Retro: Greensboro/Winston-Salem/High Point Saturday, June 7, 1969

[bpatrick]

Now I have to mention one other show that was
a huge hit in its initial summer run, got good
ratings in a regular slot when it returned in
January 1970, and might have gone on to a long
run if ABC had not canceled it in 1971 for poor
demographics: The Johnny Cash Show, which premiered
this day. Cash's premiere guests were Bob Dylan,
Fannie Flagg, Cajun singer/fiddler Doug Kershaw,
and Joni Mitchell.

Schedules are from the Greensboro Daily News and
run 7 AM-sign off:

WFMY Ch. 2 (CBS)

7 AM Black Heritage
7:30 Three Stooges
8 AM Go-Go Gophers
8:30 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour
9:30 Wacky Races
10 AM Archie Show
10:30 Batman/Superman Hour
11:30 Herculoids
12 N Shazzan!
12:30 Jonny Quest
1 PM Moby Dick And The Mighty
Mightor
1:30 Lone Ranger (animated)
2 PM Movie: "Jazz Beat"
3:30 Stonemans (country/bluegrass
family--banjoist Roni was later
a regular on Hee Haw)
4 PM Good Guys (delay from Wed. 8:30)
4:30 Animal World (delay from Thu. 7:30)
5 PM Golf: Western Open (third round)
(Incredibly, this pre-empts CBS's
coverage of the Belmont Stakes, which
airs on independent Ch. 48. Same thing
in Charlotte: CBS affiliate WBTV/3 ran the
golf tournament, and independent Ch. 36 the
horse race. I think Hughes Sports Network
handled the golf telecast.)
6 PM It's Racing Time (NOW they have horse racing,
although it's one of the supermarket promos
like Let's Go To The Races)
6:30 CBS News--Roger Mudd
7 PM News
7:30 Jackie Gleason
8:30 My Three Sons
9 PM Hogan's Heroes
9:30 Petticoat Junction
10 PM Mannix
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "Beat The Devil"

WUNC Ch. 4 (PBS)

off air on Saturday

WGHP Ch. 8 (ABC)

7 AM Aspect (farm show)
7:30 Limbo (local kids' show--he's
a clown)
9 AM New Casper Cartoon Show
9:30 Adventures Of Gulliver
10 AM Spiderman
10:30 Fantastic Voyage
11 AM Journey To The Center Of
The Earth
11:30 Fantastic Four
12 N George Of The Jungle
12:30 American Bandstand
1:30 Happening
2 PM Dudley Do-Right
2:30 Linus The Lionhearted
3 PM King Kong (animated)
3:30 Skippy, The Bush Kangaroo
4 PM Car & Track
4:30 Bowling (nothing else given, but
it's not the Pro Bowlers Tour)
5 PM Wide World Of Sports
6:30 Wrestling (from the studio)
7:30 Dating Game
8 PM Newlywed Game
8:30 Lawrence Welk
9:30 Johnny Cash
10:30 All-American College Show
11 PM ABC News
11:15 Movie: "Island Of Lost Souls"

WSJS Ch. 12 (NBC)

7 AM Farm Report
7:30 Astro Boy
8 AM Cartoon Carnival
9 AM Super 6
9:30 Cool McCool
10 AM Flintstones (NBC version--Ch. 2 ran
the syndicated version weekdays at
4:30)
10:30 Banana Splits
11:30 Underdog
12 N Storybook Squares
12:30 Untamed World
1 PM 77 Sunset Strip
2 PM Baseball: Reds at Cubs
5 PM Dobie Gillis (time approximate)
5:30 Industry On Parade
5:45 Parsons To Persons
6 PM News
6:30 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7 PM Horse Racing (I don't know if this
is a supermarket promo or not. But
for a state which still doesn't have
horse racing (we don't even have a
lottery), there was certainly a lot of
it on television in 1969.)
7:30 Adam-12
8 PM Get Smart
8:30 Ghost & Mrs. Muir
9 PM NBC Movie: "Rope Of Sand"
11 PM News
11:15 Movie: "Johnny Nobody"

WUBC Ch. 48 (Ind.)

3:30 Movie: "Oklahoma Kid"
5 PM Belmont Stakes (the first and last time
Ch. 48 would do this--it would be back
on Ch. 2 in 1970--not counting one year
around 1996 when it duplicated ABC on
Ch. 45)
6 PM Wrestling (don't know where from)
7 PM Public Defender
7:30 Paris Precinct
(Two obscure shows from the '50s.)
8 PM Woody Greeson (local country-music show;
he still performs in country nightclubs
in the Triad)
10 PM Alan Burke (the thinking man's Joe Pyne,
or so he would have you believe: "I'm
not against writers," he once said, attacking
Pyne. "I write poetry myself." Could be, but
IMHO, Pyne was more fun to watch.)

Just my opinion: two local horse-racing shows and one
show featuring a family that made its name in part in
bluegrass music. If I didn't know better (after all,
I was born in Greensboro), I'd think this was either
Louisville or Lexington.

 

[RobertMoore]

WSJS Ch. 12(NBC)

> 12 N Storybook Squares

Boy do I remember that one.(I was 4 when that show aired).

For those who were wondering about that title, that's the Saturday morning spinoff of "Hollywood Squares" in which celebrities[including mainstays from "HS" Paul Lynde and Charlie Weaver] dressed up as characters from TV, storybooks or movies, and the contestants were youngsters. Charo as Queen Isabella of Spain? Yes! Even performers that were part of the NBC lineup at the time appeared as their TV characters, among them Barbara Eden(As Jeannie from "I Dream Of Jeannie"), William Shatner(As Captain Kirk from "Star Trek") and Arte Johnson(As the "Veeery Interesting" German solider from "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In").

BTW if you see "The E! True Hollywood Story" on "Hollywood Squares" the stars who were on that short-lived(One Season) show will mention this program.

 

[rugrats1]

> WSJS Ch. 12(NBC)
>
> > 12 N Storybook Squares
>
> For those who were wondering about that title, that's the
> Saturday morning spinoff of "Hollywood Squares" ...
>
> BTW if you see "The E! True Hollywood Story" on "Hollywood
> Squares" the stars who were on that short-lived(One Season)
> show will mention this program.
>

While "Storybook Squares" only lasted for one season as a separate program, the regular weekday Squares had occasional special "Storybook Squares" weeks, through the late-1970s.

 

[dxtrfn]

Western Open was once considered a major on the PGA Tour before the Masters.
The 1969 Belmont Stakes featured a horse going for the Triple Crown but finished 2nd. This marked the 21st straight year without a Triple Crown winner, it took until 1973 and Sectreait's(SP?) 31-length victory in the Belmont. Now we have a string of 27 straight years without a winner of the Triple Crown. Every year someone wins 2 of 3.

 

[Matt]

> WGHP Ch. 8 (ABC)
>
> 7:30 Limbo (local kids' show--he's
> a clown)

If memory serves (and sometimes it doesn't), Limbo was a FEMALE clown under all of the greasepaint.

Later...
Matt Smith, Station Manager
WGSR-TV "Star-39"
Reidsville, NC

Home of a TV Classic,
Monday Night Live with Ken & Mark
(yes...it's back)

 

[bpatrick]

> > WGHP Ch. 8 (ABC)
> >
> > 7:30 Limbo (local kids' show--he's
> > a clown)
>
> If memory serves (and sometimes it doesn't), Limbo was a
> FEMALE clown under all of the greasepaint.
>
> Later...
> Matt Smith, Station Manager
> WGSR-TV "Star-39"
> Reidsville, NC
>
> Home of a TV Classic,
> Monday Night Live with Ken & Mark
> (yes...it's back)
>
Could be. I don't remember much about the
show; I was getting a little old for kids'
shows by that time. I read somewhere that
on the Disney Channel's Dumbo's Circus, a
woman played a live-action Dumbo, so this
is not out of the question. The only picture
I've ever seen of Limbo looked like a guy, but
again, it could have been a woman made up as
a male.