(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
WNEW-TV 5 (Independent; owned by Metromedia Television)
7:30 Inside Bedford-Stuyvesant (C)
8:00 Casper the Friendly Ghost (C)
8:30 The Bob McAllister Show (C)
9:30 Movie: "Phantom of the Rue Morgue" (1954) - Karl Malden, Patricia Medina
11:30 Dear Alan: Alan Burke (C)
12:00 Movie: "Force of Arms" (1951) - William Holden, Nancy Olson
2:00 Skitch Henderson's New York (guests: Doug McClure, Tina Louise, John Davidson) (C)
3:30 Alfred Hitchcock Presents
4:00 The Outer Limits
5:00 My Little Margie
5:30 Mister Ed
6:00 Hazel
6:30 My Favorite Martian
7:00 I Love Lucy
7:30 Truth or Consequences (C)
8:00 Pay Cards! (C)
8:30 The Merv Griffin Show (scheduled: Connie Francis, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Charlie Manna) (C)
10:00 The 10 O'Clock News with Bill Jorgensen (C)
11:00 The Donald O'Connor Show (guests: Rip Taylor, Sue Raney, Billy Daniels) (C)
12:30 Movie (repeat of 9:30 A.M. showing)
2:00 Inside Bedford-Stuyvesant (C)
followed by News / sign-off
WOR-TV 9 (Independent; owned by RKO General)
7:55 News and Weather
8:00 The Bonnie Prudden Show (C)
9:00 Romper Room (C)
10:00 Bozo's Circus (C)
11:00 Journey to Adventure - "Way Station to the World" (C)
11:30 The Real McCoys
12:00 9 at Noon with John Wingate, Mary Helen McPhillips and Walter Kiernan (C)
12:30 Movie: "Mr. Lucky" (1943) - Cary Grant, Laraine Day
2:30 Fireside Theatre
3:00 Divorce Court (C)
3:30 The Stella Longo Jackpot Movie: "Moby Dick" (1956) - Cary Grant, Richard Basehart (C)
5:30 The Twilight Zone
6:00 Gilligan's Island
6:30 I Spy (C)
7:30 The Steve Allen Show (C)
9:00 What's My Line? (panel: Nipsey Russell, Joanna Barnes, Bert Convy, Arlene Francis) (C) (taped Aug. 20, 1968?)
9:30 Basketball: New York Knicks at Milwaukee Bucks (Knicks beat Bucks, 111-102)
11:30 The Flick: "Drums in the Deep South" (1951) - James Craig, Guy Madison, Barbara Payton (C)
1:25 The Joe Franklin Show (C)
followed by News / Moment of Prayer / sign-off
WPIX-TV 11 (Independent; licensor WPIX, Inc., owned by New York Daily News)
7:30 Biography
8:00 Cartoons (C)
9:30 Jack La Lanne (C)
10:00 Movie: "I, Mobster" (1959) - Steve Cochran, Lita Milan
11:30 Kimba, the White Lion (C)
12:00 Underdog (C)
12:30 Rocky and His Friends (C)
1:00 The Little Rascals
1:30 Movie: "The Forbidden Jungle" (1950) - Don Harvey, Forrest Taylor
3:00 Captain Scarlet (C)
3:30 Speed Racer (C)
4:00 The Abbott & Costello Show
4:30 The Three Stooges (listed as C; not sure if this was the old shorts shown by "Officer" Joe Bolton
or the 1965 "New Three Stooges" cartoons voiced by Moe, Larry and Curly Joe, with live wraparounds)
5:00 Adventures of Superman
5:30 The Munsters
6:00 Batman (C)
6:30 Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (C)
7:30 F Troop
8:00 The Patty Duke Show
8:30 Perry Mason
9:30 Password (C)
10:00 Run for Your Life (C)
11:00 Eleven O'Clock News with Lee Nelson (C)
11:30 Tonight at the Movies: "Dr. Broadway" (1942) - Macdonald Carey, J. Carrol Naish
1:00 News - Lee Nelson (C)
followed by sign-off
WNDT 13 (NET; owned by Educational Broadcasting Corporation)
8:55 School Television Service (to 4:30 P.M.)
4:30 Big World of Little Adam (C)
4:45 The Friendly Giant
5:00 Misterogers' Neighborhood
5:30 What's New? (C)
6:00 Folk Guitar Plus (host: Laura Weber) (C)
6:30 Ingles Para Todos
7:00 New Jersey Speaks for Itself
7:30 Making Things Grow - "The Pot Problem" (with Thalassa Cruso) (C)
8:00 City Makers - "Ghetto Tensions" (examined by Rhody McCoy, administrator of
Ocean Hill-Brownsville experimental school district, and Nathan Glazer, professor
of sociology; host, Professor Kenneth B. Clark)
8:30 Book Beat (Robert Cromie interviews Arthur Larson, author of "Eisenhower,
The President Nobody Knew")
9:00 Critique - "The Music of Peter Mennin" (with Patrick O'Connor, critic and host;
Herbert Kolodin, critic; William Hellerman, general manager, "Composer's Forum";
Joseph Eger, conductor; Joseph Fuchs, violinist; Beveridge Webster, pianist (C)
10:00 Newsfront with Mitchell Krauss (interview with Harrison Salisbury, author of
"The 900 Days: The Siege of Leningrad")
followed by sign-off
movie show and some newscast titles extrapolated from said papers,
and ads appearing therein)
(C) - in color
WNEW-TV 5 (Independent; owned by Metromedia Television)
7:30 Inside Bedford-Stuyvesant (C)
8:00 Casper the Friendly Ghost (C)
8:30 The Bob McAllister Show (C)
9:30 Movie: "Phantom of the Rue Morgue" (1954) - Karl Malden, Patricia Medina
11:30 Dear Alan: Alan Burke (C)
12:00 Movie: "Force of Arms" (1951) - William Holden, Nancy Olson
2:00 Skitch Henderson's New York (guests: Doug McClure, Tina Louise, John Davidson) (C)
3:30 Alfred Hitchcock Presents
4:00 The Outer Limits
5:00 My Little Margie
5:30 Mister Ed
6:00 Hazel
6:30 My Favorite Martian
7:00 I Love Lucy
7:30 Truth or Consequences (C)
8:00 Pay Cards! (C)
8:30 The Merv Griffin Show (scheduled: Connie Francis, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Charlie Manna) (C)
10:00 The 10 O'Clock News with Bill Jorgensen (C)
11:00 The Donald O'Connor Show (guests: Rip Taylor, Sue Raney, Billy Daniels) (C)
12:30 Movie (repeat of 9:30 A.M. showing)
2:00 Inside Bedford-Stuyvesant (C)
followed by News / sign-off
WOR-TV 9 (Independent; owned by RKO General)
7:55 News and Weather
8:00 The Bonnie Prudden Show (C)
9:00 Romper Room (C)
10:00 Bozo's Circus (C)
11:00 Journey to Adventure - "Way Station to the World" (C)
11:30 The Real McCoys
12:00 9 at Noon with John Wingate, Mary Helen McPhillips and Walter Kiernan (C)
12:30 Movie: "Mr. Lucky" (1943) - Cary Grant, Laraine Day
2:30 Fireside Theatre
3:00 Divorce Court (C)
3:30 The Stella Longo Jackpot Movie: "Moby Dick" (1956) - Cary Grant, Richard Basehart (C)
5:30 The Twilight Zone
6:00 Gilligan's Island
6:30 I Spy (C)
7:30 The Steve Allen Show (C)
9:00 What's My Line? (panel: Nipsey Russell, Joanna Barnes, Bert Convy, Arlene Francis) (C) (taped Aug. 20, 1968?)
9:30 Basketball: New York Knicks at Milwaukee Bucks (Knicks beat Bucks, 111-102)
11:30 The Flick: "Drums in the Deep South" (1951) - James Craig, Guy Madison, Barbara Payton (C)
1:25 The Joe Franklin Show (C)
followed by News / Moment of Prayer / sign-off
WPIX-TV 11 (Independent; licensor WPIX, Inc., owned by New York Daily News)
7:30 Biography
8:00 Cartoons (C)
9:30 Jack La Lanne (C)
10:00 Movie: "I, Mobster" (1959) - Steve Cochran, Lita Milan
11:30 Kimba, the White Lion (C)
12:00 Underdog (C)
12:30 Rocky and His Friends (C)
1:00 The Little Rascals
1:30 Movie: "The Forbidden Jungle" (1950) - Don Harvey, Forrest Taylor
3:00 Captain Scarlet (C)
3:30 Speed Racer (C)
4:00 The Abbott & Costello Show
4:30 The Three Stooges (listed as C; not sure if this was the old shorts shown by "Officer" Joe Bolton
or the 1965 "New Three Stooges" cartoons voiced by Moe, Larry and Curly Joe, with live wraparounds)
5:00 Adventures of Superman
5:30 The Munsters
6:00 Batman (C)
6:30 Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (C)
7:30 F Troop
8:00 The Patty Duke Show
8:30 Perry Mason
9:30 Password (C)
10:00 Run for Your Life (C)
11:00 Eleven O'Clock News with Lee Nelson (C)
11:30 Tonight at the Movies: "Dr. Broadway" (1942) - Macdonald Carey, J. Carrol Naish
1:00 News - Lee Nelson (C)
followed by sign-off
WNDT 13 (NET; owned by Educational Broadcasting Corporation)
8:55 School Television Service (to 4:30 P.M.)
4:30 Big World of Little Adam (C)
4:45 The Friendly Giant
5:00 Misterogers' Neighborhood
5:30 What's New? (C)
6:00 Folk Guitar Plus (host: Laura Weber) (C)
6:30 Ingles Para Todos
7:00 New Jersey Speaks for Itself
7:30 Making Things Grow - "The Pot Problem" (with Thalassa Cruso) (C)
8:00 City Makers - "Ghetto Tensions" (examined by Rhody McCoy, administrator of
Ocean Hill-Brownsville experimental school district, and Nathan Glazer, professor
of sociology; host, Professor Kenneth B. Clark)
8:30 Book Beat (Robert Cromie interviews Arthur Larson, author of "Eisenhower,
The President Nobody Knew")
9:00 Critique - "The Music of Peter Mennin" (with Patrick O'Connor, critic and host;
Herbert Kolodin, critic; William Hellerman, general manager, "Composer's Forum";
Joseph Eger, conductor; Joseph Fuchs, violinist; Beveridge Webster, pianist (C)
10:00 Newsfront with Mitchell Krauss (interview with Harrison Salisbury, author of
"The 900 Days: The Siege of Leningrad")
followed by sign-off
