(SOURCES: Feb. 5, 1969 issues of The New York Times and Daily News;
movie show and some newscast titles extrapolated from said papers,
and ads appearing therein)
(C) - in color
WCBS-TV 2 (CBS)
6:30 Sunrise Semester (C)
7:00 News (C)
7:05 CBS Morning News with Joseph Benti (C)
7:30 CBS Morning News with Joseph Benti (C)
7:55 News (C)
8:00 Captain Kangaroo (C)
9:00 Black Heritage - "A History of Afro-Americans: Black Radicals and Abolitionists" (Part 2) (C)
9:30 The Donna Reed Show
10:00 The Lucy Show (C?)
10:30 The Beverly Hillbillies (C)
11:00 The Andy Griffith Show
11:30 The Dick Van Dyke Show
12:00 Love of Life (C)
12:25 CBS News - Joseph Benti (C)
12:30 Search for Tomorrow (C)
1:00 The Galloping Gourmet with Graham Kerr (C)
1:30 As the World Turns (C)
2:00 Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (C)
2:30 The Guiding Light (C)
3:00 The Secret Storm (C)
3:30 The Edge of Night (C)
4:00 The Linkletter Show (C)
4:25 CBS News - Douglas Edwards (C)
4:30 The Mike Douglas Show (guests: Sammy Davis, Jr., Julie De John, Carl Betz,
Diana Delmonte, Homer & Jethro) (C)
6:00 Six O'Clock Report with Jim Jensen (C)
7:00 CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite (C)
7:30 The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour (guests: Pat Paulsen, The Monkees,
Jeannie C. Riley and John Wayne) (C)
8:30 The Good Guys - "The World's Second Greatest Lover" (guest: Tom Poston) (C)
9:00 The Beverly Hillbillies - "Jed Clampett Enterprises" (C)
9:30 Green Acres - "A Day in the Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes" (C)
10:00 Hawaii Five-O - "One for the Money" (C)
11:00 Eleven O'Clock Report with Bob Young (C)
11:30 Late Show: "Task Force" (1958) - Victor Mature, Leo Genn (C)
1:15 Late Late Show I: "Tall Man Riding" (1955) - Randolph Scott, Dorothy Malone (C)
2:55 Late Late Show II: "Double Crossbones" (1951) - Donald O'Connor, Helena Carter
4:25 Late Late Show III: "I Was a Shoplifter" (1950) - Scott Brady, Mona Freeman
followed by Give Us This Day / sign-off (C)
WNBC-TV 4 (NBC)
6:30 Education Exchange (C)
7:00 Today Show (featuring a film report on retarded children) (C)
9:00 For Women Only (topic: drugs and narcotics) (C)
9:30 That Show with Joan Rivers (C)
10:00 Snap Judgment (C)
10:25 NBC News - Nancy Dickerson (C)
10:30 Concentration (C)
11:00 Personality (C)
11:30 The Hollywood Squares (C)
12:00 Jeopardy (C)
12:30 Eye Guess (C)
12:55 NBC News - Edwin Newman (C)
1:00 P.D.Q. (C)
1:30 Hidden Faces (C)
2:00 Days of our Lives (C)
2:30 The Doctors (C)
3:00 Another World (C)
3:30 You Don't Say (C)
4:00 The Match Game (C)
4:25 NBC News - Floyd Kalber (C)
4:30 Movie Four: "The Cobweb" (1955) - Richard Widmark, Lauren Bacall (C)
6:00 Sixth Hour News with Lew Wood (C)
7:00 The Huntley-Brinkley Report (C)
7:30 Hallmark Hall of Fame - "Teacher, Teacher" (with David McCallum, Ossie Davis,
George Grizzard and Billy Schulman) (C)
9:00 The Kraft Music Hall - "What It Was, Was Love" (starring Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme;
music composed by Gordon Jenkins) (C)
10:00 The Outsider - "Behind God's Back" (guest: Thomas Gomez) (C)
11:00 Eleventh Hour News with Jim Hartz (C)
11:10 Weather - Frank Field (C)
11:15 Local News - Jim Hartz (C)
11:25 Sports - Kyle Rote (C)
11:30 Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (guest host: Flip Wilson;
guests include Linda Lavin, Geoffrey Holder, Don Francks, Phil Foster) (C)
1:00 News - Bob Teague (C)
1:15 The Great Great Show: "Charlie Chan in Honolulu" (1939) - Sidney Toler, Phyllis Brooks
followed by Sermonette / sign-off (C)
WABC-TV (ABC)
6:50 News (C)
7:00 The Morning Show with Ed Nelson (featured: Dr. Mary Calderone) (C)
8:30 Virginia Graham's Girl Talk (C)
9:00 Prize Movie with Gloria DeHaven: "Titanic" (1953) - Clifton Webb, Barbara Stanwyck
11:00 Beat the Odds (C)
11:30 The Anniversary Game (C)
12:00 Bewitched
12:30 Funny You Should Ask (C)
12:55 The Children's Doctor (C)
1:00 Dream House (C)
1:30 Let's Make a Deal (C)
2:00 The Newlywed Game (C)
2:30 The Dating Game (C)
3:00 General Hospital (C)
3:30 One Life to Live (C)
4:00 Dark Shadows (C)
4:30 The 4:30 Movie: "The Left Hand of God" (1955) - Humphrey Bogart, Gene Tierney (C)
6:30 Eyewitness News with John Schubeck (C)
7:00 ABC Evening News with Frank Reynolds (C)
7:30 Here Come the Brides - "Democracy in Action" (C)
8:30 Turn-On (guest host: Tim Conway (C) (NOTE: premiere and, as events developed, also the season finale)
9:00 ABC Wednesday Night Movie: "Spartacus" (part 1) (1960) - Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons (C)
11:00 Eyewitness News with Roger Grimsby (C)
11:30 The Joey Bishop Show (guests: Dean Jones, Antonio Santaella, London Lee) (C)
1:00 Best of Broadway: "Adventures at Rugby" (1940) - Cedric Hardwicke, Jimmy Lydon, Freddie Bartholomew
followed by meditation / sign-off (C)
movie show and some newscast titles extrapolated from said papers,
and ads appearing therein)
(C) - in color
WCBS-TV 2 (CBS)
6:30 Sunrise Semester (C)
7:00 News (C)
7:05 CBS Morning News with Joseph Benti (C)
7:30 CBS Morning News with Joseph Benti (C)
7:55 News (C)
8:00 Captain Kangaroo (C)
9:00 Black Heritage - "A History of Afro-Americans: Black Radicals and Abolitionists" (Part 2) (C)
9:30 The Donna Reed Show
10:00 The Lucy Show (C?)
10:30 The Beverly Hillbillies (C)
11:00 The Andy Griffith Show
11:30 The Dick Van Dyke Show
12:00 Love of Life (C)
12:25 CBS News - Joseph Benti (C)
12:30 Search for Tomorrow (C)
1:00 The Galloping Gourmet with Graham Kerr (C)
1:30 As the World Turns (C)
2:00 Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (C)
2:30 The Guiding Light (C)
3:00 The Secret Storm (C)
3:30 The Edge of Night (C)
4:00 The Linkletter Show (C)
4:25 CBS News - Douglas Edwards (C)
4:30 The Mike Douglas Show (guests: Sammy Davis, Jr., Julie De John, Carl Betz,
Diana Delmonte, Homer & Jethro) (C)
6:00 Six O'Clock Report with Jim Jensen (C)
7:00 CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite (C)
7:30 The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour (guests: Pat Paulsen, The Monkees,
Jeannie C. Riley and John Wayne) (C)
8:30 The Good Guys - "The World's Second Greatest Lover" (guest: Tom Poston) (C)
9:00 The Beverly Hillbillies - "Jed Clampett Enterprises" (C)
9:30 Green Acres - "A Day in the Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes" (C)
10:00 Hawaii Five-O - "One for the Money" (C)
11:00 Eleven O'Clock Report with Bob Young (C)
11:30 Late Show: "Task Force" (1958) - Victor Mature, Leo Genn (C)
1:15 Late Late Show I: "Tall Man Riding" (1955) - Randolph Scott, Dorothy Malone (C)
2:55 Late Late Show II: "Double Crossbones" (1951) - Donald O'Connor, Helena Carter
4:25 Late Late Show III: "I Was a Shoplifter" (1950) - Scott Brady, Mona Freeman
followed by Give Us This Day / sign-off (C)
WNBC-TV 4 (NBC)
6:30 Education Exchange (C)
7:00 Today Show (featuring a film report on retarded children) (C)
9:00 For Women Only (topic: drugs and narcotics) (C)
9:30 That Show with Joan Rivers (C)
10:00 Snap Judgment (C)
10:25 NBC News - Nancy Dickerson (C)
10:30 Concentration (C)
11:00 Personality (C)
11:30 The Hollywood Squares (C)
12:00 Jeopardy (C)
12:30 Eye Guess (C)
12:55 NBC News - Edwin Newman (C)
1:00 P.D.Q. (C)
1:30 Hidden Faces (C)
2:00 Days of our Lives (C)
2:30 The Doctors (C)
3:00 Another World (C)
3:30 You Don't Say (C)
4:00 The Match Game (C)
4:25 NBC News - Floyd Kalber (C)
4:30 Movie Four: "The Cobweb" (1955) - Richard Widmark, Lauren Bacall (C)
6:00 Sixth Hour News with Lew Wood (C)
7:00 The Huntley-Brinkley Report (C)
7:30 Hallmark Hall of Fame - "Teacher, Teacher" (with David McCallum, Ossie Davis,
George Grizzard and Billy Schulman) (C)
9:00 The Kraft Music Hall - "What It Was, Was Love" (starring Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme;
music composed by Gordon Jenkins) (C)
10:00 The Outsider - "Behind God's Back" (guest: Thomas Gomez) (C)
11:00 Eleventh Hour News with Jim Hartz (C)
11:10 Weather - Frank Field (C)
11:15 Local News - Jim Hartz (C)
11:25 Sports - Kyle Rote (C)
11:30 Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (guest host: Flip Wilson;
guests include Linda Lavin, Geoffrey Holder, Don Francks, Phil Foster) (C)
1:00 News - Bob Teague (C)
1:15 The Great Great Show: "Charlie Chan in Honolulu" (1939) - Sidney Toler, Phyllis Brooks
followed by Sermonette / sign-off (C)
WABC-TV (ABC)
6:50 News (C)
7:00 The Morning Show with Ed Nelson (featured: Dr. Mary Calderone) (C)
8:30 Virginia Graham's Girl Talk (C)
9:00 Prize Movie with Gloria DeHaven: "Titanic" (1953) - Clifton Webb, Barbara Stanwyck
11:00 Beat the Odds (C)
11:30 The Anniversary Game (C)
12:00 Bewitched
12:30 Funny You Should Ask (C)
12:55 The Children's Doctor (C)
1:00 Dream House (C)
1:30 Let's Make a Deal (C)
2:00 The Newlywed Game (C)
2:30 The Dating Game (C)
3:00 General Hospital (C)
3:30 One Life to Live (C)
4:00 Dark Shadows (C)
4:30 The 4:30 Movie: "The Left Hand of God" (1955) - Humphrey Bogart, Gene Tierney (C)
6:30 Eyewitness News with John Schubeck (C)
7:00 ABC Evening News with Frank Reynolds (C)
7:30 Here Come the Brides - "Democracy in Action" (C)
8:30 Turn-On (guest host: Tim Conway (C) (NOTE: premiere and, as events developed, also the season finale)
9:00 ABC Wednesday Night Movie: "Spartacus" (part 1) (1960) - Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons (C)
11:00 Eyewitness News with Roger Grimsby (C)
11:30 The Joey Bishop Show (guests: Dean Jones, Antonio Santaella, London Lee) (C)
1:00 Best of Broadway: "Adventures at Rugby" (1940) - Cedric Hardwicke, Jimmy Lydon, Freddie Bartholomew
followed by meditation / sign-off (C)