Retro: DC/Baltimore/Harrisonburg Sun, Sept 3, 1961

[Bluenoser]

from Washington Sunday Star

2 WMAR-CBS Baltimore
3 WSVA-CBS/NBC/ABC Harrisonburg (the Star mentioned WSVA's listings were EST, was DC and Baltimore EDT at the time?)
4 WRC-NBC Washington
5 WTTG-Ind Washington
7 WMAL-ABC Washington
9 WTOP-CBS Washington
11 WBAL-NBC Baltimore
13 WJZ-ABC Baltimore

Morning

7:00
13 Faith for Today

7:30
9 Rural America
13 Live & Learn

8:00
9 Look Up & Live
11 Learning to Read
13 Dateline UN

8:30
9 Chapel of the Air
11 Industry on Parade
13 Altars of Faith

8:45
4-11 Americans at Work

9:00
4 Industry on Parade
9 Camera Three "Company K"
11 Catholic Hour
13 This is the Life

9:15
2 Sacred Heart
4 Christian Science
7 Davey & Goliath

9:20
5 Today in Your Life

9:25
5 Newsbeat
9 Almanac

9:30
2 Off to Adventure
4 Insight
5 Potomac Farmer
7 This We Believe
9 Mass for Shut-Ins
11 Gang's All Here
13 Parents Ask About School

10:00
4 Jewish Community Hour
5 Faith for Today
7 Comics & Cartoons
9 Lamp Unto My Feet
13 Movie "Three Wise Men"/"Secret Land"

10:30
2 Look Up & Live
4 Watch Mr. Wizard
5 Oral Roberts
9 Oswald Rabbit Presents

11:00
2 Christophers
4 Stagecoach Theater "Under Mexicali Stars"
5 This is the Life
7 Follow That Man

11:30
2 Camera Three
5 Christophers
7 My Little Margie

11:55
9 CBS News

Afternoon
noon
2 Campy's Corner
4 Builder's Showcase
5 Briefing Session
7 Topper
9 Comedy Playhouse "Alfalfa's Aunt"/"Headin' for a Wedding"
11 Movies "Always Goodbye"/"Charter Pilot"

12:20
3 News

12:30
2 Builder's Showcase
3 Bible Answers
4 Sunday Playhouse "Wait for George"
5 Georgetown University Forum
7 Life of Riley
9 Youth Wants to Know
13 Spectrum

1:00
2 Shirley Temple Film (no other info listed)
3 Faith for Today
4 Teen Talk
5 Sunday Movie "Spooks Run Wild"
7 Science Fiction Theater
9 Sunday Afternoon Picture "The Champ"

1:30
3 Film of the Week
4 Catholic Hour
7 Sunday Matinee "HMS Pinafore"
13 Inside Sports

1:45
13 Baseball Startime

2:00
3-13 Baseball: Cleveland-Baltimore
4 World Concert Artists

2:30
4 Movie Four Matinee "The Showdown"
5 Judge Roy Bean

2:45
2 Movie "Give Out Sisters"

3:00
5 Crusade in the Pacific
7 Championship Bowling: Bill Lillard v Ed Kawolics
11 Comedy Playhouse

3:30
5 Star Performance
11 Movie "Wife, Doctor and Nurse"

4:00
2 Championship Bowling
4 Challenge
5 Metropolitan Movie "Johnny Holiday"
7 Walter Winchell File
9 TV Hour of Stars "Anything for Money"

4:30
3 This is the Life
4 From Hollywood
7-13 Issues & Answers (guest: Labor Secretary Arthur J. Goldberg)

5:00
2-9 Accent
3 National Velvet
4 Sunday Report
7-13 Matty's Funday Funnies
9 Accent
11 Talk Back

5:30
2-3-9 Amateur Hour
4-11 This is NBC News
5 Mr. District Atorney
7-13 Rocky & His Friends

Evening
6:00
2-9 Twentieth Century "Woodrow Wilson: The Fight for Peace"
3 Walt Disney Presents
4-11 Meet the Press (guest: Dr, Walter Heller, Chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisors)
5 Mounted Police
7 Trackdown
13 Movie "Square Ring"

6:30
2-9 I Love Lucy
4 Victory at Sea
5 Sheriff of Cochise
7 Walt Disney Presents "Moochie of Pop Warner Football" (pt 1)
11 To Promote Goodwill

7:00
2-3-9 Lassie
4-11 Shirley Temple "Onawandah" (c)
5 Five-Star Feature "Obliging Young Lady"

7:30
2-3-9 Dennis the Menace
7-13 Maverick

8:00
2-3-9 Ed Sullivan (guests Bobby Darin, Edith Piaf, Wayne & Shuster, Trude Adams, Jackie Cannon, Lord Buckley, Peter Pit, Rex Ramer, and the Pompoff Thedy Family)
4-11 National Velvet

8:30
4-11 Tab Hunter
5 A Way of Thinking
7-13 Lawman

9:00
2-3-9 General Electric Theater "Louie and the Horseless Buggy"
4-11 Sunday Mystery Hour "The Inspector Vanishes" (c)
5 John Crosby
7-13 Rebel

9:30
2-3-9 Holiday Lodge
7-13 Asphalt Jungle

10:00
2-9 Candid Camera (Harpo Marx imitates a vending machine)
3-4-11 Loretta Young
5 Great Love Movie "Alice Adams"

10:30
2-9 What's My Line?
3-4 This is Your Life
7-13 Editor's Choice
11 Playhouse 11

11:00
2-4-7-11-13 News
9 Sunday News Roundup

11:15
4 Movie Four "Grapes of Wrath"
13 Movie "Day to Remember"

11:20
7 Backstage
9 Late Show "The High and the Mighty"
11 Movie "Son of Fury"

11:25
2 Gray Ghost

11:30
5 Newsbeat
7 Comment

11:55
2 Pastor's Study

Late Night
midnight
7 Not for Hire

12:30
4 Inspiration

1:05
13 Man to Man

 

[Hal Erickson]

Re the 12 noon listing for Channel 9: Looks like WTOP was one of the few TV stations to pick up "Hilarious Hundred", a package of pre-1948 Columbia two-reel comedies that didn't star the
3 Stooges. "Headin' for a Weddin'" stars Vera Vague.
Screen Gems was hoping that "Hilarious Hundred" (actually 200 shorts) would match the success of the "3 Stooges" package, but only the Andy Clyde and Buster Keaton Columbia shorts seemed to have any staying power. (I grew up in Cincinnati, where WCPO-TV ran most of the non-Stooge shorts, including Hugh Herbert, Sterling Holloway, Harry Von Zell and Schilling & Lane).

 

[mleach]

The old Washington Star was VERY popular in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia which is my guess as to why the listings for Harrisonburg's WSVA is featured.

Also for some odd reason WSVA's channel 3 signal more/less ( more in some places..not at all in others ) reached Northern Virginia too. Interesting signal to say the least. I had family who lived within 25 miles of Harrisonburg back in the 70's who had a very difficult time getting WSVA/WHSV but on the flip side I had an uncle who lived in Leesburg, VA some 80+ miles away who had no problem at all getting WHSV.

And this sort of thing continues today even in this day of DTV. There are people to the west of Harrisonburg ( mainly West Virginia ) who can't get WHSV-DT but all the way north to Hagerstown, MD..WHSV has begun to pick up a cult following there but for all the wrong reasons. Mainly that is due to WHSV's Winchester-based subchannel "TV3 Winchester" and the fact that TV3 Winchester's weathergal Lauryn Ricketts' has very big breasts.

Well whatever it takes to get the viewers I suppose..

 

[oldiesfan6479]

3 WSVA-CBS/NBC/ABC Harrisonburg (the Star mentioned WSVA's listings were EST, was DC and Baltimore EDT at the time?)

Washington and Baltimore were indeed on EDT from the last Sunday in April to the
last Sunday in October during 1961--according to Doris (you remember her).

As for Harrisonburg, VA, it's murky. Her book has the city on EDT from April 30 to
October 1, but also notes "by 1961 the whole state was in confusion" (re DST).

Being a real time geek, I have to say one of the best pieces of legislation ever
passed by Congress (and signed into law) was the Uniform Time Act of 1966
which took effect with the 1967 DST period. It was an absolute mess before
then, especially after WWII through 1966.

 

[mbclev]

4 Teen Talk

This show was hosted by the now-deceased Sophie Altman, whose high school quiz creation It's Academic would premiere roughly a month later. (I got to meet Mrs. Altman when I attended an It's Academic taping on November 11, 2000.)

 

[wbhist]

As far as John Crosby on Channel 5 at 9 P.M.: Mr. Crosby, once a TV columnist for the New York Herald Tribune, in 1960-61 had a show that originated from WTTG's New York sister station, then known as WNEW-TV; apparently WTTG (likewise run by what was then called Metropolitan Broadcasting) ran it also. I.I.N.M., this was before David Susskind's Open End moved from then WNTA-TV (at this point in its last months of operation as a commercial station before being retooled as "educational" WNDT, now PBS affiliate WNET) to his first WNEW gig which lasted from '61 to '63 (from 1963 to 1966 Susskind and Open End were at WPIX Channel 11, before returning to WNEW where, as The David Susskind Show, it remained on the air for the next 20 years).

In addition, both WNEW and WTTG had what was then called Metropolitan Movie among its movie showcase umbrella titles (derived from the aforementioned Metropolitan Broadcasting). After the broadcasting units were rebranded as Metromedia Television (and Metromedia Radio) in 1967, that movie show was retitled Metromedia Movie, lasting until control of the stations went to Fox in 1986.

And about the Movie 4 Matinee at 2:30 P.M. on WRC-TV: This title was also for Saturday and/or Sunday afternoon movie screenings within that time slot on New York's WNBC-TV at the time.

 

[bpatrick]

from Washington Sunday Star

2 WMAR-CBS Baltimore
3 WSVA-CBS/NBC/ABC Harrisonburg (the Star mentioned WSVA's listings were EST, was DC and Baltimore EDT at the time?)
4 WRC-NBC Washington
5 WTTG-Ind Washington
7 WMAL-ABC Washington
9 WTOP-CBS Washington
11 WBAL-NBC Baltimore
13 WJZ-ABC Baltimore

Morning

7:00
13 Faith for Today

7:30
9 Rural America
13 Live & Learn

8:00
9 Look Up & Live
11 Learning to Read
13 Dateline UN

8:30
9 Chapel of the Air
11 Industry on Parade
13 Altars of Faith

8:45
4-11 Americans at Work

9:00
4 Industry on Parade
9 Camera Three "Company K"
11 Catholic Hour
13 This is the Life

9:15
2 Sacred Heart
4 Christian Science
7 Davey & Goliath

9:20
5 Today in Your Life

9:25
5 Newsbeat
9 Almanac

9:30
2 Off to Adventure
4 Insight
5 Potomac Farmer
7 This We Believe
9 Mass for Shut-Ins
11 Gang's All Here
13 Parents Ask About School

10:00
4 Jewish Community Hour
5 Faith for Today
7 Comics & Cartoons
9 Lamp Unto My Feet
13 Movie "Three Wise Men"/"Secret Land"

10:30
2 Look Up & Live
4 Watch Mr. Wizard
5 Oral Roberts
9 Oswald Rabbit Presents

11:00
2 Christophers
4 Stagecoach Theater "Under Mexicali Stars"
5 This is the Life
7 Follow That Man

11:30
2 Camera Three
5 Christophers
7 My Little Margie

11:55
9 CBS News

Afternoon
noon
2 Campy's Corner
4 Builder's Showcase
5 Briefing Session
7 Topper
9 Comedy Playhouse "Alfalfa's Aunt"/"Headin' for a Wedding"
11 Movies "Always Goodbye"/"Charter Pilot"

12:20
3 News

12:30
2 Builder's Showcase
3 Bible Answers
4 Sunday Playhouse "Wait for George"
5 Georgetown University Forum
7 Life of Riley
9 Youth Wants to Know
13 Spectrum

1:00
2 Shirley Temple Film (no other info listed)
3 Faith for Today
4 Teen Talk
5 Sunday Movie "Spooks Run Wild"
7 Science Fiction Theater
9 Sunday Afternoon Picture "The Champ"

1:30
3 Film of the Week
4 Catholic Hour
7 Sunday Matinee "HMS Pinafore"
13 Inside Sports

1:45
13 Baseball Startime

2:00
3-13 Baseball: Cleveland-Baltimore
4 World Concert Artists

2:30
4 Movie Four Matinee "The Showdown"
5 Judge Roy Bean

2:45
2 Movie "Give Out Sisters"

3:00
5 Crusade in the Pacific
7 Championship Bowling: Bill Lillard v Ed Kawolics
11 Comedy Playhouse

3:30
5 Star Performance
11 Movie "Wife, Doctor and Nurse"

4:00
2 Championship Bowling
4 Challenge
5 Metropolitan Movie "Johnny Holiday"
7 Walter Winchell File
9 TV Hour of Stars "Anything for Money"

4:30
3 This is the Life
4 From Hollywood
7-13 Issues & Answers (guest: Labor Secretary Arthur J. Goldberg)

5:00
2-9 Accent
3 National Velvet
4 Sunday Report
7-13 Matty's Funday Funnies
9 Accent
11 Talk Back

5:30
2-3-9 Amateur Hour
4-11 This is NBC News
5 Mr. District Atorney
7-13 Rocky & His Friends

Evening
6:00
2-9 Twentieth Century "Woodrow Wilson: The Fight for Peace"
3 Walt Disney Presents
4-11 Meet the Press (guest: Dr, Walter Heller, Chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisors)
5 Mounted Police
7 Trackdown
13 Movie "Square Ring"

6:30
2-9 I Love Lucy
4 Victory at Sea
5 Sheriff of Cochise
7 Walt Disney Presents "Moochie of Pop Warner Football" (pt 1)
11 To Promote Goodwill

7:00
2-3-9 Lassie
4-11 Shirley Temple "Onawandah" (c)
5 Five-Star Feature "Obliging Young Lady"

7:30
2-3-9 Dennis the Menace
7-13 Maverick

8:00
2-3-9 Ed Sullivan (guests Bobby Darin, Edith Piaf, Wayne & Shuster, Trude Adams, Jackie Cannon, Lord Buckley, Peter Pit, Rex Ramer, and the Pompoff Thedy Family)
4-11 National Velvet

8:30
4-11 Tab Hunter
5 A Way of Thinking
7-13 Lawman

9:00
2-3-9 General Electric Theater "Louie and the Horseless Buggy"
4-11 Sunday Mystery Hour "The Inspector Vanishes" (c)
5 John Crosby
7-13 Rebel

9:30
2-3-9 Holiday Lodge
7-13 Asphalt Jungle

10:00
2-9 Candid Camera (Harpo Marx imitates a vending machine)
3-4-11 Loretta Young
5 Great Love Movie "Alice Adams"

10:30
2-9 What's My Line?
3-4 This is Your Life
7-13 Editor's Choice
11 Playhouse 11

11:00
2-4-7-11-13 News
9 Sunday News Roundup

11:15
4 Movie Four "Grapes of Wrath"
13 Movie "Day to Remember"

11:20
7 Backstage
9 Late Show "The High and the Mighty"
11 Movie "Son of Fury"

11:25
2 Gray Ghost

11:30
5 Newsbeat
7 Comment

11:55
2 Pastor's Study

Late Night
midnight
7 Not for Hire

12:30
4 Inspiration

1:05
13 Man to Man

I believe Virginia went on EDT in 1962; my first trip to
Virginia, to Williamsburg, was in 1963, and the state was
on EDT then, while North Carolina was still on EST and
would be until 1967.

Interesting, too, that there are more CBS shows on WSVA
(WHSV) than there would be when I moved to Virginia five
years later. In 1966, although the station was carrying all
three heritage networks, it was an NBC primary; what few
CBS shows I remember were all the soaps except "Search
For Tomorrow" and "Guiding Light," Andy Griffith, Red Skelton,
"Gunsmoke," "Daktari," "Captain Kangaroo," and that's about it;
Ch. 3 carried Huntley-Brinkley instead of Cronkite. In April 1968
it dropped CBS altogether and became an ABC primary, with a
few NBC shows mixed into slots when ABC was down.

 

[Tim L]

As far as John Crosby on Channel 5 at 9 P.M.: Mr. Crosby, once a TV columnist for the New York Herald Tribune,

I was going to ask about John Crosby..He had a Syndicated TV/Radio columm that ran in my hometown paper the Canton (Ohio) Repository from the 1940's-Till possibly as late as the 1970's..He seemed to me to be very "highbrow" and didnt like much of what "the common people" liked especially as far as Television

 

[Al Timiter]

Hey John Erickson: re "Hilarious Hundred." I haven't thought of those in a while. WNOK TV, the CBS affiliate in Columbia ran them. Some were rather good...they interespersed them with the Stooges.

 

[oldiesfan6479]

I believe Virginia went on EDT in 1962; my first trip to Virginia, to Williamsburg, was in 1963, and the state was on EDT then, while North Carolina was still on EST and would be until 1967.

For 1962, Doris' book on time changes shows the several counties adjacent to
D.C. using the "common" DST dates, while most of the rest of Virginia observed
EDT from 05/30-09/03, with the exception of Bristol, VA which remained on EST.

Similar "oddball" dates in 1963, with Bristol still EST-ing.

 

[bpatrick]

Was that to keep with Tennessee, since Kingsport
and Johnson City make up the rest of the Tri-Cities?
I know Chattanooga was on EST.

 

[oldiesfan6479]

Was that to keep with Tennessee, since Kingsport and Johnson City make up the rest of the Tri-Cities?
I know Chattanooga was on EST.

Evidentally, since there was no full-bore DST in either zone in TN prior
to 1967, only spot observances here and there during various years.