Retro:Cleveland/Akron Friday, January 19, 1968

[TimL]

Source:Cleveland Plain Dealer

Because of a mistake with the Microfilm printer at the Cleveland Public Library, The schedule only runs 8AM-8:30 PM. This date is notable for the first day of broadcasting for WKBF-TV Channel 61

WKYC-3 NBC

8AM Today (From 7AM)
9AM Mike Douglas
10AM Snap Judgment
10:25 NBC News
10:30 Concentration
11AM Personality
11:30 Hollywood Squares
Noon Jeopardy
12:30 Eye Guess
12:55 News
1PM 3 On the Town-Interview show
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 Doctors
3PM Another World
3:30 You Don't Say
4PM Match Game
4:25 NBC News
4:30 PDQ
5PM Movie-BW-"The Mob"
6:30 Huntley/Brinkley
7PM News Dominic/Kinnan/Graner
7:30 World Of Horses
8:30 Star Trek

WEWS-5 ABC

8AM TBA (I think Cartoons)
8:30 Romper Room
9AM Fugitive-BW
10AM Paige Palmer
10:30 Donna Reed-BW
11AM Temptation
11:25 Family Doctor
11:30 News-Dorothy Fuldheim Commentary
Noon Bewitched
12:30 Pat Boone-Syndicated
1:30 Treasure Isle
2PM Newlywed Game
2:30 Baby Game
2:55 ABC News
3PM General Hospital
3:30 Dark Shadows
4PM Comedy Clubhouse-Capt. Penny
5PM Merv Griffin
6:30 ABC News
7PM News
7:30 Movie-BW-"Jet Over Atlantic"

WJW-8 CBS

8AM Captain Kangaroo
9AM Franz The Toymaker-Children
10AM Love Of Life
10:25 News
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies-BW
11AM Andy Griffith-BW
11:30 Dick Van Dyke-BW
Noon City Camera News
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1PM Divorce Court
1:30 As The World Turns
2PM Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
2:30 House Party
3PM To Tell The Truth
3:25 CBS News
3:30 Edge Of Night
4PM Secret Storm
4:30 Candid Camera-BW
5PM Adventure Road-Travel
6PM City Camera News
6:30 CBS News-Cronkite
7PM Truth Or Consequences
7:30 Wild Wild West
8:30 Gomer Pyle

WAKR-23 ABC Akron

10AM Ed Allen Time-Exercise
10:30 Women's Page-BW
11AM Temptation
11:30 How's Your Mother In Law-BW
Noon Bewitched-BW
12:30 Treasure Isle-BW
1PM Fugitive-BW
2PM Newlywed Game
2:30 Baby Game
2:55 ABC News
3PM General Hospital-BW
3:30 Dark Shadows
4PM Dating Game
4:30 Donna Reed-BW
5PM Tony-Tiger-BW (No clue what this is)
5:30 Sea Hunt-BW
6PM ABC News-Bob Young
6:30 Sports-Stocks-Weather-BW
7PM News-BW
7:15 Women's Page-BW
7:30 Off To See The Wizard
8:30 Operation:Entertainment

WVIZ-25 NET

Nearly all Channel 25 programming is in Black and White

8:30 College Guide
9AM Look Around
9:30 News
9:45 Science
10:15 Neighbors
10:45 Word Magic
11AM Let's Talk
11:30 Kindergarten
Noon Breakthru
12:30 College Guide
1PM En France
1:15 Breakthru
1:45 Art
2PM Careers
2:15 Places In The News
2:45 Let's Talk
3PM College Guide
3:30 Research
3:45 Discover (Color?) Only program not designated as BW-may be a typo
4:30 For Health
5PM Eugenia Thornton
5:30 Kindergarten
6PM What's New?
6:30 The Answer
7PM Folk Guitar
7:30 NET Festival
8:30 NET Playhouse

WKBF-61 IND

10AM Jack LaLanne
10:30 Carlton Fredricks
11AM Girl Talk-Virginia Graham
11:30 Gypsy Rose Lee
Noon Cartoons
1PM Movie-BW-Apartment For Peggy
3PM Mr. Ed-BW
3:30 Captain Cleveland-Costumed kids show host
5PM Superman
5:30 Eighth Man
6PM Flintstones
6:30 McHale's Navy
7PM Twilight Zone-BW
7:30 I Love Lucy-BW
8PM Hazel
8:30 Woody Woodbury





<P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by TimL on 12/30/05 08:55 PM.</FONT></P>

 

[mjlarochelle]

> WKBF-61 IND
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> 10AM Jack LaLanne
> 10:30 Carlton Fredricks
> 11AM Girl Talk-Virginia Graham
> 11:30 Gypsy Rose Lee
> Noon Cartoons
> 1PM Movie-BW-Appointment For Peggy
> 3PM Mr. Ed-BW
> 3:30 Captain Cleveland-Costumed kids show host
> 5PM Superman-This may be the 1966 CBS Cartoon
> 5:30 Eighth Man
> 6PM Flintstones
> 6:30 McHale's Navy-BW
> 7PM Twilight Zone-BW
> 7:30 I Love Lucy-BW
> 8PM Hazel
> 8:30 Woody Woodbury
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How many stations did Kaiser have a kids show host known as "Captain <insert city here>"? I know WKBD in Detroit had that as well.<P ID="signature">______________
From WNBC-TV New York this is Liiiiive at Fiiiiive!</P>

 

[Braves2005]

> Source:Cleveland Plain Dealer


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> WKBF-61 IND
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> 5PM Superman-This may be the 1966 CBS Cartoon

More than likely,reruns of the George Reeves series would be my guess.

 

[bpatrick]

> Source:Cleveland Plain Dealer
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> WAKR-23 ABC Akron
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> Why is Treasure Isle shown in black-and-
white in Akron, particularly when it's airing
on pattern there and on delay in Cleveland?
I recall that this show was in color.
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> 1PM Movie-BW-Appointment For Peggy

I think this movie is Apartment For Peggy.
It pops up on the Fox Movie Channel rather
frequently.
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> 5PM Superman-This may be the 1966 CBS Cartoon

Not likely. The animated Superman cartoons were
airing as part of The Superman/Aquaman Hour Of
Adventure on CBS Saturday mornings. I'm betting
these are the George Reeves episodes, and that
Channel 61 started with the color episodes.
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> 8:30 Woody Woodbury
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He earned a footnote in television history as
Johnny Carson's replacement as host of Who Do
You Trust? He confounded viewers by always
appearing in a battered fishing outfit, something
akin to what McLean Stevenson usually wore on M*A*S*H,
and never explaining why. Woodbury was no more
successful as a game-show host than he was as a
talk-show host; Who Do You Trust? lasted only fifteen
months after he took over, and this show lasted one
season.

 

[TimL]

> > Source:Cleveland Plain Dealer
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> > 12:30 Treasure Isle-BW
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> white in Akron, particularly when it's airing
> on pattern there and on delay in Cleveland?
> I recall that this show was in color.

I figured someone would ask about that. The Plain Dealer TV Listings were in an Up-Down grid format and B&W shows were noted with a large black dot. 23's listing for Treasure Island had the dot, while 5 did not..same for Bewitched a half hour earlier.





> > WKBF-61 IND
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> > 1PM Movie-BW-Appointment For Peggy
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> I think this movie is Apartment For Peggy.
> It pops up on the Fox Movie Channel rather
> frequently.

Correct..I just read the listing wrong..corrected in the original post.


> > 5PM Superman-This may be the 1966 CBS Cartoon
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> Not likely. The animated Superman cartoons were
> airing as part of The Superman/Aquaman Hour Of
> Adventure on CBS Saturday mornings. I'm betting
> these are the George Reeves episodes, and that
> Channel 61 started with the color episodes.

Now that I think about it it kind of makes sense..A later McHales Navy listing has no BW designation though I also assumed it started at the beginning of the series.

><P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by TimL on 12/30/05 08:53 PM.</FONT></P>

 

[KMRichards]

> > > Why is Treasure Isle shown in black-and-
> > white in Akron, particularly when it's airing
> > on pattern there and on delay in Cleveland?
> > I recall that this show was in color.

I suspect this could be answered by the obvious question ...

Did WAKR have color transmission capability in 1968?<P ID="signature">______________


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[KMRichards]

> How many stations did Kaiser have a kids show host known as
> "Captain "? I know WKBD in Detroit had that as well.

There was NO kids show host on KBSC in Los Angeles.<P ID="signature">______________


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[Joseph_Gallant]

Kaiser's "Captains" (Was: Re: Retro:Cleveland/Akron Friday, January 19, 1968)

There was a "Captain Boston" on WKBG-56 (now WLVI) as late as 1971; but by 1971 (and maybe earlier), the "Captain" was simply a voice-over.

During WKBG's earliest years, there was a live local late-afternoon children's show called "Bunker Hill" with an old-looking man in a railroad outfit as host. Eventually (maybe the guy who played him retired or passed away), it was replaced (in 1970) by "The Bob Glover Show", hosted by a young African-American who went on to be a local Boston TV producer and broadcasting executive of some note.

I'm not sure how far back "Bunker Hill" went (WKBG went on the air in December of 1966), but if his show went back to the beginning of WKBG, then "Captain Boston" may have been nothing more than a voice-over and not a live-in-studio show as some other Kaiser Broadcasting "Captain (name of city)" shows were.

I do know that Kaiser's first TV station was an ABC-affiliated VHF in Honolulu, which was later sold in order to give Kaiser the funds to launch their UHF stations on the mainland; I don't know if there was a "Captain Honolulu" or "Captain Hawaii" during the time Kaiser owned that station.

 

[pqgeorge]

Captain Boston/Bunker Hill, WKBG-TV circa 1966-1970

"The Captain Boston Show" on WKBG-TV/56 was originally hosted by Chris Claussen (the show was live with Chris wearing a Air Force type of flying suit). Chris is a fine and well known voice-over artist who is still in the voice-over business today on stations around the country doing voicers from his own home in the Boston area. His Captain Boston gig at WKBG was basically a wrap-around show with cartoons and special features with local origination. It was one of Channel 56's first live color shows. The live "Captain Boston Show" was replaced by "Bunker Hill" in 1968. "The Captain Boston Show" continued as an early afternoon kids cartoon block but without a definite host for a few more years. Chris Claussen moved on to host some of WSBK-TV's (Channel 38) movie programs in the early 70's. "The Bunker Hill Show" was pretty much a similar situation with cartoons and a game we all played as kids while watching Channel 56 those days called "Magic Key". Kids would send in their name, address and telephone number on a postcard to P.O. Box 56, Boston. It was live and "Bunker Hill" (the host) would pick a card in a barrel at random and would call the person live on the air. For just being selected, the caller would get a prize. There were a bunch of doors numbered 1 through 100. If the "Magic Key" were to open one of the doors, that person would get a very nice prize in addition to the prize they got by just being selected. The host of "Bunker Hill" passed away in 1970. Bob Glover took over the afternoon chores at 56 for several years until the very popular DJ Dale Dorman took over the hosting for 56's kids block for many years thereafter.


> There was a "Captain Boston" on WKBG-56 (now WLVI) as late
> as 1971; but by 1971 (and maybe earlier), the "Captain" was
> simply a voice-over.
>
> During WKBG's earliest years, there was a live local
> late-afternoon children's show called "Bunker Hill" with an
> old-looking man in a railroad outfit as host. Eventually
> (maybe the guy who played him retired or passed away), it
> was replaced (in 1970) by "The Bob Glover Show", hosted by a
> young African-American who went on to be a local Boston TV
> producer and broadcasting executive of some note.
>
> I'm not sure how far back "Bunker Hill" went (WKBG went on
> the air in December of 1966), but if his show went back to
> the beginning of WKBG, then

"Captain Boston" may have been
> nothing more than a voice-over and not a live-in-studio show
> as some other Kaiser Broadcasting "Captain (name of city)"
> shows were.
>
> I do know that Kaiser's first TV station was an
> ABC-affiliated VHF in Honolulu, which was later sold in
> order to give Kaiser the funds to launch their UHF stations
> on the mainland; I don't know if there was a "Captain
> Honolulu" or "Captain Hawaii" during the time Kaiser owned
> that station.
> <P ID="signature">______________
Peter Q. George (K1XRB)
Whitman, Massachusetts</P>