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This date also marks the broadcast of Elvis Presley's Comeback Special on NBC!
Part I: Chicago
Sources: Chicago Tribune via newspapers.com; Chicago Daily News via geneologybank.com
2 WBBM (CBS)
5:50 Thought for the Day
5:55 Early Report
6:00 Sunrise Semester
6:30 Seminar '68 - English: Your New Language
7:00 WBBM-TV Editorial
7:05 CBS Morning News
7:30 Dennis the Menace
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Lucy Show
9:30 Beverly Hillbillies
10:00 Andy Griffith
10:30 Dick Van Dyke
11:00 Love of Life
11:25 CBS Midday News - Joseph Benti
11:30 Search for Tomorrow
NOON WBBM-TV News
12:15 Lee Phillip
12:30 As the World Turns
1:00 Love Is a Many Splendored Thing
1:30 Guiding Light
2:00 Secret Storm
2:30 Edge of Night
3:00 Linkletter Show - Guests: Martin Landau, Barbara Bain
3:25 CBS Afternoon News - Douglas Edwards
3:30 Leave It to Beaver
4:00 Man from U.N.C.L.E.
5:00 McHale's Navy
5:30 CBS Evening News
6:00 WBBM-TV News
6:25 WBBM-TV Editorial
6:30 National Geographic: "Reptiles and Amphibians" - Narrator: Joseph Campanella
7:30 Red Skelton - Guest: Jane Powell
8:30 Doris Day: "The Librarian"
9:00 CBS News Special: "Justice (Hugo L.) Black and the Bill of Rights"
10:00 WBBM-TV News
10:55 Late Show: "The Shrike" (1955) - Jose Ferrer, June Allyson
12:50 Late Late Show: "El Cid" (1961) - Charlton Heston, Sophia Loren
2:30 Late Report
2:35 Meditation
5 WMAQ (NBC)
5:40 Today's Meditation
5:45 Town and Farm
6:00 Read Right
6:30 Today in Chicago
6:55 Chicago News
7:00 Today
9:00 Snap Judgment - Guests: Dr. Joyce Brothers, Bert Convy
9:25 NBC News Morning Report - Nancy Dickerson
9:30 Concentration
10:00 Personality - Guests: Eli Wallach, Anne Jackson, Marty Allen
10:30 Hollywood Squares - Panel: Wally Cox, Rose Marie, Jack Carter, Jo Anne Worley, Paul Lynde, Scoey Mitchell, Charley Weaver, Barbara Bain, Martin Landau
11:00 Jeopardy
11:30 Eye Guess
11:55 NBC News Noon Report - Edwin Newman
NOON NBC News Chicago Report
12:30 Let's Make a Deal (moved to ABC Dec. 30)
1:00 Days of Our Lives
1:30 The Doctors
2:00 Another World
2:30 You Don't Say! - Guests: Mary Ann Mobley, Chad Everett
3:00 Match Game - Guests: Sheila MacRae, Orson Bean
3:25 NBC News Afternoon Report - Floyd Kalber (WMAQ news anchor)
3:30 Merv Griffin - Guests: Frankie Scinta, Eli Wallach, Anne Jackson, Shirley Jones, Jack Cassidy, Helen Gurley Brown, Mary Lou Collins, Ron Carey
5:00 NBC News Chicago Report - John Palmer (future national NBC News anchor)
6:00 Huntley-Brinkley Report
6:30 WMAQ Special: "The Giants and the Common Men" - The History and growth of Chicago (possibly in honor of Illinois' statehood sesquicentennial)
7:30 Julia: "Farewell, My Friends, Hello" - Guest starring Groucho Marx (died 3 days after Elvis) in his final acting appearance.
8:00 Elvis Presley's '68 Comeback Special - Official title: "Singer (sewing machines) Presents...Elvis"
9:00 Special (Brigitte) Bardot - Her American TV debut, though filmed in France and England.
10:00 NBC News Chicago Report
10:30 Tonight Show - Guests: Shari Lewis, John Cassavetes, Gena Rowlands
MIDNIGHT Midnight Report
12:30 Everyman
7 WLS (ABC; renamed from WBKB Oct. 7)
6:45 Reflections
6:50 Channel 7 Morning News
7:00 Perspectives
7:30 Three Stooges and Friends (possibly "The New 3 Stooges" cartoon)
8:00 Morning Movie: "Macao" (1952) - Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell, William Bendix
9:30 Dick Cavett - Guests: Ann Landers, Peter Lawford
11:00 Bewitched
11:30 Treasure Isle - John Bartholomew Tucker (produced at Singer Island, Palm Beach Shores, FL)
NOON Dream House - Mike Darrow
12:30 Funny You Should Ask!! - Lloyd Thaxton; Guests: Angie Dickinson, Rose Marie, Scoey Mitchell, Jan Murray, Soupy Sales
12:55 Children's Doctor
1:00 Newlywed Game
1:30 Dating Game
2:00 General Hospital
2:30 One Life to Live
3:00 Dark Shadows
3:30 Feature Movie: "You Belong to Me" (1941) - Henry Fonda, Barbara Stanwyck
5:30 ABC News - Frank Reynolds
6:00 Flynn-Daly News
6:30 Mod Squad: "A Quiet Weekend in the Country"
7:30 It Takes a Thief: "The Galloping Skin Game"
8:30 NYPD: "The Peep Freak"
9:00 That's Life: "Bringing Baby Home"
10:00 Flynn-Daly News
10:30 Joey Bishop - Guests: Sonny & Cher, George Kirby
MIDNIGHT Chicago
1:00 Perpectives
1:30 News Final
1:35 Reflections
9 WGN
6:15 News and Sports
6:30 5 Minutes to Live By
6:35 Top o' the Morning
7:00 Ray Rayner & Friends
8:15 King and Ollie
8:30 Romper Room
9:00 Exercise With Gloria
9:30 Donna Reed
10:00 Girl Talk
10:30 Jim Conway
NOON Bozo's Circus
1:00 Hazel
1:30 Hollywood Startime: "Chad Hanna" (1940) - Henry Fonda, Dorothy Lamour
3:00 Mr. Ed
3:30 Superman
4:00 Batman
4:30 Garfield Goose
5:15 John Drury News
5:30 Flintstones
6:00 Mike Douglas - Co-host: Pat Paulsen; Guests: Gladys Knight & the Pips, Shirley Jones, Marvin Glass, Johnny Hartford
7:30 I Love Lucy
8:00 Steve Allen - Guests: Bob Crane, Kathryn Crosby, Jean Shepard, Pat Harrington Jr.
9:00 Perry Mason
10:00 John Drury News
10:30 WGN Presents: "Room at the Top" (1959) - Laurance Harvey, Simone Signoret
12:45 Night Beat
1:05 World of Sports
1:10 Late Movie: "The Black Pit of Doctor M"/"Misterios de Ultramumba" (1959; Spanish) - Gaston Santos, Rafael Bertrand, Mapita Cortes
2:30 5 Minutes to Live By
11 WTTW (NET)
8:05 TV College - National Government
9:12 Dimenion in Science
9:47 Cover to Cover
10:15 Project History
10:40 Wordsmith
11:05 TV College - Data Processing
12:05 TV College - Speech
1:03 Quest for the Best
1:27 Word Magic
1:46 Stepping Into Melody
2:05 Sing Along with Me
2:25 You and Eye
3:00 TV College - Physical Science
3:45 TV College - Psychiatry
4:30 Misterogers' Neighborhood
5:00 What's New?
5:30 Friendly Giant
5:45 The Storyteller (from WTTW)
6:00 TV College - Speech
6:30 TV College - Gregg Shorthand
7:15 TV College - Italian
8:00 French Chef
8:30 Action People
9:30 Chicago Festival (WTTW's only color broadcast that day)
10:00 Expanding Sunday
10:30 German Playhouse
11:00 Portrait in Surgery
20 WXXW (sister station to WTTW, though not affiliated with NET; entirely in B&W)
8:20 Nursing in Psychiatry
9:15 Meet the Arts
9:50 Adventures in Science
10:25 Modern Math 4
10:50 Modern Math 2
11:15 Hablos mas Espanol
(off the air sometime in between)
1:00 Parlons Francais
1:20 Sounds Like Magic
1:39 At Your Fingertips
1:58 All About You
3:05 Nursing and the Law
(off the air sometime in between)
7:00 Book Beat
7:30 Joyce Chen Cooks
8:05 TV College - Humanities
26 WCIU (entirely in B&W)
9:00 Stock Market Review
9:15 Stock Market Observer
10:00 Business News
10:15 Stock Market Observer
NOON Business News
12:15 News of the World
1:15 Stock Market Observer
2:00 Business News
2:15 Stock Market Observer
2:45 American Stock Exchange
3:00 Business News Highlights
3:30 Modern Supevisory Technique
4:00 Kiddie-A Go-Go (a kids' American Bandstand)
5:30 El Jucio de los Hijos (The Judgment of the Sons)
6:00 Spanish News
6:30 Today's Racing
6:45 Sports Report
6:55 Stock Market Wrapup
7:00 How to Invest
8:00 ESP
8:30 TV Party Line
9:00 Motorsports International
10:00 Pioneers
32 WFLD
2:25 (PM) Fairest Cape - A visit to Cape Town, South Africa
2:30 Dialing for Dollars
3:00 Interweave
3:30 Cartoon Town - with B.J. (Bill Jackson) and Dirty Dragon, later of the Gigglesnort Hotel
5:00 Munsters
5:30 Rawhide
6:30 Truth or Consequences
7:00 Honeymooners
7:30 Movie 32: "The Railroad Man"/"Il Ferroviere" (1956; Italian) - Pietro Germi, Louis Della Noce, Sylva Koscina
9:30 Newscope
10:00 Run for Your Life
11:00 100 Great Paintings
11:15 Newscope
Part I: Chicago
Sources: Chicago Tribune via newspapers.com; Chicago Daily News via geneologybank.com
2 WBBM (CBS)
5:50 Thought for the Day
5:55 Early Report
6:00 Sunrise Semester
6:30 Seminar '68 - English: Your New Language
7:00 WBBM-TV Editorial
7:05 CBS Morning News
7:30 Dennis the Menace
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Lucy Show
9:30 Beverly Hillbillies
10:00 Andy Griffith
10:30 Dick Van Dyke
11:00 Love of Life
11:25 CBS Midday News - Joseph Benti
11:30 Search for Tomorrow
NOON WBBM-TV News
12:15 Lee Phillip
12:30 As the World Turns
1:00 Love Is a Many Splendored Thing
1:30 Guiding Light
2:00 Secret Storm
2:30 Edge of Night
3:00 Linkletter Show - Guests: Martin Landau, Barbara Bain
3:25 CBS Afternoon News - Douglas Edwards
3:30 Leave It to Beaver
4:00 Man from U.N.C.L.E.
5:00 McHale's Navy
5:30 CBS Evening News
6:00 WBBM-TV News
6:25 WBBM-TV Editorial
6:30 National Geographic: "Reptiles and Amphibians" - Narrator: Joseph Campanella
7:30 Red Skelton - Guest: Jane Powell
8:30 Doris Day: "The Librarian"
9:00 CBS News Special: "Justice (Hugo L.) Black and the Bill of Rights"
10:00 WBBM-TV News
10:55 Late Show: "The Shrike" (1955) - Jose Ferrer, June Allyson
12:50 Late Late Show: "El Cid" (1961) - Charlton Heston, Sophia Loren
2:30 Late Report
2:35 Meditation
5 WMAQ (NBC)
5:40 Today's Meditation
5:45 Town and Farm
6:00 Read Right
6:30 Today in Chicago
6:55 Chicago News
7:00 Today
9:00 Snap Judgment - Guests: Dr. Joyce Brothers, Bert Convy
9:25 NBC News Morning Report - Nancy Dickerson
9:30 Concentration
10:00 Personality - Guests: Eli Wallach, Anne Jackson, Marty Allen
10:30 Hollywood Squares - Panel: Wally Cox, Rose Marie, Jack Carter, Jo Anne Worley, Paul Lynde, Scoey Mitchell, Charley Weaver, Barbara Bain, Martin Landau
11:00 Jeopardy
11:30 Eye Guess
11:55 NBC News Noon Report - Edwin Newman
NOON NBC News Chicago Report
12:30 Let's Make a Deal (moved to ABC Dec. 30)
1:00 Days of Our Lives
1:30 The Doctors
2:00 Another World
2:30 You Don't Say! - Guests: Mary Ann Mobley, Chad Everett
3:00 Match Game - Guests: Sheila MacRae, Orson Bean
3:25 NBC News Afternoon Report - Floyd Kalber (WMAQ news anchor)
3:30 Merv Griffin - Guests: Frankie Scinta, Eli Wallach, Anne Jackson, Shirley Jones, Jack Cassidy, Helen Gurley Brown, Mary Lou Collins, Ron Carey
5:00 NBC News Chicago Report - John Palmer (future national NBC News anchor)
6:00 Huntley-Brinkley Report
6:30 WMAQ Special: "The Giants and the Common Men" - The History and growth of Chicago (possibly in honor of Illinois' statehood sesquicentennial)
7:30 Julia: "Farewell, My Friends, Hello" - Guest starring Groucho Marx (died 3 days after Elvis) in his final acting appearance.
8:00 Elvis Presley's '68 Comeback Special - Official title: "Singer (sewing machines) Presents...Elvis"
9:00 Special (Brigitte) Bardot - Her American TV debut, though filmed in France and England.
10:00 NBC News Chicago Report
10:30 Tonight Show - Guests: Shari Lewis, John Cassavetes, Gena Rowlands
MIDNIGHT Midnight Report
12:30 Everyman
7 WLS (ABC; renamed from WBKB Oct. 7)
6:45 Reflections
6:50 Channel 7 Morning News
7:00 Perspectives
7:30 Three Stooges and Friends (possibly "The New 3 Stooges" cartoon)
8:00 Morning Movie: "Macao" (1952) - Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell, William Bendix
9:30 Dick Cavett - Guests: Ann Landers, Peter Lawford
11:00 Bewitched
11:30 Treasure Isle - John Bartholomew Tucker (produced at Singer Island, Palm Beach Shores, FL)
NOON Dream House - Mike Darrow
12:30 Funny You Should Ask!! - Lloyd Thaxton; Guests: Angie Dickinson, Rose Marie, Scoey Mitchell, Jan Murray, Soupy Sales
12:55 Children's Doctor
1:00 Newlywed Game
1:30 Dating Game
2:00 General Hospital
2:30 One Life to Live
3:00 Dark Shadows
3:30 Feature Movie: "You Belong to Me" (1941) - Henry Fonda, Barbara Stanwyck
5:30 ABC News - Frank Reynolds
6:00 Flynn-Daly News
6:30 Mod Squad: "A Quiet Weekend in the Country"
7:30 It Takes a Thief: "The Galloping Skin Game"
8:30 NYPD: "The Peep Freak"
9:00 That's Life: "Bringing Baby Home"
10:00 Flynn-Daly News
10:30 Joey Bishop - Guests: Sonny & Cher, George Kirby
MIDNIGHT Chicago
1:00 Perpectives
1:30 News Final
1:35 Reflections
9 WGN
6:15 News and Sports
6:30 5 Minutes to Live By
6:35 Top o' the Morning
7:00 Ray Rayner & Friends
8:15 King and Ollie
8:30 Romper Room
9:00 Exercise With Gloria
9:30 Donna Reed
10:00 Girl Talk
10:30 Jim Conway
NOON Bozo's Circus
1:00 Hazel
1:30 Hollywood Startime: "Chad Hanna" (1940) - Henry Fonda, Dorothy Lamour
3:00 Mr. Ed
3:30 Superman
4:00 Batman
4:30 Garfield Goose
5:15 John Drury News
5:30 Flintstones
6:00 Mike Douglas - Co-host: Pat Paulsen; Guests: Gladys Knight & the Pips, Shirley Jones, Marvin Glass, Johnny Hartford
7:30 I Love Lucy
8:00 Steve Allen - Guests: Bob Crane, Kathryn Crosby, Jean Shepard, Pat Harrington Jr.
9:00 Perry Mason
10:00 John Drury News
10:30 WGN Presents: "Room at the Top" (1959) - Laurance Harvey, Simone Signoret
12:45 Night Beat
1:05 World of Sports
1:10 Late Movie: "The Black Pit of Doctor M"/"Misterios de Ultramumba" (1959; Spanish) - Gaston Santos, Rafael Bertrand, Mapita Cortes
2:30 5 Minutes to Live By
11 WTTW (NET)
8:05 TV College - National Government
9:12 Dimenion in Science
9:47 Cover to Cover
10:15 Project History
10:40 Wordsmith
11:05 TV College - Data Processing
12:05 TV College - Speech
1:03 Quest for the Best
1:27 Word Magic
1:46 Stepping Into Melody
2:05 Sing Along with Me
2:25 You and Eye
3:00 TV College - Physical Science
3:45 TV College - Psychiatry
4:30 Misterogers' Neighborhood
5:00 What's New?
5:30 Friendly Giant
5:45 The Storyteller (from WTTW)
6:00 TV College - Speech
6:30 TV College - Gregg Shorthand
7:15 TV College - Italian
8:00 French Chef
8:30 Action People
9:30 Chicago Festival (WTTW's only color broadcast that day)
10:00 Expanding Sunday
10:30 German Playhouse
11:00 Portrait in Surgery
20 WXXW (sister station to WTTW, though not affiliated with NET; entirely in B&W)
8:20 Nursing in Psychiatry
9:15 Meet the Arts
9:50 Adventures in Science
10:25 Modern Math 4
10:50 Modern Math 2
11:15 Hablos mas Espanol
(off the air sometime in between)
1:00 Parlons Francais
1:20 Sounds Like Magic
1:39 At Your Fingertips
1:58 All About You
3:05 Nursing and the Law
(off the air sometime in between)
7:00 Book Beat
7:30 Joyce Chen Cooks
8:05 TV College - Humanities
26 WCIU (entirely in B&W)
9:00 Stock Market Review
9:15 Stock Market Observer
10:00 Business News
10:15 Stock Market Observer
NOON Business News
12:15 News of the World
1:15 Stock Market Observer
2:00 Business News
2:15 Stock Market Observer
2:45 American Stock Exchange
3:00 Business News Highlights
3:30 Modern Supevisory Technique
4:00 Kiddie-A Go-Go (a kids' American Bandstand)
5:30 El Jucio de los Hijos (The Judgment of the Sons)
6:00 Spanish News
6:30 Today's Racing
6:45 Sports Report
6:55 Stock Market Wrapup
7:00 How to Invest
8:00 ESP
8:30 TV Party Line
9:00 Motorsports International
10:00 Pioneers
32 WFLD
2:25 (PM) Fairest Cape - A visit to Cape Town, South Africa
2:30 Dialing for Dollars
3:00 Interweave
3:30 Cartoon Town - with B.J. (Bill Jackson) and Dirty Dragon, later of the Gigglesnort Hotel
5:00 Munsters
5:30 Rawhide
6:30 Truth or Consequences
7:00 Honeymooners
7:30 Movie 32: "The Railroad Man"/"Il Ferroviere" (1956; Italian) - Pietro Germi, Louis Della Noce, Sylva Koscina
9:30 Newscope
10:00 Run for Your Life
11:00 100 Great Paintings
11:15 Newscope