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Retro: Detroit Thanksgiving Day, Nov 25, 1965

Because someone's gotta start the Turkey Day listings ;D
from TV Guide-Detroit edition

WJBK 2-CBS Detroit (the station's then-studios at 7441 Second Blvd later became the long-time home for WTVS, which has since moved to Wixom)
6:15 On the Farm Scene
6:20 News
6:25 TBA
6:55 Editorial/News
7:05 CBS News
7:30 Happyland
8:00 Captain Kangaroo (Thanksgiving-themed episode)
9:00 Bowery Boys
10:00 Thanskgiving Parades (Capt. Kangaroo and Shari Lewis look in from New York on four holiday parades...Macy's in NYC (Arthur Godfrey/Bess Myerson), Gimbels in Philadelphia (Bud Collyer), J.L. Hudson in Detroit (Marilyn Van Debur/Frank Gifford), and Eaton's Santa Claus Parade in Toronto (Jack Linkletter on tape))
noon Movie "The Lone Ranger"
1:30 Movie "Lassie Come Home"
3:00 To Tell the Truth
3:25 News (Carl Cederberg)
3:30 Edge of Night
4:00 Secret Storm
4:30 Mike Douglas (guests Totie Fields, Shani Wallace, and the Four Seasons)
6:00 News (Kelly/LeGoff/Weaver)
6:15 Editorial
6:20 Weather
6:25 Sports (Ray Lane)
6:30 CBS News
7:00 Zorro "The Fall on Monasterior"
7:30 Munsters
8:00 Gilligan's Island (c)
8:30 My Three Sons (c)
9:00 Thursday Night Movie "Mysterious Island" (c)
11:00 News (Kelly/LeGoff/Weaver)
11:15 Editorial
11:20 Weather
11:25 Sports (Van Patrick)
11:30 Late Show "The Young Land" (c)
1:30 News/Weather

WWJ 4-NBC Detroit (622 W Lafayette St)
6:30 Classroom (the challenge of the "retirement years" for America's aging population)
7:00 Today (c/guests Michael Dyne, and Macy's Parade float designer Frank Jenkins)
9:00 Living
9:55 News (John Hultman)
10:00 Bozo the Clown (c)
10:15 J.L. Hudson Parade (Sonny Eliot covers the 39th annual parade)
11:00 Macy's Thanksgiving Parade (c/JIP)
noon Movie "Miracle on 34th Street"
1:30 College Football: Oklahoma-Nebraska (c)
4:30 AFL: Buffalo-San Diego (c)
7:30 Daniel Boone (c)
8:30 Music by Cole Porter (c/Maurice Chevalier, Robert Goulet, Nancy Ames, and Peter Gennaro pay tribute to the legendary songwriter; pre-empts Laredo)
9:30 Mona McCluskey (c)
10:00 Dean Martin (c/guests Milton Berle, Lisa Kirk, Phil Ford & Mimi Hines, Xavier Cugat, Charo & Company, the Windsor Boys Choral Group, and Ronnie Demarco)
11:00 News (Dick Westerkamp)
11:15 Weather (Sonny Ellot)
11:20 Sports (Don Kremer)
11:30 Tonight Show (c)
1:00 Beat the Champ
1:30 Weather

WXYZ 7-ABC Detroit (20777 W 10 Mile Rd, Southfield)
6:30 Funews
7:00 Johnny Ginger Carnival
8:00 Big Theater (Capt. Toby)
9:00 Rita Bell's Prize Movie "The Pied Piper of Hamelin"
10:30 Girl Talk (Anne Blair is joined by the wives of the Iraqi, Spanish, and Swiss ambassadors to the US)
11:00 Young Set (guests Gloria Swanson and Bud Shulberg)
noon Donna Reed
12:30 Father Knows Best
1:00 Ben Casey
2:00 Nurses
2:30 A Time for Us
2:55 ABC News
3:00 General Hospital
3:30 Young Marrieds
4:00 Never Too Young
4:30 Where the Action is (guests Bobby Vee and Len Barry)
5:00 Sammy Davis & the Wonderful World of Children (c/Sammy visits the world of kids, with musical guests Dino Martin Jr, Desi Arnaz Jr, and Billy Henshe performing during the program)
6:00 Holiday Carnival (c)
6:25 Sports (Dave Diles)
6:30 News (Bill Bonds/local news films in color)
6:45 ABC News
7:00 Michigan Outdoors (c)
7:30 Shindig (the show makes its second trip to Hawaii with a show from Waikiki Beach with guests Len Barry, Ian Whitcomb, Glen Campbell, Bobby Sherman, and the Wellingtons)
8:30 OK Crackerby! (c)
9:00 Bewitched "Aunt Clara's Old Flame"
9:30 Peyton Place
10:00 First Lady's Tour (c/Lady Bird Johnson formed a committee in Feb 1965 to eliminate ugliness from America's cities and countryside, with DC her first project...this program shows her touring various sections of the nation's capital; pre-empts Long Hot Summer)
11:00 News (Bill Bonds/same note as 6:30)
11:25 Premiere Theater "All the Young Men"
1:15 After Hours (Ed McKenzie)
2:00 News (Steve Smith)
2:15 Passport to Profit (an early infomercial?)

CKLW 9-CBC Windsor (825 Riverside Dr W, and still there today; then owned by RKO General, who plunked the General Tire logo into the hole in the 9)
8:55 Morgan's Marry-Go-Round
9:00 Romper Room (Miss Flora)
10:00 Canadian Schools "Edmonton: Gateway to the North"
10:30 Friendly Giant
10:45 Chez Helene
11:00 Butternut Square
11:20 Across Canada
11:50 News
noon Razzle Dazzle
12:30 Take 30 (Jo Ouelette shows a film on smelt fishing in Quebec)
1:00 Bill Kennedy Showtime "Dondi"
3:30 Swingin' Time (Seymour)
4:30 Fun House (Jerry Booth)
6:00 Dennis the Menace "Alice's Birthday"
6:30 Marshal Dillon (Gunsmoke)
7:00 Twilight Zone "A World of Difference"/"Long Live Walter Jameson"
8:00 Hollywood a Go Go (Sam Riddle welcomes Group B, Dobie Gray, Mike Clifford, Sue Thompson, the Fugitives, and the We Five)
9:00 Windsor Raceway
10:00 Wrestling (Windsor)
11:00 CBC News
11:15 News (Irv Morrison)
11:25 Weather (Don West)
11:30 Gideon's Way "How to Retire Without Really Working"
12:30 Film Feature

WTOL 11-CBS/NBC Toledo (604 Jackson St)
7:30 Comedy Carnival
8:00 Captain Kangaroo (11 jumps off after 30 min for the movie, it usually ran the full hour)
8:30 Holiday Theater "Have Rocket, Will Travel"
10:00 Macy's Thanksgiving Parade (c/NBC's commentators were Lorne Greene and Betty White)
noon Holiday Theater "Broken Lance" (c)
1:30 College Football: Oklahoma-Nebraska (c)
4:30 Big Show "Right Cross"
6:00 Wally Gator
6:30 Woody Woodpecker (c)
7:00 News (Ward/Saunders)
7:30 Munsters
8:00 Gilligan's Island (c)
8:30 My Three Sons (c)
9:00 Thursday Night Movie "Mysterious Island" (c)
11:00 News (Edwards/McLoughlin)
11:20 Sports (Orris Tabner)
11:25 News (Clem Gendron)
11:30 Night Owl Theater "Holiday Inn"

WSPD 13-ABC/NBC Toledo (136 Huron St)
7:20 Prayer for Today
7:25 Farm Report
7:30 Today (c/JIP)
9:00 Movie "Barbary Coast Gent"
10:30 Donna Reed
11:00 Young Set
noon Ben Casey
1:00 Mike Douglas (no info listed)
2:30 A Time for Us
2:55 ABC News
3:00 General Hospital
3:30 Nurses (7 and 13 aired different episodes...I assume 7's were off the ABC feed and 13's were delayed kinnies?)
4:00 Where the Action is (guests Little Anthony & the Imperials, and Jo Anne Campbell)
4:30 Movie "At Gunpoint"
6:00 Deadline Toledo
6:45 ABC News
7:00 Rifleman "Long Trek"
7:30 Shindig
8:00 Donna Reed
8:30 OK Crackerby! (c)
9:00 Bewitched "Aunt Clara's Old Flame"
9:30 Peyton Place
10:00 First Lady's Tour (c)
11:00 News (Rudes/Venner)
11:15 Sports (Mac McCullough)
11:20 Weather (Frank Venner)
11:25 TV Editorial (David Drury)
11:30 Tonight Show (c)
1:00 Prayer for Today

WKBD 50-Ind Detroit (26955 W 11 Mile Rd, Southfield)
noon Dickory Doc
1:00 Movies "The Hoodlum"/"Dark Waters"
4:00 Topper "The Neighbors"
4:30 Love That Bob!
5:00 Lloyd Thaxton (guests the Dovells)
6:00 Soupy Sales
6:30 Superman
7:00 Little Rascals
7:20 Sports Desk
7:30 Holiday
8:00 Gridiron Preview
8:15 Hockey Preview
8:25 Hockey: Detroit-Chicago
10:45 Action Scoreboard
11:00 Merv Griffin (guests David Burns, Tiger Haynes, Dick Davy, and Steve Perry)
12:30 Tales of Wells Faego "Frightened Witness"

WTVS 56-Edu Detroit (5035 Woodward Ave)
5pm Invitation to Art
5:30 What's New
6:00 Americans at Work
6:15 Industry on Parade
6:30 French Chef
7:00 Dateline: UN "The US and the UN" (UN diplomacy is discussed by US ambassador to the UN Economic & Social Council James Rockefeller, Rep. Peter Frelinghuysen (R-NJ), and Rep. Barrett O'Hara (D-IL))
7:30 Driver Education
8:00 American Memoir
8:30 Regional Report "School Integration" (Commissioner of Education Francis Keppel and the Wall Street Journal's Jonathan Spivak discuss the Federal government's program to enforce school desegregation)
9:30 UN Day Concert (the 16th annual concert from the UN, celebrating the UN's 20th anniversary)
 
The absence of the Packers at Lions annual Thanksgiving game on the CBS affiliates is noted...the old blackout rules, I asssume. Detroit/Windsor, Toledo, Lansing/Ann Arbor, Flint/Saginaw and Port Huron were the affected markets and sub-markets.
 
The King Bee commented: said:
The absence of the Packers at Lions annual Thanksgiving game on the CBS affiliates is noted...the old blackout rules, I asssume. Detroit/Windsor, Toledo, Lansing/Ann Arbor, Flint/Saginaw and Port Huron were the affected markets and sub-markets.

Correct.

And because of that blackout, viewers in Detroit and nearby cities missed an NFL television "first": The Detroit/Green Bay game was the first NFL game CBS ever broadcast in color.

If my memory serves me correct, CBS got it's first color mobile unit a little more than a month earlier, and that the 1965 Turkey Day game was only the second time it was used; I believe it had been driven to Cape Canaveral a month earlier to cover what would have been the launch of Gemini 6 (which was cancelled when an unmanned target rocket that Gemini 6 was to have docked with in orbit instead exploded just as it was going into orbit; Gemini 6 was finally launched in mid-December while Gemini 7 was still in orbit and 6 met up, but could not rock with, 7).
 
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