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Retro: Kentucky Wednesday, March 29, 1967

From TV Guide, Kentucky Edition:

WAVE Ch. 3 Louisville (NBC)

6:45 Today On The Farm
7 AM Today (Simon Wiesenthal, author of a book on
Nazi war criminals; a report on the Ringling Brothers
and Barnum & Bailey Circus)
9 AM Morning Show (w/"Dialing For Dollars")
9:55 News (Bob Kay)
10 AM Reach For The Stars
10:25 NBC News (Sander Vanocur)
10:30 Concentration
11 AM Pat Boone (guest: Forrest Tucker, then starring on
"F Troop")
11:30 Hollywood Squares (Don Rickles, Lola Albright, Tab Hunter,
Bob Denver, Abby Dalton, Wally Cox, Morey Amsterdam,
Rose Marie, Charley Weaver)
12 N Jeopardy!
12:30 Eye Guess
12:55 NBC News (Edwin Newman)
1 PM Dr. Kildare (bw) (w/"Dialing For Dollars" in color)
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 You Don't Say! (Mel Torme, Pat Carroll)
4 PM Movie: "Girls On The Loose" (bw)
5:30 Stingray
6 PM News, Weather And Sports
6:30 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7 PM McHale's Navy (bw)
7:30 Virginian
9 PM Bob Hope Chrysler Theater ("Verdict For Terror" stars
Cliff Robertson as a DA for whom a college student vows
revenge for sending his brother to the gas chamber.)
10 PM I Spy (guest: Wally Cox as a former Pentagon file clerk
with a headful of sensitive information and a glamorous
female Soviet agent who wants to get it out of him)
11 PM News, Weather And Sports
11:30 Tonight Show

WLW-T Ch. 5 Cincinnati (NBC)

6 AM University Of Michigan (bw)
6:30 Good Morning
6:55 Five Minutes To Live By
7 AM Today
9 AM Paul Dixon
10:30 Concentration
11 AM Pat Boone
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N 50-50 Club (don't know if Ruth Lyons or Bob Braun
was hosting at this point)
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
1:55 NBC News (Nancy Dickerson)
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 You Don't Say!
4 PM Afternoon Show
5:30 News, Weather And Sports
6:30 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7 PM Reds In Tampa (second of four reports on the Reds
in spring training, spotlighting player changes and
position shifts for this year)
7:30 Virginian
9 PM Bob Hope Chrysler Theater
10 PM I Spy
11 PM News, Weather And Sports
11:30 Tonight Show

WCPO Ch. 9 Cincinnati (CBS)

5:50 Farm News (bw)
6 AM Sunrise Semester: "Man And Society" (bw)
6:30 Young World
7 AM Local News
7:05 CBS News (Joseph Benti)
7:30 Bozo The Clown
8 AM Captain Kangaroo (bw)
9 AM Uncle Al (bw)
10:30 Secret Storm (delay from 4 PM, bw)
11 AM Andy Griffith (bw)
11:30 Dick Van Dyke (bw)
12 N Noon Report
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1 PM Love Of Life (delay from 12 N, bw)
1:25 CBS News (Joseph Benti)
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Password (Roger Smith, Chris Noel)
2:30 Art Linkletter's House Party (12-year-old evangelist
T.A. Masters, singer Josh Adams)
3 PM To Tell The Truth
3:25 CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
3:30 Edge Of Night (bw)
4 PM Beverly Hillbillies (delay from 10:30 AM, bw)
4:30 Mike Douglas (co-host Dom DeLuise; Della Reese, actor
Jack Kruschen, anthropologist Ashley Montagu)
6 PM News, Weather And Sports
6:30 Huckleberry Hound
7 PM McHale's Navy (bw)
7:30 Lost In Space
8:30 Beverly Hillbillies (a bit of irony here: Earl Scruggs died
this week at age 88; this episode features him and Lester
Flatt)
9 PM Green Acres
9:30 Gomer Pyle, USMC
10 PM Danny Kaye (Diahann Carroll, Joyce Jameson)
11 PM News, Weather And Sports
11:30 Firing Line (Theodore Bikel discusses modern college life
with William F. Buckley Jr., bw)
12:30 This Is The Life (bw)
12:45 Local News (bw)

WHAS Ch. 11 Louisville (CBS)

7:05 Sunrise Semester (bw)
7:35 CBS News
8 AM Captain Kangaroo (bw)
9 AM T-Bar-V Ranch (bw)
10 AM Candid Camera (children dance the twist; English schoolboys
play soccer, bw)
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies (bw)
11 AM Andy Griffith (bw)
11:30 Dick Van Dyke (bw)
12 N Love Of Life (bw)
12:25 CBS News
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1 PM News, Markets, Weather (bw)
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Password
2:30 Art Linkletter's House Party
3 PM To Tell The Truth
3:25 CBS News
3:30 Edge Of Night (bw)
4 PM Secret Storm (bw)
4:30 Popeye's Cartoon Circus (bw)
5:15 Leave It To Beaver (bw)
5:45 Small Talk (bw)
6 PM News, Weather, Sports (bw)
6:30 CBS News (Walter Cronkite)
7 PM Wilburn Brothers
7:30 Lost In Space
8:30 Beverly Hillbillies
9 PM Green Acres
9:30 Gomer Pyle, USMC
10 PM Danny Kaye
11 PM News, Weather, Sports (bw)
11:30 Movie: "Kiss Them For Me" (bw)

WKRC Ch. 12 Cincinnati (ABC)

6:30 Managers In Action (bw)
7 AM Where The Action Is (guest: Steve Alaimo, delay
from 4:30 PM, bw)
7:30 Skipper Ryle
8:30 Maverick (bw)
9:30 Dream Girl Of '67 (Robert Culp, Barbara Feldon, Louis
Nye, Theodore Bikel, delay from 2:30 PM, bw)
9:55 Local News
10 AM Reach For The Stars (pre-empted on Ch. 5)
10:25 Local News
10:30 Match Game (Soupy Sales, Fannie Flagg, pre-empted
on Ch. 5, delay from 4 PM)
10:55 Local News
11 AM Supermarket Sweep (bw)
11:30 Dating Game (bw)
12 N Everybody's Talking (bw)
12:30 Donna Reed (bw)
1 PM Ben Casey (bw)
2 PM Newlywed Game (bw)
2:30 Matches And Mates
3 PM General Hospital (bw)
3:30 The Nurses (bw)
4 PM Movie: "Ghost Of Dragstrip Hollow" (bw)
5:30 Superman
6 PM Merv Griffin (Jack Carter, Johnny Mathis, singer
Aliza Kashi, Herschel Bernardi, Jacqueline Susann,
"your obedient servant Arthur Treacher," bw)
7:20 News, Weather And Sports
7:30 Batman (Eli Wallach as Mr. Freeze)
8 PM The Monroes
9 PM ABC Movie: "These Thousand Hills"
11 PM News, Weather And Sports
11:30 Movie: "The Big Clock" (bw)

WFPK (WKPC) Ch. 15 Louisville (NET)
all programming is bw

8:35 In-school programs
8 PM What's New
8:30 Segovia Master Class
9 PM News In Perspective (the ideological clash between
Russia and China)
sign off 10 PM

WLEX Ch. 18 Lexington (NBC/CBS)

7 AM Today
9 AM Leisure
9:30 To Tell The Truth (bw)
9:55 Take Five
10 AM Reach For The Stars
10:25 NBC News
10:30 Concentration
11 AM Pat Boone
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N Jeopardy!
12:30 Eye Guess
12:55 NBC News
1 PM Secret Storm
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 You Don't Say!
4 PM Match Game (Phyllis Newman, Ed McMahon)
4:25 NBC News (Floyd Kalber)
4:30 Let's Make A Deal
4:55 Superman
5:30 Popeye Theater
5:45 News, Livestock Report And Sports
6:10 News And Weather
6:30 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7 PM Country Music
7:30 Virginian
9 PM Green Acres
9:30 Gomer Pyle, USMC
10 PM I Spy
11 PM News, Weather And Sports
11:30 Tonight Show

WKYT Ch. 27 Lexington (ABC/CBS)

7:15 News, Weather (Bill Sorrell, bw)
7:30 Revue Anthology (bw)
8 AM Captain Kangaroo (bw)
9 AM Jack LaLanne (bw)
9:30 Arts And Crafts With Becky (who?) (bw)
10 AM Dating Game (bw)
10:30 Dream Girl Of '67 (same as Ch. 12, bw)
10:55 should be something here, nothing listed
11 AM Supermarket Sweep (bw)
11:30 Dick Van Dyke (bw)
12 N Everybody's Talking (bw)
12:30 Donna Reed (bw)
1 PM Ben Casey (bw)
2 PM Newlywed Game (bw)
2:30 Matches And Mates
3 PM General Hospital (bw)
3:30 The Nurses (bw)
4 PM Mike Douglas (same as Ch. 9, only the first
60 minutes are shown)
5 PM Merry Antics (bw)
5:30 Tales Of Wells Fargo (bw)
6 PM News, Weather, Sports (bw)
6:25 WKYT-TV Editorial (bw)
6:30 Zorro (bw)
7 PM Bill Anderson (bw)
7:30 Batman
8 PM The Monroes
9 PM ABC Movie: "These Thousand Hills"
11 PM News, Weather, Sports (bw)
11:20 Movie: "Jubal" (bw)

WLKY Ch. 32 Louisville (ABC)

8:30 Jack LaLanne
9 AM Merv Griffin (Marty Allen and Steve Rossi, singer
April Olrich, actor Charles Robinson, Bob Thomas,
biographer of movie mogul Harry Cohn, "your obedient
servant Arthur Treacher," bw)
10:30 Dark Shadows (delay from 4 PM, bw)
11 AM Supermarket Sweep (bw)
11:30 Dating Game (bw)
12 N Everybody's Talking (bw)
12:30 Donna Reed (bw)
1 PM Ben Casey (bw)
2 PM Newlywed Game (bw)
2:30 Dream Girl Of '67 (Sandy Baron, Peter Breck, France
Nuyen, Chad Everett, bw)
2:55 ABC News (Marlene Sanders, bw)
3 PM General Hospital (bw)
3:30 The Nurses (bw)
4 PM Mike Douglas (same as Ch. 9)
5:30 News, Weather, Sports (bw)
6 PM ABC News (Peter Jennings)
6:30 Rawhide (bw)
7:30 Batman
8 PM The Monroes
9 PM Movie: "Pete Kelly's Blues"
11 PM News And Weather (bw)
11:20 Movie: "Standing Room Only" (bw)
 
WCPO Ch. 9 Cincinnati (CBS)
11 PM News, Weather And Sports
11:30 Firing Line (Theodore Bikel discusses modern college life
with William F. Buckley Jr., bw)
12:30 This Is The Life (bw)
12:45 Local News (bw)

Was it unusual for a commercial station to run Firing Line? In Iowa, it was always on public TV.

It also brings up another question. When did stations not running network offerings at 11:30pm start running shows other than movies? It seems in the 60s it was always movies in that slot. But eventually stripping sit coms and other programs became very popular.

Our local cable system in the early 80s attempted to remove the Des Moines market ABC station (we're in the Sioux City market)... but received a huge number of complaints... primarily due to the popularity of Rockford Files at 11pm on WOI.
 
I don't think it was unusual for a commercial station to carry
"Firing Line" at the time; I seem to recall WBTV carrying it in 1968,
and there may have been others.

It was also not that unusual to find fare other than movies after
11:30 PM; WFMY used to carry shows like "Surfside 6" and "Naked
City," and a number of stations carried Steve Allen's syndicated show
in the early-to-mid '60s.
 
Firing Line started out on commercial TV - in its first five years on the air (1966-71), its main airing venue, in New York, was WOR-TV (Channel 9, which also aired it briefly again in 1976-77). Up to the show's move to public TV in 1971, Firing Line in many ways was like The David Susskind Show in that that program likewise aired on both public and commercial TV (in Susskind's case, you would have him on commercial WNEW-TV, Channel 5 in New York and public TV station WTTW, Channel 11 in Chicago).
 
wbhist said:
Firing Line started out on commercial TV - in its first five years on the air (1966-71), its main airing venue, in New York, was WOR-TV (Channel 9, which also aired it briefly again in 1976-77). Up to the show's move to public TV in 1971, Firing Line in many ways was like The David Susskind Show in that that program likewise aired on both public and commercial TV (in Susskind's case, you would have him on commercial WNEW-TV, Channel 5 in New York and public TV station WTTW, Channel 11 in Chicago).
...same with Kup's Show, Irv Kupcinet's roundtable chat show...
 
Ultimajock said:
...same with Kup's Show, Irv Kupcinet's roundtable chat show...

True. In New York alone, stations that ran this program included commercial stations WNBC-TV and WOR-TV, and then-City-owned, tertiary PBS affiliate WNYC-TV.
 
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