Retro: Louisville/Lexington/Cincinnati Saturday May 23, 1964

[bpatrick]

From TV Guide, Kentucky Edition:

WAVE Ch. 3 Louisville (NBC)

7:30 Light Time
7:45 Clutch Cargo
8 AM Bullwinkle
8:30 Northwest Passage (COLOR)
9 AM Guess Who?
9:30 Ruff And Reddy (COLOR)
10 AM Hector Heathcote (COLOR)
10:30 Fireball XL-5
11 AM Dennis The Menace (sitcom)
11:30 Fury
12 N Farming With Jack Crowner
1 PM Youth Speaks
1:30 Baseball: St. Louis Cardinals at
Milwaukee Braves (the Braves
didn't move to Atlanta until '66;
Joe Garagiola was doing color on
Cardinals games at the time)
4 PM Top Star Bowling (time approximate)
5 PM Horse Race: Fort Knox Handicap from
Miles Park, Louisville
5:30 NBC Sports Special (COLOR)
6 PM Tomorrow's Champions
6:30 Weather, News, Sports
7 PM Kentucky Afield (COLOR)
7:30 The Lieutenant
8:30 Joey Bishop (guest Milton Berle) (COLOR)
9 PM NBC Movie: "Untamed" (COLOR)
11:15 The Outlaws
12:15 Movie: "The Hunchback Of Notre Dame"
2:15 Local News, Weather

WLW-T Ch. 5 Cincinnati (NBC)

7:30 Farm Front
8 AM Mr. Hop (COLOR)
9 AM Ruff And Reddy
9:30 Signal Three (COLOR)
10 AM Hector Heathcote
10:30 Fireball XL-5
11 AM Dennis The Menace
11:30 Fury
12 N Bullwinkle (COLOR)
12:30 Mr. Wizard
1 PM All About Sports
1:15 Dugout Dope (COLOR)
1:25 Baseball: Chicago Cubs at
Cincinnati Reds (COLOR)
4 PM Baseball Scoreboard (time approximate)
4:15 All About Sports
4:30 Parade Of Champions
5 PM Northwest Passage (COLOR)
5:30 NBC Sports Special
6 PM NBC News (Sander Vanocur)
6:15 Local News, Sports
6:30 Midwestern Hayride (COLOR)
7:30 The Lieutenant
8:30 Joey Bishop
9 PM NBC Movie: "Untamed"
11:15 News, Weather
11:35 Movie: "Affair In Trinidad"

WCPO Ch. 9 Cincinnati (CBS)

6:15 Farm News
6:30 Summer Semester
7 AM Jewish Hour
7:30 Play It Safe
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Alvin Show
9:30 Tennessee Tuxedo
10 AM Quick Draw McGraw
10:30 Mighty Mouse
11 AM Rin Tin Tin
11:30 Roy Rogers
12 N Sky King
12:30 Larry Smith (puppet show)
1 PM I'm Dickens...He's Fenster
1:30 Movie: "The Invisible Man
Returns"
3 PM Heckle And Jeckle
3:30 All Star Golf (Stan Leonard vs.
either Arnold Palmer or Dow
Finsterwald)
4:30 Big Time Wrestling
5:30 Rocky And His Friends
6 PM The Rebel
6:30 Bronco
7:30 Jackie Gleason
8:30 The Defenders
9:30 The New Phil Silvers Show (he plays
conning factory foreman Harry Grafton)
10 PM Gunsmoke
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Checkmate
12:30 Star Performance
1 AM Movies: "Apache Trail," "Jet Over The
Atlantic," "San Francisco Docks," and
"Too Late For Love"

WHAS Ch. 11 Louisville (CBS)

7 AM Summer Semester
7:30 Cartoon Comics
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Alvin Show
9:30 Tennessee Tuxedo
10 AM Quick Draw McGraw
10:30 Mighty Mouse
11 AM Rin Tin Tin
11:30 Roy Rogers
12 N Sky King
12:30 News
12:45 Baseball: Los Angeles Angels
at New York Yankees (Dizzy
Dean and Pee Wee Reese call
the game)
3:30 Magic Moments In Sports (time
approximate)
4 PM Movie: TBA
5 PM Exclusively Outdoors
5:30 Hi-Varieties (high school talent show)
6:25 Local News
6:30 Bold Journey
7 PM Hayloft Hoedown
7:30 Jackie Gleason
8:30 The Defenders
9:30 The New Phil Silvers Show
10 PM Gunsmoke
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:25 Movie: "The Girl He Left Behind"

WKRC Ch. 12 Cincinnati (ABC)

9:30 Asbury Hymn Time
10 AM The Story
10:30 Magic Land Of Allakazam
11 AM New Casper Cartoon Show
11:30 Beany And Cecil
12 N Bugs Bunny
12:30 American Bandstand
1:30 Movies: "The Plainsman" and
"All The Brothers Were Valiant"
4:45 Home Show
5 PM Wide World Of Sports
6:30 Roller Derby
7:30 Hootenanny
8:30 Lawrence Welk
9:30 Hollywood Palace (Victor Borge hosts)
10:30 Stump The Stars (first of two syndicated
versions--the second was in '69)
11 PM News, Weather
11:20 Movie: "Sincerely Yours" (WFAA Dallas used
to run this movie starring Liberace rather often,
and he's a better actor than you might think.)

WLEX Ch. 18 Lexington (NBC/CBS)

9 AM Pathways To God
9:30 Ruff And Reddy
10 AM Hector Heathcote
10:30 Fireball XL-5
11 AM Dennis The Menace
11:30 Fury
12 N Bullwinkle
12:30 Mr. Wizard
1 PM Safety Corner
1:25 Baseball: Cubs-Reds
4 PM Country Music With Stan Corman
(time approximate)
4:30 Big Time Wrestling
5:30 NBC Sports Special
6 PM Porter Wagoner
6:30 International Showtime
7:30 Jackie Gleason
8:30 Joey Bishop
9 PM NBC Movie: "Untamed"
11:15 Weather, News, Sports (COLOR)
11:45 Movie: "Streets Of San Francisco"
(since this was made in '49 I doubt
if it has any connection to the 1972-77
ABC series)

WKYT Ch. 27 Lexington (ABC/CBS)

8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Alvin Show
9:30 Tennessee Tuxedo
10 AM Bugs Bunny
10:30 Magic Land Of Allakazam
11 AM New Casper Cartoon Show
11:30 Beany And Cecil
12 N Tobacco News And Views
12:15 Young People's World (then-sister
station WBRC/6 Birmingham also
had a local version of this)
12:25 Almanac Newsreel (May 23, 1939:
"The Submarine Squalus Sinks")
12:30 American Bandstand
1:30 Nick Clooney (George's dad welcomes
students from Mt. Sterling, KY, High
School)
2:30 Film: "I Am A Doctor"
3 PM Film: a deep-sea fishing tournament
from Cabo Blanco, Peru
3:30 Horse Race: The Top Flight Handicap,
from Aqueduct, NY
4 PM Three Stooges
4:30 Keyhole
5 PM Wide World Of Sports
6:30 Danger Man (the original half-hour
version of what became Secret Agent)
7 PM Ensign O'Toole
7:30 Hootenanny
8:30 Lawrence Welk
9:30 Hollywood Palace
10:30 Movie: "Doctor X" (news, weather, and
sports follow the movie)

WLKY Ch. 32 Louisville (ABC)

10:30 Magic Land Of Allakazam
11 AM New Casper Cartoon Show
11:30 Beany And Cecil
12 N Bugs Bunny
12:30 American Bandstand
1:30 Pastor's Study
2 PM Movie: "Speed Limited"
3:30 Horse Race: The Top Flight Handicap
4 PM Roller Derby
5 PM Wide World Of Sports
6:30 Chicago Wrestling
7:30 Hootenanny
8:30 Lawrence Welk
9:30 Hollywood Palace
10:30 Trails West (Death Valley Days reruns,
with host Ray Milland)
11 PM Movie: "Outpost In Morocco"

 

[radiorob2.0]

I'm surprised there were not more programs on Channel 18 in color. They boast of being the first full color UHF station in the country (1962). They were also the first stereo station in Lexington but I believe last in HD.

 

[FreddyE1977]

interesting as there appears to be no rhyme or reason to which programs are in
color and which are not. Bullwinkle is in color on one station and not on another?
The ballgame in Cincinnati is in color but not the one in Louisville? And Captain
Kangaroo on a Saturday? I don't remember that.

 

[Stanislav]

And Captain
Kangaroo on a Saturday? I don't remember that.

Yup -- starting three months after its weekday debut in 1955 and continuing to 1981, there was a Saturday Captain. Except for one season (1964-65) when Keeshan did a different show and character: Mr. Mayor. Maybe some markets didn't carry the Saturday version; hence, your surprise.

Not sure if this is urban legend, but I read somewhere that Mr. Mayor came about due to a contract dispute between Keeshan and the network. Supposedly, CBS basically told him that he could walk if he wanted to, but that they still owned the trademarks and such to the character of the Captain, the Treasure House, etc., and would recast if necessary. Mr. Mayor was Keeshan's way of showing them that he could still have a successful show as a different character (and, the implication was, on a different network if he chose), and they caved in to his salary demands. As I said, may be an urban legend, but that's the way I heered it.....

 

[bpatrick]

I was afraid I might cause confusion by not
indicating a color show in every instance.
As a rule, if a color show is carried on more
than one station, it is in color on all the stations
(and that really means the NBC affiliates in this
case). One exception is Bullwinkle, which aired
on delay on Ch. 3; it was not aired in color there,
but was on Chs. 5 and 18, where it aired in pattern.
The Reds game aired in color on both 5 and 18;
Northwest Passage, a syndicated show, aired in
color on both 3 and 5. Other shows airing in
color on more than one station:

Ruff And Reddy on 3, 5, and 18, although 5 aired
it on delay.
Hector Heathcote on 3, 5, and 18.
NBC Sports Special on 3, 5, and 18.
Joey Bishop on 3, 5, and 18.
NBC Movie "Untamed" on 3, 5, and 18.

I can think of at least one other instance of a
station not airing a color show in color: in Cincinnati,
Truth Or Consequences, still on NBC in 1964, aired
on Ch. 12 (ABC) at 12:30, when NBC carried it (WLWT
carried Ruth Lyons' 50-50 Club). T or C aired on color
on Chs. 3 and 18 (both NBC), but not on 12.

I suppose that in the future, when I'm doing retros from
this era of transition from black-and-white to color, I'd
better indicate all color shows on all channels. Sorry
for the confusion.

 

[FreddyE1977]

And Captain
Kangaroo on a Saturday? I don't remember that.

Yup -- starting three months after its weekday debut in 1955 and continuing to 1981, there was a Saturday Captain. Except for one season (1964-65) when Keeshan did a different show and character: Mr. Mayor. Maybe some markets didn't carry the Saturday version; hence, your surprise.

Not sure if this is urban legend, but I read somewhere that Mr. Mayor came about due to a contract dispute between Keeshan and the network. Supposedly, CBS basically told him that he could walk if he wanted to, but that they still owned the trademarks and such to the character of the Captain, the Treasure House, etc., and would recast if necessary. Mr. Mayor was Keeshan's way of showing them that he could still have a successful show as a different character (and, the implication was, on a different network if he chose), and they caved in to his salary demands. As I said, may be an urban legend, but that's the way I heered it.....

the way I heard it he burst into the studio with a grenade belt and an
AK-47 and threatened to blow the place away if they did not meet his
demands. Or maybe that was Fred Rogers?

 

[bpatrick]

That has to be an April Fool's joke. Actually, Keeshan
owned the Mr. Mayor character, while either CBS or some
talent agency owned Captain Kangaroo. Keeshan wanted
to replace Kangaroo with Mr. Mayor five days a week, but
parents around the country wouldn't hear of it. Kangaroo
resumed Saturday broadcasts in 1965 and continued until
1968 (and again around 1984, when CBS took the weekday
morning slot for one of its umpteen morning-show failures),
but some of the Mr. Mayor characters (like the Town Clown)
were incorporated into Kangaroo.

 

[drpickle]

Big Time Wrestling was Ed Farhat's Detroit group which at this time was still a formidable promotion. Years later Ed Farhat the Sheik would lose business not only because of the econonmy but also his tired, predictable booking.

Chicago wrestling was Bob Luce's WWA which also featured AWA guys.