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Retro: Kentucky Saturday, May 30, 1964

From TV Guide, Kentucky Edition:

WAVE Ch. 3 Louisville (NBC)

7:30 Light Time
7:45 Clutch Cargo
8 AM Bullwinkle (delay from noon but not
in color)
8:30 Northwest Passage (COLOR)
9 AM Guess Who?
9:30 Ruff And Reddy (COLOR)
10 AM Hector Heathcote (COLOR)
10:30 Fireball XL-5
11 AM Dennis The Menace
11:30 Fury
12 N Farming With Jack Crowner
12:30 Baseball: Dodgers-Pirates (Bob Wolff and Joe
Garagiola report)
3:30 Film: "The Priceless Laboratory" (an Antarctica
research lab that studies physical and life sciences
in zero and sub-zero temperatures, time approximate,
COLOR)
4 PM Top Star Bowling
5 PM Horse Race: Memorial Day Handicap from Miles Park,
Louisville
5:30 NBC Sports Special: Charlotte 600 highlights
6 PM Tomorrow's Champions (amateur boxing)
6:30 Weather, News, Sports
7 PM Kentucky Afield (COLOR)
7:30 The Lieutenant (this would become timely: Paul Burke
plays a former "adviser" in Vietnam who demands realism
in guerrilla training)
8:30 Joey Bishop (guests: the Andrews Sisters, COLOR)
9 PM NBC Movie:" Something Of Value" (Rock Hudson and Sidney
Poitier in a drama set against the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya,
from '57)
11:15 The Outlaws
12:15 Movie: "Gunman's Walk"
2:05 Local News, Weather

WLW-T Ch. 5 Cincinnati (NBC)

7 AM Farming Today
7:30 Farm Front
8 AM Mr. Hop (COLOR)
9 AM Ruff And Reddy (COLOR)
9:30 Signal Three (COLOR)
10 AM Hector Heathcote (COLOR)
10:30 Fireball XL-5
11 AM Dennis The Menace
11:30 Fury
12 N Bullwinkle (COLOR)
12:30 Film: "Festival Of Speed" highlights the 1963
Indianapolis 500
1 PM Woody's Workshop
1:15 Dugout Dope
1:25 Baseball: Reds-Cardinals (Frank McCormick and
Ed Kennedy report)
4 PM Baseball Scoreboard (time approximate)
4:15 All About Sports
4:30 Parade Of Champions (I think this was putt-putt golf)
5 PM Northwest Passage (COLOR)
5:30 NBC Sports Special
6 PM NBC News (Sander Vanocur)
6:15 Local News, Sports
6:30 Midwestern Hayride (COLOR)
7:30 The Lieutenant
8:30 Joey Bishop (COLOR)
9 PM NBC Movie: "Something Of Value"
11:15 News, Weather
11:35 Movies: "The Caine Mutiny" (COLOR) and "Murder, My
Sweet" ("The Caine Mutiny" is worth it for the cast:
Humphrey Bogart, Van Johnson, Fred MacMurray,
Jose Ferrer, E.G. Marshall)

WCPO Ch. 9 Cincinnati (CBS)

6:15 Farm News
6:30 Summer Semester: "Modern Comparative Drama"
7 AM Jewish Hour (Lowell Thomas narrates films of the Eichmann
trial)
7:30 Play It Safe
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Alvin Show
9:30 Tennessee Tuxedo
10 AM Quick Draw McGraw
10:30 Mighty Mouse
11 AM Rin Tin Tin
11:30 Roy Rogers
12 N Sky King
12:30 Larry Smith (and his puppets)
1 PM Movie: "Cry Of The Werewolf"
2:30 All Star Golf (Al Besselink vs. either Cary Middlecoff
or Dow Finsterwald; Jimmy Demaret reports)
3:30 Horse Race: Metropolitan Handicap, first leg of the
Handicap Triple Crown, from Aqueduct race course
in New York; Fred Capossela, Win Elliot, and Sam Renick
report
4 PM Yancy Derringer
4:30 Big Time Wrestling
5:30 Rocky And His Friends
6 PM The Rebel
6:30 Bronco
7:30 Jackie Gleason
8:30 The Defenders
9:30 The New Phil Silvers Show (Phil's new character, Harry
Grafton, spots Allen Funt in a supermarket and starts
looking for the "Candid Camera")
10 PM Gunsmoke
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:35 Racing From River Downs
11:45 Checkmate
12:45 Star Performance
1:15 Movies: "The Arnelo Affair," "She Knew All The Answers,"
"Three Comrades," and "White Savage" (AFAIK, this stays
on all night, until 7:30 AM)

WHAS Ch. 11 Louisville (CBS)

7 AM Summer Semester
7:30 Cartoon Comics
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Alvin Show
9:30 Tennessee Tuxedo
10 AM Quick Draw McGraw
10:30 Mighty Mouse
11 AM Rin Tin Tin
11:30 Roy Rogers
12 N Sky King
12:30 CBS News (anchor not given)
1 PM Magic Moments In Sports
1:15 Baseball: Reds-Cardinals (Dizzy Dean and
Pee Wee Reese report)
4 PM Magic Moments In Sports (time approximate)
4:30 Adventure Theater (travelogue)
5 PM Exclusively Outdoors
5:30 Hi-Varieties
6:25 Local News
6:30 Bold Journey
7 PM Hayloft Hoedown
7:30 Jackie Gleason
8:30 The Defenders
9:30 The New Phil Silvers Show
10 PM Gunsmoke
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:25 Movie: "The Prince And The Showgirl" (COLOR)

WKRC Ch. 12 Cincinnati (ABC)

9:30 Asbury Hymn Time
10 AM The Story
10:30 Magic Land Of Allakazam
11 AM New Casper Cartoon Show
11:30 Beany And Cecil
12 N Bugs Bunny
12:30 American Bandstand (guests: Don Grady of "My
Three Sons," who in 1967 would record a thing
called "Yellow Balloon"; Nino Tempo and April
Stevens)
1:30 Movies: "Seventeen" (Jackie Cooper, from '40)
and "The Texans"
4:45 Home Show
5 PM Wide World Of Sports: National AAU Gymnastics
Championships, the Yankee 300 NASCAR race from
Indianapolis, a three-round boxing match between
Olympic hopefuls Joe Frazier and 295-pound Buster
Mathis
6:30 Roller Derby
7:30 Hootenanny (from the U.S. Naval Academy: the Chad
Mitchell Trio, Judy Henske, Flatt and Scruggs, Glen
Yarbrough, Val Pringle, Grier Reynolds, Stan Rubin and
his Tigertown Five, comedian Charlie Manna; Jack Linkletter
hosts)
8:30 Lawrence Welk (Memorial Day is the theme)
9:30 Hollywood Palace (host Phil Harris; Louis Armstrong (doing
"Hello, Dolly!"), soprano Mary Costa, Louis Nye, comedian
Pete Barbutti, dancer-choreographer Peter Gennaro (who
later did the choreography for "The Ed Sullivan Show"),
the Jubilee Four, jugglers the Peiro Brothers, the Robert
Baudy leopard and panther act)
10:30 Stump The Stars (Eartha Kitt and Mike Connors play the game
with regulars Sebastian Cabot, Stubby Kaye, Ross Martin, Richard
Long, Joyce Jameson, and Connie Stevens--these were new episodes,
not reruns of the 1962-63 CBS series; Mike Stokey continued as host)
11 PM News, Weather
11:20 Movie: "Streets Of Laredo"

WLEX Ch. 18 Lexington (NBC/CBS)

9 AM Pathways To God
9:30 Ruff And Reddy (COLOR)
10 AM Hector Heathcote (COLOR)
10:30 Fireball XL-5
11 AM Dennis The Menace
11:30 Fury
12 N Bullwinkle (COLOR)
12:30 Leisure
1 PM Comedy Time (cartoons)
1:25 Baseball: Reds-Cardinals (Ch. 18 was on
the Reds network and picked up Ch. 5's
coverage)
4 PM Country Music (Stan Corman, time approximate)
4:30 Big Time Wrestling
5:30 NBC Sports Special
6 PM Porter Wagoner
6:30 International Showtime ("Canadian Aquacade," with
diving champions Norma Dean Maxwell, Eddie Cole,
Emile Hotte, and Ronnie Munn demonstrating high
diving and such stunts as weightlifting and a relay
sack race, delay from Fri 7:30 PM)
7:30 Jackie Gleason
8:30 Joey Bishop (COLOR)
9 PM NBC Movie: "Something Of Value"
11:15 Weather, News, Sports (COLOR)
11:45 Movie: "The Blonde Bandit" (the star of this '49
drama, Dorothy Patrick, is no relation to me--watch
for Robert Rockwell, Jor-El in the first George Reeves
"Superman" episode and Mr. Boynton on "Our Miss Brooks")

WKYT Ch. 27 Lexington (ABC/CBS)

8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Alvin Show
9:30 Tennessee Tuxedo
10 AM Bugs Bunny (ABC, delay from noon)
10:30 Magic Land Of Allakazam
11 AM New Casper Cartoon Show
11:30 Beany And Cecil
12 N Tobacco News And Views
12:15 Young People's World
12:25 Almanac Newsreel (the 1959 Indianapolis
500)
12:30 American Bandstand
1:30 Nick Clooney (students from Scott County
High School are guests)
2:30 Trails West
3 PM Film: "Desert Horizons" (how the development
of oil resources has raised the standard of
living in the Middle East)
3:30 Horse Race: Metropolitan Handicap
4 PM Three Stooges
4:30 Keyhole
5 PM Wide World Of Sports
6:30 Danger Man (the half-hour version of Patrick
McGoohan's "Secret Agent")
7 PM Ensign O'Toole (ABC, delay from Thu 9 PM)
7:30 Hootenanny
8:30 Lawrence Welk
9:30 Hollywood Palace
10:30 Movie: "Woman In White" (a woman in white lurks
outside a country estate near London to warn the
heiress-owner of impending danger, perhaps from
one of her residents--no relation to the radio soap
of the same name, which was about a nurse--news,
weather, and sports follow the movie)

WLKY Ch. 32 Louisville (ABC)

10:30 Magic Land Of Allakazam
11 AM New Casper Cartoon Show
11:30 Beany And Cecil
12 N Bugs Bunny
12:30 American Bandstand
1:30 Pastor's Study
2 PM Movie: "Nancy Drew, Trouble Shooter"
3:30 Horse Race: Metropolitan Handicap
4 PM Roller Derby
5 PM Wide World Of Sports
6:30 Chicago Wrestling
7:30 Hootenanny
8:30 Lawrence Welk (trivia note: of the three stations
airing Mr. Music Maker, only Ch. 32 ever carried
him in syndication; Chs. 12 and 27 carried "Hee Haw")
9:30 Hollywood Palace
10:30 Trails West
11 PM Movie: "Volcano"
 
7:30 Hootenanny (from the U.S. Naval Academy: the Chad
Mitchell Trio, Judy Henske, Flatt and Scruggs, Glen
Yarbrough, Val Pringle, Grier Reynolds, Stan Rubin and
his Tigertown Five, comedian Charlie Manna; Jack Linkletter
hosts)
8:30 Lawrence Welk (Memorial Day is the theme)
9:30 Hollywood Palace (host Phil Harris; Louis Armstrong (doing
"Hello, Dolly!"), soprano Mary Costa, Louis Nye, comedian
Pete Barbutti, dancer-choreographer Peter Gennaro (who
later did the choreography for "The Ed Sullivan Show"),
the Jubilee Four, jugglers the Peiro Brothers, the Robert
Baudy leopard and panther act)

"Hootenanny" took a lot of flack for avoiding the political side of folk music; Pete Seeger, Dylan, Phil Ochs, etc...I'm guessing those guys would have been REALLY out of place in Annapolis.

Pete Barbutti was on "The Hollywood Palace" that night...I loved watching him on Carson in the 70's.
 
The Indianapolis 500 took place this day and had the horrible crash that killed two drivers. Interesting how there was no planned TV coverage of that event back then. It didn't come to live TV until many years later.
 
Corky Marlowe said:
7:30 Hootenanny (from the U.S. Naval Academy: the Chad
Mitchell Trio, Judy Henske, Flatt and Scruggs, Glen
Yarbrough, Val Pringle, Grier Reynolds, Stan Rubin and
his Tigertown Five, comedian Charlie Manna; Jack Linkletter
hosts)
8:30 Lawrence Welk (Memorial Day is the theme)
9:30 Hollywood Palace (host Phil Harris; Louis Armstrong (doing
"Hello, Dolly!"), soprano Mary Costa, Louis Nye, comedian
Pete Barbutti, dancer-choreographer Peter Gennaro (who
later did the choreography for "The Ed Sullivan Show"),
the Jubilee Four, jugglers the Peiro Brothers, the Robert
Baudy leopard and panther act)

"Hootenanny" took a lot of flack for avoiding the political side of folk music; Pete Seeger, Dylan, Phil Ochs, etc...I'm guessing those guys would have been REALLY out of place in Annapolis.

Pete Barbutti was on "The Hollywood Palace" that night...I loved watching him on Carson in the 70's.

Seeger refused ABC's demands that he sign a paper attesting to his loyalty to the U.S.; he'd been blacklisted during the McCarthy era. Consequently, he never appeared on "Hootenanny," nor did Dylan, Ochs, Joan Baez, or any other politically-oriented folkie; they stood by Seeger as a matter of principle. It's unfortunate because they might have helped the show survive the British Invasion; instead, viewers were getting either the Chad Mitchell Trio or the New Christy Minstrels practically every week and finally tired of them.

Dylan had a great line about the show. At the height of its popularity a movie called "Hootenanny Hoot" was made; it was about a television producer who sells a network on the idea of televising hootenannies. "I like it," says the network exec, "but will it sell soap?" When Dylan heard this he said, "We don't make music to sell soap. H---, we don't even buy soap."
 
The Indianapolis 500 took place this day and had the horrible crash that killed two drivers. Interesting how there was no planned TV coverage of that event back then. It didn't come to live TV until many years later.

The drivers who died were Eddie Sachs ad Dave McDonald. The film of that crash is gut-wrenching to watch, mainly because the cars were still using gasoline then, which produced huge flames as opposed to the alcohol based fuels used since the early 70s.
 
Corky -

Are you, or would you be related to, Chuck Marlowe who worked at WIBC Radio and may have covered some of the 500 races?

Cincinnati Kid
 
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