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RETRO: New York City Metro - Sunday, November 17, 1968

[SOURCES: TV Guide, New York-Metropolitan Edition, Nov. 16-22, 1968; also, listings in The New York Times, Daily News (Nov. 17, 1968 issues), New York Post (Nov. 16, 1968 issue), The Morning Record and Journal (Meriden, CT) (Nov. 16, 1968 issue) and Red Bank (NJ) Daily Register; show episode info, where applicable, courtesy IMDb and TV.com]

(C) - in color; (R) - rerun (if episode specifics are unknown)

Part I: NYC VHF's

WCBS-TV 2 New York (CBS; owned and operated)
6:55a Give Us This Day (C)
7:00a Tom and Jerry (C)
7:30a The Adventures of Aquaman (C)
8:00a Around the Corner - "Ingenuity" (guests: Irving Adler, Eva Jessye, Joan James and Seymour Wright; hosts: Joyce James
and Gail Caesar) (C)
9:30a The Way to Go (guests: Gene Heller, executive director, and George K. Walters, equal employment coordinator, of
Metropolitan New York Project Equality) (C)
10:00a Lamp Unto My Feet (for this third 20th anniversary show, a look at Tulsa, OK's "Neighbor to Neighbor" program which
serves the needs of the city's depressed North Side; interviews conducted by KOTV (Tulsa) newsman Clayton Vaughn)
(C)
11:00a Camera Three - "Know Ye the Hour" (a look at gravestone carving in early New England; films and stills study
preservation efforts of artists Avon Neal and Ann Parker) (C)
11:30a Public Hearing - "The Democrats and the Nixon Administration" (guests: Rep. John M. Murphy, D-16th Congressional
District and Rep.-elect Edward I. Koch, D-L - 17th Congressional District; host: Jerome Wilson) (C)
12:00p Newsmakers (guest: State Senator John J. Marchi, chairman of the Senate's New York City Affairs Committee) (C)
12:25p Mid-Day Report with Robert Potts (C)
12:30p Face the Nation (originally scheduled: Robert Finch, lieutenant governor of California and Nixon adviser; was ultimately
replaced by Herbert G. Klein, press aide to President-elect Richard Nixon) (C)
1:00p Picture for a Sunday Afternoon: "The Private War of Major Benson" (1955) - Charlton Heston, Julie Adams (C)
3:00p The Frank Gifford Show (C)
3:30p The NFL Today (C)
4:00p NFL Football - Minnesota Vikings vs. Detroit Lions (announcers: Jack Whitaker and Frank Gifford) (C)
[Minnesota beat Detroit, 13-6]
7:00p Lassie - "Glacier Canyon" (C)
7:30p Gentle Ben - "Code Name: Disaster" (C)
8:00p The Ed Sullivan Show (guests include Michele Lee, Sergio Franchi, Morecambe & Wise and Stiller & Meara) (C)
[original airdate 2/4/68]
9:00p The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (guests: Donovan, Dion, Jennifer Warren [later Warnes]; because of musicians'
strike which lasted from 10/30/68 through 11/28/68, The Jimmy Joyce singers provide backing music a cappella)
(C)
10:00p Mission: Impossible - "The Cardinal" (guest: Theodore Bikel) (C)
11:00p CBS Sunday News with Harry Reasoner (C)
11:15p News - Tom Dunn (C)
11:30p The Late Show: "Legend of the Lost" (1957) - John Wayne, Sophia Loren (C)
1:50a The Late Night News (C)
1:55a The Late Late Show I: "The Barefoot Mailman" (1951) - Robert Cummings, Terry Moore
3:35a The Late Late Show II: "Port Afrique" (1956) - Pier Angeli, Phil Carey (C)
5:30a Give Us This Day (C)
followed by sign-off

WNBC-TV 4 New York (NBC; owned and operated)
7:08a Sermonette (C)
7:15a Modern Farmer
8:15a Library Lions
8:45a Maryknoll Story Time (C)
9:00a TV Sunday School (C)
9:15a TV Hebrew School (C)
9:30a Protestant Heritage - "The Bible in a Time of Crisis" (featured guests: former Protestant chaplain Steve Gaskins,
Rev. David A. Giles and Ted Cobb of National Urban League; host: Dr. David H.C. Read) (C)
10:00a Asia: The One and the Many - "East and Southeast Asia, The Future"
10:30a Man in Office (guest: McGeorge Bundy, president of the Ford Foundation; topic: school decentralization) (C)
11:00a Searchlight (guest: John Doar, president of Board of Education of the City of New York) (C)
11:30a Direct Line (guest: Walter Degnan, president of Council of Supervisory Associations [predecessor to Council of School
Supervisors and Administrators]; moderator: Vic Roby) (C)
12:00p Dorothy Gordon's Youth Forum - "Teen-Agers Question Movie Industry Restrictions" (guest: Jack Valenti, president,
Motion Picture Association of America) (C)
12:30p The Eternal Light - "Trapdoor" (a story of how Jewish settlers in Newport, RI came to understand American principle
of religious freedom; part of a three-part arc, "New Roots for the Uprooted" (C)
1:00p Meet the Press (tentatively scheduled: Jerusalem mayor Teddy Kollek; moderator, Edwin Newman; interviewers:
Rowland Evans of Chicago Sun-Times, Crosby Noyes of Washington Evening Star, and Carl Rowan of Chicago Daily
News) (C)
1:30p AFL Football - San Diego Chargers vs. Buffalo Bills (announcers: Jim Simpson and Kyle Rote) (C)
[San Diego beat Buffalo, 21-6]
4:00p AFL Football - New York Jets vs. Oakland Raiders (announcers: Curt Gowdy and Al DeRogatis) (C)
[New York lost to Oakland, 43-32 - but of course, as everyone knows . . . ]
7:00p Heidi (new all-star production, filmed in Germany and the Swiss Alps, adapted by future Waltons creator Earl
Hamner, Jr., from Johanna Spyri children's story; with Sir Michael Redgrave, Jean Simmons, Maximilian Schell, Walter
Slezak - and in the title role, Jennifer Edwards) (C)
[NOTE: The announcer who advised viewers of the interruption of the Jets/Patriots match at 7 P.M. to show
this production was NBC Burbank staffer Eddy King, who died Aug. 29, 2011 at age 99]
9:00p Bonanza - "The Sound of Drums" (C)
10:00p The Beautiful Phyllis Diller Show (guests: Maureen O'Hara, Noel Harrison, and Hines, Hines & Dad) (C)
11:00p Eleventh Hour News with Bob Teague (C)
11:10p Weather - Thomas Nicholson (C)
11:15p News - Bob Teague (C)
11:25p Sports - Mel Allen (C)
11:30p Sunday Film Festival: "The Time Machine" (1960) - Rod Taylor, Yvette Mimieux (C)
1:30a The Great Great Show: "Spare the Rod" (1961) - Max Bygraves, Donald Pleasence
3:15a International Zone - "Boom Town" (a look at Venezuelan city of Guyana; host: Alistair Cooke) (R)
3:45a Sermonette (C)
followed by sign-off

WNEW-TV 5 New York (Independent; owned by Metromedia Television)
7:20a Sign-on and Call to Prayer (C)
7:30a Herald of Truth (topic: Christianity as a stabilizing influence in world affairs) (C)
8:00a Prince of Planets
8:30a Wonderama with Bob McAllister (C)
11:30a My Mother the Car - "A Riddler on the Roof" (C) [original airdate 2/8/66]
12:00p Eastside Comedy: "Bowery Buckaroos" (1947) - Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bobby Jordan
1:00p Five Star Movie: "Hazard" (1948) - Paulette Goddard, Macdonald Carey
3:00p Metromedia Movie: "Larceny, Inc." (1942) - Edward G. Robinson, Jane Wyman
5:00p The Man from U.N.C.L.E. - "The Napoleon's Tomb Affair" (C) [original airdate 1/27/67]
6:00p The Alfred Hitchcock Hour - "Murder Case" [original airdate 3/6/64]
7:00p The Robert Goulet Special (guests: Lainie Kazan, Tommy Cooper, pop group The Peddlers) (C)
[originally aired as an episode of Spotlight in the U.S. on 8/29/67 and in the U.K. on 11/4/67]
8:00p Movie Greats: "The Maltese Falcon" (1941) - Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor
10:00p The 10 O'Clock Weekend News with George Scharmen (C)
10:30p With Mayor Lindsay (C)
11:00p The David Susskind Show (scheduled: Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban; also, a discussion on "Ghetto Gangs") (C)
1:00a News Headlines
followed by Call to Prayer and sign-off

WABC-TV 7 New York (ABC; owned and operated)
7:50a Early Bird News
8:00a Project Know - "Election Laws and Voting" (with Prof. Donald Herzberg)
8:30a The Christophers (actress Barbara Hale discusses opportunities for the deaf) (C)
9:00a For Thou Art with Me - "A Child's Haven" (moderator: Rabbi Jacob Cohen) (C)
9:30a The Beatles (C)
10:00a Linus the Lion-Hearted (C)
10:30a King Kong (C)
11:00a Bullwinkle (C)
11:30a Discovery '68 - "Finland" (Part 1 of 2; features visits to Helsinki and island of Kaunissaari) (C) (R)
12:00p College Football '68 (45-minute tape of Navy vs. Syracuse, plus highlights of weekend's top college games) (C)
1:00p Directions - "The World of Shalom of Safed" (a look at septugenarian Israeli watchmaker Shalom Moskowitz, who paints
Biblical recreations) (C)
1:30p Issues and Answers (tentatively scheduled: incoming U.S. Ambassador to U.N. James Russell Wiggins; interviewers are
ABC's John MacVane and Joseph C. Harsch) (C)
2:00p Page One (scheduled: Albert Shanker, president of United Federation of Teachers) (C)
2:30p A Conversation With... (Allan Jefferys interviews film director Robert Wise) (C)
3:00p New York, N.Y. (guests include Hamilton Fish, Jr., Rep.-elect Allard K. Lowenstein, D-NY; Raymond Bossert, president of
Newark (N.J.) Patrolmen's Benevolent Association and Samuel Damiano, administrator with Greater Newark Chamber
of Commerce) (C)
4:00p Like It Is (guests include musical booking agent Ruth Bowen; Woody King, executive director of the film "Where We
Live"; and Like It Is assistant producer, Richard Mason; host: Gil Noble) (C)
5:00p The Big Show: "Broken Lance" (1954) - Robert Wagner, Spencer Tracy (C)
7:00p Land of the Giants - "Manhunt" (C)
8:00p The F.B.I. - "Breakthrough" (C)
9:00p The ABC Sunday Night Movie - "The Sons of Katie Elder" (1965) - John Wayne, Dean Martin (C)
11:30p ABC Weekend News with Keith McBee (C)
11:45p Eyewitness News with Gil Noble (C)
12:00a The Best of Broadway: "Beneath the 12-Mile Reef" (1957) - Robert Wagner, Terry Moore (C)
1:30a The Best of Broadway II: "The Vampire's Coffin" (1960) - Abel Salazar, Ariadne Welter (to 3:05a)
followed by sign-off

WOR-TV 9 New York (Independent; owned by RKO General)
8:20a News and Weather
8:25a The Christophers
8:30a Connecticut Report (C)
9:00a Gospel Caravan with Thermon Ruth (C)
9:30a New Jersey Report (guest: John A. Kervick, New Jersey State Treasurer) (C)
10:00a Point of View - "Can You Work With Other People?" (guest: Dr. Thomas Doyle; host: Rev. Francis Wendell) (C)
10:30a New York Report (guest: Austin Heller, New York City Commissioner of Pollution Control) (C)
11:00a Twin Circle Headline (topic: "South Africa"; guest: South African Member of Parliament Marais Steyn; moderator:
Tom Davis; host: Daniel Lyons, S.J.) (C)
11:30p Shirley Temple's Storybook - "Mother Goose" [original airdate 12/21/58]
12:30p Million Dollar Movie: "Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace" (1964) - Christopher Lee, Thorley Walters
2:30p Western Adventure - "The Bleeker Story" (guest: Joan Blondell) (C) [originally aired as an episode of Wagon Train
on 12/9/63]
4:00p Million Dollar Movie: "Dead Eyes of London" (1961) - Joachim Fuchsberger, Karin Baal
6:00p George Jessel - Here Comes the Stars (guests: Groucho Marx, Tammy Grimes, Morey Amsterdam, Jackie Gayle,
Stu Gilliam, Joe Williams, Simmy Bow, Harry Ruby) (C)
7:00p The Big Preview: "The V.I.P.'s" (1963) - Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton (C)
9:30p Firing Line with William F. Buckley, Jr. - "Some Problems of the Freshman Senator" (guest: Sen. Charles E. Goodell,
R-N.Y., who took Robert F. Kennedy's old Senate seat upon the latter's assassination in June of that year) (C)
(taped 9/23/68)
10:30p The Adult Flick: "King and Country" (1964) - Dirk Bogarde, Tom Courtenay, Leo McKern
12:30a Wonderful World of Sports (C)
12:35a Film (C)
12:50a News and Weather
followed by sign-off

WPIX-TV 11 New York (Independent; licensor WPIX, Inc., owned by New York Daily News)
7:30a Cathedral of Tomorrow with Rev. Rex Humbard (C)
8:30a The Evangel Hour
9:00a Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons (C)
9:30a The Little Rascals
10:00a The Three Stooges
10:30a The Munsters - "Happy 100th Anniversary" [original airdate 10/21/65]
11:00a NFL Game of the Week (C)
11:30a Notre Dame Football (Notre Dame vs. Georgia Tech, taped 11/16 - Notre Dame won, 34-6)
1:00p The Fran Tarkenton Show (C)
1:30p Racket Squad - "One Angle Too Many" [original airdate 2/7/52]
2:00p M Squad - "Fire in the Sky" [original airdate 6/7/60]
2:30p Naked City - "The Sandman" [original airdate 5/5/59]
3:00p The Patty Duke Show - "Will the Real Sammy Davis Please Hang Up?" [original airdate 3/3/65]
3:30p Gidget - "All the Best Diseases Are Taken" (C) [original airdate 11/17/65]
4:00p Dr. Kildare - "A Very Infectious Disease" [original airdate 3/21/63]
5:00p Perry Mason - "The Case of the Bigamous Spouse" [original airdate 11/14/63]
6:00p The Invaders - "Wall of Crystal" (C) [original airdate 5/2/67]
7:00p Twelve O'Clock High - "Massacre" (C) [original airdate 9/16/66]
8:00p The Honeymooners Hour:
1. "Trapped" [original airdate 4/14/56]
2. "The Safety Award" [original airdate 5/19/56]
9:00p Naked City - "The Man Who Bit a Diamond in Half" [original airdate 12/14/60]
10:00p Rawhide - "The Pitchwagon" [original airdate 3/2/62]
11:00p The Eleventh Hour (R)
11:30p Encounter
12:00a Film (C)
12:30a Equal Time (C)
followed by sign-off

WNDT 13 Newark/New York (NET affiliate; owned by Educational Broadcasting Corp.)
no programs scheduled
 
Part II: UHF's and Connecticut TV

WNYE-TV 25 New York (Educational; owned by Board of Education of City of New York)
no programs scheduled

WNYC-TV 31 New York ("Independent"; owned by Municipal Broadcasting System)
3:00p Consultants at Large - "Situation in the Himalayas"
3:30p Sign and Sound (violinist Jean-Jacques Kantorow plays Schumann's "Sonata for Violin and Piano")
4:00p American Literature (Dr. Harold Martin lectures on Stephen Crane and his book "The Red Badge of Courage")
4:30p Staten Island Today
5:00p Travelogues
6:00p Human Rights Forum - "Crisis in Education" (Part I) (guests: Keith Baird, David Bird, Judson Hand;
host: Commissioner William Booth)
6:30p News - Saul Katz (C)
6:45p British Quarter Hour
7:00p The Big Picture (C)
7:30p Focus on Books (Eileen Riols interviews Charles Coe on his book "Vietnam - Young Man in Vietnam")
8:00p Brooklyn College Presents - "The Three Worlds of Jean Shepherd"
8:30p Your Right to Say It (topic: industry's battle against pollution; featuring Ed Logelin, vice president of U.S. Steel;
Casey Bukro of Chicago Tribune; and John Drury of WGN-TV, Chicago; host: James McBurney) (C)
9:00p Humanities I (Prof. Mario DeCasare lectures on Virgil's "The Aeneid")
9:30p Documentary Hour: 1) "Timeless Treasure"; 2) "Arid Lands"
10:30p With Mayor Lindsay (C)
followed by sign-off

WXTV 41 Paterson, NJ (Independent; owned by Trans-Tel Corp.)
4:00p Toros (bullfights from Mexico)
6:00p Pelicula: "Hasta Que Llovio en Sayula" - con Chaflan
7:30p Las Senoritas Vivanco (con Prudencia Griffel, Sara Garcia y Anita Blanche)
8:00p Domingos Alegres
9:00p El Derecho De Nacer
9:30p Drama: "Las Alegres Diversiones del Principe Alessandro" - Luis Aragon, Magda Guzman, Raul Rodriguez
followed by sign-off

WNJU-TV 47 Linden/Newark, NJ (Independent; owned by New Jersey Television Broadcasting Corp.)
3:45p Film: "Colorful Italy" (C)
4:00p Panorama RAI
4:15p Italian Movie - "La Moglie E' Per Tutti" (1955) - Nino Taranto, Ugo Tognazzi
5:45p Italian News - Erberto Landi
6:00p Film Drama: "Il Mulino Del Po"
6:30p Italian Sports Review with Filippo Crisafulli
6:45p Italian Miniatures
7:00p Pelicula - "La Ultima Lucha" (1960) - Carlos Baena, Mirta Mijares
8:30p Pumarejo (C) (per TV Guide; The New York Times lists Problemas y Problemas in this time slot)
10:00p Pelicula - "Lecho de Rosas" (1950; dubbed in Spanish; original title, "Born to Be Bad") - Joan Fontaine,
Robert Ryan
12:00p Noticias - Arturo Rodriguez
followed by sign-off

WTIC-TV 3 Hartford, CT (CBS affiliate; owned by Travelers Broadcasting Corp.)
7:55a Sign-On and Prayer (C)
8:00a The Christophers
8:15a Adventures of Gumby (C)
9:00a Marine Boy (C)
9:30a From the College Campus - Connecticut College for Women (C)
10:00a Lamp Unto My Feet (C)
(this and other CBS network programs same as on WCBS-TV unless otherwise noted)
11:00a Camera Three (C)
11:30a On the Agenda - UConn (C)
12:00p We Believe - "Catholic" Part I "What Is Divine Will?" (guest: Sister Mary Rosalie of St. Adelbert Convent
in Thompsonville) (C)
12:30p Face the Nation (C)
1:00p NFL Pre-Game Show (C)
1:30p NFL Football - Philadelphia Eagles vs. New York Giants (announcers: Lindsey Nelson and Tom Brookshier) (C)
[New York beat Philadelphia, 7-6]
4:00p NFL Football - Minnesota Vikings vs. Detroit Lions (C)
7:00p Lassie (C)
7:30p Gentle Ben (C)
8:00p The Ed Sullivan Show (C)
9:00p The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (C)
10:00p Mission: Impossible (C)
11:00p News - Norm Peters (C)
11:20p Weather (C)
11:25p Sports - Doug Webster (C)
11:30p Movie Masterpieces: "The Little Hut" (1957) - Ava Gardner, David Niven, Stewart Granger (C)
1:25a News and Weather (C)
followed by Moment of Meditation and sign-off

WNHC-TV 8 New Haven, CT (ABC affiliate; owned by Triangle Broadcasting Corp.)
7:45a Light Time
8:00a Davey and Goliath (C)
8:15a Sacred Heart
8:30a This Is the Life - "Destination - Hell" [original airdate 3/10/63]
9:00a Discovery '68 - "The World Beneath the Sea" (Conclusion) (C) [aired by Channel 8 on delay]
(all other ABC network programs same as on WABC-TV unless otherwise noted)
9:30a The Christophers (C)
10:00a Dialogue - "The Perceptually Handicapped Child" (a study of exercises and methods employed in education of
such children; guests: Dr. Ray Barch and Mrs. Claire Baker) (C)
10:30a Survival (C)
11:00a Opinionated Man (host Roysce Smith reviews Mao Tse-tung's Chinese "Cultural Revolution" with Yale Professor
R.J. Lifton) (C)
11:30a Notre Dame Football (same as on WPIX-TV) (C)
1:00p Yale Football Highlights vs. Princeton (game segments in B&W; host Dick Galiette's report on game in color)
1:30p Way Out (C)
2:00p College Football '68 (C) (same as at 12:00p on WABC-TV)
3:00p Behind Those Doors
3:30p Speaking for the Consumer (guest: attorney John F. McCarty of Federal Trade Commission) (C)
3:45p Comments and People (C)
4:00p The Outcasts - "The Heroes" (C) [aired by Channel 8 on delay] [original network airdate 11/11/68]
5:00p Sunday Movie Spectacular: "Strategic Air Command" (1951) - James Stewart, June Allyson (C)
7:00p Land of the Giants (C)
8:00p The F.B.I. (C)
9:00p The ABC Sunday Night Movie - "The Sons of Katie Elder" (C)
11:30p News - George Thompson (C)
11:45p Weather (C)
11:50p Sports (C)
12:00a Pat Boone in Hollywood (guests: Sean Connery, James Drury, Doug McClure, Pat Paulsen, The Fathers) (C)
1:30a News
followed by Moments of Comfort and sign-off

WATR-TV 20 Waterbury, CT (NBC affiliate; owned by WATR, Inc.)
12:00p The Christophers
12:30p Religious Series (C)
1:00p Meet the Press (C) (this and other NBC network programs same as on WNBC-TV unless otherwise noted)
1:30p AFL Football - San Diego Chargers vs. Buffalo Bills (C)
4:30p AFL Football (no game specified) (C)
7:00p The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (C) [apparently aired by Channel 20 on delay]
7:30p Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color (C) [apparently aired by Channel 20 on delay]
8:30p The Mothers-in-Law (C) [apparently aired by Channel 20 on delay]
9:00p Bonanza (C)
10:00p The Beautiful Phyllis Diller Show (C)
followed by sign-off
 
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