Retro: Los Angeles - Monday, October 17, 1966 and Friday, June 20, 1980

[RandTV]

Monday, October 17, 1966 - the day of the premiere of The Hollywood Squares

2 KNXT (CBS)
5:45 News and Farm Report
6:00 Sunrise Semester
6:30 Odyssey
7:05 CBS Morning News - Joseph Benti
7:25 KNXT Morning News
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Candid Camera
9:30 Beverly Hillbillies
10:00 Andy Griffith (retitled as Andy of Mayberry for CBS daytime)
10:30 Dick Van Dyke
11:00 Love of Life
11:25 CBS Midday News - Joseph Benti
11:30 Search for Tomorrow
11:45 Guiding Light
NOON (Bill) Keene at Noon
12:30 As the World Turns
1:00 Password - Guests: Barbara Rush, John Forsythe
1:30 House Party - Art Linkletter; Guests: Dorothy Manners, Jennie Smith
2:00 To Tell the Truth - Bud Collyer; Panel: Tom Poston, Kitty Carlisle, Orson Bean, Peggy Cass
2:25 CBS Afternoon News - Douglas Edwards
2:30 Edge of Night
3:00 Secret Storm
3:30 Loretta Young
4:00 Sea Hunt
4:30 Early Show: "Come to the Stable" (1949) - Loretta Young, Celeste Holm, Elsa Lanchester, Hugh Marlowe
6:00 The Big News
7:00 CBS Evening News
7:30 Gilligan's Island
8:00 Run, Buddy, Run (a cross between The Fugitive and Get Smart)
8:30 Lucy Show
9:00 Andy Griffith
9:30 Family Affair
10:00 Jean Arthur
10:30 I've Got a Secret - Steve Allen; Panel: Bill Cullen, Betsy Palmer, Henry Morgan, Bess Myersen; Special guest: Lucille Ball
11:00 Eleven O'Clock Report
11:30 Late Show: "The Big Hangover" (1950) - Van Johnson, Elizabeth Taylor

4 KNBC
6:30 Educaitonal Exchange
7:00 Today - Hugh Downs, Barbara Walters, Frank Blair (news and weather)
9:00 Eye Guess - Bill Cullen; Guests: Betsy Palmer, Barry Nelson
9:25 NBC News - Sander Vanocur
9:30 Concentration - Hugh Downs
10:00 Pat Boone (premiere) - Guests: Edie Adams, Johnny Carson
10:30 Hollywood Squares (premiere) - Regular/Semi-regular panelists: Wally Cox, Cliff Arquette (as Charley Weaver), Rose Marie, Abby Dalton, Morey Amsterdam; Guest panelists: Nick Adams, Sally Field, Agnes Moorehead, Ernest Borgnine
11:00 Jeopardy! - Tournament of Champions (Yes, they had them on the Art Fleming version!)
11:30 Swingin' Country - Rusty Draper, Molly Bee - Guest: Robert Sherwood
11:55 NBC News - Edwin Newman
NOON Let's Make a Deal
12:25 NBC News - Nancy Dickerson
12:30 Days of Our Lives
1:00 The Doctors
1:30 Another World
2:00 You Don't Say - Tom Kennedy; Guests: Anne Francis, Lorne Greene, Peter Lawford
2:30 The Match Game - Guests: Jane Anne Jayroe, Darryl Hickman (different gameplay from the 1973 version and every version thereafter)
2:55 NBC News - Floyd Kalber
3:00 PDQ - Dennis James; Guests: Barry Chase, Wally Cox, Dick Patterson
3:30 Tom Frandsen: FYI
4:00 Movie: "Carve Her Name With Pride" (1957) - Virginia McKenna, Paul Schofield, Jack Warner
6:00 Sixth Hour News
7:00 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7:30 Monkees
8:00 I Dream of Jeannie
8:30 Roger Miller - Guests: Liberace, Wes Harrison
9:00 The Road West
10:00 Run For Your Life
11:00 Eleventh Hour News
11:30 Tonight Show - Milton DeLugg debuts as the new musical director, replacing Skitch Henderon. DeLugg was in turn replaced by Doc Severinsen on October 9. 1967. Guests: George Carlin, Joan Diener

5 KTLA
9:00 Danger is My Business: "Sea Going Zoologist"
9:30 Kingdom of the Sea: "Speed, Spray and Thrills"
10:00 December Bride
10:30 The Thin Man
11:00 Double Feature: "Man in Half Moon Street" (1945) - Helen Walker, Nils Ashter; "Crime Without Passion" (1934) - Claude Rains, Margo, Whitney Bourne
2:15 Johnny Grant and Guest
2:30 Love That Bob
3:00 Divorce Court
4:00 Leave It to Beaver
4:30 George Putnam News
5:00 Shebang! - Casey Kasem; Guest: Barbara McNair
6:00 Rawhide
7:00 Alfred Hitchcock Presents
7:30 Divorce Court
8:00 Johnny Grant's Stage 5 Movie: "Sorrowful Jones" (1949) - Bob Hope, Lucille Ball
10:00 George Putnam News
11:00 Dr. Kildare

7 KABC
6:30 Guidelines
7:00 Scope
7:30 Exercise With Gloria
8:00 Tell Me, Dr. (Joyce) Brothers
8:30 Girl Talk
9:00 Dr. Loriene Chase
9:30 Mike Douglas - Co-hosts: Ozzie & Harriet Nelson; Guests: The Lettermen, Sammy Cahn, Jimmy Van Heusen, Dr. Louise Bates Ames
11:00 Supermarket Sweep - Bill Malone (Produced at various New York City area Food Fair supermarkets, whereas the more recent version with David Ruprecht was a mock supermarket set at a Hollywood studio.)
11:30 Dating Game
NOON Donna Reed
12:30 Father Knows Best
1:00 Ben Casey
2:00 Newlywed Game
2:30 A Time For Us
2:55 ABC News With the Woman's Touch - Marlene Sanders
3:00 General Hospital
3:30 The Nurses
4:00 Dark Shadows
4:30 Where the Action Is - Linda Scott, Steve Alaimo; Guest: Neil Diamond
5:00 Channel 7 News
6:00 Movie 7: "The Proud Ones" - Robert Ryan, Virginia Mayo, Jeffrey Hunter
7:30 Iron Horse
8:30 Rat Patrol
9:00 Felony Squad
9:30 Peyton Place
10:00 Big Valley
11:00 Channel 7 News
11:30 Movie: "Sis Hopkins" (1941) - Judy Canova, Bob Crosby, Jerry Colonna

9 KHJ
8:00 Jack in the Box
8:30 Big Babysitter
10:00 Movie: "Hard to Get" (1938) - Olivia de Havilland, Dick Powell
11:30 Spectrum
NOON Dr. Alvarez
12:30 American Business System
1:00 Movie: "Sitting Pretty" (1933) - Jack Oakie, Ginger Rogers, Jack Haley
2:30 Nine on the Line
3:30 Jack in the Box
4:00 Popeye
5:00 Superman
5:30 Car 54, Where Are You?
6:00 Dick Curtis
6:30 Timmy and Lassie
7:00 Twilight Zone
7:30 Movie: "Love Is a Many Splendored Thing" (1955) - William Holden, Jennifer Jones (broadcast for the rest of the week in this slot, except Friday)
9:40 Ronald Reagan Gubernatorial Campaign Ad
9:45 News
9:55 Pat Brown Gubernatorial Campaign Ad
10:00 William F. Buckley
11:00 Movie: "Suddenly" (1954) - Frank Sinatra, Sterling Hayden

11 KTTV
6:30 Columbia Lecture Series
7:00 Mr. Wishbone
7:30 Hobo Kelly
9:00 Jack LaLanne
9:30 Gypsy Rose Lee
10:00 People in Conflict
10:30 It's a Wonderful World
11:00 Bachelor Father
11:30 Sherrif John
12:30 LaLanne Affair - Jack LaLanne interviews
1:00 Movie: "Woman and the Hunter" (1957) - Ann Sheridan, David Farrar, John Loder
3:30 Billy Barty With Bugs Bunny
4:00 Fantastic 008th Man
4:30 Gigantor
5:00 Winchell-Mahoney Show
6:00 Huckleberry Hound
6:30 Dennis the Menace
7:00 Flintstones
7:30 Truth or Consequences - Guest: Bobby Troup (future Dr. Joe Early on "Emergency!")
8:00 World of Lowell Thomas
8:30 Merv Griffin - Guests: Michael Caine, Pat O'Brien, Jo Anne Worley
10:00 Alex Dreier News
11:00 David Susskind

13 KCOP
8:30 Cartoonaroony
8:45 Buckaroo 500
9:15 Guidepost
10:15 Your Federal Executive Board
10:30 Roy Rogers
11:00 Bill Johns News
11:30 Romper Room
12:30 Dialing for Dollars
3:00 Mickey Mudturtle
4:30 Bozo the Clown
5:00 Felix and Gumby
5:30 Bozo's Big Top
6:00 Munsters
6:30 Patty Duke
7:00 McHale's Navy
7:30 Perry Mason
8:30 Wonderful World of Women
9:00 Holiday
9:30 Daring Ventures
10:00 Boxing: Joe Clark vs. Johnny Brooks
11:00 Movie: "Big Tip Off" (1955) - Richard Conte, Bruce Bennett

28 KCET (NET)
11:45 Friendly Giant
NOON French Chef
12:30 Struggle for Peace
1:00 Instructional Programming (?)
5:00 Wonderful World of Brother Buzz
5:30 Dusty's Attic
6:00 What's New
6:30 History I: "The Minoans"
7:00 Theater Arts V: "Greek Tragedy"
7:30 Comment
7:45 Financial Final
8:00 French Chef
8:30 Stuggle for Peace
9:00 Science Reporter
9:30 NET Journal: "The Vanishing Newspaper"
10:30 Swedish Scene
11:00 Comment
11:15 Financial Final

 

[RandTV]

Friday, June 20, 1980

An era comes to an end as NBC cancels Hollywood Squares along with two other game shows, High Rollers and Chain Reaction. Also, a future game show icon is a contestant on another!

2 KNXT (CBS)
5:30 Sunrise Semester
6:00 Juntos ('Together'; education in Spanish)
6:30 Sunnyside
7:00 Friday Morning
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Jeffersons
9:30 Alice
10:00 The Price is Right - Vanna White is called to "Come on Down!". Unfortunately, she never won her way up on stage.
11:00 Steve Edwards
11:30 Search for Tomorrow
NOON Young and Restless
1:00 As the World Turns
2:00 Guiding Light
3:00 One Day at a Time
3:30 Rockford: Private Investigator (syndicated title for The Rockford Files whil still in its original run, which happened to have just ended early that year)
4:30 Channel 2 News (Among its reporters were Connie Chung and Brent Musburger.)
7:00 CBS Evening News
7:30 World of Survival
8:00 Incredible Hulk
9:00 Dukes of Hazzard
10:00 Dallas
11:00 Channel 2 News
11:30 Avengers
12:30 Return of the Saint (revival of the 1962-69 series The Saint starring Roger Moore whose character was now played by Ian Ogilvy)

4 KNBC
5:45 Health Field
6:15 Knowledge
7:00 Today
9:00 Card Sharks
9:30 Hollywood Squares (series finale) - Panel: Charlie Callas, Rose Marie, Tom Poston, Marty Allen, Michele Lee, George Gobel, Leslie Uggams, Vincent Price, Wayland Flowers & Madame (center square)
10:00 High Rollers (series finale)
10:30 Wheel of Fortune
11:00 Chain Reaction (series finale) - Guests: Joyce Bulifant, Betty White, Jay Johnson, Ron Silver
11:30 Password Plus - Guests: Vicki Lawrence, Gene Rayburn
NOON Days of Our Lives
1:00 The Doctors
1:30 Another World (90 min.)
3:00 Match Game
3:30 Mary Tyler Moore (x2)
4:30 Bob Newhart
5:00 NewsCenter 4 (featuring Pat Sajak as meteorologist)
7:00 NBC Nightly News
7:30 Family Feud
8:00 Here's Boomer
8:30 Me & Maxx
9:00 Rockford Files
10:00 A Man Called Sloane
11:00 NewsCenter 4
11:30 Tonight Show - Guests: Buddy Hackett, Martin Mull
1:00 Midnight Special - Hosts: Eddie Rabbitt and Kim Carnes; Performers: Jermaine Jackson, ABBA, Randy Vanwarmer, Teena Marie

5 KTLA
5:30 Rifleman
6:00 Ch. 5 News at Ten (R)
6:30 Humanities Through the Arts
7:00 700 Club
8:30 '80s Woman
9:00 Donahue - Guests: Flo Conway and Jim Siegelman, discussing their book "Snapping: America's Epidemic of Sudden Personality Change" and the crisis covered in the book.
10:00 Big Valley
11:00 Bonanza
NOON Twilight Zone (x2)
1:00 Love, American Style
1:30 Mike Douglas - Co-host: Anne Murray; Guests: Paul Anka, Linda Lavin, Charles Osgood
3:00 Dinah and Friends - Co-host: Charles Nelson Reilly; Guests: Anthony Perkins, Mia Farrow, Stephanie Mills, Sandy Duncan, Vincent Sardi (of Sardi's restaurant), John Kander, Fred Ebb, Bernard Slade
4:30 Gilligan's Island
5:00 Emergency!
6:00 Wonder Woman
7:00 Kung Fu
8:00 Channel 5 Movie Theatre: "The Frozen Dead" (1966 in UK, 1967 in US) - Dana Andrews, Anna Palk, Philip Gilbert
10:00 Channel 5 News at Ten
11:00 Newlywed Game
11:30 Dating Game
MIDNIGHT Twilight Zone
12:30 Movies Till Dawn

7 KABC
6:00 Growing Years
6:30 Daybreak LA
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 AM Los Angeles
10:00 Laverne & Shirley
10:30 $20,000 Pyramid - Guests: Debralee Scott, LeVar Burton (following week was Finale Week)
11:00 Family Feud
11:30 Ryan's Hope
NOON All My Children
1:00 One Life to Live
2:00 General Hospital
3:00 Edge of Night
3:30 3:30 Movie: "Catlow" (1971) - Yul Brynner, Richard Crenna, Leonard Nimoy
5:00 Eyewitness News
7:00 ABC World News Tonight
7:30 Hollywood Squares
8:00 ABC Friday Night Movie: "Crash" (1978) - William Shatner, Adrienne Barbeau, Eddie Albert
10:00 Tenspeed & Brown Shoe
11:00 Eyewitness News
11:30 The Iran Crisis: America Held Hostage - Day 237
11:40 Fridays - Musical guests: The Beach Boys
12:40 Movie: "Funeral in Berlin" (1966 in US, 1967 in UK) - Michael Caine, Oscar Homolka, Eva Renzi, Paul Hubschmid

9 KHJ
5:30 Fish
6:00 Community Feedback
6:30 It Can Be Done
7:00 Froozles
7:30 There Is a Way
8:00 Jim Bakker
10:00 Mid-Morning LA
11:30 Picture of Health
NOON Midday Movie: "War Arrow" (1954) - Maureen O'Hara, Jeff Chandler
1:30 Channel Nine News
2:00 Ironside
3:00 3:00 Movie: "The Unforgiven" (1960) - Burt Lancaster, Audrey Hepburn, Audie Murphy, Lillian Gish
5:00 Gunsmoke
6:00 Maude
6:30 Tic-Tac-Dough
7:00 The Joker's Wild
7:30 Face the Music
8:00 Million Dollar Movie: "Mister Cory" (1957) - Tony Curtis, Martha Hyer, Charles Bickford, Kathryn Grant (married Bing Crosby that same year and became Kathryn Crosby)
10:00 Ten O'Clock News
11:00 Dave Allen at Large
11:30 Rhoda
MIDNIGHT The Sullivans
12:30 Movie Movie: "Wake in Fright" in Australia, "Outback" outside Australia (1971) - Donald Pleasance, Gary Bond, Chips Rafferty, Sylvia Kay

11 KTTV
6:00 University of the Air
6:30 New Zoo Revue
7:00 Battle of the Planets
7:30 Bullwinkle
8:00 Hanna-Barbera's World of Super Adventure
8:30 Flintstones
9:00 I Love Lucy
9:30 Chico and the Man
10:00 Please Don't Eat the Daisies
10:30 My Three Sons
11:00 Ghost and Mrs. Muir
11:30 Metro News
NOON Ben Hunter's Movie Matinee: "Words and Music" (1948) - Mickey Rooney, Tom Drake, Janet Leigh, Ann Sothern
1:50 Ben Hunter Interviews
2:00 Cross-Wits
2:30 Let's Rap
3:00 Groovie Goolies
3:30 Yogi Bear & Friends
4:30 Jetsons
5:00 Family Affair
5:30 Bewitched
6:00 I Love Lucy
6:30 Brady Bunch
7:00 M*A*S*H
7:30 All in the Family
8:00 PM Magazine
8:30 Insight Special
9:00 Merv Griffin Guests: Chita Rivera, Tony Franciosa, Ebb & Kander, Father Bruce Ritter
10:30 Metro News
11:00 Odd Couple
11:30 Hogan's Heroes
MIDNIGHT Mission: Impossible
1:00 Movie: "Good News" (1947) - Peter Lawford, June Allyson, Mel Torme, Joan McCracken

13 KCOP
6:00 News
6:15 Films That Teach
6:30 World of Hanna-Barbera
7:00 Josie & the Pussycats
7:30 Krofft Super Stars
8:00 Mighty Mouse Hour
9:00 Romper Room
9:30 Southern California Issues
10:00 Play the Percentages - Geoff Edwards
10:30 Doris Day
11:00 Bowery Boys
NOON Hollywood Presents: "Shake Hands With the Devil" (1959) - James Cagney, Don Murray, Dana Wynter, Glynis Johns, Michael Redgrave
2:00 Superman
2:30 Tarzan
3:30 Kartoon Karnival
4:30 Krofft Super Stars
5:00 Adam-12 (x2)
6:00 It Takes a Thief
7:00 Streets of San Francisco
8:00 8 O'Clock Movie: "Brief Encounter" (1974) - Richard Burton, Sophia Loren
10:00 Channel 13 News
11:00 Benny Hill
11:30 Get Smart (x2)
12:30 Last Picture Show: "Beast of the Dead" (1970) - John Ashley, Celeste Yarnall

28 KCET (PBS)
6:15 AM Weather
6:30 Captioned ABC News
7:00 Yoga for Health
7:30 Mister Rogers
8:00 Look at Me
8:30 Villa Alegre
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 In Celebration of Flight
10:30 Life Around Us
11:00 Electric Company
11:30 Dick Cavett - Guest: author Mordecai Richler
NOON Over Easy - Guest: actress/writer Anita Loos (one year before her death)
1:00 Presumed Innocent
2:00 Life Around Us
2:30 Designing Home Interiors
3:00 Stringer: Portrait of a Newsreel Cameraman (Mike Gittinger)
3:30 China: Land of My Father
4:00 Villa Alegre
4:30 Mister Rogers
5:00 Sesame Street
6:00 Electric Company
6:30 Dick Cavett - Guest: G. Gordon Liddy
7:00 Over Easy - Guest: Rev. Norman Vincent Peale
7:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
8:00 28 Tonight
8:30 Washington Week in Review
9:00 Wall $treet Week
9:30 Sacramento Week in Review
10:00 The Independent Eye
10:30 Non-Fiction Television
11:30 Captioned ABC News

 

[RandTV]

Corrections regarding "America Held Hostage": It was Day 230, and it was 20 minutes long, so Fridays actually started at 11:50.

 

[Joseph_Gallant]

I think I once heard somewhere that in 1966, when ABC's evening TV newscast was still 15 minutes long, that KABC-7 actually ran it at 5:30 PST, inside of their 5-6 P.M. news block.

I think WABC-7 New York may have also done that in the mid 1960's, embedding the then-15 minute network newscast at 6:30 (?), within a news block from 6 to 7.

 

[rparky54]

1966 weekdays had some great shows for kids in Southern Calif especially channels 11 and 13. Capt. Kangaroo, Mr. Wishbone, Hobo Kelly, Romper Room, Sheriff John, Bozo's Big Top & Winchell Mahoney. I didn't see Engineer Bill, wasn't he on back then 5 or 6 evenings?

 

[Ccook55]

Engineer Bill was on KHJ up until 1966 (as to when it ended isn't known). I recall him from my salad days as a child as he screened Spunky & Tadpole which for all its shoestring budgets was must-see TV for me.

 

[RandTV]

Engineer Bill was on KHJ up until 1966 (as to when it ended isn't known). I recall him from my salad days as a child as he screened Spunky & Tadpole which for all its shoestring budgets was must-see TV for me.

I just checked the LA Times archives, and Engineer Bill's last show was on July 1, 1966.

 

[RandTV]

Correction II: "America Held Hostage" became "Nightline" on March 24.