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Retro: Hartford/Springfield Sat, Apr 13, 1968

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Bluenoser

from TV Guide-Western New England edition

WTIC 3-CBS Hartford
7:00 Sunrise Semester "Russian Literature" (c)
7:30 RFD #3 (c)
8:00 Captain Kangaroo (c)
9:00 Car 54, Where are You?
9:30 Kimba the White Lion (c)
10:00 Marine Boy (c)
10:30 Space Ghost (c)
11:00 Moby Dick (c)
11:30 Superman/Aquaman (c)
12:30 TBA
1:00 NHL Playoffs: Chicago-Rangers, Game 5 (c/if that series is over, Boston-Montreal...if that one's done, then it's St. Louis-Philadelphia; commentators Jim Gordon/Stu Nahan)
3:30 The Masters (c)
6:00 Weather/Sports (c)
6:15 News (c)
6:30 CBS News (c)
7:00 Lucille Ball (c)
7:30 Jackie Gleason (c/the Honeymooners go to Africa)
8:30 My Three Sons (c)
9:00 Hogan's Heroes (c)
9:30 Petticoat Junction (c)
10:00 Mannix (c)
11:00 News (c/Norm Peters)
11:15 Weather/Sports (c)
11:30 Movie "The Silver Chalice" (c)
1:30 Movie "God is My Partner" (c)

WBZ 4-NBC Boston
6:00 Armed Forces Film
6:30 Animal Secrets "The Crucial Time" (c/experiences and surroundings that can shape a child's future)
7:00 Boomtown (Rex Trailer)
10:00 Flintstones (c)
10:30 Young Samson (c)
11:00 Birdman & the Galaxy Trio (c)
11:30 Atom Ant/Secret Squirrel (c)
noon News (c/Carter and Borden)
12:25 Weather (Al Boyer)
12:30 Next Question
1:00 Here & Now
1:30 Science Countdown 1968 (participants Robert J. Kowal (Chicopee High), Alpin Chisholm (King Philip Regional High), Joseph Morin (Westwood High), and John Love (Hopkinton Jr-Sr High))
2:00 Baseball: St. Louis-Chicago Cubs (c; commentators Sandy Koufax (who also hosts the pre-game show), Curt Gowdy, and Pee Wee Reese)
5:00 Movie "Tripoli" (c)
7:00 News (c/Carter and Borden)
7:15 Sports (c/Bob Starr)
7:25 Weather (c)
7:30 Saint "The House on Dragon's Rock" (c; directed by Roger Moore)
8:30 Get Smart (c)
9:00 Movie "The Brass Bottle" (c)
11:00 News (c/Terry Carter)
11:30 Movie "Constantine and the Cross"
1:55 News/Sports/Weather
2:05 Movie "Creature with the Atom Brain"

WHDH 5-CBS Boston
7:00 Bozo the Clown (c)
8:00 Captain Kangaroo (c)
9:00 Frankenstein Jr. (c)
9:30 Herculoids (c)
10:00 Shazzan! (c)
10:30 Space Ghost (c)
11:00 Moby Dick (c)
11:30 News/Sports/Weather (c/MacMillan, O'Connell, and Miller)
noon Candlepin Bowling
1:00 Junior Candlepin Bowling
1:30 Sports Scrapbook (c)
1:45 Baseball Close-Up (c)
2:15 Baseball: Boston-Cleveland (c/commentators Ned Martin and Mel Parnell)
4:45 Scoreboard (c)
5:00 The Masters (c/JIP)
6:00 News/Sports/Weather (c/Henning, O'Connell and Miller)
6:30 12 O'Clock High "The Hero"
7:30 Jackie Gleason (c)
8:30 My Three Sons (c)
9:00 Hogan's Heroes (c)
9:30 Petticoat Junction (c)
10:00 Mannix (c)
11:00 News/Sports/Weather (c/Henning, O'Connell and Miller)
11:30 NHL Playoffs (c/same-day tape)
2:00 Movie "Drango"

WNAC 7-ABC Boston
7:00 Bugs Bunny
7:30 Linus the Lionhearted
8:00 Toy Phone Theatre
8:30 Bullwinkle
9:00 Casper (c)
9:30 Fantastic Four (c)
10:00 Spider-Man (c)
10:30 Journey to the Center of the Earth (c)
11:00 King Kong (c)
11:30 George of the Jungle (c)
noon Beatles (c)
12:30 Movie "The Steel Jungle"
1:55 News (c)
2:00 William F. Buckley Jr. (c/Kentucky GOP Sen. Thurston B. Morton discusses the Vietnam War)
3:00 Let's Go to the Races (c)
3:30 Pro Bowlers Tour: Mobile Sertoma Open (c)
5:00 ABC Wide World of Sports: Atlanta 500 stock-car race/International Surfing Championships (c)
6:30 Time Tunnel
7:30 Dating Game (c/celeb guest Lesley Gore)
8:00 Newlywed Game (c)
8:30 Lawrence Welk (c/Easter music)
9:30 Miss Teen International Pageant (c/the 3rd annual, hosted by John Davidson and taped earlier in the day at the Hollywood Palace, which gets spiked for the pageant)
10:30 Movie "Move Over, Darling" (c)
12:30 Movie "Hannibal"

WNHC 8-ABC New Haven
6:45 Sister Julia
7:00 Cartoons (c/Kanna)
8:00 King Kong
8:30 Foreign Legionnaire
9:00 Casper (c)
9:30 Fantastic Four (c)
10:00 Spider-Man (c)
10:30 Cisco Kid (c/double bill)
11:30 George of the Jungle (c)
noon Beatles (c)
12:30 American Bandstand (c/guests the American Breed, and Mother Hubbard)
1:30 American Sportsman (c)
2:30 College Baseball: NYU-Yale (commentator Dick Galiette)
5:00 Aquaduct Horse Race (c)
5:30 ABC Wide World of Sports (c/JIP)
6:30 Crusade '68 (c/Eddie Albert and Eva Gabor host this American Cancer Society fundraiser with guests Diana Ross & the Supremes, Bob Newhart, Stiller & Meara, Lawrence Welk & his orchestra with singers Jim Roberts and Natalie Nevins)
7:00 Movie "20 Million Miles to Earth"
8:30 Lawrence Welk (c)
9:30 Miss Teen International Pageant (c)
10:30 Truth or Consequences (c)
11:00 News/Weather/Sports (c/Jones, Carroll and Curelop)
11:30 Movie "City After Midnight"

WHCT 18-Ind/Pay TV Hartford
3:30pm Pay-TV Movie "Vengeance of Fu Manchu"
5:30 Insight
6:00 Country/Western Music
7:00 Alfred Hitchcock "Make My Deathbed"/"Pen Pal"
8:00 Pay-TV Movie "Sol Madrid"
10:00 Pay-TV Movie "Matchless"

WATR 20-NBC Waterbury
9:00 Super 6 (c)
9:30 Super President (c)
10:00 Flintstones (c)
10:30 Young Samson (c)
11:00 Birdman & the Galaxy Trio (c)
11:30 Atom Ant/Secret Squirrel (c)
noon Top Cat (c)
12:30 Cool McCool (c)
1:00 Film Feature
2:00 Baseball: St. Louis-Chicago Cubs (c)
5:00 Film Feature
6:00 TBA
7:00 NBC News (c/fed from WNBC?)
7:30 Saint "The House on Dragon's Rock" (c)
8:30 Get Smart (c)
9:00 Movie "The Brass Bottle" (c)
11:00 Film Feature
11:30 Tonight Show (c/guests Alan King, Della Reese, and Bert Convy; Boston and Hartford aired the weekend Johnny on Sundays)

WWLP 22-Springfield/WRLP 32-Greenfield (NBC)
8:00 Stingray (c)
8:30 Three Stooges (c)
9:00 Super 6 (c)
9:30 Super President (c)
10:00 Flintstones (c)
10:30 Young Samson (c)
11:00 Birdman & the Galaxy Trio (c)
11:30 Atom Ant/Secret Squirrel (c)
noon Top Cat (c)
12:30 Cool McCool (c)
1:00 Movie "Crazy Over Horses"
2:00 Film Feature
2:15 Baseball: Boston-Cleveland (c)
4:45 TBA
5:30 Celebrity Billiards: Phyllis Diller takes on Minnesota Fats for a little 8-ball (c)
6:00 It's Racing Time (c)
6:30 NBC News (c)
7:00 News/Weather/Sports (c/Pierce, McCool and Murray)
7:30 Saint "The House on Dragon's Rock" (c)
8:30 Get Smart (c)
9:00 Movie "The Brass Bottle" (c)
11:00 News/Weather/Sports (c/Pierce, McCool and Murray)
11:30 Tonight Show (c)

WEDH 24-NET Hartford
No programs on Saturdays

WHNB 30-West Hartford/W79AI Torrington (NBC)
7:00 Bozo the Clown (c)
8:00 Three Stooges
9:00 Super 6 (c)
9:30 Super President (c)
10:00 Flintstones (c)
10:30 Young Samson (c)
11:00 Birdman & the Galaxy Trio (c)
11:30 Atom Ant/Secret Squirrel (c)
noon Top Cat (c)
12:30 Cool McCool (c)
1:00 Celebrity Billiards: Minnesota Fats in last-ball vs Mickey Rooney (c)
1:30 New Horizons (c)
2:00 Baseball: St. Louis-Chicago Cubs (c)
5:00 Film Feature "Twelve Hours of Sebring" (c)
5:30 Frontiers of Faith "Crisis in the Nation: White Racism" (c/first of a 4-part series on racism and its effects)
6:00 It's Racing Time (c)
6:30 NBC News (c)
7:00 America! "Aqua Fest" (c/visiting Florida's Gulf Coast)
7:30 Saint "The House on Dragon's Rock" (c)
8:30 Get Smart (c)
9:00 Movie "The Brass Bottle" (c)
11:00 News/Weather (c/Wathen, Richard and Holmes)
11:30 Outer Limits "It Crawled Out of the Woodwork"

WHYN 40-ABC Springfield
8:00 Munsters
8:30 Pete & Willy (c)
9:00 Casper (c)
9:30 Fantastic Four (c)
10:00 Spider-Man (c)
10:30 Journey to the Center of the Earth (c)
11:00 King Kong (c)
11:30 George of the Jungle (c)
noon Candlepin Bowling (relayed from 5? I know in the 80s 40 carried bowling shows from 5)
1:00 Scotch Doubles Bowling
1:30 Happening '68 (c/guests Jonathan Harris and "the world's oldest hippie"; Sal Mineo, Bobby Bee, and Jon Provost judge the amateur band contest)
2:00 American Bandstand (c/same guests as ch 8, 12:30)
3:00 You Asked for It
3:30 Pro Bowlers Tour: Mobile Sertoma Open (c)
5:00 ABC Wide World of Sports (c)
6:30 Roller Derby (c)
7:30 Dating Game (c)
8:00 Newlywed Game (c)
8:30 Lawrence Welk (c)
9:30 Miss Teen International Pageant (c)
10:30 Movie "The Corpse Vanishes"
 
Does anyone know what "Boomtown" with Rex Trailer was about? It ran on WBZ-TV 4 weekend mornings for many years and went three hours or more. I assume it was a kids show, perhaps with cartoons. But three hours is a long time. And what did Mr. Trailer do?

I also notice that ABC had no 10:30pm program on this Saturday. WNHC 8 put in what I assume was a syndicated showing of Truth or Consequences (a game show at 10:30 Saturday?) and both WCVB 7 and WHYN-TV 40 just went into their late movie. Was this a regular practice with ABC?

And I see that CT Public Broadcasting is off the air on Saturdays in 1968. That's odd. Even if they didn't have daytime educational shows to run, most NET stations at least ran a prime time schedule on weekends.
 
Gregg said:
Does anyone know what "Boomtown" with Rex Trailer was about? It ran on WBZ-TV 4 weekend mornings for many years and went three hours or more. I assume it was a kids show, perhaps with cartoons. But three hours is a long time. And what did Mr. Trailer do?
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Please do an on-line search under "Rex Trailer" and you will see the answer to your question and much more information. Rex Trailer just passed away in January.
 
It was quite common into the 60s for educational stations to have a prime-time only schedule, or even no programming, on the weekends. Weekend programming was seen as too expensive for the relatively few viewers they had. Even WNDT New York didn't broadcast on weekends during this period because they simply didn't have the funds.
 
To add about educational stations.....in the 1960's, some were programed to be viewed by students in school; therefore, there was morning and early-afternoon programming. Then, other than showing a test pattern and tone, nothing may be shown until early evening for household viewing.
 
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