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Retro: North Carolina Wednesday, December 18, 1968

From TV Guide, North Carolina Edition:

WFMY Ch. 2 Greensboro (CBS)

6 AM Sunrise Semester: "English Literature"
6:30 Good Morning Show
7:55 Morning Devotions
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Old Rebel Show (among local kids' shows I believe
only WCPO's Uncle Al lasted longer)
9:30 What's Cooking Today?
10 AM The Lucy Show
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies
11 AM Andy Griffith
11:30 Dick Van Dyke
12 N Love Of Life
12:25 Local News
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Truth Or Consequences (this would be far more successful
at 7 PM on Ch. 8)
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
2:30 Guiding Light
3 PM Secret Storm
3:30 Edge Of Night
4 PM Linkletter Show (guest: Lena Horne)
4:25 CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
4:30 Flintstones
5 PM Perry Mason
6 PM News, Weather, Sports
6:30 CBS News (Walter Cronkite)
7 PM Arthur Smith
7:30 Movie: "Mary Mary"
9:30 Green Acres
10 PM Jonathan Winters (Godfrey Cambridge, Sugar Ray
Robinson, Rosey Grier, Minnie Pearl, Roy Clark)
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:30 Movie: "Combat Squad"

WUND Ch. 2 Edenton/WUNC Ch. 4 Chapel Hill/WUNG Ch. 58 Concord, NC (NET)

8 AM Focus On Health
9 AM U.S. History
9:30 Physical Science
10 AM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
10:30 Mathematics
11 AM NET Journal ("A Plague On Your Children," about the development of
chemical-biological weapons)
12 N Aspect
12:30 News (Lou Heckler)
12:45 Friendly Giant
1 PM U.S. History
1:30 Physical Science
2 PM Science And Nature
2:30 nothing listed until
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Aspect
6 PM News (Lou Heckler)
6:15 Friendly Giant
6:30 History 569
7 PM You The Deaf
7:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
8 PM World We Live In (attempts to understand and ultimately
control genetics)
8:30 Kaleidoscope
9 PM News In Perspective (speculations on what the Nixon administration
will do differently from LBJ's)
sign off 10 PM

WBTV Ch. 3 Charlotte (CBS)

6:20 Almanac (Gil Stamper)
6:30 Gospel Favorites
7 AM Morning Report
7:30 CBS News (Joseph Benti)
7:55 News, Weather
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Kirby's Corral
9:05 Love Of Life
9:30 Merv Griffin (Skitch Henderson, Mort Sahl, actors
Barry McGuire and Yvonne Constant, singer Jimmy Helms)
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies
11 AM Andy Griffith
11:30 Linkletter Show
11:55 Pat Lee
12 N Noon Report (Ty Boyd)
12:25 CBS News (Joseph Benti)
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Betty Feezor
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
2:30 Guiding Light
3 PM Secret Storm
3:30 Edge Of Night
4 PM Superman ("The Unknown People," second of the show's
only two-part episode, originally a movie, "Superman And
The Mole Men")
4:30 Mike Douglas (co-hostess Phyllis Diller; Anna Maria Alberghetti,
Frankie Laine)
6 PM News, Weather, Sports, Editorial
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Movie: "Finders Keepers"
8:30 The Good Guys (Bob Denver, Herb Edelman)
9 PM Beverly Hillbillies
9:30 Green Acres
10 PM Jonathan Winters
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:25 Editorial (Clyde McLean)
11:30 Movie: "Untamed Frontier"

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

7 AM Popeye/Little Rascals
8 AM Dating Game (delay from 2:30 PM)
8:30 Movie: "Three Came Home"
10:30 Dick Cavett (guest: Burgess Meredith)
12 N Bewitched
12:30 Search For Tomorrow (CBS)
1 PM Dream House
1:30 Funny You Should Ask (Bob Crane, Stu Gilliam,
Buddy Hackett, Connie Stevens, Jo Anne Worley)
1:55 Children's Doctor
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 Guiding Light (CBS)
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 One Life To Live
4 PM Dark Shadows
4:30 Movie: "Duffy Of San Quentin"
6 PM News, Weather, Sports
6:30 ABC News (Frank Reynolds)
7 PM Virginian (NBC, delay from 7:30 PM)
8:30 ABC Movie: "The Robe"
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:30 Joey Bishop (Lee Marvin, John Gary, singer-pianist Bobby
Doyle)

WRAL Ch. 5 Raleigh (ABC)

5:30 Aspect
6 AM Daybreak
6:45 Farm News
7 AM Viewpoint (Jesse Helms)
7:05 CBS News (pre-empted on Ch. 11)
7:30 Mickey Mouse Club
8 AM Time For Uncle Paul (Paul Montgomery)
8:30 Bewitched (says it's the same show airing in pattern at 12 N)
9 AM One Life To Live
9:30 Dark Shadows
10 AM Bette Elliott
10:30 Mike Douglas (in Baltimore, co-host is native son Garry Moore;
Darren McGavin, Bud Collyer, the Rockettes)
12 N News, Weather
1 PM Dream House
1:30 Funny You Should Ask
1:55 Children's Doctor
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 Dating Game
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 Flintstones
4 PM Movie: "The Little Princess" (Shirley Temple, Richard Greene,
from '39)
5:40 Sports (Ray Reeve)
6 PM News, Weather, Sports, Editorial
6:30 Huntley-Brinkley Report (Ch. 5 seemed to think Frank Reynolds
to be too liberal.)
7 PM Bewitched (delay from Thu 8:30 PM)
7:30 Here Come The Brides
8:30 ABC Movie: "The Robe"
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:30 Movie: "The Terror Of The Tongs" (pre-empts Joey Bishop)

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

6:30 Carolina In The Morning
7 AM Today (Lady Bird Johnson's secretaries Liz Carpenter and Bess
Abel; Judith Crist)
9 AM Mike Douglas (co-host Cliff Robertson; Johnny Puleo and his Harmonica
Gang, the singing Kane Triplets)
10 AM Snap Judgment (Joel Grey, Peggy Cass)
10:25 NBC News (Nancy Dickerson)
10:30 Concentration
11 AM Personality (Joan Fontaine, Connie Francis, Milt Kamen)
11:30 Hollywood Squares (Wally Cox, Nanette Fabray, Henry Gibson, Werner
Klemperer, Gypsy Rose Lee, Rose Marie, Jan Murray, Charley Weaver,
Paul Lynde)
12 N Jeopardy!
12:30 Eye Guess
12:55 NBC News (Edwin Newman)
1 PM Paul Harvey
1:05 Jim Burns
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 Match Game (Peter Lawford, Peggy Cass)
4:25 NBC News (Floyd Kalber)
4:30 Gilligan's Island
5 PM Perry Mason
6 PM News, Weather, Sports
6:30 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7 PM Movie: "Men Of The Fighting Lady"
9 PM Kraft Music Hall (host Eddy Arnold; Burl Ives, Terry-Thomas,
singer Lynn Kellogg, the By George Singers)
10 PM The Outsider (Darren McGavin, whom you'll see plenty of on
TBS Christmas Eve and Christmas Day)
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:30 Tonight Show (James Mason, Tiny Tim, and this is not the show where he and
Miss Vicki were married--that was about a year later)

WITN Ch. 7 Washington, NC (NBC)

6 AM Aspect
6:30 Mister Ed
7 AM Today
9 AM Merv Griffin (David Janssen, Phyllis Newman, singer Jimmy Helms)
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 (Betsy Palmer (who later took over hosting this show),
Israeli singer Yaffa Yarknoni, author Helen Bottel ("To Teens With
Love"))
1:30 Let's Make A Deal (moving to ABC Dec. 30)
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 You Don't Say! (Sebastian Cabot, Pat Carroll)
4 PM Match Game
4:25 NBC News
4:30 The Funny Page
5 PM Mike Douglas (co-hosts: the Lettermen; movie producer Robert
Wise, Patchett and Tarses, Florian Za Bach (the Liberace of the
violin set))
6 PM News, Weather, Sports
6:30 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7 PM Hazel
7:30 Virginian
9 PM Kraft Music Hall
10 PM The Outsider
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:30 Tonight Show

WGHP Ch. 8 High Point (ABC)

6:30 University Of Michigan
7 AM Limbo's Cartoons
8:30 Romper Room
9 AM Movie: "The Lady Pays Off"
10:30 Dick Cavett
12 N Bewitched
12:30 Treasure Isle
1 PM Girl Talk (Dina Merrill, dress designer Helen Rose)
1:30 Funny You Should Ask
1:55 Children's Doctor
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 Dating Game
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 One Life To Live
4 PM Movie: "Hercules In The Haunted World"
5:30 News, Weather, Sports
6 PM Merv Griffin (Jackie Mason subs for Merv; Shelley
Berman, Prof. Irwin Corey, actresses Yvonne Constant
and Ultra Violet, singers Lori Rogers and Mike Dowd,
psychologist Cleo Dawson)
7:25 Weather
7:30 Here Come The Brides
8:30 ABC Movie: "The Robe"
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:30 Joey Bishop
1 AM News

WNCT Ch. 9 Greenville, NC (CBS)

6:30 Carolina Today
8:30 Meditations
8:35 CBS News
9 AM Captain Kangaroo
10 AM The Lucy Show
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies
11 AM Andy Griffith
11:30 Dick Van Dyke
12 N News, Weather
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Love Of Life
1:25 Timely Tips
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
2:30 Guiding Light
3 PM Secret Storm
3:30 Edge Of Night
4 PM Password (Betty White, Frank Gifford)
4:25 CBS News
4:30 Santa Claus and Slim (station personality
Slim Short)
5 PM Perry Mason
5:55 Paul Harvey
6 PM News, Weather, Sports
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Truth Or Consequences
7:30 Daktari
8:30 The Good Guys
9 PM Beverly Hillbillies
9:30 Green Acres
10 PM Jonathan Winters
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:30 Movie: "The Miami Story"

WSOC Ch. 9 Charlotte (NBC)

6:45 On The House (Bob Hice)
7 AM Today
9 AM Joey (clown played by Brooks Lindsay)
9:30 Today In The Carolinas
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 Truth Or Consequences
4 PM Gilligan's Island
4:30 I Love Lucy
5 PM Perry Mason
5:55 Paul Harvey
6 PM News, Weather, Sports
6:30 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7 PM Movie: "Joe Butterfly"
9 PM Kraft Music Hall
10 PM The Outsider
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:30 Tonight Show

WIS Ch. 10 Columbia, SC (NBC)

6:45 Farm Report
7 AM Today
9 AM Today In Carolina
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 One O'Clock Report
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 Match Game
4:25 NBC News
4:30 Mr. Knozit
5:30 Merv Griffin (same as WBTV)
6:30 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7 PM News, Sports, Weather
7:30 Virginian
9 PM Kraft Music Hall
10 PM The Outsider
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:30 Tonight Show

WTVD Ch. 11 Durham (CBS/NBC)

6 AM Aspect
6:30 Sunrise Semester
7 AM Today
9 AM Captain Kangaroo
10 AM The Lucy Show
10:30 Concentration
11 AM Andy Griffith
11:30 Dick Van Dyke
12 N Love Of Life
12:25 Newsbeat
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Peggy Mann
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Hollywood Squares (delay from 11:30 AM)
2:30 Guiding Light
3 PM Secret Storm
3:30 Edge Of Night
4 PM Hazel
4:30 Beverly Hillbillies (delay from 10:30 AM)
5 PM Perry Mason
6 PM News, Weather, Sports
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Movie: "Valley Of The Kings"
9 PM Hawaii Five-O (delay from Thu 8 PM)
10 PM Rowan And Martin's Laugh-In (guest: Douglas
Fairbanks Jr., delay from Mon 8 PM)
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:30 Tonight Show

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

7 AM TV Party Line
8 AM Romper Room
9 AM Movie: "The Florentine Dagger"
10:30 Dick Cavett
12 N Bewitched
12:30 Treasure Isle
1 PM Dream House
1:30 Funny You Should Ask
1:55 Children's Doctor
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 Dating Game
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 One Life To Live
4 PM Dark Shadows
4:30 Bozo The Clown
6 PM News, Sports, Weather (along with WWAY,
still in black and white)
6:30 ABC News
7 PM Bill Pollard (local country-music show)
7:30 Here Come The Brides
8:30 ABC Movie: "The Robe"
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:15 Bob Poole
11:30 Joey Bishop

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

6:30 Aspect
7 AM Today
9 AM Today At Home
9:30 Bob Poole (gospel music--this is also
called "Gospel Favorites")
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 (Robert and Alan Alda, 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 The Texan
7:30 Virginian
9 PM Kraft Music Hall
10 PM The Outsider
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:30 Tonight Show

WBTW Ch. 13 Florence, SC (CBS/ABC)

6:30 Slim Mims
7:30 CBS News
7:55 Meditations
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Newlywed Game
9:30 Love Of Life
9:55 News, Weather
10 AM The Lucy Show
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies
11 AM Andy Griffith
11:30 Dick Van Dyke
12 N Weather, Agri-Business, News
12:25 CBS News
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Ann McCoy
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
2:30 Guiding Light
3 PM Secret Storm
3:30 Edge Of Night
4 PM Linkletter Show
4:25 CBS News
4:30 Mike Douglas (same as WBTV)
6 PM News, Weather, Sports
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Movie: "The Saga Of Hemp Brown"
8:30 The Good Guys
9 PM Beverly Hillbillies
9:30 Green Acres
10 PM Jonathan Winters
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:30 Movie: "Dagora, The Space Monster"

WCCB Ch. 18 Charlotte (ABC)

8:30 Bonnie Prudden (exercises)
9 AM Romper Room
10 AM Jack LaLanne
10:30 Dick Cavett
12 N Bewitched
12:30 Treasure Isle
1 PM Dream House
1:30 Funny You Should Ask
1:55 Children's Doctor
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 Dating Game
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 One Life To Live
4 PM Dark Shadows
4:30 Rocky And His Friends
5 PM Cowboy Bob
5:30 Uncle Waldo
6 PM Trails West
6:30 ABC News
7 PM Munsters
7:30 Here Come The Brides
8:30 ABC Movie: "The Robe"
11 PM Peter Gunn
11:30 Joey Bishop

WRDU (WRDC) Ch. 28 Durham (NBC/CBS)

2 PM Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 You Don't Say!
4 PM Match Game
4:25 CBS News
4:30 Rawhide
5:30 News, Weather, Sports
6 PM Merv Griffin (same as Ch. 7)
7:30 Virginian
9 PM Kraft Music Hall
10 PM Jonathan Winters
11 PM News, Sports, Weather

WCTU (WCNC) Ch. 36 Charlotte (Ind.)

3:30 Ed Allen (exercises)
4 PM The Lucy Show (pre-empted on WBTV, delay from 10 AM)
4:30 Dick Van Dyke (pre-empted on WBTV, delay from 11:30 AM)
5 PM Ever-Ever Land
5:30 Movie: "Diamond Frontier"
6:55 Weather
7 PM Blondie (CBS, pre-empted on WBTV, delay from Thu 7:30 PM)
7:30 Daktari (in pattern, pre-empted on WBTV)
8:30 Movie: "Siren Of Bagdad"
10 PM Les Crane (topic: sexually-transmitted diseases)
11 PM Movie: "Two Tickets To London"

WTVI Ch. 42 Charlotte (NET)

8:30 In-school programs
4:30 Interviewing
6 PM Sunrise Semester (pre-empted on WBTV)
6:30 Fun With Fortu (the name no doubt comes from the channel)
7 PM What's New
7:30 Folk Guitar
8 PM Backstage (guest: Santa Claus)
8:30 Solo (guest: guitarist Fred Nance)
8:45 Con Tempo
9 PM NET Festival (Donizetti's opera of a protective father and his
rebellious sons, "L'Ajo nell'Imbarazzo")
10 PM Land Of The Big Blue Sky

WUBC (WMYV) Ch. 48 Greensboro (Ind.)

3:30 Mr. Green (kids' show)
4:30 Route 66
5:30 Dennis The Menace
6 PM Blue Shadow Boys
6:30 Questions, Answers, Opinions
7 PM Movie: "That Hagen Girl"
8:30 Steve Allen (James Brown, Rudy Vallee, Jackie Mason,
Leigh French, pantomimist Clay Tyson)
10 PM News, Sports, Weather (in b&w)
10:15 Movie: "Pardon My French"
 
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