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Retro: Eastern New England - Saturday July 2, 1966

Source – TV Guide, Eastern New England edition

2 - WGBH Boston (Educational)
05:15p The Friendly Giant – children
05:30p What’s New – children
06:00p Creative Person – director Hallie Flanagan, a major figure in American experimental theater, is profiled
06:30p Aerospace Briefing
07:30p The French Chef – Julia Child prepares an open-faced omelette made of ham, onions, tomatoes, peppers and herbs
08:00p Guy de Maupassant – three stories about “Consequences”
08:45p Vince Guaraldi Trio
09:00p Sport of the Week

3 – WTIC Hartford (CBS)
07:30a Summer Semester
08:00a Captain Kangaroo
09:00a Deputy Dawg (color)
09:30a Tennessee Tuxedo (color)
10:00a Wally Gator (color)
10:30a Lassie
11:00a Tom and Jerry (color)
11:30a Quick Draw McGraw (color)
12:00p Sky King – Sky tries to help a cowboy with a broken leg
12:30p Linus - cartoons
01:00p R.F.D.#3 – Frank Atwood
02:00p Movie double feature – 1) “Along the Great Divide” 1951 –Kirk Douglas, Virginia Mayo, John Agar; 2) “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court” 1949 – Bing Crosby, Rhonda Fleming
05:00p Horse Race – the Saranac Handicap from Aqueduct
05:30p Wyatt Earp “Mr. Buntline’s Vacation”
06:00p Weather, News, Sports
06:30p CBS News – Roger Mudd (color)
07:00p Lucille Ball (The Lucy Show) (color)
07:30p Continental Showcase – Jim Backus introduces pop singers Lil Linfors (Sweden), Beauty Milton (U.S.), Bibi Johns (Sweden), Sacha Distel (France), Gitte (Denmark), and Rex Gildo (Germany); the comic Veterans (Sweden); dancer William Milie (U.S.); the Hazy Osterwald Sextet (Switzerland); and Henry Segers and his band (Belgium)
08:30p Secret Agent “The Black Book”
09:30p Face is Familiar – game; host: Jack Whitaker; celebrity players: bandleader Skitch Henderson and actress Vivian Vance
10:00p Gunsmoke – While pursuing a gang of train robbers, Matt manages to wound one of the outlaws – who turns out to be a woman
11:00p News, Sports, Weather
11:20p Movie double feature “Christine” 1960 and “Women’s Prison” 1955

4 – WBZ Boston (NBC)
06:30a Big Picture – Army
07:00a Boomtown – Rex Trailer
10:00a Secret Squirrel – cartoon (color)
10:30a Underdog
11:00a Top Cat (color)
11:30a Fury
12:00p News – Jack Borden, Terry Carter
12:25p Weather – Bob Copeland
12:30p Man’s Medical Knowledge – topic is asthma
01:00p Big Brother – Bob Emery
01:30p Sportsman’s Holiday – 1) Ted Williams catching a ten-pound bonefish in the waters off the Florida Keys; 2) Wildlife photographer Bob Wood narrates films of his East African safari; 3) a segment on women fishing for salmon
02:00p Leave it to Beaver
02:30p Movie “The Masquerader” 1933 – Ronald Coleman
04:00p Baseball – NBC Game of the Week (color) – Atlanta Braves at San Francisco Giants
07:00p News, Weather
07:30p Flipper (color) – Flipper is caught by fishermen who transport him to a marine exhibit nearly 200 miles away from Coral Key (first of 3 parts)
08:00p I Dream of Jeannie – Tony feels that he’s become a bit soft since Jeannie started doing all the household chores
08:30p Get Smart (color) – In an attempt to discredit Smart’s testimony against KAOS, the international hoods set out to confuse the already befuddled agent
09:00p Saturday Night at the Movies “Ride the High Country” 1961 (color) – Randolph Scott, Joel McCrea
11:00p News – Terry Carter
11:10p Weather – Bob Copeland
11:15p Movie “The Brothers Rico” 1957 – Richard Conte, Dianne foster, Kathryn Grant, James Darren
12:35a News, Sports, Weather
12:50a Movie “The Web” 1947 – Vincent Price

5 – WHDH Boston (CBS)
06:30a Summer Semester
07:00a Deputy Dawg – cartoon
07:30a My Friend Flicka
08:00a Captain Kangaroo
09:00a Heckle and Jeckle (color)
09:30a Tennessee Tuxedo (color)
10:00a Mighty Mouse (color)
10:30a Lassie
11:00a Tom and Jerry (color)
11:30a Quick Draw McGraw (color)
12:00p Candlepin Bowling – Jim Britt
01:00p Junior Candlepin Bowling
01:30p Rocky and His Friends – cartoons (color)
02:00p Movie “Blowing Wild” 1953 – Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck
03:30p Up With People (special, color) – hosted by Pat Boone; featured vocalists are Linda Blackmore, Charles Woodward, the Colwell Brothers and the Green Glenn Singers
04:30p Sea Hunt
05:00p Horse Race – the Saranac Handicap from Aqueduct
05:30p Adventure (color) – “Rhino”
06:00p Star Performance “The Contest”
06:30p News, Sports, Weather – Maloney, Don Gillis, Walker
07:00p Baseball – Boston Red Sox at Chicago White Sox; announcers: Ken Coleman, Ned Martin and Mel Parnell (“Scoreboard” in color with sportscaster Johnny Most immediately follows)
10:00p Gunsmoke – While pursuing a gang of train robbers, Matt manages to wound one of the outlaws – who turns out to be a woman
11:00p News (color) – Maloney
11:15p Weather (color) – Walker
11:20p Sports (color) – Don Gillis
11:30p Johnny Carson (color) – guests: singers Cilla Black and Martina Arroyo; comic Dick Cavett; the Tony Scott Quartet, instrumental group; and Henry Boyd, who imitates bird calls
01:00a News, Sports, Weather
01:10a Peter Gunn “Death-House Testament”

6 – WTEV New Bedford (ABC)
07:00a Roger Ramjet (color)
07:30a New Three Stooges (color)
08:00a Felix the Cat
08:30a Beany and Cecil – cartoons
09:00a Week-End Gardener
09:30a Little Flock – religion
10:00p Porky Pig
10:30a The Beatles – cartoon (color)
11:00a Casper (color)
11:30a Magilla Gorilla
12:00p Bugs Bunny (color)
12:30p Milton the Monster (color)
01:00p Hoppity Hooper – cartoon (color)
01:30p American Bandstand – guests: The Vogues (“Land of Milk and Honey”) and Ketty Lester (“When a Woman Loves a Man”) – only the first 30 minutes aired
02:00p Baseball – New York Mets vs. Pittsburgh Pirates; Lindsey Nelson, Bob Murphy and Ralph Kiner are announcers
05:00p Wide World of Sports – 1) Highlights of the AAU Men’s Outdoor Track and Field Championships; 2) the Langhorn (PA) 100 Indy Car race filmed in color
06:30p Secret Agent “The Black Book” (it’s a CBS show, airing Saturday @ 8:30p – WPRO is not clearing)
07:30p Ozzie and Harriet (color) – Kris begins to resent doing the laundering and sock-darning for the members of Rick’s fraternity
08:00p The Donna Reed Show – the city laws have no age requirement for the job of councilman, so Jeff’s teenage friends circulate a petition to get him nominated for the post
08:30p Lawrence Welk (color) – nautical numbers include “Harbor Lights” (Lennon Sisters), “Ebb Tide” (Norma Zimmer) and “Red Sails in the Sunset” (Natalie Nevins). Other highlights: “Ballin’ the Jack” (Barbara Boylan, Bobby Burgess); “Lady of Spain” (Myron Floren); “This Could Be the Start of Something Big” (Bob Ralston); and “I Got Rhythm” (Art Duncan)
09:30p The Hollywood Palace (color) – host Vincent “Ben Casey” Edwards presents an all-female guest lineup: actress Bette Davis, who reads Dorothy Parker’s poem “Biographies”; singer-dancers Liza Minelli and Lilliane Montevecchi; comedienne Joan Rivers; Miss Elizabeth, Swiss trapeze artist; the Balancing Rogge Sisters; and performing elephants Bertha and Tina
10:30p Hullaballo – music; host: Alan King; guests: Brenda Lee, the Young Rascals and the Womenfolk (this is an NBC show and the network showing is in color; Hullabalo is preempted on Monday @ 7:30p for baseball this week so I’m not sure if WJAR cleared it or this was a one-off)
11:00p ABC News – Bob Young
11:15p News, Sports, Weather

7 – WNAC Boston (ABC)
07:00a Cartoon Carnival
08:30a Milton the Monster
09:00a Casper
09:30a Feeperonie – children (this may have been hosted by Ed McDonnell a/k/a Major Mudd)
10:00p Porky Pig
10:30a The Beatles – cartoon (color)
11:00a Stingray – children (color)
11:30a Magilla Gorilla
12:00p Shivaree – music; guests are Mel Carter (“Love is All I Need”); The Temptations (“Get Ready”); Cathie Taylor (“Turn Around”); the Newbeats (“Run Baby Run”); and Bud Shank (“Michelle”)
02:00p Impact
02:30p Summer and Mrs. Hicks (special) – An exploration of the civil rights and education problems in Boston, and what the citizens can expect throughout the summer. Featured are Rev. Virgil A. Wood, Boston police commissioner Edmund McNamara and school committeewoman Louise Day Hicks
03:00p William F. Buckley Jr. – guest: Dick Gregory, discussing civil disobedience
04:00p Court-Martial “Retreat from Life”
05:00p Wide World of Sports – 1) Highlights of the AAU Men’s Outdoor Track and Field Championships; 2) the Langhorn (PA) 100 Indy Car race filmed in color
06:30p Death Valley Days (color)
07:00p Gallant Men
08:00p Surf’s Up (color) – Richards
08:30p Lawrence Welk (color) – nautical numbers include “Harbor Lights” (Lennon Sisters), “Ebb Tide” (Norma Zimmer) and “Red Sails in the Sunset” (Natalie Nevins). Other highlights: “Ballin’ the Jack” (Barbara Boylan, Bobby Burgess); “Lady of Spain” (Myron Floren); “This Could Be the Start of Something Big” (Bob Ralston); and “I Got Rhythm” (Art Duncan)
09:30p The Hollywood Palace (color) – host Vincent “Ben Casey” Edwards presents an all-female guest lineup: actress Bette Davis, who reads Dorothy Parker’s poem “Biographies”; singer-dancers Liza Minelli and Lilliane Montevecchi; comedienne Joan Rivers; Miss Elizabeth, Swiss trapeze artist; the Balancing Rogge Sisters; and performing elephants Bertha and Tina
10:30p Hollywood and the Stars
11:00p News – John Henning
11:10p Sports – Bob Gallagher
11:15p Movie Double Feature “The Mysterians” 1959 and “Chamber of Horrors” 1940

8 – WNHC New Haven (ABC)
07:45a Sister Julia – religion
08:00a Cartoons (color)
08:30a Ripcord “Jump To Freedom”
09:00a The Beatles (cartoon)
09:30a Casper (cartoon)
10:00a Porky Pig
10:30a Movie – to be announced
12:00p Bugs Bunny (color)
12:30p Milton the Monster (color)
01:00p Hoppity Hooper – cartoon (color)
01:30p American Bandstand – guests: The Vogues (“Land of Milk and Honey”) and Ketty Lester (“When a Woman Loves a Man”)
02:30p Movie “Dragstrip Girl” 1957 – Fay Spain, John Ashley
04:00p Ozzie and Harriet
04:30p Film Feature
05:00p Wide World of Sports – 1) Highlights of the AAU Men’s Outdoor Track and Field Championships; 2) the Langhorn (PA) 100 Indy Car race filmed in color
06:30p Movie “Goliath and the Barbarians” 1963 – Steve Reeves
08:00p The Donna Reed Show – the city laws have no age requirement for the job of councilman, so Jeff’s teenage friends circulate a petition to get him nominated for the post
08:30p Lawrence Welk (color) – nautical numbers include “Harbor Lights” (Lennon Sisters), “Ebb Tide” (Norma Zimmer) and “Red Sails in the Sunset” (Natalie Nevins). Other highlights: “Ballin’ the Jack” (Barbara Boylan, Bobby Burgess); “Lady of Spain” (Myron Floren); “This Could Be the Start of Something Big” (Bob Ralston); and “I Got Rhythm” (Art Duncan)
09:30p The Hollywood Palace (color) – host Vincent “Ben Casey” Edwards presents an all-female guest lineup: actress Bette Davis, who reads Dorothy Parker’s poem “Biographies”; singer-dancers Liza Minelli and Lilliane Montevecchi; comedienne Joan Rivers; Miss Elizabeth, Swiss trapeze artist; the Balancing Rogge Sisters; and performing elephants Bertha and Tina
10:30p Step This Way – dance
11:00p News, Sports, Weather
11:10p Capital Reports
11:15p Movie double feature “Attack of the Giant Leaches” 1958 and “Son of Frankenstein” 1939

9 – WMUR Manchester (ABC)
08:15a Community Jamboree
08:30a Rusty and the Rangers
09:00a Ring-A-Ding the Clown – Ring-a-ding celebrates the anniversary of his sixth year on television with an hour long circus show. Attractions of the Clyde Beatty Circus are shown.
10:00p Porky Pig
10:30a The Beatles – cartoon (color)
11:00a Casper (color)
11:30a Magilla Gorilla
12:00p Bugs Bunny (color)
12:30p Milton the Monster (color)
01:00p Hoppity Hooper – cartoon (color)
01:30p American Bandstand – guests: The Vogues (“Land of Milk and Honey”) and Ketty Lester (“When a Woman Loves a Man”)
02:30p Roller Derby
03:30p Championship Bowling
04:30p Film Feature “’65 Sports Thrills”
05:00p Wide World of Sports – 1) Highlights of the AAU Men’s Outdoor Track and Field Championships; 2) the Langhorn (PA) 100 Indy Car race filmed in color
06:30p Highway Patrol
07:00p ABC Scope “The War Comes to Main Street” – Howard K. Smith hosts a look at what the citizens of Dodge City, Kansas think about the Vietnam War
07:30p Ozzie and Harriet (color) – Kris begins to resent doing the laundering and sock-darning for the members of Rick’s fraternity
08:00p The Donna Reed Show – the city laws have no age requirement for the job of councilman, so Jeff’s teenage friends circulate a petition to get him nominated for the post
08:30p Lawrence Welk (color) – nautical numbers include “Harbor Lights” (Lennon Sisters), “Ebb Tide” (Norma Zimmer) and “Red Sails in the Sunset” (Natalie Nevins). Other highlights: “Ballin’ the Jack” (Barbara Boylan, Bobby Burgess); “Lady of Spain” (Myron Floren); “This Could Be the Start of Something Big” (Bob Ralston); and “I Got Rhythm” (Art Duncan)
09:30p The Hollywood Palace (color) – host Vincent “Ben Casey” Edwards presents an all-female guest lineup: actress Bette Davis, who reads Dorothy Parker’s poem “Biographies”; singer-dancers Liza Minelli and Lilliane Montevecchi; comedienne Joan Rivers; Miss Elizabeth, Swiss trapeze artist; the Balancing Rogge Sisters; and performing elephants Bertha and Tina
10:30p Movie “Moby Dick” 1956 – Gregory Peck, Richard Basehart

10 – WJAR Providence (NBC)
08:00a Davey and Goliath
08:30a Leave it to Beaver
09:00a The Jetsons (color)
09:30a Atom Ant (color)
10:00a Secret Squirrel (color)
10:30a Underdog
11:00a Top Cat (color)
11:30a Fury
12:00p Movie “Six-Gun Gold” 1941 – Tim Holt, Jan Clayton
01:00p Championship Bowling
02:00p Movie “One Minute to Zero” 1952 – Robert Mitchum, Ann Blyth, William Talman
03:30p To Be Announced
04:00p Baseball – NBC Game of the Week (color) – Atlanta Braves at San Francisco Giants
07:00p To Be Announced
07:30p Flipper (color) – Flipper is caught by fishermen who transport him to a marine exhibit nearly 200 miles away from Coral Key (first of 3 parts)
08:00p I Dream of Jeannie – Tony feels that he’s become a bit soft since Jeannie started doing all the household chores
08:30p Get Smart (color) – In an attempt to discredit Smart’s testimony against KAOS, the international hoods set out to confuse the already befuddled agent
09:00p Saturday Night at the Movies “Ride the High Country” 1961 (color) – Randolph Scott, Joel McCrea
11:00p News – Deane Boyden
11:10p Weather – Art Lake
11:15p Sports – Chris Barnes
11:20p Movie “Zarak” 1957 – Victor Mature

12 – WPRO Providence (CBS)
07:00a Popeye, Three Stooges
09:00a Heckle and Jeckle (color)
09:30a Tennessee Tuxedo (color)
10:00a Mighty Mouse (color)
10:30a Lassie
11:00a Tom and Jerry (color)
11:30a Quick Draw McGraw (color)
12:00p Sky King
12:30p Championship Wrestling
01:30p Roller Derby
02:30p CBS Sports Spectacular – 1) films of the Air Force Thunderbirds in action; 2) Semi-final match of the Bowling Classic; 3) films of the Minnesota Vikings 1965 season
04:00p Upbeat – music
05:00p Wayne and Shuster – profile of the career of W.C. Fields
06:00p Movie “Screaming Eagles” 1956 – Tom Tryon, Jan Merlin, Martin Milner
07:30p Continental Showcase – Jim Backus introduces pop singers Lil Linfors (Sweden), Beauty Milton (U.S.), Bibi Johns (Sweden), Sacha Distel (France), Gitte (Denmark), and Rex Gildo (Germany); the comic Veterans (Sweden); dancer William Milie (U.S.); the Hazy Osterwald Sextet (Switzerland); and Henry Segers and his band (Belgium)
08:30p Movie “Shell Shock” 1964
10:00p Gunsmoke – While pursuing a gang of train robbers, Matt manages to wound one of the outlaws – who turns out to be a woman
11:00p News – Wally Cryan
11:10p Weather – Howie Holland
11:15p Movie “Lost Battalion” 1962

38 – WIHS Boston (Ind) – and some network programming not cleared by the local affiliates
09:00a The Jetsons (color)– from NBC
09:30a Atom Ant (color) – from NBC
10:00a Supercar – children
10:30a Mr. Piper – children
11:00a Fireball XL-5 – cartoon
11:30a Cartoon Party
12:00p Movie “Men in Exile” 1937 – Dick Purcell, June Travis, Alan Baxter
01:30p American Bandstand – guests: The Vogues (“Land of Milk and Honey”) and Ketty Lester (“When a Woman Loves a Man”) – from ABC
02:30p Sports Album
03:00p Roller Derby
04:00p Your Navy in Action
04:30p Pride of the Family
05:00p Riverboat “Zigzag”
06:00p You Are There – history “The Rescue of American Prisoners from Santo Tomas”
06:30p NBC News – Ray Scherer, Robert MacNeil (color) – from NBC
07:00p Movie “Love Begins at Twenty” 1936
08:00p The Donna Reed Show – the city laws have no age requirement for the job of councilman, so Jeff’s teenage friends circulate a petition to get him nominated for the post – from ABC
08:30p Secret Agent “The Black Book” – from CBS
09:30p Face is Familiar – game; host: Jack Whitaker; celebrity players: bandleader Skitch Henderson and actress Vivian Vance – from CBS
10:00p Movie “Wyoming Kid” 1947 – Dennis Morgan, Jane Wyman
 
Coleman had just left Cleveland shortly before this, where he had called Browns and Indians games and anchored the sports for about 13 years..Frank Glieber replaced him as Browns TV Voice and WJW-TV 8 sports director/Anchor..
 
In fact, I believe that the reason WTEV-6 was part of the New York Mets' network back then was that it's signal (especially before the Tiverton tower was built in 1967) didn't reach Boston, and thus, didn't penetrate Boston Red Sox "territory".

In fact, I believe that neither WJAR-10 nor WPRO/WPRI-12 could have picked-up local New York broadcasts of the Mets (or Yankees) because their signals reached Boston.

Major League Baseball has long had a rule that no TV station within a certain distance (50 miles?) of a major league city could carry local telecasts of a team whose ballpark is located outside that radius.

WTEV was outside the 50-mile radius; WJAR and WPRO/WPRI weren't.

From 1954 through 1971, and again over the last few years, there have been MLB teams in Baltimore and Washington (which are closer than 50 miles to each other); I believe the rule is that for any local over-the-air telecasts, no Baltimore station can carry Washington Nationals games, nor any D.C. station could carry Baltimore Orioles telecasts.
 
The Boston Red Sox very rarely played on Saturday nights in those days, so "Secret Agent" and "Face Is Familiar" were normally seen on the old WHDH-5. They were bumped to the then-WIHS-38 for that night (and maybe one other time during the 1966 season).

Additionally, I thought that by 1966, all of the Red Sox home telecasts on WHDH (and most of the away games) were in color. Given that WGN-9 Chicago's color mobile unit was used not just for their own coverage of White Sox and Cubs home games, but also for the video feed "backhauled" to the visiting team's home city), I suspect this game was in color.
 
1967 was the first year that Channel 5 WHDH telecast Red Sox home games in color, using RCA's TK43 color cameras. Here's a link to an article in RCA's Broadcast News magazine from August 1967 discussing the WHDH's remote trucks, and color camera setup. The article is on Page 26 :http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-RCA-Broadcast-News/RCA-135.pdf


Joseph_Gallant said:
Additionally, I thought that by 1966, all of the Red Sox home telecasts on WHDH (and most of the away games) were in color. Given that WGN-9 Chicago's color mobile unit was used not just for their own coverage of White Sox and Cubs home games, but also for the video feed "backhauled" to the visiting team's home city), I suspect this game was in color.
 
KYLEBOOK said:
1967 was the first year that Channel 5 WHDH telecast Red Sox home games in color, using RCA's TK43 color cameras. Here's a link to an article in RCA's Broadcast News magazine from August 1967 discussing the WHDH's remote trucks, and color camera setup. The article is on Page 26 :http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-RCA-Broadcast-News/RCA-135.pdf

Thanks for that link - I loved the color pictures from the old WHDH studios, especially the one of Jack Hynes doing the news. It shows how far news sets and production has come in 45 years. The original WHDH doesn't get the respect it deserves for putting out a quality product despite all the behind-the-scenes turmoil.
 
And by the way, WIHS-TV was owned and operated by the Archdiocese of Boston, which ran a closed circuit TV system for its schools and parishes. It has blossomed into a global network called "Catholic TV." Can you believe it? What goes around comes around.
 
I know that my grandparents had a 1963 RCA color console that had UHF. When I was about 5 we lived a few blocks away and my brother and I used to go over to watch "Kimba the White Lion" and "Speed Racer" on channel 56 in color (my parents only had a B&W TV with a slide UHF tuner at the time).
 
Maureen Carney commented: said:
The original WHDH doesn't get the respect it deserves for putting out a quality product despite all the behind-the-scenes turmoil.

The station received several "National News Film Station of The Year" awards from the National Press Photographers' Association, among other awards.

As WHDH and later as WCVB, Boston's Channel 5 has long been known for having one of the country's best local TV news departments. In fact, Channel 5 (both as WHDH and as WCVB) and WBZ-4 have for generations been cited as two of the best local TV station news departments in the country.
 
Question about old TV show

I was on an episode of The Little Flock in 1966 or 1967, but didn't get to see it because my father decided we had to go to Pennsylvania the week it aired. Does anyone know anything about this show and where I could find out more about it? It was on WTEV on Saturday mornings.
 
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