Retro: Michigan Mon, Apr 8, 1968

[Bluenoser]

from TV Guide-Michigan State edition
(c) color programs

2 WJBK-CBS Detroit
3 WKZO-CBS Kalamazoo
4 WWJ-NBC Detroit
4c WTOM-ABC/NBC Cheboygan
5 WNEM-NBC Saginaw
6 WJIM-CBS Lansing
7 WXYZ-ABC Detroit
7t WPBN-ABC/NBC Traverse City
8 WOOD-NBC Grand Rapids
9 CKLW-CBC Windsor
9c WWTV-ABC/CBS Cadillac
10 WMSB-NET Lansing/WILX-NBC Jackson
12 WJRT-ABC Flint
13/12 WZZM-ABC Grand Rapids (12 is Kalamazoo relay)
25 WKNX-CBS Saginaw

Morning
5:40
5 Thought for Today

5:45
2 On the Farm Scene
5 Christopher Program

5:50
2 News (c)

6:00
2 Sunrise Semester "Near East" (c)
4 Classroom (entrapment as part of law enforcement)

6:15
5 Western Way (look at the American West)

6:30
2 Woodrow the Woodsman (c)
4-8 Ed Allen (c)
13/12 TV College

6:45
3 Sunrise Semester "Near East" (c)

6:55
10 Thought for Today

7:00
2 Captain Kangaroo (c, 1 day delay)
4-4c-5-7t-8-10 Today (c)
6 Thought for the Day
7 Morning Show (c)
12 Circadia (c)
13/12 Daybreak 12
25 News

7:05
6-25 CBS News (c)

7:15
3-9c Farm News
12 Farm Report (c)

7:30
3-9c-25 News (c)
6 Sunrise Semester "Near East" (c)
12 Rae Deane & Friends (c)

7:55
9 Morgan's Merry-Go Round
25 News

8:00
3-6-9c-25 Captain Kangaroo (c)
9 Forest Rangers

8:25
13/12 Jack LaLanne

8:30
2 Mr Ed
7 Movie "Take Me Out to the Ball Game"
9 Bonnie Prudden (c)
12 Dating Game

8:50
13/12 Daybreak 13

9:00
2-6 Merv Griffin (c, Harry Morgan fills in for Merv on 2)
3 Clubhouse (c)
4 Steve Allen (c)
4c-7t-12 Upper Elementary Science
5 Movie "South Sea Sinner"
8 Romper Room (c)
9 Bozo the Clown (c)
9c Bewitched
10 This is Your Community
13/12 Land of Play
25 Captain Kangaroo

9:25
10 Pathways to Faith

9:30
3 Magic Carpet (c)
4c-7t Treasure Isle
8 Cartoon Carnival
9c U of M Television
10 Classroom Television: Social Studies
12 Pat Boone (c)
13/12 Classroom Television
25 Jack LaLanne

9:45
3 New Horizons (c)

10:00
3 Secret Storm (c)
4-4c-7t-8 Snap Judgment (c)
6 Copper Kettle (c)
7 Virginia Graham (c)
8 Cavalcade 1967 (c)
9 Mr Dressup
9c-25 Candid Camera
10 Land of Play
13/12 Dating Game

10:25
4-4c-5-7t-8 News (c)

10:30
2-3-6-9c-25 Beverly Hillbillies (c)
4-4c-5-7t-8 Concentration (c)
7-12-13/12 Dick Cavett (c)
9 Friendly Giant
10 Classroom Television: Science

10:45
9 Ontario Schools

11:00
2-3-6-9c-25 Andy Griffith
4-4c-5-7t-8 Personality (c)
10 Classroom Television: Children's Literature

11:15
9 Canadian Schools
10 Davey & Goliath (did many public TV stations run the show?)

11:30
2-3-6-9c-25 Dick Van Dyke
4-4c-5-7t-8 Hollywood Squares (c)
10 Spectrum "The Silent Invader"

11:45
9 Chez Helene

Afternoon
noon
2-4-6 News (c)
3-9c-25 Love of Life (c)
4c-5-7t-8 Jeopardy (c)
7-12-13/12 Bewitched
9 Take 30
10 News in Perspective

12:15
6 Circadia (c)

12:25
2 Fashion (c)
3-9c-25 News (c)

12:30
2-3-6-9c-25 Search for Tomorrow (c)
4-4c-5-7t Eye Guess (c)
7 Treasure Isle (c)
8 News/Weather (c)
9 Movie "Diplomatic Courier"
12 Movie "It's a Pleasure"
13/12 Movie "The Pursuit & Loves of Queen Victoria" (which got spelled as "Vitcoria" )

12:45
2-3-6-9c-25 Guiding Light (c)

12:55
4-4c-5-7t-8 News (c)

1:00
2-6 Love of Life (c)
3 Accent (c)
4 Match Game (c)
4c-7-7t-25 Dream House
5 Mike Douglas (c)
8 Merv Griffin (c)
9c News/Weather/Sports
10 All Things Considered "My Father the Computer"

1:15
9c Accent

1:25
2-3-6 News (c)
4 Carol Duvall (c)

1:30
2-3-6-9c-25 As the World Turns (c)
4-4c-7t Let's Make a Deal
7 Wedding Party (c)
10 Classroom Television: Art

1:55
13/12 News

2:00
2-3-6-9c-25 Love is a Many-Splendored Thing (c)
4-4c-5-7t-8-10 Days of Our Lives (c)
7-12-13/12 Newlywed Game (c)

2:30
2-3-6-9c-25 House Party (c)
4-4c-5-7t-8-10 Doctors (c)
7-13/12 Baby Game
12 Divorce Court (c)

2:55
7-13/12 Children's Doctor (c)

3:00
2 Divorce Court (c)
3-6-9c-25 To Tell the Truth (c)
4-4c-5-7t-8-10 Another World (c)
7-12-13/12 General Hospital
9 Pat Boone (c)

3:25
3-6-9c-25 News (c)

3:30
2-3-6-9c-25 Edge of Night (c)
4-4c-5-7t-8-10 You Don't Say! (c)
7-12-13/12 Dark Shadows (c)

4:00
2-6-9c-25 Secret Storm (c)
3 Movie "Umberto D."
4 Woody Woodbury (c)
4c-7t Dark Shadows
5 Timmy & Lassie
7 Dating Game (c)
8 Popeye Theater (c)
9 Swingin' Time
10 Match Game (c)
12 Bozo's Big Top (c)
13/12 Bozo Circus

4:25
8-10 News (c)

4:30
2-8-10 Mike Douglas (c)
4c-7t General Hospital
5 Merv Griffin (Steve Lawrence subs for Merv)
6 Virginia Graham (c)
7 News/Weather (c)
9c Dating Game
25 Treasure Isle

5:00
4c-7t Guns of Will Sonnett
6 Al E. Khatt & the Mayor (c)
9 Bozo the Clown (c)
9c Fantastic Four
12 Rifleman
13/12 You Asked for It
25 Wedding Party

5:15
13/12 News

5:30
4 George Pierrot (c)
4c-7t Second Hundred Years
6 Flintstones (c)
7-12-13/12 ABC News (c)
9 Fun House (c)
9c Beatles
25 Baby Game

5:55
3 Tiger Talk (c)
25 Wheel of Fortune

Evening
6:00
2-3-4-6-8-12 News (c)
4c-5-7t-9-c-10-25 News
7 Movie "The Golden Blade" (c)
9 Dennis the Menace
12/12 McHale's Navy

6:10
3 Market & Business News (c)

6:15
3 News (c)

6:25
13/12 Weather

6:30
2-3-6-9c-25 CBS News (c)
4-4c-5-7t-8-10 NBC News (c)
9 Gilligan's Island (c)
12 Twilight Zone
13/12 Truth or Consequences (c)

7:00
2-12 Truth or Consequences (c)
3 F Troop (c)
4 News (c)
4c-7t Bewitched
5 I Love Lucy
6 Len Stuttman (c)
8 Movie "The Benny Goodman Story" (c)
9 Movie "Angel Face"
9c Four Winds to Adventure
10 Spartan Sportlite
13/12 Marshal Dillon (Gunsmoke)
25 McHale's Navy

7:30
2-3-6-9c-25 Gunsmoke (c)
4-4c-5-7t Monkees (c)
7-12-13/12 Cowboy in Africa (c)
10 Cities of the World "Mary McCarthy's Paris"

8:00
4-4t-5-7t-10 Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (c)

8:30
2-3-6-9c-25 Lucille Ball (c)
7-12-13/12 One More Time (Wayne Newton hosts a hit parade of pop music stars performing their top tunes) (c)

8:55
9 News (c)

9:00
2-3-6-9c-25 Andy Griffith (c)
4-4c-5-7t-8-10 Danny Thomas (c)
9 12 O'Clock High

9:30
2-3-6-9c-25 Family Affair (c)
7-12-13/12 Great Mating Game (looks at singles in America) (c)

10:00
2-3-6-9c-25 Carol Burnett (guests Trini Lopez and Ken Berry) (c)
4-5-8-10 I Spy (c)
4c-7-7t-12-13/12 Academy Awards (c)
9 Front Page Challenge

10:30
9 Don Messer's Jubilee (c)

11:00
2-3-4-6-8 News (c)
5-9c-10-25 News
9 CBC/Local News

11:20
6 Movie "Made for Each Other"

11:30
2 Movie "A Cry in the Night"
3 Tiger Talk (c)
4-5-8-10 Tonight Show (c)
9 Movie "The Man in thw White Suit"
9c Theater One
25 Movie "Cry Vengeance"

11:35
3 Double Feature Movie "Only Angels Have Wings"/"The Mighty Jungle"

Late Night
midnight
4c-7-7t-12-13/12 News

12:30
7 Silents Please
13/12 Reflections

1:00
4 Beat the Champ
5-7-10 News
9 Window on the World

1:05
5 Movie "Princess of the Nile"

1:30
2 Capture (c)
4 PDQ (c)

2:00
2 Naked City

2:30
2 News/Weather (c)

 

[radioman148]

Harry Morgan filling in for Merv Griffin. I would have liked to have seen that.

 

[Mike Stroud]

"Davey and Goliath" on public TV ... now, that's worthy of a thread all its own. I wonder also about CPB regulations at the time regarding religious programming, which "D&G" clearly was, given the Lutheran Church's insignia in the show's intro (set to the tune of the hallowed hymn "A Mighty Fortress is Our God") and explicit mention in the credits. Perhaps the show was not regarded as, according to the legal expression, "pervasively sectarian" (meaning no doctrinal preaching) and thus granted an exemption, permitting PBS (or, in this case, NET) affiliates to carry it.

There are other instances, though, of pubcasters running outright religious programming, such as reruns of Bishop Fulton Sheen. There was even a case in the 1980s where, in Evansville, Indiana, WNIN carried the local Catholic Mass, in the absence of commercial station interest and likely with a stated intent to perform a public service to that market's large Catholic population. So any supposedly hard-and-fast, First Amendment-church-and-state-separation regs may have been lacking then and later patched up when aggrieved groups like the ACLU protested and/or sued. I can tell you for one thing, no PBS station would dare carry any religious show today (not that any evangelists would want their broadcasts on a "godless, secular" outlet like that anyway).

WARNING: I have a feeling that this thread might go on for pages and pages ...

 

[azumanga]

... no PBS station would dare carry any religious show today (not that any evangelists would want their broadcasts on a "godless, secular" outlet like that anyway).

Unless your'e KBYU in Provo, Utah -- a PBS station owned and operated by Brigham Young University, in turn owned by the Mormon Church. They run some religious programming alongside PBS shows to this day.

New Orleans' WLAE is another case, which is partially owned by a Catholic group -- they show a Catholic mass every Sunday.

 

[Mike Stroud]

... no PBS station would dare carry any religious show today (not that any evangelists would want their broadcasts on a "godless, secular" outlet like that anyway).

Unless your'e KBYU in Provo, Utah -- a PBS station owned and operated by Brigham Young University, in turn owned by the Mormon Church. They run some religious programming alongside PBS shows to this day.

New Orleans' WLAE is another case, which is partially owned by a Catholic group -- they show a Catholic mass every Sunday.

Would you think that the CPB granted those stations special exemptions from otherwise prohibiting religious proselytizing? Or might there have been a "grandfather" clause allowing a station's past practices to continue if the broadcaster was at the time affiliated with a religious body? You have to ask those questions, because they may hold the key to religious groups' gripes against PBS and public broadcasting in general.

 

[Stanislav]

I can tell you for one thing, no PBS station would dare carry any religious show today (not that any evangelists would want their broadcasts on a "godless, secular" outlet like that anyway).

Actually, PBS does run shows now and then about religion -- its history, cultures, its role in world politics, etc. What you won't find on PBS are shows that are intended as proselytizing vehicles -- evangelists and the like. But a show about the Jewish diaspora, a history of the Vatican, a study of American Muslims, or even a performance of Bach's "St. Matthew Passion" could all be considered "religious," but trying to educate and enlighten rather than convert.

WARNING: I have a feeling that this thread might go on for pages and pages ...

Or end up in the Land of "TIO"...

 

[wbhist]

Harry Morgan filling in for Merv Griffin. I would have liked to have seen that.

Unless it was a misprint and they meant the acerbic Henry Morgan (because of whom the actor ended up as Harry Morgan).

 

[radioman148]

Harry Morgan filling in for Merv Griffin. I would have liked to have seen that.

Unless it was a misprint and they meant the acerbic Henry Morgan (because of whom the actor ended up as Harry Morgan).

I wonder which one it was. In 68 Harry (the one who changed his name) was on the reincarnation of Dragnet.

 

[Bluenoser]

Harry Morgan filling in for Merv Griffin. I would have liked to have seen that.

Unless it was a misprint and they meant the acerbic Henry Morgan (because of whom the actor ended up as Harry Morgan).

I missed that when I proofread it , it was Henry Morgan who filled for Merv...

 

[wbhist]

Evening
6:00
7 Movie "The Golden Blade" (c)

So WXYZ's movie was at 6:00 as of April 8, 1968, I see. At what point did they move to 4:30 (as WABC-TV had on Jan. 8, 1968)?

 

[radioman148]

Harry Morgan filling in for Merv Griffin. I would have liked to have seen that.

Unless it was a misprint and they meant the acerbic Henry Morgan (because of whom the actor ended up as Harry Morgan).

I missed that when I proofread it , it was Henry Morgan who filled for Merv...

And now we know

 

[azumanga]

So WXYZ's movie was at 6:00 as of April 8, 1968, I see. At what point did they move to 4:30 (as WABC-TV had on Jan. 8, 1968)?

It was May 20, 1968 when "The 4:30 Movie" began on WXYZ, followed by a solid hour of local news at 6.

They even had a TV Guide ad announcing the move here:

http://vintagetoledotv.squarespace.com/print-ads-wxyz/

(It's near the top.)