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Retro: Detroit Sat, Nov 20, 1965

from TV Guide-Detroit edition

WJBK 2-CBS
6:10 News
6:15 Farm Scene
6:30 Sunrise Semester "Art of Michelangelo"
7:00 Captain Kangaroo
8:00 Happyland
9:00 Heckle & Jeckle (c)
9:30 Tennessee Tuxedo (c)
10:00 Mighty Mouse (c)
10:30 Linus the Lionhearted (c)
11:00 Tom & Jerry (c)
11:30 Quick Draw McGraw (c)
noon Lone Ranger
12:30 Lassie
1:00 Sergeant Preston
1:30 Detroit Speaks
2:00 Report from Washington
2:15 America! (c)
2:45 Great Moments in Music
3:00 Battle Line (Jim Bishop describes a 1945 incendiary raid over Tokyo and is joined by former B-29 gunner Sgt. James Hall and ex-Japanese anti-aircraft officer Lt. Takao Taguchi)
3:30 Flying Fisherman "Big Fishing" (fishing from a Texas Gulf Coast oil rig)
4:00 NFL Countdown
5:00 Battlefield "Battle Circus"
6:30 Grand Ole Opry
7:00 Death Valley Days "The Great Turkey War" (c)
7:30 Jackie Gleason
8:30 Trials of O'Brien "Charlie Has All the Luck"
9:30 Loner "The Homecoming of Lemuel Stove"
10:00 Gunsmoke
11:00 News (John Kelly)
11:15 Weather (Marilyn Turner; both John and Marilyn would later work together at ch 7)
11:20 Sports (Ray Lane)
11:25 Best of Hollywood "Scandal at Scourie" (c)/"Birth of the Blues"
3:00 News/Weather

WWJ 4-NBC
7:00 Country Living (Kirk Knight)
7:30 Bozo the Clown (c)
8:00 Milky's Party Time
9:00 Jetsons (c)
9:30 Atom Ant (c)
10:00 Secret Squirrel (c)
10:30 Underdog (c)
11:00 Top Cat (c)
11:30 Fury
noon First Look (c/folk singer Oscar Brand looks at the origin of language)
12:30 Exploring (c/Dr. Albert Hibbs reviews America just after the Revolution)
1:00 College Football: Ohio State-Michigan, live from Ann Arbor (c)
4:15 Telesports Digest (this would air on Montreal's community channels in the mid to late 70s)
4:30 House Detective (Edwards)
5:00 George Pierrot "Road to Mandalay" (c)
5:55 S.L.A. Marshall
6:00 News (Dick Westerkamp)
6:15 Weather (Bob Edwards)
6:20 Sports (Al Ackerman)
6:30 NBC News
7:00 At the Zoo (c/Sonny Eliot looks at the Detroit Zoo's Pakistani cobra, kangaroo, and desert cat)
7:30 Flipper (c)
8:00 I Dream of Jeannie "Djinn and Water"
8:30 Get Smart (c, episode co-written by Mel Brooks who helped devise the series)
9:00 Saturday Night at the Movies "Please Don't Eat the Daisies" (c)
11:15 News (Dick Westerkamp)
11:30 Weather (Bob Edwards)
11:35 Sports (Al Ackerman)
11:45 Tonight Show (c/guests Kaye Ballard, Buddy Greco, Milbourne Christopher, Adam Keefe, and Milton Berle's Royal Quartet (which spoofs opera); the weekend Johnny wasn't cleared in Toledo)
1:15 Beat the Champ
1:45 News/Weather

WXYZ 7-ABC
6:30 Americans at Work
6:45 Wheelsville, USA
7:00 Man & Continent "A Time of Ice" (geologic evolution of Antarctica)
7:30 Junior Sports Club (dog obedience training)
8:00 Crusade for Christ
8:30 House of Fashion (Melrose)
9:00 Clutch Cargo
9:30 Courageous Cat
10:00 Shenanigans
10:30 Beatles (c)
11:00 Casper (c)
11:30 Porky Pig (c)
noon Bugs Bunny (c)
12:30 Milton the Monster (c)
1:00 Hoppity Hooper (c)
1:30 American Bandstand (guests Gale Garnett, and the Miracles)
2:30 Club 1270 (Dave Prince; the 1270 refers to the frequency of WXYZ radio)
3:00 Wrestling (from Detroit)
3:30 Big Show "Cult of the Cobra"
5:00 Wide World of Sports (preview of Monday's Cassius Clay-Floyd Patterson title bout/highlights of last May's Clay-Sonny Liston fight/USAF Fighter-Interceptor Rocketry Meet)
6:30 Wyatt Earp "Let's Hang Curly Bill"
7:00 ABC Scope "Storm Over Vietnam" (Howard K. Smith hosts an examination of recent student anti-war rallies)
7:30 Shindig (first of 2 shows from Hawaii with guests Donna Loren, Ian Whitcomb, Len Barry, the Shindogs, and Bobby Sherman)
8:00 King Family (Thanksgiving special)
8:30 Lawrence Welk (c/Thanksgiving special)
9:30 Hollywood Palace (c/Bing Crosby welcomes Diahann Carroll, John Bubbles, Charlie Manna, the Kessler Twins, Michael the Waiter (actually a German juggler), Desmond & Marks, and the Black Theater of Prague)
10:30 World Adventure "Holiday in Spain" (c/George Pierrot, that's right-he was on 2 channels in Motown)
11:00 News/Sports
11:30 Premiere Theatre "Night Passage" (c)/"The Exile"
3:00 Big Story
3:30 Wire Service
4:30 Byline: Steve Wilson
5:00 My Hero (ch 7 then signs-off until 6:30)

CKLW 9-CBC/CTV Windsor (TVG only listed it as CBC)
10:00 Wizard of Oz (listed as a cartoon, I suspect this may be the Video-Craft version)
10:30 Poopdeck Paul's Sports
11:00 Wrestling (from Windsor)
noon Nature of Things "Animals and Food"
12:30 Country Calendar
1:00 CFL Eastern Final-Game 2: Ottawa-Hamilton (if the Western Final has been decided, this will air at 2)
4:00 Outlaws "The Braithwaite Brothers" (if necessary, CFL Western Final-Game 3: Winnipeg-Calgary will air here)
5:00 Lieutenant "Fall from a White Horse"
6:00 Swingin' Time (Seymour; guests include Cannibal and the Headhunters...I just relay 'em, folks, I don't explain 'em LOL)
7:00 War Zone "Pork Chop Hill" (Korean War film)
8:30 NHL: Chicago-Toronto (Bill Hewitt in the Maple Leaf Gardens gondola)
10:15 Juliette (guests Los Vegas, a Mexican instrumental group)
10:45 Sports Unlimited
11:00 CBC News
11:10 Around Town (Bill Kennedy)
11:20 Nightcap
12:20 Window on the World

WTOL 11-CBS/NBC Toledo
7:00 Sunrise Semester (as 6:30am, ch 2)
7:30 Cartoon Parade
8:30 Peter Potamus
9:00 Heckle & Jeckle (c)
9:30 Tennessee Tuxedo (c)
10:00 Mighty Mouse (c)
10:30 Linus the Lionhearted (c)
11:00 Tom & Jerry (c)
11:30 Mr. T's Saturday Show
12:30 College Guide
1:00 College Football: Ohio State-Michigan (c)
4:15 Sports Clips
4:30 Sea Hunt
5:00 Jungle Theater "Jungle Book"
7:00 Barn Dance
7:30 Jackie Gleason
8:30 Get Smart (c)
9:00 Saturday Night at the Movies "Please Don't Eat the Daisies" (c)
11:15 News (Don Edwards)
11:25 Sports (Terry Shaw)
11:30 Hollywood Spectacular "Phffft!"

WSPD 13-ABC/NBC Toledo
7:55 Farm Report
8:00 Christopher Program
8:30 Family Living
9:00 Understanding Our World
9:30 Davey & Goliath
10:00 Shenanigans
10:30 Beatles (c)
11:00 Casper (c)
11:30 Porky Pig (c)
noon Sergeant Preston
12:30 Championship Bowling
1:30 Wrestling (source not listed)
2:30 Movie "Quantez"
4:00 All-Ohio Bowling: in Columbus, Bill Beach meets Bill Ryan (was this produced by a Columbus station, or independently-produced?)
5:00 Wide World of Sports
6:30 Jimmy Dean (guests Forrest Tucker, Jody Miller, and Home & Jethro)
7:30 Flipper (c)
8:00 King Family (c)
8:30 Lawrence Welk (c)
9:30 Hollywood Palace (c)
10:30 Farmer's Daughter "A Sonny Honeymoon" (c)
11:00 News (Chase Clements)
11:10 Movie "Beat the Devil"

WKBD 50-Ind
noon College Football
12:30 Notre Dame Football
1:00 AFL Highlights
1:30 Speedway International
2:00 Championship Wrestling
3:00 Roller Skating
4:00 Cowtown Rodeo
4:30 High School Football: Pontiac Central v Pontiac Northern
6:30 Movie "Mystery of Mr. Wong"
7:45 Hockey Preview (Sid Abel)
7:55 NHL: Detroit-Boston (Bruce Martyn and Budd Lynch, live from the Garden)
10:30 Action Scoreboard
11:00 College Football: Michigan State-Notre Dame (delayed, but listings don't indicate by how much)

WTVS 56-Edu
No weekend programming
 
The Michigan State at Notre Dame game was played that afternoon and was one of the more famous college games of the era - resulting in a 10-10 tie. Michigan State was ranked number at the time. Notre Dame got the ball at the end of the game and instead of trying to score, "played for a tie." This was when MSU coach Duffy Daugherty famously said a tie is like kissing your sister. And Dan Jenkins in Sports Illustrated wrote that the Irish "tied one for the Gipper."

With a tie and no losses, Notre Dame and ended up rated number one in each of the two leading football polls (no BCS yet).

Schools were limited in how many times they could have games telecast in a season, so the game was not shown live. ABC covered the game and showed it on tape delay.

This was an era when channel 50 was an all sports station, about 15 years before the launch of ESPN. They were way ahead of their time. Not sure how the broadcast ended up there and not on channel 7 (owned by ABC at the time). Maybe channel 7 thought nobody would want to see a taped game, not realizing it would end up an historic contest.
 
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