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Retro: North Carolina Tues, Jan 9, 1962

B

Bluenoser

50 years ago today, from TV Guide-North Carolina edition

2 WFMY-CBS/ABC Greensboro
3 WBTV-CBS/ABC Charlotte
4 WUNC-Edu Chapel Hill
5 WRAL-NBC Raleigh
6 WECT-NBC/CBS/ABC Wilmington
7 WITN-NBC Washington
9 WNCT-CBS/ABC Greenville
9* WSOC-NBC/ABC Charlotte
11 WTVD-CBS/ABC Durham
12 WSJS-NBC Winston-Salem

Morning
6:00
2 Religious Film Feature
5-12 Continental Classroom "Teacher Training" (c)
7 Aspect

6:15
2 RFD Piedmont (George Perry)
9* Farm & Home (Lloyd Foster)

6:20
3 Daily Word

6:25
3 College of the Air

6:30
2-11 College of the Air
5 Aspect
6 Carolina Farm Beat
7-9*-12 Continental Classroom "Local Government and Politics: Theory and Practice" (c)
9 Carolina Today

6:55
3 Farm Journal (Gil Stamper)

7:00
2 Good Morning (Lee Kinard)
3 Carolina Calling (Smith)
5-6-7-9*-12 Today
11 Morning Jamboree

7:55
3 News/Weather

8:00
2-3-9-11 Captain Kangaroo

8:55
4 News/Weather

9:00
2 Devotions
3-4-6-7-12 History
5 Bozo the Clown
9 College of the Air
9* Cartoon Carnival
11 Cartoon Shop (Ernie Greup)

9:15
2 Second Breakfast (Stoker)
9* Debbie Drake

9:30
2 What's Cooking? (Kelly)
3 Romper Room
4-6-9-9*-12 Science
7 December Bride
9* Cartoon Carnival

9:55
5 Kukla & Ollie

10:00
2-3-9-11 Calendar
4 World History
5-6-7-9*-12 Say When

10:30
2-3-9-11 I Love Lucy
4 Mathematics
5-6-7-9*-12 Play Your Hunch (c)

11:00
2-3-9-11 Video Village
4 French
5-6-7-9*-12 Price is Right

11:30
2-3-9-11 Your Surprise Package
4 Graphic Arts
5-6-7-9*-12 Concentration

11:55
2-3-9-11 CBS News

Afternoon
noon
2-3-11 Love of Life
4 British Calendar
5-6-7-12 Your First Impression
9-9* News (W.E. Debnam on 9, Jimmy Kilgo on 9*)

12:15
4 News (Dave Wegerek)
9 Farm News (Don Faust)
9* Movie "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court"

12:25
9 Weather (Sherman Husted)

12:30
2-3-9 Search for Tomorrow
4 Aspect
5-6-7-12 Truth of Consequences
11 Queen for a Day

12:45
2-3-9 Guiding Light

12:55
5-6-7-12 NBC News

1:00
2 Medic "Vagrant Heart, Vagrant Cop"
3 Betty Feezor
4 College of the Air "New Biology"
5 Time Out (Sam Beard)
6 Spanish
7 Yours for a Song
9 Love of Life
11 Peggy Mann
12 Harvey Dinkins

1:15
6 These Things We Share

1:25
6 News (Bob West)

1:30
2-3-6-9-11 As the World Turns
5 Yours for a Song
7 Queen for a Day
12 Our Miss Brooks "Phonebook Follies"

2:00
2-9-11 Password
3 Medic
5-7-9*-12 Jan Murray (c)
6 Variety Showcase (Burns)

2:25
5-6-7-9*-12 NBC News

2:30
2-3-9-11 House Party
5-6-7-9*-12 Loretta Young "A New Step"

3:00
2 TV Matinee (Lee Kinard)
3 Pat Lee
5-6-7-9*-12 Young Dr. Kildare
9-11 Millionaire

3:30
2-3-9-11 Verdict is Yours
5-6-7-9*-12 Our Five Daughters

3:55
2-3-9-11 CBS News

4:00
2-3-9-11 Brighter Day
5-6-7-9*-12 Make Room for Daddy "My Fair Vocal Coach"

4:15
2-3-9-11 Secret Storm

4:30
2-3-6-9-11 Edge of Night
5-7-9*-12 Here's Hollywood (guests Leon Ames and Jessie Royce Landis)

4:55
5-7-9*-12 NBC News

5:00
2 Old Rebel/Pecos Pete
3 Three Ring Circus
4 Geometry
5 Captain Five (Herb Marks)
6 Father Knows Best "Mother Goes to School"
7-9*-12 Kukla & Ollie
9 Bozo the Clown
11 Fun Hour

5:05
7 Three Stooges
9* Clown Carnival (Lindsay)
12 Bob Gordon

5:30
2 Deputy Dawg
5 Quick Draw McGraw
6 TBA
7 Laurel & Hardy
12 Deputy "The Wild Wind"

Evening
6:00
2 Groucho
3 Whirlybirds "Pink is for Death"
4 Chronicle
5 Captain Five (Herb Marks)
6 News (Ben McDonald)
7 Funny Page
9-9* Huckleberry Hound
11 Dennis the Menace "Through Thick and Thin"
12 Peter Gunn

6:05
5 News (Armstrong/Capps)

6:20
5 Viewpoint (Jesse Helms)

6:25
3 Sports (Bill Ward)

6:30
2-11 News/Weather
3-7-9-9*-12 News
5 Sports (Ray Reeve)
6 Military Log

6:45
2-3-9-11 CBS News
4 What's New?
5-7-9*-12 NBC News

6:55
6 News/Weather

7:00
2 Phil Silvers (Sgt. Bilko) "Bilko FOB Detroit"
3 Deputy "Cherchez la femme"
5 Tightrope! "The Model and the Mob"
7 Third Man "A Pocketful of Sin"
9 Coronado 9 "Obituary of a Small Ape"
9* Pioneers "Twelve Pound Nugget"
11 Adventures in Paradise "Hurricane Audrey"
12 Everglades "The Long Walk"

7:15
4 UN in Review
6 NBC News

7:30
2-3 Marshall Dillon (Gunsmoke)
4 Design Seminar (NC State College School of Design)
5-7-9*-12 Laramie "The Barefoot Kid" (c)
6 Beachcomber "The Shark Affair"
9 Donna Reed "Once Upon a Timepiece"

8:00
2 Dick Van Dyke
3 King of Diamonds "The Greed Merchants"
4 Goals for Americans
6 Bachelor Father "Kelly the Yes Man"
9 Ben Casey "And If I Die"
11 New Breed "The All-American Boy"

8:30
2-3 Dobie Gillis "I Do Not Choose to Run"
4 You the Deaf
5-6-7-12 Alfred Hitchcock "Bad Actor"
9* Margie "Margie Flies the Coop"

9:00
2-3-9-11 Red Skelton (guests Edward Everett Horton and Jackie Coogan)
4 Eastern Wisdom
5-6-7-9*-12 Dick Powell "A Time to Die"

9:30
2-3 Ichabod & Me
4 Metroplex "The Promise of the City"
9 Dick Van Dyke
11 My Three Sons "Chip Leaves Home"

10:00
2-3-9-11 Garry Moore (guests Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme)
5-7-12 Cain's Hundred "Take a Number"
6 Untouchables "Canada Run"
9* Alcoa Premiere "Pattern of Guilt"

11:00
2-3-5-6-7-9-9*-11-12 News

11:10
3-5 Sports

11:15
3 Movie "Elsa Maxwell's Hotel for Women"
5-6-12 Jack Paar (c)
11 Movie "Texas"

11:20
7-9* Sports (Rick Tash on 7, Bill Snyder on 9*)
9 Movie "Sentimental Journey"

11:25
2 Movie "Terror Ship"

11:30
7-9* Jack Paar (c)
 
First, I'd like to know where you're getting these North Carolina
editions; I'd like to lay my hands on a few myself. (In a few days
I will post a couple of retros from 1965.)

I noticed the name Dave Wegerek doing news on Channel 4. I
remember him on WFMY later in the '60s, but I think he died rather
young. My grandmother never could pronounce his last name properly,
and was forever calling him "Willjerk."

This was a little less than seven months before WRAL went to ABC,
and WTVD began shoehorning CBS and NBC programs, a practice it
continued until 1971. IIRC, after the switch WRAL kept the "Today"
show for a year or two; WTVD kept "Captain Kangaroo" and picked up
"The Tonight Show" just in time for Johnny Carson's debut as host. WRAL
also replaced Huntley-Brinkley with Ron Cochran, although that may have
been a little later. I remember the daytime and Tuesday primetime schedules
in the summer of '62 to have been something like this:

WRAL: 10 AM Time Out (local quiz show matching civic clubs)
10:30 Play Your Hunch (NBC)
11 AM Tennessee Ernie Ford Show (ABC)
11:30 Yours For A Song (ABC)
12 N Jane Wyman Presents (ABC)
12:30 Camouflage (ABC)
12:55 ABC News (Alex Dreier)
1 PM Queen For A Day (ABC, delay from 3 PM)
1:30 Who Do You Trust? (ABC, delay from 3:30 PM)
2 PM Day In Court (ABC)
2:30 Seven Keys (ABC)
3 PM Young Dr. Malone (NBC)
3:30 Our Five Daughters (NBC)
4 PM Make Room For Daddy (NBC)
4:30 American Bandstand (ABC, joined in progress)
4:50 American Newsstand (ABC)

Tuesday primetime: 7:30 Bugs Bunny (ABC)
8 PM Bachelor Father (ABC)
8:30 The New Breed (ABC)
9:30 Yours For A Song (ABC)
10 PM Alcoa Premiere (ABC)
11 PM ABC News (Murphy Martin)

WTVD: 10 AM Say When! (NBC)
10:30 I Love Lucy (CBS)
11 AM Price Is Right (NBC)
11:30 Concentration (NBC)
12 N Love Of Life (CBS)
12:30 Truth Or Consequences (NBC)
12:55 NBC News (Ray Scherer, I think)
1 PM Peggy Mann (local)
1:30 As The World Turns (CBS)
2 PM Password (CBS)
2:30 Art Linkletter's House Party (CBS)
3 PM Millionaire (CBS)
3:30 To Tell The Truth (CBS)
3:55 CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
4 PM Secret Storm (CBS)
4:30 Edge Of Night (CBS)

Tuesday prime time: 7:30 Laramie (NBC)
8:30 Dobie Gillis (CBS)
9 PM Comedy Spot (CBS)
9:30 Who In The World? (CBS, delay from
Sun 9:30 PM)
10 PM Talent Scouts (CBS, Garry Moore's summer
replacement)

If you have any North Carolina editions from the summer of '62 you can
correct me on these; these are as I remember them, and most of what
I have from '62 comes from Atlanta.

A couple of the names you mention on here were legends in North Carolina,
particularly W.E. Debnam (practically all of Eastern North Carolina stopped
what it was doing at noon for "Debnam Views The News") and Jimmy Kilgo
(who hosted the dance-party show "Kilgo's Kanteen" on WSOC on Saturdays,
in addition to his news-anchoring duties).

Ah, the memories....
 
bpatrick said:
First, I'd like to know where you're getting these North Carolina
editions; I'd like to lay my hands on a few myself. (In a few days
I will post a couple of retros from 1965.)

Ah, the memories....
Click to expand...

Picked up a few from eBay, before they switched over to PayPal-I switched over to other sources after that...that week's edition is the only one from '62 I have in the collection at the moment...
 
A couple of other names on your retro that bring back
memories: "Variety Showcase" on WECT was hosted by
Jim Burns, who could have passed for McLean Stevenson's
brother; and "Second Breakfast" on WFMY by Carroll Stoker
(a woman). I may have mentioned this before, but Ms. Stoker's
show opened with a shot of a steaming cup of coffee over which
the show's logo appeared. In my preschool days I had a crush on
her, and I'd have to get my cup of coffee (actually, it was probably
milk, given my age and I've never been a coffee drinker anyway) when
the show came on. WFMY's 50th anniversary was in 1999, and they
put on an exhibit at a museum in Greensboro with pictures of personalities
and memorable moments in the station's history. For some reason (and
I'm still somewhat angry about it) they did not include her, nor did they
include Judy Walker, who did a show called "Today's Woman" from 1971
to 1974. Carroll Stoker had also done another show, in the afternoon,
before "Second Breakfast" ever started, called "Carroll's Corner."

I might also mention Sam Beard on WRAL, host of "Time Out." He also
anchored WRAL's newscasts in the late '60s; unfortunately, he committed
suicide in 1971.
 
The NBC show at 3 PM should be "Young Dr. Malone." "Young Dr.
Kildare" was a syndicated show that ran largely in access slots
around 1972 or '73. The television "Young Dr. Malone" should have
been called "Young Dr. Malone: The Next Generation," since the
television Dr. Malone was the son of radio's "Young Dr. Malone."
(The radio show, BTW, lasted far longer than the television version;
1939-60 on radio, 1959-63 on television; however, it and "From These
Roots" were the first NBC soaps to last more than a few months.)

Also, "Dr. Kildare" with Richard Chamberlain was generating big ratings
(and a big female following) for NBC on Thursday nights in 1962.
 
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