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Retro: North Carolina Sunday, January 17, 1965

From TV Guide, North Carolina Edition:

WFMY Ch. 2 Greensboro (CBS)

10 AM Light Unto My Path
10:30 Look Up And Live (the third of five programs
on Christian unity looks at the history of
"symbols and sacraments" from pagan times
to today)
11 AM Church Service
12 N Children's Chapel
12:15 Sunday Devotions
12:30 Face The Nation
1 PM Gospel Singers
1:30 Boston Symphony
2:30 CBS Sports Spectacular (a softball game pitting a
regulation team from New Rochelle, NY against
the four-man King and His Court, featuring Eddie
Feigner, who could pitch from just about anywhere
on the field; the U.S. Grand Prix from Watkins Glen, NY)
4 PM Alumni Fun (University of Alabama (Mel Allen; James Cannon,
senior editor of Newsweek; Montgomery businessman Winton
Blount, later Nixon's Postmaster General) vs. Bryn Mawr College
(author Emily Kimbrough; Kate Rand Lloyd, associate feature
editor of Vogue; Terry Ferner of the New York Herald Tribune))
4:30 Minority Report
5 PM Sunday With Jack Benny (guest Raymond Burr; Jack dreams he
needs Perry Mason's help when he's accused of murder)
5:30 Amateur Hour (from the Miami Beach Auditorium, Ted Mack welcomes
the Charlotte Morgan Dancers)
6 PM Twentieth Century (a look at the line separating North and South Korea,
where fighting still occasionally erupts)
6:30 World War I ("Over There" looks at America's entry into the war, and the
battles of Cantigny, Belleau Wood, and the defeat of Germany's last
offensive at Chateau-Thierry.)
7 PM The Wizard Of Oz (Danny Kaye hosts the annual presentation, pre-empts
"Lassie," "My Favorite Martian," and "The Ed Sullivan Show," COLOR)
9 PM Drama Special ("The Man Who Bought Paradise" stars Robert Horton as
a businessman wanted for misappropriating company funds who breezes
into a hotel in a country with no extradition laws.)
10 PM Candid Camera (singer Martha Wright and a young man are trapped in a
room when the doorknob comes off)
10:30 What's My Line?
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:15 CBS News (Harry Reasoner)
11:30 Naked City

WBTV Ch. 3 Charlotte (CBS/ABC)

7 AM Gospel Singing Jubilee
8 AM Gospel Caravan
9 AM Harvesters Quartet
9:30 TV Gospel Time (all-African-American gospel groups; featured
today are the Clouds of Joy)
10 AM Light Unto My Path
10:30 Look Up And Live
11 AM Camera Three (the work of American sculptor Alexander Calder,
then on display at New York's Guggenheim Museum)
11:30 Big Picture
12 N British Calendar
12:15 Great Moments In Music
12:30 Movie: "The Barefoot Mailman"
2 PM NBA Basketball: Lakers-Hawks (the Hawks were still in St. Louis)
(ABC)
4 PM Nursing Film (time approximate)
4:30 TBA
5 PM I've Got A Secret (the panelists from "To Tell The Truth"--Tom
Poston, Peggy Cass, Orson Bean, and Kitty Carlisle--have a
secret for Bill Cullen, Betsy Palmer, Henry Morgan, and Bess Myerson--
tomorrow night the two panels and hosts Bud Collyer ("Truth") and
Steve Allen ("Secret") swap shows)
5:30 Porter Wagoner
6 PM Twentieth Century
6:30 Land Of The Free
7 PM The Wizard Of Oz (COLOR)
9 PM Alfred Hitchcock Hour (NBC, delay from Mon 10 PM)
10 PM Candid Camera
10:30 What's My Line?
11 PM CBS News
11:15 Movie: "Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House"

WWAY Ch. 3 Wilmington (ABC)

10:30 Beany And Cecil
11 AM Bullwinkle
11:30 Discovery '65 (Frank Buxton and Virginia Gibson tour
the snake house at the Bronx Zoo.)
12 N Faith For Today
12:30 This Is The Life
1 PM The Way
1:30 Trails West
2 PM NBA Basketball: Lakers-Hawks
4 PM Shell's Wonderful World Of Golf (season premiere: Dave
Marr vs. Bernard Hunt at England's Sunningdale Golf Club,
time approximate, COLOR)
5 PM Science All Stars (guest is nuclear physicist Dr. Edward Teller;
showing their exhibits: Pam Feeney (growth of plants), Kevin
Glading (vibration), Robert Sturges (computer-operated railroad)--
host Don Morrow once said this is the one show he did that he wishes
was still on the air)
5:30 Movie: "Guns Of The Timberland"
7:30 Wagon Train
8:30 Broadside (female "McHale's Navy" with Kathleen Nolan--also watch for
Dick Sargent (why he turned down "Bewitched" at the time) and Edward
Andrews)
9 PM ABC Movie: "Exodus" (conclusion, COLOR)
sign off 11:15 PM

WUNC Ch. 4 Chapel Hill (NET)

3 PM French Chef
3:30 89th Congress (topic: the controversy surrounding federal aid to education
and how the new Congress might respond to legislation on the issue)
4 PM Spectrum (a brain operation used to study the central nervous system;
the chemical study of a marine organism known as the sea pansy)
4:30 Conversation With Eric Hoffer (Hoffer maintains it is the West, not the East,
that is harder to understand because change never seems to come without
violence.)
5 PM Performance (music)
5:30 Changing World (a CBC documentary on Chinese life, filmed within the country)
7 PM At Issue (the problems facing President Johnson in his first full term in office)
8 PM Houston Symphony

WRAL Ch. 5 Raleigh (ABC/NBC)

7:30 Big Picture
8 AM Musical Meditations
8:15 Christopher Program
8:30 This Is The Life
9 AM Gospel Caravan
9:30 Lone Ranger
10 AM TBA
10:30 Beany And Cecil
11 AM Light Unto My Path
12 N Bullwinkle
12:30 Oral Roberts
1 PM Church Of Our Fathers
1:30 Circuit Rider
2 PM NBA Basketball: Lakers-Hawks
4 PM TBA (time approximate)
5 PM Wide World Of Sports (the World Indoor Midget
Auto Racing Championship from Rochester, NY;
the World Professional Figure Skating Championship
from Lake Placid, NY, delay from Sat 5 PM)
6:30 Jonny Quest (delay from Thu 7:30, not listed as being
in color)
7 PM My Three Sons (delay from Thu 8:30)
7:30 Wagon Train
8:30 Broadside
9 PM ABC Movie: "Exodus" (conclusion, COLOR)
11:15 ABC Scope (delay from Wed 10:30)
11:45 Great Moments In Music

WECT Ch. 6 Wilmington (NBC/CBS)

8 AM Robin Hood
8:30 Bob Poole's Gospel Favorites
9:30 TV Gospel Time (same as WBTV)
10 AM The Answer
10:30 Children's Gospel Hour
11 AM Light Unto My Path
12 N Big Picture
12:30 Mr. Wizard
1 PM Oral Roberts
1:30 Catholic Hour ("The Renaissance and the Reformation"
covers the Fifth Lateran Council in Rome (1512) and
the Council of Trent (1545))
2 PM TBA
3 PM Sunday (a tour of the USS Bainbridge, an atomic-powered
frigate, to report on what might happen in battle between
a nuclear sub and a nuclear surface vessel)
4 PM NBC Sports In Action (debut of one of NBC's many attempts
to copy "Wide World Of Sports"; today, the Oberstdorf Ski Jump
(in black and white) from Oberstdorf, Germany; the Swamp Buggy
Derby (in color) from Naples, FL)
5 PM Wild Kingdom (Marlin Perkins and Jim Fowler go to Africa to study
the family life of the elephant, COLOR)
5:30 GE College Bowl (Lawrence University of Appleton, WI, attempts to
become a five-time undefeated champion against a team from the
University of Bridgeport (CT), COLOR)
6 PM Meet The Press (guest is Republican National Committee chair Dean
Burch, COLOR)
6:30 Profiles In Courage (It is 1838: will the Mormons be allowed to remain
in Missouri? Gen. Alexander Doniphan, sympathetic to the Mormons,
clashes with the leader of the state militia, who wants them out.)
7:30 Walt Disney's Wonderful World Of Color ("Chico, The Misunderstood
Coyote" is captured by a rancher and sold to a run-down zoo, COLOR)
8:30 Andy Griffith (CBS, delay from Mon 8:30)
9 PM Bonanza (COLOR)
10 PM The Rogues (a show which should have made it; the adventures of
a suave family of thieves, played by David Niven, Charles Boyer, and
Gig Young)
11 PM 87th Precinct

WITN Ch. 7 Washington, NC (NBC)

7:30 Trails West
8 AM Peter Potamus
8:30 A.A. Allen Revival Hour
9 AM Singin' Time In Dixie
10 AM This Is The Life
10:30 Smiley O'Brien (this may be a country-music show, I don't recall)
11 AM The Answer
11:30 Church In The Home
12 N Gospel Favorites (not Bob Poole's program, but somebody whose last
name was Ball, IIRC)
12:30 Oral Roberts
1 PM Movie: "The Scarlet Coat"
3 PM Sunday
4 PM NBC Sports In Action
5 PM Wild Kingdom (COLOR)
5:30 GE College Bowl (COLOR)
6 PM Tales Of Wells Fargo
6:30 Profiles In Courage
7:30 Walt Disney's Wonderful World Of Color (COLOR)
8:30 Bill Dana (series based on Dana's Jose Jimenez character; "Branded"
will take over this slot the following week)
9 PM Bonanza (COLOR)
10 PM The Rogues
11 PM Movie: "Bad For Each Other"

WGHP Ch. 8 High Point (ABC)

8 AM The Answer
8:30 Gospel Caravan
9:30 TV Gospel Time (same as WBTV)
10 AM Faith For Today
10:30 Beany And Cecil
11 AM Bullwinkle
11:30 Discovery '65
12 N Christophers
12:30 Jim Walter Jubilee (Bonnie Lou and Buster)
1 PM Directions '65 (the life and works of German novelist
and short-story writer Franz Kafka)
1:30 High Point College (now High Point University) Basketball
Highlights
2 PM NBA Basketball: Lakers-Hawks
4 PM Shell's Wonderful World Of Golf (time approximate, COLOR)
5 PM Science All Stars
5:30 Story Of Stones (longtime advertising vehicle for local jeweler
Schiffman's)
5:45 Outdoorsman
6 PM UNC Basketball Highlights (coach Dean Smith)
6:30 Flintstones (COLOR, delay from Fri 7:30)
7 PM Addams Family (delay from Fri 8:30)
7:30 Wagon Train
8:30 Broadside
9 PM ABC Movie: "Exodus" (conclusion, COLOR)
11:15 Untouchables

WNCT Ch. 9 Greenville, NC (CBS)

8 AM Lessons For Living
8:30 Bob Poole's Gospel Favorites
9:30 Shultz Show (I never knew what this was, except some
sort of variety show--WKYT Lexington carried it as well.)
10 AM Lamp Unto My Feet (an experimental Lutheran elementary
school in a "culturally deprived" Chicago suburb)
10:30 Look Up And Live
11 AM Camera Three
11:30 Light Unto My Path
12 N Let's Go To College
12:30 Face The Nation
1 PM Checkmate
2 PM Greatest Headlines Of The Century
2:15 Timely Tips (Corinne Rickert with an expanded edition of
her daily 1:25-1:30 show)
2:30 CBS Sports Spectacular
4 PM Alumni Fun
4:30 Real McCoys (rerunning on CBS as "The McCoys")
5 PM Sunday With Jack Benny
5:30 Amateur Hour
6 PM Twentieth Century
6:30 World War I
7 PM The Wizard Of Oz (COLOR)
9 PM Drama Special (see Ch. 2)
10 PM Candid Camera
10:30 What's My Line?
11 PM CBS News
11:15 Great Moments In Music
11:30 Movie: "Stage Fright"

WSOC Ch. 9 Charlotte (NBC/ABC)

7:15 Living Word (COLOR)
7:30 Bob Poole's Gospel Favorites
8:30 Gospel Train
9:30 Hour Of Opportunity
10 AM Discovery '65 (Frank and "Ginny" visit the Bronx
Zoo to learn how animals adapt to their environments,
delay from 11:30 AM)
10:30 Beany And Cecil
11 AM Church Service
12 N Championship Bowling (George Howard vs. Don Scott)
1 PM Movies: "The Jungle Girl" and "Hercules" (Steve Reeves version
from '59)
4 PM NBC Sports In Action (this may be a typo, since TV Guide also
shows "Valentine's Day" (ABC, delay from Fri 9 PM) at 4, and
"Kentucky Jones" (NBC, delay from Sat 8 PM) at 4:30--I also
don't recall "Sports In Action" on Ch. 9 when NBC aired it just
before primetime on Sundays that summer)
5 PM Wild Kingdom (COLOR)
5:30 GE College Bowl (COLOR)
6 PM Meet The Press (COLOR)
6:30 Wagon Train
7:30 Walt Disney's Wonderful World Of Color (COLOR)
8:30 Broadside
9 PM Bonanza (COLOR)
10 PM ABC Movie: "Exodus" (conclusion, not listed as being in color)
sign off 12:15 AM

WTVD Ch. 11 Durham (CBS/NBC)

7 AM Sunrise Semester: "Mathematics In Western Culture"
7:30 Bob Poole's Gospel Favorites
8:30 Gospel Singing Jubilee
9:30 Movie: "My Man Godfrey" (rather appropriate, since Jan. 16
was the anniversary of co-star Carole Lombard's 1942 death
in a Nevada plane crash)
11 AM Camera Three
11:30 Exploring (NBC, delay from Sat 12 N, COLOR)
12:30 Face The Nation
1 PM Amateur Hour (from Miami Beach, Ted Mack welcomes Chuck
Wilson's dance trio; ukulele player Charles Ost; ladder trapeze
performer Jinx Barnes; pop vocalist Sandra Lee Keck, delay from
5:30--interestingly, Ted shared facilities with Ed Sullivan in New
York and Jackie Gleason in Miami)
1:30 Profiles In Courage (1946: Sen. Robert Taft protests what he
perceives are unconstitutionalities in the Nuremberg war-crimes
trials, delay from 6:30 PM)
2:30 CBS Sports Spectacular
4 PM NBC Sports In Action
5 PM International Showtime (the Austrian Ice Fantasy from Munich,
delay from Fri 7:30)
6 PM Twentieth Century
6:30 Mister Ed (CBS, delay from Wed 7:30)
7 PM The Wizard Of Oz (COLOR)
9 PM Bonanza (COLOR)
10 PM Candid Camera
10:30 What's My Line?
11 PM CBS News
11:15 Movie: "The Magic Carpet" (Lucille Ball made this one in '51
and I think she was pregnant with Lucie Arnaz at the time.)

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

7:30 Organ Reflections
8 AM TV Gospel Time (the Omega Baptist Church Choir, Bessie
Griffin and the Rasberries--not to be confused with the '70s
rock group the Raspberries)
8:30 Faith For Today
9 AM Gospel Caravan
10 AM Faith For Everyone
10:30 Beany And Cecil
11 AM Bullwinkle
11:30 Discovery '65
12 N Church Service
12:30 Scope (local)
1 PM Directions '65
1:30 nothing listed, may be "Issues And Answers"
2 PM NBA Basketball: Lakers-Hawks
4 PM Shell's Wonderful World Golf (COLOR, time approximate)
5 PM Science All Stars
5:30 Eagle, Globe And Anchor
6 PM Whirlybirds
6:30 Death Valley Days
7 PM Have Gun, Will Travel
7:30 Wagon Train
8:30 Broadside
9 PM ABC Movie: "Exodus" (conclusion, COLOR)
11:15 The Law And You
11:30 Championship Bowling

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

8 AM Sunday Sermon
8:15 Spiritualaires
8:30 Bob Poole's Gospel Favorites
9:30 Movie: "Ride, Ranger, Ride" (Gene Autry)
10:30 Industry On Parade
10:45 British Calendar
11 AM Church Service
12 N Big Picture
12:30 Mr. Wizard
1 PM Navy Film
1:30 Catholic Hour
2 PM Lone Ranger
2:30 Broken Arrow
3 PM Sunday
4 PM NBC Sports In Action
5 PM Wild Kingdom (COLOR)
5:30 GE College Bowl (COLOR)
6 PM Meet The Press (COLOR)
6:30 Profiles In Courage
7:30 Walt Disney's Wonderful World Of Color (COLOR)
8:30 Bill Dana
9 PM Bonanza (COLOR)
10 PM The Rogues
11 PM Hawaiian Eye
 
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