Retro: New York City - Sunday November 14, 1965

[MCarney]

Source – New York Journal-American week of Nov. 14-20, 1965

Note: The Journal-American did not list the UHF station listings in full. Instead they had highlights for each day. Here are the highlights for 11/14/65:
Ch. 31 2:00p Teen Age Book Talk
Ch. 47 3:00p Italian Film Greats “Tutta La Vita in Una Notte”
Ch. 31 8:30p An Age of Kings “The Road to Shrewsbury” by Shakespeare

2 – WCBS (CBS)
07:50p Previews; Give Us This Day
08:00a Around the Corner – children, Micki Grant (90 min)
09:30a The Way to Go – Religion; Ormand J. Drake host
10:00a Lamp Unto My Feet – religion
10:30a Look Up and Live – religion
11:00a Camera Three
11:30a Young Worlds
12:00p Newsmakers – interview
12:25p News (Mort Dean)
12:30p Face the Nation – interview, Barry Goldwater is the guest
01:00p Sports (Frank Gifford)
01:15p NFL Today
01:30p Pro Football – NY Giants at Cleveland Browns
04:00p Pro Football – Baltimore Colts at Minnesota Vikings
06:45p Pro Football Report
07:00p Lassie (color)
07:30p My Favorite Martian (color)
08:00p Ed Sullivan – variety; Woody Allen, The Dave Clark Five, Jerry Vale, Alan King, Alan Secombe (color)
09:00p Perry Mason “The Case of the Runaway Racer”
10:00p Candid Camera
10:30p What’s My Line?
11:00p News (Harry Reasoner)
11:15p News (Tom Dunn, Don Criqui)
11:30p Late Show “Tall Story” 1960 Tony Perkins, Jane Fonda
02:15a News
02:20a Late Late Show “The Princess Comes Across” 1936 Carole Lombard
03:50a Late Late Show “Kentucky Moonshine” 1935 Ritz Brothers

4 – WNBC (NBC)
07:15a Modern Farmer
08:15a Library Lions – education
08:45a The Jewish Fourth R – religion
09:00a Let’s Talk About God – religion
09:15a TV Church School – religion
09:30a Protestant Heritage – religion “The Issue of Religious Liberty and the Deicide Issue”
10:00a Youth Forum
10:30a Man in Office – interview; Joseph Michaels, host
11:00a Searchlight – discussion, Ben Grauer, host
11:30a Direct Line – interview “Diabetes”
12:00p Open Mind – discussion; Edwin Newman host “A Profile of Ingmar Bergman”
12:55p News (Bob Teague)
01:00p Meet the Press – interview (color)
01:30p The Eternal Light – religious drama
02:00p Pro Football – NY Jets at Boston Patriots (color)
05:00p Wisdom
05:30p College Bowl – quiz, Robert Earle host (color)
06:00p The Frank McGee Report
06:30p Special “The Spanish Armada” – documentary (color)
07:30p Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color “The Three Lives of Thomasina” Part 1
08:30p Branded “Fill No Glass For Me” part 2 (color)
09:00p Bonanza “The Strange One” (color)
10:00p The Wackiest Ship in the Army “Viva La Kiwi” (color)
11:00p News, Weather (Bill Ryan, Dr. Frank Field)
11:15p News (Geoffrey Pond, Pat Hernon)
11:30p The Saint “The Sign of the Claw”
12:30a Movie “The Cowboy and the Blonde” 1941 George Montgomery, Mary Beth Hughes
01:45a Open Mind “A Profile of Federico Fellini”

5 – WNEW (Ind)
07:00a The Christophers
07:15a Lightime – religion
08:00a Astro Boy – cartoon
08:30a The King and Odie – children
09:00a Wonderama – Sonny Fox, host (4 hours)
01:00p Movie “Command Decision” 1949 Clark Gable
03:00p Movie “Thunder Over the Plains” 1953 Randolph Scott
05:00p Movie “Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison” 1951
07:00p Assignment: Adventure
08:00p Special “Frontiers of the Mind”
09:00p Breaking Point
10:00p Opinion in the Capital – discussion
10:30p Special “Pasa Patria”, special programming of the Protestant Council of New York
11:00p Community Dialog – discussion “Diabetes Detection Week”
11:30p Senate Report
11:35p Movie “The Raven” 1935 Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi
12:50a Wire Service – drama

7 – WABC (ABC)
06:50a News
07:00a Search – religion
07:15a The Answer – religion (color)
08:00a Faith for Today – religion (color)
08:30a For Thou Art With Me – religion
09:00a Movie “Our Little Girl” 1935 – Shirley Temple, Joel McCrea
10:00a Annie Oakley
10:30a Beany and Cecil – cartoons (color)
11:00a Bullwinkle – cartoons (color)
11:30a Discovery – children, Frank Buxton, host “Discovery Goes to Alaska”
12:00p New York , New York – public affairs
01:00p Directions ’66 – religious/cultural “The Church and the Theater”
01:30p Issues and Answers – interview
02:00p Page One – interviews
02:30p Movie “Pittsburgh” 1942 John Wayne, Marlene Dietrich
04:30p Cartoon Fun (color)
05:00p Movie “Eagle Squadron” 1942 Robert Stack
07:00p Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (color)
08:00p The FBI “The Exiles” (color)
09:00p Movie “The Inn of the Sixth Happiness” Ingrid Bergman (color)
12:00a News (Bob Young, Scott Vincent)
12:30a Movie “A Matter of Who” 1962 Terry-Thomas, Alex Nichol
02:15a Movie “Umberto D” 155

9 – WOR (Ind)
08:20a News, Weather
08:25a The Christophers
08:30a TV Gospel Time – religion
09:00a Fireside Theater – drama
09:30a New Jersey Report with John Scott
10:00a Point of View – discussion
10:30a New York Report – discussion
11:00a Million Dollar Movie “The Last Time I Saw Paris” Elizabeth Taylor, Van Johnson
01:00p Million Dollar Movie “The Last Time I Saw Paris” (yes – the same movie is listed twice)
03:00p Million Dollar Movie “The Last Time I Saw Paris” (was running the same film 3x per day common?)
05:00p Maverick
06:00p Sons of Hercules “Fire Monsters Against the Son of Hercules” pt 2 (color)
07:00p Death Valley Days (color)
07:30p Big Preview “Mutiny in Outer Space” 1964
09:15p International Movie “Where the Hot Wind Blows” 1960
11:30p Ladies of the Press – interview; Sen. Abraham Ribicoff (D-Conn) guest
12:00a Protestant Council – 1965 Fund Appeal

11 – WPIX (Ind)
07:45a The Christophers
08:00a The Evangel Hour – religion
08:30a Lippy the Lion – cartoon (color)
08:45a Superman – cartoons
09:00a Let’s Have Fun – children; Terry Bennett host (3 hours)
12:00p Uncle Waldo – cartoons (color)
12:30p Racket Squad
01:00p Code 3 – drama
01:30p M Squad
02:00p Mike Hammer
02:30p Richard Diamond
03:00p Adventures in Paradise
04:00p Clay Cole Show – variety
05:00p Rocky and His Friends (color)
05:30p Commando Cody
06:00p Rin Tin Tin
06:30p Stingray
07:00p Special You Missed “South America: The Awakening Giant”
08:00p Movie “The Eve of St. Mark” 1944 Anne Baxter
09:30p Canadian Football – playoff game
12:00a Continental Miniatures “The Miranda Martino Show”
12:30a The Big Picture – documentary

13 – WNDT (Educational)
no programming listed

 

[wbhist]

A few points:
- The 12:30a movie shown on WNBC ("The Cowboy and the Blonde") was aired under the Movie 4 banner. It was the reputation that developed around that umbrella during this period (showing shopworn movies, predominantly pre-'48, that were hand-me-downs from other stations including even Channel 4 itself in earlier years) that when they started showing newer movies on weekends starting in the fall of 1966, they initially christened this new showcase the Saturday Film Festival before moving it to another night as Sunday Film Festival in 1967.
- WNEW's movie shows in these years, I.I.N.M., were as follows: 01:00p - Five Star Movie; 03:00p - Metropolitan Movie; 05:00p - Sunday Playhouse. The film shown on the first-named showcase, "Command Decision," was one of the group of pre-'48 MGM films that in this period were held by Channel 5, while another group aired on WNBC, before they all returned to WCBS by c.1971 (Channel 2 was the first station in the NYC market to air the pre-'48 MGM library, starting in December 1956 - and "Command Decision" was the very first title they ran, on The Late Show).
- I can't vouch as for what the afternoon movie show titles were for WABC (two years earlier, they were The Best of Hollywood and The Best of Seven, respectively), but the double-bill late-night showings were under The Best of Broadway.
- As for the question of whether it was common for WOR, on Sundays, to run the same Million Dollar Movie three times in a row: Indeed it was. Up to the 1967-68 period. And that's not counting the same film run every night at the same time (again through 1968).
- Back to WNEW, though you wouldn't know it looking at this schedule, the station began to air selected stuff in color during this period - almost exclusively at this point through film (i.e. old movies such as from a package of post-'49 Warner Bros. films grouped as "Volume 2" and syndicated initially by Seven Arts, that from 1961 to the fall of '65 were held by WNBC) and probably some videotape. It was the last commercial New York VHF to go color (trailing WPIX by a few months); and would be the only one of the NYC indies to use Norelco PC-70 color studio cameras, starting in '66 (while WOR and WPIX both went with General Electric PE-250's).
- The reason there was no programming on Sundays on WNDT (or even Saturdays, for that matter) was attributable to a particularly precarious and parlous financial situation plaguing the station in those years - exacerbated by the push for color in this period. It wasn't until 1967 that the station even went color (followed a year later by live studio color, courtesy GE PE-350's) - the last of the New York area VHF's, period, to do so.