Retro: Hollywood/San Diego/Santa Barbara, Thursday, February 8, 1961

[Ultimajock]

Source: TV Guide, Southern California Edition

Stations listed:
2 KNXT (CBS) 6121 Sunset Boulevard, Hollywood 28.
3 KEY-T (NBC, ABC, CBS) 730 Miramonte Drive, Santa Barbara.
4 KRCA (NBC) 6258 Selma, Hollywood 28.
5 KTLA (Ind.) 5800 Sunset Boulevard, Hollywood 28.
6 XETV (ABC) 7th and Ash, San Diego 1.
7 KABC-TV (ABC) Prospect and Talmadge, Hollywood 27.
8 KFMB-TV (CBS) 5th and Ash, San Diego 1.
9 KHJ-TV (Ind.) 1313 North Vine Street, Hollywood 28.
10 KFSD-TV (NBC) Highway 94 at 47th Street, San Diego 12.
11 KTTV (Ind.) 5746 Sunset Boulevard, Hollywood 28.
13 KCOP (Ind.) 915 North LaBrea Street, Hollywood 38.

President Kennedy’s press conference today is scheduled to be telecast either over XETV and KABC-TV at 10:00 A.M. or KEY-T, XETV and KABC-TV at 4:00 P.M. It will pre-empt the regular show at that time.

MORNING
5:45
4 Morning Farm Report

6:00
4/10 [Color] Continental Classroom

6:10
2 Give Us This Day

6:15
2 Farm Report and News

6:30
2 Discovering Art

6:50
8 This is My Faith

6:55
8 California Farm Report

7:00
2/8 Captain Kangaroo
3/4 Today (Dave Garroway)
10 Today on the Farm

7:30
10 Today’s Cartoons

7:45
2/8 News

7:55
7 Daily Word

8:00
2 Movie (Misadventures of Buster Keaton, 1950 compilation of segments of Keaton’s early television series; interestingly, IMDb credits KTTV, co-owned by CBS at the time, with being the producing “studio”)
7 Chucko’s Cartoons (Lucy Ann Arturkovich, 5, of La Canada, and Sharon Baril, 6, of Norwalk, visit Chucko today)
8 Sunup (Bob Mills)
10 Today (Dave Garroway)

8:25
5 News, Telecopter Report

8:30
5 Ding Dong School (Horwich)
6 Kiddie Kartoons

8:55
5 News, Telecopter Report

9:00
2/8 December Bride
3/4/10 Say When
5 Romper Room
6 Jack LaLanne
7 I Married Joan
9 Public Service Film

9:15
11 Linkletter and Kids

9:30
2/8 Video Village (Monty Hall)
3/4/10 [Color] Play Your Hunch (Merv Griffin)
6 Lynn Taylor
7 Dr. Hudson’s Journal
9 White Walls (Serial)
11 Jack LaLanne

10:00
2/8 I Love Lucy
3/4/10 [Color] The Price is Right (Bill Cullen)
5 Debbie Drake (exercises)
7 The Ray Milland Show
9 Movie (Shall We Dance, 1936 musical, with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers)
11 Movie (Conquest, 1937 drama, with Greta Garbo and Charles Boyer)

10:15
5 Movie (They All Kissed the Bride, 1942 comedy, with Joan Crawford)
13 Public Service Film

10:30
2/8 Clear Horizon (Serial)
3/4/10 Concentration
7 Our Miss Brooks
13 Guideposts (science education)

11:00
2/8 Love of Life
3/4/10 Truth or Consequences
5 Romper Room
6/7 Morning Court

11:30
2/8 Search for Tomorrow
3/4/10 [Color] It Could Be You (Bill Leyden)
6/7 Love That Bob!
9 Movie (Days of Glory, 1944 WW2 drama, with Tamara Toumanova, Gregory Peck and Alan Reed)
13 Lloyd Thaxton

11:45
2/8 The Guiding Light

11:50
5 News, Telecopter Report

11:55
3/4/10 News (Ray Scherer)

AFTERNOON
12:00
2/8 News
3/4/10 [Color] Jan Murray
5 Mike Wallace
6/7 Camouflage
11 Lunch Brigade with Sheriff John

12:05
2/8 Burns and Allen

12:30
2/8 As The World Turns
3/6/7 Number Please (TV Guide mistakenly displays the [4] instead of the [7] on this listing)
4/10 Loretta Young
5 Chef Joe Milani
13 LASC Telecourse

1:00
2/8 Full Circle (Serial)
3/4/10 Young Dr. Malone
5 Movie (Fury at Furnace Creek, 1948 Western, with Victor Mature and Coleen Gray)
6/7 About Faces
11 Topper
13 Public Service Film

1:30
2/8 Art Linkletter’s House Party (guest: memory expert Arthur Bornstein)
3/4/10 From These Roots
6 Stage 7
7 My Little Margie
9 Movie (Embraceable You, 1948 crime drama, with Dane Clark and Geraldine Brooks)
11 The People’s Choice
13 Guideposts (Spanish instruction)

2:00
2/8 The Millionaire
3/6/7 Day In Court
4/10 Make Room for Daddy
11 Paul Coates
13 Racket Squad

2:30
2/8 The Verdict is Yours
3/6/7 Road to Reality
4 Here’s Hollywood (Simone Signoret is interviewed by Dean Miller)
10 TV Classroom (“Applied Psychology” with Veleda Sickles)
11 Ben Hunter (discussion)
13 Felix the Cat

2:50
5 News, Telecopter Report

3:00
2/8 Brighter Day
3/6/7 Queen for a Day
4 Film Dramas
5 Dorothy Gardiner
9 Movie (The Locket, 1946 drama, with Laraine Day and Robert Mitchum)
10 Movie (Thoroughbreds Don’t Cry, 1937 sports drama, with Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney)

3:15
2/8 The Secret Storm

3:30
2/8 The Edge of Night
3/6/7 Who Do You Trust?
11 Susie

4:00
2 Amos ‘n’ Andy
3/6/7 American Bandstand
5 Skipper Frank
8 Movie (My Kingdom for a Cook, 1943 comedy, with Charles Coburn)
11 Kit Carson
13 Wink Martindale

4:30
2 The Life of Riley
4 Movie (The Man is Armed, 1957 crime drama, with Dane Clark and May Wynn)
10 Johnny Downs (cartoons)
11 Wild Bill Hickok4:45
9 News (John Willis)

5:00
2 Movie (The Pied Piper, 1942 drama, with Monty Wooley and Roddy McDowall)
3/11 The Three Stooges
5/10 Popeye
6 Bozo the Clown
9 Movie (The Hong Kong Affair, 1958 drama, with Jack Kelly, May Wynn and Richard Loo. Oddly, KHJ-TV had already shown this film at 5:00 P.M. on Monday the 6th, and would repeat it Thursday night the 9th at 7:00 P.M.)
13 Robin Hood

5:25
13 Milestones of the Century

5:30
3/6/7 The Lone Ranger
10 Men Into Space
13 True Adventure (Bill Burrud documentary series)

5:55
4 News Almanac

EVENING
6:00
3 Dan Smoot (commentary)
4/7/8/10/13 News (in color on KRCA)
5 Bozo the Clown
6 Amos ‘n’ Andy
11 U.S. Marshal

6:05
4 [Color] Weather, Sports

6:15
3/4/7/8/10 News
13 Goodwin Knight (commentary)

6:20
13 Cal Tinney (commentary)

6:25
2 Weather (Bill Keene)
9 News (John Willis)

6:30
2/3/5/10 News
4 [Color] Curt Massey
6 Abbott and Costello
7 The Honeymooners
8 Auquanauts
9 Cartoon Express
11 Mr. Magoo
13 The Pioneers

6:40
11 Weather, News

6:45
2/4/5 News (in color on KRCA)

7:00
2 The Third Man (Michael Rennie series based on the Harry Lime character from the theatrical film of the same title)
3 Huckleberry Hound
4 Interpol Calling
5 Seven Keys
6 News (Lionel Van Deerlin)
7 Miami Undercover (detective series featuring Rocky Graziano)
9 State Trooper
10 Shotgun Slade
11 Pony Express
13 Treasure (Bill Burrud documentary series)

7:30
2 Auquanauts (same episode that ran on KFMB-TV at 6:30, with Jeremy Slate and Ron Ely moving to a new Malibu Beach office and Susan Oliver, as Ely’s date for the night, being kidnapped by carjacker Telly Savalas)
3 Nanette Fabray
4/10 Wagon Train (Noah Beery Jr. and Jay Silverheels guest)
5 Crossroads
6/7 Hong Kong
8 News (Wilson and Keen)
9 Movie (“to be announced,” but advertised on page A-58 as “SNEAK PREVIEW – a new and exciting movie never-before-seen on Los Angeles television”)
11 How to Marry a Millionaire
13 Global Zobel (Myron Zobel travels via the Rome Express to Naples and by boat to Capri)

8:00
3 Tab Hunter
5 Wrestling from the Olympic
8 To Tell the Truth (tape-delayed from Monday at 7:30, when it was pre-empted on the CBS schedule by KFMB-TV’s local news)
11 You’ll Never Get Rich
13 Squad Car

8:30
2/8 Wanted – Dead or Alive
3/4/10 [Color] The Price is Right (Bill Cullen introduces the Boat Sweepstakes)
6/7 The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet
11 Trackdown
13 Let’s Go Skiing

8:55
9 News (John Wills)

9:00
2/8 My Sister Eileen (Rose Marie co-starred in this sitcom the season immediately before The Dick Van Dyke Show; Frankie Avalon is this week’s guest)
3 To Be Announced
4/10 [Color] Perry Como
6/7 Hawaiian Eye
9 The Million Dollar Movie (Girl Trouble, 1942 comedy, with Don Ameche and Joan Bennett; KHJ-TV ran this film twice in a row at the same time Monday, Tuesday and Thursday nights that week)
11 Sheriff of Cochise
13 Ports o’ Call (a special wherein a new Long Beach restaurant celebrated its grand opening with Polynesian and American band music, Samoan knife dancers and Tahitian hulas)

9:30
2/8 I’ve Got a Secret (Ronald Reagan guests on a show taped in Hollywood)
11 26 Men

10:00
2/8 The United States Steel Hour (The Big Splash, a play by Harold Gast, starring Jack Carson, Arlene Francis, Keir Dullea and Elizabeth Ashley)
3/6/7 Naked City
4/10 Peter Loves Mary
11/13 News

10:15
11 Paul Coates (interview)
13 Goodwin Knight (commentary)

10:20
13 Cal Tinney (commentary)

10:30
4 Mike Hammer (first series based around the Mickey Spillane character, as played by Darren McGavin)
5 Travelcade (Gunther Less)
9 The Million Dollar Movie (the sixth run that week of Girl Trouble)
10 Johnny Midnight
13 Baxter Ward (commentary)

10:45
11 Weather (Jim Hawthorne)

10:50
11 The Passing Parade (John Nesbitt)

11:00
2/3/4/5/7/8/10 News (in color on KRCA)
6 The Powerhouse Movie (The Westland Case, 1937 mystery, with Preston Foster and Carol Hughes)
11 Highway Patrol

11:15
2 Movie (The Vicious Circle, 1956 mystery, with John Mills and Wilfrid Hyde White)
3/4 [Color] Jack Paar
7 Let’s Dance (hosted by disc jockey Al Jarvis, who’d created the Make-Believe Ballroom program on Los Angeles radio in the 1930s)

11:30
5 Debbie Drake (exercises)
8 The Daily Word
10 [Color] Jack Paar (joined in progress)
11 Movie (The Clock, 1945 wartime romance, with Judy Garland, Robert Walker and Keenan Wynn)

11:45
5 Pat Buttram (local late night chat show, starring future KTLA owner Gene Autry’s old movie sidekick; Buttram also had a daily program on KNX Radio, the sister station to KNXT, at the time)

11:55
9 News (John Willis)

12:00
9 Movie (Highways by Night, 1942 drama, with Richard Carlson)
13 News (Hal Fishman)

12:15
7 Movie (Dangerous Millions, 1946 drama, with Kent Taylor)

1:00
2 Movie (The Go-Getter, 1955 comedy, with Hank McCune)
4 News Almanac

1:05
4 News

2:30
2 News

2:35
2 Give Us This Day

 

[Corky Marlowe]

9 The Million Dollar Movie (the sixth run that week of Girl Trouble)

Good grief, weren't there any police chases to put on the air that week?

 

[Joseph_Gallant]

Good grief, weren't there any police chases to put on the air that week?

Well, KTLA-5 already had their first "Telecopter", so they could have, but probably didn't.

The "Telecopter Reports" in the morning were likely ordinary traffic reports, which even back then were a necessity in a city like Los Angeles.

Also, I suspect that the 6-6:15 P.M. hour (PT) on several stations was divided between 15 minute local and 15 minute network newscasts.

KRCA-4 undoubtedly aired "Huntley/Brinkley" at 6:15, but did KNXT-2 air "The CBS Evening News" (with Douglas Edwards) at 6:30 or 6:45?? And since no programming for KABC-7 was listed for 5:30 to 6 P.M., can I assume that the station aired "The ABC News Evening Report" (I think Bill Shadel was a fill-in anchor in early 1961 following John Charles Daly's departure at the end of 1960) and a local 15-minuite newscast in the 5:30-6 P.M. half-hour??

 

[MCarney]

9 The Million Dollar Movie (the sixth run that week of Girl Trouble)

Good grief, weren't there any police chases to put on the air that week?

Well, it was an RKO-General station. They did the same thing on WOR New York, and less frequently on WNAC Boston (since they were a network affiliate).

One other Boston connection. John Willis came East and hosted "Good Morning!" (which became "Good Day" when it was syndicated) in 1973 on WCVB and was there for 15 years or so. He passed away about 10 years ago. His son is the morning DJ on WKLB Country 102.5 Boston these days.

 

[michael hagerty]

I'm surprised by the listing for KRCA on Selma Avenue. I thought they were in the Burbank building at 3000 W. Alameda by the late 50s. They had been in the Sunset and Vine NBC studios prior to that. Anybody have the story?

I did a Google Street view of 6258 Selma. It's a parking lot now, but the footprint is large enough for studio space to have been there.

 

[Ultimajock]

Re: Retro: Hollywood/San Diego/Santa Barbara, Wednesday, February 8, 1961

...apologies for the subject line goof -- February 8, 1961, was a Wednesday, not a Thursday. The subject line is hereby corrected here...

And since no programming for KABC-7 was listed for 5:30 to 6 P.M.

...look again, JG. KABC-TV/7 ran the ABC rerun of The Lone Ranger...

 

[Ultimajock]

I'm surprised by the listing for KRCA on Selma Avenue. I thought they were in the Burbank building at 3000 W. Alameda by the late 50s. They had been in the Sunset and Vine NBC studios prior to that. Anybody have the story?

I did a Google Street view of 6258 Selma. It's a parking lot now, but the footprint is large enough for studio space to have been there.

...6258 Selma Avenue was, I believe, an annex to the Sunset and Vine NBC Radio City studios. KRCA didn't move to the Burbank Color City facility (and the KNBC call sign) until November 1962; there's now a Chase Bank on the old Radio City site...

 

[bpatrick]

Finally, the answer to something that has been guesswork for me
for a time. We know that in the '70s there was no noon break for
NBC's West Coast affiliates (for example, "Three On A Match" was
on at 1:30 ET/12:30 CT/12 N PT). And I see here that there was
no noon break in '61 either (Jan Murray was on at 2 ET/1 CT/12 PT).

OTOH, ABC followed the Eastern version of daytime; CBS, the Central.
But off-topic: I still don't understand why some of ABC's affiliates in
the Central time zone ran daytime shows simultaneously with the East
("American Bandstand" at 3 in Huntsville, AL, for example) while others
delayed the schedule an hour ("AB" at 4 in Houston).

 

[wbhist]

I'm surprised by the listing for KRCA on Selma Avenue. I thought they were in the Burbank building at 3000 W. Alameda by the late 50s. They had been in the Sunset and Vine NBC studios prior to that. Anybody have the story?

I did a Google Street view of 6258 Selma. It's a parking lot now, but the footprint is large enough for studio space to have been there.

...6258 Selma Avenue was, I believe, an annex to the Sunset and Vine NBC Radio City studios. KRCA didn't move to the Burbank Color City facility (and the KNBC call sign) until November 1962; there's now a Chase Bank on the old Radio City site...

Also on the old Sunset and Vine grounds was RCA Victor's first "Music Center of the World" West Coast recording complex; the address associated with that studio was 1510 North Vine Street, where they were based from March 2, 1959 until April 1, 1964 - on April 21, RCA moved their West Coast "Music Center" hub to 6363 Sunset Blvd. where they stayed up to its closure in early '77.

 

[RicoGregg]

Channel 7, 10:00 am: The Ray Milland Show;

This fine actor had a short-lived sitcom that ran on CBS, and was rerun in various places in syndication.

The show was created by Joe Connelly and Bob Mosher, who would later create Leave It To Beaver.

Here is video of the show's opening credits. Full episodes are available at YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BDciA-tGmQ

 

[bpatrick]

I noticed "Seven Keys" on Channel 5. It had been a local
program for about a year but was about to move to ABC
(April 3). After ABC dropped it in 1964 it returned to local
LA TV for a few months, finally ending early in 1965. AFAIK,
Jack Narz was its only host.