Retro: Kentucky Monday, June 30, 1969

[bpatrick]

From TV Guide, Kentucky Edition:

WAVE Ch. 3 Louisville (NBC)

6:45 Today On The Farm
7 AM Today (Dore Schary discusses a play he has written
on the rights of privacy; a feature on Wales and tomorrow's
investiture of Prince Charles; Jim Thorne, author of "Underwater
World"; Brenda Johnson, author of a book on what to do after
a man proposes)
9 AM Morning Show
9:55 News (Bob Kay)
10 AM It Takes Two (Robert Clary, Gary Crosby, Stubby Kaye and their
wives)
10:25 NBC News (Nancy Dickerson)
10:30 Concentration
11 AM Personality (Totie Fields, Garry Moore, Lynn Redgrave; on film:
Alan King)
11:30 Hollywood Squares (guests: Kaye Ballard, Gypsy Rose Lee, Greg
Morris, Jan Murray, Shani Wallis)
12 N Jeopardy!
12:30 Eye Guess
12:55 NBC News (Edwin Newman)
1 PM Run For Your Life
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 You Don't Say! (Alan Sues, Jo Anne Worley)
4 PM Movie: "Elopement"
5:30 Flintstones
6 PM News, Weather And Sports
6:30 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7 PM Movie: "The Black Shield Of Falworth" ("I Dream Of Jeannie"
airs Friday 7 PM, "Laugh-In" airs Saturday 7 PM)
9 PM NBC Movie: "Banning"
11 PM News, Weather And Sports
11:30 Tonight Show (actor William Redfield subs for Ed McMahon;
Ray Charles, Tony Randall)

WLWT Ch. 5 Cincinnati (NBC)

6:15 Moment Of Meditation
6:20 Good Morning
6:30 Michigan History
7 AM Today
9 AM Paul Dixon
10:30 Concentration
11 AM Personality
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N Bob Braun's 50-50 Club
1:30 You're Putting Me On (debut of a game show hosted by
Bill Leyden, with regular panelists Bill Cullen, Peggy Cass,
and Larry Blyden--Blyden would take over as host when
Leyden's health deteriorated due to cancer; Leyden died
in March 1970, age 47)
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 You Don't Say!
4 PM Vivienne! (Vivienne della Chiesa)
5:30 News, Weather And Sports
6:30 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7 PM I Love Lucy
7:30 I Dream Of Jeannie
8 PM Baseball: Reds-Braves (Pee Wee Reese did color)
10:30 TBA
11 PM News, Weather And Sports
11:30 Tonight Show

WCPO Ch. 9 Cincinnati (CBS)

5:50 Farm News
6 AM Black Heritage (conclusion of a series on home rule and
Southern Reconstruction)
6:30 Young World
7 AM CBS News (Joseph Benti)
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Uncle Al
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies
11 AM Search For Tomorrow (delay from 12:30 PM)
11:30 Dick Van Dyke
12 N Noon Report
12:30 Nick Clooney
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
2:30 Guiding Light
3 PM Secret Storm
3:30 Edge Of Night
4 PM Movie: "Price Of Fear"
6 PM News, Weather And Sports
6:30 CBS News (Walter Cronkite)
7 PM Truth Or Consequences
7:30 Gunsmoke
8:30 Here's Lucy
9 PM Mayberry R.F.D.
9:30 Family Affair
10 PM Jimmie Rodgers (Carol Burnett's summer replacement
has Vicki Lawrence and Lyle Waggoner as regulars;
guest is Kaye Stevens)
11 PM News, Weather And Sports
11:30 Steve Allen (Miriam Makeba, Louis Nye, Linda Cristal
("High Chaparral"))
1 AM Christophers
1:15 Local News

WHAS Ch. 11 Louisville (CBS)

6:30 Black Heritage
7 AM CBS News
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM The Linkletter Show (guest: fashion designer Rebecca
Welles, delay from Fri 4 PM)
9:30 Edge Of Night
10 AM The Lucy Show (what seems to be post-"I Love Lucy"
Lucy: she works with the Marquis Chimps)
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies
11 AM Andy Griffith
11:30 Dick Van Dyke
12 N Love Of Life
12:25 CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM News, Weather, Sports
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
2:30 Guiding Light
3 PM Secret Storm
3:30 T-Bar-V Ranch
4:30 Perry Mason
5:30 News, Weather And Sports
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Wilburn Brothers
7:30 Gunsmoke
8:30 Here's Lucy
9 PM Mayberry R.F.D.
9:30 Family Affair
10 PM Jimmie Rodgers
11 PM News, Weather And Sports
11:30 Movie: "Daughter Of Dr. Jekyll"

WKRC Ch. 12 Cincinnati (ABC)

8 AM College Guide
8:30 Skipper Ryle
9 AM Debbie Drake
9:30 Galloping Gourmet
10 AM It Takes Two (pre-empted on Ch. 5)
10:25 Movie: "The Leopard Man"
11:50 Fashions In Sewing
12 N Bewitched
12:30 News, Weather, Sports
1 PM Dream House
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 Dating Game
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 One Life To Live
4 PM Dark Shadows
4:30 Mike Douglas (co-host Norm Crosby; Edie Adams,
clairvoyant Maurice Woodruff)
6 PM Merv Griffin (Morey Amsterdam, Victor Borge, Dorothy
Collins, Ron Holgate (cast member in "1776"), singer
Julie Budd)
7:20 News, Weather, Sports
7:30 Avengers
8:30 Guns Of Will Sonnett
9 PM King Family (special from the Los Angeles Arboretum)
10 PM Dick Cavett (Clifford Alexander, former assistant to LBJ
and a member of the Equal Employment Opportunity
Commission)
11 PM News, Weather And Sports
11:30 Joey Bishop (Joan Baez, Stu Gilliam)

WFPK (WKPC) Ch. 15 Louisville (NET)

7:30 What's New
8 PM World Press
9 PM NET Journal: "The Warren Years," a review of Earl Warren's
years as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
sign off 10:30 PM

WLEX Ch. 18 Lexington (NBC)

7 AM Today
9 AM Steve Allen (Abbe Lane, Ron Ely, Sandy Baron, folk singers
Hedge and Sonna)
10 AM It Takes Two
10:25 NBC News
10:30 Concentration
11 AM Personality
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N Noon Today
12:30 Eye Guess
12:55 NBC News
1 PM Jeopardy!
1:30 You're Putting Me On
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 You Don't Say!
4 PM Match Game (Robert Morse, Sue Lyon)
4:25 NBC News (Floyd Kalber)
4:30 Password (Peter Lawford, Barbara Eden)
5 PM Rifleman
5:30 News, Weather And Sports
6:30 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7 PM Stoneman Family
7:30 I Dream Of Jeannie
8 PM Baseball: Reds-Braves
10:30 TBA
11 PM News, Weather And Sports
11:30 Tonight Show
1 AM Take Five

WXIX Ch. 19 Cincinnati (Ind.)

12 N Jeopardy! (pre-empted on Ch. 5)
12:30 Eye Guess (pre-empted on Ch. 5)
12:55 NBC News (pre-empted on Ch. 5)
1 PM The Lucy Show (delay from 10 AM, pre-empted
on Ch. 9)
1:30 Movie: "Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder"
3 PM Dennis The Menace
3:30 Larry Smith Puppets
4 PM Rocket Robin Hood
4:30 Three Stooges
5 PM Prince Planet
5:30 Captain Fathom
6 PM Flintstones
6:30 Patty Duke
7 PM Judy Lynn (country music)
7:30 Combat!
8:30 Joan Rivers (Soupy Sales and columnist Elizabeth Post
discuss table manners.)
9 PM NBC Movie: "Banning" (pre-empted on Ch. 5)
11 PM Movie: "80,000 Suspects"

WKYT Ch. 27 Lexington (CBS)

6:30 Buzz Riggins
7 AM CBS News
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Town Talk
10 AM The Lucy Show
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies
11 AM Andy Griffith
11:30 Dick Van Dyke
12 N Love Of Life
12:25 Paul Harvey
12:30 Mike Douglas (same as Ch. 12)
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
2:30 Guiding Light
3 PM Secret Storm
3:30 Edge Of Night
4 PM Movie: "Captain Pirate"
5:55 Paul Harvey
6 PM News, Weather And Sports
6:30 CBS News
7 PM McHale's Navy
7:30 Gunsmoke
8:30 Here's Lucy
9 PM Mayberry R.F.D.
9:30 Family Affair
10 PM Jimmie Rodgers
11 PM News, Weather And Sports
11:30 Movie: "Mad Dog Coll"

WLKY Ch. 32 Louisville (ABC)

8:30 Rocky And His Friends
9 AM Romper Room
9:30 Movie: "Adventures Of Mark Twain"
11:30 Galloping Gourmet
12 N Bewitched
12:30 That Girl (daytime reruns start today)
1 PM Dream House
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 Dating Game
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 Time Tunnel
4:30 Merv Griffin (Eddy Arnold, Ray Milland, Betsy Palmer,
Julie Budd)
5:30 News, Weather And Sports
6 PM Movie: "Fury Of The Pagans"
7:30 Avengers
8:30 Guns Of Will Sonnett
9 PM The Outcasts
10 PM Dick Cavett
11 PM News, Weather And Sports
11:30 Joey Bishop

WBLG Ch. 62 (WTVQ Ch. 36) Lexington (ABC)

8:30 Film
9 AM Romper Room
10 AM Movie: "Saturday's Children"
12 N Bewitched
12:30 That Girl
1 PM Dream House
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 Dating Game
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 One Life To Live
4 PM Dark Shadows
4:30 Perry Mason
5:30 News, Weather And Sports
6 PM ABC News (Frank Reynolds/Howard K. Smith)
6:30 Merv Griffin (Henry Morgan, Sheila MacRae)
7:30 Avengers
8:30 Guns Of Will Sonnett
9 PM The Outcasts
10 PM Dick Cavett
11 PM News, Weather And Sports
11:30 Joey Bishop

E Kentucky Educational Television (at the time, all the existing
stations were listed: WKMU/21 Murray, WKPI/22 Pikeville, WKZT/23
Elizabethtown, WKAS/25 Ashland, WKSO/29 Somerset, WKHA/35 Hazard,
WKMA/35 Madisonville, WKMR/38 Morehead, WKLE/46 Lexington, WKON/52
Owenton, WKGB/53 Bowling Green, WCVN/54 Covington) (NET)

4 PM Smart Sewing
4:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5 PM What's New
5:30 Friendly Giant
6 PM Highway Safety (the Kentucky Department of Public Safety gives
tips on safe driving over the Fourth of July holiday)
6:30 French Chef
7 PM Eric Hoffer (the philosopher discusses the role of the intellectual
in modern society)
7:30 New Orleans Jazz (reminiscences and music of Jelly Roll Morton)
8 PM NET Playhouse ("A Song Of Summer" relates 10 years of collaboration
between blind and paralyzed composer Frederick Delius and colleague
Eric Fenby)
9:30 Cineposium (producers Joel Davison and Cal Lewin show films produced
by their sons; also: "Hambones" by Dan Agnew (AFAIK, no relation to
Spiro)--host is the other Michael Jackson, the KABC radio personality)
sign off 10 PM

 

[Mike Stroud]

From TV Guide, Kentucky Edition:


WLWT Ch. 5 Cincinnati (NBC)

1:30 You're Putting Me On (debut of a game show hosted by
Bill Leyden, with regular panelists Bill Cullen, Peggy Cass,
and Larry Blyden--Blyden would take over as host when
Leyden's health deteriorated due to cancer; Leyden died
in March 1970, age 47)


WHAS Ch. 11 Louisville (CBS)

10 AM The Lucy Show (what seems to be post-"I Love Lucy"
Lucy: she works with the Marquis Chimps)


WFPK (WKPC) Ch. 15 Louisville (NET)

7:30 What's New
8 PM World Press
9 PM NET Journal: "The Warren Years," a review of Earl Warren's
years as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
sign off 10:30 PM


WXIX Ch. 19 Cincinnati (Ind.)

12 N Jeopardy! (pre-empted on Ch. 5)
12:30 Eye Guess (pre-empted on Ch. 5)
12:55 NBC News (pre-empted on Ch. 5)

8:30 Joan Rivers (Soupy Sales and columnist Elizabeth Post
discuss table manners.)


WKYT Ch. 27 Lexington (CBS)

6:30 Buzz Riggins


E Kentucky Educational Television (at the time, all the existing
stations were listed: WKMU/21 Murray, WKPI/22 Pikeville, WKZT/23
Elizabethtown, WKAS/25 Ashland, WKSO/29 Somerset, WKHA/35 Hazard,
WKMA/35 Madisonville, WKMR/38 Morehead, WKLE/46 Lexington, WKON/52
Owenton, WKGB/53 Bowling Green, WCVN/54 Covington) (NET)

6 PM Highway Safety (the Kentucky Department of Public Safety gives
tips on safe driving over the Fourth of July holiday)
6:30 French Chef
7 PM Eric Hoffer (the philosopher discusses the role of the intellectual
in modern society)
7:30 New Orleans Jazz (reminiscences and music of Jelly Roll Morton)

Well, bp, I've got to do it, so here it comes ...

WLWT, 1:30 p.m.: I have understood from other sources that Leyden actually suffered a brain hemorrhage sometime around August or September, but it's possible he may have suffered from cancer, too, so I dunno ...

WHAS, 10 a.m.: You are correct. The Lucy Show was from 1962 to 1968, after she went Splitsville with Desi. Some people liked it, but there is no mistaking for the original.

WFPK: Golly, wonder what the station crew did with all the overtime they were racking up? (!!!) Come on, three measly hours? Guess NET stations were exempt from FCC regs about minimum hours of broadcast--in much of the country, ETV went dark for the summer, even at this point in time.

WXIX, 12 Noon to 1 p.m.: Wonder how long the station carried the shows WLWT pre-empted in favor of Bob Braun? Braun's show went on for years and years afterward.

WXIX, 8:30 p.m.: This can't be serious. Soupy Sales and Miss Manners discussing DINING ETTIQUETTE? I can imagine the dialogue here: "Why, yes, Soupy. Surely it's permissible for someone to throw a pie across the table." (!!!!!)

WKYT, 6:30 a.m.: Sounds to me like the local farm report/country music show that was de rigeur in almost all Southern markets back in the day. "Buzz Riggins" sure doesn't sound like a proper name for a public affairs show, I'll tell you that for certain.

Kentucky Educational Television, 6 p.m.: Ah, yes, I can see a state trooper on screen instructing viewers, "Well, friends, I'll tell y'all one thing. You'd probably do best to avoid watching them strange shows that are coming up after I go off. They'll really mess up your mind to the point that you'll try to make Bouillabaisse, discuss existentialism and fiddle with the radio dial to find Dixieland jazz, all while in your vehicle. None of this is in yours or the public's best interest."

 

[azumanga]

WFPK: Golly, wonder what the station crew did with all the overtime they were racking up? (!!!) Come on, three measly hours? Guess NET stations were exempt from FCC regs about minimum hours of broadcast--in much of the country, ETV went dark for the summer, even at this point in time.

Actually, I believe 90 minutes is the minimum a station can broadcast each day. As for educational stations, I believe the FCC had exemptions in regards to going dark on weekends or school holidays. For the first eight or nine years on the air, WUSF in Tampa was off the air not only on weekends, but also on school holidays and during the summer. (In comparison, competing station WEDU already had a year-round, seven-day schedule by the late-1960s.)

 

[bpatrick]

The Wikipedia entry for Bill Leyden says he was 53 at the time of his
death; this sounds more credible than 47 (people in show business
are notorious about playing fast and loose with their ages) since he
served with some distinction in World War II. And it does say he
suffered a cerebral hemorrhage around September or October 1969;
I remember at the time reading that the cause of death was cancer,
but that may not be true after all.

As for the question about WXIX running NBC's 12 N-1 PM shows, I
know that WKRC ran "Who, What Or Where" on delay in the mornings
at a time when ABC didn't begin its day until 11:30 AM, and I'm thinking
Ch. 12 also carried "Jeopardy!" (Fleming version) at one time (the Trebek
version is on WCPO at 7:30 PM). WLWT did carry "Jackpot!" at 5:30 PM
when NBC was airing it at noon.

Buzz Riggins is someone I never heard of, but I would also suspect that
farm news and country music were prevalent on his show (in Kentucky at
6:30 AM, it makes sense).

Re the Joan Rivers pairing of Soupy Sales and Miss Manners: maybe there
was supposed to be potential for comedy with the king of pie throwers and
the queen of etiquette face to face; I can imagine Soupy doing something
and Miss Manners pointing out why it was ill-mannered to do it. I'd like to
see that episode just to see what did take place.

And I think (correct me on this) that after Vivian Vance left "The Lucy Show,"
the setting changed to California, and Mary Jane Croft became Lucy's new
sidekick there was even more emphasis placed on celebrity guests, which
carried over to "Here's Lucy" to the point where it sometimes wasn't clear if
we were watching a sitcom or an extended variety-show sketch. (But even
some of these are worth another look: Lucy getting Elizabeth Taylor's ring stuck
on her finger, the elaborate setup--including quicksand--that the bank built to
get Jack Benny to put his money there are two that come to mind.)

 

[Mike Stroud]

Well, sir, it looks like I gotta confess I put my foot in my mouth regarding Buzz Riggins of Lexington's WKYT. Turns out he did a lot more than host the morning show on that station. Per his obit: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/kentucky/obituary.aspx?n=floyd-h-riggins-buzz&pid=127714382.

 

[bpatrick]

I looked up the obit for Buzz Riggins. Not being familiar with him
I wasn't aware that he was a news anchor at WKYT. In the June
28, 1969 issue of TV Guide, Kentucky Edition, there's an ad for
his morning show that reads as follows:

Up at 6:30 weekday mornings?
Need something to break you up?
The Buzz Riggins Show has it!
Down-home style

It is accompanied by a picture of Riggins, in conventional suit
and tie, sitting on a set that resembles an old general store.

So it would appear he mixed news and entertainment, and again
I wouldn't be surprised if farm news (especially given the importance
of horses and tobacco to the Bluegrass region's economy) and an
occasional country tune were part of the mix.

I noticed, too, that he was quite active in civic affairs around the
Lexington area. I'm a little more familiar with Louisville stations than
Lexington ones, but now I wish I'd had a chance to watch him.