Thanksgiving Day, from TV Guide, Eastern Virginia Edition:
WTAR (WTKR) Ch. 3 Norfolk (CBS)
5:55 These Things We Share
6:10 Town And Country
6:20 Film (a helicopter tour over Niagara Falls, New
England, Pennsylvania's Amish country, New
York City; "Sunrise Semester" is pre-empted,
but airs on Ch. 6 on a day-behind)
6:50 Lift Up Mine Eyes
7 AM CBS News (John Hart)
7:30 Flibbertigibbet
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Thanksgiving Parades: 1. Macy's in New York
(Peter Graves and Julie Sommars of "The Governor
And J.J." report); 2. Gimbels' in Philadelphia (Harvey
Korman and Vicki Lawrence); 3. J.L. Hudson's in
Detroit (Tom and Nancy Seaver); 4. Eaton's Santa
Claus Parade in Toronto (taped, with Mike Connors
and Amanda Blake)
12 N A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court (animated)
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
2:30 Guiding Light
3 PM The NFL Today
3:30 NFL Football: Packers-Cowboys
6:30 CBS News (Walter Cronkite, time approximate)
7 PM Dick Van Dyke
7:30 Family Affair
8 PM CBS Movie: "Oklahoma!" (Gordon MacRae, Shirley Jones)
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Merv Griffin (Joanna Barnes; Slim Pickens; Nudie, a tailor
who designs Western clothes)
WSVA (WHSV) Ch. 3 Harrisonburg (NBC/ABC)
8 AM Today (Prof. Jeremy Montague of Grinnell College, IA, discusses
the history of musical instruments, joined in progress)
9 AM Macy's Thanksgiving Parade (hosts: Lorne Greene, Betty White,
Joe Garagiola)
12 N NFL Football: Raiders-Lions
3 PM General Hospital (time approximate)
3:30 One Life To Live
4 PM Dark Shadows
4:30 Jeff's Collie (w/"Dialing For Dollars")
5 PM Daniel Boone (w/"Dialing For Dollars"
6 PM ABC News (Frank Reynolds/Howard K. Smith)
6:30 News, Weather, Sports
7 PM Arthur Smith
7:30 NCAA Football: Houston-Florida State
10:30 Dean Martin (Mike Connors, Dom DeLuise, Ruth Buzzi, teenage
singer Laurie Ichino, time approximate, joined in progress)
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Dick Cavett (Bette Davis, the Jefferson Airplane, Truman Capote)
WTVR Ch. 6 Richmond (CBS)
6 AM Sunrise Semester: "Renaissance Art"
6:30 Virginia Today
7 AM CBS News
8 AM Richmond Today
8:30 Romper Room
9 AM Thanksgiving Parades
12 N A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court (animated)
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
2:30 Guiding Light
3 PM The NFL Today
3:30 NFL Football: Packers-Cowboys
6:30 CBS News (time approximate)
7 PM News, Weather
7:30 Family Affair
8 PM CBS Movie: "Oklahoma!"
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Merv Griffin
WXEX (WRIC) Ch. 8 Petersburg-Richmond (ABC)
7 AM R.F.D. 8
7:30 News
8 AM Contact (John Mackin)
8:50 Fashions In Sewing
9 AM Virginia Graham (Norm Crosby, Sergio Franchi,
Allen Ludden and Betty White, w/"Dialing For Dollars")
10 AM The Saint (w/"Dialing For Dollars")
11 AM Divorce Court (w/"Dialing For Dollars")
11:30 That Girl
12 N Bewitched
12:30 A World Apart
1 PM All My Children
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 Dating Game (Phyllis Diller picks a date for her son Perry.)
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 One Life To Live
4 PM David Frost (in Hollywood: Jack Lemmon, Buddy Hackett,
Johnny Rivers, comic Sammy Shore, w/"Dialing For Dollars")
5:30 Gilligan's Island
6 PM News, Weather, Sports
6:30 Truth Or Consequences
7 PM Dragnet
7:30 NCAA Football: Houston-Florida State
10:30 Four Out Front: The Greatest College Football Players Of
The Last Decade (O.J. Simpson, Floyd Little, Terry Hanratty,
Terry Baker, Gary Beban, Tommy Nobis, Ted Hendricks, time
approximate)
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Movie: "The Strange Case Of Doctor Rx" (news follows the movie)
WAVY Ch. 10 Norfolk (NBC)
6:30 Farm Show
7 AM Today (same as WSVA/WHSV)
9 AM Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
12 N NFL Football: Raiders-Lions
3 PM Mouse On The Mayflower (time approximate)
4 PM Wild Wild West
5 PM Star Trek
6 PM News, Weather, Sports
6:30 NBC News (the Chancellor/Brinkley/McGee rotation)
7 PM Petticoat Junction
7:30 Flip Wilson (Ella Fitzgerald, Bobby Darin, Charley Pride)
8:30 Festival At Ford's (from Ford's Theatre: host Andy Williams,
narrator Jimmy Stewart, Pearl Bailey, Tennessee Ernie Ford,
Bobbie Gentry, Henry Mancini, the Supremes, Dionne Warwick)
9:30 Nancy
10 PM Dean Martin
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Tonight Show (Bill Cosby, Flip Wilson, Eva Gabor, the singing
Sunday's Child)
1 AM News, Weather, Sports
WWBT Ch. 12 Richmond (NBC)
6:30 Virginia Almanac
7 AM Today
9 AM Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
12 N NFL Football: Raiders-Lions
3 PM Mouse On The Mayflower (time approximate)
4 PM Petticoat Junction
4:30 Star Trek
5:30 News, Weather, Sports
6 PM Perry Mason
7 PM NBC News
7:30 Thanksgiving Special (Burl Ives, Lionel Hampton,
Randy Sparks, the Backporch Majority)
8:30 Festival At Ford's
9:30 Nancy
10 PM Dean Martin
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Tonight Show
WVEC Ch. 13 Norfolk (ABC)
6:30 Film
7 AM Comedy Time
8 AM Good Morning
9 AM To Tell The Truth (Orson Bean, Kitty Carlisle, Peggy
Cass, Bill Cullen)
9:30 Movie: "Keep 'em Flying" (Abbott and Costello)
11:20 Fashions In Sewing
11:30 That Girl
12 N Bewitched
12:30 A World Apart
1 PM All My Children
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 Dating Game
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 One Life To Live
4 PM Timmy And Lassie
4:30 Flintstones/Bungles
5 PM Beat The Clock
5:30 News, Weather, Sports
6 PM ABC News
6:30 Perry Mason
7:30 NCAA Football: Houston-Florida State
10:30 Four Out Front: The Greatest College Football Players
Of The Last Decade (time approximate)
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:35 Movie: "Designing Woman" (nothing to do with the sitcom
"Designing Women")
WHRO Ch. 15 Norfolk (PBS)
8:30 In-school programs (hard to believe since this is a holiday)
4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Sesame Street
6:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
7 PM Folk Guitar
7:30 Tidewater Portraits (a local chaplain talks about the role
of religion in medicine)
8 PM Washington Week In Review
8:30 NET Playhouse ("Foul!" is 10 brief plays on pollution; "Actor's
Choice: Lewis Carroll" has Gwen Verdon and Cyril Ritchard
reading from "Alice In Wonderland" and other selections by
Carroll)
10 PM Soul! (singer Cissy Houston, the Herbie Hancock Jazz Sextet,
poets Nikki Giovanni and Larry Neal, King Curtis and the Kingpins)
sign off 11 PM
WCVE Ch. 23 Richmond (PBS)
7:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
8 AM Sesame Street
9 AM off the air
4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Film
6 PM Sesame Street
7 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
7:30 Skiing (lessons)
8 PM Washington Week In Review
8:30 NET Playhouse
10 PM Soul!
sign off 11 PM
WYAH (WGNT) Ch. 27 Portsmouth (Ind.)
3 PM Panorama
3:30 Romper Room
4:30 Mister Ed
5 PM Leave It To Beaver
5:30 Jim And Tammy
6:30 Flipper
7 PM News, Weather, Sports
7:30 Blue Ridge Quartet
8 PM 700 Club
9:30 Teach In
WTAR (WTKR) Ch. 3 Norfolk (CBS)
5:55 These Things We Share
6:10 Town And Country
6:20 Film (a helicopter tour over Niagara Falls, New
England, Pennsylvania's Amish country, New
York City; "Sunrise Semester" is pre-empted,
but airs on Ch. 6 on a day-behind)
6:50 Lift Up Mine Eyes
7 AM CBS News (John Hart)
7:30 Flibbertigibbet
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Thanksgiving Parades: 1. Macy's in New York
(Peter Graves and Julie Sommars of "The Governor
And J.J." report); 2. Gimbels' in Philadelphia (Harvey
Korman and Vicki Lawrence); 3. J.L. Hudson's in
Detroit (Tom and Nancy Seaver); 4. Eaton's Santa
Claus Parade in Toronto (taped, with Mike Connors
and Amanda Blake)
12 N A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court (animated)
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
2:30 Guiding Light
3 PM The NFL Today
3:30 NFL Football: Packers-Cowboys
6:30 CBS News (Walter Cronkite, time approximate)
7 PM Dick Van Dyke
7:30 Family Affair
8 PM CBS Movie: "Oklahoma!" (Gordon MacRae, Shirley Jones)
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Merv Griffin (Joanna Barnes; Slim Pickens; Nudie, a tailor
who designs Western clothes)
WSVA (WHSV) Ch. 3 Harrisonburg (NBC/ABC)
8 AM Today (Prof. Jeremy Montague of Grinnell College, IA, discusses
the history of musical instruments, joined in progress)
9 AM Macy's Thanksgiving Parade (hosts: Lorne Greene, Betty White,
Joe Garagiola)
12 N NFL Football: Raiders-Lions
3 PM General Hospital (time approximate)
3:30 One Life To Live
4 PM Dark Shadows
4:30 Jeff's Collie (w/"Dialing For Dollars")
5 PM Daniel Boone (w/"Dialing For Dollars"
6 PM ABC News (Frank Reynolds/Howard K. Smith)
6:30 News, Weather, Sports
7 PM Arthur Smith
7:30 NCAA Football: Houston-Florida State
10:30 Dean Martin (Mike Connors, Dom DeLuise, Ruth Buzzi, teenage
singer Laurie Ichino, time approximate, joined in progress)
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Dick Cavett (Bette Davis, the Jefferson Airplane, Truman Capote)
WTVR Ch. 6 Richmond (CBS)
6 AM Sunrise Semester: "Renaissance Art"
6:30 Virginia Today
7 AM CBS News
8 AM Richmond Today
8:30 Romper Room
9 AM Thanksgiving Parades
12 N A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court (animated)
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
2:30 Guiding Light
3 PM The NFL Today
3:30 NFL Football: Packers-Cowboys
6:30 CBS News (time approximate)
7 PM News, Weather
7:30 Family Affair
8 PM CBS Movie: "Oklahoma!"
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Merv Griffin
WXEX (WRIC) Ch. 8 Petersburg-Richmond (ABC)
7 AM R.F.D. 8
7:30 News
8 AM Contact (John Mackin)
8:50 Fashions In Sewing
9 AM Virginia Graham (Norm Crosby, Sergio Franchi,
Allen Ludden and Betty White, w/"Dialing For Dollars")
10 AM The Saint (w/"Dialing For Dollars")
11 AM Divorce Court (w/"Dialing For Dollars")
11:30 That Girl
12 N Bewitched
12:30 A World Apart
1 PM All My Children
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 Dating Game (Phyllis Diller picks a date for her son Perry.)
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 One Life To Live
4 PM David Frost (in Hollywood: Jack Lemmon, Buddy Hackett,
Johnny Rivers, comic Sammy Shore, w/"Dialing For Dollars")
5:30 Gilligan's Island
6 PM News, Weather, Sports
6:30 Truth Or Consequences
7 PM Dragnet
7:30 NCAA Football: Houston-Florida State
10:30 Four Out Front: The Greatest College Football Players Of
The Last Decade (O.J. Simpson, Floyd Little, Terry Hanratty,
Terry Baker, Gary Beban, Tommy Nobis, Ted Hendricks, time
approximate)
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Movie: "The Strange Case Of Doctor Rx" (news follows the movie)
WAVY Ch. 10 Norfolk (NBC)
6:30 Farm Show
7 AM Today (same as WSVA/WHSV)
9 AM Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
12 N NFL Football: Raiders-Lions
3 PM Mouse On The Mayflower (time approximate)
4 PM Wild Wild West
5 PM Star Trek
6 PM News, Weather, Sports
6:30 NBC News (the Chancellor/Brinkley/McGee rotation)
7 PM Petticoat Junction
7:30 Flip Wilson (Ella Fitzgerald, Bobby Darin, Charley Pride)
8:30 Festival At Ford's (from Ford's Theatre: host Andy Williams,
narrator Jimmy Stewart, Pearl Bailey, Tennessee Ernie Ford,
Bobbie Gentry, Henry Mancini, the Supremes, Dionne Warwick)
9:30 Nancy
10 PM Dean Martin
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Tonight Show (Bill Cosby, Flip Wilson, Eva Gabor, the singing
Sunday's Child)
1 AM News, Weather, Sports
WWBT Ch. 12 Richmond (NBC)
6:30 Virginia Almanac
7 AM Today
9 AM Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
12 N NFL Football: Raiders-Lions
3 PM Mouse On The Mayflower (time approximate)
4 PM Petticoat Junction
4:30 Star Trek
5:30 News, Weather, Sports
6 PM Perry Mason
7 PM NBC News
7:30 Thanksgiving Special (Burl Ives, Lionel Hampton,
Randy Sparks, the Backporch Majority)
8:30 Festival At Ford's
9:30 Nancy
10 PM Dean Martin
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Tonight Show
WVEC Ch. 13 Norfolk (ABC)
6:30 Film
7 AM Comedy Time
8 AM Good Morning
9 AM To Tell The Truth (Orson Bean, Kitty Carlisle, Peggy
Cass, Bill Cullen)
9:30 Movie: "Keep 'em Flying" (Abbott and Costello)
11:20 Fashions In Sewing
11:30 That Girl
12 N Bewitched
12:30 A World Apart
1 PM All My Children
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 Dating Game
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 One Life To Live
4 PM Timmy And Lassie
4:30 Flintstones/Bungles
5 PM Beat The Clock
5:30 News, Weather, Sports
6 PM ABC News
6:30 Perry Mason
7:30 NCAA Football: Houston-Florida State
10:30 Four Out Front: The Greatest College Football Players
Of The Last Decade (time approximate)
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:35 Movie: "Designing Woman" (nothing to do with the sitcom
"Designing Women")
WHRO Ch. 15 Norfolk (PBS)
8:30 In-school programs (hard to believe since this is a holiday)
4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Sesame Street
6:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
7 PM Folk Guitar
7:30 Tidewater Portraits (a local chaplain talks about the role
of religion in medicine)
8 PM Washington Week In Review
8:30 NET Playhouse ("Foul!" is 10 brief plays on pollution; "Actor's
Choice: Lewis Carroll" has Gwen Verdon and Cyril Ritchard
reading from "Alice In Wonderland" and other selections by
Carroll)
10 PM Soul! (singer Cissy Houston, the Herbie Hancock Jazz Sextet,
poets Nikki Giovanni and Larry Neal, King Curtis and the Kingpins)
sign off 11 PM
WCVE Ch. 23 Richmond (PBS)
7:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
8 AM Sesame Street
9 AM off the air
4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Film
6 PM Sesame Street
7 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
7:30 Skiing (lessons)
8 PM Washington Week In Review
8:30 NET Playhouse
10 PM Soul!
sign off 11 PM
WYAH (WGNT) Ch. 27 Portsmouth (Ind.)
3 PM Panorama
3:30 Romper Room
4:30 Mister Ed
5 PM Leave It To Beaver
5:30 Jim And Tammy
6:30 Flipper
7 PM News, Weather, Sports
7:30 Blue Ridge Quartet
8 PM 700 Club
9:30 Teach In