45 Sunrise Semester
6:15 History of the Theater
6:45 Bill Bennett's Almanac "Rutgers Newsreel"
7:00 Community Calendar
7:05 CBS News (c; 50 min)
7:55 Community Calendar
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Dennis the Menace "Dennis Goes to the Movies"
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 "The Gloating Place"
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 Rossano Brazzi, Henry Morgan, London Lee, Linda Bennett, Baby Jane Holzer, and Beverly Hecht)
6:00 Have Gun-Will Travel
6:30 CBS News (c)
7:00 News/Weather
7:30 Lost in Space "A Visit to Hades" (c)
8:30 Beverly Hillbillies (c)
9:00 Frank Sinatra: A Man & His Music-Part II (c)
10:00 Danny Kaye (c)
11:00 News
11:35 Movie "The Immortal Sergeant"
1:10 News (Bill White)
1:15 Movie "Tarawa Beachhead"

WTPA 27-ABC Harrisburg
7:55 Bulletin Board
8:00 Caravan (c)
8:30 Fun Fair
8:45 King Leonardo
9:00 Romper Room (Marcia Kaplan)
9:30 Movie "Sky Full of Moon"
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 Tommy Roe and Tina Mason)
5:00 Cartoon Time
6:00 ABC News
6:15 News/Sports
6:30 Movie "Dreamboat" (conclusion)
7:30 Batman "The Penguin's Nest" (c/pt 1)
8:00 Saga of Western Man "Christ is Born" (c)
9:00 Man Who Never Was
9:30 Peyton Place (c)
10:00 ABC Stage 67 "On the Flip Side" (c)
11:00 News
11:30 Movie (re-run of the morning movie)

WBRE 28-NBC Wilkes-Barre
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)
1:55 NBC News (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 "Wally's Chauffeur"
6:00 News/Weather/Sports (c)
6:30 NBC News (c)
7:00 McHale's Navy
7:30 Hallmark Hall of Fame "Blithe Spirit" (c)
9:00 Bob Hope "Storm Crossing" (c)
10:00 I Spy (c)
11:00 News/Sports/Weather (c)
11:15 Tonight Show (c)

 

[FreddyE1977]

For those of you not from the Keystone State, around here Central Pennsylvania means "East".

The middle of the state (State College, Altoona) is "West".

Out here in the real Western part of PA we are "Hillbilly Holler" "East Ohio", or "Some mis-located part of West Virginia". ;D

 

[bpatrick]

I remember catching the rerun of "On The Flip Side" on
"ABC Stage 67" during my spring break in 1967. I liked
the music and even bought the soundtrack album; there
was one song I particularly liked, called "They Don't Give
Medals To Yesterday's Heroes." While none of the songs
ever charted, it is a very minor piece of TV history: Ricky
Nelson away from Ozzie and Harriet. But then again, he
already had a pretty successful singing career.

Anyway, if you can find it on Ebay, try to get it; it's not
a bad album.

BTW, I could start a whole thread on "ABC Stage 67," given
that it wasn't exactly what fans of the playhouse shows of
the '50s were expecting; you might get Shakespeare one week,
Truman Capote another, Dick Cavett another, and Ricky Nelson
a fourth. Also, the show smacked too much of Broadway when
the television action had long since moved to L.A. ABC finally
got the message, laid low for a couple of years while NBC presented
its "World Premiere" made-for-TV movies, then altered the concept
of "Stage 67" into "Movie Of The Week," which was a big hit.

 

[spencerkarter85]

What year did WFIL (now WPVI) started to clear DARK SHADOWS? Ironcially, the late great actors Grayson Hall and Dennis Patrick were from Philly.

 

[ixnay]

Bluenoser, thanks for jogging my memory, as I *vaguely, VAGUELY* remember TV Kitchen on Ch. 6 (back when my parents were still married [I turned 5yo in '66 and my first memory of the Beatles was as Sat. morning 'toon characters on ABC, but that's another thread]).

Also, anyone who can answer, did Floyd Kalber or Nancy Dickerson anchor the NBC News updates at 10:25 and 4:25? I vaguely remember them doing so. (A few years ago, I did watch online an old WMAQ 10:00p CT newscast of Kalber's. I assume Kalber did his updates on the network from Chicago. Did Dickerson?)

ixnay

 

[wbhist]

Anyone who can answer, did Floyd Kalber or Nancy Dickerson anchor the NBC News updates at 10:25 and 4:25? I vaguely remember them doing so. (A few years ago, I did watch online an old WMAQ 10:00p CT newscast of Kalber's. I assume Kalber did his updates on the network from Chicago. Did Dickerson?)

As of December 1966, the five-minute NBC News updates in the daytime were anchored by the following:
10:25 A.M. - Sander Vanocur (in color)
12:55 P.M. - Edwin Newman (presumably in B&W, if TV Guide is of any indication; preempted in Philadelphia due to KYW's airing The Mike Douglas Show from 12:30-2 P.M.)
1:55 P.M. - Nancy Dickerson (in color; likewise preempted in Philly because of Douglas)
4:25 P.M. - Floyd Kalber (in color, indeed from Chicago)

By 1967-68, the 1:55 P.M. edition was ixnayed and Ms. Dickerson replaced Mr. Vanocur on the 10:25 A.M. 'cast, where she would remain up to her departure from the network in 1970.

Oh, and what was called "ABC News" at 2:55 P.M. on WFIL was actually News with the Woman's Touch, sponsored by Purex and anchored by Marlene Sanders.