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Retro: Gettysburg, PA Monday, August 20, 1962

Found this in the Gettysburg Times while looking up something else.
Details are somewhat sketchy; schedules run 5 PM-sign off.

WMAR Ch. 2 Baltimore (CBS)

5 PM Bozo The Clown
5:30 Rocky And His Friends
5:45 Deputy Dawg
6 PM Best Of Groucho
6:30 Dragnet
6:55 Sports Parade
7 PM 7 O'Clock Final
7:10 Weather
7:15 CBS News (Walter Cronkite)
7:30 To Tell The Truth
8 PM Pete And Gladys
8:30 Father Knows Best
9 PM Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour
10 PM Hennesey
10:30 Where Do We Go From Here? (CBS News special
pre-empting "I've Got A Secret")
11 PM News, Weather And Sports
11:20 Channel 2 Theatre (doesn't say what the movie is)
12:45 News, Bible Reading

WRC Ch. 4 Washington, DC (NBC)

5 PM Bozo The Clown (COLOR)
5:30 Broken Arrow
6 PM Best Of Groucho
6:30 News (COLOR), Weather, Sports
6:45 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7 PM Death Valley Days
7:30 The Blue Angels (at the time, NBC did not program
7:30-8 PM Mondays)
8 PM National Velvet
8:30 Price Is Right (COLOR)
9 PM 87th Precinct
10 PM Thresholds Of Tomorrow (NBC was running specials
on Mondays at 10 that summer.)
11 PM News, Weather, Sports (COLOR--the 6:30 listing of weather
and sports in b&w may have been a typo)
11:25 11th Hour Entertainment (COLOR)
11:30 Tonight Show (the interim between Paar and Carson--don't
know who the guest host was, COLOR)
1 AM 13th Hour Drama
1:30 Inspiration

WTTG Ch. 5 Washington, DC (Ind.)

5 PM 5 O'Clock News Report And Weather
5:15 Popeye With Captain Tugg
6 PM Three Stooges
7 PM Riverboat
8 PM Divorce Court
9 PM Movie Greats (title not given)
11 PM Faces And Places In The News
11:10 Hollywood's Finest (title not given)

WMAL (WJLA) Ch. 7 Washington, DC (ABC)

5 PM Porky Pig And His Friends
5:30 December Bride
6 PM 6 O'Clock Report
6:30 Sea Hunt
7 PM 7 O'Clock Final (no indication that Ch. 7 carried
Ron Cochran's newscast, which I find hard to
believe in the nation's capital)
7:30 The Cheyenne Show (either Cheyenne or Bronco,
doesn't say which)
8:30 Law Of The Plainsman
9 PM Surfside 6
10 PM Ben Casey
11 PM 11 O'Clock Final
11:30 Editorial, Movie (title not given)
1:30 World News & Daily Word (wonder if Ch. 7 delayed ABC's
11 PM newscast?)

WGAL Ch. 8 Lancaster, PA (NBC/CBS)

5 PM Mighty Mouse Playhouse (this appears to be CBS, delay from
Sat 10:30 AM)
5:30 Looney Tunes
5:45 Wyatt Earp
6:15 News, Weather, Sports
6:40 Regional News
6:45 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7 PM King Of Diamonds (Broderick Crawford's unsuccessful followup
to "Highway Patrol")
7:30 To Tell The Truth
8 PM Pete And Gladys
8:30 Price Is Right (COLOR)
9 PM Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour
10 PM Thresholds Of Tomorrow
11 PM News, Regional News, Sports And Weather (COLOR)
11:30 Tonight Show (COLOR)
1 AM News And Wanted Persons
1:05 One Minute With Your Bible

WTOP (WUSA) Ch. 9 Washington, DC (CBS)

5 PM Early Show (title not given)
6:25 Sports Time
6:30 6:30 Spotlight
6:45 CBS News
7 PM San Francisco Beat (reruns of "The Lineup")
7:30 To Tell The Truth
8 PM Pete And Gladys
8:30 Father Knows Best
9 PM Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour
10 PM Hennesey
10:30 Where Do We Go From Here?
11 PM 11 PM Report
11:25 Steve Allen
12:55 Late Show (title not given)
2:55 Meditations & Weather

WBAL Ch. 11 Baltimore (NBC)

5 PM Cartoons
5:30 Five Thirty Show
6:45 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7 PM News
7:10 TV11 Soap Box
7:15 News
7:30 Music For A Summer Evening
8:30 Price Is Right (COLOR)
9 PM 87th Precinct
10 PM Thresholds Of Tomorrow
11 PM News, Weather And Sports
11:25 Bob Jones' Daybook
11:30 Tonight Show (COLOR)
1 AM News

WJZ Ch. 13 Baltimore (ABC)

Buddy Deane's show must have still been in progress at 5 PM.

5:30 Yogi Bear
6 PM News & Weather
6:15 ABC News
6:30 Riverboat
7:30 Cheyenne Show
8:30 Law Of The Plainsman
9 PM Surfside 6
10 PM Ben Casey
11 PM News And Weather
11:15 Steve Allen
12:45 News (possibly ABC on delay?)
12:55 Man To Man
1:05 Prevues, Inspiration
 
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