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Retro:Cleveland/Akron/Canton, Ohio Saturday April 26, 1969

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Tim L

Source:TV Guide

All programs in color except those with BW designation.

WKYC 3 Cleveland NBC

6:30 Farm Front
7AM Popeye Theatre
9AM Super 6
9:30 Top Cat
10AM Flintstones
10:30 Banana Splits
11:30 Underdog
Noon Storybook Squares-Peter Marshall
12:30 Untamed World
1PM Maverick-BW
2PM Major League Baseball:Boston Red Sox At Detroit
5PM Suspense Theatre
6PM Cigarette Smoking-Study
6:30 NBC News-Huntley/Brinkley
7PM News
7:30 Bill Dana Special (Adam-12, Get Smart pre-empted)
8:30 Ghost and Mrs. Muir-Bill Bixby guest stars
9PM NBC Movie-The Pad (And How to use it)-1966
11PM News
11:20-Movie-Double Feature
Onionhead-1958-BW
Song Without End-1960-BW

WEWS 5 ABC

7AM-Gospel Hour
7:30 American Bandstand
8:30 Herald Of Truth
9AM Casper
9:30 Comedy Clubhouse
10AM SpiderMan
10:30 Fantastic Voyage
11AM Journey to the Center of the Earth
11:30 Fantastic Four
Noon Skippy The Bush Kangaroo
12:30 Sugarfoot-BW
1:30 77 Sunset Strip-BW (TV Guide designates it as COLOR, don't think this show was ever colorcast)
2:30 Wide World Of Sports
4PM Byron Nelson Golf Tournament
5PM Upbeat-Don Webster
6PM Man From UNCLE
7PM It's Academic
7:30 Dating Game
8PM Newlywed Game
8:30 Lawrence Welk
9:30 Hollywood Palace
10:30 Music-Variety
11PM News
11:30 Movie-Doctor In The House English-1955
2AM Sporting World

WJW 8 CBS

5:45 Across The Fence
6:15 RFD
6::30 Sunrise Semester
7AM Tom And Jerry
7:30 Aquaman
8AM Abbott And Costello (This might have been the Hanna-Barbera Cartoons-designated in color)
8:30 Bugs Bunny/Roadrunner
9:30 Wacky Races
10AM Archie
10:30 Batman/Superman Hour
11:30 Herculoids
Noon Shazzan!
12:30 Jonny Quest
1PM Sports World
1:15 Dugout Interviews
1:30 Baseball-Washington Senators at Cleveland Indians
4PM CBS Golf Classic
5:30 Wagon Train
7PM Death Valley Days
7:30 Jackie Gleasom
8:30 My Three Sons
9PM Hogan's Heroes
9:30 Petticoat Junction
10PM Mannix
11PM News
11:25 Movie-Double Feature
Breakout-1943-BW
Accused Of Murder-1957-BW
2:30 With This Ring


WJAN 17 Canton

4PM Movie-TBA
5:30 Theatre One-Anthology reruns-BW
6:30 Living Lessons
7PM Bill Anderson-Country Music-BW
7:30 Portrait-Lee Marvin
8:30 Profiles In Courage-BW
9:30 Sikkim-Profile of a small Himalayan country near Tibet-SPECIAL
10:30 Movie-Reptilicus-Danish 1961-BW

WAKR 23 Akron ABC

9AM Casper
9:30 Gulliver
10AM SpiderMan
10:30 Fantastic Voyage
11AM Journey to the Center of the Earth
11:30 Fantastic Four
Noon George Of The Jungle
12:30 American Bandstand
1:30 Happening-Music
2PM Mr. District Attorney-BW
2:30 Movie-Frenzy-1946
4PM Byron Nelson Golf
5PM Wide World Of Sports
6:30 Football-Highlight Show of some kind
7PM Country Music
7:30 Dating Game
8PM Newlywed Game
8:30 Lawrence Welk
9:30 Hollywood Palace
10:30 Movie-Tonight We Raid Calais-1943-BW
(Interrupted for 11:00 News)
1AM Movie-Secret Beyond The Door-1948

WVIZ 25 NET

No Programming Listed

WUAB 43 Lorain-Cleveland

11AM University Showcase
11:30 Bugs Bunny
Noon Cartoons
12:30 Gadabout Gaddis-Fishing
1PM Boxing
2:30 Pro Bowling
3:30 Roller Derby
5PM Wrestling
6PM Time Tunnel
7PM Movie-Egypt By Three-1954-BW
8:30 Movie-City For Conquest-1940=BW
10:30 Movie-The Mad Genius 1931-BW
12:35 Hugh Hefner

61 WKBF

10:30 Movie-Copper Sky 1957-BW
Noon Roller Derby
1PM Movie-Blondie Has Servant Trouble-1940-BW
2:30 Rawhide-BW
3:30 One Step Beyond-BW
4PM Twilight Zone-BW
4:30 Movie-Hurricane Island-1951 BW
6PM Wresrling
7PM I Love Lucy-BW
7:30 Movie-Invisible Creature-1961 BW
9PM Arrest And Trial-BW
10:30 Alan Douglas-Talk
 
77 Sunset Strip was a black and white show the entire time it was a series. Sometimes TV Guide did this, even Dennis The Menace was listed as a color program when it was a black and white show for all 4 years of the show.

However, The Man From U.N.C.L.E peaks of curiosity since the 1st season was in black and white and the rest of the series was in color. How did TV Guide determine which episode of Man From U.N.C.L.E was going to be used besides an episode synopsis? They could have aired a first season episode that day but TV Guide showed it in the listings as a color program.

And why did WEWS air American Bandstand at 7:30 AM in the morning? Was this a one week delay while the rest of the ABC stations that aired American Bandstand in pattern aired the live episode of the show?
 
As the Man from UNCLE went forward, the scripts got a bit more wild and unrealistic:

"Ilya clashes with the Captain of a ship carrying a THRUSH tidal wave machine" Thus this episode was probably after the first season..

As far as TV 5 carrying Bandstand at 7:30 AM..It was almost certainly a week delay..Plus they had their own dance show. (Upbeat)..WEWS had always been relatively independent as far a major network affiliates go anyway, routinely carrying a movie package locally during ABC Primetime in the 1960's and early 70's.
 
Love these old TV listings, thanks!

Now, 1969 is well before my time, but I can't help but to notice something about the Akron and Canton programming: there are two country music programs.

Can I assume that it was strictly a regional thing? My general social or historical perception is that folks living in the lakeshore counties (and Youngstown) might be more apt to want to watch something like a polka show...while in Akron/Canton/Ravenna/etc. there were many people who had come to find better work from WV and points south, and might enjoy country music more? Or is this totally off-base?

I grew up in Northern Summit County in the 80's/90's, so I got the best of both worlds. ;D
 
drbob932 said:
Now, 1969 is well before my time, but I can't help but to notice something about the Akron and Canton programming: there are two country music programs.

Can I assume that it was strictly a regional thing? My general social or historical perception is that folks living in the lakeshore counties (and Youngstown) might be more apt to want to watch something like a polka show...while in Akron/Canton/Ravenna/etc. there were many people who had come to find better work from WV and points south, and might enjoy country music more? Or is this totally off-base?
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I don't think so really. WJAN-17 and WAKR-23 had a number of the syndicated shows..(Wilburn Brothers, Pop Goes The Country, Porter Wagoner, Country Carnival, etc.).As time went by, WUAB-43 had some of these shows as well..17 even had a live Saturday night country show from some Canton bar..Also WSLR-AM 1350 was the Country Music Giant in the area..
 
A lot of people who became residents of the Akron/Canton area came from
WV and points south. This was due to the blossoming rubber industry which
had a lot of jobs available at the factories such as Goodyear and Firestone.
There was even an old joke that used to be popular about those days that
"Akron was the capitol of West Virginia".....
As a result, Channel 49 (23's predecessor) used to run shows like Ozark
Jubilee, Porter Wagoner, Grand Ol' Opry, and others to serve that sizeable
segment of audience.
 
You could have been in Dallas. WFAA didn't
run Bandstand at all (at least not in the '70s
and '80s).

If you think WEWS' scheduling of Bandstand
is bizarre, WVEC Norfolk, VA used to run Where
The Action Is at 8 AM (their kids' show Bungles
And His Friends aired at 4:30 PM, when Action
was on ABC).
 
While we're at it, Bandstand almost never ran in Boston - certainly not WNAC (now WHDH; 7 ran Charlie Chan movies in its place) nor WCVB (Candlepin Bowling aired for years in that time spot). I believe WSBK TV-38 had Bandstand briefly in the mid to late 1970s.
 
>>While we're at it, Bandstand almost never ran in Boston - certainly not WNAC (now WHDH; 7 ran Charlie Chan movies in its place) nor WCVB (Candlepin Bowling aired for years in that time spot). I believe WSBK TV-38 had Bandstand briefly in the mid to late 1970s.<<

WNAC-TV never ran Bandstand into the 1960's and 70's. The Channel 7/ABC affiliation was not exactly a "marriage made in heaven". WNAC had a pain in the a** tendency to delay or simply pre-empt a LOT of ABC programs. Case in point, afternoons from 2:00-6:00 PM, they ran Ed Miller's Dialing-For-Dollars Movie and Hank Bouchard's "Money Movie" instead of the ABC soaps or the game show line up (Dating Game and The Newlywed Game block which they ran on a tape delayed basis in the mornings). It wasn't until January 13, 1969, did Channel 7 finally run the very popular soap "Dark Shadows". WSBK-TV ran 1 week delayed Black and White kinescopes of the soap until Channel 7 finally ran the "live" (show was on tape) color feed from ABC at 4:00 PM. It was an instant hit. I was a big DS well before 1/13/69 fan by watching it in color on Channels 6 or 9. Channel 38's prints of the soap were pretty bad.

Now back to WHDH-TV Channel 5 and ABC.... while the original WHDH-TV (Channel 5) was an ABC affiliate (1957-1961), they DID run Bandstand with both the afternoon (weekday) and Saturday versions. WSBK-TV ran Bandstand in the 1966-1968 live from the network, as did WMUR-TV (Channel 9) and WTEV (Channel 6). I watched it on 38. 38 also ran Dick Clark's "It's Happening" (not the sit-com) back in 1968.
 
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