From TV Guide, North Carolina Edition:
WFMY Ch. 2 Greensboro (CBS)
6:30 Sacred Heart
6:45 R.F.D. Piedmont (George Perry, aka kids'-show
host the Old Rebel)
7 AM Good Morning Show (Lee Kinard--this show is now
three and a half hours, 4:30-8 AM, and Lee is long
retired)
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Devotions
9:15 Second Breakfast (Carroll Stoker, who I still think got
shafted by not being mentioned in Ch. 2's 50th-anniversary
activities)
9:30 What's Cooking Today? (Cordelia Kelly)
9:55 News
10 AM CBS News (Mike Wallace)
10:30 I Love Lucy
11 AM Andy Griffith
11:30 Real McCoys
12 N Love Of Life
12:25 CBS News (Robert Trout)
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1 PM Best Of Groucho
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Password (Amanda Blake and Bob Denver, from Hollywood)
2:30 Art Linkletter's House Party (the show begins a week celebrating
its 20th anniversary, dating back to radio; Jimmie Rodgers sings
some of the hits of 1945)
3 PM To Tell The Truth (Shari Lewis, Skitch Henderson, Dick Shawn,
Phyllis Newman)
3:25 CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
3:30 Edge Of Night
4 PM Old Rebel And Pecos Pete (despite this show's popularity, it was
not a popular decision to drop "Secret Storm," which was soon
reinstated and stayed on Ch. 2 to the bitter end in 1974)
4:30 Woody Woodpecker
5 PM Leave It To Beaver
5:30 Rifleman
6 PM News, Sports, Weather
6:30 CBS News (Walter Cronkite)
7 PM Grand Ole Opry
7:30 To Tell The Truth (Steve Allen and the "I've Got A Secret" panel
(Bill Cullen, Betsy Palmer, Henry Morgan, Bess Myerson) take over
for tonight)
8 PM I've Got A Secret (Bud Collyer and the nighttime "To Tell The
Truth" panel (Tom Poston, Peggy Cass, Orson Bean, Kitty Carlisle)
take over for tonight)
8:30 Andy Griffith
9 PM The Lucy Show
9:30 Many Happy Returns
10 PM CBS Reports: "The Press And The Law," the battle between the
Philadelphia Bar Association and the news media over pre-trial
publicity in criminal cases.
10:30 Channel 2 Reports: "Working Their Way Through Prison"
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Roaring '20s
WBTV Ch. 3 Charlotte (CBS/ABC)
6:15 Daily Word
6:20 Big Picture
6:50 Almanac (Gil Stamper)
7 AM Carolina Calling (Arthur Smith)
7:45 News, Weather
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Tiny Town (Fred Kirby)
9:30 Donna Reed (ABC, delay from 12 N)
10 AM CBS News
10:30 I Love Lucy
11 AM Andy Griffith
11:30 Real McCoys
12 N News, Sports, Features
12:25 CBS News
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1 PM Betty Feezor
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Password
2:30 Art Linkletter's House Party
3 PM To Tell The Truth
3:25 CBS News
3:30 Edge Of Night
4 PM Secret Storm
4:30 Mickey Mouse Club
5 PM Big Bill's Club House (wrestling announcer
Big Bill Ward hosts a kids' show)
5:30 Leave It To Beaver
6 PM News, Sports, Weather
6:25 Editorial (Alan Newcomb)
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Movie: "Titanic" (the 1953 version)
9 PM The Lucy Show
9:30 Many Happy Returns
10 PM CBS Reports
10:30 WBTV Reports ("De Oppresso Liber," meaning "freedom
for the oppressed" and the motto of the Special Forces
stationed at Fort Bragg and the subject of this report.)
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:20 Editorial (Alan Newcomb)
11:25 Thriller Theatre (this may be Boris Karloff's "Thriller")
WWAY Ch. 3 Wilmington (ABC)
6:25 Aspect (farm show)
6:55 TBA
7 AM Bannon's Buddies (kids' show with Art Bannon)
9 AM Deputy Dawg
9:30 My Little Margie
10 AM Trouble With Father ("Stu Erwin Show" reruns)
10:30 Divorce Court
11:30 Price Is Right (celebrity player: Douglas Fairbanks Jr.)
12 N Donna Reed
12:30 Father Knows Best
1 PM Tennessee Ernie Ford Show (Johnny Matson, who
emcees at state fairs, is the guest.)
1:30 Sea Hunt
2 PM Flame In The Wind (soap later retitled "A Time For Us")
2:30 Day In Court
2:55 not listed, probably ABC News with Marlene Sanders
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 The Young Marrieds
4 PM Trailmaster ("Wagon Train" reruns)
5 PM Movie: "Flight Nurse"
6:20 ABC News (Ron Cochran)
6:35 News, Sports, Weather
7 PM Amos 'n' Andy
7:30 Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea
8:30 No Time For Sergeants (Andy Griffith did this better on
stage and in the movies; Jim Nabors did the same premise
better as Gomer Pyle.)
9 PM Wendy And Me (George Burns, Connie Stevens)
9:30 Bing Crosby Show (his one series, a sitcom, although his
guests tonight are the Standells)
10 PM Ben Casey
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:10 Movie: "While The City Sleeps" (pre-empts Les Crane)
WUNC Ch. 4 Chapel Hill (NET)
8:55 News
9 AM American History
9:30 Physical Science
10 AM World History
10:30 Mathematics
11 AM Conversation With Eric Hoffer (Hoffer outlines his vision
of a country controlled by anonymous businessmen.)
11:30 Spectrum (a flight to Mars; the Mariner rocket's launching
test grounds; the Multivator, a proposed unmanned space
craft)
12 N Aspect
12:30 News
12:45 Americans At Work
1 PM Social Studies
2 PM Industry On Parade
2:15 Government And Geography
after this, Ch. 4 signs off until
6 PM News, Sports, Weather
6:15 Friendly Giant
6:30 Reading Out Loud
7 PM What's New
7:30 America's Crises (conclusion: the changing nature
of American community life)
8:30 Encounter
sign off following this
WRAL Ch. 5 Raleigh (ABC/NBC)
6:15 Aspect
6:45 Farm News (Ray Wilkinson)
7 AM Today (NBC, guests: Stan Getz; Joe Garagiola interviewing
Brooks Robinson and Ken Boyer)
9 AM Femme Fare (Bette Elliott)
10 AM Time For Uncle Paul (Paul Montgomery)
10:30 Trailmaster (delay of at least a week, from 4 PM)
11:30 Price Is Right
12 N News, Weather
12:30 Father Knows Best
1 PM Tennessee Ernie Ford Show
1:30 Donna Reed (90-minute delay)
2 PM Flame In The Wind
2:30 The Doctors (NBC, pre-empts "Day In Court" and ABC News)
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 Young Marrieds
4 PM Movie: "Two Flags West"
5:30 Science All Stars (season premiere, delay of at least a
week from Sun 5 PM)
6 PM News, Sports, Weather
6:20 ABC News
6:35 Viewpoint (Jesse Helms)
6:40 News continues
7 PM Donna Reed (delay from Thu 8 PM)
7:30 Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea
8:30 No Time For Sergeants
9 PM Wendy And Me
9:30 Bing Crosby Show
10 PM Ben Casey
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:10 Dateline (Bob Caudle, later the "voice" of
"Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling")
11:30 Les Crane (joined in progress)
WECT Ch. 6 Wilmington (NBC/CBS)
6:25 Daily Word
6:30 Carolina Farm Beat
7 AM Today
9 AM B'wana Don In Jungle-La
9:30 Jack LaLanne
10 AM Make Room For Daddy
10:30 What's This Song? (Wink Martindale (then called Win
Martindale) hosts his first game show; guests are
Tommy Sands and wife Nancy Sinatra, COLOR)
10:55 NBC News (Edwin Newman)
11 AM Concentration
11:30 Jeopardy! (COLOR)
12 N Say When! (COLOR)
12:30 Truth Or Consequences (COLOR)
12:55 NBC News (Ray Scherer)
1 PM Showcase (Jim Burns)
1:25 Timely Tips (Corinne Rickert)
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Moment Of Truth (Canadian-produced soap which would
be replaced in November by "Days Of Our Lives," while
"star" Douglas Watson would go on to play Mac Cory on
"Another World.")
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 Edge Of Night
4 PM Match Game (Bill Cosby, Florence Henderson)
4:25 NBC News (anchor not given; I assume either
Nancy Dickerson or Sander Vanocur)
4:30 Secret Storm
5 PM Mickey Mouse Club
5:30 Quick Draw McGraw
6 PM News, Sports, Weather
6:35 Roy Dixon (local music show)
6:55 Weather (Jim Burns)
7 PM Huntley-Brinkley Report
7:30 Karen (Debbie Watson, who went straight from this
show to "Tammy" that fall--not to be confused with
Karen Valentine's "Karen" on ABC ten years later.)
8 PM Man From U.N.C.L.E.
9 PM Allan Sherman's Funnyland (guests: Lorne Greene,
Jack Gilford, Marvin Kaplan, Angie Dickinson, the Ray
Charles (the white Ray Charles) Singers, COLOR, pre-empts
Andy Williams)
10 PM The Defenders (CBS, delay from Thu 10 PM)
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:15 Tonight Show (Milt Kamen is a guest, COLOR)
WITN Ch. 7 Washington, NC (NBC)
6:25 Aspect
6:55 Carolina Farmer
7 AM Today
9 AM Leave It To Beaver
9:30 People Are Funny
10 AM Make Room For Daddy
10:30 What's This Song? (COLOR)
10:55 NBC News
11 AM Concentration
11:30 Jeopardy! (COLOR)
12 N Say When! (COLOR)
12:30 Truth Or Consequences (COLOR)
12:55 NBC News
1 PM Bachelor Father
1:30 Let's Make A Deal (COLOR)
1:55 NBC News (Floyd Kalber)
2 PM Moment Of Truth
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 You Don't Say! (singer Rusty Draper, who would have his
own daytime show on NBC, "Swingin' Country," in 1966;
Laraine Day, COLOR)
4 PM Match Game
4:25 NBC News
4:30 Funny Page (legendary kids' show in eastern North Carolina,
with WITNey the Marching Hobo)
5:30 Huckleberry Hound
6 PM News, Sports, Weather
6:30 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7 PM M Squad
7:30 Karen
8 PM Man From U.N.C.L.E.
9 PM Allan Sherman's Funnyland (COLOR)
10 PM Alfred Hitchcock Hour
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:15 Tonight Show (COLOR)
WGHP Ch. 8 High Point (ABC)
6 AM Seekers (nothing to do with the group that did
"Georgy Girl")
6:30 Farm And Home Hour
7 AM Carolina In The Morning
8 AM Our Gang
8:30 Around Town
9:20 Daily Devotion
9:30 Kindergarten (Libba Hinkle)
10 AM World History
10:30 Women's World
11 AM Jack LaLanne
11:30 Price Is Right
12 N News, Weather
12:15 Farm And Home Hour
12:30 Father Knows Best
1 PM Ramona Curtis (women's show)
1:30 Donna Reed (90-minute delay)
2 PM Flame In The Wind
2:30 Day In Court
2:55 ABC News
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 Young Marrieds
4 PM Lloyd Thaxton
5 PM Movie: "Uranium Boom"
6:30 Amos 'n' Andy
7 PM News, Sports, Weather (Ch. 8 wouldn't pick up
ABC News until 1970.)
7:30 Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea
8:30 No Time For Sergeants
9 PM Wendy And Me
9:30 Bing Crosby Show
10 PM Ben Casey
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Les Crane
WNCT Ch. 9 Greenville, NC (CBS)
6:30 Carolina Today
8:30 Bozo The Clown
9 AM Captain Kangaroo
10 AM CBS News
10:30 I Love Lucy
11 AM Andy Griffith
11:30 Real McCoys
12 N News, Weather
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1 PM Love Of Life
1:25 Timely Tips
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Password
2:30 Art Linkletter's House Party
3 PM To Tell The Truth
3:25 CBS News
3:30 Edge Of Night
4 PM Secret Storm
4:30 Jack Benny Daytime Show (Don Wilson celebrates
another anniversary with Jack; guests are "What's
My Line?" host John Daly, and announcers Roy Rowan
and Bill Baldwin.)
5 PM Cheyenne
6 PM News, Sports, Weather
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Tombstone Territory
7:30 To Tell The Truth
8 PM I've Got A Secret
8:30 Andy Griffith
9 PM The Lucy Show
9:30 Many Happy Returns
10 PM CBS Reports
10:30 Governor's Report (outgoing governor Terry Sanford
reviews his administration)
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Movie: "The Counterfeit Plan"
WSOC Ch. 9 Charlotte (NBC/ABC)
6:15 Continental Classroom (don't know if this continued
in syndication after NBC dropped it)
6:45 Farm And Home
7 AM Today
9 AM Cartoons
9:30 Girl Talk (Virginia Graham)
10 AM Day In Court
10:25 nothing listed
10:30 Flame In The Wind
11 AM Concentration
11:30 Jeopardy! (COLOR)
12 N Love Of Life (pre-empted on WBTV, but not for long)
12:25 Midday (Jimmy Kilgo)
12:55 NBC News
1 PM Jack Benny Daytime Show (guest: Mickey Rooney,
pre-empted on WBTV)
1:30 Tennessee Ernie Ford Show (half-hour delay)
2 PM Star Performance
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 Trailmaster
4:30 Clown Carnival (Brooks Lindsay)
5:30 Peter Potamus
6 PM News, Sports, Weather
6:30 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7 PM Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea (delay of
at least a week)
8 PM No Time For Sergeants (delay of at least a week)
8:30 Andy Griffith (pre-empted on WBTV)
9 PM Allan Sherman's Funnyland (COLOR)
10 PM Ben Casey
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Tonight Show (COLOR)
WTVD Ch. 11 Durham (CBS/NBC)
6:30 Big Picture
7 AM Morning Jamboree (Clyde Moody, Homer Briarhopper--
I watched this show many a morning when I was
getting dressed for school)
7:55 News, Weather
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Cartoons
9:30 Match Game (Audrey Meadows, Sydney Chaplin (Charlie's
son), delay of at least a week)
9:55 Local News
10 AM Make Room For Daddy
10:30 I Love Lucy
11 AM Concentration
11:30 Jeopardy! (COLOR)
12 N Love Of Life
12:25 CBS News
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1 PM Peggy Mann
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Password
2:30 Art Linkletter's House Party
3 PM Another World
3:30 Edge Of Night
4 PM Secret Storm
4:30 Let's Make A Deal (COLOR)
4:55 Fun Hour (I think this was after Ken Corbitt was
fired after showing up drunk to do the 11 PM weather.)
5:30 Yogi Bear
6 PM News, Sports, Weather
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Hazel (NBC, delay from Thu 9:30, not listed as being in color)
7:30 Dr. Kildare (NBC, delay from Thu 8:30)
8:30 Andy Griffith
9 PM Allen Sherman's Funnyland (COLOR)
10 PM Alfred Hitchcock Hour
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:25 Tonight Show (COLOR--see if you can figure out the strategy
WTVD was using against WRAL)
WNBE (WCTI) Ch. 12 New Bern (ABC)
7 AM Barker Bill (don't think this is to be confused with the 1950s
CBS kids' show "Barker Bill's Cartoons")
9 AM Movie: "Fighting Father Dunne"
10:30 Open House (Jo Ann Franks, daughter of the station owner)
11 AM Love That Bob!
11:30 Price Is Right
12 N Donna Reed
12:30 Father Knows Best
1 PM Tennessee Ernie Ford Show
1:30 Eastern Carolina Farmer
2 PM Flame In The Wind
2:30 Day In Court
2:55 ABC News
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 Young Marrieds
4 PM Trailmaster
5 PM Captain O'Hap
5:30 Life Of Riley
6 PM News, Sports, Weather
6:15 ABC News
6:30 Rifleman
7 PM Zane Grey Theater
7:30 Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea
8:30 No Time For Sergeants
9 PM Wendy And Me
9:30 Bing Crosby Show
10 PM Ben Casey
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:15 Les Crane
In its early years, Ch. 12 practically never pre-empted an ABC
program, and I can remember only one on delay; in the summer
of 1966 "Supermarket Sweep" aired at 4 PM. This was when
Ch. 12 was carrying all ABC programs an hour earlier; "Sweep"
would have interfered with the morning movie at 10 AM (11 AM
EDT), hence the delay, since this was affiliate time for ABC stations
from Virginia northward.
WSJS (WXII) Ch. 12 Winston-Salem (NBC)
6:30 Aspect
7 AM Today
9 AM Bob Gordon (kids' show as distinguished from his weekend
"Bob Gordon Theater" montage of movies, reruns, and live
performers)
9:30 Astroboy
10 AM Make Room For Daddy
10:30 What's This Song? (COLOR)
10:55 NBC News
11 AM Concentration
11:30 Jeopardy! (COLOR)
12 N Say When! (COLOR)
12:30 Truth Or Consequences (COLOR)
12:55 NBC News
1 PM This Afternoon
1:30 Let's Make A Deal (COLOR)
1:55 NBC News
2 PM Moment Of Truth
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 You Don't Say! (COLOR)
4 PM Match Game
4:25 NBC News
4:30 Superman (the color episodes did not begin airing in
color until that fall)
5 PM Cheyenne
6 PM News, Sports, Weather
6:30 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7 PM The Rebel
7:30 Karen
8 PM Man From U.N.C.L.E.
9 PM Allan Sherman's Funnyland (COLOR)
10 PM Alfred Hitchcock Hour
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Tonight Show (COLOR)
NOTE: "Concentration" and "Jeopardy!" did not assume their more
familiar times of 10:30 AM and 12 N respectively until Sept. 27.
NBC tried a couple of game shows, "Call My Bluff" and "I'll Bet"--
later syndicated as "It's Your Bet"--in the 12-12:55 slot in the
summer of '65, then two morning soaps, "Morning Star" at 11
and "Paradise Bay" at 11:30, starting Sept. 27. Also new on
Sept. 27 was Merv Griffin's second game, "Let's Play Post Office,"
which aired at 12:30 after "Jeopardy!" but was canceled on July 1,
1966.
From what I understand, "Call My Bluff" is still a popular game show
in Britain.
WFMY Ch. 2 Greensboro (CBS)
6:30 Sacred Heart
6:45 R.F.D. Piedmont (George Perry, aka kids'-show
host the Old Rebel)
7 AM Good Morning Show (Lee Kinard--this show is now
three and a half hours, 4:30-8 AM, and Lee is long
retired)
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Devotions
9:15 Second Breakfast (Carroll Stoker, who I still think got
shafted by not being mentioned in Ch. 2's 50th-anniversary
activities)
9:30 What's Cooking Today? (Cordelia Kelly)
9:55 News
10 AM CBS News (Mike Wallace)
10:30 I Love Lucy
11 AM Andy Griffith
11:30 Real McCoys
12 N Love Of Life
12:25 CBS News (Robert Trout)
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1 PM Best Of Groucho
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Password (Amanda Blake and Bob Denver, from Hollywood)
2:30 Art Linkletter's House Party (the show begins a week celebrating
its 20th anniversary, dating back to radio; Jimmie Rodgers sings
some of the hits of 1945)
3 PM To Tell The Truth (Shari Lewis, Skitch Henderson, Dick Shawn,
Phyllis Newman)
3:25 CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
3:30 Edge Of Night
4 PM Old Rebel And Pecos Pete (despite this show's popularity, it was
not a popular decision to drop "Secret Storm," which was soon
reinstated and stayed on Ch. 2 to the bitter end in 1974)
4:30 Woody Woodpecker
5 PM Leave It To Beaver
5:30 Rifleman
6 PM News, Sports, Weather
6:30 CBS News (Walter Cronkite)
7 PM Grand Ole Opry
7:30 To Tell The Truth (Steve Allen and the "I've Got A Secret" panel
(Bill Cullen, Betsy Palmer, Henry Morgan, Bess Myerson) take over
for tonight)
8 PM I've Got A Secret (Bud Collyer and the nighttime "To Tell The
Truth" panel (Tom Poston, Peggy Cass, Orson Bean, Kitty Carlisle)
take over for tonight)
8:30 Andy Griffith
9 PM The Lucy Show
9:30 Many Happy Returns
10 PM CBS Reports: "The Press And The Law," the battle between the
Philadelphia Bar Association and the news media over pre-trial
publicity in criminal cases.
10:30 Channel 2 Reports: "Working Their Way Through Prison"
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Roaring '20s
WBTV Ch. 3 Charlotte (CBS/ABC)
6:15 Daily Word
6:20 Big Picture
6:50 Almanac (Gil Stamper)
7 AM Carolina Calling (Arthur Smith)
7:45 News, Weather
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Tiny Town (Fred Kirby)
9:30 Donna Reed (ABC, delay from 12 N)
10 AM CBS News
10:30 I Love Lucy
11 AM Andy Griffith
11:30 Real McCoys
12 N News, Sports, Features
12:25 CBS News
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1 PM Betty Feezor
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Password
2:30 Art Linkletter's House Party
3 PM To Tell The Truth
3:25 CBS News
3:30 Edge Of Night
4 PM Secret Storm
4:30 Mickey Mouse Club
5 PM Big Bill's Club House (wrestling announcer
Big Bill Ward hosts a kids' show)
5:30 Leave It To Beaver
6 PM News, Sports, Weather
6:25 Editorial (Alan Newcomb)
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Movie: "Titanic" (the 1953 version)
9 PM The Lucy Show
9:30 Many Happy Returns
10 PM CBS Reports
10:30 WBTV Reports ("De Oppresso Liber," meaning "freedom
for the oppressed" and the motto of the Special Forces
stationed at Fort Bragg and the subject of this report.)
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:20 Editorial (Alan Newcomb)
11:25 Thriller Theatre (this may be Boris Karloff's "Thriller")
WWAY Ch. 3 Wilmington (ABC)
6:25 Aspect (farm show)
6:55 TBA
7 AM Bannon's Buddies (kids' show with Art Bannon)
9 AM Deputy Dawg
9:30 My Little Margie
10 AM Trouble With Father ("Stu Erwin Show" reruns)
10:30 Divorce Court
11:30 Price Is Right (celebrity player: Douglas Fairbanks Jr.)
12 N Donna Reed
12:30 Father Knows Best
1 PM Tennessee Ernie Ford Show (Johnny Matson, who
emcees at state fairs, is the guest.)
1:30 Sea Hunt
2 PM Flame In The Wind (soap later retitled "A Time For Us")
2:30 Day In Court
2:55 not listed, probably ABC News with Marlene Sanders
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 The Young Marrieds
4 PM Trailmaster ("Wagon Train" reruns)
5 PM Movie: "Flight Nurse"
6:20 ABC News (Ron Cochran)
6:35 News, Sports, Weather
7 PM Amos 'n' Andy
7:30 Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea
8:30 No Time For Sergeants (Andy Griffith did this better on
stage and in the movies; Jim Nabors did the same premise
better as Gomer Pyle.)
9 PM Wendy And Me (George Burns, Connie Stevens)
9:30 Bing Crosby Show (his one series, a sitcom, although his
guests tonight are the Standells)
10 PM Ben Casey
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:10 Movie: "While The City Sleeps" (pre-empts Les Crane)
WUNC Ch. 4 Chapel Hill (NET)
8:55 News
9 AM American History
9:30 Physical Science
10 AM World History
10:30 Mathematics
11 AM Conversation With Eric Hoffer (Hoffer outlines his vision
of a country controlled by anonymous businessmen.)
11:30 Spectrum (a flight to Mars; the Mariner rocket's launching
test grounds; the Multivator, a proposed unmanned space
craft)
12 N Aspect
12:30 News
12:45 Americans At Work
1 PM Social Studies
2 PM Industry On Parade
2:15 Government And Geography
after this, Ch. 4 signs off until
6 PM News, Sports, Weather
6:15 Friendly Giant
6:30 Reading Out Loud
7 PM What's New
7:30 America's Crises (conclusion: the changing nature
of American community life)
8:30 Encounter
sign off following this
WRAL Ch. 5 Raleigh (ABC/NBC)
6:15 Aspect
6:45 Farm News (Ray Wilkinson)
7 AM Today (NBC, guests: Stan Getz; Joe Garagiola interviewing
Brooks Robinson and Ken Boyer)
9 AM Femme Fare (Bette Elliott)
10 AM Time For Uncle Paul (Paul Montgomery)
10:30 Trailmaster (delay of at least a week, from 4 PM)
11:30 Price Is Right
12 N News, Weather
12:30 Father Knows Best
1 PM Tennessee Ernie Ford Show
1:30 Donna Reed (90-minute delay)
2 PM Flame In The Wind
2:30 The Doctors (NBC, pre-empts "Day In Court" and ABC News)
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 Young Marrieds
4 PM Movie: "Two Flags West"
5:30 Science All Stars (season premiere, delay of at least a
week from Sun 5 PM)
6 PM News, Sports, Weather
6:20 ABC News
6:35 Viewpoint (Jesse Helms)
6:40 News continues
7 PM Donna Reed (delay from Thu 8 PM)
7:30 Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea
8:30 No Time For Sergeants
9 PM Wendy And Me
9:30 Bing Crosby Show
10 PM Ben Casey
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:10 Dateline (Bob Caudle, later the "voice" of
"Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling")
11:30 Les Crane (joined in progress)
WECT Ch. 6 Wilmington (NBC/CBS)
6:25 Daily Word
6:30 Carolina Farm Beat
7 AM Today
9 AM B'wana Don In Jungle-La
9:30 Jack LaLanne
10 AM Make Room For Daddy
10:30 What's This Song? (Wink Martindale (then called Win
Martindale) hosts his first game show; guests are
Tommy Sands and wife Nancy Sinatra, COLOR)
10:55 NBC News (Edwin Newman)
11 AM Concentration
11:30 Jeopardy! (COLOR)
12 N Say When! (COLOR)
12:30 Truth Or Consequences (COLOR)
12:55 NBC News (Ray Scherer)
1 PM Showcase (Jim Burns)
1:25 Timely Tips (Corinne Rickert)
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Moment Of Truth (Canadian-produced soap which would
be replaced in November by "Days Of Our Lives," while
"star" Douglas Watson would go on to play Mac Cory on
"Another World.")
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 Edge Of Night
4 PM Match Game (Bill Cosby, Florence Henderson)
4:25 NBC News (anchor not given; I assume either
Nancy Dickerson or Sander Vanocur)
4:30 Secret Storm
5 PM Mickey Mouse Club
5:30 Quick Draw McGraw
6 PM News, Sports, Weather
6:35 Roy Dixon (local music show)
6:55 Weather (Jim Burns)
7 PM Huntley-Brinkley Report
7:30 Karen (Debbie Watson, who went straight from this
show to "Tammy" that fall--not to be confused with
Karen Valentine's "Karen" on ABC ten years later.)
8 PM Man From U.N.C.L.E.
9 PM Allan Sherman's Funnyland (guests: Lorne Greene,
Jack Gilford, Marvin Kaplan, Angie Dickinson, the Ray
Charles (the white Ray Charles) Singers, COLOR, pre-empts
Andy Williams)
10 PM The Defenders (CBS, delay from Thu 10 PM)
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:15 Tonight Show (Milt Kamen is a guest, COLOR)
WITN Ch. 7 Washington, NC (NBC)
6:25 Aspect
6:55 Carolina Farmer
7 AM Today
9 AM Leave It To Beaver
9:30 People Are Funny
10 AM Make Room For Daddy
10:30 What's This Song? (COLOR)
10:55 NBC News
11 AM Concentration
11:30 Jeopardy! (COLOR)
12 N Say When! (COLOR)
12:30 Truth Or Consequences (COLOR)
12:55 NBC News
1 PM Bachelor Father
1:30 Let's Make A Deal (COLOR)
1:55 NBC News (Floyd Kalber)
2 PM Moment Of Truth
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 You Don't Say! (singer Rusty Draper, who would have his
own daytime show on NBC, "Swingin' Country," in 1966;
Laraine Day, COLOR)
4 PM Match Game
4:25 NBC News
4:30 Funny Page (legendary kids' show in eastern North Carolina,
with WITNey the Marching Hobo)
5:30 Huckleberry Hound
6 PM News, Sports, Weather
6:30 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7 PM M Squad
7:30 Karen
8 PM Man From U.N.C.L.E.
9 PM Allan Sherman's Funnyland (COLOR)
10 PM Alfred Hitchcock Hour
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:15 Tonight Show (COLOR)
WGHP Ch. 8 High Point (ABC)
6 AM Seekers (nothing to do with the group that did
"Georgy Girl")
6:30 Farm And Home Hour
7 AM Carolina In The Morning
8 AM Our Gang
8:30 Around Town
9:20 Daily Devotion
9:30 Kindergarten (Libba Hinkle)
10 AM World History
10:30 Women's World
11 AM Jack LaLanne
11:30 Price Is Right
12 N News, Weather
12:15 Farm And Home Hour
12:30 Father Knows Best
1 PM Ramona Curtis (women's show)
1:30 Donna Reed (90-minute delay)
2 PM Flame In The Wind
2:30 Day In Court
2:55 ABC News
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 Young Marrieds
4 PM Lloyd Thaxton
5 PM Movie: "Uranium Boom"
6:30 Amos 'n' Andy
7 PM News, Sports, Weather (Ch. 8 wouldn't pick up
ABC News until 1970.)
7:30 Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea
8:30 No Time For Sergeants
9 PM Wendy And Me
9:30 Bing Crosby Show
10 PM Ben Casey
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Les Crane
WNCT Ch. 9 Greenville, NC (CBS)
6:30 Carolina Today
8:30 Bozo The Clown
9 AM Captain Kangaroo
10 AM CBS News
10:30 I Love Lucy
11 AM Andy Griffith
11:30 Real McCoys
12 N News, Weather
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1 PM Love Of Life
1:25 Timely Tips
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Password
2:30 Art Linkletter's House Party
3 PM To Tell The Truth
3:25 CBS News
3:30 Edge Of Night
4 PM Secret Storm
4:30 Jack Benny Daytime Show (Don Wilson celebrates
another anniversary with Jack; guests are "What's
My Line?" host John Daly, and announcers Roy Rowan
and Bill Baldwin.)
5 PM Cheyenne
6 PM News, Sports, Weather
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Tombstone Territory
7:30 To Tell The Truth
8 PM I've Got A Secret
8:30 Andy Griffith
9 PM The Lucy Show
9:30 Many Happy Returns
10 PM CBS Reports
10:30 Governor's Report (outgoing governor Terry Sanford
reviews his administration)
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Movie: "The Counterfeit Plan"
WSOC Ch. 9 Charlotte (NBC/ABC)
6:15 Continental Classroom (don't know if this continued
in syndication after NBC dropped it)
6:45 Farm And Home
7 AM Today
9 AM Cartoons
9:30 Girl Talk (Virginia Graham)
10 AM Day In Court
10:25 nothing listed
10:30 Flame In The Wind
11 AM Concentration
11:30 Jeopardy! (COLOR)
12 N Love Of Life (pre-empted on WBTV, but not for long)
12:25 Midday (Jimmy Kilgo)
12:55 NBC News
1 PM Jack Benny Daytime Show (guest: Mickey Rooney,
pre-empted on WBTV)
1:30 Tennessee Ernie Ford Show (half-hour delay)
2 PM Star Performance
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 Trailmaster
4:30 Clown Carnival (Brooks Lindsay)
5:30 Peter Potamus
6 PM News, Sports, Weather
6:30 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7 PM Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea (delay of
at least a week)
8 PM No Time For Sergeants (delay of at least a week)
8:30 Andy Griffith (pre-empted on WBTV)
9 PM Allan Sherman's Funnyland (COLOR)
10 PM Ben Casey
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Tonight Show (COLOR)
WTVD Ch. 11 Durham (CBS/NBC)
6:30 Big Picture
7 AM Morning Jamboree (Clyde Moody, Homer Briarhopper--
I watched this show many a morning when I was
getting dressed for school)
7:55 News, Weather
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Cartoons
9:30 Match Game (Audrey Meadows, Sydney Chaplin (Charlie's
son), delay of at least a week)
9:55 Local News
10 AM Make Room For Daddy
10:30 I Love Lucy
11 AM Concentration
11:30 Jeopardy! (COLOR)
12 N Love Of Life
12:25 CBS News
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1 PM Peggy Mann
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Password
2:30 Art Linkletter's House Party
3 PM Another World
3:30 Edge Of Night
4 PM Secret Storm
4:30 Let's Make A Deal (COLOR)
4:55 Fun Hour (I think this was after Ken Corbitt was
fired after showing up drunk to do the 11 PM weather.)
5:30 Yogi Bear
6 PM News, Sports, Weather
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Hazel (NBC, delay from Thu 9:30, not listed as being in color)
7:30 Dr. Kildare (NBC, delay from Thu 8:30)
8:30 Andy Griffith
9 PM Allen Sherman's Funnyland (COLOR)
10 PM Alfred Hitchcock Hour
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:25 Tonight Show (COLOR--see if you can figure out the strategy
WTVD was using against WRAL)
WNBE (WCTI) Ch. 12 New Bern (ABC)
7 AM Barker Bill (don't think this is to be confused with the 1950s
CBS kids' show "Barker Bill's Cartoons")
9 AM Movie: "Fighting Father Dunne"
10:30 Open House (Jo Ann Franks, daughter of the station owner)
11 AM Love That Bob!
11:30 Price Is Right
12 N Donna Reed
12:30 Father Knows Best
1 PM Tennessee Ernie Ford Show
1:30 Eastern Carolina Farmer
2 PM Flame In The Wind
2:30 Day In Court
2:55 ABC News
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 Young Marrieds
4 PM Trailmaster
5 PM Captain O'Hap
5:30 Life Of Riley
6 PM News, Sports, Weather
6:15 ABC News
6:30 Rifleman
7 PM Zane Grey Theater
7:30 Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea
8:30 No Time For Sergeants
9 PM Wendy And Me
9:30 Bing Crosby Show
10 PM Ben Casey
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:15 Les Crane
In its early years, Ch. 12 practically never pre-empted an ABC
program, and I can remember only one on delay; in the summer
of 1966 "Supermarket Sweep" aired at 4 PM. This was when
Ch. 12 was carrying all ABC programs an hour earlier; "Sweep"
would have interfered with the morning movie at 10 AM (11 AM
EDT), hence the delay, since this was affiliate time for ABC stations
from Virginia northward.
WSJS (WXII) Ch. 12 Winston-Salem (NBC)
6:30 Aspect
7 AM Today
9 AM Bob Gordon (kids' show as distinguished from his weekend
"Bob Gordon Theater" montage of movies, reruns, and live
performers)
9:30 Astroboy
10 AM Make Room For Daddy
10:30 What's This Song? (COLOR)
10:55 NBC News
11 AM Concentration
11:30 Jeopardy! (COLOR)
12 N Say When! (COLOR)
12:30 Truth Or Consequences (COLOR)
12:55 NBC News
1 PM This Afternoon
1:30 Let's Make A Deal (COLOR)
1:55 NBC News
2 PM Moment Of Truth
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 You Don't Say! (COLOR)
4 PM Match Game
4:25 NBC News
4:30 Superman (the color episodes did not begin airing in
color until that fall)
5 PM Cheyenne
6 PM News, Sports, Weather
6:30 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7 PM The Rebel
7:30 Karen
8 PM Man From U.N.C.L.E.
9 PM Allan Sherman's Funnyland (COLOR)
10 PM Alfred Hitchcock Hour
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Tonight Show (COLOR)
NOTE: "Concentration" and "Jeopardy!" did not assume their more
familiar times of 10:30 AM and 12 N respectively until Sept. 27.
NBC tried a couple of game shows, "Call My Bluff" and "I'll Bet"--
later syndicated as "It's Your Bet"--in the 12-12:55 slot in the
summer of '65, then two morning soaps, "Morning Star" at 11
and "Paradise Bay" at 11:30, starting Sept. 27. Also new on
Sept. 27 was Merv Griffin's second game, "Let's Play Post Office,"
which aired at 12:30 after "Jeopardy!" but was canceled on July 1,
1966.
From what I understand, "Call My Bluff" is still a popular game show
in Britain.