Breaking from my usual habit of retros for the date on
which I'm doing them; from TV Guide, North Carolina Edition:
WFMY Ch. 2 Greensboro (CBS)
6 AM Sunrise Semester: "Russian Literature"
6:30 Good Morning Show
8 AM CBS News (Joseph Benti)
8:25 Morning Devotions
8:30 Old Rebel Show
9 AM Captain Kangaroo
10 AM What's Cooking Today?
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies
11 AM Andy Griffith (CBS reruns, Ch. 2 didn't start rerunning it
seemingly in perpetuity, until the early '70s, bw)
11:30 Dick Van Dyke (bw)
12 N Love Of Life
12:25 News (local)
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1 PM Truth Or Consequences (would have a much longer run
at 7 PM on WGHP starting in 1969)
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
2:30 Art Linkletter's House Party (dancer Judy Lawrence and
financial expert Charles Neal)
3 PM To Tell The Truth
3:25 CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
3:30 Edge Of Night
4 PM Secret Storm
4:30 Wagon Train (oddly, these are the 90-minute episodes which,
IIRC, ABC originally aired in color, but they're airing here in bw)
6 PM News, Weather, Sports
6:30 CBS News (Walter Cronkite)
7 PM Lawman (bw)
7:30 Cimarron Strip
9 PM CBS Movie: "Goodbye Again" (bw)
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Movie: "Man In The Dark" (bw)
WUND Ch. 2 Columbia/Edenton, NC; WUNC Ch. 4 Chapel Hill (NET)
all programming is in bw
8:55 News
9 AM Classroom (history, physical science, mathematics)
11 AM Swedish Scene
11:30 Green Thumb
12 N Aspect (farm show)
12:30 News
12:45 Friendly Giant
1 PM Elementary Science
no programming listed until
4 PM Media Training
4:30 Operation: Economy
5 PM What's New
5:30 Aspect
6 PM News
6:15 Friendly Giant
6:30 The Professionals (sports show which, IIRC, aired
on commercial stations)
7 PM You The Deaf
7:30 What's New
8 PM Kaleidoscope
8:30 Ericourt Forum
9 PM Science Reporter (a miniature radio transmitter which
can track homing pigeons)
sign off 9:30 PM
WBTV Ch. 3 Charlotte (CBS)
6:20 Almanac
6:30 Carolina Calling (Arthur Smith)
7:30 CBS News
7:55 News, Weather
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Fred Kirby's Corral
9:05 Love Of Life
9:30 Merv Griffin (Shelley Berman, Richard Pryor)
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies
11 AM Andy Griffith (bw)
11:30 Secret Storm
12 N Noon Report (host Ty Boyd chats with members of
the Ice Capades)
12:25 Pat Lee
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1 PM Betty Feezor
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
2:30 Art Linkletter's House Party
3 PM To Tell The Truth
3:25 CBS News
3:30 Edge Of Night
4 PM Superman (bw)
4:30 Mike Douglas (co-hostess Polly Bergen; comedian
Bobby Ramsen, singer Roberta Sherwood)
6 PM News, Weather, Sports, Editorial
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Gunsmoke (delay from Mon 7:30 PM)
8 PM Arthur Smith
8:30 The Lucy Show (guest: Frankie Avalon, delay from
Mon 8:30 PM)
9 PM CBS Movie: "Goodbye Again" (bw)
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:25 Editorial (Clyde McLean, who doubled as the station's
weathercaster)
11:30 Movie: "Phantom Of The Opera" (the Claude Rains version,
from '43, bw)
WWAY Ch. 3 Wilmington, NC (ABC/NBC)
6:55 Weather (bw, as was all of WWAY's local programming)
7 AM Job Instruction (bw)
7:30 Popeye And The Little Rascals (bw)
8:30 Movie: "Pillars Of The Sky" (bw)
10:30 This Morning (Dick Cavett)
12 N Bewitched (bw)
12:30 Treasure Isle
1 PM The Fugitive (bw)
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 Baby Game
2:55 Children's Doctor
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 Dark Shadows
4 PM Movie: "The Sad Horse" (bw)
5:30 ABC News (Bob Young)
6 PM News, Sports, Weather (bw)
6:30 Mike Douglas (singers Tex Williams ("Smoke Smoke Smoke
That Cigarette") and Peggy March ("I Will Follow Him"),
comedian Grady Nutt)
7:30 The Second Hundred Years (new time)
8 PM Flying Nun
8:30 Bewitched
9 PM That Girl
9:30 Peyton Place
10 PM Movie: "Darling" (bw)
12 M Local New (bw)
12:15 Laramie (Joey Bishop was pre-empted on Thursdays)
WRAL Ch. 5 Raleigh (ABC/CBS)
5:30 Aspect (bw)
6 AM Daybreak
6:45 Ray Wilkinson (farm news)
7 AM Viewpoint (Jesse Helms)
7:05 CBS News
7:30 Mickey Mouse Club
8 AM Time For Uncle Paul
8:30 Dating Game (delay from 4 PM, bw)
9 AM Bewitched (delay from 12 N, bw)
9:30 Dark Shadows (delay from 3:30 PM, but in color)
10 AM Bette Elliott
10:55 Word And Song (bw)
11 AM Mike Douglas (co-host Allen Ludden; Mark Goodson,
actress Bernice Massi)
12 N News, Weather
12:30 Treasure Isle
1 PM The Fugitive (bw)
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 Baby Game
2:55 Children's Doctor
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 Flintstones
4 PM Movie: "Kronos" (bw)
5:40 Sports With Ray Reeve (a Triangle legend)
6 PM News, Weather, Sports
6:20 ABC News
6:50 Viewpoint
6:55 Weather
7 PM Movie: "Broken Lance" (bw)
9 PM That Girl
9:30 Peyton Place
10 PM Kraft Music Hall (host Ed McMahon; Shelley Berman,
Joan Rivers, Ed Ames, Sonny and Cher, the Young
Rascals, NBC, delay of at least a week from Wed 9 PM)
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:30 Movie: "Make Way For Lila" (bw)
WECT Ch. 6 Wilmington, NC (NBC/CBS)
6:30 Carolina In The Morning (bw, as is all local programming
on Ch. 6)
7 AM Today (Ted Kennedy, Burr Tillstrom with Kukla, Fran and Ollie
(they have a special on NBC tonight), naturalist Roger Tory
Peterson)
9 AM Girl Talk (actress Ilka Chase, radio personality Lee Graham)
9:30 Search For Tomorrow
9:45 Guiding Light
10 AM Snap Judgment (Phyllis Kirk, Bill Cullen)
10:25 NBC News (Nancy Dickerson)
10:30 Concentration
11 AM Personality (Joan Fontaine, Jack E. Leonard, Frank Sinatra Jr.;
on-film: singer Lainie Kazan)
11:30 Hollywood Squares (Kaye Ballard, Shelley Berman, Janet Blair,
Mel Brooks, Roger C. Carmel, Wally Cox, Abby Dalton, Jan Murray,
Charley Weaver)
12 N Jeopardy!
12:30 Eye Guess
12:55 NBC News (Edwin Newman)
1 PM Jim Burns (bw)
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 Secret Storm
4:30 Gilligan's Island
5 PM Perry Mason (bw)
6 PM News, Sports, Weather (bw)
6:30 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7 PM Marshal Dillon (bw)
7:30 NBC Children's Theatre: "The Reluctant Dragon"
with Kukla, Fran and Ollie (pre-empts "Daniel Boone")
8:30 Ironside
9:30 Peter Gunn (bw)
10 PM Dean Martin (Tony Bennett, Bob Newhart, Florence
Henderson, Dino, Desi and Billy)
11 PM News, Sports, Weather (bw)
11:30 Tonight Show
WITN Ch. 7 Washington, NC (NBC)
6 AM Aspect (bw)
6:30 Mister Ed (bw)
7 AM Today
9 AM Merv Griffin (Henry Morgan, Rocky Graziano)
10 AM Snap Judgment
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 Girl Talk (bw)
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 You Don't Say! (from Florida: Leonard Nimoy,
Pat Carroll)
4 PM Match Game (Steve Allen and Jayne Meadows)
4:25 NBC News (Floyd Kalber)
4:30 The Funny Page (local kids' show with WITNey the
Marching Hobo)
5 PM Mike Douglas (co-hostess Bess Myerson; singers Chris
and Peter Allen)
6 PM News, Weather, Sports
6:30 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7 PM McHale's Navy (bw)
7:30 NBC Children's Theatre
8:30 Ironside
9:30 Dragnet 1968
10 PM Dean Martin
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Tonight Show
WGHP Ch. 8 High Point (ABC)
6:30 University Of Michigan (bw)
7 AM TV Party Line
8 AM Limbo's Cartoons
9 AM Romper Room
9:30 Merv Griffin (Melina Mercouri, Hermione Gingold,
Milt Kamen, comedian London Lee (a favorite guest
of Ed Sullivan), Robie Porter (an Australian singer who
seemed to be on his way to becoming an American teen
idol in the mid-'60s but never quite made it))
11 AM This Morning (joined in progress)
12 N Bewitched (bw)
12:30 Treasure Isle
1 PM The Fugitive (bw)
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 Baby Game
2:55 Children's Doctor
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 Mister Ed (bw)
4 PM Movie: "Peggy"
5:30 News, Weather, Sports
6 PM Movie: "Between Heaven And Hell"
7:25 Weather
7:30 The Second Hundred Years
8 PM Flying Nun
8:30 Bewitched
9 PM That Girl
9:30 Peyton Place
10 PM Movie: "Bebo's Girl" (bw)
11:45 News, Sports
12:15 Joey Bishop (Ray Charles, Marlo Thomas, singer
Shani Wallis, joined in progress; the show normally
aired at 11:30 PM)
WNCT Ch. 9 Greenville, NC (CBS)
6:30 Carolina Today
8:35 CBS News (bw)
9 AM Captain Kangaroo
10 AM Candid Camera (people have trouble getting through a
swinging door; passers-by see suitcases falling out of a
public locker, bw)
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies
11 AM Andy Griffith (bw)
11:30 Dick Van Dyke (bw)
12 N News, Weather
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1 PM Love Of Life (bw)
1:25 Timely Tips
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
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 Cartoon Junction (local kids' show with "Railroad Slim")
5 PM Rawhide (bw)
6 PM News, Weather, Sports
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Marshal Dillon (bw)
7:30 Cimarron Strip
9 PM CBS Movie: "Goodbye Again" (bw)
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Movie: "Adventures Of Jane Arden" (bw)
WSOC Ch. 9 Charlotte (NBC)
7 AM Today
9 AM Today In The Carolinas
9:30 Girl Talk
10 AM Snap Judgment
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 Midday (Jimmy Kilgo)
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 Clown Carnival (Brooks Lindsay)
4 PM Movie: "The Devil And Daniel Webster" (bw)
6 PM Pulse (Doug Bell, news)
6:30 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7 PM Gilligan's Island
7:30 NBC Children's Theatre
8:30 Ironside
9:30 Dragnet 1968
10 PM Dean Martin
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:30 Tonight Show
WTVD Ch. 11 Durham (CBS/NBC)
6 AM Aspect (bw)
6:30 Sunrise Semester
7 AM Today
9 AM Captain Kangaroo
10 AM Snap Judgment
10:25 NBC News
10:30 Concentration
11 AM Andy Griffith (bw)
11:30 Dick Van Dyke (bw)
12 N Love Of Life
12:25 CBS News (Joseph Benti)
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1 PM Peggy Mann
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Hollywood Squares (delay from 11:30 AM)
2:30 Art Linkletter's House Party
3 PM Another World
3:30 Edge Of Night
4 PM Secret Storm
4:30 Beverly Hillbillies (delay from 10:30 AM)
5 PM Perry Mason (bw)
6 PM News, Weather, Sports
6:30 CBS News
7 PM My Three Sons (delay from Sat 8:30 PM)
7:30 Cimarron Strip
9 PM CBS Movie: "Goodbye Again" (bw)
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Tonight Show
WNBE (WCTI) Ch. 12 New Bern (ABC)
7 AM TV Party Line (bw, as was all Ch. 12's local programming)
8 AM Romper Room (bw)
8:45 The King And Odie (bw)
9 AM Movie: "Theodora, Slave Empress" (bw)
10:30 This Morning
12 N Bewitched (bw)
12:30 Treasure Isle
1 PM The Fugitive (bw)
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 Baby Game
2:55 Children's Doctor
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 Dark Shadows
4 PM Dating Game
4:30 Bozo The Clown (bw)
6 PM News, Sports, Weather (bw)
6:30 ABC News
7 PM Highway Patrol (bw)
7:30 The Second Hundred Years
8 PM Flying Nun
8:30 Bewitched
9 PM That Girl
9:30 Peyton Place
10 PM Movie: "Pharaoh's Curse" (bw)
11:15 News, Sports, Weather (bw) (abbreviated edition)
11:30 Joey Bishop
WSJS (WXII) Ch. 12 Winston-Salem (NBC)
6:30 Job Instruction (bw)
7 AM Today
9 AM Today At Home
9:30 Exercise With Gloria (Gloria Roeder and her daughters)
10 AM Snap Judgment
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 Match Game (Morey Amsterdam, Phyllis Newman, week-
behind from 4 PM)
1:25 News, Weather
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 You Don't Say!
4 PM Divorce Court
4:30 Mike Douglas (same as WBTV)
6 PM News, Weather, Sports
6:30 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7 PM Country Music
7:30 NBC Children's Theatre
8:30 Ironside
9:30 Dragnet 1968
10 PM Dean Martin
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Tonight Show
WCCB Ch. 18 Charlotte (ABC)
8:45 Cartoons (bw)
9 AM Romper Room
10 AM Jack LaLanne (bw)
10:30 This Morning
12 N Bewitched (bw)
12:30 Treasure Isle
1 PM The Fugitive (bw)
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 Baby Game
2:55 Children's Doctor
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 Dark Shadows
4 PM Dating Game
4:30 Movie: "Alias Nick Beal" (bw)
6:30 ABC News
7 PM Mister Ed (bw)
7:30 The Second Hundred Years
8 PM Flying Nun
8:30 Bewitched
9 PM That Girl
9:30 Peyton Place
10 PM Movie: "Death Takes A Holiday" (bw)
11:30 Joey Bishop ("Peter Gunn" usually ran 11-11:30 PM
but ABC was giving back Thursdays 10-11 to the affiliates at the time,
and Ch. 18 had no local news.)
WCTU (WCNC) Ch. 36 Charlotte (Ind.)
These are the pre-Turner days.
4:25 News
4:30 Ever-Ever Land (kids' show)
5:30 Movie: "Buffalo Bill" (bw)
6:55 Financial Report
7 PM All Star Theater (bw)
7:30 Movie: "Dead Reckoning" (bw)
9 PM Bullfights From Mexico (this is one show I remember Ted Turner
airing on Ch. 17 in Atlanta, bw)
10 PM News
10:30 Movie: "Tiberius"
sign off 12 M
WTVI Ch. 42 Charlotte (NET)
all programs are in bw, except for "Sunrise Semester"
8:45 Classroom (reading, literature, and English are included)
4:30 Busy Knitter
5 PM TV Kindergarten
5:30 Merlin The Magician
5:45 Time For John (kids'-show host who shows how to make
simple things)
6 PM Children's Fair (a visit to the Milwaukee County Zoo)
6:30 Sunrise Semester: "Near East" (pre-empted on WBTV)
7 PM What's New
7:30 Auto Mechanics: "The Clutch And Transmission"
8 PM American Civilization
9 PM These Are Our Children (how the Charlotte-Mecklenburg
school system attempts to integrate psychology with
the classroom experience)
9:30 Key To Our City (Charlotte's health and sanitation, motor
transport and water services departments)
10 PM Business Roundtable (a timely topic even today: society's
control of rapid technological developments)
10:30 Sunrise Semester: "Russian Literature" (pre-empted on WBTV)
sign off 11 PM
which I'm doing them; from TV Guide, North Carolina Edition:
WFMY Ch. 2 Greensboro (CBS)
6 AM Sunrise Semester: "Russian Literature"
6:30 Good Morning Show
8 AM CBS News (Joseph Benti)
8:25 Morning Devotions
8:30 Old Rebel Show
9 AM Captain Kangaroo
10 AM What's Cooking Today?
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies
11 AM Andy Griffith (CBS reruns, Ch. 2 didn't start rerunning it
seemingly in perpetuity, until the early '70s, bw)
11:30 Dick Van Dyke (bw)
12 N Love Of Life
12:25 News (local)
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1 PM Truth Or Consequences (would have a much longer run
at 7 PM on WGHP starting in 1969)
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
2:30 Art Linkletter's House Party (dancer Judy Lawrence and
financial expert Charles Neal)
3 PM To Tell The Truth
3:25 CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
3:30 Edge Of Night
4 PM Secret Storm
4:30 Wagon Train (oddly, these are the 90-minute episodes which,
IIRC, ABC originally aired in color, but they're airing here in bw)
6 PM News, Weather, Sports
6:30 CBS News (Walter Cronkite)
7 PM Lawman (bw)
7:30 Cimarron Strip
9 PM CBS Movie: "Goodbye Again" (bw)
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Movie: "Man In The Dark" (bw)
WUND Ch. 2 Columbia/Edenton, NC; WUNC Ch. 4 Chapel Hill (NET)
all programming is in bw
8:55 News
9 AM Classroom (history, physical science, mathematics)
11 AM Swedish Scene
11:30 Green Thumb
12 N Aspect (farm show)
12:30 News
12:45 Friendly Giant
1 PM Elementary Science
no programming listed until
4 PM Media Training
4:30 Operation: Economy
5 PM What's New
5:30 Aspect
6 PM News
6:15 Friendly Giant
6:30 The Professionals (sports show which, IIRC, aired
on commercial stations)
7 PM You The Deaf
7:30 What's New
8 PM Kaleidoscope
8:30 Ericourt Forum
9 PM Science Reporter (a miniature radio transmitter which
can track homing pigeons)
sign off 9:30 PM
WBTV Ch. 3 Charlotte (CBS)
6:20 Almanac
6:30 Carolina Calling (Arthur Smith)
7:30 CBS News
7:55 News, Weather
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Fred Kirby's Corral
9:05 Love Of Life
9:30 Merv Griffin (Shelley Berman, Richard Pryor)
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies
11 AM Andy Griffith (bw)
11:30 Secret Storm
12 N Noon Report (host Ty Boyd chats with members of
the Ice Capades)
12:25 Pat Lee
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1 PM Betty Feezor
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
2:30 Art Linkletter's House Party
3 PM To Tell The Truth
3:25 CBS News
3:30 Edge Of Night
4 PM Superman (bw)
4:30 Mike Douglas (co-hostess Polly Bergen; comedian
Bobby Ramsen, singer Roberta Sherwood)
6 PM News, Weather, Sports, Editorial
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Gunsmoke (delay from Mon 7:30 PM)
8 PM Arthur Smith
8:30 The Lucy Show (guest: Frankie Avalon, delay from
Mon 8:30 PM)
9 PM CBS Movie: "Goodbye Again" (bw)
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:25 Editorial (Clyde McLean, who doubled as the station's
weathercaster)
11:30 Movie: "Phantom Of The Opera" (the Claude Rains version,
from '43, bw)
WWAY Ch. 3 Wilmington, NC (ABC/NBC)
6:55 Weather (bw, as was all of WWAY's local programming)
7 AM Job Instruction (bw)
7:30 Popeye And The Little Rascals (bw)
8:30 Movie: "Pillars Of The Sky" (bw)
10:30 This Morning (Dick Cavett)
12 N Bewitched (bw)
12:30 Treasure Isle
1 PM The Fugitive (bw)
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 Baby Game
2:55 Children's Doctor
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 Dark Shadows
4 PM Movie: "The Sad Horse" (bw)
5:30 ABC News (Bob Young)
6 PM News, Sports, Weather (bw)
6:30 Mike Douglas (singers Tex Williams ("Smoke Smoke Smoke
That Cigarette") and Peggy March ("I Will Follow Him"),
comedian Grady Nutt)
7:30 The Second Hundred Years (new time)
8 PM Flying Nun
8:30 Bewitched
9 PM That Girl
9:30 Peyton Place
10 PM Movie: "Darling" (bw)
12 M Local New (bw)
12:15 Laramie (Joey Bishop was pre-empted on Thursdays)
WRAL Ch. 5 Raleigh (ABC/CBS)
5:30 Aspect (bw)
6 AM Daybreak
6:45 Ray Wilkinson (farm news)
7 AM Viewpoint (Jesse Helms)
7:05 CBS News
7:30 Mickey Mouse Club
8 AM Time For Uncle Paul
8:30 Dating Game (delay from 4 PM, bw)
9 AM Bewitched (delay from 12 N, bw)
9:30 Dark Shadows (delay from 3:30 PM, but in color)
10 AM Bette Elliott
10:55 Word And Song (bw)
11 AM Mike Douglas (co-host Allen Ludden; Mark Goodson,
actress Bernice Massi)
12 N News, Weather
12:30 Treasure Isle
1 PM The Fugitive (bw)
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 Baby Game
2:55 Children's Doctor
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 Flintstones
4 PM Movie: "Kronos" (bw)
5:40 Sports With Ray Reeve (a Triangle legend)
6 PM News, Weather, Sports
6:20 ABC News
6:50 Viewpoint
6:55 Weather
7 PM Movie: "Broken Lance" (bw)
9 PM That Girl
9:30 Peyton Place
10 PM Kraft Music Hall (host Ed McMahon; Shelley Berman,
Joan Rivers, Ed Ames, Sonny and Cher, the Young
Rascals, NBC, delay of at least a week from Wed 9 PM)
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:30 Movie: "Make Way For Lila" (bw)
WECT Ch. 6 Wilmington, NC (NBC/CBS)
6:30 Carolina In The Morning (bw, as is all local programming
on Ch. 6)
7 AM Today (Ted Kennedy, Burr Tillstrom with Kukla, Fran and Ollie
(they have a special on NBC tonight), naturalist Roger Tory
Peterson)
9 AM Girl Talk (actress Ilka Chase, radio personality Lee Graham)
9:30 Search For Tomorrow
9:45 Guiding Light
10 AM Snap Judgment (Phyllis Kirk, Bill Cullen)
10:25 NBC News (Nancy Dickerson)
10:30 Concentration
11 AM Personality (Joan Fontaine, Jack E. Leonard, Frank Sinatra Jr.;
on-film: singer Lainie Kazan)
11:30 Hollywood Squares (Kaye Ballard, Shelley Berman, Janet Blair,
Mel Brooks, Roger C. Carmel, Wally Cox, Abby Dalton, Jan Murray,
Charley Weaver)
12 N Jeopardy!
12:30 Eye Guess
12:55 NBC News (Edwin Newman)
1 PM Jim Burns (bw)
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 Secret Storm
4:30 Gilligan's Island
5 PM Perry Mason (bw)
6 PM News, Sports, Weather (bw)
6:30 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7 PM Marshal Dillon (bw)
7:30 NBC Children's Theatre: "The Reluctant Dragon"
with Kukla, Fran and Ollie (pre-empts "Daniel Boone")
8:30 Ironside
9:30 Peter Gunn (bw)
10 PM Dean Martin (Tony Bennett, Bob Newhart, Florence
Henderson, Dino, Desi and Billy)
11 PM News, Sports, Weather (bw)
11:30 Tonight Show
WITN Ch. 7 Washington, NC (NBC)
6 AM Aspect (bw)
6:30 Mister Ed (bw)
7 AM Today
9 AM Merv Griffin (Henry Morgan, Rocky Graziano)
10 AM Snap Judgment
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 Girl Talk (bw)
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 You Don't Say! (from Florida: Leonard Nimoy,
Pat Carroll)
4 PM Match Game (Steve Allen and Jayne Meadows)
4:25 NBC News (Floyd Kalber)
4:30 The Funny Page (local kids' show with WITNey the
Marching Hobo)
5 PM Mike Douglas (co-hostess Bess Myerson; singers Chris
and Peter Allen)
6 PM News, Weather, Sports
6:30 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7 PM McHale's Navy (bw)
7:30 NBC Children's Theatre
8:30 Ironside
9:30 Dragnet 1968
10 PM Dean Martin
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Tonight Show
WGHP Ch. 8 High Point (ABC)
6:30 University Of Michigan (bw)
7 AM TV Party Line
8 AM Limbo's Cartoons
9 AM Romper Room
9:30 Merv Griffin (Melina Mercouri, Hermione Gingold,
Milt Kamen, comedian London Lee (a favorite guest
of Ed Sullivan), Robie Porter (an Australian singer who
seemed to be on his way to becoming an American teen
idol in the mid-'60s but never quite made it))
11 AM This Morning (joined in progress)
12 N Bewitched (bw)
12:30 Treasure Isle
1 PM The Fugitive (bw)
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 Baby Game
2:55 Children's Doctor
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 Mister Ed (bw)
4 PM Movie: "Peggy"
5:30 News, Weather, Sports
6 PM Movie: "Between Heaven And Hell"
7:25 Weather
7:30 The Second Hundred Years
8 PM Flying Nun
8:30 Bewitched
9 PM That Girl
9:30 Peyton Place
10 PM Movie: "Bebo's Girl" (bw)
11:45 News, Sports
12:15 Joey Bishop (Ray Charles, Marlo Thomas, singer
Shani Wallis, joined in progress; the show normally
aired at 11:30 PM)
WNCT Ch. 9 Greenville, NC (CBS)
6:30 Carolina Today
8:35 CBS News (bw)
9 AM Captain Kangaroo
10 AM Candid Camera (people have trouble getting through a
swinging door; passers-by see suitcases falling out of a
public locker, bw)
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies
11 AM Andy Griffith (bw)
11:30 Dick Van Dyke (bw)
12 N News, Weather
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1 PM Love Of Life (bw)
1:25 Timely Tips
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
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 Cartoon Junction (local kids' show with "Railroad Slim")
5 PM Rawhide (bw)
6 PM News, Weather, Sports
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Marshal Dillon (bw)
7:30 Cimarron Strip
9 PM CBS Movie: "Goodbye Again" (bw)
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Movie: "Adventures Of Jane Arden" (bw)
WSOC Ch. 9 Charlotte (NBC)
7 AM Today
9 AM Today In The Carolinas
9:30 Girl Talk
10 AM Snap Judgment
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 Midday (Jimmy Kilgo)
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 Clown Carnival (Brooks Lindsay)
4 PM Movie: "The Devil And Daniel Webster" (bw)
6 PM Pulse (Doug Bell, news)
6:30 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7 PM Gilligan's Island
7:30 NBC Children's Theatre
8:30 Ironside
9:30 Dragnet 1968
10 PM Dean Martin
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:30 Tonight Show
WTVD Ch. 11 Durham (CBS/NBC)
6 AM Aspect (bw)
6:30 Sunrise Semester
7 AM Today
9 AM Captain Kangaroo
10 AM Snap Judgment
10:25 NBC News
10:30 Concentration
11 AM Andy Griffith (bw)
11:30 Dick Van Dyke (bw)
12 N Love Of Life
12:25 CBS News (Joseph Benti)
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1 PM Peggy Mann
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Hollywood Squares (delay from 11:30 AM)
2:30 Art Linkletter's House Party
3 PM Another World
3:30 Edge Of Night
4 PM Secret Storm
4:30 Beverly Hillbillies (delay from 10:30 AM)
5 PM Perry Mason (bw)
6 PM News, Weather, Sports
6:30 CBS News
7 PM My Three Sons (delay from Sat 8:30 PM)
7:30 Cimarron Strip
9 PM CBS Movie: "Goodbye Again" (bw)
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Tonight Show
WNBE (WCTI) Ch. 12 New Bern (ABC)
7 AM TV Party Line (bw, as was all Ch. 12's local programming)
8 AM Romper Room (bw)
8:45 The King And Odie (bw)
9 AM Movie: "Theodora, Slave Empress" (bw)
10:30 This Morning
12 N Bewitched (bw)
12:30 Treasure Isle
1 PM The Fugitive (bw)
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 Baby Game
2:55 Children's Doctor
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 Dark Shadows
4 PM Dating Game
4:30 Bozo The Clown (bw)
6 PM News, Sports, Weather (bw)
6:30 ABC News
7 PM Highway Patrol (bw)
7:30 The Second Hundred Years
8 PM Flying Nun
8:30 Bewitched
9 PM That Girl
9:30 Peyton Place
10 PM Movie: "Pharaoh's Curse" (bw)
11:15 News, Sports, Weather (bw) (abbreviated edition)
11:30 Joey Bishop
WSJS (WXII) Ch. 12 Winston-Salem (NBC)
6:30 Job Instruction (bw)
7 AM Today
9 AM Today At Home
9:30 Exercise With Gloria (Gloria Roeder and her daughters)
10 AM Snap Judgment
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 Match Game (Morey Amsterdam, Phyllis Newman, week-
behind from 4 PM)
1:25 News, Weather
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 You Don't Say!
4 PM Divorce Court
4:30 Mike Douglas (same as WBTV)
6 PM News, Weather, Sports
6:30 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7 PM Country Music
7:30 NBC Children's Theatre
8:30 Ironside
9:30 Dragnet 1968
10 PM Dean Martin
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Tonight Show
WCCB Ch. 18 Charlotte (ABC)
8:45 Cartoons (bw)
9 AM Romper Room
10 AM Jack LaLanne (bw)
10:30 This Morning
12 N Bewitched (bw)
12:30 Treasure Isle
1 PM The Fugitive (bw)
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 Baby Game
2:55 Children's Doctor
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 Dark Shadows
4 PM Dating Game
4:30 Movie: "Alias Nick Beal" (bw)
6:30 ABC News
7 PM Mister Ed (bw)
7:30 The Second Hundred Years
8 PM Flying Nun
8:30 Bewitched
9 PM That Girl
9:30 Peyton Place
10 PM Movie: "Death Takes A Holiday" (bw)
11:30 Joey Bishop ("Peter Gunn" usually ran 11-11:30 PM
but ABC was giving back Thursdays 10-11 to the affiliates at the time,
and Ch. 18 had no local news.)
WCTU (WCNC) Ch. 36 Charlotte (Ind.)
These are the pre-Turner days.
4:25 News
4:30 Ever-Ever Land (kids' show)
5:30 Movie: "Buffalo Bill" (bw)
6:55 Financial Report
7 PM All Star Theater (bw)
7:30 Movie: "Dead Reckoning" (bw)
9 PM Bullfights From Mexico (this is one show I remember Ted Turner
airing on Ch. 17 in Atlanta, bw)
10 PM News
10:30 Movie: "Tiberius"
sign off 12 M
WTVI Ch. 42 Charlotte (NET)
all programs are in bw, except for "Sunrise Semester"
8:45 Classroom (reading, literature, and English are included)
4:30 Busy Knitter
5 PM TV Kindergarten
5:30 Merlin The Magician
5:45 Time For John (kids'-show host who shows how to make
simple things)
6 PM Children's Fair (a visit to the Milwaukee County Zoo)
6:30 Sunrise Semester: "Near East" (pre-empted on WBTV)
7 PM What's New
7:30 Auto Mechanics: "The Clutch And Transmission"
8 PM American Civilization
9 PM These Are Our Children (how the Charlotte-Mecklenburg
school system attempts to integrate psychology with
the classroom experience)
9:30 Key To Our City (Charlotte's health and sanitation, motor
transport and water services departments)
10 PM Business Roundtable (a timely topic even today: society's
control of rapid technological developments)
10:30 Sunrise Semester: "Russian Literature" (pre-empted on WBTV)
sign off 11 PM