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Retro: Detroit-Toledo-Windsor Sunday 7 April 1968

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Note that Toledo is a bit wacky. WTOL-11 was primary CBS, WSPD-13 was primary ABC, both then cherry picked NBC and WDHO-24 picked up the leftovers.

SUNDAY, APRIL 7, 1968

WJBK-2 (CBS) Detroit
6:00-TV Chapel
6:10-News
6:15-Let's Find Out
6:30-Cathedral of Tomorrow
7:30-Christopher Closeup
8:00-This is the Life
8:30-Temple Baptist
9:00-Mass for Shut-Ins
9:30-With this Ring
9:45-Highlight
10:00-Mormon Conference (special)
12:00-Movie (Zarak, '57)
1:55-Year of the Tiger '68
2:00-Stanley Cup Hockey (no game was actually played on this day, so who knows what they did)
4:30-Help Pay for the U.S.A.
5:00-The Antkeeper
5:30-Patty Duke
6:00-News
6:30-Opportunity Line
7:00-Lassie (rerun)
7:30-Truth or Consequences (Gentle Ben time shifted)
8:00-Dick Van Dyke (special, Ed Sullivan pre-empted)
9:00-Smothers Brothers (rerun)
10:00-Mission: Impossible
11:00-News
11:15-Editorial
11:20-Weather
11:25-Sports
11:30-Movie (Valley of the Kings, '54)
1:30-Naked City
2:00-News

WWJ-4 (NBC) Detroit
7:25-News
7:30-Country Living
8:00-Frontiers of Faith
8:30-Church at the Crossroads
8:55-Newsworthy
9:00-Oopsy! The Clown
9:30-House Detective
11:00-Palm Sunday Mass (special)
12:00-U of M Presents
12:30-Design Workshop
1:00-Meet the Press
1:30-At the Zoo
2:00-Flipper (delay from previous Sunday)
2:30-Wild Kingdom (delay from previous Sunday)
3:00-Help Pay for the U.S.A.
3:30-Passover Special
4:00-Greater Greensboro Open
5:30-Skiing (NBC news pre-empted)
6:00-GE College Bowl (Lake Erie vs. Dartmouth or Immaculate College)
6:30-News (Flipper time shifted)
7:00-George Pierrot (Wild Kingdom time shifted)
7:30-Walt Disney's World
8:30-The Mothers-in-Law
9:00-Bonanza
10:00-High Chapparal
11:00-News
11:15-Weather
11:20-Sports
11:30-Beat the Champ

WXYZ-7 (ABC) Detroit
8:00-TV College
8:30-Directions
9:00-Dialogue
9:30-Milton the Monster
10:00-Linus the Lionhearted
10:30-Bugs Bunny
11:00-Bullwinkle
11:30-Discovery '68
12:00-Championship Bowling
1:00-Passover (Issues and Answes is pre-empted)
2:00-NBA Playoff (no game was actually played on this day, so who knows what they did)
4:00-American Sporstman (season finale)
5:00-Movie (The Stratton Story, '49)
7:00-Voyage (rerun)
8:00-The FBI
9:00-Movie (Hud, '63)
11:00-News
11:15-Movie (Many Rivers to Cross, '54)
12:55-Skiing
1:00-News

WKBD-50 (Independent) Detroit
8:30-Herald of Truth
9:00-Captain Detroit
10:00-Limba
10:30-Three Stooges
11:00-Little Rascals
11:30-Superman
12:00-Flintstones
12:30-Movie (Stanley and Livingstone, '39)
2:30-Movie (The Wagons Roll at Night, '41)
4:00-The Defenders
5:00-Make Room for Daddy
5:30-Hazel
6:00-My Favorite Martian
6:30-I Love Lucy
7:00-Perry Mason
8:00-David Susskind
10:00-Lou Gordon

WTVS-56 (NET) Detroit
4:15-Christopher Closeup
4:30-NET Playhouse (The Lady With the Dog, '60, Russian)
6:00-The Antkeeper
6:30-Playing the Guitar
7:00-Basic Issues of Man
7:30-Conversation
8:30-PBL
10:30-Conversation

CKLW-9 (CBC) Windsor
8:30-Hymn Sing
9:00-Man Alive
9:30-Spectrum
10:00-Hawkeye
10:30-Bozo's Big Top
11:30-Movie (Wheel of Fortune, '41)
1:00-Bill Kennedy Showtime (Movie, For Heaven's Sake, '50)
3:30-Movie (Adventure in Baltimore, '49)
5:30-Laredo
6:30-Movie (Reap the Wild Wind, '42)
8:25-News
8:30-Lowell Thomas
9:00-Flashback
9:30-To Be Announced
10:00-The Way it Is
11:00-News
11:15-Movie (Waltz of the Toreadors, '62)
1:05-Window on the World

WTOL-11 (CBS/NBC) Toledo
8:00-Faith to Faith
8:30-Sunday Sanctuary
9:00-Tom and Jerry (CBS)
9:30-Underdog (CBS)
10:00-Mr. T's Show
11:00-Camera Three (CBS)
11:30-Face the Nation (CBS)
12:00-Comment
12:30-Family Theater
1:00-Meet the Press (NBC)
1:30-Silent Service
2:00-Stanley Cup Hockey (CBS, no game was actually played on this day, so who knows what they did)
4:30-To Be Announced
5:00-The Celebrity Game
5:30-Amateur Hour (CBS)
6:00-Movie (The D.I., '57)
8:00-Dick Van Dyke (CBS, special, Ed Sullivan pre-empted)
9:00-Bonanza (NBC)
10:00-High Chapparal (NBC)
11:00-News
11:15-Weather
11:20-Sports
11:30-Johnny Carson (NBC, rerun)

WSPD-13 (ABC/NBC) Toledo
6:50-Prayer for Today
6:55-Farm News
7:00-Homestead U.S.A.
7:30-Christopher Closeup
8:00-Cathedral of Tomorrow
9:00-Worship for Shutins
9:30-Religion in the News
9:45-With this Ring
10:00-See for Yourself
10:30-Movie (No Place on Earth)
11:00-Davey and Golaith
11:30-Discovery '68 (ABC)
12:00-Uncle Ben
12:30-Crusade '68
1:00-Passover (ABC, Issues and Answes is pre-empted)
2:00-NBA Playoff (ABC, no game was actually played on this day, so who knows what they did)
4:00-American Sporstman (ABC, season finale)
5:00-The Flying Fisherman
5:30-The Invaders
6:30-For the Record
7:00-Voyage (ABC, rerun)
8:00-The FBI (ABC)
9:00-Movie (ABC, Hud, '63)
11:00-News
11:30-Movie (The Night Runner, '57)

WDHO-24 (NBC/CBS/ABC) Toledo
3:00-Cathedral of Tomorrow
4:00-Greater Greensboro Open (NBC)
5:30-Skiing (NBC, NBC news pre-empted)
6:00-The 21st Century (CBS)
6:30-Flipper (NBC)
7:00-Lassie (CBS, rerun)
7:30-Walt Disney's World (NBC)
8:30-The Mothers-in-Law (NBC)
9:00-Smothers Brothers (rerun)
10:00-Mission: Impossible (CBS)
11:00-News


--Mike B.
 
>
> SUNDAY, APRIL 7, 1968
>
> WJBK-2 (CBS) Detroit
> 4:30-Help Pay for the U.S.A.
>
> WWJ-4 (NBC) Detroit
> 3:00-Help Pay for the U.S.A.

Anyone know what this special was about, considering that two separate stations presented it?
 
> >
> > SUNDAY, APRIL 7, 1968
> >
> > WJBK-2 (CBS) Detroit
> > 4:30-Help Pay for the U.S.A.
> >
> > WWJ-4 (NBC) Detroit
> > 3:00-Help Pay for the U.S.A.
>
> Anyone know what this special was about, considering that
> two separate stations presented it?

Maybe an effort to drum-up public suport for a tax hike??
 
> SUNDAY, APRIL 7, 1968
>
> WJBK-2 (CBS) Detroit
> 2:00-Stanley Cup Hockey (no game was actually played on this
> day, so who knows what they did)

According to Shrp Sports.com, the first-round series between the New York Rangers and Chicago was suspended after Game 1 (on April 4th, the night King was assasinated) until after the King funeral (Game 2 was not until the 9th, the day after the funeral). Games in the Los Angeles/Minnesota and Philadelphia/St. Louis series were played Saturday, April 6th, but neither series continued until after the King funeral (L.A./Minnesota on the 9th; Philadelphia/St. Louis on the 10th). Perhaps one of those series was originally scheduled to have had games played on the 7th or 8th.

I would think that special coverage of the King assasination's aftermath replaced cancelled sports events on the networks that weekend.
 
> > SUNDAY, APRIL 7, 1968
> >
> > WJBK-2 (CBS) Detroit
> > 2:00-Stanley Cup Hockey (no game was actually played on
> this
> > day, so who knows what they did)
>
> According to Shrp Sports.com, the first-round series between
> the New York Rangers and Chicago was suspended after Game 1
> (on April 4th, the night King was assasinated) until after
> the King funeral (Game 2 was not until the 9th, the day
> after the funeral). Games in the Los Angeles/Minnesota and
> Philadelphia/St. Louis series were played Saturday, April
> 6th, but neither series continued until after the King
> funeral (L.A./Minnesota on the 9th; Philadelphia/St. Louis
> on the 10th). Perhaps one of those series was originally
> scheduled to have had games played on the 7th or 8th.
>
> I would think that special coverage of the King
> assasination's aftermath replaced cancelled sports events on
> the networks that weekend.
>

And confirmation of your theory from a Tuesday 9 April AP 1968 story:

Three first round games of the expanded Stanley Cup playoffs have been rescheduled in the aftermath of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King.

The second game of the New York Rangers-Chicago Blackhawks series, originally scheduled for Sunday in New York, was moved back to tonight. The Rangers put off the game, which was to be nationally televised, after Sunday was designated a day of national mourning for the slain civil rights leader.

Third games of the Philadelphia Flyers-St. Louis Blues and Los Angeles Kings-Minnesota North Stars series were moved back from Monday night.


Baseball also had issues...

The 1968 major league baseball season now is scheduled to open without a forfeit or a strike. But three of the 10 games scheduled remained up in the air because of the racial unrest in Washington, Baltimore and Detroit.

The traditional Presidential opener at D.C. Stadium, postponed from Monday to mourn slain civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., still was doubtful Monday night as National Guard troops occupied the stadium. The soldiers had been called out to restore order to the troubled city.

Civil disorder in Baltimore the last three days brought out the troops and the same held true in Detroit where Michigan Governor George Romney has instituted a state of emergency.

Minnesota is scheduled to open in Washington, Oakland in Baltimore and Boston at Detroit.

However, the cloud of doubt over two other openers were lifted Monday when Los Angeles agreed to set back tonight's scheduled game to Wednesday and a threatened strike by New York Stadium workers was cancelled.

The Philadelphia Phillies, who open against the Dodgers, said they would forfeit the game rather than play today, the day Dr. King was to be buried in Atlanta. The Dodgers at first said they would play, which would have been the first major league forfeit since 1954, but decided Monday to postpone the game.


Basketball too (this from the 6 April 1968 Marion Star)...

The NBA reset Sunday's Eastern Division playoff game at Boston between the Celtics and the Philadelphia 76ers for next Wednesday night. The Sunday contest, second in the best-of-7 Eastern Finals, was to have been televised nationally (ABC-TV).

No decision was announced on the status of the second game of the Western Division final series between San Francisco and Los Angeles, scheduled for Sunday night on the Lakers' floor.


There were no stories about it, but from the agate I could see the ABA postponed their Sunday games as well.

From what I can tell from other articles, the Sunday night prime-time lineup was thrown out for coverage, although one article I read said they still had commercials. The Oscars, which were to be on the 8th (Monday) ended up being on the 10th (Wednesday).


--Mike
 
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