From TV Guide, Eastern Virginia Edition:
WTAR (WTKR) Ch. 3 Norfolk (CBS)
7:30 The Story
8 AM This Is The Life (religious program not to
be confused with "This Is Your Life," even
though the New York Daily News once did)
8:30 Day Of Discovery
9 AM Tom And Jerry
9:30 Aquaman
10 AM Sisters In The World (the changing world of
nuns--CBS special pre-empts "Lamp Unto
My Feet" and "Look Up And Live")
11 AM Bible Story (I think this may be Paul Harvey's
series)
11:30 Face The Nation
12 N Big Picture
12:30 77 Sunset Strip
1:30 Film
1:45 Movie: "Tangier"
3:15 Sports (local, with Ed Hughes)
3:30 AAU Track Meet (from Oslo)
4:30 NFL Action (rookies trying to make it; one is
O.J. Simpson)
5 PM Jetsons
5:30 Amateur Hour (guests: singers Tino Fonte, Sister
Mary Patrick--no relation to me--Toby Lee Ginsburg,
and the Capeway Company; tap dancer Eddy Lambert;
ventriloquist Beverley Meyer; the Two J's, puppet-
pantomime act)
6 PM 21st Century: "Eye In The Sky" (satellites that watch
over Earth)
6:30 News, Weather, Sports
7 PM Lassie
7:30 Gentle Ben
8 PM Ed Sullivan (highlights from "Fiddler On The Roof,"
"Cabaret," and "Zorba")
9 PM Hee Haw (initial CBS run; guests Merle Haggard and
wife Bonnie Owens--don't know if she's kin to Buck)
10 PM Mission: Impossible
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:15 CBS News (Harry Reasoner)
11:30 Merv Griffin (guests: Rodney Dangerfield, Robert
Klein, singer Aliza Kashi--delay from Fri 11:30)
WSVA (WHSV) Ch. 3 Harrisonburg (NBC/ABC)
8 AM Cathedral Of Tomorrow (Rex Humbard)
9 AM George Of The Jungle (ABC, delay from Sat 12 N,
not in color)
9:30 Dudley Do-Right
10 AM Linus The Lionhearted
10:30 King Kong
11 AM Church Service
12 N Day Of Discovery
12:30 Discovery (delay from 11:30 AM, not in color)
1 PM Insight
1:30 Issues And Answers (guest: Billy Graham)
2 PM Movie: "Let's Rock!" (Rockers? Julius LaRosa,
Paul Anka, Phyllis Newman, Della Reese)
3:30 Film (Japanese steel industry)
4 PM Summer Focus: "To Be Black"
5 PM Skippy, The Bush Kangaroo
5:30 Film (the role of the police officer)
6 PM Congressional Report (listed time approximate, since
NBC is carrying a golf tournament before this)
6:30 Frank McGee Report
7 PM Land Of The Giants
8 PM ABC Movie: "Is Paris Burning?"
10:45 News (probably ABC, since Ch. 13 goes to its local
news at 11 and has no news after 11:15)
WTVR Ch. 6 Richmond (CBS)
6 AM Black Heritage (two of the three hours that aired in
early-morning slots on CBS the previous week)
8 AM Revival Fires
8:30 Oral Roberts
9 AM Dr. Paul Uhrig (religion)
9:15 That They May Be One
9:30 Aquaman
10 AM Day Of Discovery
10:30 TBA (Ch. 6 normally carried "Look Up And Live")
11 AM Camera Three
11:30 Face The Nation
12 N Viewpoint
12:30 Amateur Hour (delay--guests: singers Patricia Kelley,
Anthony Martini, Michael Walsh, and the Gateway
Guardsmen; dancers Karen Jones and the Fitzmaurice-
Moran Dancers; the Crimson Brass; Tex Berube Sr. with
his lasso)
1 PM Jetsons
1:30 Wagon Train
3 PM NFL Action (how the Packers fell from Super Bowl champs
to also-rans in 1968--delay from 4:30)
3:30 AAU Track Meet
4:30 Movie: "No Diamonds For Ursula"
6:30 Death Valley Days
7 PM Lassie
7:30 Gentle Ben
8 PM Ed Sullivan
9 PM Hee Haw
10 PM Mission: Impossible
11 PM CBS News
11:15 not listed, probably local news
11:30 Merv Griffin (same as WTAR)
1 AM Gene Lowry (religion)
WXEX (WRIC) Ch. 8 Richmond-Petersburg (ABC)
7 AM Faith For Today
7:30 Gospel Singing Jubilee
8:30 A.A. Allen Revival Hour
9 AM Rex Humbard
10 AM Linus The Lionhearted
10:30 King Kong
11 AM Bullwinkle
11:30 Discovery
12 N Championship Bowling: Bob Strampe vs.
Dick Weber
12:30 Greatest Show On Earth
1:30 Issues And Answers
2 PM Dudley Do-Right (delay from 9:30 AM)
2:30 Movie: "Queen Of The Seas"
4 PM Summer Focus: "To Be Black"
5 PM Kitty Wells
5:30 Porter Wagoner (guest: Hank Snow)
6 PM Country Music Carnival
7 PM Land Of The Giants
8 PM ABC Movie: "Is Paris Burning?"
10:45 News (again, probably ABC)
11 PM Movie: "Spartacus And The Ten Gladiators"
WAVY Ch. 10 Norfolk (NBC)
7 AM Laughing Place
8:30 Insight
9 AM Church Service
9:30 The Answer
10 AM Glory Road (religion)
10:30 Gospel Singing Jubilee
11:30 Action '69 (variety, but not sure what
kind of variety show this is)
12 N Live And Learn
12:30 Topic
1 PM Meet The Press
1:30 News, Weather, Sports (Ch. 10 did this on
Saturdays, too--and I'd never heard of a
Saturday local daytime newscast until WXIA
started one in the fall of '72)
2:30 Stan Hitchcock (country music, no connection
to Alfred--guest: Grandpa Jones)
3 PM New Adventures Of Huck Finn (delay from 7 PM)
3:30 Star Trek (delay from Tue 7:30)
4:30 Golf: Avco Classic (final round)
6 PM Congressional Report (time approximate)
6:30 All-American College Show
7 PM News, Weather, Sports
7:30 Walt Disney's Wonderful World Of Color (repeats
"Davy Crockett, Indian Fighter," which touched off
a national craze in 1954)
8:30 Mothers-In-Law
9 PM Bonanza
10 PM My Friend Tony (whatever happened to Enzo
Cerusico?)
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Sunday Tonight Show
1 AM News, Weather, Sports
WWBT Ch. 12 Richmond (NBC)
7 AM Gospel Hour (I'm thinking this might be Jerry
Falwell's "Old Time Gospel Hour")
8 AM The Answer
8:30 Breakthru (religion)
9 AM Untamed World (delay from Sat 12:30)
9:30 Pattern For Living
10 AM Insight
10:30 Light Unto My Path
11 AM Church Service
12 N Roller Derby
1 PM Meet The Press
1:30 WWBT Report
2 PM Government Story
2:30 Movie: "Jubal"
4:30 Golf: Avco Classic (final round)
6 PM Congressional Report (time approximate)
6:30 Frank McGee Report
7 PM New Adventures Of Huck Finn
7:30 Walt Disney's Wonderful World Of Color
8:30 Mothers-In-Law
9 PM Bonanza
10 PM My Friend Tony
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Sunday Tonight Show
WVEC Ch. 13 Norfolk (ABC)
7 AM Christophers
7:30 Comedy Time
8 AM Revival Fires
8:30 Oral Roberts
9 AM Wild Bill Hickok
9:30 Dudley Do-Right
10 AM Linus The Lionhearted
10:30 King Kong
11 AM Bullwinkle
11:30 Discovery
12 N Roller Derby (an institution at this time on
Ch. 13 for years--I remember when Joanie
Weston singlehandedly sold out the arena
in Norfolk where the Bay Area Bombers were
appearing)
1 PM Conversation
1:30 Issues And Answers
2 PM Movie: "Tarzan The Fearless"
3:30 Parade Of Champions (Putt Putt Golf)
4 PM Summer Focus: "To Be Black"
5 PM Movie: "-30-" (Jack Webb and William Conrad
star; title refers to the symbol indicating the
end of a transmitted news story in newspaper
lingo)
6:50 News
7 PM Land Of The Giants
8 PM ABC Movie: "Is Paris Burning?"
10:45 News (probably ABC)
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:15 Movie: "Santiago"
WHRO Ch. 15 Norfolk (NET)
off air on Sunday
WCVE Ch. 23 Richmond (NET)
6 PM Insight
6:30 French Chef
7 PM Bertrand Russell (biography and
interview)
8 PM Sounds Of Summer (Steve Allen hosts;
spotlight on classical guitarist Oscar
Ghiglia at the Aspen Music Festival)
9:30 National Tennis Championships (taped
earlier that day at the Longwood Cricket
Club in Brookline, MA)
sign off 11 PM
WYAH (WGNT) Ch. 27 Portsmouth (Ind.)
12:30 Jim And Tammy
1:30 Panorama
2:30 Rex Humbard
3:30 Film
4 PM Bibletown, U.S.A.
4:30 Kathryn Kuhlman
5 PM This Is The Life
5:30 Gospel Hour (again, I'm wondering if
this is Jerry Falwell)
6:30 Chapel Cottage
sign off after this--when I lived in Norfolk
(1966-68) Ch. 27 would sign off at 6 PM
on Sundays
WTAR (WTKR) Ch. 3 Norfolk (CBS)
7:30 The Story
8 AM This Is The Life (religious program not to
be confused with "This Is Your Life," even
though the New York Daily News once did)
8:30 Day Of Discovery
9 AM Tom And Jerry
9:30 Aquaman
10 AM Sisters In The World (the changing world of
nuns--CBS special pre-empts "Lamp Unto
My Feet" and "Look Up And Live")
11 AM Bible Story (I think this may be Paul Harvey's
series)
11:30 Face The Nation
12 N Big Picture
12:30 77 Sunset Strip
1:30 Film
1:45 Movie: "Tangier"
3:15 Sports (local, with Ed Hughes)
3:30 AAU Track Meet (from Oslo)
4:30 NFL Action (rookies trying to make it; one is
O.J. Simpson)
5 PM Jetsons
5:30 Amateur Hour (guests: singers Tino Fonte, Sister
Mary Patrick--no relation to me--Toby Lee Ginsburg,
and the Capeway Company; tap dancer Eddy Lambert;
ventriloquist Beverley Meyer; the Two J's, puppet-
pantomime act)
6 PM 21st Century: "Eye In The Sky" (satellites that watch
over Earth)
6:30 News, Weather, Sports
7 PM Lassie
7:30 Gentle Ben
8 PM Ed Sullivan (highlights from "Fiddler On The Roof,"
"Cabaret," and "Zorba")
9 PM Hee Haw (initial CBS run; guests Merle Haggard and
wife Bonnie Owens--don't know if she's kin to Buck)
10 PM Mission: Impossible
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:15 CBS News (Harry Reasoner)
11:30 Merv Griffin (guests: Rodney Dangerfield, Robert
Klein, singer Aliza Kashi--delay from Fri 11:30)
WSVA (WHSV) Ch. 3 Harrisonburg (NBC/ABC)
8 AM Cathedral Of Tomorrow (Rex Humbard)
9 AM George Of The Jungle (ABC, delay from Sat 12 N,
not in color)
9:30 Dudley Do-Right
10 AM Linus The Lionhearted
10:30 King Kong
11 AM Church Service
12 N Day Of Discovery
12:30 Discovery (delay from 11:30 AM, not in color)
1 PM Insight
1:30 Issues And Answers (guest: Billy Graham)
2 PM Movie: "Let's Rock!" (Rockers? Julius LaRosa,
Paul Anka, Phyllis Newman, Della Reese)
3:30 Film (Japanese steel industry)
4 PM Summer Focus: "To Be Black"
5 PM Skippy, The Bush Kangaroo
5:30 Film (the role of the police officer)
6 PM Congressional Report (listed time approximate, since
NBC is carrying a golf tournament before this)
6:30 Frank McGee Report
7 PM Land Of The Giants
8 PM ABC Movie: "Is Paris Burning?"
10:45 News (probably ABC, since Ch. 13 goes to its local
news at 11 and has no news after 11:15)
WTVR Ch. 6 Richmond (CBS)
6 AM Black Heritage (two of the three hours that aired in
early-morning slots on CBS the previous week)
8 AM Revival Fires
8:30 Oral Roberts
9 AM Dr. Paul Uhrig (religion)
9:15 That They May Be One
9:30 Aquaman
10 AM Day Of Discovery
10:30 TBA (Ch. 6 normally carried "Look Up And Live")
11 AM Camera Three
11:30 Face The Nation
12 N Viewpoint
12:30 Amateur Hour (delay--guests: singers Patricia Kelley,
Anthony Martini, Michael Walsh, and the Gateway
Guardsmen; dancers Karen Jones and the Fitzmaurice-
Moran Dancers; the Crimson Brass; Tex Berube Sr. with
his lasso)
1 PM Jetsons
1:30 Wagon Train
3 PM NFL Action (how the Packers fell from Super Bowl champs
to also-rans in 1968--delay from 4:30)
3:30 AAU Track Meet
4:30 Movie: "No Diamonds For Ursula"
6:30 Death Valley Days
7 PM Lassie
7:30 Gentle Ben
8 PM Ed Sullivan
9 PM Hee Haw
10 PM Mission: Impossible
11 PM CBS News
11:15 not listed, probably local news
11:30 Merv Griffin (same as WTAR)
1 AM Gene Lowry (religion)
WXEX (WRIC) Ch. 8 Richmond-Petersburg (ABC)
7 AM Faith For Today
7:30 Gospel Singing Jubilee
8:30 A.A. Allen Revival Hour
9 AM Rex Humbard
10 AM Linus The Lionhearted
10:30 King Kong
11 AM Bullwinkle
11:30 Discovery
12 N Championship Bowling: Bob Strampe vs.
Dick Weber
12:30 Greatest Show On Earth
1:30 Issues And Answers
2 PM Dudley Do-Right (delay from 9:30 AM)
2:30 Movie: "Queen Of The Seas"
4 PM Summer Focus: "To Be Black"
5 PM Kitty Wells
5:30 Porter Wagoner (guest: Hank Snow)
6 PM Country Music Carnival
7 PM Land Of The Giants
8 PM ABC Movie: "Is Paris Burning?"
10:45 News (again, probably ABC)
11 PM Movie: "Spartacus And The Ten Gladiators"
WAVY Ch. 10 Norfolk (NBC)
7 AM Laughing Place
8:30 Insight
9 AM Church Service
9:30 The Answer
10 AM Glory Road (religion)
10:30 Gospel Singing Jubilee
11:30 Action '69 (variety, but not sure what
kind of variety show this is)
12 N Live And Learn
12:30 Topic
1 PM Meet The Press
1:30 News, Weather, Sports (Ch. 10 did this on
Saturdays, too--and I'd never heard of a
Saturday local daytime newscast until WXIA
started one in the fall of '72)
2:30 Stan Hitchcock (country music, no connection
to Alfred--guest: Grandpa Jones)
3 PM New Adventures Of Huck Finn (delay from 7 PM)
3:30 Star Trek (delay from Tue 7:30)
4:30 Golf: Avco Classic (final round)
6 PM Congressional Report (time approximate)
6:30 All-American College Show
7 PM News, Weather, Sports
7:30 Walt Disney's Wonderful World Of Color (repeats
"Davy Crockett, Indian Fighter," which touched off
a national craze in 1954)
8:30 Mothers-In-Law
9 PM Bonanza
10 PM My Friend Tony (whatever happened to Enzo
Cerusico?)
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Sunday Tonight Show
1 AM News, Weather, Sports
WWBT Ch. 12 Richmond (NBC)
7 AM Gospel Hour (I'm thinking this might be Jerry
Falwell's "Old Time Gospel Hour")
8 AM The Answer
8:30 Breakthru (religion)
9 AM Untamed World (delay from Sat 12:30)
9:30 Pattern For Living
10 AM Insight
10:30 Light Unto My Path
11 AM Church Service
12 N Roller Derby
1 PM Meet The Press
1:30 WWBT Report
2 PM Government Story
2:30 Movie: "Jubal"
4:30 Golf: Avco Classic (final round)
6 PM Congressional Report (time approximate)
6:30 Frank McGee Report
7 PM New Adventures Of Huck Finn
7:30 Walt Disney's Wonderful World Of Color
8:30 Mothers-In-Law
9 PM Bonanza
10 PM My Friend Tony
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Sunday Tonight Show
WVEC Ch. 13 Norfolk (ABC)
7 AM Christophers
7:30 Comedy Time
8 AM Revival Fires
8:30 Oral Roberts
9 AM Wild Bill Hickok
9:30 Dudley Do-Right
10 AM Linus The Lionhearted
10:30 King Kong
11 AM Bullwinkle
11:30 Discovery
12 N Roller Derby (an institution at this time on
Ch. 13 for years--I remember when Joanie
Weston singlehandedly sold out the arena
in Norfolk where the Bay Area Bombers were
appearing)
1 PM Conversation
1:30 Issues And Answers
2 PM Movie: "Tarzan The Fearless"
3:30 Parade Of Champions (Putt Putt Golf)
4 PM Summer Focus: "To Be Black"
5 PM Movie: "-30-" (Jack Webb and William Conrad
star; title refers to the symbol indicating the
end of a transmitted news story in newspaper
lingo)
6:50 News
7 PM Land Of The Giants
8 PM ABC Movie: "Is Paris Burning?"
10:45 News (probably ABC)
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:15 Movie: "Santiago"
WHRO Ch. 15 Norfolk (NET)
off air on Sunday
WCVE Ch. 23 Richmond (NET)
6 PM Insight
6:30 French Chef
7 PM Bertrand Russell (biography and
interview)
8 PM Sounds Of Summer (Steve Allen hosts;
spotlight on classical guitarist Oscar
Ghiglia at the Aspen Music Festival)
9:30 National Tennis Championships (taped
earlier that day at the Longwood Cricket
Club in Brookline, MA)
sign off 11 PM
WYAH (WGNT) Ch. 27 Portsmouth (Ind.)
12:30 Jim And Tammy
1:30 Panorama
2:30 Rex Humbard
3:30 Film
4 PM Bibletown, U.S.A.
4:30 Kathryn Kuhlman
5 PM This Is The Life
5:30 Gospel Hour (again, I'm wondering if
this is Jerry Falwell)
6:30 Chapel Cottage
sign off after this--when I lived in Norfolk
(1966-68) Ch. 27 would sign off at 6 PM
on Sundays
