Source: TV Guide
Channels
3h WSVA Harrisonburg NBC/ABC
3n WTAR Norfolk CBS
6 WTVR Richmond CBS
8 WXEX Richmond-Petersburg ABC
10 WAVY Norfolk NBC
12 WWBT Richmond NBC
13 WVEC Norfolk ABC
15 WHRO Norfolk NET
23 WCVE Richmond NET
3/21/1969 - Fri
C-Color
6AM
3n These Things We Share
6:15
3n Town and Country C
6:25
3n Sunrise Semester C
English Literature: the prose of John Henry Newman.
6:30
6 Virginia Today C
10 Farm Show
12 Town & Country C
6:40
12 News, Table Talk C
6:55
3n Lift Up Mine Eyes C
7AM
6 News-Bob Bauder C
10 12 Today C
Tentatively scheduled: a preview of tonight's NBC News Special on the origins of the first Americans; films of Red China; a feature on a newly developed 40-character alphabet; and members of the Coast Guard choir. Hugh Downs.
7:05
3n 6 News C-Joe Benti
7:30
3n Flibbertigibbett C (children's show?)
6 Richmond Today C
13 Wild Bill Hickok
A young woman traveling west to be married, is on a stage coach when it is held up by a kilt-attired bandit with a Scottish accent. But the young woman, a schoolteacher, realizes the accent is phony and is convinced that she can identify the bandit.
7:40
8 News-Rich Landrum
7:50
3h 8 Town and Country (C on ch 8)
8AM
3h Today C - Joined in progress, see 7AM
3n Captain Kangaroo
8 Farm Show C
13 Comedy Time
8:30
6 Sooper Dog C
8 Jack La Lanne
13 Romper Room C
8:45
15 Classroom
In school classes: 8:45, 6th grade Newspaper Reading; 9:05, 7th grade Virginia History; 9:35 and 10:25 To Be Announced, 10AM 6th grade Science; 10:50 Cultural Series; 11:15 Elementary Literature; 11:40 2nd-Grade Science.
9AM
3h Mike Douglas C
Guests: Mrs. Hubert Humphrey, Edie Adams, singer Don Cherry and comedienne Patti Deutsch.
3n Merv Griffin C - See 4:30pm, WXEX.
6 Captain Kangaroo C
8 Dialing for Dollars C
10 Burke's Law C
'Terror in a Tiny Town,' conclusion. Burke finds himself in the middle of a nightmare: the citizens of Sorrel are armed and ready to kill him. Interrupted by Dialing for Dollars.
13 America!
9:30
13 Truth or Consequences C (interesting slot to air this show, usually it was on early evenings)
23 Classroom
In-school classes: 9:30 5th-grade Music; recess from 9:55-10:30 and 11:55-12:30, 10:30 3rd-grade Music; 11:00 5th-grade Science; 11:30 6th-grade Science.
9:55
13 News-Chuck Travis C
10AM
3h 10 12 Snap Judgment C
Guests: Bill Cullen and actress Dina Merrill. Host: Ed McMahon.
3n 6 The Lucy Show C
Veteran character actor Alan Hale plays a fire chief up to his neck in Lucy's volunteer brigade.
13 Movie
'No Man of Her Own.' (1950) An unwed mother assumes the identify of a fellow passenger who is killed in a train wreck. Barbara Stanwyck, John Lund.
10:25
3h 10 12 News C
10:30
3h 10 12 Concentration C
3n 6 Beverly Hillbillies
Granny opens fire on a tax collector. Irene Ryan.
8 America Sings C
11AM
3h 10 12 Personality C
Celebrities: Robert Merrill, Rita Moreno and Edward Mulhare. On film: Sen. Everett Dirksen (R-Ill.)
3n 6 Andy Griffith
Andy and Barney had better watch out-fun-loving girls are on the prowl.
8 Coffee Time C
11:30
3h 10 12 Hollywood Squares C
Players: Marty Allen, Jim Backus, Jack Cassidy, Nanette Fabray, June Lockhart and Ross Martin.
3n 6 Dick Van Dyke
Rob becomes job hunter-for a bullfighter (Joby Baker).
11:50
13 News-Chuck Travis C
Noon
3h 8 13 Bewitched
Maurice Evans appears in this episode as Tabatha's witchpry is put to the test.
3n 6 Love of Life C
10 12 Jeopardy! C
15 Classroom
In-school classes: noon, 7th grade Virginia History; 12:30 To Be Announced; 1:10 4th-grade Geography; 1:35 7th-grade Virginia History; 2PM Probability and Statistics; 2:30 Primary Literature. Sign off from 3-6:30pm.
12:25
3n News-Roland C
6 News-Edwards C
12:30
3h 8 13 Funny You Should Ask C
Tentative guests: Marty Allen, Mike Connors, Stu Gilliam, Rose Marie and Carol Wayne. Host: Lloyd Thaxton.
3n 6 Search for Tomorrow C
10 News, Weather, Sports C
12 Eye Guess C
23 Classroom
In-school classes: 12:30 1st-grade Music, recess from 12:45-1PM; 1PM 4th-grade Music; 1:30 7th-grade Science. Sign-off from 1:45-6:30.
12:55
12 News C-Newman
1PM
3h 8 13 Dream House C
3n Mildred Alexander C
6 Girl Talk C
12 Match Game C
Guests: Orson Bean and actress Patricia Harty.
1:25
12 News C
1:30
3h 8 13 Let's Make a Deal C
3n As the World Turns C
10 12 Hidden Faces C
2PM
3h 8 13 Newlywed Game C
3n 6 Love is a Many-Splendored Thing C
10 12 Days of Our Lives
2:30
3h 8 13 Dating Game C
3n 6 Guiding Light C
10 12 The Doctors C
3PM
3h 8 13 General Hospital C
3n 6 Secret Storm C
10 12 Another World C
3:30
3h 8 13 One Life to Live C
3n 6 Edge of Night C
10 12 You Don't Say! C
Guests: the comedy team of Phil Ford and Mimi Hines.
4PM
3h 8 13 Dark Shadows C
3n 6 The Linkletter Show C
Guest: jazzman Erroll Garner.
10 Match Game C
Guests: musical-comedy star Jack Cassidy and Sheila MacRae.
12 Flintstones C
4:25
10 News C-Floyd Kalber
4:30
3h Pay Cards!
Guest: comic Joey Adams. (The original version aired in the US for one season, and had better success in Canada with two remakes, one being 'Super' Pay Cards in 1981.)
3n What's My Line? C
Celebrity panelists: Dr. Joyce Brothers, Jack Cassidy, Arlene Francis and Gene Rayburn.
6 Sooper Dog C
8 Merv Griffin C
Guests include satirist Henry Morgan, singers Jane Morgan and Ronni Dyson, actress Ingrid Pitt and comic Pat Cooper.
10 Mike Douglas C
Guests include William Shatner, comic Jack E. Leonard, singers Julie Budd and Scott Jacobi; and child psychologist Haim Ginott.
12 Movie C
'Apache Territory.' (1958) Morgan Cates leads a small group across the Arizona desert-in an attempt to escape from the Apaches. Rory Calhoun, John Dehner.
13 Flintstones C
5PM
3h Merv Griffin
Guests: Hermione Gingold; singer Jerry Vale; and comic Jackie Vernon.
3n F Troop C
Fort Courage is infiltrated by spies when F Troop is selected to test a secret bullet-proof vest.
6 Rawhide
The drovers rescue three soldiers from a small Comanche raiding party, but fail to drive the Indians away permanently. They've soon come back with reinforcements. Eric Fleming, James Whitmore.
13 Bungles and His Friends C
5:30
3n Gilligan's Island C
The castaways search for a rare berry that will cure Gilligan's upside-down vision.
13 News, Weather, Sports C
5:50
12 News, Weather C
5:55
8 Paul Harvey C
6PM
3h 6 8 News, Weather, Sports (B&W on 3h)
10 I Love Lucy
With the body coming, Ricky decides that Lucy should stay in bed while he does the chores. His cooking ventures nearly burn down the house. Desi Arnaz.
12 Perry Mason
'The Golden Oranges.' Gerald Thorton claims that orange grower Amos Keller's dog attacked him. Keller: Arthur Hunnicutt. Thorton: Arch Johnson.
13 ABC News-Frank Reynolds C
6:30
3h ABC News-Frank Reynolds C
3n 6 CBS News-Walter Cronkite C
8 Gilligan's Island C
The castaways clash with a native warrior.
10 NBC News-Huntley/Brinkley C
13 Perry Mason
'The Double-Entry Mind.' Timid bookkeeper Clem Sandover has stashed away over $200,000 of embezzled money. Sandover: Stuart Erwin.
15 Big Picture-Army
Cameras follow a West Point cadet from plebe to graduate.
23 Tales of Poindexter
Poindexter (Tom Tichenor) tells his version of an old tale: 'Jack Rabbit and the Beanstalk.'
6:45
23 Time for John
John learns how a starfish moves.
7PM
3h Buck Owens
Buck Owens' guests are Waylon Jennings, Buddy Allan, Wanda Jackson and Conway Twitty.
3n Queen & I
6 10 News, Weather, Sports C
8 Truth or Consequences C
12 NBC News-Huntley/Brinkley C
15 NET Playhouse
'A Choice of Kings,' a political drama about events leading up to the Battle of Hastings and the Norman Conquest in 1066. Harold of Wessex: Michael Craig. William of Normandy: Julian Glover.
23 What's New
A visit to Stone Mountain, Ga., where the faces of Jefferson Davis, Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee are being carved in the mountainside.
7:30
3h 13 Tom Jones C
Tom swings with Mama Cass Elliot; the Dave Clark Five, singer Masiel and comic George Carlin. Tom sings 'Hey, Jude,' 'Gentle on My Mind,' 'What'd I Say?,' among others.
3n 6 Wild, Wild West C
Murderous interference plagues West and Artemus as they escort a Russian prince and his royal caravan to New Petersburg. Pretenders to the throne menace the prince as he seeks to reclaim a spiritually symbolic royal icon. West: Robert Conrad. Artemus: Ross Martin. Prince Gregor: Guy Stockwell.
8 Movie C
'Stage Struck.' (1957) A young girl, determined to become a famous actress, comes to New York. Directed by Sidney Lumet. Henry Fonda, Susan Strasberg.
10 12 NBC News Special C
'The First Americans.' Some 20,000 years ago, early man crossed the Bering Land Bridge from Siberia and peopled the Western Hemisphere: fathering the great Indian nations of the Americas. Hugh Downs hosts this expedition-a look back at the first Americans. Cameras focus on key archaeological sites. Dr. A.P. Oklaidnikov of the Soviet Academy of Science shows the remains in Russian Siberia, of a house built of mammoths' bones, and tells how the people managed to hunt and survive the cold. At Onion Portage, Alaska, the present-day Eskimo is traced back to the first Mongoloid groups in the area. At Nikolski, a village inhabited for more than 10,000 years, simple tools and artifacts have been uncovered that are almost identical to their modern counterparts. In Eastern Washington, human skeletal material more than 11,000 years old has been found, at Marmes Man Rockshelter. Dr. Roald Fryxell of Washington State University discusses the site; flint-knapper Don Crabtree shows how he uses ancient skills to duplicate the flint tools of early man. In Murray Springs, AZ; SMU geologist Vance Haynes discusses Clovis Man (12,000 years old) and displays his findings. Also: Hugh Downs visits other excavations in Venezuela, Peru and Chile. This is the first of an occasional series, with upcoming subjects including aggression, Eskimos, earthquakes and the human mind.
[The High Chaparral will not be seen.]
23 Book Beat C
Ralph Martin talks about 'Jennie,' his biography of Winston Churchill's mother Jeanette Jerome. Topics include the American-born Jeanette as the woman behind the man, her husband Lord Randolph; Jennie's career as a campaigner for social progress; and her talents as a pianist and horsewoman. Host: Robert Cromie.
8PM
15 Washington News C
23 Playing the Guitar
Lesson: sight reading; low D tuning.
8:30
3h 13 Generation Gap C
3n 6 Gomer Pyle, USMC C
Panic ensues when Gomer and Sergeant Carter take over for a fellow Marine: an expectant father whose broken leg is keeping him from pacing the floor.
10 12 Name of the Game C
Honor Blackman, Maurice Evans and Brian Bedford head the predominantly British cast in 'An Agent of the Plaintiff.' The drama pits publisher Glenn Howard against libel action and a lovely London solicitor. Howard's London bureau is a codefendant in a case that smacks of conspiracy between the plaintiff and his charming counsel-who uses people as cynically as she manufactures evidence. Howard: Gene Barry.
15 Victory at Sea
'Suicide for Glory.' After the Allied conquest of Okinawa, the Japanese launched the largest suicide offensive in history. Kamikaze planes are seen crash-landing on Allied ships. Incidental music by Richard Rodgers. Leonard Graves narrates.
23 Film C
Films survey efforts to alleviate causes of world hunger.
9PM
3h 13 Let's Make a Deal C
3n 6 Movie
'Stalag 17.' (1953) William Holden won an Oscar for his acting in Billy Wilder's film about American POWs in a German prison camp. There's an informer in Barracks 4, and the prisoners put the finger on Sefton-a profiteering loner. Based on the Broadway hit. Don Taylor, Robert Strauss.
15 NET Playhouse
'A Passage to India.' India's Santha Rama Rau based this drama on E.M. Forster's memorable novel. Set in India during the 1920s, the play examines a relationship that is threatened by blind racial hatreds. Virginia Mc Kenna of 'Born Free' plays a leading role. Sybil Thorndike.
23 French Chef
Julia Child demonstrates two methods of stewing beef.
9:30
3h 8 13 Guns of Will Sonnett C
Will and Jeff take a turn on stage to put the lie to a play titled 'The Man Who Killed Jim Sonnett.' Will: Walter Brennan. Jeff: Dack Rambo.
23 City Makers C
Tentatively scheduled: an interview with New York Mayor John V. Lindsay. Expected topics include the headline-making Ocean Hill-Brownsville school dispute, and the issue of whether any mayor can effectively counter the tangle of administrative headaches and social ills that plague New York.
10PM
3h 8 13 Judd C
Ben represents emotionally strained Don Townsend to prevent his divorced wife from taking their child to Europe. Complicating the case: Townsend has accidentally killed his former brother-in-law. Stephen Young, Jack McMartin.
10 12 Bell Telephone Hour C
'Hollywood: The Selznick Years.' A tribute to the late producer and movie titan, David O. Selznick.
[Star Trek will not be seen tonight.]
11PM
3h 8 10 12 13 News, Weather, Sports (B&W on 3H)
11:20
3n 6 News, Weather, Sports
11:25
13 Movie
'The Bad Seed.' (1956) Maxwell Anderson's dream about a little girl who had an inbred talent for killing people. Nancy Kelly, Patty McCormack.
11:30
3h 8 Joey Bishop C
Mickey Mantle and Mahalla Jackson are tentatively scheduled. Regis Philbin, Johnny Mann.
3n Tackle Box C
10 12 Johnny Carson C
Tentatively scheduled: guest host Bill Cosby, singer Roslyn Cash.
11:40
3n Joey Bishop - Joined in progress
11:50
6 Movie C
'Lucy Gallant.' (1955) After she is jilted at the altar, a young woman tries to forget the past by opening a fashionable dress ship. Lucy Gallant: Jane Wyman.
1AM
8 10 News, Weather Sports C
1:20
13 Gene Lowry C
1:50
13 Alcoholics Anonymous C
Channels
3h WSVA Harrisonburg NBC/ABC
3n WTAR Norfolk CBS
6 WTVR Richmond CBS
8 WXEX Richmond-Petersburg ABC
10 WAVY Norfolk NBC
12 WWBT Richmond NBC
13 WVEC Norfolk ABC
15 WHRO Norfolk NET
23 WCVE Richmond NET
3/21/1969 - Fri
C-Color
6AM
3n These Things We Share
6:15
3n Town and Country C
6:25
3n Sunrise Semester C
English Literature: the prose of John Henry Newman.
6:30
6 Virginia Today C
10 Farm Show
12 Town & Country C
6:40
12 News, Table Talk C
6:55
3n Lift Up Mine Eyes C
7AM
6 News-Bob Bauder C
10 12 Today C
Tentatively scheduled: a preview of tonight's NBC News Special on the origins of the first Americans; films of Red China; a feature on a newly developed 40-character alphabet; and members of the Coast Guard choir. Hugh Downs.
7:05
3n 6 News C-Joe Benti
7:30
3n Flibbertigibbett C (children's show?)
6 Richmond Today C
13 Wild Bill Hickok
A young woman traveling west to be married, is on a stage coach when it is held up by a kilt-attired bandit with a Scottish accent. But the young woman, a schoolteacher, realizes the accent is phony and is convinced that she can identify the bandit.
7:40
8 News-Rich Landrum
7:50
3h 8 Town and Country (C on ch 8)
8AM
3h Today C - Joined in progress, see 7AM
3n Captain Kangaroo
8 Farm Show C
13 Comedy Time
8:30
6 Sooper Dog C
8 Jack La Lanne
13 Romper Room C
8:45
15 Classroom
In school classes: 8:45, 6th grade Newspaper Reading; 9:05, 7th grade Virginia History; 9:35 and 10:25 To Be Announced, 10AM 6th grade Science; 10:50 Cultural Series; 11:15 Elementary Literature; 11:40 2nd-Grade Science.
9AM
3h Mike Douglas C
Guests: Mrs. Hubert Humphrey, Edie Adams, singer Don Cherry and comedienne Patti Deutsch.
3n Merv Griffin C - See 4:30pm, WXEX.
6 Captain Kangaroo C
8 Dialing for Dollars C
10 Burke's Law C
'Terror in a Tiny Town,' conclusion. Burke finds himself in the middle of a nightmare: the citizens of Sorrel are armed and ready to kill him. Interrupted by Dialing for Dollars.
13 America!
9:30
13 Truth or Consequences C (interesting slot to air this show, usually it was on early evenings)
23 Classroom
In-school classes: 9:30 5th-grade Music; recess from 9:55-10:30 and 11:55-12:30, 10:30 3rd-grade Music; 11:00 5th-grade Science; 11:30 6th-grade Science.
9:55
13 News-Chuck Travis C
10AM
3h 10 12 Snap Judgment C
Guests: Bill Cullen and actress Dina Merrill. Host: Ed McMahon.
3n 6 The Lucy Show C
Veteran character actor Alan Hale plays a fire chief up to his neck in Lucy's volunteer brigade.
13 Movie
'No Man of Her Own.' (1950) An unwed mother assumes the identify of a fellow passenger who is killed in a train wreck. Barbara Stanwyck, John Lund.
10:25
3h 10 12 News C
10:30
3h 10 12 Concentration C
3n 6 Beverly Hillbillies
Granny opens fire on a tax collector. Irene Ryan.
8 America Sings C
11AM
3h 10 12 Personality C
Celebrities: Robert Merrill, Rita Moreno and Edward Mulhare. On film: Sen. Everett Dirksen (R-Ill.)
3n 6 Andy Griffith
Andy and Barney had better watch out-fun-loving girls are on the prowl.
8 Coffee Time C
11:30
3h 10 12 Hollywood Squares C
Players: Marty Allen, Jim Backus, Jack Cassidy, Nanette Fabray, June Lockhart and Ross Martin.
3n 6 Dick Van Dyke
Rob becomes job hunter-for a bullfighter (Joby Baker).
11:50
13 News-Chuck Travis C
Noon
3h 8 13 Bewitched
Maurice Evans appears in this episode as Tabatha's witchpry is put to the test.
3n 6 Love of Life C
10 12 Jeopardy! C
15 Classroom
In-school classes: noon, 7th grade Virginia History; 12:30 To Be Announced; 1:10 4th-grade Geography; 1:35 7th-grade Virginia History; 2PM Probability and Statistics; 2:30 Primary Literature. Sign off from 3-6:30pm.
12:25
3n News-Roland C
6 News-Edwards C
12:30
3h 8 13 Funny You Should Ask C
Tentative guests: Marty Allen, Mike Connors, Stu Gilliam, Rose Marie and Carol Wayne. Host: Lloyd Thaxton.
3n 6 Search for Tomorrow C
10 News, Weather, Sports C
12 Eye Guess C
23 Classroom
In-school classes: 12:30 1st-grade Music, recess from 12:45-1PM; 1PM 4th-grade Music; 1:30 7th-grade Science. Sign-off from 1:45-6:30.
12:55
12 News C-Newman
1PM
3h 8 13 Dream House C
3n Mildred Alexander C
6 Girl Talk C
12 Match Game C
Guests: Orson Bean and actress Patricia Harty.
1:25
12 News C
1:30
3h 8 13 Let's Make a Deal C
3n As the World Turns C
10 12 Hidden Faces C
2PM
3h 8 13 Newlywed Game C
3n 6 Love is a Many-Splendored Thing C
10 12 Days of Our Lives
2:30
3h 8 13 Dating Game C
3n 6 Guiding Light C
10 12 The Doctors C
3PM
3h 8 13 General Hospital C
3n 6 Secret Storm C
10 12 Another World C
3:30
3h 8 13 One Life to Live C
3n 6 Edge of Night C
10 12 You Don't Say! C
Guests: the comedy team of Phil Ford and Mimi Hines.
4PM
3h 8 13 Dark Shadows C
3n 6 The Linkletter Show C
Guest: jazzman Erroll Garner.
10 Match Game C
Guests: musical-comedy star Jack Cassidy and Sheila MacRae.
12 Flintstones C
4:25
10 News C-Floyd Kalber
4:30
3h Pay Cards!
Guest: comic Joey Adams. (The original version aired in the US for one season, and had better success in Canada with two remakes, one being 'Super' Pay Cards in 1981.)
3n What's My Line? C
Celebrity panelists: Dr. Joyce Brothers, Jack Cassidy, Arlene Francis and Gene Rayburn.
6 Sooper Dog C
8 Merv Griffin C
Guests include satirist Henry Morgan, singers Jane Morgan and Ronni Dyson, actress Ingrid Pitt and comic Pat Cooper.
10 Mike Douglas C
Guests include William Shatner, comic Jack E. Leonard, singers Julie Budd and Scott Jacobi; and child psychologist Haim Ginott.
12 Movie C
'Apache Territory.' (1958) Morgan Cates leads a small group across the Arizona desert-in an attempt to escape from the Apaches. Rory Calhoun, John Dehner.
13 Flintstones C
5PM
3h Merv Griffin
Guests: Hermione Gingold; singer Jerry Vale; and comic Jackie Vernon.
3n F Troop C
Fort Courage is infiltrated by spies when F Troop is selected to test a secret bullet-proof vest.
6 Rawhide
The drovers rescue three soldiers from a small Comanche raiding party, but fail to drive the Indians away permanently. They've soon come back with reinforcements. Eric Fleming, James Whitmore.
13 Bungles and His Friends C
5:30
3n Gilligan's Island C
The castaways search for a rare berry that will cure Gilligan's upside-down vision.
13 News, Weather, Sports C
5:50
12 News, Weather C
5:55
8 Paul Harvey C
6PM
3h 6 8 News, Weather, Sports (B&W on 3h)
10 I Love Lucy
With the body coming, Ricky decides that Lucy should stay in bed while he does the chores. His cooking ventures nearly burn down the house. Desi Arnaz.
12 Perry Mason
'The Golden Oranges.' Gerald Thorton claims that orange grower Amos Keller's dog attacked him. Keller: Arthur Hunnicutt. Thorton: Arch Johnson.
13 ABC News-Frank Reynolds C
6:30
3h ABC News-Frank Reynolds C
3n 6 CBS News-Walter Cronkite C
8 Gilligan's Island C
The castaways clash with a native warrior.
10 NBC News-Huntley/Brinkley C
13 Perry Mason
'The Double-Entry Mind.' Timid bookkeeper Clem Sandover has stashed away over $200,000 of embezzled money. Sandover: Stuart Erwin.
15 Big Picture-Army
Cameras follow a West Point cadet from plebe to graduate.
23 Tales of Poindexter
Poindexter (Tom Tichenor) tells his version of an old tale: 'Jack Rabbit and the Beanstalk.'
6:45
23 Time for John
John learns how a starfish moves.
7PM
3h Buck Owens
Buck Owens' guests are Waylon Jennings, Buddy Allan, Wanda Jackson and Conway Twitty.
3n Queen & I
6 10 News, Weather, Sports C
8 Truth or Consequences C
12 NBC News-Huntley/Brinkley C
15 NET Playhouse
'A Choice of Kings,' a political drama about events leading up to the Battle of Hastings and the Norman Conquest in 1066. Harold of Wessex: Michael Craig. William of Normandy: Julian Glover.
23 What's New
A visit to Stone Mountain, Ga., where the faces of Jefferson Davis, Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee are being carved in the mountainside.
7:30
3h 13 Tom Jones C
Tom swings with Mama Cass Elliot; the Dave Clark Five, singer Masiel and comic George Carlin. Tom sings 'Hey, Jude,' 'Gentle on My Mind,' 'What'd I Say?,' among others.
3n 6 Wild, Wild West C
Murderous interference plagues West and Artemus as they escort a Russian prince and his royal caravan to New Petersburg. Pretenders to the throne menace the prince as he seeks to reclaim a spiritually symbolic royal icon. West: Robert Conrad. Artemus: Ross Martin. Prince Gregor: Guy Stockwell.
8 Movie C
'Stage Struck.' (1957) A young girl, determined to become a famous actress, comes to New York. Directed by Sidney Lumet. Henry Fonda, Susan Strasberg.
10 12 NBC News Special C
'The First Americans.' Some 20,000 years ago, early man crossed the Bering Land Bridge from Siberia and peopled the Western Hemisphere: fathering the great Indian nations of the Americas. Hugh Downs hosts this expedition-a look back at the first Americans. Cameras focus on key archaeological sites. Dr. A.P. Oklaidnikov of the Soviet Academy of Science shows the remains in Russian Siberia, of a house built of mammoths' bones, and tells how the people managed to hunt and survive the cold. At Onion Portage, Alaska, the present-day Eskimo is traced back to the first Mongoloid groups in the area. At Nikolski, a village inhabited for more than 10,000 years, simple tools and artifacts have been uncovered that are almost identical to their modern counterparts. In Eastern Washington, human skeletal material more than 11,000 years old has been found, at Marmes Man Rockshelter. Dr. Roald Fryxell of Washington State University discusses the site; flint-knapper Don Crabtree shows how he uses ancient skills to duplicate the flint tools of early man. In Murray Springs, AZ; SMU geologist Vance Haynes discusses Clovis Man (12,000 years old) and displays his findings. Also: Hugh Downs visits other excavations in Venezuela, Peru and Chile. This is the first of an occasional series, with upcoming subjects including aggression, Eskimos, earthquakes and the human mind.
[The High Chaparral will not be seen.]
23 Book Beat C
Ralph Martin talks about 'Jennie,' his biography of Winston Churchill's mother Jeanette Jerome. Topics include the American-born Jeanette as the woman behind the man, her husband Lord Randolph; Jennie's career as a campaigner for social progress; and her talents as a pianist and horsewoman. Host: Robert Cromie.
8PM
15 Washington News C
23 Playing the Guitar
Lesson: sight reading; low D tuning.
8:30
3h 13 Generation Gap C
3n 6 Gomer Pyle, USMC C
Panic ensues when Gomer and Sergeant Carter take over for a fellow Marine: an expectant father whose broken leg is keeping him from pacing the floor.
10 12 Name of the Game C
Honor Blackman, Maurice Evans and Brian Bedford head the predominantly British cast in 'An Agent of the Plaintiff.' The drama pits publisher Glenn Howard against libel action and a lovely London solicitor. Howard's London bureau is a codefendant in a case that smacks of conspiracy between the plaintiff and his charming counsel-who uses people as cynically as she manufactures evidence. Howard: Gene Barry.
15 Victory at Sea
'Suicide for Glory.' After the Allied conquest of Okinawa, the Japanese launched the largest suicide offensive in history. Kamikaze planes are seen crash-landing on Allied ships. Incidental music by Richard Rodgers. Leonard Graves narrates.
23 Film C
Films survey efforts to alleviate causes of world hunger.
9PM
3h 13 Let's Make a Deal C
3n 6 Movie
'Stalag 17.' (1953) William Holden won an Oscar for his acting in Billy Wilder's film about American POWs in a German prison camp. There's an informer in Barracks 4, and the prisoners put the finger on Sefton-a profiteering loner. Based on the Broadway hit. Don Taylor, Robert Strauss.
15 NET Playhouse
'A Passage to India.' India's Santha Rama Rau based this drama on E.M. Forster's memorable novel. Set in India during the 1920s, the play examines a relationship that is threatened by blind racial hatreds. Virginia Mc Kenna of 'Born Free' plays a leading role. Sybil Thorndike.
23 French Chef
Julia Child demonstrates two methods of stewing beef.
9:30
3h 8 13 Guns of Will Sonnett C
Will and Jeff take a turn on stage to put the lie to a play titled 'The Man Who Killed Jim Sonnett.' Will: Walter Brennan. Jeff: Dack Rambo.
23 City Makers C
Tentatively scheduled: an interview with New York Mayor John V. Lindsay. Expected topics include the headline-making Ocean Hill-Brownsville school dispute, and the issue of whether any mayor can effectively counter the tangle of administrative headaches and social ills that plague New York.
10PM
3h 8 13 Judd C
Ben represents emotionally strained Don Townsend to prevent his divorced wife from taking their child to Europe. Complicating the case: Townsend has accidentally killed his former brother-in-law. Stephen Young, Jack McMartin.
10 12 Bell Telephone Hour C
'Hollywood: The Selznick Years.' A tribute to the late producer and movie titan, David O. Selznick.
[Star Trek will not be seen tonight.]
11PM
3h 8 10 12 13 News, Weather, Sports (B&W on 3H)
11:20
3n 6 News, Weather, Sports
11:25
13 Movie
'The Bad Seed.' (1956) Maxwell Anderson's dream about a little girl who had an inbred talent for killing people. Nancy Kelly, Patty McCormack.
11:30
3h 8 Joey Bishop C
Mickey Mantle and Mahalla Jackson are tentatively scheduled. Regis Philbin, Johnny Mann.
3n Tackle Box C
10 12 Johnny Carson C
Tentatively scheduled: guest host Bill Cosby, singer Roslyn Cash.
11:40
3n Joey Bishop - Joined in progress
11:50
6 Movie C
'Lucy Gallant.' (1955) After she is jilted at the altar, a young woman tries to forget the past by opening a fashionable dress ship. Lucy Gallant: Jane Wyman.
1AM
8 10 News, Weather Sports C
1:20
13 Gene Lowry C
1:50
13 Alcoholics Anonymous C