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This was the day and place my parents were married! Although they've divorced in 1984, they're still on the best of terms with each other. Here is Chicago's TV schedule on that glorious "Summer of Love" day!
2 WBBM (CBS)
5:55 Early Report
6:00 Summer Semester
6:30 Computer Quiz
7:00 Captain Kangaroo (seen on Saturdays as well as weekdays from Jan. 7, 1956 to Sept. 7, 1968)
8:00 Mighty Mouse & the Mighty Heroes
8:30 Underdog
9:00 Frankenstein Jr. & the Impossibles
9:30 Space Ghost
10:00 New Adventures of Superman (cartoon)
10:30 Wonderful World (local children's program; pre-empting The Long Ranger cartoon to WMAQ Sunday at 11:30 AM)
11:00 Road Runner
11:30 The Beagles
NOON Noon Report
12:15 Lee Phillip
12:30 Wonderful World (replay)
1:00 Opportunity Line
1:30 Trial by Another Jury
2:00 Julius Sumner Miller
2:30 Dial M for Music
3:00 Repertoire Workshop
3:30 Dennis the Menace
4:00 Early Show (Movie): "Summer Love" (1958) - John Saxon, Jill St. John, Rod McKuen, Fay Wray
5:30 CBS Evening News - Roger Mudd
6:00 (WBBM) Evening News
6:30 Away We Go
7:30 Mission: Impossible
8:30 Pistols 'n' Petticoats
9:00 CBS Special: 16th Annual Miss Universe Pagaent - Hosts: Bob Barker (his first Miss Universe Pageant hosting), June Lockhart; Guest performer: Jean-Paul Vignon (French singer); from Miami Beach Auditorium; Winner: Sylvia Hitchcock (USA)
10:30 Big News
11:00 Best of CBS (Movie): "Smuggler's Island" (1951) - Jeff Chandler, Evelyn Keyes
12:35 Night Edition
12:40 At Random
3:10 Late Report
5 WMAQ (NBC)
7:00 Kat Tales
7:30 Roy Rogers
8:00 Super 6
8:30 Atom Ant
9:00 Flinststones
9:30 Space Kidettes
10:00 Secret Squirrel
10:30 Jetsons
11:00 Cool McCool
11:30 Lloyd Thaxton - Guests: Chad & Jeremy
12:30 Capture
1:00 Laramie
2:00 It's Academic - Competing high schools: Munster, Whiting, and Isaac C. Elston (Michigan City), all in Indiana
2:30 Frank McGee
3:00 Sandy Koufax
3:15 Major League Baseball: Houston Astros vs. San Francisco Giants
6:00 Chicago Report
6:30 Flipper
7:00 Please Don't Eat the Daisies
7:30 Get Smart
8:00 NBC Saturday Night at the Movies: "The Proud and Profane" (1956) - William Holden, Deborah Kerr, Thelma Ritter
10:15 Night Report
10:45 Movie Five: "Circus of Horrors" (1960) - Anton Diffring, Erika Remberg, Yvonne Monlaur
12:30 Midnight Movie: "House on Haunted Hill" (1959) - Vincent Price, Carol Ohmart
7 WBKB (ABC)
6:55 Reflections
7:00 Courageous Cat
8:00 Beany & Cecil
8:30 Porky Pig
9:00 King Kong (cartoon)
9:30 British Open Golf Tournament Finals - from Liverpool
11:00 Bugs Bunny
11:30 Magilla Gorilla
NOON Hoppity Hooper
12:30 American Bandstand - Guests: Tommy Roe, The Impressions
1:30 Big Show (Movie): "Partners in Crime" (1962) - Bernard Lee, Moira Redmond
2:30 British Open Golf Highlights
3:30 Sam Snead
4:00 ABC's Wide World of Sports - Events: Grand Prix of France (LeMans), AAU Women's Platform Diving Championship (Arlington, TX), National Trophy Motorcycle Race (Gardena, CA)
5:30 News Hour
6:00 Passage to Adventure: "Afghanistan"
6:30 Dating Game
7:00 Newlywed Game
7:30 Lawrence Welk: "Musical Tour of Italy"
8:30 Picadilly Palace (US title for the British "Two of a Kind" variety series) - Hosted by Morecambe & Wise; Regular performer: Millicent Martin; Guests: Frankie Avalon, New Vaudeville Band ("Winchester Cathedral")
9:30 American Swingaround - Guests: Claude King, Linda Gayle
10:00 ABC Weekend News - Keith McBee
10:15 NewsNight
10:30 Harness Racing From Sportsman's Park (Cicero, IL): Governor's Cup
11:00 Kup's Show - Guests: Jacqueline Susann ("Valley of the Dolls" author), Dick Kallman
2:00 Reflections
9 WGN (Ind.)
7:00 Gene Autry
7:30 Dick Tracy
8:00 Three Stooges
9:00 Superman
9:30 Marvel Superheroes
10:00 Morning Movie: "Gang Busters" (1955) - Myron Healey, Don Harvey
11:45 Your Senator's Report
NOON Your Right to Say It - Subject: "A Look at Cook County Problems"; Guest: Richard B. Ogilvie, President of the Cook County Board of Commissioners (Governor of Illinois 1969-73)
12:30 Silents Please: "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" (1920) - John Barrymore, Nita Naldi
1:00 Leadoff Man
1:10 White Sox Baseball: hosting California Angels
3:40 Tenth Inning
3:55 Outdoor World
4:00 True Adventure: "Underwarer Safari"
4:30 Science Fiction Theater
5:00 The Detectives
5:30 Midwest Hayride
6:00 Mr. Ed
6:30 Zorro
7:00 Bogart: "The Two Mrs. Carrolls" (1947) - Bogart's co-stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Alexis Smith
9:00 NFL Special: "Ten Thousand to One" - A look at the odds of successfully making the NFL draft and its process.
9:30 Let's Go to the Races
10:00 Tenth Hour News
10:15 WGN Presents: "About Face" (1952) - Gordon MacRae, Eddie Bracken, Virginia Gibson
12:10 Late Movie: "Golden Boy" (1939) - William Holden, Barbara Stanwyck, Adolphe Menjou
11 WTTW (NET)
No Saturday Programming
26 WCIU (Ind.)
NOON Luis Carlos Uribe (Spanish)
12:30 Luis Uribe Comedy (Spanish)
2:00 Luis Uribe Drama (Spanish)
3:00 Western Double Feature: "The Timber Trail" (1948) - Monte Hale, Lynne Roberts, James Burke
4:00 "Rough Riders of Cheyenne" (1945) - Sunset Carson, Peggy Stewart, Mira McKinney, Monte Hale
5:00 Swingin' Majority
6:00 The Buccaneers
6:30 Today's Racing
6:45 Cinema Special
7:00 Roller Derby
8:00 Bullfights (from Mexico City; met with controversy by US standards)
10:00 Marty Faye
32 WFLD (Ind.)
5:00 (PM) Trails West
5:30 Fractured Flickers
6:00 Upbeat
7:00 Polka Varieties
8:00 Bowling
10:00 Newscope Ten
10:15 Firing Line
11:15 Men in Crisis: "Truman vs. Stalin: The Potsdam Encounter"
11:45 Newscope Final
2 WBBM (CBS)
5:55 Early Report
6:00 Summer Semester
6:30 Computer Quiz
7:00 Captain Kangaroo (seen on Saturdays as well as weekdays from Jan. 7, 1956 to Sept. 7, 1968)
8:00 Mighty Mouse & the Mighty Heroes
8:30 Underdog
9:00 Frankenstein Jr. & the Impossibles
9:30 Space Ghost
10:00 New Adventures of Superman (cartoon)
10:30 Wonderful World (local children's program; pre-empting The Long Ranger cartoon to WMAQ Sunday at 11:30 AM)
11:00 Road Runner
11:30 The Beagles
NOON Noon Report
12:15 Lee Phillip
12:30 Wonderful World (replay)
1:00 Opportunity Line
1:30 Trial by Another Jury
2:00 Julius Sumner Miller
2:30 Dial M for Music
3:00 Repertoire Workshop
3:30 Dennis the Menace
4:00 Early Show (Movie): "Summer Love" (1958) - John Saxon, Jill St. John, Rod McKuen, Fay Wray
5:30 CBS Evening News - Roger Mudd
6:00 (WBBM) Evening News
6:30 Away We Go
7:30 Mission: Impossible
8:30 Pistols 'n' Petticoats
9:00 CBS Special: 16th Annual Miss Universe Pagaent - Hosts: Bob Barker (his first Miss Universe Pageant hosting), June Lockhart; Guest performer: Jean-Paul Vignon (French singer); from Miami Beach Auditorium; Winner: Sylvia Hitchcock (USA)
10:30 Big News
11:00 Best of CBS (Movie): "Smuggler's Island" (1951) - Jeff Chandler, Evelyn Keyes
12:35 Night Edition
12:40 At Random
3:10 Late Report
5 WMAQ (NBC)
7:00 Kat Tales
7:30 Roy Rogers
8:00 Super 6
8:30 Atom Ant
9:00 Flinststones
9:30 Space Kidettes
10:00 Secret Squirrel
10:30 Jetsons
11:00 Cool McCool
11:30 Lloyd Thaxton - Guests: Chad & Jeremy
12:30 Capture
1:00 Laramie
2:00 It's Academic - Competing high schools: Munster, Whiting, and Isaac C. Elston (Michigan City), all in Indiana
2:30 Frank McGee
3:00 Sandy Koufax
3:15 Major League Baseball: Houston Astros vs. San Francisco Giants
6:00 Chicago Report
6:30 Flipper
7:00 Please Don't Eat the Daisies
7:30 Get Smart
8:00 NBC Saturday Night at the Movies: "The Proud and Profane" (1956) - William Holden, Deborah Kerr, Thelma Ritter
10:15 Night Report
10:45 Movie Five: "Circus of Horrors" (1960) - Anton Diffring, Erika Remberg, Yvonne Monlaur
12:30 Midnight Movie: "House on Haunted Hill" (1959) - Vincent Price, Carol Ohmart
7 WBKB (ABC)
6:55 Reflections
7:00 Courageous Cat
8:00 Beany & Cecil
8:30 Porky Pig
9:00 King Kong (cartoon)
9:30 British Open Golf Tournament Finals - from Liverpool
11:00 Bugs Bunny
11:30 Magilla Gorilla
NOON Hoppity Hooper
12:30 American Bandstand - Guests: Tommy Roe, The Impressions
1:30 Big Show (Movie): "Partners in Crime" (1962) - Bernard Lee, Moira Redmond
2:30 British Open Golf Highlights
3:30 Sam Snead
4:00 ABC's Wide World of Sports - Events: Grand Prix of France (LeMans), AAU Women's Platform Diving Championship (Arlington, TX), National Trophy Motorcycle Race (Gardena, CA)
5:30 News Hour
6:00 Passage to Adventure: "Afghanistan"
6:30 Dating Game
7:00 Newlywed Game
7:30 Lawrence Welk: "Musical Tour of Italy"
8:30 Picadilly Palace (US title for the British "Two of a Kind" variety series) - Hosted by Morecambe & Wise; Regular performer: Millicent Martin; Guests: Frankie Avalon, New Vaudeville Band ("Winchester Cathedral")
9:30 American Swingaround - Guests: Claude King, Linda Gayle
10:00 ABC Weekend News - Keith McBee
10:15 NewsNight
10:30 Harness Racing From Sportsman's Park (Cicero, IL): Governor's Cup
11:00 Kup's Show - Guests: Jacqueline Susann ("Valley of the Dolls" author), Dick Kallman
2:00 Reflections
9 WGN (Ind.)
7:00 Gene Autry
7:30 Dick Tracy
8:00 Three Stooges
9:00 Superman
9:30 Marvel Superheroes
10:00 Morning Movie: "Gang Busters" (1955) - Myron Healey, Don Harvey
11:45 Your Senator's Report
NOON Your Right to Say It - Subject: "A Look at Cook County Problems"; Guest: Richard B. Ogilvie, President of the Cook County Board of Commissioners (Governor of Illinois 1969-73)
12:30 Silents Please: "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" (1920) - John Barrymore, Nita Naldi
1:00 Leadoff Man
1:10 White Sox Baseball: hosting California Angels
3:40 Tenth Inning
3:55 Outdoor World
4:00 True Adventure: "Underwarer Safari"
4:30 Science Fiction Theater
5:00 The Detectives
5:30 Midwest Hayride
6:00 Mr. Ed
6:30 Zorro
7:00 Bogart: "The Two Mrs. Carrolls" (1947) - Bogart's co-stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Alexis Smith
9:00 NFL Special: "Ten Thousand to One" - A look at the odds of successfully making the NFL draft and its process.
9:30 Let's Go to the Races
10:00 Tenth Hour News
10:15 WGN Presents: "About Face" (1952) - Gordon MacRae, Eddie Bracken, Virginia Gibson
12:10 Late Movie: "Golden Boy" (1939) - William Holden, Barbara Stanwyck, Adolphe Menjou
11 WTTW (NET)
No Saturday Programming
26 WCIU (Ind.)
NOON Luis Carlos Uribe (Spanish)
12:30 Luis Uribe Comedy (Spanish)
2:00 Luis Uribe Drama (Spanish)
3:00 Western Double Feature: "The Timber Trail" (1948) - Monte Hale, Lynne Roberts, James Burke
4:00 "Rough Riders of Cheyenne" (1945) - Sunset Carson, Peggy Stewart, Mira McKinney, Monte Hale
5:00 Swingin' Majority
6:00 The Buccaneers
6:30 Today's Racing
6:45 Cinema Special
7:00 Roller Derby
8:00 Bullfights (from Mexico City; met with controversy by US standards)
10:00 Marty Faye
32 WFLD (Ind.)
5:00 (PM) Trails West
5:30 Fractured Flickers
6:00 Upbeat
7:00 Polka Varieties
8:00 Bowling
10:00 Newscope Ten
10:15 Firing Line
11:15 Men in Crisis: "Truman vs. Stalin: The Potsdam Encounter"
11:45 Newscope Final