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Retro: Eastern Virginia Friday, June 14, 1968

My last night in Hampton Roads and I haven't been back.

From TV Guide, Eastern Virginia Edition:

WTAR (WTKR) Ch. 3 Norfolk (CBS)

6 AM These Things We Share
6:15 Town And Country
6:25 Summer Semester: "Social Welfare"
6:55 Lift Up Mine Eyes
7:05 CBS News (Joseph Benti, who had received praise
for his coverage of the RFK assassination the week
before.)
7:30 Flibbertigibbet
8 AM Captain Kangaroo (a story about our flag--this is
Flag Day)
9 AM Merv Griffin (Ethel Merman, Marty Allen, Pat McCormick,
Ron Carey, actress Sally Eton, singer Gloria Loring)
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies
11 AM Andy Griffith
11:30 Dick Van Dyke
12 N Love Of Life
12:25 Local News (Ed Hughes)
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1 PM Mildred Alexander
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
2:30 Art Linkletter's House Party (guest: Dr. Joyce Brothers)
3 PM To Tell The Truth
3:25 CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
3:30 Edge Of Night
4 PM Secret Storm
4:30 Movie: "Captain China"
6 PM News, Sports, Weather
6:30 CBS News (Walter Cronkite)
7 PM F Troop
7:30 Wild Wild West
8:30 Gomer Pyle, USMC
9 PM CBS Movie: "Stolen Hours"
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Tackle Box (fishing show with Jeff Dane, local)
11:40 Joey Bishop (joined in progress, guest is Rodney
Dangerfield, pre-empted on Ch. 13)

WSVA (WHSV) Ch. 3 Harrisonburg (NBC/CBS/ABC)

8 AM Today (Vidal Sassoon, the singing Hello People, Maggie
Cogan, the only female hansom-cab driver in New York,
joined in progress)
9 AM Merv Griffin (Ethel Merman, Marty Allen, Sally Eton)
10 AM Dating Game (delay from 4 PM)
10:30 Dick Cavett (Chad Mitchell of Chad Mitchell Trio fame,
Jonathan Kozol, author of "Death At An Early Age")
12 N Bewitched
12:30 Treasure Isle
1 PM Dream House
1:30 Wedding Party
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 Baby Game
2:55 Children's Doctor (Lendon Smith)
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 Dark Shadows ("One Life To Live" would take over this
slot on July 15, "Dark Shadows" would move to 4 PM,
and "Dating Game" to 2:30)
4 PM Mike Douglas (co-hosts: Howard Duff and wife Ida Lupino;
the Rev. Malcolm Boyd, author of "Are You Running With Me,
Jesus?")
5:30 ABC News (Frank Reynolds)
6 PM News, Weather, Sports (as I mentioned elsewhere, all three
ABC stations were still doing their local news in b&w, but Chs.
8 and 13 would go to color that fall)
6:30 Klub Kwiz
7 PM Silent Service
7:30 Dick Cavett (a highlights show with Groucho Marx and Dionne
Warwick)
8 PM U.S. Open (highlights of the first two rounds)
8:30 Man In A Suitcase (I think it was Castleman and Podrazik who
imagined a show in which a man gets locked in his suitcase, then
spends the rest of the series trying to get out; actually, he's a
globetrotting agent named McGill.)
9:30 Guns Of Will Sonnett
10 PM Judd For The Defense
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Joey Bishop

WTVR Ch. 6 Richmond (CBS)

6:30 Virginia Today (I can never help but think that then-sister station
WNCT Greenville, NC, had "Carolina Today" at the same time.)
7:05 CBS News
7:30 Richmond Today
8:30 Sooper Dog
9 AM Captain Kangaroo (it seemed to be a popular thing for Park-owned
CBS affiliates to air the Captain at 9; WNCT did so, as did WDEF
Chattanooga)
10 AM Candid Camera (a self-service elevator never leaves the ground floor;
a woman stops men on the street and asks for a kiss)
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies
11 AM Andy Griffith
11:30 Dick Van Dyke
12 N Love Of Life
12:25 CBS News (Joseph Benti)
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1 PM Girl Talk (Met soprano Roberta Peters, singer Carmel Quinn,
Leatrice Fountain, author of "Love To The Irish")
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
2:30 Art Linkletter's House Party
3 PM To Tell The Truth
3:25 CBS News
3:30 Edge Of Night
4 PM Secret Storm
4:30 Sooper Dog
5 PM Rawhide
6 PM News, Sports, Weather
6:30 CBS News
7 PM News, Weather, Sports
7:30 Wild Wild West
8:30 Gomer Pyle, USMC
9 PM CBS Movie: "Stolen Hours"
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Movie: "The Big Land"

WXEX (WRIC) Ch. 8 Petersburg-Richmond (ABC)

7:50 Town And Country
8 AM Farm Show
8:30 Jack LaLanne
9 AM Dialing For Dollars
9:55 News (Rich Landrum)
10 AM Dating Game
10:30 Dick Cavett
12 N Bewitched
12:30 Treasure Isle
1 PM Dream House
1:30 Wedding Party
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 Baby Game
2:55 Children's Doctor
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 Dark Shadows
4 PM Merv Griffin (same as Ch. 3 Norfolk, "Dialing For
Dollars" interrupts)
5:30 ABC News
6 PM News, Weather, Sports
6:30 McHale's Navy
7 PM Tales Of Wells Fargo
7:30 Dick Cavett
8 PM U.S. Open (highlights of the first two rounds)
8:30 Man In A Suitcase
9:30 Guns Of Will Sonnett
10 PM Judd For The Defense
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Joey Bishop

WAVY Ch. 10 Norfolk (NBC)

6:30 Farm Show
7 AM Today
9 AM Compass
10 AM Snap Judgment (Estelle Parsons, Rich Little)
10:25 NBC News (Nancy Dickerson)
10:30 Concentration
11 AM Personality (Jack Cassidy, Totie Fields, Eli Wallach;
on film: James Mason)
11:30 Hollywood Squares (Kaye Ballard, Robert Conrad, Wally
Cox, Ruta Lee, Rose Marie, Jan Murray, Cesar Romero,
Charley Weaver, Paul Lynde)
12 N Jeopardy!
12:30 Eye Guess
12:55 NBC News (Edwin Newman)
1 PM Girl Talk (same as Ch. 6)
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 You Don't Say! (Richard Kiley, Mary Ann Mobley)
4 PM Match Game (Nipsey Russell, Bess Myerson)
4:25 NBC News (Floyd Kalber)
4:30 Mike Douglas (co-host Fernando Lamas; Noel Harrison,
Timmie ("Oh, yeah!") Rogers, singer Julie DeJohn, pianist
Joe Harnell (who would eventually take over the band on
the show), Sol Linowitz, ambassador to the Organization of
American States)
6 PM News, Sports, Weather
6:30 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7 PM I Love Lucy (Janet Waldo as a teenager with a crush on
Ricky; Richard Crenna as the guy Lucy tries to steer her
toward)
7:30 Tarzan
8:30 NBC News Special: "The Art Scene" (Edwin Newman looks
at the high-stakes world of art collecting, including how to
tell if a work is a fake.)
9:30 Hollywood Squares (Mike Connors, Wally Cox, Abby Dalton,
Angie Dickinson, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Buddy Hackett, Garry Moore,
Jan Murray, Charley Weaver)
10 PM American Profile: "Music From The Land" (Eddy Arnold narrates
a history of country music, from pioneers like Hank Williams, Uncle
Dave Macon, and "singing brakeman" Jimmie Rodgers (not the one
who did "Honeycomb" and "Kisses Sweeter Than Wine") to then-
current performers such as Flatt and Scruggs, Buck Owens, Roy
Acuff, Minnie Pearl, Tex Ritter, and Dottie West.)
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Tonight Show
1 AM Topic
1:30 News

WRVA (WWBT) Ch. 12 Richmond (NBC)

6:30 Town And Country
6:40 Table Talk
6:50 News (Dave Davis)
7 AM Today
9 AM Sailor Bob And Popeye
9:30 Superman
10 AM Snap Judgment
10:25 NBC News
10:30 Concentration
11 AM Personality
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N Jeopardy!
12:30 Eye Guess
12:55 NBC News
1 PM Match Game (Joel Grey, Fannie Flagg, week-behind)
1:25 News
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 You Don't Say!
4 PM Flintstones
4:30 Movie: "God Is My Partner" (shades of "The Millionaire":
a wealthy doctor likes to give his money away, and his
nephews take him to court, charging insanity--the movie
even came out during the original run of "The Millionaire"
(1957) and stars Walter Brennan and Jesse White)
5:50 News, Weather
6 PM Mike Douglas (co-host Red Buttons; composer Cy Coleman)
7 PM Huntley-Brinkley Report
7:30 Tarzan
8:30 NBC News Special
9:30 Hollywood Squares
10 PM American Profile
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Tonight Show

WVEC Ch. 13 Norfolk (ABC)

7:30 Sergeant Preston Of The Yukon
8 AM Comedy Time
8:30 Romper Room
9 AM Movie: "The Heart Of New York" (Al Jolson stars)
10:30 Dick Cavett
12 N Bewitched
12:30 Treasure Isle
1 PM Dream House
1:30 Wedding Party
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 Baby Game
2:55 Children's Doctor
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 Dark Shadows
4 PM Dating Game
4:30 Cisco Kid
5 PM Bungles And His Friends
5:30 ABC News
6 PM News, Weather, Sports
6:30 Perry Mason
7:30 Dick Cavett
8 PM U.S. Open (highlights of the first two rounds)
8:30 Man In A Suitcase
9:30 Guns Of Will Sonnett
10 PM Judd For The Defense
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:25 Movie: "Bigger Than Life"

WHRO Ch. 15 Norfolk (NET)

7:30 Boston Symphony (Erich Leinsdorf conducts Haydn's
second "Te Deum"; Strauss's "Die Tageszeiten"; and
Aaron Copland's Symphony for Organ and Orchestra.)
9 PM NET Playhouse ("The Battle Of Culloden," the last battle
fought on British soil--1746--in which Bonnie Prince Charlie
leads a force of Highlanders in a final attempt to restore
the Stuarts to the throne of Scotland.)
sign off 10:15 PM

WCVE Ch. 23 Richmond (NET)

7 PM What's New
7:30 Dissenters (Irving Howe discusses democratic socialism.)
8 PM NET Playhouse ("Sponono," set in South Africa, about a
clash between a black delinquent and the white reformatory
principal who has charge of him.)
sign off 10 PM
 
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