ABC would soon be coming to Greenville/New Bern/Washington
(WNBE, now WCTI/12 on Sept. 7) and Greensboro/Winston-Salem/
High Point (WGHP/8 on October 14). But for now everybody's
carrying more than one network except Ch. 4. From TV Guide,
North Carolina Edition:
WFMY Ch. 2 Greensboro (CBS/ABC)
6:30 Social Security In Action
6:45 RFD Piedmont (farm news with George Perry, better known
as kids'-show icon the Old Rebel)
7 AM Good Morning Show (Lee Kinard, another Triad icon)
7:55 News, Weather
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Devotions
9:15 Second Breakfast (Carroll Stoker, and boy did I have a
crush on her!)
9:30 What's Cooking Today? (Cordelia Kelly)
9:55 News
10 AM Calendar (Harry Reasoner)
10:30 I Love Lucy
11 AM Real McCoys
11:30 Pete And Gladys
12 N Love Of Life
12:25 CBS News (Richard Hottelet)
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1 PM Best Of Groucho
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Password (Peter Lawford plays the game)
2:30 Art Linkletter's House Party (child psychologist
Nathan Leichman talks about child discipline)
3 PM To Tell The Truth (panel: Mimi Benzell, Orson Bean,
Phyllis Newman, Barry Nelson; host: Bud Collyer)
3:25 CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
3:30 Edge Of Night
4 PM Secret Storm
4:30 Millionaire (the check goes to Harry Brown, who's
trying to obtain a divorce)
5 PM Old Rebel And Pecos Pete
5:30 Yogi Bear
6 PM Hennesey
6:30 News, Weather
6:45 CBS News (Walter Cronkite, will expand to 30 minutes
on Sept. 2)
7 PM Ripcord
7:30 CBS Reports
8 PM Seven Wonderful Nights (CBS fall preview; WFMY will be
exclusively CBS by then)
8:30 Dobie Gillis
9 PM Beverly Hillbillies
9:30 Dick Van Dyke
10 PM Armstrong Circle Theater
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Surfside 6
WBTV Ch. 3 Charlotte (CBS/ABC)
6:25 Daily Word
6:30 Fun House
6:50 Farm Journal (Gil Stamper)
7 AM Carolina Calling (Arthur Smith)
7:55 News, Weather
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Romper Room
9:30 Who Do You Trust? (Woody Woodbury, ABC,
delay from 3:30 PM)
10 AM Calendar
10:30 Tennessee Ernie Ford Show (ABC, delay from noon)
11 AM Real McCoys
11:30 Pete And Gladys
12 N Noon Report
12:25 CBS News
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1 PM Betty Feezor
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Password
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 Millionaire (this would be part of Ch. 3's "Those
Were The Years" Friday-night nostalgia show
in the '70s and '80s)
5 PM Three Ring Circus
6 PM Sea Hunt
6:25 Sports (Don Robertson)
6:30 News, Weather
6:45 CBS News
7 PM Mister Ed (delay from Sun 6:30)
7:30 CBS Reports
8 PM TBA
8:30 Dobie Gillis
9 PM Beverly Hillbillies
9:30 Dick Van Dyke
10 PM Armstrong Circle Theater
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:15 Movie: "And Baby Makes Three"
WUNC Ch. 4 Chapel Hill (NET)
12 N What's New
12:30 Aspect (farm show)
1 PM off the air
7 PM What's New
7:30 Big Picture
8 PM Survival In The Sea (not to be confused with the '70s
nature show "World Of Survival")
8:30 Writers Of Today
9 PM Pop Culture
sign off 9:30 PM
WRAL Ch. 5 Raleigh (ABC/NBC)
6:30 Aspect
7 AM Today (Hugh Downs; one of the guests is Cleveland Amory)
9 AM Bozo The Clown (Ch. 5 would drop this for the more successful
"Time For Uncle Paul")
9:55 News
10 AM Time Out (news anchor Sam Beard hosts a game show pitting
local community organizations against each other, "College Bowl"-
style)
10:30 Play Your Hunch (Robert Q. Lewis hosts, Marilyn Maxwell is guest)
(COLOR)
11 AM Queen For A Day (delay from 3 PM)
11:30 Seven Keys
12 N Tennessee Ernie Ford Show (guests: Charles Schulz and accordionist
Dick Contino)
12:30 Father Knows Best
1 PM General Hospital (won't move to 3 PM until Dec. 30)
1:30 Who Do You Trust? (delay from 3:30)
2 PM Day In Court
2:25 ABC News (Alex Dreier)
2:30 Jane Wyman Presents
3 PM Loretta Young Theater
3:30 You Don't Say! (guests: Mary Tyler Moore and Keenan Wynn)
(COLOR)
4 PM American Bandstand (guests: Dick and Dee Dee)
4:30 Discovery
4:55 American Newsstand
5 PM Space Harbor: Captain Five (Herb Marks)
5:30 Pony Express
6 PM Sports (Ray Reeve, yet another NC legend)
6:10 Greatest Headlines Of The Century
6:20 Editorial (Jesse Helms)
6:25 Weather, News
6:45 Huntley-Brinkley Report (my memory must be playing tricks
on me, since I thought Ch. 5 was carrying Ron Cochran--
anyway, Chet and David will go to 30 minutes Sept. 9)
7 PM Death Valley Days
7:30 Wagon Train
8:30 Going My Way
9:30 Our Man Higgins
10 PM Naked City
11 PM ABC News (Murphy Martin)
11:10 Weather, News
11:25 Movie: "Doctor At Sea"
WECT Ch. 6 Wilmington (NBC/CBS/ABC)
6:25 Daily Word
6:30 Carolina Farm Report
7 AM Today
9 AM Jane Wyman Presents
9:30 Tennessee Ernie Ford Show
10 AM Say When
10:25 NBC News (no anchor given)
10:30 Play Your Hunch (COLOR)
11 AM Price Is Right (Jack Clark subs for Bill Cullen)
(COLOR)
11:30 Concentration
12 N Your First Impression (panel: Joan Bennett,
Danny Dayton, Artie Shaw) (COLOR)
12:30 Truth Or Consequences
12:55 NBC News (Ray Scherer)
1 PM Showcase (Jim Burns, local)
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM People Will Talk (show which morphed into
"Hollywood Squares"--Dennis James hosts) (COLOR)
2:25 NBC News (Floyd Kalber)
2:30 The Doctors (at this point, in a new-five-part-story-
each-week format, will not become a straight soap
until sometime in 1964)
3 PM Queen For A Day (this is the only station in North
Carolina other than WLOS, which isn't listed in this
edition, to carry this show in pattern)
3:30 Edge Of Night
4 PM Match Game (guests: Alan Young and Joan Fontaine)
4:25 NBC News (Sander Vanocur)
4:30 Make Room For Daddy
5 PM Discovery
5:30 Huckleberry Hound
6 PM Local News
6:30 Homer Briarhopper (local or regional country music show,
since I remember him on WTVD's "Morning Jamboree")
6:45 Tobacco Market
6:55 News, Weather
7:15 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7:30 The Virginian (COLOR)
9 PM Kraft Mystery Theater (Perry Como's summer replacement)
10 PM Bing Crosby Special (guests: Bob Hope, Edie Adams, Gary Crosby,
the Smothers Brothers, Pete Fountain--pre-empts "The Eleventh
Hour")
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:15 Tonight Show (COLOR)
WITN Ch. 7 Washington, NC (NBC/ABC)
6:25 Aspect
6:55 Weather (Bill Knight)
7 AM Today
9 AM Jane Wyman Presents
9:30 Tennessee Ernie Ford Show
10 AM Say When!
10:25 NBC News
10:30 Play Your Hunch (COLOR)
11 AM Price Is Right (COLOR)
11:30 Concentration
12 N Your First Impression (COLOR)
12:30 Truth Or Consequences
12:55 NBC News
1 PM General Hospital (New Bern's Ch. 12
will have this show by the time it moves
to 3 PM.)
1:30 Queen For A Day
2 PM People Will Talk (COLOR)
2:25 NBC News
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Loretta Young Theater
3:30 You Don't Say! (COLOR)
4 PM Match Game
4:25 NBC News
4:30 Make Room For Daddy
5 PM The Funny Page (with WITNey the Marching
Hobo)
6 PM Local News
6:10 Weather (Bill Knight)
6:15 Dragnet (Ben Alexander is Jack Webb's partner)
6:45 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7 PM Award Theater
7:30 The Virginian (COLOR)
9 PM Kraft Mystery Theater
10 PM Bing Crosby Special
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:15 Tonight Show (COLOR)
WNCT Ch. 9 Greenville, NC (CBS/ABC)
6:30 Carolina Farm News
It's not listed but I believe "Carolina Today" aired at 7 AM,
since it was on from the '50s to the '90s.
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Best Of Groucho
9:30 R.C.M.P.
10 AM Calendar
10:30 I Love Lucy
11 AM Real McCoys
11:30 Pete And Gladys
12 N News, Weather
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1 PM Love Of Life
1:25 Timely Tips (Corinne Rickert)
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Password
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 Millionaire
5 PM Bozo And Slim (Slim Short, co-host of "Carolina
Today," did this show--the Bozo format would
eventually be dropped and replaced by the
strictly-local "Cartoon Junction," with Slim as
"Railroad Slim.")
6 PM Quick Draw McGraw
6:30 Local News, Weather
6:45 CBS News
7 PM Arthur Smith
7:30 Wagon Train (ABC)
8:30 Dobie Gillis
9 PM Beverly Hillbillies
9:30 Dick Van Dyke
10 PM Armstrong Circle Theater
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:15 Movie: "A Face In The Crowd" (the dark side
of Andy Griffith)
WSOC Ch. 9 Charlotte (NBC/ABC, and some CBS programs)
6:45 Farm And Home
7 AM Today
9 AM Cartoons
9:15 Debbie Drake
9:30 On The Mall (man-on-the-street-type show from
uptown--that's what Charlotteans like to call it--
Charlotte)
10 AM Say When!
10:25 NBC News
10:30 Play Your Hunch (COLOR)
11 AM Price Is Right (COLOR)
11:30 Concentration
12 N Love Of Life (CBS, pre-empted on Ch. 3)
12:25 Midday (Jimmy Kilgo)
12:55 NBC News
1 PM General Hospital
1:30 Father Knows Best (I'm thinking Ch. 9 may have
been taking the Central time zone feed, since it's
the same show that aired at 12:30 on Ch. 5.)
2 PM People Will Talk (COLOR)
2:25 NBC News
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Loretta Young Theater
3:30 You Don't Say! (COLOR)
4 PM Deputy Dawg
4:15 Rocky And His Friends
4:30 Clown Carnival (next to Ch. 3's Fred Kirby, Brooks
Lindsay was the big kids'-show icon in Charlotte)
5:30 Quick Draw McGraw
6 PM Amos 'n' Andy
6:30 Local News, Weather
6:45 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7 PM Ripcord
7:30 Wagon Train
8:30 Our Man Higgins (ABC, delay from 9:30)
9 PM Kraft Mystery Theater
10 PM Naked City
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Tonight Show (COLOR)
WTVD Ch. 11 Durham (CBS/NBC)
6:30 TV Reader's Digest
7 AM Morning Jamboree (Homer Briarhopper and
Clyde Moody, who lived not too far from me,
although I never met him.)
7:55 News, Weather
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Cartoons
10 AM Say When!
10:25 NBC News
10:30 I Love Lucy
11 AM Price Is Right (COLOR)
11:30 Concentration
12 N Love Of Life
12:25 CBS News
12:30 Truth Or Consequences
12:55 NBC News
1 PM Peggy Mann
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Password
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 Millionaire
5 PM Fun Hour (Ken Corbett, "Paul Pioneer" on
this show, also did the weather at 11 PM.
One night he showed up so drunk as to be
incomprehensible. I don't know who replaced
him on the weather, but a new character, "Trader
Jake," replaced him on this show.)
5:30 Quick Draw McGraw
6 PM Art Linkletter Show (Rose Marie, Rod Serling, and
Jim Backus try to predict the outcome of "People
Are Funny"-type setups. NBC, delay from Mon 9:30)
6:30 News, Weather
6:45 CBS News
7 PM Password (guests: Arthur Godfrey and Gretchen Wyler,
delay from Mon 10 PM)
7:30 The Virginian (COLOR)
9 PM Kraft Mystery Theater
10 PM Bing Crosby Special
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:15 Tonight Show (COLOR)
WSJS (WXII) Ch. 12 Winston-Salem (NBC, some ABC)
6:30 Aspect
7 AM Today
9 AM Yesterday's Newsreel
9:15 Debbie Drake
9:30 People Are Funny
10 AM Say When!
10:25 NBC News
10:30 Play Your Hunch (COLOR)
11 AM Price Is Right (COLOR)
11:30 Concentration
12 N Your First Impression (COLOR)
12:30 Truth Or Consequences
12:55 NBC News
1 PM This Afternoon
1:30 Tennessee Ernie Ford Show
2 PM People Will Talk (COLOR)
2:25 NBC News
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Loretta Young Theater
3:30 You Don't Say! (COLOR)
4 PM Match Game
4:25 NBC News
4:30 Make Room For Daddy
5 PM Bob Gordon Show (cartoons and
variety acts)
5:30 Adventures In Paradise
6:30 News, Weather
6:45 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7 PM M Squad
7:30 The Virginian (COLOR)
9 PM Kraft Mystery Theater
10 PM Bing Crosby Special
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:15 Tonight Show (COLOR)
(WNBE, now WCTI/12 on Sept. 7) and Greensboro/Winston-Salem/
High Point (WGHP/8 on October 14). But for now everybody's
carrying more than one network except Ch. 4. From TV Guide,
North Carolina Edition:
WFMY Ch. 2 Greensboro (CBS/ABC)
6:30 Social Security In Action
6:45 RFD Piedmont (farm news with George Perry, better known
as kids'-show icon the Old Rebel)
7 AM Good Morning Show (Lee Kinard, another Triad icon)
7:55 News, Weather
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Devotions
9:15 Second Breakfast (Carroll Stoker, and boy did I have a
crush on her!)
9:30 What's Cooking Today? (Cordelia Kelly)
9:55 News
10 AM Calendar (Harry Reasoner)
10:30 I Love Lucy
11 AM Real McCoys
11:30 Pete And Gladys
12 N Love Of Life
12:25 CBS News (Richard Hottelet)
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1 PM Best Of Groucho
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Password (Peter Lawford plays the game)
2:30 Art Linkletter's House Party (child psychologist
Nathan Leichman talks about child discipline)
3 PM To Tell The Truth (panel: Mimi Benzell, Orson Bean,
Phyllis Newman, Barry Nelson; host: Bud Collyer)
3:25 CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
3:30 Edge Of Night
4 PM Secret Storm
4:30 Millionaire (the check goes to Harry Brown, who's
trying to obtain a divorce)
5 PM Old Rebel And Pecos Pete
5:30 Yogi Bear
6 PM Hennesey
6:30 News, Weather
6:45 CBS News (Walter Cronkite, will expand to 30 minutes
on Sept. 2)
7 PM Ripcord
7:30 CBS Reports
8 PM Seven Wonderful Nights (CBS fall preview; WFMY will be
exclusively CBS by then)
8:30 Dobie Gillis
9 PM Beverly Hillbillies
9:30 Dick Van Dyke
10 PM Armstrong Circle Theater
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Surfside 6
WBTV Ch. 3 Charlotte (CBS/ABC)
6:25 Daily Word
6:30 Fun House
6:50 Farm Journal (Gil Stamper)
7 AM Carolina Calling (Arthur Smith)
7:55 News, Weather
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Romper Room
9:30 Who Do You Trust? (Woody Woodbury, ABC,
delay from 3:30 PM)
10 AM Calendar
10:30 Tennessee Ernie Ford Show (ABC, delay from noon)
11 AM Real McCoys
11:30 Pete And Gladys
12 N Noon Report
12:25 CBS News
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1 PM Betty Feezor
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Password
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 Millionaire (this would be part of Ch. 3's "Those
Were The Years" Friday-night nostalgia show
in the '70s and '80s)
5 PM Three Ring Circus
6 PM Sea Hunt
6:25 Sports (Don Robertson)
6:30 News, Weather
6:45 CBS News
7 PM Mister Ed (delay from Sun 6:30)
7:30 CBS Reports
8 PM TBA
8:30 Dobie Gillis
9 PM Beverly Hillbillies
9:30 Dick Van Dyke
10 PM Armstrong Circle Theater
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:15 Movie: "And Baby Makes Three"
WUNC Ch. 4 Chapel Hill (NET)
12 N What's New
12:30 Aspect (farm show)
1 PM off the air
7 PM What's New
7:30 Big Picture
8 PM Survival In The Sea (not to be confused with the '70s
nature show "World Of Survival")
8:30 Writers Of Today
9 PM Pop Culture
sign off 9:30 PM
WRAL Ch. 5 Raleigh (ABC/NBC)
6:30 Aspect
7 AM Today (Hugh Downs; one of the guests is Cleveland Amory)
9 AM Bozo The Clown (Ch. 5 would drop this for the more successful
"Time For Uncle Paul")
9:55 News
10 AM Time Out (news anchor Sam Beard hosts a game show pitting
local community organizations against each other, "College Bowl"-
style)
10:30 Play Your Hunch (Robert Q. Lewis hosts, Marilyn Maxwell is guest)
(COLOR)
11 AM Queen For A Day (delay from 3 PM)
11:30 Seven Keys
12 N Tennessee Ernie Ford Show (guests: Charles Schulz and accordionist
Dick Contino)
12:30 Father Knows Best
1 PM General Hospital (won't move to 3 PM until Dec. 30)
1:30 Who Do You Trust? (delay from 3:30)
2 PM Day In Court
2:25 ABC News (Alex Dreier)
2:30 Jane Wyman Presents
3 PM Loretta Young Theater
3:30 You Don't Say! (guests: Mary Tyler Moore and Keenan Wynn)
(COLOR)
4 PM American Bandstand (guests: Dick and Dee Dee)
4:30 Discovery
4:55 American Newsstand
5 PM Space Harbor: Captain Five (Herb Marks)
5:30 Pony Express
6 PM Sports (Ray Reeve, yet another NC legend)
6:10 Greatest Headlines Of The Century
6:20 Editorial (Jesse Helms)
6:25 Weather, News
6:45 Huntley-Brinkley Report (my memory must be playing tricks
on me, since I thought Ch. 5 was carrying Ron Cochran--
anyway, Chet and David will go to 30 minutes Sept. 9)
7 PM Death Valley Days
7:30 Wagon Train
8:30 Going My Way
9:30 Our Man Higgins
10 PM Naked City
11 PM ABC News (Murphy Martin)
11:10 Weather, News
11:25 Movie: "Doctor At Sea"
WECT Ch. 6 Wilmington (NBC/CBS/ABC)
6:25 Daily Word
6:30 Carolina Farm Report
7 AM Today
9 AM Jane Wyman Presents
9:30 Tennessee Ernie Ford Show
10 AM Say When
10:25 NBC News (no anchor given)
10:30 Play Your Hunch (COLOR)
11 AM Price Is Right (Jack Clark subs for Bill Cullen)
(COLOR)
11:30 Concentration
12 N Your First Impression (panel: Joan Bennett,
Danny Dayton, Artie Shaw) (COLOR)
12:30 Truth Or Consequences
12:55 NBC News (Ray Scherer)
1 PM Showcase (Jim Burns, local)
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM People Will Talk (show which morphed into
"Hollywood Squares"--Dennis James hosts) (COLOR)
2:25 NBC News (Floyd Kalber)
2:30 The Doctors (at this point, in a new-five-part-story-
each-week format, will not become a straight soap
until sometime in 1964)
3 PM Queen For A Day (this is the only station in North
Carolina other than WLOS, which isn't listed in this
edition, to carry this show in pattern)
3:30 Edge Of Night
4 PM Match Game (guests: Alan Young and Joan Fontaine)
4:25 NBC News (Sander Vanocur)
4:30 Make Room For Daddy
5 PM Discovery
5:30 Huckleberry Hound
6 PM Local News
6:30 Homer Briarhopper (local or regional country music show,
since I remember him on WTVD's "Morning Jamboree")
6:45 Tobacco Market
6:55 News, Weather
7:15 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7:30 The Virginian (COLOR)
9 PM Kraft Mystery Theater (Perry Como's summer replacement)
10 PM Bing Crosby Special (guests: Bob Hope, Edie Adams, Gary Crosby,
the Smothers Brothers, Pete Fountain--pre-empts "The Eleventh
Hour")
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:15 Tonight Show (COLOR)
WITN Ch. 7 Washington, NC (NBC/ABC)
6:25 Aspect
6:55 Weather (Bill Knight)
7 AM Today
9 AM Jane Wyman Presents
9:30 Tennessee Ernie Ford Show
10 AM Say When!
10:25 NBC News
10:30 Play Your Hunch (COLOR)
11 AM Price Is Right (COLOR)
11:30 Concentration
12 N Your First Impression (COLOR)
12:30 Truth Or Consequences
12:55 NBC News
1 PM General Hospital (New Bern's Ch. 12
will have this show by the time it moves
to 3 PM.)
1:30 Queen For A Day
2 PM People Will Talk (COLOR)
2:25 NBC News
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Loretta Young Theater
3:30 You Don't Say! (COLOR)
4 PM Match Game
4:25 NBC News
4:30 Make Room For Daddy
5 PM The Funny Page (with WITNey the Marching
Hobo)
6 PM Local News
6:10 Weather (Bill Knight)
6:15 Dragnet (Ben Alexander is Jack Webb's partner)
6:45 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7 PM Award Theater
7:30 The Virginian (COLOR)
9 PM Kraft Mystery Theater
10 PM Bing Crosby Special
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:15 Tonight Show (COLOR)
WNCT Ch. 9 Greenville, NC (CBS/ABC)
6:30 Carolina Farm News
It's not listed but I believe "Carolina Today" aired at 7 AM,
since it was on from the '50s to the '90s.
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Best Of Groucho
9:30 R.C.M.P.
10 AM Calendar
10:30 I Love Lucy
11 AM Real McCoys
11:30 Pete And Gladys
12 N News, Weather
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1 PM Love Of Life
1:25 Timely Tips (Corinne Rickert)
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Password
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 Millionaire
5 PM Bozo And Slim (Slim Short, co-host of "Carolina
Today," did this show--the Bozo format would
eventually be dropped and replaced by the
strictly-local "Cartoon Junction," with Slim as
"Railroad Slim.")
6 PM Quick Draw McGraw
6:30 Local News, Weather
6:45 CBS News
7 PM Arthur Smith
7:30 Wagon Train (ABC)
8:30 Dobie Gillis
9 PM Beverly Hillbillies
9:30 Dick Van Dyke
10 PM Armstrong Circle Theater
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:15 Movie: "A Face In The Crowd" (the dark side
of Andy Griffith)
WSOC Ch. 9 Charlotte (NBC/ABC, and some CBS programs)
6:45 Farm And Home
7 AM Today
9 AM Cartoons
9:15 Debbie Drake
9:30 On The Mall (man-on-the-street-type show from
uptown--that's what Charlotteans like to call it--
Charlotte)
10 AM Say When!
10:25 NBC News
10:30 Play Your Hunch (COLOR)
11 AM Price Is Right (COLOR)
11:30 Concentration
12 N Love Of Life (CBS, pre-empted on Ch. 3)
12:25 Midday (Jimmy Kilgo)
12:55 NBC News
1 PM General Hospital
1:30 Father Knows Best (I'm thinking Ch. 9 may have
been taking the Central time zone feed, since it's
the same show that aired at 12:30 on Ch. 5.)
2 PM People Will Talk (COLOR)
2:25 NBC News
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Loretta Young Theater
3:30 You Don't Say! (COLOR)
4 PM Deputy Dawg
4:15 Rocky And His Friends
4:30 Clown Carnival (next to Ch. 3's Fred Kirby, Brooks
Lindsay was the big kids'-show icon in Charlotte)
5:30 Quick Draw McGraw
6 PM Amos 'n' Andy
6:30 Local News, Weather
6:45 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7 PM Ripcord
7:30 Wagon Train
8:30 Our Man Higgins (ABC, delay from 9:30)
9 PM Kraft Mystery Theater
10 PM Naked City
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Tonight Show (COLOR)
WTVD Ch. 11 Durham (CBS/NBC)
6:30 TV Reader's Digest
7 AM Morning Jamboree (Homer Briarhopper and
Clyde Moody, who lived not too far from me,
although I never met him.)
7:55 News, Weather
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Cartoons
10 AM Say When!
10:25 NBC News
10:30 I Love Lucy
11 AM Price Is Right (COLOR)
11:30 Concentration
12 N Love Of Life
12:25 CBS News
12:30 Truth Or Consequences
12:55 NBC News
1 PM Peggy Mann
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Password
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 Millionaire
5 PM Fun Hour (Ken Corbett, "Paul Pioneer" on
this show, also did the weather at 11 PM.
One night he showed up so drunk as to be
incomprehensible. I don't know who replaced
him on the weather, but a new character, "Trader
Jake," replaced him on this show.)
5:30 Quick Draw McGraw
6 PM Art Linkletter Show (Rose Marie, Rod Serling, and
Jim Backus try to predict the outcome of "People
Are Funny"-type setups. NBC, delay from Mon 9:30)
6:30 News, Weather
6:45 CBS News
7 PM Password (guests: Arthur Godfrey and Gretchen Wyler,
delay from Mon 10 PM)
7:30 The Virginian (COLOR)
9 PM Kraft Mystery Theater
10 PM Bing Crosby Special
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:15 Tonight Show (COLOR)
WSJS (WXII) Ch. 12 Winston-Salem (NBC, some ABC)
6:30 Aspect
7 AM Today
9 AM Yesterday's Newsreel
9:15 Debbie Drake
9:30 People Are Funny
10 AM Say When!
10:25 NBC News
10:30 Play Your Hunch (COLOR)
11 AM Price Is Right (COLOR)
11:30 Concentration
12 N Your First Impression (COLOR)
12:30 Truth Or Consequences
12:55 NBC News
1 PM This Afternoon
1:30 Tennessee Ernie Ford Show
2 PM People Will Talk (COLOR)
2:25 NBC News
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Loretta Young Theater
3:30 You Don't Say! (COLOR)
4 PM Match Game
4:25 NBC News
4:30 Make Room For Daddy
5 PM Bob Gordon Show (cartoons and
variety acts)
5:30 Adventures In Paradise
6:30 News, Weather
6:45 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7 PM M Squad
7:30 The Virginian (COLOR)
9 PM Kraft Mystery Theater
10 PM Bing Crosby Special
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:15 Tonight Show (COLOR)