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Retro: Kentucky Saturday, November 25, 1967

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bpatrick

From TV Guide, Kentucky Edition:

WAVE Ch. 3 Louisville (NBC)

6:45 Light Time
7 AM Farming With Jack Crowner
7:30 Movie: "Blondie's Lucky Day"
9 AM Super 6
9:30 Super President (no, Obama was only
about six years old ;D)
10 AM Flintstones
10:30 Samson & Goliath
11 AM Birdman And The Galaxy Trio
11:30 Atom Ant/Secret Squirrel
12 N Three's A Crowd (no idea what this is,
since it's neither the game show nor
the sitcom)
12:30 Cool McCool
1 PM Top Cat (delay from noon)
1:30 Kentucky Afield
2 PM Country Music
2:30 Bronco
3:30 GE College Bowl (Barnard College vs. either
Bryn Mawr College or the University of Miami)
4 PM Cheyenne
5 PM Country Music (I think this may have been the
Stoneman family--Roni was a regular on "Hee
Haw"--since around this time WAVE was carrying
their show in this timeslot.)
5:30 Porter Wagoner
6 PM News, Weather And Sports (COLOR)
6:30 McHale's Navy
7 PM Teen Beat
7:30 Maya (Jay North, post-"Dennis The Menace")
8:30 Get Smart
9 PM NBC Movie: "The Thrill Of It All"
11:15 News, Weather And Sports (COLOR)
11:30 Movie: "Pal Joey"

WLWT Ch. 5 Cincinnati (NBC)

7:30 Farm Front
8 AM Mr. Hop
9 AM Super 6
9:30 Super President
10 AM Flintstones
10:30 Samson & Goliath
11 AM Birdman And The Galaxy Trio
11:30 Atom Ant/Secret Squirrel
12 N Top Cat
12:30 Cool McCool
1 PM Nick Clooney's Bandstand
2 PM Movie: "Battle Of The Worlds"
3:30 AFL Highlights
4 PM Movie: "Rocky Mountain"
5:30 It's Academic
6 PM News, Weather And Sports (COLOR--Ch. 5
did all of its local programming in color.)
6:30 Midwestern Hayride
7:30 Maya
8:30 Get Smart
9 PM NBC Movie: "The Thrill Of It All"
11:15 News, Weather, Sports (COLOR)
11:45 Movie: "Best Of The Badmen"

WCPO Ch. 9 Cincinnati (CBS)

5:50 Farm News
6 AM Sunrise Semester: "Psychological Novel"
6:30 College Guide: Otterbein College, Westerville, OH
7 AM Funny Company
7:30 Play It Safe
8 AM Cartoons A Go-Go
9 AM Frankenstein Jr. And The Impossibles
9:30 Herculoids
10 AM Shazzan!
10:30 Space Ghost
11 AM Moby Dick And The Mighty Mightor
11:30 Mr. Firecracker (about a villain who intends to
destroy Santa's secret warehouse)
12:30 Jonny Quest
1 PM Lone Ranger (animated)
1:30 Road Runner
2 PM Upbeat
3 PM Big Time Wrestling
4 PM Lawman
4:30 Horse Race: Gallant Fox Handicap from
Aqueduct (taped)
5 PM Porter Wagoner
5:30 Let's Go To The Races
6 PM News, Weather And Sports (COLOR)
6:30 Outer Limits
7:30 Jackie Gleason (in his biography of Gleason, "How
Sweet It Is," James Bacon included a photo from
this show: Gleason with guests Bing Crosby, Liberace,
and Alan King)
8:30 My Three Sons
9 PM Hogan's Heroes
9:30 Petticoat Junction
10 PM Mannix
11 PM News, Weather And Sports (COLOR)
11:30 Movie: "The Seven Year Itch"
1 AM Movie: "China Doll" and "Parrish" ("Parrish" is in color)

WHAS Ch. 11 Louisville (CBS)

7 AM Sunrise Semester
7:30 Fisbie Funnies
8 AM Captain Kangaroo (last season on Saturdays until the 1980s)
9 AM Frankenstein Jr. And The Impossibles
9:30 Herculoids
10 AM Shazzan!
10:30 Space Ghost
11 AM Moby Dick And The Mighty Mightor
11:30 Superman/Aquaman Hour Of Adventure
12:30 Jonny Quest
1 PM Lone Ranger (animated)
1:30 Road Runner
2 PM Movie: "Gulliver's Travels" (1939 animated version, but if
you want some relevant social commentary, seek out the
live-action version Ted Danson did for NBC a few years back)
3:30 Leave It To Beaver
4 PM Wild Wild West (delay from Fri 7:30)
5 PM Horse Race (see 4:30 PM Ch. 9)
5:30 Hi-Varieties
6:25 Local News
6:30 CBS News (Roger Mudd)
7 PM Hayloft Hoedown
7:30 Jackie Gleason
8:30 My Three Sons
9 PM Hogan's Heroes
9:30 Petticoat Junction
10 PM Mannix
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Movie: "The Big Sky"

WKRC Ch. 12 Cincinnati (ABC)

6:45 Davey And Goliath
7 AM Discovery '67 (delay from Sun 11:30 AM)
7:30 Linus The Lionhearted (delay from Sun 10 AM)
8 AM Movie: "Manhunt In The Jungle"
9 AM New Casper Cartoon Show
9:30 Fantastic Four
10 AM Spider-Man
10:30 Journey To The Center Of The Earth
11 AM King Kong
11:30 George Of The Jungle
12 N Beatles
12:30 American Bandstand
1:15 NCAA Pre-Game Show
1:30 NCAA Football: Ohio State-Michigan
4:30 NCAA Football: Georgia-Georgia Tech
(time approximate)
7:30 Dating Game (time approximate)
8 PM Newlywed Game
8:30 Lawrence Welk
9:30 Iron Horse
10:30 ABC Movie: "Ride The Wild Surf" (delay from
Wed 9 PM)
12:30 ABC News (Keith McBee)
12:45 See The USA
1:15 Insight

WFPK (WKPC) Ch. 15 Louisville (NET)
off air on Saturday

WLEX Ch. 18 Lexington (NBC/CBS)

7 AM Agriculture U.S.A.
7:30 King Kong (ABC)
8 AM Popeye/Felix
8:30 New Casper Cartoon Show (ABC)
9 AM Super 6
9:30 Super President
10 AM Flintstones
10:30 Samson & Goliath
11 AM Birdman And The Galaxy Trio
11:30 Atom Ant/Secret Squirrel
12 N Top Cat
12:30 Cool McCool
1 PM New Shapes In Education
1:30 Movie: "The Terror"
3:30 The Story
4:30 Horse Race (see Ch. 9)
5 PM Film Feature
5:30 Grand Ole Opry (a couple of legends in North
Carolina, Doc and Merle Watson, are guests)
6 PM Porter Wagoner (guest is Waylon Jennings,
I guess before he and Willie Nelson became
"outlaws")
6:30 You Asked For It (reruns of the Jack Smith-
hosted shows from 1958 and '59)
7 PM NFL Game Of The Week
7:30 Jackie Gleason
8:30 Get Smart
9 PM NBC Movie: "The Thrill Of It All"
11:15 News, Weather And Sports (COLOR)
11:45 Movie: "The Hasty Heart"

WKYT Ch. 27 Lexington (ABC/CBS)

6:30 Across The Fence
7 AM Discovery '67
7:30 Linus The Lionhearted
8 AM Beatles
8:30 Road Runner
9 AM Frankenstein Jr. And The Impossibles
9:30 Herculoids
10 AM Spider-Man
10:30 Space Ghost
11 AM Moby Dick And The Mighty Mightor
11:30 George Of The Jungle
12 N Tobacco Talk
12:15 Farm Weather
12:30 American Bandstand
1:15 NCAA Pre-Game Show
1:30 NCAA Football: Ohio State-Michigan
4:30 NCAA Football: Georgia-Georgia Tech
(time approximate)
7:30 Hondo (ABC, delay from Fri 8:30)
8:30 Lawrence Welk
9:30 Petticoat Junction
10 PM Iron Horse (half-hour delay)
11 PM News, Weather And Sports (COLOR)
11:30 Movie: "Sayonara"

WLKY Ch. 32 Louisville (ABC)

9 AM New Casper Cartoon Show
9:30 Fantastic Four
10 AM Spider-Man
10:30 Journey To The Center Of The Earth
11 AM King Kong
11:30 George Of The Jungle
12 N Beatles
12:30 American Bandstand
1:15 NCAA Pre-Game Show
1:30 NCAA Football: Ohio State-Michigan
4:30 NCAA Football: Georgia-Georgia Tech
(time approximate)
7:30 Dating Game (time approximate)
8 PM Newlywed Game
8:30 Lawrence Welk
9:30 Iron Horse
10:30 ABC Movie: "Ride The Wild Surf"
12:30 ABC News
 
bpatrick said:
From TV Guide, Kentucky Edition:

WLWT Ch. 5 Cincinnati (NBC)

6 PM News, Weather And Sports (COLOR--Ch. 5
did all of its local programming in color.)
11:15 News, Weather, Sports (COLOR)

WHAS Ch. 11 Louisville (CBS)

5:30 Hi-Varieties
7 PM Hayloft Hoedown

WLEX Ch. 18 Lexington (NBC/CBS)

6 PM Porter Wagoner (guest is Waylon Jennings,
I guess before he and Willie Nelson became
"outlaws")
Click to expand...

Well, bp, I guess we're stuck in Kentucky! Here's a few for you ...

WLWT: The station claims that it was the first, or one of the first, to broadcast ALL its local shows in color. I have a hard time, personally, swallowing that assertion, but it might well be true, given founder Powel Crosley, Jr.'s involvement in television set manufacturing (and long before then, radios). I suppose some of the techie historians who haunt this forum might have some info about this.

WHAS: That station sure had its bases covered, with a pop-dance, American Bandstand-like half-hour, followed 90 minutes later by the local country-and-bluegrass show. The Bingham family sure kept the local flavor going for a longer time than did many other family-owned broadcasters (WHAS radio also reflected this). But changing tastes and economics would do both shows in by the beginning of the next decade.

WLEX: Yes, sir, Waylon Jennings was most certainly NOT an "outlaw" back then. He was clean shaven and had short hair and wore the then-conventional black suits common to male country artists of that period. Jennings was at the time a struggling Nashville singer/songwriter, much like his eventual partner in crime, Willie Nelson. Porter Wagoner was about as straight-arrow country as one could get at the time, so I doubt Jennings would have been on had his rebellious, "progressive" streak been on display. Of course, both Jennings and Nelson gave Nashville the finger and returned to their native Texas, and the rest is history.

BTW, compare the old syndie Nashville-based shows like Wagoner's with the CMA awards that aired earlier this month. I don't want to create a side controversy here, but, IMO, they are not even REMOTELY similar in music or style. Country, for the worse in my view, has almost severed itself from its past. I know because I watched shows like that (and, of course, Hee Haw) with my country music-loving father back in the Seventies. He would not be a fan today; in fact, he wouldn't recognize the music.
 
bpatrick said:
WCPO Ch. 9 Cincinnati (CBS)
7:30 Jackie Gleason (in his biography of Gleason, "How Sweet It Is,"
James Bacon included a photo from this show: Gleason with
guests Bing Crosby, Liberace,and Alan King)
Click to expand...

Also on that show was George Kirby. In addition, the production of this particular edition was referred to in a cover story on Gleason in the March 9-15, 1968 issue of TV Guide.
 
No, country today has so much of a rock influence (at least
what little I bother with) that it bears no resemblance to what
you would have heard on the Porter Wagoner, Wilburn Brothers,
or other shows in that vein in the '60s.

Does anyone remember when Nashville record producer Billy
Sherrill tried to "mainstream" country with his "Nashville sound"?
It consisted of full orchestral background and later led to a rebellion
by a new generation of country artists who wanted to take the music
closer to its roots. If that has anything to do with Waylon and Willie
giving Nashville "the finger" and heading for Austin, it's not hard to see
why (sorry, Eddy Arnold, Jim Reeves, and Ray Price, you were all great
but somebody had you citified).
 
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