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Retro: Kentucky Saturday, February 11, 1961

From TV Guide, Kentucky Edition:

Chs. 5, 9, 12, 18, 27 listed Eastern Time
Chs. 3, 7, 11, 14, 50 listed Central Time

WAVE Ch. 3 Louisville (NBC)

7 AM Today On The Farm (Eddy Arnold hosts; guest is
singer Betty Johnson; Carmelita Pope (remember
her from the Pam commercials?) does women's features,
and Joe Slattery does weather.)
7:30 News
7:35 Community Jamboree
7:45 Light Time
8 AM Cartoon Carnival
9 AM Shari Lewis (COLOR)
9:30 King Leonardo (COLOR)
10 AM Fury
10:30 Lone Ranger
11 AM Matty's Funday Funnies (ABC, delay from Fri 6:30 PM)
11:30 Rocky And His Friends (ABC, can't tell if it's a delay from
Tuesday 5:30 or Sunday 4:30 PM)
12 N Farming With Jack Crowner
12:55 Report From Washington (Thruston Morton, who represented
Kentucky for years in Congress)
1 PM College Basketball: Notre Dame-Detroit
3 PM Kentucky Afield (time approximate)
3:30 Bowling Stars (John Guenther meets last week's winner.)
4 PM Film Feature
4:30 Saturday Prom (Merv Griffin's guests are Gene Pitney, the
Shirelles, and Sal Salvador's orchestra as the Band of the
Month)
5 PM Donna Reed (ABC, delay from Thu 7 PM)
5:30 Youth Speaks
6 PM Tomorrow's Champions (amateur boxing with local youth groups)
6:25 News
6:30 Bonanza (COLOR)
7:30 Leave It To Beaver (ABC)
8 PM Bachelor Father (delay from Thu 8 PM)
8:30 The Nation's Future (debated: Should the federal government
subsidize the arts? John Kenneth Galbraith says yes; Russell
Lynes, managing editor of Harper's magazine, says no.)
9:30 Lawrence Welk (ABC, delay from 8 PM)
10 PM Rifleman (ABC, delay from Tue 7 PM)
10:30 Lawman (ABC, delay from Sun 7:30 PM)
11 PM Naked City (ABC, delay from Wed 9 PM)
12 M Movie: "Hellfire"
1:45 News

WLW-T Ch. 5 Cincinnati (NBC)

7 AM Today On The Farm
7:30 Movie: "West Of The Pecos"
8:30 Mr. Hop (COLOR)
9:30 Signal Three
10 AM Shari Lewis (COLOR)
10:30 King Leonardo (COLOR)
11 AM Fury
11:30 Lone Ranger
12 N True Story
12:30 Detective's Diary
1 PM Captain Gallant (same show that airs at 4 PM CT
on Ch. 14)
1:30 People Are Funny (delay from Sun 6:30)
2 PM NBA Basketball: Cincinnati Royals-St. Louis Hawks
4:30 Bowling Stars (time approximate)
5 PM Curtain Time
5:30 Wrestling (from Dayton)
6:30 Midwestern Hayride (COLOR)
7:30 Bonanza (COLOR)
8:30 The Tall Man
9 PM The Deputy (one of Henry Fonda's two short-lived
attempts at a series; the other was "The Smith Family"
in 1971 and '72)
9:30 The Nation's Future
10:30 Blue Angels
11 PM News, Weather
11:20 Movie: "Slattery's Hurricane"

WTVW Ch. 7 Evansville (ABC)

9 AM Elementary German
10 AM Jaycees Present
10:30 American Newsreel Album
10:45 Who Am I? (religious program)
11 AM Light Time
11:15 Popeye
11:30 Three Stooges
12 N Soupy Sales
12:30 Pip The Piper
1 PM College Basketball: Notre Dame-Detroit
2:50 Junior Boxing (time approximate)
3:20 Basketball Courtside
3:30 Big 10 Basketball: Wisconsin-Northwestern
5 PM All-Star Golf (Jimmy Demaret--who later hosted
this show--vs. Cary Middlecoff, time approximate)
6 PM Assignment Underwater
6:30 Roaring 20's
7:30 Leave It To Beaver
8 PM Lawrence Welk (salutes to the Mardi Gras and Valentine's
Day)
9 PM Boxing: Denny Moyer vs. Charley Scott, welterweights, 10
rounds, from Madison Square Garden
9:45 Make That Spare (John Powell challenges last week's winner,
show originates in bowling's mecca, Paramus, NJ, time approximate)
10 PM Coronado 9
10:30 Wrestling From Evansville
12 M Movie: "She Done Him Wrong" (one of Mae West's signature roles: a
singer in a beer hall with a taste for diamonds)

WCPO Ch. 9 Cincinnati (ABC)

7 AM Jewish Hour
7:15 Joe Emerson (gospel music)
7:30 Herald Of Truth
8 AM Industry On Parade
8:15 Navy Story
9:30 Movie: "Left-Handed Law"
10:30 International Film Festival (sounds something like CBS's later
"Children's Film Festival")
11 AM Three Stooges
11:30 Soupy Sales (delay from 12 N)
12 N TV Dance Party (Bob Smith--not Buffalo Bob)
2 PM College Basketball: Notre Dame-Detroit
3:30 All-Star Wrestling (time approximate)
4:30 Big 10 Basketball: Wisconsin-Northwestern
6 PM Cannonball (time approximate)
6:30 Outdoor Rambler (Jim Thomas, who did a number of these
kinds of shows)
7 PM Deadline
7:30 Roaring 20's
8:30 Leave It To Beaver
9 PM Lawrence Welk
10 PM Ernie Kovacs ("Take A Good Look," delay from Thu 10:30)
10:30 Flight
11 PM News, Weather
11:20 Movie: "Devil's Harbor"

WHAS Ch. 11 Louisville (CBS)

8 AM Cartoon Circus
9 AM Captain Kangaroo
10 AM Magic Land Of Allakazam
10:30 Roy Rogers
11 AM Sky King
11:30 Mighty Mouse
12 N CBS News (Robert Trout)
12:30 Songs Of Faith
1 PM Popeye
2 PM Gene Autry
2:30 TBA
3:30 Americans At Work
4 PM Championship Bowling
5 PM I Love Lucy (in Hollywood, Lucy meets Hedda
Hopper, delay from Sun 5 PM)
5:30 Casing The Classics (students from Eastern High
School discuss "Gulliver's Travels")
6 PM Hi-Varieties
6:30 Perry Mason (jockey Billy Pearson, who won over
$100,000 on "The $64,000 Question" and "The $64,000
Challenge" in the category of art, plays a jockey asked
to throw a race and his wife will leave him if he doesn't--
watch for Stooge Joe De Rita)
7:30 Checkmate
8:30 Have Gun, Will Travel
9 PM Gunsmoke (last season of half-hour shows)
9:30 Sea Hunt
10 PM Ozzie And Harriet (ABC, delay from Wed 7:30)
10:30 News (Hugh Smith)
10:40 Weather (Milton Metz)
10:45 Sports
11 PM Play Of The Week (similar to "Sunset Boulevard," Glenda
Farrell plays a one-time beauty queen still obsessed with
the glamor of Hollywood)

WKRC Ch. 12 Cincinnati (CBS)

9 AM Skipper Ryle
10 AM Captain Kangaroo
11 AM Magic Land Of Allakazam
11:30 Roy Rogers
12 N Sky King
12:30 Mighty Mouse
1 PM Nutty Newsreel
1:05 Movie: "Tarzan And The She-Devil" (Lex Barker is Tarzan,
from '53)
2:30 Movie: "Claudia And David"
4 PM Sports Spectacular (International Bahamas Speed Weeks,
delay from Sun 2:30)
5:30 African Patrol
6 PM Citizen Soldier
6:30 Bold Venture
7 PM Johnny Midnight
7:30 Perry Mason
8:30 Checkmate
9:30 Have Gun, Will Travel
10 PM Gunsmoke
10:30 Miami Undercover
11 PM News, Weather
11:15 Movie: "Dark Passage" (Humphrey Bogart)

WFIE Ch. 14 Evansville (NBC)

7 AM Today On The Farm
7:30 Indiana University
8 AM Off To Adventure
8:15 Cartoon Carnival
8:30 Reading Out Loud
9 AM Shari Lewis (COLOR)
9:30 King Leonardo (COLOR)
10 AM Fury
10:30 Lone Ranger
11 AM High School Story
11:30 Detective's Diary
12 N Mr. Wizard
12:30 You And Your Schools
12:45 Americans At Work
1 PM NBA Basketball: Royals-Hawks
3:30 Bowling Stars (time approximate)
4 PM Captain Gallant
4:30 Saturday Prom
5 PM Item
6 PM Deputy Dawg
6:30 Bonanza (COLOR)
7:30 The Tall Man
8 PM The Deputy
8:30 The Nation's Future
9:30 Sea Hunt
10 PM R.C.M.P.
10:30 News (Jack McLean)
10:40 Sports (Jack McLean)
10:45 Movie: "The Red Pony"

WLEX Ch. 18 Lexington (NBC/ABC)

9:30 Pathways To God
10 AM Shari Lewis (COLOR)
10:30 King Leonardo (COLOR)
11 AM Fury
11:30 Lone Ranger
12 N True Story
12:30 Detective's Diary
1 PM Mr. Wizard
1:30 TBA
2 PM NBA Basketball: Royals-Hawks
4:30 Wrestling (time approximate)
5:30 Law Enforcement
6 PM The Groucho Show (George Fenneman introduces
"Mrs. Housing Development" contestant Donna Breton,
from West Hartford, CT, delay from Thu 10 PM)
6:30 The Americans (debut, delay from Mon 7:30)
7:30 Bonanza (COLOR)
8:30 The Tall Man
9 PM Lawrence Welk
10 PM Boxing: Moyer-Scott
10:45 Make That Spare (time approximate)
11 PM News, Weather
11:15 Movie: TBA

WKYT Ch. 27 Lexington (ABC/CBS)

9 AM Skipper Ryle
10 AM Captain Kangaroo
11 AM Texas Rangers (definitely not the baseball team,
which didn't even move from Washington to Dallas
until '72)
11:30 Waterfront
12 N Tobacco News And Views
12:15 UK Television Workshop
12:30 Mighty Mouse
1 PM Nick Clooney
2 PM College Basketball: Notre Dame-Detroit
3:30 Sports Review (time approximate)
3:45 All-Star Wrestling
4:30 Big 10 Basketball: Wisconsin-Northwestern
6 PM Roaring 20's (time approximate)
7 PM Angel (CBS, delay from Thu 8 PM)
7:30 Perry Mason
8:30 Stagecoach West (ABC, delay from Tue 9 PM)
9:30 Have Gun, Will Travel
10 PM Gunsmoke
10:30 Harrigan And Son (ABC, delay from Fri 8 PM)
11 PM News, Weather
11:15 Movie: "All For Mary"

WEHT Ch. 50 (Ch. 25) Evansville (CBS)

8 AM Travelog 50
8:30 Indiana University
9 AM Captain Kangaroo
10 AM Magic Land Of Allakazam
10:30 Roy Rogers
11 AM Sky King
11:30 Mighty Mouse
12 N Movie: TBA
4 PM Pro Wrestling
5 PM I Led Three Lives
5:30 Superman
6 PM U.S. Marshal
6:30 Perry Mason
7:30 Checkmate
8:30 Have Gun, Will Travel
9 PM Gunsmoke
9:30 Grand Jury
10 PM Wanted: Dead Or Alive (delay from Wed 7:30)
10:30 Brothers Brannagan
11 PM Movie: "The Last Warning"
 
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