Retro: North Carolina Saturday, December 30, 1967

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From TV Guide, North Carolina Edition:

WFMY Ch. 2 Greensboro (CBS)

7 AM Sunrise Semester: "Russian Literature"
7:30 Stingray
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Frankenstein Jr. And The Impossibles
9:30 Herculoids
10 AM Shazzan!
10:30 Space Ghost
11 AM Moby Dick And The Mighty Mightor
11:30 Superman/Aquaman Hour Of Adventure
12:30 Jonny Quest
1 PM Lone Ranger (animated)
1:30 Blue-Gray Game (Blue won, 22-16)
4:15 NHL Hockey: Flyers-Kings (debut of CBS's NHL coverage,
time approximate)
7 PM Local News (time approximate)
7:30 Jackie Gleason (Milton Berle, Louis Armstrong, Kate Smith,
Frank Fontaine)
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: "Drum Beat"

WUND Ch. 2 Edenton/WUNC Ch. 4 Chapel Hill (NET)
off air on Saturday

WBTV Ch. 3 Charlotte (CBS)

6:45 News Of The Church
7 AM Rascals Club
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Frankenstein Jr. And The Impossibles
9:30 Herculoids
10 AM Shazzan!
10:30 Space Ghost
11 AM Moby Dick And The Mighty Mightor
11:30 Superman/Aquaman Hour Of Adventure
12:30 Jonny Quest
1 PM Lone Ranger (animated)
1:30 Blue-Gray Game
4:30 Country Style Roundup (time approximate)
5:15 Championship Wrestling (from Charlotte: Gene and
Lars Anderson vs. the Amazing Zuma and Roger Kirby;
P.Y. Chung vs. Alex Medina; Les Thatcher vs. Pancho Valdez)
6 PM News, Weather, Sports
6:30 Death Valley Days (guest: Rudy Vallee)
7 PM TV Super Bingo (guests: Arlene Francis and Nipsey Russell)
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
11:20 Movies: "The Revolt Of Mamie Stover" and "Ten Wanted Men"

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

7 AM Trails West
7:30 Milton The Monster (delay from Sun 9:30 AM)
8 AM Little Rascals
8:55 Weather (Gene Johnson)
9 AM New Casper Cartoon Show
9:30 Fantastic Four
10 AM Spider-Man
10:30 Journey To The Center Of The Earth
11 AM King Kong
11:30 George Of The Jungle
12 N Beatles
12:30 American Bandstand (the Rose Garden sing "Last
Plane To London")
1:30 TBA
2 PM Golf: 1967 USGA Highlights
2:15 Gator Bowl: Penn State-Florida State (game ended in a
17-17 tie)
5 PM Wide World Of Sports (International Ski Jumping Championship,
men's demolition derby, NBA review of last season, time approximate)
6:30 Dragnet (NBC, delay from Thu 9:30 PM)
7 PM It's Racing Time
7:30 Dating Game
8 PM Newlywed Game
8:30 Lawrence Welk (guests: 19-year-old singer Tanya Falan, who would
become a regular and Larry Welk Jr.'s wife; 13-year-old trumpeter
David Joy)
9:30 Iron Horse
10:30 Accidental Family (NBC, delay from Fri 9:30 PM)
11 PM Trails West
11:30 ABC News (Keith McBee)
11:45 Movie: "The Werewolf"

WRAL Ch. 5 Raleigh (ABC/CBS)

6:30 Movies: "Going Steady" and "The Little Shop Of Horrors"
9:30 Fantastic Four
10 AM Spider-Man
10:30 Journey To The Center Of The Earth
11 AM King Kong
11:30 George Of The Jungle
12 N Beatles
12:30 American Bandstand
1:30 Peter Gunn
2 PM Golf: 1967 USGA Highlights
2:15 Gator Bowl
5 PM Championship Wrestling (from the studio, time approximate)
6 PM Flatt And Scruggs
6:30 Porter Wagoner
7 PM Wilburn Brothers
7:30 It's Racing Time
8 PM Newlywed Game
8:30 Lawrence Welk
9:30 Iron Horse
10:30 Dating Game
11 PM ABC News
11:15 News And Weather
11:25 Movie: "The Case Against Mrs. Ames"

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

7:30 Adult Farmer Education
8 AM Three Stooges
9 AM Super 6
9:30 Super President
10 AM Flintstones
10:30 Samson & Goliath
11 AM Birdman (Harvey Birdman) And The Galaxy Trio
11:30 Atom Ant/Secret Squirrel
12 N Top Cat
12:30 Cool McCool
1 PM Movie: "Break To Freedom"
2:30 Movie: "Revenge Rider"
3:30 Movie: "Sundown On The Prairie" (Tex Ritter)
4:30 East-West Shrine Game (East won, 16-14)
7:30 King Orange Jamboree Parade (Raymond Burr and
Anita Bryant host from Miami, time approximate)
8:30 Greyhound Derby
9 PM NBC Movie: "Something Wild" (watch for Jean Stapleton
in this one from '61)
11:15 Twin State Trio
12:15 Movie: "The Flame Barrier"

WITN Ch. 7 Washington, NC (NBC)

7 AM Big Picture
7:30 It's A Small World
8 AM Superman
8:30 Space Angel
9 AM Super 6
9:30 Super President
10 AM Flintstones
10:30 Samson & Goliath
11 AM Birdman And The Galaxy Trio
11:30 Atom Ant/Secret Squirrel
12 N Top Cat
12:30 Cool McCool
1 PM AFL Playoff: Jets-Oilers (elsewhere I said the Jets won
this game; they didn't--Houston lost to Oakland, 40-7 in
the AFL championship game)
4:30 East-West Shrine Game (time approximate)
7:30 King Orange Jamboree Parade (time approximate)
8:30 Greyhound Derby
9 PM NBC Movie: "Something Wild"
11:15 News, Sports, Weather
11:30 Movie: "Duel Of Champions" (watch for Brian Keith's dad
Robert as the king of Rome in this one from '61)

WGHP Ch. 8 High Point (ABC)

6:45 News Of The Church
7 AM Gumby
7:30 Roger Ramjet
8 AM Limbo And The Little Rascals
9 AM New Casper Cartoon Show
9:30 Fantastic Four
10 AM Spider-Man
10:30 Journey To The Center Of The Earth
11 AM King Kong
11:30 George Of The Jungle
12 N Beatles
12:30 American Bandstand
1:30 TBA
2 PM Golf: 1967 USGA Highlights
2:15 Gator Bowl
5 PM Wide World Of Sports (time approximate)
6:30 Porter Wagoner
7 PM Grand Ole Opry
7:30 Wilburn Brothers
8 PM Newlywed Game
8:30 Lawrence Welk
9:30 Iron Horse
10:30 ABC Scope (roundtable discussion of Vietnam policy)
11 PM ABC News
11:15 Movie: "The Horrible Dr. Hickcock"

WNCT Ch. 9 Greenville, NC (CBS)

8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Frankenstein Jr. And The Impossibles
9:30 Herculoids
10 AM Shazzan!
10:30 Space Ghost
11 AM Moby Dick And The Mighty Mightor
11:30 Superman/Aquaman Hour Of Adventure
12:30 Jonny Quest
1 PM Lone Ranger (animated)
1:30 Blue-Gray Game
4:30 The Deputy (time approximate)
5 PM Championship Wrestling (don't know from where,
probably Raleigh)
6 PM Village Square
6:30 Porter Wagoner
7 PM It's Racing Time
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 Brighton Strangler"

WSOC Ch. 9 Charlotte (NBC)

7 AM Seven Bells
7:30 Zane Grey Theater
8 AM Cisco Kid
8:30 Astroboy
9 AM Super 6
9:30 Super President
10 AM Flintstones
10:30 Samson & Goliath
11 AM Birdman And The Galaxy Trio
11:30 Atom Ant/Secret Squirrel
12 N Top Cat
12:30 Cool McCool
1 PM AFL Playoff: Jets-Oilers
4:30 East-West Shrine Game (time approximate)
7:30 King Orange Jamboree Parade (time approximate)
8:30 Get Smart
9 PM NBC Movie: "Something Wild"
11:15 News, Sports, Weather
11:45 Movie: "Duel In The Sun"

WTVD Ch. 11 Durham (CBS/NBC)

6:30 Sunrise Semester
7 AM Super President
7:30 Birdman And The Galaxy Trio
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Frankenstein Jr. And The Impossibles
9:30 Herculoids
10 AM Shazzan!
10:30 Space Ghost
11 AM Moby Dick And The Mighty Mightor
11:30 Superman/Aquaman Hour Of Adventure
12:30 Jonny Quest
1 PM Greyhound Derby
1:30 Blue-Gray Game
4:30 East-West Shrine Game (time approximate)
7:30 Jackie Gleason (time approximate)
8:30 Hogan's Heroes (delay of at least a week)
9 PM NBC Movie: "Something Wild"
11:15 News, Sports, Weather
11:45 Wagon Train (guest: Barbara Stanwyck)

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

7 AM Movie: "Riders Of The Range"
8:15 Telestory Time
8:30 King And Odie
9 AM New Casper Cartoon Show
9:30 Fantastic Four
10 AM Spider-Man
10:30 Journey To The Center Of The Earth
11 AM King Kong
11:30 George Of The Jungle
12 N Beatles
12:30 American Bandstand
1:30 College Football Review
2 PM Golf: 1967 USGA Highlights
2:15 Gator Bowl
5 PM Wide World Of Sports (time approximate)
6:30 Sports, News, Weather
7 PM Wildlife In North Carolina
7:30 Dating Game
8 PM Newlywed Game
8:30 Lawrence Welk
9:30 Iron Horse
10:30 ABC Scope
11 PM ABC News
11:15 Wrestling (from New Bern)
sign off 12:15 AM

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

7 AM Farm Report
7:30 Dwight Barker (local country-music show)
8 AM Cartoon Carnival
9 AM Super 6
9:30 Super President
10 AM Flintstones
10:30 Samson & Goliath
11 AM Birdman And The Galaxy Trio
11:30 Atom Ant/Secret Squirrel
12 N Top Cat
12:30 Cool McCool
1 PM AFL Playoff: Jets-Oilers
4:30 East-West Shrine Game (time approximate)
7:30 King Orange Jamboree Parade (time approximate)
8:30 Get Smart
9 PM NBC Movie: "Something Wild"
11:15 News, Sports, Weather
11:30 Movie: "The Tall Stranger"

WCCB Ch. 18 Charlotte (ABC)

8:30 Pancho's Corral
9 AM New Casper Cartoon Show
9:30 Fantastic Four
10 AM Spider-Man
10:30 Journey To The Center Of The Earth
11 AM King Kong
11:30 George Of The Jungle
12 N Beatles
12:30 American Bandstand
1:30 Film Feature
2 PM Golf: 1967 USGA Highlights
2:15 Gator Bowl
5 PM Wide World Of Sports (time approximate)
6:30 TBA
7 PM Peter Gunn
7:30 Dating Game
8 PM Newlywed Game
8:30 Lawrence Welk
9:30 Iron Horse
10:30 ABC Scope
11 PM ABC News
11:15 Movie: "The Knight Of 100 Faces"

 

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WBTV Ch. 3 Charlotte (CBS)

5:15 Championship Wrestling (from Charlotte: Gene and
Lars Anderson vs. the Amazing Zuma and Roger Kirby;
P.Y. Chung vs. Alex Medina; Les Thatcher vs. Pancho Valdez)

...as in the original "Enforcer," "Luscious Lars Anderson," one of the three (kayfabe) brothers in the original Minnesota Wrecking Crew; after Gene Anderson quit the team to become a heel manager, Ole Anderson joined up with his (kayfabe) nephew Arn Anderson to form what eventually morphed into The Four Horsemen. Lars left the Crockett NWA circa 1969 and tagged with "Pretty Boy" Larry Hennig in Verne Gagne's AWA promotion, holding the AWA Midwest Tag Team Championship in 1971-72. It was while driving to Minneapolis after a Winnipeg match against Anderson and Hennig that AWA World Tag Team Champions Hercules Cortez and Red Bastien were injured in a car crash near St. Cloud, MN, on 23 July 1971 (Cortez died the same day of his injuries). Not long after that, Lars Anderson dropped that name and started wrestling under his legal name of Larry Heineimi; in the '80s, Heineimi was hired to book the Hawaiian-based Polynesian Pacific Wrestling until that promotion folded...

 

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In 1978 Lars started a promotion in Georgia, World League Wrestling,
in an attempt to compete with Georgia Championship Wrestling. He
wanted to make it more like legitimate (amateur) wrestling; needless
to say, the public didn't buy it. He had a (real) argument with Ole about
the nature of professional wrestling at the time; Ole (I think, correctly)
defending the use of showmanship in what Vince McMahon calls "sports
entertainment."

What pro wrestling I've seen that most resembled amateur wrestling (and
don't misunderstand, it wasn't amateur wrestling) was Verne Gagne's promotion;
he seemed to recruit a lot of guys from the Big Ten wrestling powerhouses like
Iowa State, and they looked like they really could wrestle.

But don't think for one minute that these guys can't take care of themselves
outside the ring; I remember one morning Ric Flair and Wahoo McDaniel were
having breakfast in a Gastonia, NC, restaurant; somebody recognized them, came
over, and started a diatribe about how wrestling was all fake. Wahoo had him on
the floor in about five seconds. The restaurant's management didn't do one thing
about it, either. OTOH, my dad once had breakfast with Big John Studd (out of
character) in Atlanta and found him to be one of the nicest, most intelligent people
he's ever met; he was particularly impressed by the fact that Studd (real name John
Minton) settled his family in Northern Virginia because of the quality of the schools.

 

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What pro wrestling I've seen that most resembled amateur wrestling (and
don't misunderstand, it wasn't amateur wrestling) was Verne Gagne's promotion;
he seemed to recruit a lot of guys from the Big Ten wrestling powerhouses like
Iowa State, and they looked like they really could wrestle.

...Gagne was a unique promoter in that respect. He would consciously book on the relatively conservative side; there were very few "exotic" types like Kamala the Ugandan Giant or The Missing Link, even in the later years when Gagne was trying to regain his standing versus Junior McMahon's WWF (Mad Dog Vachon would be the closest to an exception in that regard). And that conservative approach, coupled with an unusual house show pattern (even in major markets like Minneapolis and Chicago, the most frequent the house shows ever got was once every three to four weeks), appealed to those collegians like Brad Rheingans (who became one of Gagne's main rookie trainers, alongside Billy Robinson), Ric Flair and Laurent Soucie...

But don't think for one minute that these guys can't take care of themselves
outside the ring; I remember one morning Ric Flair and Wahoo McDaniel were
having breakfast in a Gastonia, NC, restaurant; somebody recognized them, came
over, and started a diatribe about how wrestling was all fake. Wahoo had him on
the floor in about five seconds. The restaurant's management didn't do one thing
about it, either. OTOH, my dad once had breakfast with Big John Studd (out of
character) in Atlanta and found him to be one of the nicest, most intelligent people
he's ever met; he was particularly impressed by the fact that Studd (real name John
Minton) settled his family in Northern Virginia because of the quality of the schools.

...I was involved in pro wrestling for a spell in the mid-'80s as an announcer, and one of the truly nicest guys I ever encountered was, interestingly enough, Mad Dog Vachon. He's always been an Opera enthusiast, and we wound up talking for a couple of hours one day about the importance of the Columbia Grand Opera Series of 1903-04 (the first Opera records ever recorded in the USA -- before them, everything was imported from France, Germany or Italy) and Enrico Caruso in the development of the recording industry in the early 20th Century...

 

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WBTV Ch. 3 Charlotte (CBS)

5:15 Championship Wrestling (from Charlotte: Gene and
Lars Anderson vs. the Amazing Zuma and Roger Kirby;
P.Y. Chung vs. Alex Medina; Les Thatcher vs. Pancho Valdez)

...as in the original "Enforcer," "Luscious Lars Anderson," one of the three (kayfabe) brothers in the original Minnesota Wrecking Crew; after Gene Anderson quit the team to become a heel manager, Ole Anderson joined up with his (kayfabe) nephew Arn Anderson to form what eventually morphed into The Four Horsemen. Lars left the Crockett NWA circa 1969 and tagged with "Pretty Boy" Larry Hennig in Verne Gagne's AWA promotion, holding the AWA Midwest Tag Team Championship in 1971-72. It was while driving to Minneapolis after a Winnipeg match against Anderson and Hennig that AWA World Tag Team Champions Hercules Cortez and Red Bastien were injured in a car crash near St. Cloud, MN, on 23 July 1971 (Cortez died the same day of his injuries). Not long after that, Lars Anderson dropped that name and started wrestling under his legal name of Larry Heineimi; in the '80s, Heineimi was hired to book the Hawaiian-based Polynesian Pacific Wrestling until that promotion folded...

Didn't Heineimi wrestle under his own name on "International Championship Wrestling" in the mid-'70s? I remember announcer
Jack Reynolds referring to (as he pronounced it) "Luscious Larry Heinemini."