This day was particularly notable in Los Angeles TV history as it was on or about this day - Sunday, November 11, 1962 - that NBC's Los Angeles O&O, known since 1954 as KRCA, first adopted the call letters of KNBC. (On or about this same day, NBC's San Francisco radio outlet [at 680 AM and 99.7 FM], known since 1946 as KNBC, changed its call letters to KNBR.) On Monday, November 12, 1962, the station put a full-page ad in the Times announcing that KRCA was now KNBC. Therefore, both days will be mentioned here.
[SOURCES: Los Angeles Times "TV Times" section, Nov. 11, 1962; Los Angeles Times TV listings, Nov. 12, 1962]
(C) - in color.
Sunday, November 11, 1962
Morning
7:30 The Big Picture
8:00 Movie: "Thundering Jets" (1958) - Rex Reason, Dick Foran
9:30 The Christopher Hour
10:00 This Is the Life
10:30 The Eternal Light
11:00 The Way
11:30 Movie: "Espionage Agent" (1939) - Joel McCrea, Brenda Marshall
Afternoon
1:00 Film Drama (per a Los Angeles Times article, this was an instruction piece about the right and wrong way to invest in the
stock market; starred Janet Blair and Eddie Bracken]
1:30 Covenant - "The Church of the Brethren" (C)
2:00 College Report - "Government - How Big Is Big?" (three Pepperdine College professors discuss creeping socialism, welfare states,
free enterprise in a controlled society, and Medicare) (C)
2:30 Dr. Baxter's Harvest - "Colonel Rose's Escape from Libby Prison" (C)
3:00 Movie: "I Shot Jesse James" (1949) - John Ireland, Barbara Britton
4:30 NBC News (report on National Cultural Center in Washington; architect Edward Durrell Stone interviewed; host, Sander Vanocur) (C)
5:30 The Bullwinkle Show (C)
Evening
6:00 Meet the Press (15th anniversary show; guest: James A. Farley) (C)
6:30 McKeever and the Colonel - "By the Book"
7:00 Ensign O'Toole - "Operation: Dinner Party"
7:30 Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color - "His Majesty - The King of Beasts" (C)
(originally released theatrically as "The African Lion")
8:30 Car 54, Where Are You? - "Toody Undercover"
9:00 The Danny Kaye Show (special with guest Lucille Ball) (C) [Bonanza is preempted]
10:00 The Dinah Shore Show (guests: James Garner, Dean Martin) (C)
11:00 News - Bob Wright
11:15 Changing Times
11:30 Movie: "The Little World of Don Camillo" (1953) - Fernandel, Gino Cervi
followed by sign-off
Monday, November 11, 1962
Morning
6:30 Continental Classroom (C)
7:00 Today (local news update at 7:25 and "Almanac Newsreel" at 8:25)
9:00 Say When (C)
9:25 NBC News
9:30 Play Your Hunch (C)
10:00 The Price Is Right (C)
10:30 Concentration
11:00 Your First Impression (C)
11:30 Truth or Consequences
11:55 NBC News
Afternoon
12:00 The Merv Griffin Show (C)
[The first of four different talk shows bearing his name; others were his 1965-69 Group W-syndicated, 1969-72 CBS late night,
and 1972-87 syndicated offerings]
1:00 The Loretta Young Theatre
1:30 Young Dr. Malone
2:00 The Danny Thomas Show
2:30 Here's Hollywood
3:00 Frandsen's Feature: "If I Had My Way" (1940) - Bing Crosby, Gloria Jean
5:15 Bachelor Father
5:45 The Curt Massey Show (C)
Evening
6:00 News - Jack Latham; followed by Weather and Sports (C)
6:15 (Cecil) Brown-(Elmer) Peterson Comment (C)
6:30 The Huntley-Brinkley Report
6:45 News - Jack Latham (C)
7:00 The Golden Voyage (C)
7:30 It's a Man's World - "The Bravest Man in Cordella"
8:30 Saints and Sinners - "Daddy's Girl"
9:30 The Price Is Right (C)
10:00 David Brinkley's Journal (C)
10:30 Survey in Space (visits Edwards Air Force Base)
11:00 News - Jack Latham (C)
11:15 The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (C)
1:00 Film Drama
followed by sign-off
[SOURCES: Los Angeles Times "TV Times" section, Nov. 11, 1962; Los Angeles Times TV listings, Nov. 12, 1962]
(C) - in color.
Sunday, November 11, 1962
Morning
7:30 The Big Picture
8:00 Movie: "Thundering Jets" (1958) - Rex Reason, Dick Foran
9:30 The Christopher Hour
10:00 This Is the Life
10:30 The Eternal Light
11:00 The Way
11:30 Movie: "Espionage Agent" (1939) - Joel McCrea, Brenda Marshall
Afternoon
1:00 Film Drama (per a Los Angeles Times article, this was an instruction piece about the right and wrong way to invest in the
stock market; starred Janet Blair and Eddie Bracken]
1:30 Covenant - "The Church of the Brethren" (C)
2:00 College Report - "Government - How Big Is Big?" (three Pepperdine College professors discuss creeping socialism, welfare states,
free enterprise in a controlled society, and Medicare) (C)
2:30 Dr. Baxter's Harvest - "Colonel Rose's Escape from Libby Prison" (C)
3:00 Movie: "I Shot Jesse James" (1949) - John Ireland, Barbara Britton
4:30 NBC News (report on National Cultural Center in Washington; architect Edward Durrell Stone interviewed; host, Sander Vanocur) (C)
5:30 The Bullwinkle Show (C)
Evening
6:00 Meet the Press (15th anniversary show; guest: James A. Farley) (C)
6:30 McKeever and the Colonel - "By the Book"
7:00 Ensign O'Toole - "Operation: Dinner Party"
7:30 Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color - "His Majesty - The King of Beasts" (C)
(originally released theatrically as "The African Lion")
8:30 Car 54, Where Are You? - "Toody Undercover"
9:00 The Danny Kaye Show (special with guest Lucille Ball) (C) [Bonanza is preempted]
10:00 The Dinah Shore Show (guests: James Garner, Dean Martin) (C)
11:00 News - Bob Wright
11:15 Changing Times
11:30 Movie: "The Little World of Don Camillo" (1953) - Fernandel, Gino Cervi
followed by sign-off
Monday, November 11, 1962
Morning
6:30 Continental Classroom (C)
7:00 Today (local news update at 7:25 and "Almanac Newsreel" at 8:25)
9:00 Say When (C)
9:25 NBC News
9:30 Play Your Hunch (C)
10:00 The Price Is Right (C)
10:30 Concentration
11:00 Your First Impression (C)
11:30 Truth or Consequences
11:55 NBC News
Afternoon
12:00 The Merv Griffin Show (C)
[The first of four different talk shows bearing his name; others were his 1965-69 Group W-syndicated, 1969-72 CBS late night,
and 1972-87 syndicated offerings]
1:00 The Loretta Young Theatre
1:30 Young Dr. Malone
2:00 The Danny Thomas Show
2:30 Here's Hollywood
3:00 Frandsen's Feature: "If I Had My Way" (1940) - Bing Crosby, Gloria Jean
5:15 Bachelor Father
5:45 The Curt Massey Show (C)
Evening
6:00 News - Jack Latham; followed by Weather and Sports (C)
6:15 (Cecil) Brown-(Elmer) Peterson Comment (C)
6:30 The Huntley-Brinkley Report
6:45 News - Jack Latham (C)
7:00 The Golden Voyage (C)
7:30 It's a Man's World - "The Bravest Man in Cordella"
8:30 Saints and Sinners - "Daddy's Girl"
9:30 The Price Is Right (C)
10:00 David Brinkley's Journal (C)
10:30 Survey in Space (visits Edwards Air Force Base)
11:00 News - Jack Latham (C)
11:15 The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (C)
1:00 Film Drama
followed by sign-off