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Retro: North Carolina Wednesday, March 20, 1968

From TV Guide, North Carolina Edition:

WFMY Ch. 2 Greensboro (CBS)

6 AM Sunrise Semester: "Near East"
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
11:30 Dick Van Dyke
12 N Love Of Life
12:25 News (local)
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1 PM Truth Or Consequences (would be more successful
in the '70s at 7 PM on WGHP)
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
2:30 Art Linkletter's House Party (guest: songwriter Sammy
Cahn)
3 PM To Tell The Truth
3:25 CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
3:30 Edge Of Night
4 PM Secret Storm
4:30 Movie: "Mr. Soft Touch"
6 PM News, Weather, Sports
6:30 CBS News (Walter Cronkite)
7 PM Movie: "Boots Malone"
9 PM Green Acres
9:30 He & She
10 PM Jonathan Winters (guests: Milton Berle and Della Reese)
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:30 Movie: "The Son Of Dr. Jekyll"

WUND Ch. 2 Edenton/WUNC Ch. 4 Chapel Hill (NET)

8:55 News
9 AM Classroom (history, physical science, mathematics)
11 AM Alcoholism (discussion of progress in the treatment of alcoholism)
11:30 Great Decisions--1968 (economists Milton Friedman and Paul Samuelson
(did anyone have Samuelson's textbook in their college economics classes?)
discuss the U.S. position in international finance)
12 N Aspect
12:30 News (Holmes/Armstrong)
12:45 Time For John (kids' show; John plays with a beagle puppy (a few "awwww"s here)
1 PM French Chef
1:30 Science Reporter (a miniature radio transmitter that can track homing pigeons)
2 PM Science And Nature
2:30 nothing listed
3:30 Modern Teachers
4 PM Basic Electronics
4:30 TBA
5 PM What's New
5:30 Aspect
6 PM News (Heckler/Holmes)
6:15 Time For John
6:30 TBA
7 PM Farmer Education
7:30 What's New
8 PM Great Decisions--1968 (rerun from this morning)
8:30 Green Thumb
9 PM News In Perspective (analysis of the New Hampshire primary)
sign off 10 PM

WBTV Ch. 3 Charlotte (CBS)

6:20 Almanac (Gil Stamper)
6:30 Carolina Calling (guests: the Osborne Brothers, not to be confused
with the Osmond Brothers--this is a bluegrass band)
7:30 CBS News
7:55 News, Weather
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Kirby's Corral
9:05 Love Of Life
9:30 Merv Griffin (Carol Burnett and Harvey Korman are guests.)
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies
11 AM Andy Griffith
11:30 Secret Storm
12 N Noon Report (Ty Boyd talks with former movie actress Colleen
Moore about her autobiography "Silent Star.")
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
4:30 Mike Douglas (co-hostess Polly Bergen; Bobby Vinton,
the Tucson Boys Choir)
6 PM News, Weather, Sports, Editorial
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Movie: "Forty Guns"
8:30 Beverly Hillbillies
9 PM Green Acres
9:30 He & She
10 PM Jonathan Winters
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:25 Editorial (Clyde McLean)
11:30 Movie: "The Sleeping City"

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

6:55 Weather
7 AM Job Instruction
7:30 Popeye And The Little Rascals
8:30 Movie: "Teen-age Rebel"
10:30 This Morning (Dick Cavett)
12 N Bewitched
12:30 Treasure Isle
1 PM The Fugitive
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 Baby Game
2:55 Children's Doctor
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 Dark Shadows
4 PM Movie: "Abbott And Costello Meet The Invisible
Man" (watch for Sheldon Leonard in this one from '51)
5:30 ABC News (Bob Young)
6 PM News, Sports, Weather
6:30 Mike Douglas (Norm Crosby, country singers Ferlin Husky
and Mary Taylor, Chet Atkins)
7:30 Avengers
8:30 Movie: "Imitation Of Life"
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:30 Joey Bishop (Martha Raye, Cesar Romero)

WRAL Ch. 5 Raleigh (ABC/CBS)

5:30 Aspect
6 AM Daybreak
6:45 Ray Wilkinson (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
8:30 Dating Game (delay from 4 PM)
9 AM Bewitched (guest: Eve Arden)
9:30 Dark Shadows
10 AM Bette Elliott
10:55 Word And Song
11 AM Mike Douglas (co-host Allen Ludden; Charlton Heston)
12 N News, Weather
12:30 Treasure Isle
1 PM The Fugitive
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 Baby Game
2:55 Children's Doctor
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 Flintstones
4 PM Movie: "Fury At Furnace Creek"
5:40 Sports (Ray Reeve)
6 PM News, Weather, Sports
6:20 ABC News
6:50 Viewpoint
6:55 Weather
7 PM Death Valley Days
7:30 Avengers
8:30 ABC Movie: "Harlow" (Carroll Baker as Jean Harlow)
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:30 Movie: "Ashes And Diamonds"

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

6:30 Carolina In The Morning
7 AM Today (actor Emlyn Williams, who has written a controversial
book about England's moor murders; Andre Fontaine, foreign
editor of the French magazine Le Monde)
9 AM Girl Talk (guest: columnist Harriet Van Horne)
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: Dustin Hoffman)
11:30 Hollywood Squares (Kaye Ballard, Shelley Berman, Janet Blair,
Mel Brooks, Roger C. Carmel, Jan Murray)
12 N Jeopardy!
12:30 Eye Guess
12:55 NBC News (Edwin Newman)
1 PM 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 Secret Storm
4:30 Gilligan's Island
5 PM Perry Mason
6 PM News, Weather
6:15 Let's Look At Sports
6:30 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7 PM Marshal Dillon
7:30 Virginian
9 PM Bob Hope (guests: Anne Bancroft, Lou Rawls,
Jill St. John, Arnold Palmer)
10 PM Jack Benny (guests: Lucille Ball, Johnny Carson,
Ben Blue, Paul Revere and the Raiders)
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:30 Tonight Show (guest: Samuel Kayakawa, author of
several books on the English language)

WITN Ch. 7 Washington, NC (NBC)

6 AM Aspect
6:30 Mister Ed
7 AM Today
9 AM Merv Griffin (Louis Nye, Stanley Myron Handelman,
Della Reese)
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
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! (in 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 (with WITNey the Marching Hobo)
5 PM Mike Douglas (co-hostess Bess Myerson; singer John Raitt
(Bonnie's dad), Boots Randolph, novelist Fletcher Knebel)
6 PM News, Weather, Sports
6:30 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7 PM The Professionals (former Olympic skiing star Anderl Molterer)
7:30 Virginian
9 PM Bob Hope
10 PM Jack Benny
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:30 Tonight Show

WGHP Ch. 8 High Point (ABC)

6:30 University Of Michigan
7 AM TV Party Line
8 AM Limbo's Cartoons
9 AM Romper Room
9:30 Merv Griffin (Henry Cabot Lodge, playwright Robert
Anderson)
11 AM This Morning (joined in progress)
12 N Bewitched
12:30 Treasure Isle
1 PM The Fugitive
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 Baby Game
2:55 Children's Doctor
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 Mister Ed
4 PM Movie: "Up Front"
5:30 News, Weather, Sports
6 PM Movie: "Lady For A Night" (John Wayne stars
with Joan Blondell, from '41)
7:25 Weather
7:30 Avengers
8:30 ABC Movie: "Harlow"
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:30 Joey Bishop

WNCT Ch. 9 Greenville, NC (CBS)

6:30 Carolina Today
8:35 CBS News
9 AM Captain Kangaroo
10 AM Candid Camera (a passenger tries to enter a building
that has no door; diner patrons are served coffee
in demitasse cups)
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies
11 AM Andy Griffith
11:30 Dick Van Dyke
12 N News, Weather
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
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 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 (with "Railroad Slim")
5 PM Rawhide
6 PM News, Weather, Sports
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Arthur Smith
7:30 Lost In Space
8:30 Beverly Hillbillies
9 PM Green Acres
9:30 He & She
10 PM Jonathan Winters
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:30 Movie: "Big City Blues"

WSOC Ch. 9 Charlotte (NBC)

6:45 On The House
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 Unguarded Moment"
6 PM Pulse (Doug Bell)
6:30 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7 PM Movie: "The Grass Is Greener"
9 PM Bob Hope
10 PM Jack Benny
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 Snap Judgment
10:25 NBC News
10:30 Concentration
11 AM Andy Griffith
11:30 Dick Van Dyke
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
2:30 Art Linkletter's House Party
3 PM Another World
3:30 Edge Of Night
4 PM Secret Storm
4:30 Beverly Hillbillies
5 PM Perry Mason
6 PM News, Weather, Sports
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Daniel Boone (NBC, delay from Thu 7:30 PM)
8 PM Ironside (NBC, delay from Thu 8:30 PM)
9 PM Travels With Charley (an adaptation of John Steinbeck's
travels around America with his poodle Charley, NBC, delay
from Sun 10 PM)
10 PM Dean Martin (Liberace, George Jessel, Caterina Valente, Pat
Buttram, Pat Henry, NBC, delay from Thu 10 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
8:45 King And Odie
9 AM Movie: "Adventures Of Tom Sawyer" (from 1938)
10:30 North Carolina Education
11 AM This Morning (joined in progress)
12 N Bewitched
12:30 Treasure Isle
1 PM The Fugitive
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
6 PM News, Sports, Weather
6:30 ABC News
7 PM Bill Pollard (local country-music show)
7:30 Avengers
8:30 ABC Movie: "Harlow"
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:30 Joey Bishop

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

6:30 Job Instruction
7 AM Today
9 AM Today At Home (Colleen Moore talks about her book,
as she will on WBTV at noon.)
9:30 Exercise With Gloria (Roeder)
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 The Texan
7:30 Virginian
9 PM Bob Hope
10 PM Jack Benny
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:30 Tonight Show

WCCB Ch. 18 Charlotte (ABC)

8:45 Cartoons
9 AM Romper Room
10 AM Jack LaLanne
10:30 This Morning
12 N Bewitched
12:30 Treasure Isle
1 PM The Fugitive
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: "Saigon" (timely, but from '48)
6:30 ABC News
7 PM Munsters
7:30 Avengers
8:30 ABC Movie: "Harlow"
11 PM Peter Gunn
11:30 Joey Bishop

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

4:25 News
4:30 Ever-Ever Land
5:30 Movie: "Simba" (a Kenyan farmer is the target of
attacks by the rebel Mau Mau group, from '55)
6:55 Financial Report
7 PM David Susskind (hair stylist Kenneth shows how changes
in hair and makeup can change a person; four Bowery residents
discuss life on skid row; strip teasers Hope Diamond and Kelly
Barton talk about their work)
8:30 Movie: "The Foxes Of Harrow"
10 PM News
10:30 Alan Burke (columnist Louis Lomax and the Rev. Daniel Lyons
debate Vietnam)
sign off 12 M

WTVI Ch. 42 Charlotte (NET)

8:30 Classroom (included: history, language and math)
4:30 TBA
5 PM TV Kindergarten
5:30 B'wana Don In Jungle-La
6 PM Mythology (the goddesses Athena, Artemis and Aprhodite)
6:30 Sunrise Semester (pre-empted on WBTV)
7 PM What's New
7:30 Playing The Guitar
8 PM Spectrum (theories on the origins of Earth and its early days)
8:30 Science Spotlight (Orrin Pilkey, naturalist specializing in North
Carolina's Outer Banks, talks about an expedition he made last
summer.)
9 PM NET Festival (England's Glyndebourne Opera Festival, with scenes
from Mozart's "Don Giovanni," and the rarely performed 17th-century
Italian opera "L'Ormido" by Pietro Francesco Cavalli)
9:30 Spectrum (topic: burns)
10 PM Great Decisions--1968 (U.S. policy in Vietnam, focusing on the North
Vietnamese and Viet Cong winter offensive (think Tet))
10:30 Sunrise Semester: "Russian Literature" (Gorky's plays, airs tomorrow
morning on Chs. 2 and 11)
sign off 11 PM
 
WWAY-TV -Wilmington with Mike Douglas @ 6:30 pm.
Have not seen that time for Douglas before.
 
Only one other comes to mind: WTVK (now WVLT) Knoxville
carried Mike from 7-8 around 1979 or 1980. There have been
a few that carried Merv in the early evening; I remember KGTV
San Diego and KOIN Portland, OR, doing that, and even WXIA
Atlanta did in the 1975-76 season (first at 6:30 from August 1975-
January 1976, then at 7 from January to July before moving him
back into the daytime). I also seem to recall Dinah at 6:30 on
Channel 2 in Los Angeles.

I've always been surprised that no Florida station ever carried any
of these shows after the news; the demographic base of the shows
and the state's population should have matched beautifully (Dinah
did air in primetime on Channel 44 in St. Petersburg, however), and
only four had their network news at 7 in those days: WPLG/10 Miami
(ABC), WINK/11 Fort Myers and WTVT/13 Tampa (CBS), and WCKT
(WSVN)/7 Miami (NBC), with nobody doing local news at 7.
 
According to the "TV Week" section of the December 22nd, 1969 Boston Globe, the short-lived WXPO-50 Lowell, MA/Windham, NH aired "Mike Douglas" weeknights from 7 to 8:30 P.M. during that time.

Of course, WXPO was on the air for only about nine months.
 
...in '68-'70, before cranking up their own early evening newscast, I distinctly recall WLUK/11 Green Bay running the 60-minute edition of The Mike Douglas Show at 5:30 Central, fitting it in between the early feed of the ABC Evening News and the beginning of ABC's prime time schedule...
 
bpatrick said:
....WBTV Ch. 3 Charlotte (CBS)....

.... 6:30 Carolina Calling (guests: the Osborne Brothers, not to be confused
with the Osmond Brothers--this is a bluegrass band)....

They were just coming off a 1967 country hit called "Rocky Top", which has since become an unofficially official "fight song" for the University of Tennessee.
 
And if I'm not mistaken it's the state song of Tennessee.
(Somebody in Raleigh ought to make James Taylor's version
of "Carolina In My Mind" the state song of North Carolina,
but I digress.)
 
bpatrick said:
And if I'm not mistaken it's the state song of Tennessee.
..."Rocky Top" is actually one of eight official state songs for Tennessee, among the others being "The Tennessee Waltz" and "Smoky Mountain Rain"...
 
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