Retro: New York City Fri, Feb 18, 1966

[Bluenoser]

from TV Guide-New York Metro edition

WCBS 2-CBS New York
6:30 Sunrise Semester "Classical Mythology"
7:00 News
7:25 Editorial
7:30 CBS News
7:55 News
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Dennis the Menace
9:30 Leave It to Beaver
10:00 I Love Lucy
10:30 Real McCoys
11:00 Andy Griffith
11:30 Dick Van Dyke
noon Love of Life
12:25 CBS News
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1:00 News
1:30 As the World Turns
2:00 Password (celeb contestants Nipsey Russell and Shiela MacRae)
2:30 House Party (c)
3:00 To Tell the Truth
3:25 CBS News
3:30 Edge of Night
4:00 Secret Storm
4:30 Movie "Tarzan's Secret Treasure"
6:00 News
7:00 CBS News (c)
7:30 Wild, Wild West
8:30 An Evening with Carol Channing (c/Carol's joined by George Burns and David McCallum)
9:30 Smothers Brothers
10:00 Trials of O'Brien (Britt Ekland's US TV debut)
11:00 News
11:20 Sports
11:25 Weather
11:30 Late Show "Thunder on the Hills"
1:10 News
1:15 Late Late Show "Adventures of Captain Fabian"
3:10 Movie "Words and Music"
5:30 sign-off (the usual CBS2 drive-by, sign-on was at 6:30 )

WTIC 3-CBS Hartford
6:30 Sunrise Semester "Classical Mythology"
7:00 News/Weather
7:05 CBS News
7:30 From the College Campus
7:55 Let's Talk About
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Hap Richards
9:15 Deputy Dawg
9:30 Leace It to Beaver
10:00 I Love Lucy
10:30 Movie "The Hour of 13"
noon Love of Life
12:25 CBS News
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1:00 Movie "The Unforgiven" (c/pt 5)
1:30 As the World Turns
2:00 Password
2:30 House Party (c)
3:00 To Tell the Truth
3:25 CBS News
3:30 Dick Van Dyke
4:00 Ranger Andy (c)
4:30 Movie "Johnny Stool Pigeon"
6:00 Senator Dodd
6:05 Sports
6:15 News
6:25 Weather
6:30 CBS News (c)
7:00 Death Valley Days (c)
7:30 Wild, Wild West
8:30 An Evening with Carol Channing (c)
9:30 Smothers Brothers
10:00 Trials of O'Brien
11:00 News/Sports
11:15 Weather
11:20 Movie "Tea and Sympathy" (c)
1:35 Movie "The Bottom of the Bottle" (c)
3:20 News/Weather
followed by sign-off

WNBC 4-NBC New York
6:00 Education Showcase "The City"
6:30 B'wana Don
7:00 Today (c/guests Lisa Hobbs, and the cast of Hostile Witness)
9:00 Birthday House
9:55 News
10:00 Eye Guess (c)
10:25 NBC News
10:30 Concentration
11:00 Morning Star (c)
11:30 Paradise Bay (c)
noon Jeopardy (c)
12:30 Post Office (c)
12:55 NBC News
1:00 PDQ (c/celeb guests Abby Dalton, Monty Hall, and Tom Kennedy)
1:30 Let's Make a Deal (c)
1:55 NBC News
2:00 Days of Our Lives (c)
2:30 Doctors
3:00 Another World
3:30 You Don't Say! (c/celebs Fess Parker and Vikki Carr)
4:00 Match Game (c/celebs Skitch Henderson and Ed McMahon)
4:25 NBC News
4:30 Movie "The Howards of Virginia"
6:00 News
7:00 NBC News (c)
7:30 Vietnam Crisis (c/a report of the proposed Vietnam peace conference in Geneva with David Brinkley in New York and Elie Abel/Sander Vandocur in Geneva, with a starring role for the Early Bird satellite covering the conference)
8:30 Sammy Davis Jr. (c/guests Milton Berle, Leslie Uggams, Frank Sinatra Jr, the Pied Pipers, the Nicholas Brothers, and the Copasetics...highlights include Sammy and Uncle Miltie spoofing Batman )
9:30 Mister Roberts (c)
10:00 Man from UNCLE (c)
11:00 News (c)
11:25 Sports (c)
11:30 Tonight Show (c)
1:00 News
1:15 Movie "The Awful Truth"
2:55 sign-off

WNEW 5-Ind New York
7:15 News
7:30 Survey of the Arts "Spain and Portugal"
8:00 Cartoons
8:15 King & Odie
8:30 Sandy Becker
9:25 News
9:30 Yoga for Health
10:00 Peter Gunn
10:30 Bat Masterson
11:00 Astroboy
11:30 Cartoons
noon Romper Room
1:00 Cartoons
1:10 King & Odie
1:25 News
1:30 Movie "The Men"
2:55 News
3:00 Peter Gunn
3:30 Paul Winchell (color cartoons)
4:30 Chuck McCann
5:30 Sandy Becker (color cartoons, plus the Tweedles pay a visit)
6:30 Soupy Sales
7:00 Outer Limits
8:00 Lawman
8:30 Wells Fargo
9:00 Movie "I Confess"
11:00 News
11:10 Movie "The Verdict"
12:50 News
followed by sign-off

WABC 7-ABC New York
6:20 News
6:30 Project Know "Science"
7:00 Ann Sothern
7:30 Gale Storm
8:00 Cartoons
8:30 Little Rascals
9:00 Girl Talk (guests Maggi Daly, Blanche Sweet, and Margi King)
9:30 Movie "On Sunday Afternoon" (newsbreak at 10:20)
11:00 Supermarket Sweep
11:30 Dating Game
noon Donna Reed
12:30 Father Knows Best
1:00 Ben Casey
2:00 Nurses
2:30 A Time for Us
2:55 ABC News
3:00 General Hospital
3:30 Young Marrieds
4:00 Never Too Young
4:30 Where the Action is (guests the Kingsmen, Neil Sedaka, and Steve Alaimo)
5:00 News
5:45 ABC News
6:00 Movie "Love Me Tender"
7:30 Flintstones (c)
8:00 Tammy (c)
8:30 Addams Family
9:00 Honey West
9:30 Farmer's Daughter (c)
10:00 Jimmy Dean (guests Molly Bee, Roy Clark, Jerry Caterino (a cop who's a country fan), and scenes of the Japanese Grand Ole Opry)
11:00 News
11:25 Editorial
11:30 Best of Broadway "Inferno" (c)
1:10 Movie "Let's Rock!" (starring Julius LaRosa, Paul Anka, Phyllis Newman, and Della Reese)
2:45 sign-off

WNHC 8-ABC New Haven
6:10 News/Weather
6:15 Church Conversations
6:30 Frontiers of Science
7:00 Gloria (c)
7:30 Mr. Goober (c)
8:30 Mickey Mouse Club
9:00 Surfside 6
10:00 Divorce Court
11:00 Supermarket Sweep
11:30 Dating Game
noon Girl Talk (in part 1: guests Selma Diamond, Christina Paolozzi, and Madhur Jaffrey; in part 2: guests June Allyson, Florence Henderson, and Betty Lord)
1:00 Ben Casey
2:00 Nurses
2:30 A Time for Us
2:55 ABC News
3:00 General Hospital
3:30 Space Commander
5:00 Mike Douglas (co-hosts Marty Allen and Steve Rossi/guests include Helen Gurley Brown)
6:30 News
6:40 Weather
6:55 ABC News
7:00 Movie "The Left Hand of God" (c)
9:00 Honey West
9:30 Farmer's Daughter (c)
10:00 Jimmy Dean
11:00 News
11:10 Weather
11:15 Sports
11:20 Movie "They Came to Cordura"
1:30 News
followed by sign-off

WOR 9-Ind New York
8:50 Farm Report
8:55 News/Weather
9:00 English Por Favor
9:30 Movie "Pay or Die"
11:00 World Adventures (c)
11:30 Memory Lane (Joe Franklin's guests include Barbara Minkus and Caroline O'Connor)
1:00 Divorce Court
2:00 Movie "Woman on the Beach"
3:30 Sergeant Preston
4:00 Gypsy (guests Ida Lupino and Howard Duff)
4:30 Mike Douglas (co-host Betsy Palmer/guests Henry Morgan, Sue Bennett, Dr. Waldo Fielding, and Charlie Byrd)
6:00 News (c)
6:15 Walter Kiernan (c)
6:30 Let's Go-Go
7:00 Step This Way (guest Allan Jones, with Gretchen Wyler teaching the polka)
7:30 Million Dollar Movie "Devil's Canyon"
9:30 Arrest & Trial
11:00 Million Dollar Movie (replay from 7:30)
1:00 News/Weather
followed by sign-off

WPIX 11-Ind New York
8:00 Pancake Man
8:30 Fair Adventure
9:00 Jack LaLanne (c)
9:30 Scarlett Hill
10:00 People in Conflict
10:30 True Adventure (c)
11:00 Snuffy Smith (c)
11:15 Mack & Myer
11:30 Carol Corbett (c)
noon Cartoons (c)
1:00 Movie "The Glass Alibi"
2:30 Bold Journey
3:00 People are Funny
3:30 Bozo (c)
4:00 Beachcomber Bill (c)
4:30 Eighth Man
5:00 Surprise Show (c)
5:30 Three Stooges
6:00 News
6:30 Superman (c)
7:00 Stingray (c)
7:30 Lloyd Thaxton (c/guests Tina Turner, and the Ikettes)
8:30 Movie "Return of the Ape Man"
9:30 Ripcord (c)
10:00 Merv Griffin (no details listed)
11:30 One Step Beyond
mid. Passing Parade
12:30 sign-off

WNDT 13-Edu New York
9:30 Children of Other Lands
9:50 Working with Science
10:10 Tell Me a Story
10:25 Space Age Challenges
10:45 Historic Shrines
11:05 Hablo Espanol
11:20 Adventures in Language
11:40 Time for Science
noon Electronics at Work
12:30 Exploring Nature
1:00 Once Upon a Day
1:30 Music for You
1:50 Hablo Espanol
2:05 Books That Live
2:25 Exploring Science
2:45 Sounds to Say
3:00 Children Growing
3:30 USA "The Nonfiction Novel" (Trueman Capote talks about In Cold Blood)
4:00 Electives
5:00 Once Upon a Day
5:30 Cartoons
5:40 Friendly Giant
6:00 What's New
6:30 Report to New Jersey (GOP Sen. Clifford P. Case)
7:00 Compleat Gardener
7:30 TBA
8:30 Igor Stravinsky (profile and concert of his music)
10:00 World at Ten
10:30 College Ice Hockey (teams not listed)
followed by sign-off

WNYC 31-Ind New York
Not listed; programs air daily 1:30-11pm

WNJU 47-Ind Newark
Not listed; programs air weekdays 5-11pm, Sat 4-11pm, and Sun 12:50-11pm

 

[wbhist]

At a future time, I hope to fill in the blanks of the WNYC and WNJU programming via The New York Times, but a few points:
- WCBS-TV's The Early Show moved from 5 to 4:30 on Jan. 3, 1966, after the early evening local newscast expanded to an hour.
- Their 1 P.M. newscast would later morph into Two at One, which lasted through 1968.
- Their 6 P.M. newscast was then called The Evening Report, and their 11 P.M. newscast The Late Report.
- The movie shown at 3:10 A.M. on Channel 2 was under The Late Late Show II umbrella.
- Prior to the sign-off was the Give Us This Day sermonette, which TV Guide did not mention after WCBS took to a 24-hour transmission schedule (and average 23.5 hour broadcast day) in 1963. For that matter, when they signed on they had another Give Us This Day, which commenced around 6:25 A.M.
- WTIC-TV's late afternoon movie series was called Big 3 Theatre.
- WNBC-TV's afternoon movies, of course, were branded Movie 4; since this was a Friday, their late-night screening of The Awful Truth was under The Great Great Show banner. (Mondays through Thursdays, until fall 1966, they used the moniker Tonight's Movie, which had previously been used in 1958; the 1 A.M. newscast was called Tonight's News in those days, per The New York Times.)
- At this point, Channel 4's 6 P.M. newscast was branded Sixth Hour News, had been since being expanded to a 60-minute length on May 10, 1965; and of course at 11 P.M. it was the Eleventh Hour News.
- After The Great Great Show and before sign-off was the daily Sermonette. By this point TV Guide never mentioned this.
- WNEW-TV's 9 P.M. movie showcase was Movie Greats, and at 11:10 P.M. it was Hollywood's Finest. After the sign-off news was the Call to Prayer, prior to sign-off; likewise TV Guide never mentioned this.
- WABC-TV's morning movie show at that point was called Movie of the Day, and their late afternoon/early evening showcase (which moved to 6 P.M. on Jan. 3, 1966, the same day WCBS's Early Show settled at 4:30) still went by The Big Show title, as they would through October 1966 at that time slot. The film umbrella that followed The Best of Broadway was called Movies to Stay Awake By; this title wasn't even acknowledged in The Times. They too had an unacknowledged sermonette prior to sign-off.
- I would have thought, by 1966, that WOR-TV's late-night re-airing of Million Dollar Movie was replaced by The Flick, which showed a different movie each night. Unless this was on the other four nights (Monday-Thursday). Their sermonette - again, not mentioned by TV Guide, and which followed the sign-off news - was called a Moment of Prayer.
- Their 6 P.M. newscast was anchored by longtime WOR Radio personality John Wingate.

 

[wbhist]

As promised, here are the listings for the two stations whose listings were not covered at the time by TV Guide (per Feb. 18, 1966 issues of The New York Times, Daily News, New York Post and soon-to-be-defunct New York Herald Tribune):

WNYC-TV 31 - New York ("Independent"; owned by Municipal Broadcasting System)
Morning
10:30 City Capital Budget Public Hearings (Live from the Board of Estimate Chamber; Mayor Lindsay presiding)
[NOTE: Daily News listed running time as "to conclusion"; Herald Tribune gave a start time of 10 A.M.]
Afternoon
1:10 Electrical Engineering
2:00 College Humanities - "Medical Culture"
2:30 Journey in Science
3:00 Investors Round Table
3:30 College Humanities
4:00 Around the Clock
4:30 Profile
5:00 Teen-Age Book Talk
5:30 The Magic Carpet
Evening
6:00 The Big Picture (long-running series produced by the U.S. Army)
6:45 Journey
7:00 Film Feature
7:30 Brooklyn College Presents
8:00 Achievement
8:30 Journeys in Science
9:00 American History - "Voice From the Tenement" with Prof. James P. Shenton
10:00 Film Feature
10:30 News
10:45 Americans at Work
followed by sign-off

WNJU-TV 47 - Newark, N.J. (Independent; owned by New Jersey Television Broadcasting Corp.)
Afternoon
5:00 The Helen Meyner Show
5:30 Junior Town with Fred Sayles
Evening
6:00 Disc-O-Teen with Zacherley
6:45 New Jersey Today
7:00 The Actress (In Spanish)
7:30 The Mist (In Spanish)
8:00 El Foro Hispano [Spanish Forum]
8:30 Cinema Hispano
10:00 Novela Semanal
10:30 News, Weather, Sports (In Spanish)
followed by sign-off

 

[Tim L]

- At this point, Channel 4's 6 P.M. newscast was branded Sixth Hour News, had been since being expanded to a 60-minute length on May 10, 1965; and of course at 11 P.M. it was the Eleventh Hour News.
- After The Great Great Show and before sign-off was the daily Sermonette. By this point TV Guide never mentioned this.

Similiarly, in the first months of WKYC-TV 3 NBC ownership, the Name of the Newscasts by February 1966 (Probably beginning June 1965) had been changed from Eyewitness News to Seventh/Eleventh Hour Report with the new team of Virgil Dominic, (By December 1965) Wally Kinnan The Weatherman and Longtime fixture Sports Director Jim Graner. ( At Channel 3 1957-1974) The "Sermonette" program was named "Credo", held over from KYW days and used from I think the late 1950's into the 1980's..

 

[bpatrick]

Wouldn't New Haven's Channel 8 have carried ABC News
at 6:45? Peter Jennings was on for 15 minutes then;
ABC's newscast didn't go to 30 until January 1967.

 

[wbhist]

In checking the Times' TV listings for this day, it proved the truism of TV Guide's "Stations reserve the right to make last-minute changes" disclaimer - as the three network-owned stations (I.I.N.M.) preempted their late-morning lineup to carry testimony from Secretary of State Dean Rusk at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearings on the Vietnam War. (It was contention over this that led Fred W. Friendly, only a few days earlier, to resign as CBS News President after CBS Broadcast Group president John Schneider nixed his request for another day of coverage, in favor of an I Love Lucy rerun.)

 

[Bluenoser]

Wouldn't New Haven's Channel 8 have carried ABC News
at 6:45? Peter Jennings was on for 15 minutes then;
ABC's newscast didn't go to 30 until January 1967.

It was at 6:45...the morning coffee hadn't kicked in yet when I proofread it