Retro: Little Rock Friday, May 19, 1967

[bpatrick]

By request, from The Arkansas Gazette:

KARK Ch. 4 (NBC)

6:45 RFD-Devotion
7 AM Today
9 AM Snap Judgment
9:25 NBC News
9:30 Concentration
10 AM Pat Boone Show (NBC, he had
a syndicated talk show about
a year or so later)
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11 AM Jeopardy!
11:30 Eye Guess
11:55 NBC News
12 N Little Rock Today
12:30 Let's Make A Deal
1 PM Days Of Our Lives
1:30 The Doctors
2 PM Another World
2:30 You Don't Say!
3 PM Mike Douglas (co-host Agnes
Moorehead)
4:30 Maverick
5:30 Huntley-Brinkley Report
6 PM News; Weather
6:15 World News
6:30 Tarzan
7:30 Man From U.N.C.L.E.
8:30 T.H.E. Cat
9 PM Laredo
10 PM News; Weather
10:15 Lonnie Gibbons Sports
10:30 Tonight Show

KATV Ch. 7 (ABC)

7:30 Jack LaLanne
8 AM Bozo's Big Top
8:30 The Fugitive (delay from noon)
9:30 Dateline: Hollywood
9:55 Children's Doctor
10 AM Supermarket Sweep
10:30 One In A Million
11 AM Everybody's Talking
11:30 Donna Reed
12 N The Noon Show
1 PM Newlywed Game
1:30 Dream Girl Of '67
1:55 ABC News
2 PM General Hospital
2:30 Dark Shadows
3 PM Dating Game
3:30 Bozo's Big Top
5 PM Peter Jennings With The News
5:30 Truth Or Consequences
6 PM News
6:30 Green Hornet
7 PM Time Tunnel
8 PM Rango
8:30 Phyllis Diller Show (was The Pruitts
Of Southampton until January 1967)
9 PM The Avengers
10 PM News
10:30 Movie: "Border River" (Friday's Joey
Bishop Show is delayed until Sunday
at 11 PM)

KTHV Ch. 11 (CBS)

6:30 Sunrise Semester
7 AM Arkansas A.M.
7:05 CBS News--Joseph Benti
7:30 Arkansas A.M.
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--Robert Trout
11:30 Search For Tomorrow
11:45 Guiding Light
12 N Eye On Arkansas
12:30 As The World Turns
1 PM Password
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 Deputy Dawg And His Friends
4 PM Movie: "The Strip"
5:30 CBS Evening News--Walter Cronkite
6 PM News
6:30 Wild Wild West
7:30 Hogan's Heroes
8 PM CBS Movie: "Because They're Young"
(Dick Clark stars in this one)
10 PM News
10:15 Sports Eye
10:30 Movie: "Belle Of New York"

 

[Braves2005]

Thanks for the listings for Arkansas.

I noticed that KARK didn't carry Match Game in 1967. Also I noticed that the local stations didn't air any reruns except for Maverick in the afternoons and the daytime reruns from CBS and ABC. I wonder why this.

 

[Charles1]

I noticed that KARK didn't carry Match Game in 1967. Also I noticed that the local stations didn't air any reruns except for Maverick in the afternoons and the daytime reruns from CBS and ABC. I wonder why this.

Was that all that unusual for medium markets at that time? IIRC, none of the network affiliates in Birmingham carried reruns of network programming during the mid to late '60's. The only exceptions were WBRC-6, which carried "I Love Lucy" at 5:00 p.m., and WBMG-42, which carried "The Highway Patrol" at 5:30. Most of the 3:30-5:00 timeslot programming in Birmingham was kiddie shows like "Cousin Cliff", with Popeye cartoons and Three Stooges shorts (on WAPI-13, "Sergeant Jack", with Dick Tracy cartoons (WBMG-42), and Bozo on Channel 6. The rest of the afternoon line-up on 6 and 13 was made up of movies.

 

[fortmill]

Highway Patrol, with the wonderful Broad Crawford, was a great show which I would love to see again. But wait---Highway Patrol was never on any of the big three networks, was it? I think it was first run syndicated. So when WBMG aired the show in the sixties, I guess it was a rerun of a syndicated show...

 

[Ultimajock]

Highway Patrol, with the wonderful Broad Crawford, was a great show which I would love to see again. But wait---Highway Patrol was never on any of the big three networks, was it? I think it was first run syndicated. So when WBMG aired the show in the sixties, I guess it was a rerun of a syndicated show...

...yep. "Highway Patrol" was the jewel in the Ziv syndication crown. Although it *did* make its way onto CBS for a few seconds, to a certain extent. On one 1955 telecast of "I've Got a Secret," Broderick Crawford was a special guest, and his "secret" was that he was watching himself on a TV set placed on the stage; in New York, WPIX/11 ran "Highway Patrol" twice a week, one of those runs being in the same 9:30 P.M. Wednesday time slot as IGAS was going out live over WCBS-TV/2, and the TV set was tuned to Channel 11...

 

[bpatrick]

Locally-produced kids' shows began to die out in
the early '70s, when Action for Children's Television
pressured the FCC to ban local kids'-show hosts from
doing commercials (a baker in Baton Rouge that sponsored
"Buckskin Bill" on WAFB pulled all its advertising off the
station when the ruling forced Bill off the air). That
probably opened the door for reruns; in 1967 WVEC/13
Norfolk had Hampton Roads' greatest kids' show, "Bungles
And His Friends," from 4:30-5:30; five years later the
station was rerunning "Bonanza" at that time. In Atlanta,
"Officer Don" Kennedy's "Popeye Club" on WSB was replaced
by first-run "Truth Or Consequences" and "Perry Mason"
reruns by 1969.

In the late '60s/early '70s, to get back to Birmingham,
WBMG reran "Gilligan's Island" and "Dennis The Menace,"
among other things, in the 3:30-5:30 slot. WAPI (WVTM)/13
didn't get into the rerun game until 1972, airing "Green Acres,"
"Petticoat Junction," and Andy Griffith from 3:30-5 (local news
came on at 5); WBRC/6 began airing late-afternoon reruns in
1973; "Bewitched" and "Emergency One!" were big on the station
in the late '70s.

In Raleigh/Durham WTVD/11 carried Merv Griffin from 4:30-6
in the '70s and early '80s. Although he was number one in
the time slot, advertisers flocked to WRAL/5, which had reruns
of shows like "Happy Days" and "Sanford And Son," more demographically
desirable than Merv. But to show how times have changed, WRAL's
reruns couldn't hold up against Oprah on TVD, which is why "Young
And The Restless" airs in the Triangle at 4 instead of 12:30.

 

[trusty]

Locally-produced kids' shows began to die out in
the early '70s, when Action for Children's Television
pressured the FCC to ban local kids'-show hosts from
doing commercials...

Thanks, bpatrick for a piece of info that I never knew about (I had watched (and even directed) a few local kid's shoes, but they were gone by the time my kids were able to watch them. (I just assumed they went out of style (meaning there was more $$$ in reruns (which - thanks to ACT - there was).)

Wow! Benny Carle and Cousin Cliff just came storming back into my mind... (I gotta have that peanut butter & jelly in a jar...)