RETRO: GREENVILLE/SPARTANBURG/ASHEVILLE AFFFILIATE LISTINGS OCTOBER 31, 1967

[spencerkarter85]

Source: The Spartanburg Herald-Journal
Date: October 31, 1967
All times Eastern Standard

(Greenville, SC market and commercial stations only)

WFBC-TV 4 NBC (now WYFF)

6:30am: Tele College
7:00am: The Today Show (Walters/Downs) COLOR
7:25am: Devations
7:30am: Today (continued) COLOR
8:25am: News and Weather COLOR
8:30am: Today (continued) COLOR
9:00am: Today in the Piedmont COLOR
9:30am: Romper Room COLOR
10:00am: Snap Judgement (hosted by the late Ed McMahon) COLOR
10:25am: News COLOR
10:30am: Concentration (hosted by Hugh Downs) COLOR
11:00am: Personality COLOR
11:30am: The Hollywood Squares (hosted by Peter Marshall) COLOR
NOON: Jeopardy! (hosted by the late Art Fleming) COLOR
12:30pm: Eve Guests
12:55pm: News COLOR
1:00pm: The Match Game (hosted by the late Gene Rayburn, original incarnation) COLOR
1:25pm: News, Weather COLOR
1:30pm: Let's Make a Deal (hosted by Monty Hall) COLOR
1:55pm: News COLOR
2:00pm: Days of Our Lives (popular soap opera in GSP market) COLOR
2:30pm: The Doctors (not to be confused with the current syndicated show) COLOR
3:00pm: Another World COLOR
3:30pm: You Don't Say COLOR
4:00pm: Monty's Rascals (a popular local childrens show with then-meterologists Monty DuPuy, and Stowe Hoyle as Mr. Doohickey) COLOR
4:30pm: Timmy and Lassie
5:00pm: The Merv Giffin Show COLOR
6:00pm: News, Weather, and Sports (anchored by the late Norvin Duncan on channel 4) COLOR
6:30pm: The Huntley-Brinkley Report COLOR
7:00pm: MOVIE: "The Lost World"
9:00pm: The Danny Thomas Show COLOR
10:00pm: I Spy (starring Bill Cosby and the late Robert Culp) COLOR
11:00pm: Weather COLOR
11:05pm: News, Sports COLOR
11:30pm: The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson COLOR
1:00am: SIGN OFF

WSPA-TV 7 CBS

6:10am: Agriculture
6:25am: Sunrise Semester
6:55am: Meditation
7:00am: Party Line
8:00am: Captain Kangaroo COLOR
9:00am: The Donna Reed Show
9:30am: Nancy Welch COLOR
10:00am: Candid Camera
10:30am: The Beverly Hillbillies
11:00am: Andy of Mayberry
11:30am: The Dick Van Dyke Show
NOON: Love of Life COLOR
12:25pm: News COLOR
12:30pm: Search for Tomorrow COLOR
12:45pm: The Guiding Light COLOR
1:00pm: Millionnaire
1:30pm: As The World Turns COLOR
2:00pm: Love is a Many Splendored Thing COLOR
2:30pm: Houseparty (hosted by the late Art Linkletter) COLOR
3:00pm: To Tell The Truth COLOR
3:25pm: CBS News COLOR
3:30pm: The Edge of Night COLOR
4:00pm: The Secret Storm COLOR
4:30pm: Blondie Movie
6:00pm: News Final COLOR (Dave Handy was the anchor at channel 7 at the time)
6:30pm: CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite COLOR
7:00pm: McHale's Navy
7:30pm: Gunsmoke COLOR
8:30pm: The Lucy Show COLOR
9:00pm: The Andy Griffith Show COLOR
9:30pm: NFL Football: Green Bay vs. St. Louis COLOR
11:30pm: News, Weather, and Sports COLOR
MIDNIGHT: MOVIE: "Cythina"
SIGN OFF after the movie

WLOS-TV 13 ABC

6:28am: Daily Word
6:30am: Cartoons COLOR
6:55am: News headlines COLOR
7:00am: Cartoons COLOR
9:00am: MOVIE: "The Raging Tide
10:30am: Temptation COLOR
10:55am: Children's Doctor
11:00am: Mother-in-Law
11:30am: Family Game (hosted by ex-TRIR host Bob Barker) COLOR
NOON: Everybody's Talking COLOR
12:30pm: Divorce Court COLOR
1:00pm: The Fugitive
2:00pm: The Newlywed Game (hosted by Bob Eubanks) COLOR
2:30pm: Dream Girl of '67 COLOR
2:55pm: News COLOR
3:00pm: General Hospital COLOR
3:30pm: Dennis The Menace (Dark Shadows wasn't cleared by WLOS until early 1968 )
4:00pm: The Dating Game (hosted by Jim Lange) COLOR
4:30pm: The Mike Douglas Show (guest features Della Reese) COLOR
5:30pm: News COLOR
6:00pm: News (ABC News with Bob Young?) COLOR
6:30pm: Truth or Consequences (hosted by Bob Barker)
7:00pm: Password COLOR (repeats)
7:30pm: Cowboy in Africa COLOR
8:30pm: The Rat Patrol (featuring Eric Braden using his real name Hans Gugeast) COLOR
9:00pm: Felony Squad COLOR
9:30pm: Peyton Place COLOR
10:00pm: The Big Valley COLOR
11:00pm: News, Weather, and Sports COLOR
11:30pm: The Joey Bishop Show (featuring Regis!) COLOR
1:00am: SIGN OFF

 

[bpatrick]

That's pretty close to the schedules we had when I moved there
in the summer of '68, with a few differences:

1. Donna Reed aired on ABC, was pre-empted on Ch. 13, and was
picked up by Ch. 7. By the summer of '68 Ch. 7 was running
"Treasure Isle" (also ABC) at 9 AM; 7 had also expanded its
4 o'clock movie to two hours and moved "Secret Storm" to 1 PM.

2. Merv was running for the full 90 minutes on Ch. 4. When Merv
moved to CBS in 1969, 4 picked up Mike Douglas; 7 would keep
Merv when he went back into syndication in 1972.

3. I think Peter Jennings was still anchoring at ABC; I don't think
Bob Young took over until January 1968 but was quickly replaced
by Frank Reynolds, and that's when the affiliate defections really
started. WLOS was one of them; in the summer of '68 it was running
"Dennis The Menace" at 4:30, "Perry Mason" at 5, local news at 6,
and "Truth Or Consequences" at 6:30. That fall it moved Mason to
4:30, local news to 5:30, and put "I Love Lucy" at 6. It would not
pick up ABC News again until the fall of 1970, just before Harry Reasoner
moved from CBS.

4. When I moved there in '68, 13 pre-empted the first half-hour of "The
Dick Cavett Show" in favor of "Hazel" reruns; Cavett was joined in progress
at 11 AM. Mike Douglas (then at 13) pre-empted "Treasure Isle" and "Dream
House" from 12:30-1:30 ("Dream House" was picked up Dec. 30, the same day
"Let's Make A Deal" moved to ABC), and 13 did not carry "One Life To Live"
at 3:30 (and wouldn't until 1973; "The Flintstones" usually occupied the 3:30 slot).

5. Because of the NABET strike, "Temptation" and "How's Your Mother-In-Law" didn't
start until December. ABC, IIRC, filled the time with reruns of "Dateline: Hollywood,"
"The Honeymoon Race," "The Family Game," and even "Everybody's Talking" (which,
BTW, was ABC's last new first-run daytime show in black and white). Otherwise,
the two new game shows would have started in October 1967. (I still like the
concept of that version of "Temptation"--if you can pick a prize showcase that
your opponents don't, you win it.)

I'm sure the information you gave is correct, and TV Guide would have had the
same, but I had to share a few memories since I moved to Greenville just a few
months later.

 

[Tim from Springfield IL]

Source: The Spartanburg Herald-Journal
Date: October 31, 1967

WSPA-TV 7 CBS
7:30pm: Gunsmoke COLOR
8:30pm: The Lucy Show COLOR
9:00pm: The Andy Griffith Show COLOR
9:30pm: NFL Football: Green Bay vs. St. Louis COLOR

Wouldn't this schedule had been for Monday night, Oct. 30 rather than Halloween night--because of the above lineup and the fact that CBS had one Monday night NFL game per season during 1966 and '67 seasons (they moved to NBC in 1968 and 1969, and we all know the rest starting in 1970).

 

[Tim from Springfield IL]

5. Because of the NABET strike, "Temptation" and "How's Your Mother-In-Law" didn't
start until December. ABC, IIRC, filled the time with reruns of "Dateline: Hollywood,"
"The Honeymoon Race," "The Family Game," and even "Everybody's Talking"

One episode of ABC's Chuck Barris-produced "The Family Game" with Bob Barker has made it to YouTube in two parts:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYBpxMWgp6w (Part 1 of 2)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tn6Nf_tKq_o&feature=related (Part 2 of 2)

The contributor to this video mentioned in the intro to Part 1 that he asked Bob one time during a TPIR taping about "TFG," and Bob refused to talk about the show.

Also a stereo version of the TFG theme made it to YouTube (artist unknown, but sounds like a Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass imitator--unless it's the TB themselves and I don't realize it ).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMDbp_yr-H0&feature=related

In addition to similarities to "Art Linkletter's House Party" and "Newlywed Game," does anyone get the feeling that "The Family Game" represented a precursor to a better-remembered "family game" (but with a different format) that would premiere on the same network nine years later? (Not to mention the font in the "Family Game" logo--kind of looks familiar IMO).

 

[spencerkarter85]

That's pretty close to the schedules we had when I moved there
in the summer of '68, with a few differences:

1. Donna Reed aired on ABC, was pre-empted on Ch. 13, and was
picked up by Ch. 7. By the summer of '68 Ch. 7 was running
"Treasure Isle" (also ABC) at 9 AM; 7 had also expanded its
4 o'clock movie to two hours and moved "Secret Storm" to 1 PM.

2. Merv was running for the full 90 minutes on Ch. 4. When Merv
moved to CBS in 1969, 4 picked up Mike Douglas; 7 would keep
Merv when he went back into syndication in 1972.

3. I think Peter Jennings was still anchoring at ABC; I don't think
Bob Young took over until January 1968 but was quickly replaced
by Frank Reynolds, and that's when the affiliate defections really
started. WLOS was one of them; in the summer of '68 it was running
"Dennis The Menace" at 4:30, "Perry Mason" at 5, local news at 6,
and "Truth Or Consequences" at 6:30. That fall it moved Mason to
4:30, local news to 5:30, and put "I Love Lucy" at 6. It would not
pick up ABC News again until the fall of 1970, just before Harry Reasoner
moved from CBS.

4. When I moved there in '68, 13 pre-empted the first half-hour of "The
Dick Cavett Show" in favor of "Hazel" reruns; Cavett was joined in progress
at 11 AM. Mike Douglas (then at 13) pre-empted "Treasure Isle" and "Dream
House" from 12:30-1:30 ("Dream House" was picked up Dec. 30, the same day
"Let's Make A Deal" moved to ABC), and 13 did not carry "One Life To Live"
at 3:30 (and wouldn't until 1973; "The Flintstones" usually occupied the 3:30 slot).

5. Because of the NABET strike, "Temptation" and "How's Your Mother-In-Law" didn't
start until December. ABC, IIRC, filled the time with reruns of "Dateline: Hollywood,"
"The Honeymoon Race," "The Family Game," and even "Everybody's Talking" (which,
BTW, was ABC's last new first-run daytime show in black and white). Otherwise,
the two new game shows would have started in October 1967. (I still like the
concept of that version of "Temptation"--if you can pick a prize showcase that
your opponents don't, you win it.)

I'm sure the information you gave is correct, and TV Guide would have had the
same, but I had to share a few memories since I moved to Greenville just a few
months later.

I think it was syndicated reruns of Donna Reed.

 

[bpatrick]

Nope. ABC was carrying the reruns at 12:30 PM;
in December 1967 they moved to 10:30 AM; ABC
canceled the show in March 1968 and gave the
time to Dick Cavett. It was at that point that
"Donna Reed Show" reruns went into syndication.

In the '60s Ch. 7 occasionally picked up ABC shows
pre-empted on Ch. 13; besides "Treasure Isle," which
I mentioned, 7 carried reruns of "Father Knows Best"
when they aired on ABC at 12:30 PM (13 did not carry
an ABC program at 12:30 from the time "Camouflage"
was canceled in 1962 until "Funny You Should Ask"
moved into that slot in December 1968). Earlier in
the decade 7 carried "Wide World Of Sports," the primetime
"Bugs Bunny Show" on Tuesday nights (not to be confused
with the primetime "Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show" which aired
for a few weeks on Tuesdays in 1976; that was on CBS), and
Pat O'Brien's short-lived sitcom "Harrigan And Son."

Interestingly, "Treasure Isle" was the last ABC show to be picked
up by Ch. 7; arguably they could have kept "Edge Of Night" (as
WCSC Charleston did after WCBD turned it down in the move to ABC).