Retro: LA VHFs 7 AM-6 PM Wednesday, June 5, 1968

[bpatrick]

By request, from the Los Angeles Times. Regular
programming may have been pre-empted for coverage
of the shooting of Bobby Kennedy.

KNXT (KCBS) Ch. 2 (CBS)

7 AM Odyssey
7:30 CBS News (Joseph Benti, who--IIRC--broke
the story that RFK had been shot)
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Candid Camera
9:30 Beverly Hillbillies
10 AM Andy Griffith
10:30 Dick Van Dyke
11 AM Love Of Life
11:25 CBS News (I believe Benti did this one as well)
11:30 Search For Tomorrow
11:45 Guiding Light
12 N Boutique
12:30 As The World Turns
1 PM Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
1:30 Art Linkletter's House Party
2 PM To Tell The Truth
2:25 CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
2:30 Edge Of Night
3 PM Secret Storm
3:30 Bill Keene (local talk show, not to be
confused with Bil Keane, who draws
"Family Circus")
4:30 Movie: "Five Against The House" (to 6)

KNBC Ch. 4 (NBC)

7 AM Today
9 AM Snap Judgment
9:25 NBC News
9:30 Concentration
10 AM Personality
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11 AM Jeopardy!
11:30 Eye Guess
11:55 NBC News
12 N Let's Make A Deal
12:30 Days Of Our Lives
1 PM The Doctors
1:30 Another World
2 PM You Don't Say!
2:30 Match Game
2:55 NBC News
3 PM PDQ
3:30 Mike Douglas
5 PM News (to 6)

KTLA Ch. 5 (Ind.)

9:15 Global Geography
9:45 Cooking With Corrie
10 AM Ed Allen (exercises)
10:30 Friends Around The World
11 AM Movie: "Artists And Models
Abroad"
12:45 Movie: "City That Never Sleeps"
(no Frank Sinatra "New York, New
York" cracks )
2:30 Cooking Around The World
3 PM Leave It To Beaver
3:30 Perfect Match (Dick Enberg was host
of this "Dating Game" wannabe)
4 PM Divorce Court
4:30 News (George Putnam)
5:30 Ozzie And Harriet

KABC Ch. 7 (ABC)

7 AM Scope
7:30 Exercise With Gloria (Gloria Roeder and
her six daughters)
8 AM Girl Talk
8:30 Movie: "Easy To Love"
10:30 Dick Cavett
12 N Bewitched
12:30 Treasure Isle
1 PM Dream House
1:30 Wedding Party (Suzanne Somers' husband
Alan Hamel emceed this game/talk show)
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 Baby Game
2:55 Children's Doctor
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 Dark Shadows
4 PM Dating Game
4:30 News
5:30 ABC News (Frank Reynolds)

KHJ (KCAL) Ch. 9 (Ind.)

7:30 Marvel Superheroes
8 AM Dodo (sounds like a kids' show)
8:30 Movie: "Doctor At Large" (I think this
is part of the "Doctor In The House"--
later a TV series--movies)
10 AM Movie: "Together Again"
12 N Tempo I
2 PM Tempo II
4 PM Honeymooners
4:30 Movie: "The DI" (to 6:30)

KTTV Ch. 11 (Ind.)

7 AM Mr. Wishbone
7:30 Daphne's Cartoon Castle
9 AM Jack LaLanne
9:30 Les Crane
10:30 From The Inside Out
11:30 Sheriff John
12:30 Movie: "The Woman And The
Hunter"
2:15 Movie: "Charter Pilot"
4 PM Woody Woodbury
5:30 Gigantor (Japanese anime, I think)

KCOP Ch. 13 (Ind.)

9:30 Public Service
9:45 Guidepost
10:15 Reconciliation
10:30 Roy Rogers
11 AM Romper Room
11:30 News
12 N Call Mr. D (Richard Diamond reruns,
with David Janssen)
12:30 Dialing For Dollars
1:30 Movie: "City Of Missing Girls"
3 PM Bozo The Clown
3:30 Hobo Kelly
4:30 Bozo's Big Top
5 PM Amazing Three (was this another
Japanese show?)
5:30 Addams Family

 

[Ultimajock]

KABC Ch. 7 (ABC)

10:30 Dick Cavett

...when Groucho Marx visited the prime-time version of Cavett's show the following summer, he complained that ABC was running it at 4:30 in the morning. Just Groucho being Groucho, or did KABC actually try a 24-hour schedule and stick a second run of Cavett in at 4:30 the following morning?...

 

[bpatrick]

Sounds like typical Groucho. Ch. 7 signed off
at 1 AM, following Joey Bishop, in 1969.

For those who don't remember, Cavett's prime-
time show aired Monday, Tuesday, and Friday
at 10 PM (ET/PT).

Groucho had a zinger for Mike Douglas on another
occasion. Mike had mentioned that it had taken
a long time to get Groucho on his show. "What's
the matter? Don't you like Philadelphia?" Mike asked.
Groucho's comeback: "I don't like you. I love
Philadelphia."

 

[wbhist]

At one point, four of the five NBC O&O's aired The Mike Douglas Show. The only exception was in New York, where only three months prior to RFK's assassination the CBS O&O, WCBS-TV, spirited Mr. Douglas' weekday kaffeeklatsch away from WOR-TV, sacrificing The Early Show in the process - WNBC never even touched TMDS. (Although by the mid-'70's, in L.A., Douglas went from KNBC to CBS-owned KNXT.)

Oh and by the way, it was Mr. Benti on CBS who broke the news about the RFK shooting.

And as for the ABC evening news: Prior anchor Bob Young by this time was about to join (if he hadn't joined already) WCBS-TV to anchor its 11 P.M. newscast, where he remained until early 1971.