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Retro: Charlotte Friday, July 19, 1968

From The Charlotte Observer:

WBTV Ch. 3 (CBS)

6:20 Almanac
6:30 Melody Men
7 AM News
7:05 CBS News (Joseph Benti, repeated
at 7:30)
7:55 News
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Kirby's Corral (Charlotte kids'-show legend
Fred Kirby)
9:05 Love Of Life (delay from noon)
9:30 Merv Griffin
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies
11 AM Andy Griffith
11:30 Secret Storm (delay from 4 PM)
12 N Noon Report (Charlotte legend Ty Boyd)
12:25 Pat Lee (women's show)
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1 PM Betty Feezor
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
2:30 Art Linkletter's House Party
3 PM To Tell The Truth (Bud Collyer)
3:25 CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
3:30 Edge Of Night
4 PM Superman
4:30 Mike Douglas
6 PM News, Weather, Sports
6:25 Editorial
6:30 CBS News (Walter Cronkite)
7 PM Marshal Dillon (the half-hour "Gunsmoke"s)
7:30 Wild Wild West
8:30 Gomer Pyle, USMC
9 PM CBS Movie: "Your Cheatin' Heart" (George Hamilton
as Hank Williams)
11 PM Late Report
11:30 Late Show: "The Sun Also Rises"

WSOC Ch. 9 (NBC)

6:45 On The House
7 AM Today (Hugh Downs)
9 AM Today In The Carolinas
9:30 Girl Talk (Virginia Graham)
10 AM Snap Judgment (Ed McMahon)
10:25 NBC News (Sander Vanocur)
10:30 Concentration (Hugh Downs)
11 AM Personality (Larry Blyden)
11:30 Hollywood Squares (Peter Marshall--
don't have the guest list)
12 N Jeopardy! (Art Fleming)
12:30 Eye Guess (Bill Cullen)
12:55 NBC News (Edwin Newman)
1 PM Midday (another Charlotte legend, Jimmy Kilgo)
1:30 Let's Make A Deal (Monty Hall)
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 Clown Carnival (another kids'-show legend,
Brooks Lindsay)
4 PM Big Show (title not given)
6 PM Pulse News (co-anchor Jack Callaghan later became
WSOC's general manager; co-anchor Bill Walker was
Charlotte's longest-serving anchor, retiring only a few
years ago)
6:30 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7 PM The Monkees (delay from Mon 7:30)
7:30 Tarzan (Ron Ely)
8:30 Star Trek
9:30 Political Talk: Sen. Eugene McCarthy
10 PM What's Happening To America? (Edwin Newman
hosts a program about social unrest in this country,
talks with Mayor John Lindsay and RFK's press secretary
Frank Mankiewicz.)
11 PM News Final
11:30 Tonight Show (details not given)
1 AM Sugarfoot

WCCB Ch. 18 (ABC)

8:30 Bonnie Prudden (exercises)
9 AM Romper Room
10 AM Jack LaLanne
10:30 Dick Cavett
12 N Bewitched
12:30 Treasure Isle (John Bartholomew Tucker hosts
television's first outdoor game show, from the
Colonnades Beach Hotel in Palm Beach Shores, FL.)
1 PM Dream House (Mike Darrow, or Darow, not sure which)
1:30 It's Happening
1:55 Children's Doctor (Dr. Lendon Smith)
2 PM Newlywed Game (Bob Eubanks)
2:30 Dating Game (Jim Lange)
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 One Life To Live (completes its first week on the air)
4 PM Dark Shadows
4:30 Rocky And His Friends
5 PM Cowboy Bob
5:30 Uncle Waldo (originally "Hoppity Hooper" on ABC)
6 PM Trails West
6:30 ABC News (Frank Reynolds)
7 PM True (reruns of "GE True" with Jack Webb)
7:30 On Location (don't know what this was about)
8 PM PGA Championship (second-round highlights)
8:30 Man In A Suitcase (spy show produced in England)
9:30 Guns Of Will Sonnett
10 PM Judd For The Defense
11 PM Peter Gunn
11:30 Joey Bishop

WCTU (WCNC) Ch. 36 (Ind.)

3 PM Les Crane
3:55 News
4 PM Old Prospector (kids' show)
4:25 News Time
4:30 Cartoons
5:25 News
5:30 Early Show (title not given)
6:55 Financial Report
7 PM Movie: "Surprise Package"
9 PM Les Crane
10 PM News Watch
10:30 Late Show: "How To Murder A Rich
Uncle" (Charles Coburn, not the only
time he played such a part)
12 M News Final

WTVI Ch. 42 (NET)

4 PM Fashion (all that's given)
4:30 French Chef
5 PM Folk Guitar
5:30 Caverns (some kind of travelogue)
5:45 Destination
6 PM Yoga For Health
6:30 Spectrum
7 PM What's New
7:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
8 PM Perspective
8:30 Backstage
9 PM NET Playhouse: "Thirteen Against Fate:
The Widower"

WUNG Ch. 58 Concord, NC (NET)

5 PM What's New
5:30 Aspect (farm show)
6 PM News
6:15 Art Studio
6:30 Algebra (course offered through N.C. State)
7 PM Creative Person: "Georges Simenon" (French writer)
7:30 What's New
8 PM NET Playhouse: "Thirteen Against Fate: The Lodger"

(NET programs were usually bicycled in those days; no interconnected
network except for the "PBL" program on Sunday nights.)
 
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