In honor of an upcoming birthday for one individual who headlined a TV special that aired on this day . . .
[SOURCES: TV Guide, New York-Metropolitan Edition, Nov. 30-Dec. 6, 1968; also, listings in The New York Times, Daily News (Dec. 3, 1968 issues), New York Post (Nov. 30, 1968 issue), The Morning Record and Journal (Meriden, CT) (Nov. 30, 1968 issue) and Red Bank (NJ) Daily Register (Dec. 3, 1968 issue); 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)
6:30a Sunrise Semester (Philosophy: Nietzsche's view of the will to prove; with Prof. James Carse) (C)
7:00a News (C)
7:05a CBS Morning News with Joseph Benti (C)
7:30a CBS Morning News with Joseph Benti (C)
7:55a News (C)
8:00a Captain Kamgaroo (The Captain talks about plant growth) (C)
9:00a Leave It to Beaver - "Beaver and Chuey" [original airdate 10/23/58]
9:30a The Donna Reed Show - "The Career Woman" (guest: Esther Williams) [original airdate 4/28/60]
10:00a The Lucy Show - "Lucy Is a Process Server" (C) [original airdate 4/20/64]
10:30a The Beverly Hillbillies - "Back to Californy" [original airdate 1/9/63]
11:00a The Andy Griffith Show - "Andy Forecloses" [original airdate 4/24/61]
11:30a The Dick Van Dyke Show - "It's a Shame She Married Me" (guest: Robert Vaughn) [original airdate 4/17/63]
12:00p Love of Life (C)
12:25p CBS Mid-Day News with Joseph Benti (C)
12:30p Search for Tomorrow (C)
1:00p The Farmer's Daughter - "The Hottest Ticket in Town" [original airdate 5/21/65]
1:30p As the World Turns (C)
2:00p Love Is a Many Splendored Thing (C)
2:30p The Guiding Light (C)
3:00p The Secret Storm (C)
3:30p The Edge of Night (C)
4:00p The Linkletter Show (guests: Barbara Bain and Martin Landau) (C)
4:25p CBS Afternoon News with Douglas Edwards (C)
4:30p The Mike Douglas Show (featured guests: Garry Moore, The Oriole Four, George Kirby, Mrs. Richard J. Hughes,
The Letterman, Sue Raney) (C)
6:00p Six O'Clock Report with Jim Jensen (C)
7:00p CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite (C)
7:30p National Geographic Special - "Reptiles and Amphibians" (narrator: Joseph Campanella) (C)
[preempted: Lancer]
8:30p The Red Skelton Hour (guest: Jane Powell) (C)
9:30p The Doris Day Show - "The Librarian" (C)
10:00p CBS News Special - "Justice Black and the Bill of Rights" (Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black speaks with Eric Sevareid
and Martin Agronsky) (C)
11:00p Eleven O'Clock Report with Bob Young (C)
11:30p The Late Show: "The Crowded Sky" (1960) - Dana Andrews, Rhonda Fleming (C)
1:35a The Late Night News (C)
1:40a The Late Late Show I: "Our Very Own" (1950) - Ann Blyth, Farley Granger
3:35a The Late Late Show II: "The Real Glory" (1939) - Gary Cooper, David Niven
5:30a Give Us This Day (C)
followed by sign-off
WNBC-TV 4 New York (NBC; owned and operated)
6:18a Sermonette (C)
6:25a Education Exchange (C)
6:55a Show and Tell with Aline Saarinen (C)
7:00a Today (scheduled: Charles Evers, author Anne Moody, critic Judith Crist) (C)
9:00a For Women Only with Aline Saarinen - "The Generation Gap" (C)
9:30a That Show with Joan Rivers (guests: Joanna Barnes, Dr. Richard Rush) (C)
10:00a Snap Judgment (celebrities: Marty Allen, Anne Jackson, Eli Wallach) (C)
10:25a NBC News - Nancy Dickerson (C)
10:30a Concentration (C)
11:00a Eye Guess (C)
11:30a The Hollywood Squares (featured: Barbara Bain, Jack Carter, Martin Landau, Paul Lynde, Scoey Mitchlll,
Jo Anne Worley) (C)
12:00p Jeopardy (C)
12:30p Eye Guess (C)
12:55p NBC News - Edwin Newman (C)
1:00p P.D.Q. (featured: Mickey Manners) (C)
1:30p Let's Make a Deal (C)
[less than four weeks to go before the show and its host/producer, Monty Hall, moved to ABC]
2:00p Days of our Lives (C)
2:30p The Doctors (C)
3:00p Another World (C)
3:30p You Don't Say (featured: Chad Everett, Mary Ann Mobley) (C)
4:00p The Match Game (featured: Orson Bean, Sheila MacRae) (C)
4:25p NBC News - Floyd Kalber (C)
4:30p Movie Four: "One Foot in Heaven" (1941) - Fredric March, Martha Scott
6:00p Sixth Hour News with Lew Wood (C)
7:00p The Huntley-Brinkley Report (C)
7:30p The Jerry Lewis Show (guests: Peter Lawford, Jo Anne Worley) (C)
8:30p Julia - "Farewell, My Friend, Hello" (featuring cameo by Groucho Marx) (C)
9:00p Singer Presents Elvis (or as it would come to be known, the "'68 Comeback Special," which changed the course of
"The King's" career after his mid-'60's movie doldrums) (C)
10:00p Special Bardot (alt. title The Unabridged Brigitte Bardot) (the legendary French sex kitten sings, dances and
clowns at many of her favorite haunts at Paris, London and St. Tropez in this French-made bilingual special; also
featured: Sacha Distel, Serge Gainsbourg, Manitas de Plata) (C)
[both specials preempted NBC Tuesday Night at the Movies]
11:00p Eleventh Hour News with Jim Hartz (C)
11:10p Weather - Dr. Frank Field (C)
11:15p News - Jim Hartz (C)
11:25p Sports - Kyle Rote (C)
11:30p The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (scheduled: John Cassavetes, Gena Rowlands, Spanky and Our Gang) (C)
1:00a Tonight's News with Bob Teague (C)
1:15a The Great Great Show: "Cannibal Attack" (1954) - Johnny Weissmuller, Judy Walsh
2:25a Sermonette (C)
followed by sign-off
WNEW-TV 5 New York (Independent; owned by Metromedia Television)
6:50a Sign-on and Call to Prayer (C)
7:00a Yoga for Health
7:30a Daphne's Castle (C)
9:00a Eastside Comedy: "Mr. Hex" (1946) - Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall
10:00a The Outer Limits - "I, Robot" [original airdate 11/14/64]
11:00a Alfred Hitchcock Presents - "The Derelicts" [original airdate 2/5/56]
11:30a Dear Alan with Alan Burke (C)
12:00p Mom's Movie: "Adventure" (1946) - Clark Gable, Greer Garson
2:00p Skitch Henderson's New York (scheduled: Harold Prince, Marion Ross, Ann Corio) (C)
3:30p Mighty Mouse (C)
4:00p The Bob McAllister Show (C)
5:00p The Flintstones (C) (R)
5:30p Sea Hunt - "Cave Diving" [original airdate 5/24/59]
6:00p McHale's Navy - "Giuseppe McHale" [original airdate 10/5/65]
6:30p My Favorite Martian - "Stop or I'll Steam" [original airdate 3/14/65]
7:00p I Love Lucy - "The Anniversary Present" [original airdate 9/29/52]
7:30p Truth or Consequences (C)
8:00p Pay Cards (host: Art James) (C)
8:30p The Merv Griffin Show (scheduled: Eli Wallach, Anne Jackson, Shirley Jones, Jack Cassidy) (C)
10:00p The 10 O'Clock News with Bill Jorgensen (C)
11:00p The Donald O'Connor Show (scheduled: Billy Eckstine, Beth Brickell, Cheryl Poole, The Brothers Cain) (C)
12:30a Science Fiction Theatre - "The Long Day" (C) [original airdate 12/23/55]
1:00a Bold Journey - "Hunter in the Jungle" [original airdate 1/23/59]
1:30a News Headlines
followed by Call to Prayer and sign-off
WABC-TV 7 New York (ABC; owned and operated)
6:50a Early Bird News
7:00a Cartoons (C)
8:00a Movie of the Day: "Perilous Holiday" (1946) - Pat O'Brien, Ruth Warrick
10:00a Girl Talk with Virginia Graham (guests: Dina Merrill, dress designer Helen Rose) (C)
10:30a The Dick Cavett Show (guests: O.C. Smith, David Merrick, Peter Lawford, Ann Landers) (C)
12:00p Bewitched - "To Twitch or Not to Twitch" [original airdate 3/14/68]
[Shown in black-and-white despite originally airing in color]
12:30p Treasure Isle (C)
1:00p Dream House (C)
1:30p Funny You Should Ask (C)
1:55p The Children's Doctor with Lendon Smith (C)
2:00p The Newlywed Game (C)
2:30p The Dating Game (C)
3:00p General Hospital (C)
3:30p One Life to Live (C)
4:00p Dark Shadows (C)
4:30p The Big Show: "Man on a Tightrope" (1953) - Fredric March, Terry Moore, Gloria Grahame
6:30p Eyewitness News - 6:30 Report with John Schubeck (C)
7:00p ABC Evening News with Frank Reynolds (C)
7:30p The Mod Squad - "A Quiet Weekend in the Country" (C)
8:30p It Takes a Thief - "The Galloping Skin Game" (guest: Ricardo Montalban) (C)
9:30p N.Y.P.D. - "The Perp Freak" (guest: Martin Sheen) (C)
10:00p That's Life - "Bringing Home Baby" (guest: Sid Caesar) (C)
11:00p Eyewitness News - 11:00 Report with Roger Grimsby (C)
11:30p The Joey Bishop Show (scheduled: George Kirby, Sonny & Cher) (C)
1:00a The Best of Broadway: "The Bandit and the Princess" (1964) - Helmut Lohner, Peter Weck (to 2:45a)
followed by sign-off
WOR-TV 9 New York (Independent; owned by RKO General)
7:40a News and Weather
7:45a Job Hunt (C)
8:00a The Scrub Club with Claude Kirchner (C)
9:00a Romper Room (host: Miss Louise Redfield) (C)
10:00a The Joe Franklin Show (guests: Addiss & Crofit) (C)
11:30p Journey to Adventure - "Holiday in Turkey" (C)
12:00p News at Noon with John Wingate and Mary Helen McPhillips (C) [first use of this title that would come to be associated
with 1974-83 newscast anchored by Tom Dunn, after 1976 or so in tandem with Sara Lee Kessler]
12:30p RKO Theater: "The Bride Walks Out" (1936) - Barbara Stanwyck, Gene Raymond
2:00p The Loretta Young Show - "Hapless Holiday" [original airdate 4/8/56]
2:30p The Weaker(?) Sex with Pamela Mason (topic: women in the communications field) (C)
3:00p Divorce Court (A wife claims her husband has become an alcoholic) (C)
3:30p Movie 9: "Happy Is the Bride" (1959) - Janette Scott, Ian Carmichael
5:00p Make Room for Daddy - "Charley Does It Himself" [original airdate 2/5/62]
5:30p The Real McCoys - "The Farmer Took a Wife" [original airdate 7/17/59]
6:00p Gilligan's Island - "All About Eva" (C) [original airdate 12/12/66]
6:30p I Spy - "This Guy Smith" (C) [original airdate 2/5/68]
7:30p The Steve Allen Show (guests: Gale Storm, Tom Poston, Harry Blackstone Jr., Nadia Christian) (C)
9:00p What's My Line? (panel: Soupy Sales, Phyllis Newman, Gawn Granger, Arlene Francis; host: Wally Bruner) (C)
[taped 11/19/68; among the mystery guests that week were Tammy Grimes and "Soul Brother Number One" himself,
James Brown]
9:30p Million Dollar Movie: "Dangerous Mission" (1954) - Victor Mature, Piper Laurie (C)
11:00a The Flick: "Blood on the Moon" (1948) - Robert Mitchum, Barbara Bel Geddes
1:10a News and Weather
followed by sign-off
WPIX-TV 11 New York (Independent; licensor WPIX, Inc., owned by New York Daily News)
7:30a Biography - "Harry S. Truman" (Part 2) [original airdate 1962]
8:00a Adventures of Gumby (C)
8:30a The Mighty Hercules (C)
9:00a Underdog (C)
9:30a The Jack La Lanne Show (C)
10:00a Movie: "Man in the Moon" (1961) - Kenneth More, Shirley Anne Field
11:30a Kimba the White Lion (C)
12:00p Bozo the Clown (C) [the syndicated version originating from WHDH-TV 5 in Boston]
12:30p The Little Rascals (host: "Captain" Jack McCarthy) (C)
1:00p Rocky and His Friends (C)
1:30p The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show - "McAfee and the Manicurist" [original airdate 1/20/58] (per TV Guide)
[alt. per The New York Times: The Tom Ewell Show - "The Trouble with Mother" [original airdate 2/7/61](?)]
2:00p The Perfect Match (C)
2:30p The Patty Duke Show - "Patty and the Cut-Rate Casanova" [original airdate 3/31/65]
3:00p Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons (C)
3:30p Speed Racer (C)
4:00p The Three Stooges (host: "Officer" Joe Bolton) (C)
4:30p Adventures of Superman - "The Deserted Village" [original airdate 12/5/52]
5:00p The Munsters - "Herman's Rival" [original airdate 12/31/64]
5:30p Batman - "The Joker's Hard Times" (C) [original airdate 1/12/67]
6:00p F Troop - "Here Comes the Tribe" [original airdate 12/21/65]
6:30p Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea - "Cave of the Dead" (C) [original airdate 10/8/67]
7:30p The Rat Patrol - "The Hickory Dickory Dock Raid" (C) [original airdate 2/26/68]
8:00p Run for Your Life - "The Face of the Antagonist" (C) [original airdate 1/30/67]
9:00p 9 O'Clock News with Lee Nelson (C)
9:30p Password (celebrity contestants: Marty Allen, Steve Rossi) (C) [original airdate 1/16/67]
10:00p Perry Mason - "The Case of the Wintry Wife" [original airdate 2/18/61]
11:00p NFL Game of the Week (C)
11:30p Tonight at the Movies: "Ambush" (1939) - Lloyd Nolan, Gladys Swarthout
1:00a Late News Final with Lee Nelson (C)
followed by sign-off
WNDT 13 Newark/New York (NET affiliate; owned by Educational Broadcasting Corp.)
8:55a School Television Service
9:00a Pocketful of Fun
9:30a Cover to Cover
9:50a Hablo Espanol (II)
10:05a Exploring Our Language
10:25a Hablo Mas Espanol
10:40a Scienceland
11:00a You and Eye
11:20a Science Room
11:40a Approaching Poetry
12:00p Spectrum
12:30p Look at Us
1:00p Pocketful of Fun
1:30p Imagine That
1:45p Americans All
2:05p Exploring Our Language
2:25p Sing, Children, Sing
2:40p Cover to Cover
3:00p Spectrum
3:30p Communications and Education (I)
4:00p A Look at Us
4:30p STS Salutes
4:32p The Big World of Little Adam (C)
4:45p The Friendly Giant (Friendly reads "One Is No Fun")
5:00p Misterogers' Neighborhood (Misterogers puts up a tent)
5:30p What's New? (R)
6:00p One to One - "Nikos Kazantazakis - Zorba the Greek" (selected works read by Professor A.E. Claeyssens)
6:30p Folk Guitar Plus with Laura Weber (lesson on banjo chord A minor) (C)
7:00p New Jersey Speaks for Itself (interviews with two Biafran students at Rutgers who discuss the Nigerian and Biafran
war; and a film on Biafra by Abbie Nathan, an Israeli pilot who flew a relief mission to Biafra)
7:30p NET Journal - "A Conversation with Milovan Djilas" (about the former Yugoslavian vice president who served nine years
in prison [as of the airing of this program] for his writings on the Communist world) (C)
8:30p NET Festival - "Margaret Mead's New Guinea Journal" (about the noted anthropologist's work among the villagers of Peri
on the New Guinea island of Manus) (C)
10:00p Newsfront with Mitchell Krauss
followed by sign-off
[SOURCES: TV Guide, New York-Metropolitan Edition, Nov. 30-Dec. 6, 1968; also, listings in The New York Times, Daily News (Dec. 3, 1968 issues), New York Post (Nov. 30, 1968 issue), The Morning Record and Journal (Meriden, CT) (Nov. 30, 1968 issue) and Red Bank (NJ) Daily Register (Dec. 3, 1968 issue); 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)
6:30a Sunrise Semester (Philosophy: Nietzsche's view of the will to prove; with Prof. James Carse) (C)
7:00a News (C)
7:05a CBS Morning News with Joseph Benti (C)
7:30a CBS Morning News with Joseph Benti (C)
7:55a News (C)
8:00a Captain Kamgaroo (The Captain talks about plant growth) (C)
9:00a Leave It to Beaver - "Beaver and Chuey" [original airdate 10/23/58]
9:30a The Donna Reed Show - "The Career Woman" (guest: Esther Williams) [original airdate 4/28/60]
10:00a The Lucy Show - "Lucy Is a Process Server" (C) [original airdate 4/20/64]
10:30a The Beverly Hillbillies - "Back to Californy" [original airdate 1/9/63]
11:00a The Andy Griffith Show - "Andy Forecloses" [original airdate 4/24/61]
11:30a The Dick Van Dyke Show - "It's a Shame She Married Me" (guest: Robert Vaughn) [original airdate 4/17/63]
12:00p Love of Life (C)
12:25p CBS Mid-Day News with Joseph Benti (C)
12:30p Search for Tomorrow (C)
1:00p The Farmer's Daughter - "The Hottest Ticket in Town" [original airdate 5/21/65]
1:30p As the World Turns (C)
2:00p Love Is a Many Splendored Thing (C)
2:30p The Guiding Light (C)
3:00p The Secret Storm (C)
3:30p The Edge of Night (C)
4:00p The Linkletter Show (guests: Barbara Bain and Martin Landau) (C)
4:25p CBS Afternoon News with Douglas Edwards (C)
4:30p The Mike Douglas Show (featured guests: Garry Moore, The Oriole Four, George Kirby, Mrs. Richard J. Hughes,
The Letterman, Sue Raney) (C)
6:00p Six O'Clock Report with Jim Jensen (C)
7:00p CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite (C)
7:30p National Geographic Special - "Reptiles and Amphibians" (narrator: Joseph Campanella) (C)
[preempted: Lancer]
8:30p The Red Skelton Hour (guest: Jane Powell) (C)
9:30p The Doris Day Show - "The Librarian" (C)
10:00p CBS News Special - "Justice Black and the Bill of Rights" (Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black speaks with Eric Sevareid
and Martin Agronsky) (C)
11:00p Eleven O'Clock Report with Bob Young (C)
11:30p The Late Show: "The Crowded Sky" (1960) - Dana Andrews, Rhonda Fleming (C)
1:35a The Late Night News (C)
1:40a The Late Late Show I: "Our Very Own" (1950) - Ann Blyth, Farley Granger
3:35a The Late Late Show II: "The Real Glory" (1939) - Gary Cooper, David Niven
5:30a Give Us This Day (C)
followed by sign-off
WNBC-TV 4 New York (NBC; owned and operated)
6:18a Sermonette (C)
6:25a Education Exchange (C)
6:55a Show and Tell with Aline Saarinen (C)
7:00a Today (scheduled: Charles Evers, author Anne Moody, critic Judith Crist) (C)
9:00a For Women Only with Aline Saarinen - "The Generation Gap" (C)
9:30a That Show with Joan Rivers (guests: Joanna Barnes, Dr. Richard Rush) (C)
10:00a Snap Judgment (celebrities: Marty Allen, Anne Jackson, Eli Wallach) (C)
10:25a NBC News - Nancy Dickerson (C)
10:30a Concentration (C)
11:00a Eye Guess (C)
11:30a The Hollywood Squares (featured: Barbara Bain, Jack Carter, Martin Landau, Paul Lynde, Scoey Mitchlll,
Jo Anne Worley) (C)
12:00p Jeopardy (C)
12:30p Eye Guess (C)
12:55p NBC News - Edwin Newman (C)
1:00p P.D.Q. (featured: Mickey Manners) (C)
1:30p Let's Make a Deal (C)
[less than four weeks to go before the show and its host/producer, Monty Hall, moved to ABC]
2:00p Days of our Lives (C)
2:30p The Doctors (C)
3:00p Another World (C)
3:30p You Don't Say (featured: Chad Everett, Mary Ann Mobley) (C)
4:00p The Match Game (featured: Orson Bean, Sheila MacRae) (C)
4:25p NBC News - Floyd Kalber (C)
4:30p Movie Four: "One Foot in Heaven" (1941) - Fredric March, Martha Scott
6:00p Sixth Hour News with Lew Wood (C)
7:00p The Huntley-Brinkley Report (C)
7:30p The Jerry Lewis Show (guests: Peter Lawford, Jo Anne Worley) (C)
8:30p Julia - "Farewell, My Friend, Hello" (featuring cameo by Groucho Marx) (C)
9:00p Singer Presents Elvis (or as it would come to be known, the "'68 Comeback Special," which changed the course of
"The King's" career after his mid-'60's movie doldrums) (C)
10:00p Special Bardot (alt. title The Unabridged Brigitte Bardot) (the legendary French sex kitten sings, dances and
clowns at many of her favorite haunts at Paris, London and St. Tropez in this French-made bilingual special; also
featured: Sacha Distel, Serge Gainsbourg, Manitas de Plata) (C)
[both specials preempted NBC Tuesday Night at the Movies]
11:00p Eleventh Hour News with Jim Hartz (C)
11:10p Weather - Dr. Frank Field (C)
11:15p News - Jim Hartz (C)
11:25p Sports - Kyle Rote (C)
11:30p The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (scheduled: John Cassavetes, Gena Rowlands, Spanky and Our Gang) (C)
1:00a Tonight's News with Bob Teague (C)
1:15a The Great Great Show: "Cannibal Attack" (1954) - Johnny Weissmuller, Judy Walsh
2:25a Sermonette (C)
followed by sign-off
WNEW-TV 5 New York (Independent; owned by Metromedia Television)
6:50a Sign-on and Call to Prayer (C)
7:00a Yoga for Health
7:30a Daphne's Castle (C)
9:00a Eastside Comedy: "Mr. Hex" (1946) - Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall
10:00a The Outer Limits - "I, Robot" [original airdate 11/14/64]
11:00a Alfred Hitchcock Presents - "The Derelicts" [original airdate 2/5/56]
11:30a Dear Alan with Alan Burke (C)
12:00p Mom's Movie: "Adventure" (1946) - Clark Gable, Greer Garson
2:00p Skitch Henderson's New York (scheduled: Harold Prince, Marion Ross, Ann Corio) (C)
3:30p Mighty Mouse (C)
4:00p The Bob McAllister Show (C)
5:00p The Flintstones (C) (R)
5:30p Sea Hunt - "Cave Diving" [original airdate 5/24/59]
6:00p McHale's Navy - "Giuseppe McHale" [original airdate 10/5/65]
6:30p My Favorite Martian - "Stop or I'll Steam" [original airdate 3/14/65]
7:00p I Love Lucy - "The Anniversary Present" [original airdate 9/29/52]
7:30p Truth or Consequences (C)
8:00p Pay Cards (host: Art James) (C)
8:30p The Merv Griffin Show (scheduled: Eli Wallach, Anne Jackson, Shirley Jones, Jack Cassidy) (C)
10:00p The 10 O'Clock News with Bill Jorgensen (C)
11:00p The Donald O'Connor Show (scheduled: Billy Eckstine, Beth Brickell, Cheryl Poole, The Brothers Cain) (C)
12:30a Science Fiction Theatre - "The Long Day" (C) [original airdate 12/23/55]
1:00a Bold Journey - "Hunter in the Jungle" [original airdate 1/23/59]
1:30a News Headlines
followed by Call to Prayer and sign-off
WABC-TV 7 New York (ABC; owned and operated)
6:50a Early Bird News
7:00a Cartoons (C)
8:00a Movie of the Day: "Perilous Holiday" (1946) - Pat O'Brien, Ruth Warrick
10:00a Girl Talk with Virginia Graham (guests: Dina Merrill, dress designer Helen Rose) (C)
10:30a The Dick Cavett Show (guests: O.C. Smith, David Merrick, Peter Lawford, Ann Landers) (C)
12:00p Bewitched - "To Twitch or Not to Twitch" [original airdate 3/14/68]
[Shown in black-and-white despite originally airing in color]
12:30p Treasure Isle (C)
1:00p Dream House (C)
1:30p Funny You Should Ask (C)
1:55p The Children's Doctor with Lendon Smith (C)
2:00p The Newlywed Game (C)
2:30p The Dating Game (C)
3:00p General Hospital (C)
3:30p One Life to Live (C)
4:00p Dark Shadows (C)
4:30p The Big Show: "Man on a Tightrope" (1953) - Fredric March, Terry Moore, Gloria Grahame
6:30p Eyewitness News - 6:30 Report with John Schubeck (C)
7:00p ABC Evening News with Frank Reynolds (C)
7:30p The Mod Squad - "A Quiet Weekend in the Country" (C)
8:30p It Takes a Thief - "The Galloping Skin Game" (guest: Ricardo Montalban) (C)
9:30p N.Y.P.D. - "The Perp Freak" (guest: Martin Sheen) (C)
10:00p That's Life - "Bringing Home Baby" (guest: Sid Caesar) (C)
11:00p Eyewitness News - 11:00 Report with Roger Grimsby (C)
11:30p The Joey Bishop Show (scheduled: George Kirby, Sonny & Cher) (C)
1:00a The Best of Broadway: "The Bandit and the Princess" (1964) - Helmut Lohner, Peter Weck (to 2:45a)
followed by sign-off
WOR-TV 9 New York (Independent; owned by RKO General)
7:40a News and Weather
7:45a Job Hunt (C)
8:00a The Scrub Club with Claude Kirchner (C)
9:00a Romper Room (host: Miss Louise Redfield) (C)
10:00a The Joe Franklin Show (guests: Addiss & Crofit) (C)
11:30p Journey to Adventure - "Holiday in Turkey" (C)
12:00p News at Noon with John Wingate and Mary Helen McPhillips (C) [first use of this title that would come to be associated
with 1974-83 newscast anchored by Tom Dunn, after 1976 or so in tandem with Sara Lee Kessler]
12:30p RKO Theater: "The Bride Walks Out" (1936) - Barbara Stanwyck, Gene Raymond
2:00p The Loretta Young Show - "Hapless Holiday" [original airdate 4/8/56]
2:30p The Weaker(?) Sex with Pamela Mason (topic: women in the communications field) (C)
3:00p Divorce Court (A wife claims her husband has become an alcoholic) (C)
3:30p Movie 9: "Happy Is the Bride" (1959) - Janette Scott, Ian Carmichael
5:00p Make Room for Daddy - "Charley Does It Himself" [original airdate 2/5/62]
5:30p The Real McCoys - "The Farmer Took a Wife" [original airdate 7/17/59]
6:00p Gilligan's Island - "All About Eva" (C) [original airdate 12/12/66]
6:30p I Spy - "This Guy Smith" (C) [original airdate 2/5/68]
7:30p The Steve Allen Show (guests: Gale Storm, Tom Poston, Harry Blackstone Jr., Nadia Christian) (C)
9:00p What's My Line? (panel: Soupy Sales, Phyllis Newman, Gawn Granger, Arlene Francis; host: Wally Bruner) (C)
[taped 11/19/68; among the mystery guests that week were Tammy Grimes and "Soul Brother Number One" himself,
James Brown]
9:30p Million Dollar Movie: "Dangerous Mission" (1954) - Victor Mature, Piper Laurie (C)
11:00a The Flick: "Blood on the Moon" (1948) - Robert Mitchum, Barbara Bel Geddes
1:10a News and Weather
followed by sign-off
WPIX-TV 11 New York (Independent; licensor WPIX, Inc., owned by New York Daily News)
7:30a Biography - "Harry S. Truman" (Part 2) [original airdate 1962]
8:00a Adventures of Gumby (C)
8:30a The Mighty Hercules (C)
9:00a Underdog (C)
9:30a The Jack La Lanne Show (C)
10:00a Movie: "Man in the Moon" (1961) - Kenneth More, Shirley Anne Field
11:30a Kimba the White Lion (C)
12:00p Bozo the Clown (C) [the syndicated version originating from WHDH-TV 5 in Boston]
12:30p The Little Rascals (host: "Captain" Jack McCarthy) (C)
1:00p Rocky and His Friends (C)
1:30p The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show - "McAfee and the Manicurist" [original airdate 1/20/58] (per TV Guide)
[alt. per The New York Times: The Tom Ewell Show - "The Trouble with Mother" [original airdate 2/7/61](?)]
2:00p The Perfect Match (C)
2:30p The Patty Duke Show - "Patty and the Cut-Rate Casanova" [original airdate 3/31/65]
3:00p Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons (C)
3:30p Speed Racer (C)
4:00p The Three Stooges (host: "Officer" Joe Bolton) (C)
4:30p Adventures of Superman - "The Deserted Village" [original airdate 12/5/52]
5:00p The Munsters - "Herman's Rival" [original airdate 12/31/64]
5:30p Batman - "The Joker's Hard Times" (C) [original airdate 1/12/67]
6:00p F Troop - "Here Comes the Tribe" [original airdate 12/21/65]
6:30p Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea - "Cave of the Dead" (C) [original airdate 10/8/67]
7:30p The Rat Patrol - "The Hickory Dickory Dock Raid" (C) [original airdate 2/26/68]
8:00p Run for Your Life - "The Face of the Antagonist" (C) [original airdate 1/30/67]
9:00p 9 O'Clock News with Lee Nelson (C)
9:30p Password (celebrity contestants: Marty Allen, Steve Rossi) (C) [original airdate 1/16/67]
10:00p Perry Mason - "The Case of the Wintry Wife" [original airdate 2/18/61]
11:00p NFL Game of the Week (C)
11:30p Tonight at the Movies: "Ambush" (1939) - Lloyd Nolan, Gladys Swarthout
1:00a Late News Final with Lee Nelson (C)
followed by sign-off
WNDT 13 Newark/New York (NET affiliate; owned by Educational Broadcasting Corp.)
8:55a School Television Service
9:00a Pocketful of Fun
9:30a Cover to Cover
9:50a Hablo Espanol (II)
10:05a Exploring Our Language
10:25a Hablo Mas Espanol
10:40a Scienceland
11:00a You and Eye
11:20a Science Room
11:40a Approaching Poetry
12:00p Spectrum
12:30p Look at Us
1:00p Pocketful of Fun
1:30p Imagine That
1:45p Americans All
2:05p Exploring Our Language
2:25p Sing, Children, Sing
2:40p Cover to Cover
3:00p Spectrum
3:30p Communications and Education (I)
4:00p A Look at Us
4:30p STS Salutes
4:32p The Big World of Little Adam (C)
4:45p The Friendly Giant (Friendly reads "One Is No Fun")
5:00p Misterogers' Neighborhood (Misterogers puts up a tent)
5:30p What's New? (R)
6:00p One to One - "Nikos Kazantazakis - Zorba the Greek" (selected works read by Professor A.E. Claeyssens)
6:30p Folk Guitar Plus with Laura Weber (lesson on banjo chord A minor) (C)
7:00p New Jersey Speaks for Itself (interviews with two Biafran students at Rutgers who discuss the Nigerian and Biafran
war; and a film on Biafra by Abbie Nathan, an Israeli pilot who flew a relief mission to Biafra)
7:30p NET Journal - "A Conversation with Milovan Djilas" (about the former Yugoslavian vice president who served nine years
in prison [as of the airing of this program] for his writings on the Communist world) (C)
8:30p NET Festival - "Margaret Mead's New Guinea Journal" (about the noted anthropologist's work among the villagers of Peri
on the New Guinea island of Manus) (C)
10:00p Newsfront with Mitchell Krauss
followed by sign-off