NBC started its new season the previous night. ABC and CBS are still in reruns.
From TV Guide, North Carolina Edition:
WFMY Ch. 2 Greensboro (CBS)
6 AM Conversations In Black (first of six discussions with members of the
black community; today: community involvement)
6:30 Good Morning Show (Lee Kinard interviews Ken Curtis and Buck Taylor
of "Gunsomke.")
7:55 Morning Devotion
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Old Rebel Show (long-running kids' show with George Perry)
9:30 What's Cooking Today? (another long-running Triad institution, with
Cordelia Kelly)
10 AM The Lucy Show (guest: Michael J. Pollard)
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies (guest: Martha Hyer)
11 AM Andy Griffith (guest: Alvy Moore, Mr. Kimball on "Green Acres")
11:30 Love Of Life
12 N Where The Heart Is
12:25 News (local)
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Anniversary Game (host Alan Hamel and model Suzanne Somers met
on this show and later married)
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
2:30 Guiding Light
3 PM Secret Storm
3:30 Edge Of Night
4 PM Gomer Pyle, USMC
4:30 Flintstones
5 PM Perry Mason
6 PM News, Weather, Sports
6:30 CBS News (Walter Cronkite)
7 PM Buck Owens
7:30 Gunsmoke
8:30 The Lucy Show (guest: Jack Carter, "Here's Lucy" returns next week)
9 PM Mayberry R.F.D.
9:30 Family Affair
10 PM Big Game America (50th-anniversary salute to the NFL; Carol Burnett
returns next week)
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:30 Merv Griffin (Mike Wallace and Harry Reasoner, Ann Miller, Totie Fields,
singer Eloise Laws)
WUND Ch. 2 Columbia/Edenton, NC/WUNC Ch. 4 Chapel Hill/WUNG Ch. 58
Concord, NC (NET)
9 AM U.S. History
9:30 Film: "Basic Physics Of The Atom Bomb"
10 AM Pocketful Of Fun
10:30 Once Upon A Day
11 AM World Cultures
11:30 Book Beat (Lisa Richette discusses "The Throwaway Children," a study of
the juvenile court system and the children it affects.)
12 N Aspect (farm show)
12:30 News
12:45 Friendly Giant
1 PM U.S. History
1:30 TBA
2:30 World Cultures
3 PM Teacher Preparation: Science
3:30 Teacher Preparation: U.S. History
4 PM Basic Industrial Statistics
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 What's New
6 PM News
6:15 Friendly Giant
6:30 Aspect
7 PM North Carolina News Conference
7:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
8 PM World Press
9 PM NET Journal: "Still A Brother" looks at the African-American
middle class
sign off 10 PM
WBTV Ch. 3 Charlotte (CBS)
6:15 Almanac (Gil Stamper)
6:25 Conversations In Black
6:55 News
7 AM CBS News (Joseph Benti)
7:30 News, Sports, Weather
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Gomer Pyle, USMC (day-behind from 4 PM)
9:30 Hazel
10 AM The Lucy Show
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies
11 AM Andy Griffith
11:30 Love Of Life
12 N Noon Report (Ty Boyd; topic: the ins and outs of the growing
credit-card phenomenon)
12:25 Pat Lee (women's show)
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Betty Feezor
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
2:30 Guiding Light
3 PM Secret Storm
3:30 Edge Of Night
4 PM Real McCoys
4:30 Mike Douglas (co-host Doug McClure; Monte Markham, singers
Eloise Laws and the Spiral Staircase)
6 PM News, Weather, Sports
6:25 Editorial (David Rush)
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Movie: "The Miracle Of Fatima"
9 PM Mayberry R.F.D.
9:30 Family Affair
10 PM Big Game America
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:25 Editorial (David Rush)
11:30 Merv Griffin
WWAY Ch. 3 Wilmington, NC (ABC/NBC)--TV Guide got it wrong; there were
some CBS programs on Ch. 3 as well.
7 AM Cartoons
8:30 Movie: "Mickey"
10:30 That Girl (delay of I-don't-know-how-much from 12:30 PM)
11 AM Dating Game (delay from 2:30 PM)
11:30 Science Fiction Theatre
12 N Bewitched
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Dream House
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 Guiding Light
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 One Life To Live
4 PM Dark Shadows
4:30 Laramie
5:30 News, Sports, Weather
6 PM ABC News (Frank Reynolds/Howard K, Smith)
6:30 Real McCoys
7 PM Bewitched (delay from Thu 8:30 PM, will begin airing in pattern
this Thursday)
7:30 The Avengers (last show)
8:30 Guns Of Will Sonnett (last show)
9 PM The Outcasts (last show)
10 PM Dick Cavett (last Monday show; he still has shows on Tuesday
and Friday this week, then will return Dec. 29 as Joey Bishop's
replacement)
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:05 Movie: "Outside The Law"
WRAL Ch. 5 Raleigh (ABC)
6 AM Daybreak
6:55 Viewpoint (Jesse Helms)
7 AM CBS News (Joseph Benti; WTVD was carrying the "Today" show)
8 AM Time For Uncle Paul (kids' show with Paul Montgomery)
8:30 Mike Douglas (co-hostess Dinah Shore; Jack Palance, Mickey
Rooney, the Checkmates)
10 AM Bette Elliott (women's show)
10:30 Dark Shadows
11 AM That Girl (guest: Billy DeWolfe, delay from 12:30 PM)
11:30 Bewitched (day-behind from 12 N)
12 N News, Sports, Weather
12:50 Fashions In Sewing (Lucille Rivers)
1 PM Dream House
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 Dating Game
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 Movie: "Gentlemen Of The Night"
5 PM Flintstones
5:30 I Love Lucy
5:55 Sports, News, Weather
6:30 Huntley-Brinkley Report (WRAL seemed to have problems with
Frank Reynolds' commentaries and aired NBC instead.)
7 PM That Girl (delay from Thu 8 PM)
7:30 The Avengers
8:30 Guns Of Will Sonnett
9 PM The Outcasts
10 PM Dick Cavett
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:30 Movie: "Circle Of Deception"
WECT Ch. 6 Wilmington, NC (NBC/CBS)
6:30 Carolina In The Morning
7 AM Today ("Do Women Dare...," a symposium with Rep. Shirley
Chisholm and Gloria Steinem taking part; the rights of Native
Americans; Debbie Reynolds discusses her new NBC sitcom;
Helgi Tomasson, featured dancer with the Harkness Ballet)
9 AM Mike Douglas (Tim Hardin, Robert Klein)
10 AM It Takes Two (Anna Maria Alberghetti, Jim Backus, Julius Wechter
of the Baja Marimba Band, and their spouses)
10:25 NBC News (Nancy Dickerson)
10:30 Concentration
11 AM Personality (Chelsea Brown, Joan Fontaine, Rocky Graziano; on film:
Debbie Reynolds)
11:30 Hollywood Squares (Marty Allen, Kaye Ballard, Rona Barrett, John Byner,
Harvey Korman, Jo Anne Worley, Wally Cox, Charley Weaver, Paul Lynde)
12 N Jeopardy!
12:30 Eye Guess
12:55 NBC News (Edwin Newman)
1 PM Paul Harvey
1:05 Jim Burns
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 Edge Of Night
4 PM Match Game (Burt Reynolds, Don Meredith)
4:25 NBC News (Floyd Kalber)
4:30 Make Room For Daddy (guest: Zsa Zsa Gabor)
5 PM Perry Mason
6 PM News, Weather, Sports
6:30 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7 PM Arthur Smith
7:30 My World And Welcome To It (critical hit that deserved better--
William Windom as a James Thurber-like cartoonist whose
fantasies come alive in animated segments, debut)
8 PM Laugh-In (season premiere with Debbie Reynolds and Peter Sellers)
9 PM NBC Movie: "Nobody's Perfect"
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:30 Tonight Show (Bennett Cerf is a guest.)
WITN Ch. 7 Washington, NC (NBC)
6 AM Aspect
6:30 Lassie
7 AM Today
9 AM David Frost (Chet Huntley, Henny Youngman, Morey Amsterdam,
Burt Reynolds)
10 AM It Takes Two
10:25 NBC News
10:30 Concentration
11 AM Personality
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N Jeopardy!
12:30 Eye Guess
12:55 NBC News
1 PM Divorce Court
1:30 You're Putting Me On (Sheila MacRae, Corbett Monica, E.J. Peaker,
Dick Shawn)
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 You Don't Say! (Dan Rowan and Dick Martin)
4 PM Match Game
4:25 NBC News
4:30 The Funny Page (long-running kids' show with WITNey the Hobo)
5 PM Munsters
5:30 Hazel
6 PM News, Weather, Sports
6:30 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7 PM Real McCoys
7:30 My World And Welcome To It
8 PM Laugh-In
9 PM NBC Movie: "Nobody's Perfect"
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:30 Tonight Show
WGHP Ch. 8 High Point (ABC)
6:30 University Of Michigan
7 AM Limbo's Cartoons
8:30 Romper Room
9 AM Movie: "So Evil My Love"
11 AM Real McCoys
11:30 Bewitched (day-behind from 12 N)
12 N News
12:30 That Girl
1 PM Dream House
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 Dating Game
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 One Life To Live
4 PM Movie: "Smoke Signal"
5:30 News, Sports, Weather
6 PM I Love Lucy
6:30 Dick Van Dyke
7 PM Truth Or Consequences (Ch. 8 was imitating Ch. 11 in Atlanta's
block of news, Dick Van Dyke, "Hazel," and "What's My Line?";
previous to this both had carried Merv at 6 PM.)
7:25 Weather
7:30 The Avengers
8:30 Guns Of Will Sonnett
9 PM The Outcasts
10 PM Dick Cavett
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:30 Joey Bishop (Lionel Hampton, Jonathan Frid)
WNCT Ch. 9 Greenville, NC (CBS)
6:30 Carolina Today
8:15 Fashions In Sewing
8:25 Meditations
8:30 CBS News
9 AM Captain Kangaroo
10 AM The Lucy Show
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies
11 AM Andy Griffith
11:30 Love Of Life
12 N News
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Where The Heart Is (one-hour delay, Ch. 9 had done this
with "Love Of Life" and would while "The Young And The
Restless" was a half-hour)
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
2:30 Guiding Light
3 PM Secret Storm
3:30 Edge Of Night
4 PM Gomer Pyle, USMC
4:30 Password (the 1965-67 CBS color episodes; the success of these
shows in reruns prompted ABC to revive the show in 1971)
5 PM Laramie
5:55 Paul Harvey
6 PM News, Weather, Sports
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Truth Or Consequences
7:30 Gunsmoke
8:30 The Lucy Show
9 PM Mayberry R.F.D.
9:30 Family Affair
10 PM Big Game America
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:30 Merv Griffin
WSOC Ch. 9 Charlotte (NBC)
6:45 On The House
7 AM Today
9 AM Today In The Carolinas
9:30 Movie Game
10 AM It Takes Two
10:25 NBC News
10:30 Concentration
11 AM Personality
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N Midday (Jimmy Kilgo)
12:30 Eye Guess
12:55 NBC News
1 PM Jeopardy!
1:30 You're Putting Me On
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 Flintstones
4 PM Gilligan's Island
4:30 I Love Lucy
5 PM Perry Mason
5:55 Paul Harvey
6 PM Pulse (Doug Bell)
6:30 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7 PM Project 20 ("Mirror Of America" tours Washington, DC to
illustrate the continuity of the American experience, don't know
how much of a delay this was)
8 PM Laugh-In
9 PM NBC Movie: "Nobody's Perfect"
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:30 Tonight Show
WIS Ch. 10 Columbia, SC (NBC)
6:45 Farm News
7 AM Today
9 AM Today In Carolina
10 AM It Takes Two
10:25 NBC News
10:30 Concentration
11 AM Personality
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N Jeopardy!
12:30 Eye Guess
12:55 NBC News
1 PM One O'Clock Report
1:30 You're Putting Me On
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 You Don't Say!
4 PM Mr. Knozit
4:25 NBC News
4:30 Mr. Knozit continues
5 PM Hazel
5:30 Perry Mason
6:30 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7 PM News, Sports, Weather
7:30 My World And Welcome To It
8 PM Laugh-In
9 PM Movie: "River Of No Return"
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:30 Tonight Show
WTVD Ch. 11 Durham (CBS/NBC, a situation that would
exist for two more years)
6 AM Aspect
6:30 Conversations In Black
7 AM Today
9 AM Captain Kangaroo
10 AM The Lucy Show
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies
11 AM Andy Griffith
11:30 Love Of Life
12 N Where The Heart Is
12:25 Newsbeat
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Peggy Mann
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
2:30 Guiding Light
3 PM Secret Storm
3:30 Edge Of Night
4 PM Hazel
4:30 Perry Mason
5:30 Gomer Pyle, USMC (delay from 4 PM)
6 PM News, Weather, Sports
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Beverly Hillbillies (delay from Wed 9 PM)
7:30 Gunsmoke
8:30 The Lucy Show
9 PM Mayberry R.F.D.
9:30 Family Affair
10 PM Big Game America
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:30 Tonight Show
WNBE (WCTI) Ch. 12 New Bern (ABC)
7 AM Mopo And His Friends (Ch. 12 is still not airing local programs in color.)
8 AM Romper Room
9 AM Movie: TBA
10:30 Movie: TBA
12 N Bewitched
12:30 That Girl
1 PM Dream House
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 Dating Game
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 One Life To Live
4 PM Dark Shadows
4:30 Lost In Space
5:30 Flintstones
6 PM Batman (Frank Gorshin as the Riddler)
6:30 ABC News
7 PM News, Sports, Weather
7:30 The Avengers
8:30 Guns Of Will Sonnett
9 PM The Outcasts
10 PM Dick Cavett
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:30 Joey Bishop
WSJS (WXII) Ch. 12 Winston-Salem (NBC)
6:30 Aspect
7 AM Today
9 AM Today At Home
9:30 Joan Rivers (guest: Vidal Sassoon, who attempts a
little ESP)
10 AM It Takes Two
10:25 NBC News
10:30 Concentration
11 AM Personality
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N Jeopardy!
12:30 Eye Guess
12:55 NBC News
1 PM News
1:05 Match Game (Chelsea Brown, Robert Morse, week-behind
from 4 PM)
1:30 You're Putting Me On
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 You Don't Say!
4 PM Gilligan's Island
4:30 Mike Douglas (same as WBTV)
6 PM News, Weather, Sports
6:30 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7 PM Star Trek (the classic "I, Mudd" episode)
8 PM Laugh-In
9 PM NBC Movie: "Nobody's Perfect"
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:30 Tonight Show
WBTW Ch. 13 Florence, SC (CBS/ABC)
7 AM Jim Nesbitt
7:55 News And Weather
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM CBS News
10 AM The Lucy Show
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies
11 AM Andy Griffith
11:30 Love Of Life
12 N Where The Heart Is
12:25 CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Divorce Court
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
2:30 Guiding Light
3 PM Secret Storm
3:30 Edge Of Night
4 PM Gomer Pyle, USMC
4:30 Johnny A (not familiar with it--probably a kids' show)
5 PM Cheyenne
6 PM News, Weather, Sports
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Kitty Wells (country music)
7:30 Gunsmoke
8:30 The Lucy Show
9 PM Mayberry R.F.D.
9:30 Family Affair
10 PM Big Game America
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:30 Merv Griffin
WCCB Ch. 18 Charlotte (ABC)
8 AM News
8:30 Jack LaLanne
9 AM Romper Room
10 AM Movie: "A Foreign Affair"
11:30 News, Sports, Weather, Features
12 N Bewitched
12:30 That Girl
1 PM Dream House
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 Dating Game
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 One Life To Live
4 PM Dark Shadows
4:30 Galloping Gourmet
5 PM Sgt. Mills/Three Stooges
6 PM The Pioneers (selected "Death Valley Days" reruns)
6:30 ABC News
7 PM Love That Bob
7:30 The Avengers
8:30 Guns Of Will Sonnett
9 PM The Outcasts
10 PM Dick Cavett
11 PM Galloping Gourmet
11:30 Joey Bishop
WRDU (WRDC) Ch. 28 Durham (NBC/CBS, a situation that would
last two more years)
9 AM Movie: "Captain Black Jack"
10:30 Concentration
11 AM Personality
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N Jeopardy!
12:30 Eye Guess
12:55 NBC News
1 PM It Takes Two
1:25 News
1:30 You're Putting Me On
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 You Don't Say!
4 PM Match Game
4:25 NBC News
4:30 Rawhide
5:30 F Troop
6 PM Movie: "The Bandits Of Corsica"
7:30 Charlie Chaplin
8 PM The Saint (NBC, delay from Fri 10 PM)
9 PM NBC Movie: "Nobody's Perfect"
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:15 Triangle Forum
11:30 Merv Griffin
WCTU (WCNC) Ch. 36 Charlotte (Ind.)
3:30 Movie: "The Secret Of St. Ives"
5 PM Movie: "The Brave Bulls"
7 PM Tarzan (CBS, delay from Wed 7:30 PM)
8 PM Last Resort (don't know what this is)
8:30 Movie: "Combat Squad" (watch for Hal March, host of "The
$64,000 Question," in this one from '53)
10 PM Run For Your Life
11 PM Movie: "White Tie And Tails"
WTVI Ch. 42 Charlotte (NET)
5:30 Tell-A-Tale Time
5:45 Friendly Giant
6 PM Black Heritage
6:30 Jazz Alley
7 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
7:30 Auto Mechanics
8 PM Say It With Hands
8:30 Living For The Sixties (Prof. Bert James Loewenberg and
student Frances Muller of Sarah Lawrence College; Sidney
Margolius, author of "How To Make The Best Of Your Money")
9 PM Feature This
9:30 Museum Open House
10 PM Thurber Tonight
WUBC (WMYV) Ch. 48 Greensboro (Ind.)
3:25 News
3:30 Mr. Green (kids' show)
4:30 Cisco Kid
5 PM Championship Bowling
6 PM Questions, Answers, Opinions
7 PM Stoney Creek Boys
7:30 The Prisoner (this aired on CBS Thursdays at 8
in the summer of '69 and may have been pre-empted
on Ch. 2)
8:30 Movie: "The Night Of The Hunter"
10 PM News
From TV Guide, North Carolina Edition:
WFMY Ch. 2 Greensboro (CBS)
6 AM Conversations In Black (first of six discussions with members of the
black community; today: community involvement)
6:30 Good Morning Show (Lee Kinard interviews Ken Curtis and Buck Taylor
of "Gunsomke.")
7:55 Morning Devotion
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Old Rebel Show (long-running kids' show with George Perry)
9:30 What's Cooking Today? (another long-running Triad institution, with
Cordelia Kelly)
10 AM The Lucy Show (guest: Michael J. Pollard)
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies (guest: Martha Hyer)
11 AM Andy Griffith (guest: Alvy Moore, Mr. Kimball on "Green Acres")
11:30 Love Of Life
12 N Where The Heart Is
12:25 News (local)
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Anniversary Game (host Alan Hamel and model Suzanne Somers met
on this show and later married)
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
2:30 Guiding Light
3 PM Secret Storm
3:30 Edge Of Night
4 PM Gomer Pyle, USMC
4:30 Flintstones
5 PM Perry Mason
6 PM News, Weather, Sports
6:30 CBS News (Walter Cronkite)
7 PM Buck Owens
7:30 Gunsmoke
8:30 The Lucy Show (guest: Jack Carter, "Here's Lucy" returns next week)
9 PM Mayberry R.F.D.
9:30 Family Affair
10 PM Big Game America (50th-anniversary salute to the NFL; Carol Burnett
returns next week)
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:30 Merv Griffin (Mike Wallace and Harry Reasoner, Ann Miller, Totie Fields,
singer Eloise Laws)
WUND Ch. 2 Columbia/Edenton, NC/WUNC Ch. 4 Chapel Hill/WUNG Ch. 58
Concord, NC (NET)
9 AM U.S. History
9:30 Film: "Basic Physics Of The Atom Bomb"
10 AM Pocketful Of Fun
10:30 Once Upon A Day
11 AM World Cultures
11:30 Book Beat (Lisa Richette discusses "The Throwaway Children," a study of
the juvenile court system and the children it affects.)
12 N Aspect (farm show)
12:30 News
12:45 Friendly Giant
1 PM U.S. History
1:30 TBA
2:30 World Cultures
3 PM Teacher Preparation: Science
3:30 Teacher Preparation: U.S. History
4 PM Basic Industrial Statistics
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 What's New
6 PM News
6:15 Friendly Giant
6:30 Aspect
7 PM North Carolina News Conference
7:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
8 PM World Press
9 PM NET Journal: "Still A Brother" looks at the African-American
middle class
sign off 10 PM
WBTV Ch. 3 Charlotte (CBS)
6:15 Almanac (Gil Stamper)
6:25 Conversations In Black
6:55 News
7 AM CBS News (Joseph Benti)
7:30 News, Sports, Weather
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Gomer Pyle, USMC (day-behind from 4 PM)
9:30 Hazel
10 AM The Lucy Show
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies
11 AM Andy Griffith
11:30 Love Of Life
12 N Noon Report (Ty Boyd; topic: the ins and outs of the growing
credit-card phenomenon)
12:25 Pat Lee (women's show)
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Betty Feezor
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
2:30 Guiding Light
3 PM Secret Storm
3:30 Edge Of Night
4 PM Real McCoys
4:30 Mike Douglas (co-host Doug McClure; Monte Markham, singers
Eloise Laws and the Spiral Staircase)
6 PM News, Weather, Sports
6:25 Editorial (David Rush)
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Movie: "The Miracle Of Fatima"
9 PM Mayberry R.F.D.
9:30 Family Affair
10 PM Big Game America
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:25 Editorial (David Rush)
11:30 Merv Griffin
WWAY Ch. 3 Wilmington, NC (ABC/NBC)--TV Guide got it wrong; there were
some CBS programs on Ch. 3 as well.
7 AM Cartoons
8:30 Movie: "Mickey"
10:30 That Girl (delay of I-don't-know-how-much from 12:30 PM)
11 AM Dating Game (delay from 2:30 PM)
11:30 Science Fiction Theatre
12 N Bewitched
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Dream House
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 Guiding Light
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 One Life To Live
4 PM Dark Shadows
4:30 Laramie
5:30 News, Sports, Weather
6 PM ABC News (Frank Reynolds/Howard K, Smith)
6:30 Real McCoys
7 PM Bewitched (delay from Thu 8:30 PM, will begin airing in pattern
this Thursday)
7:30 The Avengers (last show)
8:30 Guns Of Will Sonnett (last show)
9 PM The Outcasts (last show)
10 PM Dick Cavett (last Monday show; he still has shows on Tuesday
and Friday this week, then will return Dec. 29 as Joey Bishop's
replacement)
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:05 Movie: "Outside The Law"
WRAL Ch. 5 Raleigh (ABC)
6 AM Daybreak
6:55 Viewpoint (Jesse Helms)
7 AM CBS News (Joseph Benti; WTVD was carrying the "Today" show)
8 AM Time For Uncle Paul (kids' show with Paul Montgomery)
8:30 Mike Douglas (co-hostess Dinah Shore; Jack Palance, Mickey
Rooney, the Checkmates)
10 AM Bette Elliott (women's show)
10:30 Dark Shadows
11 AM That Girl (guest: Billy DeWolfe, delay from 12:30 PM)
11:30 Bewitched (day-behind from 12 N)
12 N News, Sports, Weather
12:50 Fashions In Sewing (Lucille Rivers)
1 PM Dream House
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 Dating Game
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 Movie: "Gentlemen Of The Night"
5 PM Flintstones
5:30 I Love Lucy
5:55 Sports, News, Weather
6:30 Huntley-Brinkley Report (WRAL seemed to have problems with
Frank Reynolds' commentaries and aired NBC instead.)
7 PM That Girl (delay from Thu 8 PM)
7:30 The Avengers
8:30 Guns Of Will Sonnett
9 PM The Outcasts
10 PM Dick Cavett
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:30 Movie: "Circle Of Deception"
WECT Ch. 6 Wilmington, NC (NBC/CBS)
6:30 Carolina In The Morning
7 AM Today ("Do Women Dare...," a symposium with Rep. Shirley
Chisholm and Gloria Steinem taking part; the rights of Native
Americans; Debbie Reynolds discusses her new NBC sitcom;
Helgi Tomasson, featured dancer with the Harkness Ballet)
9 AM Mike Douglas (Tim Hardin, Robert Klein)
10 AM It Takes Two (Anna Maria Alberghetti, Jim Backus, Julius Wechter
of the Baja Marimba Band, and their spouses)
10:25 NBC News (Nancy Dickerson)
10:30 Concentration
11 AM Personality (Chelsea Brown, Joan Fontaine, Rocky Graziano; on film:
Debbie Reynolds)
11:30 Hollywood Squares (Marty Allen, Kaye Ballard, Rona Barrett, John Byner,
Harvey Korman, Jo Anne Worley, Wally Cox, Charley Weaver, Paul Lynde)
12 N Jeopardy!
12:30 Eye Guess
12:55 NBC News (Edwin Newman)
1 PM Paul Harvey
1:05 Jim Burns
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 Edge Of Night
4 PM Match Game (Burt Reynolds, Don Meredith)
4:25 NBC News (Floyd Kalber)
4:30 Make Room For Daddy (guest: Zsa Zsa Gabor)
5 PM Perry Mason
6 PM News, Weather, Sports
6:30 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7 PM Arthur Smith
7:30 My World And Welcome To It (critical hit that deserved better--
William Windom as a James Thurber-like cartoonist whose
fantasies come alive in animated segments, debut)
8 PM Laugh-In (season premiere with Debbie Reynolds and Peter Sellers)
9 PM NBC Movie: "Nobody's Perfect"
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:30 Tonight Show (Bennett Cerf is a guest.)
WITN Ch. 7 Washington, NC (NBC)
6 AM Aspect
6:30 Lassie
7 AM Today
9 AM David Frost (Chet Huntley, Henny Youngman, Morey Amsterdam,
Burt Reynolds)
10 AM It Takes Two
10:25 NBC News
10:30 Concentration
11 AM Personality
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N Jeopardy!
12:30 Eye Guess
12:55 NBC News
1 PM Divorce Court
1:30 You're Putting Me On (Sheila MacRae, Corbett Monica, E.J. Peaker,
Dick Shawn)
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 You Don't Say! (Dan Rowan and Dick Martin)
4 PM Match Game
4:25 NBC News
4:30 The Funny Page (long-running kids' show with WITNey the Hobo)
5 PM Munsters
5:30 Hazel
6 PM News, Weather, Sports
6:30 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7 PM Real McCoys
7:30 My World And Welcome To It
8 PM Laugh-In
9 PM NBC Movie: "Nobody's Perfect"
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:30 Tonight Show
WGHP Ch. 8 High Point (ABC)
6:30 University Of Michigan
7 AM Limbo's Cartoons
8:30 Romper Room
9 AM Movie: "So Evil My Love"
11 AM Real McCoys
11:30 Bewitched (day-behind from 12 N)
12 N News
12:30 That Girl
1 PM Dream House
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 Dating Game
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 One Life To Live
4 PM Movie: "Smoke Signal"
5:30 News, Sports, Weather
6 PM I Love Lucy
6:30 Dick Van Dyke
7 PM Truth Or Consequences (Ch. 8 was imitating Ch. 11 in Atlanta's
block of news, Dick Van Dyke, "Hazel," and "What's My Line?";
previous to this both had carried Merv at 6 PM.)
7:25 Weather
7:30 The Avengers
8:30 Guns Of Will Sonnett
9 PM The Outcasts
10 PM Dick Cavett
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:30 Joey Bishop (Lionel Hampton, Jonathan Frid)
WNCT Ch. 9 Greenville, NC (CBS)
6:30 Carolina Today
8:15 Fashions In Sewing
8:25 Meditations
8:30 CBS News
9 AM Captain Kangaroo
10 AM The Lucy Show
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies
11 AM Andy Griffith
11:30 Love Of Life
12 N News
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Where The Heart Is (one-hour delay, Ch. 9 had done this
with "Love Of Life" and would while "The Young And The
Restless" was a half-hour)
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
2:30 Guiding Light
3 PM Secret Storm
3:30 Edge Of Night
4 PM Gomer Pyle, USMC
4:30 Password (the 1965-67 CBS color episodes; the success of these
shows in reruns prompted ABC to revive the show in 1971)
5 PM Laramie
5:55 Paul Harvey
6 PM News, Weather, Sports
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Truth Or Consequences
7:30 Gunsmoke
8:30 The Lucy Show
9 PM Mayberry R.F.D.
9:30 Family Affair
10 PM Big Game America
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:30 Merv Griffin
WSOC Ch. 9 Charlotte (NBC)
6:45 On The House
7 AM Today
9 AM Today In The Carolinas
9:30 Movie Game
10 AM It Takes Two
10:25 NBC News
10:30 Concentration
11 AM Personality
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N Midday (Jimmy Kilgo)
12:30 Eye Guess
12:55 NBC News
1 PM Jeopardy!
1:30 You're Putting Me On
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 Flintstones
4 PM Gilligan's Island
4:30 I Love Lucy
5 PM Perry Mason
5:55 Paul Harvey
6 PM Pulse (Doug Bell)
6:30 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7 PM Project 20 ("Mirror Of America" tours Washington, DC to
illustrate the continuity of the American experience, don't know
how much of a delay this was)
8 PM Laugh-In
9 PM NBC Movie: "Nobody's Perfect"
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:30 Tonight Show
WIS Ch. 10 Columbia, SC (NBC)
6:45 Farm News
7 AM Today
9 AM Today In Carolina
10 AM It Takes Two
10:25 NBC News
10:30 Concentration
11 AM Personality
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N Jeopardy!
12:30 Eye Guess
12:55 NBC News
1 PM One O'Clock Report
1:30 You're Putting Me On
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 You Don't Say!
4 PM Mr. Knozit
4:25 NBC News
4:30 Mr. Knozit continues
5 PM Hazel
5:30 Perry Mason
6:30 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7 PM News, Sports, Weather
7:30 My World And Welcome To It
8 PM Laugh-In
9 PM Movie: "River Of No Return"
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:30 Tonight Show
WTVD Ch. 11 Durham (CBS/NBC, a situation that would
exist for two more years)
6 AM Aspect
6:30 Conversations In Black
7 AM Today
9 AM Captain Kangaroo
10 AM The Lucy Show
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies
11 AM Andy Griffith
11:30 Love Of Life
12 N Where The Heart Is
12:25 Newsbeat
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Peggy Mann
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
2:30 Guiding Light
3 PM Secret Storm
3:30 Edge Of Night
4 PM Hazel
4:30 Perry Mason
5:30 Gomer Pyle, USMC (delay from 4 PM)
6 PM News, Weather, Sports
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Beverly Hillbillies (delay from Wed 9 PM)
7:30 Gunsmoke
8:30 The Lucy Show
9 PM Mayberry R.F.D.
9:30 Family Affair
10 PM Big Game America
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:30 Tonight Show
WNBE (WCTI) Ch. 12 New Bern (ABC)
7 AM Mopo And His Friends (Ch. 12 is still not airing local programs in color.)
8 AM Romper Room
9 AM Movie: TBA
10:30 Movie: TBA
12 N Bewitched
12:30 That Girl
1 PM Dream House
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 Dating Game
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 One Life To Live
4 PM Dark Shadows
4:30 Lost In Space
5:30 Flintstones
6 PM Batman (Frank Gorshin as the Riddler)
6:30 ABC News
7 PM News, Sports, Weather
7:30 The Avengers
8:30 Guns Of Will Sonnett
9 PM The Outcasts
10 PM Dick Cavett
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:30 Joey Bishop
WSJS (WXII) Ch. 12 Winston-Salem (NBC)
6:30 Aspect
7 AM Today
9 AM Today At Home
9:30 Joan Rivers (guest: Vidal Sassoon, who attempts a
little ESP)
10 AM It Takes Two
10:25 NBC News
10:30 Concentration
11 AM Personality
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N Jeopardy!
12:30 Eye Guess
12:55 NBC News
1 PM News
1:05 Match Game (Chelsea Brown, Robert Morse, week-behind
from 4 PM)
1:30 You're Putting Me On
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 You Don't Say!
4 PM Gilligan's Island
4:30 Mike Douglas (same as WBTV)
6 PM News, Weather, Sports
6:30 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7 PM Star Trek (the classic "I, Mudd" episode)
8 PM Laugh-In
9 PM NBC Movie: "Nobody's Perfect"
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:30 Tonight Show
WBTW Ch. 13 Florence, SC (CBS/ABC)
7 AM Jim Nesbitt
7:55 News And Weather
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM CBS News
10 AM The Lucy Show
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies
11 AM Andy Griffith
11:30 Love Of Life
12 N Where The Heart Is
12:25 CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Divorce Court
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
2:30 Guiding Light
3 PM Secret Storm
3:30 Edge Of Night
4 PM Gomer Pyle, USMC
4:30 Johnny A (not familiar with it--probably a kids' show)
5 PM Cheyenne
6 PM News, Weather, Sports
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Kitty Wells (country music)
7:30 Gunsmoke
8:30 The Lucy Show
9 PM Mayberry R.F.D.
9:30 Family Affair
10 PM Big Game America
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:30 Merv Griffin
WCCB Ch. 18 Charlotte (ABC)
8 AM News
8:30 Jack LaLanne
9 AM Romper Room
10 AM Movie: "A Foreign Affair"
11:30 News, Sports, Weather, Features
12 N Bewitched
12:30 That Girl
1 PM Dream House
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 Dating Game
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 One Life To Live
4 PM Dark Shadows
4:30 Galloping Gourmet
5 PM Sgt. Mills/Three Stooges
6 PM The Pioneers (selected "Death Valley Days" reruns)
6:30 ABC News
7 PM Love That Bob
7:30 The Avengers
8:30 Guns Of Will Sonnett
9 PM The Outcasts
10 PM Dick Cavett
11 PM Galloping Gourmet
11:30 Joey Bishop
WRDU (WRDC) Ch. 28 Durham (NBC/CBS, a situation that would
last two more years)
9 AM Movie: "Captain Black Jack"
10:30 Concentration
11 AM Personality
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N Jeopardy!
12:30 Eye Guess
12:55 NBC News
1 PM It Takes Two
1:25 News
1:30 You're Putting Me On
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 You Don't Say!
4 PM Match Game
4:25 NBC News
4:30 Rawhide
5:30 F Troop
6 PM Movie: "The Bandits Of Corsica"
7:30 Charlie Chaplin
8 PM The Saint (NBC, delay from Fri 10 PM)
9 PM NBC Movie: "Nobody's Perfect"
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:15 Triangle Forum
11:30 Merv Griffin
WCTU (WCNC) Ch. 36 Charlotte (Ind.)
3:30 Movie: "The Secret Of St. Ives"
5 PM Movie: "The Brave Bulls"
7 PM Tarzan (CBS, delay from Wed 7:30 PM)
8 PM Last Resort (don't know what this is)
8:30 Movie: "Combat Squad" (watch for Hal March, host of "The
$64,000 Question," in this one from '53)
10 PM Run For Your Life
11 PM Movie: "White Tie And Tails"
WTVI Ch. 42 Charlotte (NET)
5:30 Tell-A-Tale Time
5:45 Friendly Giant
6 PM Black Heritage
6:30 Jazz Alley
7 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
7:30 Auto Mechanics
8 PM Say It With Hands
8:30 Living For The Sixties (Prof. Bert James Loewenberg and
student Frances Muller of Sarah Lawrence College; Sidney
Margolius, author of "How To Make The Best Of Your Money")
9 PM Feature This
9:30 Museum Open House
10 PM Thurber Tonight
WUBC (WMYV) Ch. 48 Greensboro (Ind.)
3:25 News
3:30 Mr. Green (kids' show)
4:30 Cisco Kid
5 PM Championship Bowling
6 PM Questions, Answers, Opinions
7 PM Stoney Creek Boys
7:30 The Prisoner (this aired on CBS Thursdays at 8
in the summer of '69 and may have been pre-empted
on Ch. 2)
8:30 Movie: "The Night Of The Hunter"
10 PM News