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Retro: Michigan Thurs, Apr 11, 1968

from TV Guide-Michigan State edition
This edition didn't carry the Detroit Us (Detroit edition) or Marquette (Northern Wisconsin) stations

WJBK 2-CBS Detroit
5:45 On the Farm Scene
5:50 News (c)
6:00 Sunrise Semester: Russian Literature (c)
6:30 Woodrow the Woodsman (c)
7:30 Captain Kangaroo (c/1 day delay)
8:30 Mr. Ed
9:00 Merv Griffin (c/Steve Lawrence pinch-hits for Merv with guests Vince Edwards, Brock Peters, Corbett Monica, and Joan Rivers)
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies (c)
11:00 Andy Griffith
11:30 Dick Van Dyke
noon News
12:25 Fashion (c/Crampton)
12:30 Search for Tomorrow (c)
12:45 Guiding Light (c)
1:00 Love of Life (c)
1:25 CBS News (c)
1:30 As the World Turns (c)
2:00 Love is a Many Splendored Thing (c)
2:30 House Party (c/Edith Head shows off Easter hats)
3:00 Divorce Court (c)
3:30 Edge of Night (c)
4:00 Secret Storm (c)
4:30 Mike Douglas (c/guests Martin Landau, Milt Kamen, Leslie Uggams, and Josh Adams)
6:00 News (c)
6:30 CBS News (c)
7:00 Truth or Consequences (c)
7:30 Cimarron Strip "Journey to a Hanging" (c)
9:00 Movie "Kings of the Sun" (c)
11:00 News (c)
11:30 Double Feature Movie "The Last Blitzkrieg"/"Last Stagecoach West"
2:30 Highway Patrol
3:00 Naked City
3:30 News/Weather (c)

WKZO 3-CBS Kalamazoo
6:45 Sunrise Semester: Russian Literature (c)
7:15 Farm Show (c)
7:30 News (c)
8:00 Captain Kangaroo (c)
9:00 Clubhouse (c)
9:30 Magic Carpet (c)
9:45 Know Your Schools (c)
10:00 Secret Storm (c)
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies (c)
11:00 Andy Griffith
11:30 Dick Van Dyke
noon Love of Life (c)
12:30 Search for Tomorrow (c)
12:45 Guiding Light (c)
1:00 Accent (c/Joan Adams)
1:25 CBS News (c)
1:30 As the World Turns (c)
2:00 Love is a Many Splendored Thing (c)
2:30 House Party (c)
3:00 To Tell the Truth (c)
3:25 CBS News (c)
3:30 Edge of Night (c)
4:00 Movie "Woman's World"
5:55 Tiger Talk (c)
6:00 News (c)
6:10 Market & Business News (c)
6:15 News (c/Hugh Harper)
6:30 CBS News (c)
7:00 Highway Patrol (c)
7:30 Cimarron Strip "Journey to a Hanging" (c)
9:00 Movie "Kings of the Sun" (c)
11:00 News (c)
11:30 Tiger Talk (c)
11:35 Double Feature Movie "The Harvey Girls"/"Night Plane from Chungking"

WWJ 4-NBC Detroit
6:00 Classroom (3 U of M profs discuss the private exercise of police powers in modern America)
6:30 Ed Allen (c)
7:00 Today (c/guests Judith Crist (TVG's movie critic), educator Bergen Evans, Bob & Ray, and producer-writer Len Giovanitti; news at 7:25/8:25)
9:00 Steve Allen (c/guests Buck Henry, Anna Maria Alberghetti, and Minnie Pearl)
10:00 Snap Judgment (c)
10:25 NBC News (c)
10:30 Concentration (c)
11:00 Personality (c)
11:30 Hollywood Squares (c)
noon News (c)
12:30 Eye Guess (c)
12:55 NBC News (c)
1:00 Match Game (c)
1:25 Carol Duvall (c)
1:30 Let's Make a Deal (c)
2:00 Days of Our Lives (c)
2:30 Doctors (c)
3:00 Another World (c)
3:30 You Don't Say! (c)
4:00 Woody Woodbury (c/guests Paula Prentiss, Richard Benjamin, Lenny Welch, Penny Nichols, and Mother Hubbard)
5:30 George Pierrot (c)
6:00 News (c)
6:30 NBC News (c)
7:00 News (c)
7:30 Alan King (c/spoofing modern fads with Liza Minnelli, Connie Stevens, Charlie Callas, Linda Lavin, and Kenny Mars; highlights include Alan visiting an Indian guru and everybody singing a little ditty called KKK Hoedown :D)
8:30 Bob Hope "For Love or $$$" (c/guest stars Janet Leigh, Fernando Lamas, and J. Carrol Naish)
9:30 Dragnet (c)
10:00 Dean Martin (c/guests Orson Welles, Jimmy Stewart, and Juliet Prowse)
11:00 News (c)
11:30 Tonight Show (c/guests Nancy Wilson and Bergen Evans)
1:00 Beat the Champ
1:30 PDQ (c)

WTOM 4-Cheboygan/WPBN 7-Traverse City (ABC/NBC)
7:00 Today (c/news at :25)
9:00 Grade 4 Science
9:15 Grade 1/2 Art
9:30 Treasure Isle
10:00 Snap Judgment (c)
10:25 NBC News (c)
10:30 Concentration (c)
11:00 Personality (c)
11:30 Hollywood Squares (c)
noon Jeopardy (c)
12:30 Eye Guess (c)
12:55 NBC News (c)
1:00 Dream House (c)
1:30 Let's Make a Deal (c)
2:00 Days of Our Lives (c)
2:30 Doctors (c)
3:00 Another World (c)
3:30 You Don't Say! (c)
4:00 Dark Shadows
4:30 General Hospital
5:00 Invaders
6:00 News
6:30 NBC News (c)
7:00 Felony Squad
7:30 Alan King (c)
8:30 Bob Hope "For Love or $$$" (c)
9:30 Dragnet (c)
10:00 Dean Martin (c)
11:00 News
11:30 Tonight Show (c)

WNEM 5-NBC Saginaw
5:40 Thought for Today
5:45 Town Meeting
6:15 Many Worlds of India
6:45 News/Weather/Sports
7:00 Today (c/news at :25)
9:00 Movie "The Fat Man"
10:25 NBC News (c)
10:30 Concentration (c)
11:00 Personality (c)
11:30 Hollywood Squares (c)
noon Jeopardy (c)
12:30 Eye Guess (c)
12:55 NBC News (c)
1:00 Mike Douglas (c/guests Ozzie & Harriet Nelson, Jack & Reiko Douglas, and Marilyn Maye)
2:00 Days of Our Lives (c)
2:30 Doctors (c)
3:00 Another World (c)
3:30 You Don't Say! (c)
4:00 Timmy & Lassie
4:30 Merv Griffin (c/no info listed)
6:00 News
6:30 NBC News (c)
7:00 I Love Lucy
7:30 Alan King (c)
8:30 Bob Hope "For Love or $$$" (c)
9:30 Dragnet (c)
10:00 Dean Martin (c)
11:00 News
11:30 Tonight Show (c)
1:00 News
1:05 Movie "The Outcasts of Poker Flat"

WJIM 6-CBS Lansing
7:05 CBS News (c)
7:30 Sunrise Semester: Russian Literature (c)
8:00 Captain Kangaroo (c)
9:00 Merv Griffin (c/guests Shelly Berman, Richard Pryor, Marty Brill, K.C. Townsend, and Lori Rogers)
10:00 Copper Kettle (c)
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies (c)
11:00 Andy Griffith (c)
11:30 Dick Van Dyke
noon News (c)
12:15 Circadia (c)
12:30 Search for Tomorrow (c)
12:45 Guiding Light (c)
1:00 Love of Life (c)
1:25 CBS News (c)
1:30 As the World Turns (c)
2:00 Love is a Many Splendored Thing (c)
2:30 House Party (c)
3:00 To Tell the Truth (c)
3:25 CBS News (c)
3:30 Edge of Night (c)
4:00 Secret Storm (c)
4:30 Virginia Graham (c)
5:00 Al E. Khatt & the Mayor (c)
5:30 Flintstones (c)
6:00 News (c)
6:30 CBS News (c)
7:00 Michigan Outdoors (c)
7:30 Cimarron Strip "Journey to a Hanging" (c)
9:00 Movie "Kings of the Sun" (c)
11:00 News (c)
11:20 Movie "Ashes and Diamonds"

WXYZ 7-ABC Detroit
7:00 Morning Show (c/host Bob Hynes, news with Ken Thomas/guest Jerry Chiapetta)
8:30 Movie "This Love of Ours"
10:00 Virginia Graham (c/guests Hermione Gingold and Pamela Mason)
10:30 Dick Cavett (c/guest Della Reese)
noon Bewitched
12:30 Treasure Isle (c)
1:00 Dream House (c)
1:30 Wedding Party (c)
2:00 Newlywed Game (c)
2:30 Baby Game (c)
2:55 Children's Doctor (c/Dr. Lendon Smith)
3:00 General Hospital (c)
3:30 Dark Shadows (c)
4:00 Dating Game (c)
4:30 News/Weather (c)
5:30 ABC News (c/a segment was on Florie Fisher, a reformed drug addict/hooker who lectures high school students about the danger of drugs)
6:00 Movie "Wings of the Hawk" (c)
7:30 Second Hundred Years (c)
8:00 Flying Nun (c)
8:30 Bewitched (c)
9:00 That Girl (c)
9:30 Peyton Place (c)
10:00 Untouchables
11:00 News (c)
11:30 Joey Bishop (c/guests Phil Ford, Mimi Hines, and Shirley Bassey)
1:00 News

WOOD 8-NBC Grand Rapids
6:30 Ed Allen (c)
7:00 Today (c/news at :25)
9:00 Romper Room (c)
9:30 Cartoon Carnival
10:00 Snap Judgment (c)
10:25 NBC News (c)
10:30 Concentration (c)
11:00 Personality (c)
11:30 Hollywood Squares (c)
noon Jeopardy (c)
12:30 News/Weather (c)
12:55 NBC News (c)
1:00 Merv Griffin (c/no info listed)
2:00 Days of Our Lives (c)
2:30 Doctors (c)
3:00 Another World (c)
3:30 You Don't Say! (c)
4:00 Popeye Theater (c)
4:25 NBC News (c)
4:30 Mike Douglas (c/same guests as ch 3, 1pm)
6:00 News (c)
6:30 NBC News (c)
7:00 Michigan Outdoors (c)
7:30 Alan King (c)
8:30 Bob Hope "For Love or $$$" (c)
9:30 Dragnet (c)
10:00 Dean Martin (c)
11:00 News (c)
11:30 Tonight Show (c)

CKLW 9-CBC Windsor
Evening programs subject to change due to NHL Playoffs
7:55 Morgan's Merry-Go-Round
8:00 Upside Town
8:30 Bonnie Prudden (c)
9:00 Bozo the Clown (c)
10:00 Mr. Dressup
10:30 Friendly Giant
10:45 Ontario Schools
11:15 Canadian Schools "Visite au Quebec"
11:45 Chez Helene
noon Take 30 (cooking expert Jehane Benoit teaches actress Anna Cameron)
12:30 Movie "The Affairs of Susan"
3:00 Pat Boone (c/guests Jonathan Harris, Marguerite Piazza (opera singer), Louis Nye, and the Yellow Balloon)
4:00 Swingin' Time (c)
5:30 Fun House (c/Booth)
6:30 F Troop (c)
7:00 Movie "Nightmare in the Sun" (c)
8:55 News (c/Mary Morgan)
9:00 Twilight Zone "Where is Everybody?"
9:30 Telescope (c/profile of British actor Norman Wisdom)
10:00 Secret Agent
11:00 CBC/Local News
11:30 Twenty Grand (c)
1:00 Perry's Probe (c)

WWTV 9-ABC/CBS Cadillac
6:00 News (c)
7:15 Farm Show (c)
8:00 Captain Kangaroo (c)
9:00 Bewitched
9:30 University of Michigan Television
10:00 Candid Camera
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies (c)
11:00 Andy Griffith
11:30 Dick Van Dyke
noon Love of Life (c)
12:25 CBS News (c)
12:30 Search for Tomorrow (c)
12:45 Guiding Light (c)
1:00 News/Weather/Sports
1:30 As the World Turns (c)
2:00 Love is a Many Splendored Thing (c)
2:30 House Party (c)
3:00 To Tell the Truth (c)
3:25 CBS News (c)
3:30 Edge of Night (c)
4:00 Secret Storm (c)
4:30 Dating Game
5:00 Milton the Monster
5:30 Zorro
6:00 News
6:30 CBS News (c)
7:00 Michigan Outdoors (c)
7:30 Cimarron Strip "Journey to a Hanging" (c)
9:00 Movie "Kings of the Sun" (c)
11:00 News
11:30 Route 66 "From an Enchantress Fleeing"

WILX 10-NBC Jackson/WMSB 10-NET Lansing (the stations shared ch 10 until 1972)
6:55 Thought for Today
7:00 Today (c/news at :25)
9:00 Your Public Library
9:25 Pathways to Faith
9:30 Classroom TV: Music
10:00 Land of Play
10:30 Classroom TV: Science
10:45 Classroom TV: Music
11:00 Classroom TV: Children's Literature
11:15 Davey & Goliath
11:30 Book Beat
noon Assignment 10 "Who Gets Rich on Wrecks?" (look at auto insurance)
12:30 Modern Supervision
1:00 French Chef
1:30 Classroom TV: Art
2:00 Days of Our Lives (c)
2:30 Doctors (c)
3:00 Another World (c)
3:30 You Don't Say! (c)
4:00 Match Game (c)
4:25 NBC News (c)
4:30 Mike Douglas (same guests as ch 2, same time)
6:00 News
6:30 NBC News (c)
7:00 Sea Above
7:30 Alan King (c)
8:30 Bob Hope "For Love or $$$" (c)
9:30 Dragnet (c)
10:00 Dean Martin (c)
11:00 News
11:30 Tonight Show (c)
1:00 News

WJRT 12-ABC Flint
7:00 Circadia (c)
7:15 Farm Report (c)
7:30 Rae Deane & Friends (c)
9:00 Grade 4 Science
9:15 Grades 1/2 Aert
9:30 Pat Boone (c/guests Robert Culp & France (Culp) Nuyen, Nina Simone, Don Rickles, and anthroplogist-author Desmond Morris)
10:30 Dick Cavett (c)
noon Bewitched
12:30 Movie "Flight to Hong Kong"
2:00 Newlywed Game (c)
2:30 Divorce Court (c)
3:00 General Hospital (c)
3:30 Dark Shadows (c)
4:00 Bozo's Big Top (c)
5:00 Rifleman "The Hawk"
5:30 ABC News (c)
6:00 News (c)
6:30 Truth or Consequences (c)
7:00 Michigan Outdoors (c)
7:30 Second Hundred Years (c)
8:00 Flying Nun (c)
8:30 Bewitched (c)
9:00 That Girl (c)
9:30 Peyton Place (c)
10:00 Avengers "Split!" (c/delayed from Wed 7:30; 12 aired Monroes in the slot)
11:00 News (c)
11:30 Joey Bishop (c)

WZZM 13-ABC Grand Rapids (and 12 Kalamazoo; TVG listed it as 13-12)
6:30 TV College
7:00 Daybreak 13
8:25 Jack LaLanne
8:50 Daybreak 13
9:00 Modern Supervision
9:30 Classroom TV
10:00 Dating Game
10:30 Dick Cavett (c)
noon Bewitched
12:25 ABC News
12:30 Movie "Strange Intruder"
1:55 ABC News
2:00 Newlywed Game (c)
2:30 Baby Game (c)
2:55 Children's Doctor (c)
3:00 General Hospital (c)
3:30 Dark Shadows (c)
4:00 Bozo Circus
5:00 You Asked for It
5:30 ABC News (c)
6:00 McHale's Navy "The Big Raffle"
6:25 Weather
6:30 Truth or Consequences (c)
7:00 Marshall Dillon (Gunsmoke)
7:30 Second Hundred Years (c)
8:00 Flying Nun (c)
8:30 Bewitched (c)
9:00 That Girl (c)
9:30 Peyton Place (c)
10:00 Confrontation (c)
11:00 News
11:30 Joey Bishop (c)
1:00 Reflections

WKNX 25-CBS Saginaw
6:00 News (c)
7:00 News
7:05 CBS News (c)
7:55 News
8:00 Captain Kangaroo (c)
9:00 Captain Kangaroo (not sure what the 9am show was; the 8am show was in pattern with the network)
9:30 Jack LaLanne
10:00 Candid Camera
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies (c)
11:00 Andy Griffith
11:30 Dick Van Dyke
noon Love of Life (c)
12:25 CBS News (c)
12:30 Search for Tomorrow (c)
12:45 Guiding Light (c)
1:00 Dream House (c, not cleared by 12)
1:30 As the World Turns (c)
2:00 Love is a Many Splendored Thing (c)
2:30 House Party (c)
3:00 To Tell the Truth (c)
3:25 CBS News (c)
3:30 Edge of Night (c)
4:00 Secret Storm (c)
4:30 Treasure Isle (not cleared by 12)
5:00 Wedding Party (ditto)
5:30 Baby Game (ditto)
5:55 Wheel of Fortune
6:00 News
6:30 CBS News (c)
7:00 McHale's Navy "Parents Anonymous"
7:30 Cimarron Strip "Journey to a Hanging" (c)
9:00 Movie "Kings of the Sun" (c)
11:00 News
11:30 Movie "The Little Kidnappers"
 
Bluenoser said:
from TV Guide-Michigan State edition
This edition didn't carry the Detroit Us (Detroit edition) or Marquette (Northern Wisconsin) stations

I don't think Michigan State or the successor Northern Michigan editions ever included Marquette or Escanaba in their listings, though at the time, WLUC was the only station in that region (WJMN did not open until 1969).

The only thing close to a statewide TV listings magazine was editions of the Detroit Free Press' Sunday TV magazine sold outside of the Detroit area, which had listings for almost every station covering Michigan, except South Bend, Green Bay and Duluth.

Bluenoser said:
WOOD 8-NBC Grand Rapids
4:30 Mike Douglas (c/same guests as ch 3, 1pm)

WKZO wasn't showing Mike.
 
And it was one month and nine days from this broadcast day - on May 20, 1968 - that WXYZ's daily news block and movie switched places, so that their movie now started at 4:30 P.M. (and was retitled The 4:30 Movie - the first of the ABC stations with an afternoon movie at that time to go by that title, preceding New York's WABC-TV by about eight months, even though WABC's afternoon movie had been at 4:30 since Jan. 8, 1968), and their news block starting at 6.
 
I don't remember any Channel 12 in Kalamazoo.
Would be awfully short-spaced with WJRT in Flint.
 
The translator for WZZM-TV 13 on 12 was used in Kalamazoo and Battle Creek beforeWest Michigan's other ABC station, WUHQ-TV 41 (now WOTV 41) signed on in July,1971.
 
ahhh.....would have been before I lived in the area then.
Still I'd have to think that 12 in Flint would cause them some problems.
 
To this day, I still wonder what would've happened if WKAR-Tv returned on 23 sooner than 9/ 1972,and especially after TV set makers like RCA,GE,Zenith and Philco were required to put UHF receivers into their sets in May 1964 just before the 1965 models were being made?. I think WILX-TV would have carried all NBC daytime shows and maybe something after WILX-TV's 9am show This Is Your Community ,yet running WILX-Tv and WMSB-TV on 10 those 13 years saved on costs and the electric bills,but I guess NBC was balking about not carrying the full daytime sched , and NET and it's successor PBS wanted Michigan State U to try to get it's own channel in spite of WMSB-Tv letting WILX-Tv have the time when NBC sports had The World Series or The Super Bowl or NBC News had like an election or convention coverage, assassination or space shot or NBC had a special like with Bob Hope. Then WKAR returned for good in 1972 with WILX having 10 to itself.
 
BobbyNBC10 said:
The translator for WZZM-TV 13 on 12 was used in Kalamazoo and Battle Creek beforeWest Michigan's other ABC station, WUHQ-TV 41 (now WOTV 41) signed on in July,1971.

FreddyE1977 said:
ahhh.....would have been before I lived in the area then.
Still I'd have to think that 12 in Flint would cause them some problems.

Considering that the channel 12 repeater in Flint is low-powered and WJRT's transmitter is in southwestern Saginaw County, I don't think it would cause any trouble at all.

That being said, WJRT causing trouble to the repeater would be just as consequential as WISN channel 12 in Milwaukee causing troubles -- they are probably just as far from Kalamazoo as Flint is.
 
Bluenoser said:
WKNX 25-CBS Saginaw
8:00 Captain Kangaroo (c)
9:00 Captain Kangaroo (not sure what the 9am show was; the 8am show was in pattern with the network)
9:30 Jack LaLanne

Maybe the 9AM show was the Central feed -- I've been looking through a Michigan State TVG from 1965 that had WKNX show the Captain at 8AM, with a repeat of that episode at 9AM (though, unlike this case, it was in this entirety).

Oddly, WKNX in 1965 also showed "Sunrise Semester" at 1PM -- the live feed that CBS affiliates were supposed to tape for the next morning.

I need to give you the retro schedule for that year sometime.
 
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