Retro: Kentucky Wednesday, December 4, 1963

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From TV Guide, Kentucky Edition:

WAVE Ch. 3 Louisville (NBC)

7 AM Today (Hugh Downs)
9 AM Morning Show (COLOR)
9:30 Magic Forest (COLOR)
10 AM Say When!
10:25 NBC News (Edwin Newman)
10:30 Word For Word (Merv Griffin, COLOR)
11 AM Concentration
11:30 Missing Links (panel: Abe Burrows, Kitty
Carlisle, Ossie Davis, host: Ed McMahon,
COLOR)
12 N Your First Impression (panel: Dorothy Lamour,
Dennis James, Jack Whitaker, host: Bill Leyden,
COLOR)
12:30 Truth Or Consequences (guests: the Rose Parade
queen and her court; Bob Barker announces the
winner of the show's "Rose Queen" contest, COLOR)
12:55 NBC News (Ray Scherer)
1 PM Divorce Court
2 PM People Will Talk (COLOR)
2:25 NBC News (Floyd Kalber)
2:30 The Doctors (not yet a soap but a new five-part
story each week; the show will transform into a
regular soap on Feb. 28, 1964)
3 PM Loretta Young (Ms. Young plays a school principal
who can't get along with a Hungarian-born teacher
played by Walter Slezak. One member of the cast
is named Kitty Kelly; there was once a radio soap
called "Pretty Kitty Kelly".)
3:30 You Don't Say! (guests: Julie Adams and Sheldon
Leonard, COLOR)
4 PM Movies: "The Last Command" (Part 2) and "Pygmy Island"
5:45 Yogi Bear
6:15 Weather, News
6:30 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7 PM Third Man
7:30 The Virginian (COLOR)
9 PM Espionage: "The Light Of A Friendly Star," about a little
girl who, while playing at the British Embassy in an unfriendly
country, is kidnapped by a spy. Guest star Carl Schell is
Maximilian and Maria Schell's brother.
10 PM The Eleventh Hour (Jean Stapleton appears in this episode.)
11 PM News, Weather, Sports (COLOR)
11:20 Tonight Show (COLOR)

WLW-T Ch. 5 Cincinnati (NBC)

6 AM Good Morning
6:30 University Of Michigan
7 AM Today
9 AM Paul Dixon (COLOR)
10:30 Word For Word (COLOR)
11 AM Concentration
11:30 Missing Links (COLOR)
12 N Ruth Lyons (COLOR)
1:30 Your First Impression (panel: Soupy Sales,
Dennis James, Jane Harvey, not in color)
2 PM People Will Talk (COLOR)
2:25 NBC News
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Loretta Young
3:30 You Don't Say! (COLOR)
4 PM Match Game (guests: Tom Poston and
Dorothy Kilgallen)
4:25 NBC News (Sander Vanocur)
4:30 Movie: "The Brave Bulls" (Part 1)
6 PM News, Weather, Sports
6:30 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7 PM Wonderful World (visit to Turkey, host: John
Cameron Swayze, COLOR)
7:30 The Virginian (COLOR)
9 PM Espionage
10 PM TBA
11 PM News, Weather
11:20 Ted Kluszewski (sports)
11:30 Tonight Show (COLOR)
1 AM Pageant (documentary)

WCPO Ch. 9 Cincinnati (CBS)

6:30 Sunrise Semester: "Ethics"
7 AM Chance To Advance
7:30 Off To Adventure
7:45 Cartoons
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Uncle Al
10:30 I Love Lucy (Ricky teaches Lucy to drive--
how was she supposed to know she couldn't
make a U-turn in the Holland Tunnel?)
11 AM Password (guests: Julia Meade and Frank Fontaine,
delay from 2 PM)
11:30 Pete And Gladys
12 N News (Al Schottelkotte)
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1 PM Love That Bob! (this should be a dream come true
for Bob Collins/Cummings: he's photographing the
ballerinas at a show put on by sister Margaret's club)
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Ann Sothern
2:30 Art Linkletter's House Party (Jacqueline Susann discusses
"Every Night, Josephine," about her French poodle.)
3 PM To Tell The Truth (panel: Barry Nelson, Sam Levenson,
Lena Horne, Phyllis Newman--the more familiar nighttime
panel of Tom Poston, Peggy Cass, Orson Bean, and Kitty
Carlisle didn't start doing the daytime show regularly until
1965)
3:25 CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
3:30 Edge Of Night
4 PM Secret Storm
4:30 Star Performance
5 PM Comedy Hour (Larry Smith, later a fixture on Ch. 19)
5:30 Rocky And His Friends
5:45 Comedy Hour continues
6 PM Contemporaries
6:30 Bob Shreve (doing a kids' show)
7 PM News, Sports, Weather
7:30 TBA
8 PM Newsmakers
8:30 Glynis (Glynis Johns stars in this comedy-mystery which
I like to think of as "Murder, She Wrote" with a laugh track--
she writes mystery novels, husband Keith (Keith Andes) is
a detective whose client this week is a cat that has just
inherited a fortune somebody wants.)
9 PM Beverly Hillbillies
9:30 Dick Van Dyke (Rob hires a maid sight unseen; she shows up
with an arm in a cast, speaks no English, and expects to sleep
in.)
10 PM Danny Kaye (guests: Glynis Johns, Jo Stafford, the Big Three
folksingers, the Clinger Sisters--who often appeared on "Hootenanny")
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Movie: "A Guy, A Gal And A Pal"

WHAS Ch. 11 Louisville (CBS)

7 AM Sunrise Semester: "Outlines Of Art"
7:30 Barney Arnold (farm show--he'd go against WAVE's Jack Crowner
later in the decade with his "Howdy, Neighbors")
7:45 Fisbie Funnies
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM T-Bar-V Ranch
9:45 Keep'n Trim
10 AM CBS News (Mike Wallace)
10:30 As The World Turns
11 AM Password (same as Ch. 9)
11:30 Pete And Gladys
12 N Love Of Life
12:25 CBS News (Robert Trout)
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1 PM News, Markets, Weather
1:15 Movie: "She Wore A Yellow Ribbon"
2:30 Art Linkletter's House Party
3 PM To Tell The Truth
3:25 CBS News
3:30 Edge Of Night
4 PM Secret Storm
4:30 Cartoon Circus
5:15 Highway Patrol
5:45 Small Talk
6 PM Sports, Weather, News
6:30 CBS News (Walter Cronkite)
7 PM Rifleman
7:30 TBA
8 PM WHAS-TV Reports
8:30 What's Your Question?
9 PM Beverly Hillbillies
9:30 Dick Van Dyke
10 PM Danny Kaye
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:25 Movie: "Cat People"

WKRC Ch. 12 Cincinnati (ABC)

7:25 Daily Word
7:30 Dick Tracy (animated)
8 AM Skipper Ryle
9:30 News
9:45 Lee Phillip (CBS, delay from 4:30--Ms.
Phillip and her late husband, Bill Bell,
created "The Young And The Restless"
and "The Bold And The Beautiful." Guests
today are Marty Allen and Steve Rossi.)
10 AM Say When! (NBC)
10:25 Editorial, News
10:30 Dialing For Dollars
11 AM Price Is Right (Bill Cullen)
11:30 Seven Keys (Jack Narz)
12 N Tennessee Ernie Ford Show
12:30 Father Knows Best
1 PM General Hospital (moves to 3 PM Dec. 30)
1:30 TV Bingo
2 PM Who Do You Trust? (delay from 3:30, Woody
Woodbury hosts)
2:30 Day In Court (an elderly babysitter sues her
niece after she's injured by one of the children
in her charge)
2:55 ABC News (Lisa Howard)
3 PM Queen For A Day
3:30 Trailmaster (the Ward Bond "Wagon Train"s,
delay from 4 PM)
4:30 Movie: "Young People" (Shirley Temple, from '40)
6 PM News
6:15 ABC News (Ron Cochran)
6:30 Mickey Mouse Club
7 PM Wanted--Dead Or Alive
7:30 Ozzie And Harriet
8 PM Patty Duke
8:30 The Farmer's Daughter
9 PM Ben Casey
10 PM Channing (the college where Prof. Joseph Howe
teaches English)
11 PM News, Weather
11:20 Movie: "The Beast With Five Fingers" (Robert Alda,
Alan's dad, stars in this '46 horror feature--watch
for Peter Lorre, a perennial in this sort of thing.)

WLEX Ch. 18 Lexington (NBC/CBS)

7 AM Today
9 AM English (education)
9:50 Take Five (religion)
10 AM Say When!
10:25 NBC News
10:30 Word For Word (COLOR)
11 AM Concentration
11:30 Missing Links (COLOR)
12 N Your First Impression (COLOR)
12:30 Truth Or Consequences (COLOR)
12:55 NBC News
1 PM News
1:05 Leisure
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM People Will Talk (COLOR)
2:25 NBC News
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Loretta Young
3:30 You Don't Say! (COLOR)
4 PM Match Game
4:25 NBC News
4:30 Make Room For Daddy
5 PM Santa Claus (COLOR)
5:15 Comedy Time (cartoons)
5:50 Local Market Report, Sports (COLOR)
6 PM Bowling Tips (COLOR)
6:05 News, Weather (COLOR)
6:15 Hayden Timmons (news, maybe some commentary)
(COLOR)
6:30 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7 PM Broken Arrow
7:30 The Virginian (COLOR)
9 PM Beverly Hillbillies
9:30 Dick Van Dyke
10 PM Danny Kaye
11 PM News, Weather, Sports (COLOR)
11:30 Tonight Show (COLOR)

WKYT Ch. 27 Lexington (ABC/CBS)

8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Jack LaLanne
9:30 Dateline 27
10:30 I Love Lucy
11 AM Price Is Right
11:30 Seven Keys
12 N Tennessee Ernie Ford Show
12:30 Father Knows Best
1 PM General Hospital
1:30 December Bride
2 PM Who Do You Trust?
2:30 Day In Court
2:55 ABC News
3 PM Queen For A Day
3:30 Trailmaster
4:30 Windy And Mr. Magoo
5 PM Three Stooges
5:25 Toy Preview
5:30 Windy And Dick Tracy
5:40 Young People's World (roots of plants)
5:55 Almanac (birthday of Spanish dictator Francisco
Franco in 1892--fast forward to the first season
of "Saturday Night Live" and Chevy Chase's opening
"Weekend Update" story--"Franco...still dead tonight",
actually a dig at John Chancellor, who had reported on
Franco's condition every night until he died)
6 PM News, Weather
6:15 ABC News
6:30 Keyhole (Jack Douglas tells us whatever happened to
World War II hero Pappy Boyington, later the subject
of NBC's "Baa Baa Black Sheep".)
7 PM Biography (Mike Wallace narrates the story of Adm.
Chester Nimitz.)
7:30 Ozzie And Harriet
8 PM Patty Duke
8:30 The Farmer's Daughter
9 PM Ben Casey
10 PM Channing
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:20 Movie: "The Man From Colorado"

WLKY Ch. 32 Louisville (ABC)

10 AM Kartoon Kapers
10:30 Jack LaLanne
11 AM Price Is Right
11:30 Seven Keys
12 N Tennessee Ernie Ford Show
12:30 Father Knows Best
1 PM General Hospital
1:30 Our Miss Brooks
2 PM Three Stooges
2:30 Day In Court
2:55 ABC News
3 PM Queen For A Day
3:30 Who Do You Trust?
4 PM Bingo
4:30 Deputy Dawg
5 PM Trailmaster
6 PM Superman
6:25 Science Fiction Theater
6:55 Weather
7 PM ABC News
7:15 Local News, Sports
7:30 Ozzie And Harriet
8 PM Patty Duke
8:30 The Farmer's Daughter
9 PM Ben Casey
10 PM Festival Frenzy (festivals all over the world)
11 PM ABC News (Murphy Martin--I had the mistaken
impression he was hired from WFAA after the
JFK assassination; he was already at ABC at
the time.)
11:10 Local News, Weather
11:25 Movie: "Footsteps In The Dark" (nothing to do
with the Isley Brothers, who had a song by the
same name around 1977)

 

[gregg75]

A lot of game shows I've never heard of or recognize.............

Word For Word- Merv Griffin (probably some kind of memory game)
Missing Links- Ed McMahon (some kind of phrase game)
Your First Impression (sounds like a Candid Camera thing)
You Don't Say (must be a word you don't say)
People Will Talk (repeat this story 5 times)
Say When (we're gonna pour syrup on you for $$)
Dialing For Dollars (have heard of this, but for 30 minutes......that's a lot of dialing)

 

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"Word For Word" required contestants to make as many
words of three or more letters as possible from a longer
base word. They earned time which the winner would
use in the bonus round to unscramble as many words as
possible.

"Say When" was similar to "The Price Is Right" (and both
shows were produced by Goodson-Todman); players were
shown items of merchandise and could choose to take them
or turn them down; the object was to accumulate as close
to $1000 in prizes in round one; $2000 in round two without
going over.

"Missing Links" had people with some unusual accomplishment
tell their stories, leaving certain words out, which the panel had
to guess.

"Your First Impression" asked a celebrity to fill in the blank to
a sentence about him- or herself; a celebrity panel was then
asked which of five celebrities gave that particular answer.
Richard Nixon was once asked: "I wish that I ________________,"
and his answer was, "had been a PT-boat captain."

"People Will Talk" brought together two contestants and fifteen
members of the studio audience; the audience members would
lock in a "yes" or "no" answer to a question like, "Is it OK to kiss
in public?" The two contestants then took turns picking from the
fifteen and trying to anticipate how they answered. This show
later became "Celebrity Game" (with nine celebrities instead of
fifteen average people), and was completely transformed into
"Hollywood Squares" in 1966.

"You Don't Say!" was similar to "Password": played by two celebrity-
contestant teams, one partner would give a sentence with the last
word left out; that last word was part of a famous name the other
partner had to come up with.

"Dialing For Dollars" was a franchised show that usually ran during
breaks on morning or afternoon movies. People at the station would
cut up phone books and place the pieces of paper in a barrel; the host
would establish the count (from the top of the page or from the bottom)
and the amount the home viewer could win if he or she gave both pieces
of information correctly. He (or she, if your name was Linda Faye Carson
on Atlanta's Ch. 11) would draw a slip from the barrel; if the count was,
say, 5 from the top, the fifth name from the top of the page would be called.
If they didn't get both the count and the amount correct, an amount of money
(usually the station's channel number in dollars) would be added and someone
else would get a chance later in the show.

Of the shows mentioned, "Dialing For Dollars" was the most successful, but
"You Don't Say!" ran on NBC for six years (1963-69) and was revived, briefly,
twice: on ABC in 1975 and in syndication in 1978.