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Retro: North Carolina Saturday, December 14, 1968

From TV Guide, North Carolina Edition:

WFMY Ch. 2 Greensboro (CBS)

7 AM Sunrise Semester: "Philosophy"
7:30 Rifleman
8 AM Go-Go Gophers
8:30 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour
9:30 Santa And Marco (Marco is a polar bear played
by one of the station's staff.)
10 AM The Archie Show
10:30 Batman/Superman Hour
11:30 Herculoids
12 N Shazzan!
12:30 Jonny Quest
1 PM Moby Dick And The Mighty Mightor
1:30 Changing Times
1:45 NFL Pre-Game Show
2 PM NFL Football: Browns-Cardinals
5 PM Daktari (time approximate, delay from Wed 7:30 PM)
6 PM It's Racing Time (horse racing)
6:30 CBS News (Roger Mudd)
7 PM News, Sports, Weather
7:30 Jackie Gleason (Ralph takes a job as a sidewalk Santa
when he thinks Alice is pregnant.)
8:30 My Three Sons
9 PM Hogan's Heroes
9:30 Petticoat Junction
10 PM Mannix
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:20 Movie: "Female On The Beach"

WUND Ch. 2 Edenton/WUNC Ch. 4 Chapel Hill/WUNG Ch. 58 Concord, NC (NET)
off air on Saturday

WBTV Ch. 3 Charlotte (CBS)

6:45 News Of The Church
7 AM Rascals' Club (Fred Kirby)
8 AM Go-Go Gophers
8:30 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour
9:30 Wacky Races
10 AM The Archie Show
10:30 Batman/Superman Hour
11:30 Herculoids
12 N Shazzan!
12:30 Jonny Quest
1 PM Pastors Face Your Questions
1:30 Lefty Driesell: Davidson basketball highlights
1:45 NFL Pre-Game Show
2 PM NFL Football: Browns-Cardinals
5 PM Wrestling (Missouri Mauler and Hiro Matsuda vs.
Jesse James and Les Wolff; Sailor Art Thomas
and Johnny Weaver vs. El Gaucho and Leon Baxter,
from Charlotte, time approximate)
6 PM News, Sports, Weather
6:30 Death Valley Days
7 PM Win With The Stars
7:30 Jackie Gleason
8:30 My Three Sons
9 PM Hogan's Heroes
9:30 Petticoat Junction
10 PM Mannix
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:30 Movie: "The Best Things In Life Are Free"

WWAY Ch. 3 Wilmington, NC (ABC/NBC)

7 AM Landscaping The Home Grounds
7:30 The Deputy
8 AM Little Rascals
9 AM New Casper Cartoon Show
9:30 Adventures Of Gulliver
10 AM Spider-Man
10:30 Fantastic Voyage
11 AM Journey To The Center Of The Earth
11:30 Fantastic Four
12 N NCAA Pre-Game Show
12:15 Liberty Bowl: Ole Miss-Virginia Tech (Ole Miss
won, 34-17)
3:15 1968 Golf Highlights (time approximate)
3:30 George Of The Jungle
4 PM American Bandstand
5 PM Wide World Of Sports (boxing: middleweight champ
Nino Benvenuti vs. Don Fullmer, 15 rounds, from San
Remo, Italy)
6:30 That Girl (delay from Thu 9 PM)
7 PM Win With The Stars
7:30 Dating Game (guest: Lucie Arnaz)
8 PM Newlywed Game
8:30 Lawrence Welk (the Music Makers get in a holiday mood)
9:30 Hollywood Palace (host: Jimmy Durante; guests: Ethel Merman,
Sugar Ray Robinson, Bill Dana, Vikki Carr, comics Hendra and
Ullett, the Iriston Horsemen from the Moscow State Circus)
10:30 Felony Squad (delay from Fri 8:30 PM)
11 PM ABC News (Keith McBee)
11:15 Movie: "House Of Wax"

WRAL Ch. 5 Raleigh (ABC)

6:30 Movies: "Murders In The Rue Morgue" (with Bela Lugosi, from '32),
"Black Friday" (Lugosi and Boris Karloff, from '40)
9 AM New Casper Cartoon Show
9:30 Adventures Of Gulliver
10 AM Spider-Man
10:30 Fantastic Voyage
11 AM Journey To The Center Of The Earth
11:30 Teen Topics
12 N NCAA Pre-Game Show
12:15 Liberty Bowl: Ole Miss-Virginia Tech
3:15 1968 Golf Highlights (time approximate)
3:30 Teenage Frolics
4 PM American Bandstand
5 PM Wrestling (from Raleigh)
6 PM Grand Ole Opry
6:30 Porter Wagoner
7 PM Wilburn Brothers
7:30 Win With The Stars
8 PM Newlywed Game
8:30 Lawrence Welk
9:30 Hollywood Palace
10:30 Dating Game (delay from 7:30 PM)
11 PM ABC News
11:15 News, Sports, Weather
11:30 Movie: "The Court Martial Of Billy Mitchell"

WECT Ch. 6 Wilmington, NC (NBC/CBS)

7 AM Western Movie (title not given)
9 AM Super 6
9:30 Top Cat
10 AM Flintstones
10:30 Banana Splits
11:30 Underdog
12 N Birdman And The Galaxy Trio
12:30 Super President
1 PM Williamson Brothers (country music)
1:30 Industry On Parade
2 PM NFL Football: Browns-Cardinals
5 PM AFL Football: Chiefs-Broncos (time approximate,
joined in progress)
7:30 Adam-12 (time approximate)
8 PM Get Smart
8:30 Ghost And Mrs. Muir
9 PM NBC Movie: "The Glory Guys"
11:15 Movie: "It's A Big Country" (dramatizations of various
ethnic groups who make up America, from '51)

WITN Ch. 7 Washington, NC (NBC)

7 AM Forest Rangers
7:30 Superman
8 AM Hospitality House
9 AM Super 6
9:30 Top Cat
10 AM Flintstones
10:30 Banana Splits
11:30 Underdog
12 N Birdman And The Galaxy Trio
12:30 Super President
1 PM Lassie (no delay; these are the Jon Provost episodes)
1:30 North Carolina Wildlife
2 PM Movie: "Lafayette" (Orson Welles in the title role, from '63)
4 PM GE College Bowl: Duke vs. Oberlin College
4:30 AFL Football: Chiefs-Broncos
7:30 Adam-12 (time approximate)
8 PM Get Smart
8:30 Ghost And Mrs. Muir
9 PM NBC Movie: "The Glory Guys"
11:15 News, Sports, Weather
11:30 Movie: "The Amorous Mr. Prawn"

WGHP Ch. 8 High Point (ABC)

5:45 Church News
6 AM Aspect (farm show)
6:30 I Believe In Miracles (Kathryn Kuhlman)
7 AM Roger Ramjet
7:30 Limbo's Cartoons
9 AM Santa's Workshop
10:30 Fantastic Voyage
11 AM Journey To The Center Of The Earth
11:30 Fantastic Four
12 N NCAA Pre-Game Show
12:15 Liberty Bowl: Ole Miss-Virginia Tech
3:15 Changing Times (time approximate)
3:30 Teenage Frolics (a new one to me: I never
remember Ch. 8 carrying WRAL's long-running
dance party, although it carried "Soul Train" for years)
4 PM American Bandstand
5 PM Wide World Of Sports
6:30 Wrestling (from the studio)
7:30 Win With The Stars
8 PM Newlywed Game
8:30 Lawrence Welk
9:30 Hollywood Palace
10:30 All-American College Show
11 PM ABC News
11:15 Movie: "Mania" (Peter Cushing, from '60)

WNCT Ch. 9 Greenville, NC (CBS)

8 AM Go-Go Gophers
8:30 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour
9:30 Wacky Races
10 AM The Archie Show
10:30 Batman/Superman Hour
11:30 Herculoids
12 N Shazzan!
12:30 Jonny Quest
1 PM Cartoons
1:15 Vic Bubas: Duke basketball highlights
1:30 Norm Sloan: N.C. State basketball highlights
1:45 NFL Pre-Game Show
2 PM NFL Football: Browns-Cardinals
5 PM Perry Mason (time approximate)
6 PM Bill Anderson
6:30 Porter Wagoner
7 PM Win With The Stars
7:30 Jackie Gleason
8:30 My Three Sons
9 PM Hogan's Heroes
9:30 Petticoat Junction
10 PM Mannix
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:15 Roller Derby
12:15 Movie: "The Son Of Dr. Jekyll"

WSOC Ch. 9 Charlotte (NBC)

7 AM Action Time
7:30 Cisco Kid
8 AM Super 6
8:30 Movie: "Safari Drums" (Johnny Sheffield as Bomba
the jungle boy, from '53)
10 AM Big WAYS Parade (Charlotte's top top-40 radio station's
Christmas parade)
10:30 Banana Splits
11:30 Underdog
12 N Kilgo's Kanteen (Jimmy Kilgo)
1 PM Roller Derby
2 PM Flintstones (delay from 10 AM)
2:30 Mr. Firecracker (an evil character who knows where
Santa's secret warehouse is and plans to destroy
all the toys)
3:30 Film: "Spirit Of Christmas"
4 PM GE College Bowl
4:30 AFL Football: Chiefs-Broncos
7:30 Adam-12 (time approximate)
8 PM Get Smart
8:30 Ghost And Mrs. Muir
9 PM NBC Movie: "The Glory Guys"
11:15 News, Sports, Weather
11:45 Movie: "Nearly A Nasty Accident"

WIS Ch. 10 Columbia, SC (NBC)

7 AM Social Security In Action
7:15 Agricultural Panorama
7:30 Captain Scarlett
8 AM Jolly Jim
9 AM Super 6
9:30 Top Cat
10 AM Flintstones
10:30 Banana Splits
11:30 Underdog
12 N Birdman And The Galaxy Trio
12:30 Super President
1 PM Film: Miss America of 1965, Vonda Kay Van Dyke,
performs the ventriloquist routine which won her
the title.
1:30 Merv Griffin
3 PM Wagon Train
4:30 AFL Football: Chiefs-Broncos
7:30 News (time approximate)
8 PM Get Smart
8:30 Ghost And Mrs. Muir
9 PM NBC Movie: "The Glory Guys"
11:15 News, Sports, Weather
11:45 Movie: "The Mind Benders" (it's from England, 1963,
but nothing to do with Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders)

WTVD Ch. 11 Durham (CBS/NBC)

6:30 Sunrise Semester
7 AM Birdman And The Galaxy Trio
7:30 Top Cat
8 AM Go-Go Gophers
8:30 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour
9:30 Wacky Races
10 AM The Archie Show
10:30 Banana Splits
11:30 Flintstones (delay from 10 AM; WRAL was airing the show
Monday-Friday at 3:30 PM)
12 N Shazzan!
12:30 Jonny Quest
1 PM TBA
1:15 Norm Sloan
1:30 Vic Bubas
1:45 NFL Pre-Game Show
2 PM NFL Football: Browns-Cardinals
5 PM Conversation With Kerr And Friday (I assume this is William
Friday, recently-deceased former president of UNC-Chapel Hill
and host of "North Carolina People" on UNC-TV; I don't know who
Kerr is, time approximate)
5:30 GE College Bowl (delay from 4 PM)
6 PM All Star Bingo
6:30 Star Trek (delay from Fri 10 PM)
7:30 Jackie Gleason
8:30 Ghost And Mrs. Muir
9 PM NBC Movie: "The Glory Guys"
11:15 News, Sports, Weather
11:45 Untouchables

WNBE (WCTI) Ch. 12 New Bern (ABC)

7 AM Cisco Kid
7:30 White Hunter
8 AM Telestory Time
8:15 King And Odie
9 AM New Casper Cartoon Show
9:30 Adventures Of Gulliver
10 AM Spider-Man
10:30 Fantastic Voyage
11 AM Journey To The Center Of The Earth
11:30 King And Odie
12 N NCAA Pre-Game Show
12:15 Liberty Bowl: Ole Miss-Virginia Tech
3:15 1968 Golf Highlights (time approximate)
3:30 George Of The Jungle
4 PM American Bandstand
5 PM Wide World Of Sports
6:30 News, Sports, Weather
7 PM Robin Hood
7:30 Dating Game
8 PM Newlywed Game
8:30 Lawrence Welk
9:30 Hollywood Palace
10:30 Western Star Theater
11 PM ABC News
11:15 Wrestling (from New Bern)
12:15 Death Valley Days

WSJS (WXII) Ch. 12 Winston-Salem (NBC)

7 AM Farm Report
7:30 Astro Boy
8 AM Cartoon Carnival
9 AM Super 6
9:30 Top Cat
10 AM Flintstones
10:30 Banana Splits
11:30 Underdog
12 N Birdman And The Galaxy Trio
12:30 Super President
1 PM Bob Gordon Theatre (guests: singing group The
Wagoneers, from Hamptonville, NC; movie: "Marauders
Of The Sea"; "Bachelor Father")
3:45 Parsons To Persons
4 PM GE College Bowl
4:30 AFL Football: Chiefs-Broncos
7:30 Adam-12 (time approximate)
8 PM Get Smart
8:30 Ghost And Mrs. Muir
9 PM NBC Movie: "The Glory Guys"
11:15 News, Sports, Weather
11:30 Movie: "Cry Vengeance"

WBTW Ch. 13 Florence, SC (CBS/ABC)

7 AM King Kong (ABC, delay from Sun 10:30 AM)
7:30 New Casper Cartoon Show
8 AM Go-Go Gophers
8:30 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour
9:30 Wacky Races
10 AM The Archie Show
10:30 Batman/Superman Hour
11:30 Herculoids
12 N Shazzan!
12:30 Jonny Quest
1 PM Platform
1:15 Kathy Hill (country music)
1:45 NFL Pre-Game Show
2 PM NFL Football: Browns-Cardinals
5 PM Wrestling (from Charlotte, time approximate)
6 PM All Star Bingo
6:30 News, Weather, Sports
7 PM Win With The Stars
7:30 Jackie Gleason
8:30 Lawrence Welk (delay of at least a week)
9:30 Petticoat Junction
10 PM Mannix
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:30 Movie: "One Desire"

WCCB Ch. 18 Charlotte (ABC)

8:30 King And Odie
9 AM New Casper Cartoon Show
9:30 Adventures Of Gulliver
10 AM Spider-Man
10:30 Fantastic Voyage
11 AM Journey To The Center Of The Earth
11:30 Fantastic Four
12 N NCAA Pre-Game Show
12:15 Liberty Bowl: Ole Miss-Virginia Tech
3:15 1968 Golf Highlights (time approximate)
3:30 George Of The Jungle
4 PM American Bandstand
5 PM Wide World Of Sports
6:30 Film
7 PM All Star Bingo
7:30 Dating Game
8 PM Newlywed Game
8:30 Lawrence Welk
9:30 Hollywood Palace
10:30 Gadabout Gaddis
11 PM Movie: "I Wanted Wings"
12:30 ABC News

WRDU (WRDC) Ch. 28 Durham (NBC/CBS)

2 PM Movie: "Last Days Of Pompeii"
3:30 Wrestling (from Tampa)
4:30 AFL Football: Chiefs-Broncos
7:30 Adam-12
8 PM Get Smart
8:30 TBA
9 PM Hogan's Heroes
9:30 Petticoat Junction
10 PM Mannix
NOTE: This 9-11 block is what ultimately caused the FCC to
force WTVD to choose between CBS and NBC (likewise, WAPI/
WVTM Birmingham) since people were opting to watch these
CBS shows on either WFMY or WNCT. Ch. 28 complained and
the rest is history.
11 PM News, Sports, Weather

WCTU (WCNC) Ch. 36 Charlotte (Ind.)

1:30 TBA
2 PM Wild Bill Hickok
2:30 Safari USA
3 PM Quick Draw McGraw
3:30 Country Music
4 PM Movie: "Indian Uprising"
5:30 Ken Linker (local country-music show, with guests
Ski (that's how it's spelled) King, Kitty North, the
Centaurs, and Joan Leslie (not the '40s movie star))
6:30 CBS News (pre-empted on WBTV)
7 PM Overland Trail
8 PM Rebtown USA
8:30 Wrestling (from Tampa)
9:30 Bullfights From Mexico (I remember Ch. 17 in Atlanta
carrying these in the early '70s.)
10:30 Movie: "Attack Of The Mushroom People"
12 M Movie: "Creature With The Atom Brain"

WTVI Ch. 42 Charlotte (NET)
off air on Saturday

WUBC (WMYV) Ch. 48 Greensboro (Ind.)

3:30 Movie: TBA
4:30 Christ And The Meaning Of Life
5:30 Sportsmanlike Driving
6 PM Wrestling (don't know from where)
7 PM Roller Derby
8 PM Movie: "The Oklahoma Kid" (Cagney and Bogart
in a Western from '39; frankly, I could never see
either as credible cowboys)
9:30 Public Defender
10 PM Woody Greeson (local country-music show; he's
still active around the Triad)
 
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