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Retro: Eastern Virginia Thursday, October 2, 1969

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 Sunrise Semester: "Math"
6:50 Lift Up Mine Eyes
7 AM CBS News (Joseph Benti)
7:30 Flibbertigibbet
8 AM Captain Kangaroo (singer Andra Willis of
"The Lawrence Welk Show" is guest)
9 AM The Game Game (question: "How logical
are you?" Celebrities are Dyan Cannon,
Chad Everett, and Joanie Sommers; Jim
McKrell hosts.)
9:30 Farmer's Daughter
10 AM The Lucy Show
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies (Jethro is a stand-in for
Dash Riprock.)
11 AM Andy Griffith
11:30 Love Of Life
12 N Where The Heart Is
12:25 News (local)
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Mildred Alexander
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
2:30 Guiding Light
3 PM Secret Storm
3:30 Edge Of Night
4 PM Gomer Pyle, USMC
4:30 Gilligan's Island
5 PM Truth Or Consequences
5:30 Hazel
6 PM News, Weather, Sports
6:30 CBS News (Walter Cronkite)
7 PM Dick Van Dyke
7:30 Family Affair (Dana Andrews, who had just
started on the soap "Bright Promise," as a
friend of Bill's who has just gotten out of prison.)
8 PM Jim Nabors (guest: Carol Burnett)
9 PM CBS Movie: "The Sandpiper" (Burton and Taylor)
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Merv Griffin (guests: journalist I.F. Stone and singer
John Blair)

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

7:50 Town And Country
8 AM Today (joined in progress: an Arab view of the
Middle East conflict, Jackie Stewart)
9 AM Bugs Bunny/Porky Pig
9:30 Pay Cards! (guest: Jay Black of Jay and the Americans;
"Dialing For Dollars" interrupts the show)
10 AM It Takes Two (guests: Morey Amsterdam, Meredith
MacRae, John Gary, and spouses)
10:25 NBC News (Nancy Dickerson, IIRC)
10:30 Concentration (Bob Clayton had just become permanent
host.)
11 AM Sale Of The Century (Jack "Bart Maverick" Kelly hosts.)
11:30 Hollywood Squares (Jim Backus, Stu Gilliam, Arlene Golonka,
Ruta Lee, Vincent Price, and Dennis Weaver are guests.)
12 N Bewitched
12:30 That Girl
1 PM Dream House (the original, with Mike Darrow)
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 Dark Shadows
4:30 Gilligan's Island (w/"Dialing For Dollars")
5 PM Rawhide (w/"Dialing For Dollars")
6 PM ABC News (Frank Reynolds/Howard K. Smith)
6:30 News, Weather, Sports (still in b&w)
7 PM Arthur Smith
7:30 Ghost And Mrs. Muir
8 PM That Girl
8:30 Bewitched (making a Caesar salad, Esmerelda conjures
up Julius Caesar)
9 PM This Is Tom Jones (from Hollywood: Diahann Carroll;
Bobby Darin (calling himself "Bob" and affecting a Dylanesque
look); David Steinberg; Blood, Sweat and Tears--who, of course,
do "Spinning Wheel")
10 PM Dean Martin (guests: Bob Newhart, Sebastian Cabot, singer
Caterina Valente, Stanley Myron Handelman, the Golddiggers)
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Joey Bishop (guest: baseball's Satchel Paige)

WTVR Ch. 6 Richmond (CBS)

6:30 Virginia Today
7 AM CBS News
8 AM Richmond Today
8:30 Romper Room
9 AM Captain Kangaroo
10 AM The Lucy Show
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies
11 AM Andy Griffith
11:30 Love Of Life
12 N Where The Heart Is
12:25 CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Queen For A Day (Dick Curtis, a regular on
Jonathan Winters' just-canceled show, proves
to be no Jack Bailey.)
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
2:30 Guiding Light
3 PM Secret Storm
3:30 Edge Of Night
4 PM Gomer Pyle, USMC
4:30 Sooper Dog
5 PM Big Valley
6 PM News, Weather, Sports
6:30 CBS News
7 PM News, Weather
7:30 Family Affair
8 PM Jim Nabors
9 PM CBS Movie: "The Sandpiper"
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Merv Griffin
1 AM Gene Lowry (religion)

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

7:10 Town And Country
7:20 News
7:30 Farm Show
8 AM America Sings
8:30 Jack LaLanne
9 AM Dialing For Dollars
9:45 Joan Rivers (Betsy Palmer gets a lesson in
ceramics.)
10:15 Paul Harvey (TV Guide says this was on for
15 minutes; IIRC, he was on for five, and I'm
thinking "Fashions In Sewing" might have filled
out the 10:20-10:30 timeslot.)
10:30 Loretta Young (w/"Dialing For Dollars")
11 AM Divorce Court (w/"Dialing For Dollars")
11:30 Galloping Gourmet
12 N Bewitched
12:30 That Girl
1 PM Girl Talk
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 Dark Shadows
4:30 David Frost (guests: Jack Valenti, president of
the Motion Picture Association of America;
John Hartford; Marilyn Monroe biographer Fred
Lawrence Guiles--"Dialing For Dollars" interrupts)
5:55 Paul Harvey
6 PM News, Weather, Sports
6:30 Gilligan's Island
7 PM Truth Or Consequences
7:30 Ghost And Mrs. Muir
8 PM That Girl
8:30 Bewitched
9 PM This Is Tom Jones
10 PM It Takes A Thief
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Movie: "Red Sundown"
1 AM News, Weather, Sports

WAVY Ch. 10 Norfolk (NBC)

6:30 Farm Show
7 AM Today (in addition to the details for WSVA,
another guest is James Day, president of
National Educational Television, discussing
NET's upcoming season)
9 AM Della Reese (guests: Ed Ames, the Impressions,
comic Jerry Shane--"Dialing For Dollars" interrupts)
10 AM It Takes Two
10:25 NBC News
10:30 Concentration
11 AM Sale Of The Century
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N David Frost (guests: H.L. Hunt, Raquel Welch, Clare
Boothe Luce--"Dialing For Dollars" interrupts)
1 PM News Magazine
1:30 Girl Talk (Kim Novak talks about marriage, divorce,
and her belief in ESP.)
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 Bright Promise
4 PM Letters To Laugh-In (guests: Angie Dickinson, Jack
E. Leonard, Dan Rowan, Jo Anne Worley; host:
Gary Owens)
4:25 NBC News (Floyd Kalber)
4:30 Mike Douglas (co-host: Doug McClure; guests:
Sheldon Leonard, Jaye P. Morgan, Lily Tomlin)
6 PM I Love Lucy
6:30 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7 PM News, Weather, Sports
7:30 Daniel Boone (watch for former heavyweight champ
Floyd Patterson as a runaway slave)
8:30 Ironside
9:30 Dragnet 1970
10 PM Dean Martin
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Tonight Show (guests: Joan Bennett, Bob & Ray)
1 AM News, Weather, Sports
1:10 Topic

WWBT Ch. 12 Richmond (NBC)

6:35 Virginia Almanac
7 AM Today
9 AM Movie: "They Rode West"
10:30 Concentration
11 AM Sale Of The Century
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N Jeopardy!
12:30 Name Droppers (guests: Glenn Ford, Michael
Landon, Meredith MacRae; hosts: Al Lohman
and Roger Barkley)
12:55 NBC News (Edwin Newman, IIRC)
1 PM Betty Feezor
1:30 You're Putting Me On (guests: Peggy Cass,
Milt Kamen, E.J. Peaker, Joan Rivers, William
Shatner, Mel Torme; Larry Blyden has just
become host)
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 Bright Promise
4 PM Mike Douglas (co-hostess: Carol Lawrence;
guests: Sal Mineo, David Susskind, Rodney
Dangerfield)
5 PM Perry Mason
6 PM News, Weather, Sports
6:30 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7 PM Hazel
7:30 Daniel Boone
8:30 Ironside
9:30 Dragnet 1970
10 PM Dean Martin
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Tonight Show

WVEC Ch. 13 Norfolk (ABC)

7:30 Wild Bill Hickok
8 AM Comedy Time
8:30 Romper Room
9 AM Galloping Gourmet
9:30 Movie Game (guests: June Allyson, Pat Crowley,
Bob Hope, Cesar Romero; Sonny Fox is hosting
at this point, but Larry Blyden will take over later)
10 AM News, Weather
10:05 Fashions In Sewing
10:15 Movie: "A Slight Case Of Murder"
11:50 News, Weather
12 N Bewitched
12:30 That Girl
1 PM Dream House
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 Dark Shadows
4:30 Bungles And Friends
5:30 News, Weather, Sports
6 PM ABC News
6:30 Perry Mason
7:30 Ghost And Mrs. Muir
8 PM That Girl
8:30 Bewitched
9 PM This Is Tom Jones
10 PM It Takes A Thief
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:25 Movie: "Pretty Baby"

WHRO Ch. 15 Norfolk (NET)

8 AM Calculus
9:05 9th-grade Science
9:35 Personal Finance
10 AM 8th-grade American History
10:25 4th-grade Virginia History
10:45 Primary Music
11:05 Humanities
11:35 TBA
12 N 7th-grade Science
12:30 8th-grade American History
12:55 Language Readiness
1:15 2nd-grade Science
1:35 8th-grade Science
2 PM 7th-grade Science
off-air 2:30-7:30
7:30 Sounds Of Summer: "Pete Seeger And The Hudson
River Sloop" (Seeger and a band had been touring
the Hudson River Valley, alerting people to the dangers
posed by pollution to the river.)
9:30 Festival: "The Last Of The Mohicans" (from 1936)
sign off 11 PM

WCVE Ch. 23 Richmond (NET)

9:10 2nd-grade Science
9:30 5th-grade Science
10 AM 6th-grade Science
11 AM 5th-grade Math
12:30 1st-grade Art (no indication if there is a gap
somewhere before 12:30)
1 PM 4th-grade Math
1:30 2nd-grade Safety
1:50 5th-grade Science
2:20 6th-grade Science
off air from approximately 2:45 to 7 PM
7 PM Pocketful Of Fun
7:30 Once Upon A Day (both are kids' shows)
8 PM Washington Week In Review
8:30 NET Playhouse: "Rembrandt," a film biography
10 PM Smart Sewing
10:30 Headlines (Gen. Thomas Lang discusses American
military strategy.)
sign off 11 PM

WYAH (WGNT) Ch. 27 Portsmouth (Ind.)

5 PM Film
5:30 News, Weather, Sports
6 PM American West (travelogue)
6:30 Jim And Tammy
7:30 Opinion Please
8 PM Action '69
8:30 Ask The Pastor
9 PM Teach-In (religion)
10 PM News, Weather, Sports
10:30 700 Club (I think was two hours then)
 
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