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RETRO: NYC Metro - Saturday, May 31, 1969 (Part 1: NYC VHF's)

[SOURCES: TV Guide, New York-Metropolitan Edition, May 31-June 6, 1969; also, day's listings in The New York Times, Daily News, New York Post, The Morning Record and Journal (Meriden, CT) and Red Bank (NJ) Daily Register (May 29, 1969 issue); show episode info, where applicable, courtesy IMDb and TV.com]

NOTE: This particular issue of TV Guide debuted a new look for the TV listings section which emphasized Helvetica with Medium, and designated color shows with a (C) symbol which was the same shape as the channel designations; this replaced the listings layout which (except for some alterations over the years) was basically in effect since 1956; the new layout, with numerous modifications big and small, will remain in place through 1985.
(C) - in color; (R) - rerun (if episode specifics are unknown)

WCBS-TV 2 New York (CBS; owned and operated)
6:25a Give Us This Day (C)
6:30a Black Heritage (topic: slavery in the North American colonies before 1776 - Part 1) (C)
7:00a Project Headstart (how to play the banjo, violin, guitar and autoharp; string quartet from Chicago head start
classroom is featured) (C)
7:30a Tell It Like It Was (topic: black folklore of Africa and America) (C)
8:00a The Go-Go Gophers (C)
8:30a The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour (C)
9:30a Wacky Races (C)
10:00a The Archie Show (C)
10:30a The Batman/Superman Hour (C)
11:30a The Herculoids (C)
12:00p Shazzan! (C)
12:30p Jonny Quest (C)
1:00p Moby Dick and the Mighty Mightor (C)
1:30p The Lone Ranger (cartoon version) (C)
2:00p Opportunity Line (jobs in the oil industry are discussed; hosts: Jim Jensen and Joan Murray) (C)
2:30p Conversation with a Psychiatrist - "Emotional Communications"
(with Dr. Edward Stainbrook, Chief Psychiatrist of Los Angeles-University of Southern California Medical Center) (C)
3:00p Repertoire Workshop - "Gilbert," by David S. Meranze and Marc Alan Sarogen (about a college professor who believes
that if he straightens out his desk, he can straighten out his life; featuring a pre-Maude / Golden Girls
Rue McClanahan in a supporting role) (C)
3:30p Music, Music, Music (guests: The Don Cunningham Quartet; host: Ollie Raymond) (C)
4:00p Black Lettres - "Black Anger" (Part 3; a discussion on the works of Eldridge Cleaver) (C)
4:30p Race of the Week - The Mother Goose Stakes, second of the Triple Crown for Fillies, from Aqueduct Race Track
(announcers: Win Elliot and Fred Capossela) (C)
[NOTE: Shuvee was the winner]
5:00p The Early Show: "Red Ball Express" (1952) - Jeff Chandler, Alex Nicol
6:30p Six-Thirty Report with Jim Jensen (C)
7:00p CBS Evening News with Roger Mudd (C)
7:30p The Jackie Gleason Show (guests: Tony Bennett, Milton Berle and Nipsey Russell) (C) [original airdate 3/8/69]
8:30p My Three Sons - "The Baby Nurse" (C) [original airdate 10/26/68]
9:00p Hogan's Heroes - "Klink's Old Flame" (C) [original airdate 2/8/69]
9:30p Petticoat Junction - "The Strange Case of Joseph P. Carson" (C) [original airdate 11/30/68]
10:00p Mannix - "A Pittance of Faith" (C) [original airdate 1/11/69]
11:00p News - Jim Jensen (C)
11:30p The Late Show: "Midnight Lace" (1960) - Doris Day, Rex Harrison (C)
1:40a The Late Night News (C)
1:45a The Late Late Show I [listed in the Red Bank Register under The DeCarlo Weekend Theatre banner]:
"Has Anybody Seen My Gal?" (1952) - Piper Laurie, Rock Hudson (C)
3:10a The Late Late Show II: "Buccaneer's Girl" (1950) - Yvonne DeCarlo, Philip Friend (C)
5:05a The Late Late Show III: "Tarzan's Hidden Jungle" (1955) - Gordon Scott, Vera Miles
6:30a Give Us This Day (C)
followed by sign-off

WNBC-TV 4 New York (NBC; owned and operated)
5:53a Sermonette (C)
6:00a Modern Farmer
7:00a Across the Fence (C)
7:30a Colonel Bleep (C)
8:30a Dodo (C)
9:00a Super 6 (C)
9:30a Cool McCool (C)
10:00a The Flintstones (C)
10:30a The Banana Splits Adventure Hour (featured: Micro-Venture - "Exploring an Ant Colony") (C) [original airdate 12/21/68]
11:30a Underdog (C)
12:00p Storybook Squares (children's version of The Hollywood Squares; featured in this edition are Jim Backus,
Judy Carne, Ted Cassidy, Abby Dalton, Michael Landon, Paul Winchell and Jo Anne Worley) (C) (R)
12:30p Untamed World - "The Color of Insects" (C) (R)
1:00p Agriculture U.S.A.
1:30p You and the Law - "What to Do After an Accident" (guests: attorneys Roger F. Lancaster and Herbert E. Greenstone;
host: Eli Jarmel) (C)
2:00p Movie Four: "Shaggy" (1946) - Robert Shayne, Brenda Joyce
3:00p Baseball Today (Mickey Mantle is interviewed (C)
3:15p NBC Saturday Game of the Week - Detroit Tigers at Seattle Pilots (announcers: Curt Gowdy and Tony Kubek) (C)
[Detroit won, 3-2]
6:00p It's Academic (competing high schools: Tottenville, John Adams and Prospect Heights; host: Art James) (C)
6:30p The Huntley-Brinkley Report (C)
7:00p New York Illustrated - "A Block in Harlem" (narrator: Bill Ryan) (C)
7:30p Adam-12 - "Log 71: I Feel Like a Fool, Malloy" (a.k.a. "When It Happens to a Child, You Never Get Used to It") (C)
[original airdate 11/2/68]
8:00p Get Smart - "The Return of the Ancient Mariner" (C) [original airdate 11/9/68]
8:30p The Ghost and Mrs. Muir - "The Real James Gatley" (C) [original airdate 11/2/68]
9:00p NBC Saturday Night at the Movies: "Dragnet" (1969 - TVM) - Jack Webb, Harry Morgan, Bobby Troup, Virginia Gregg
(C) [original airdate 1/27/69]
11:00p News - Bob Teague, (John?) Palmer (C)
11:10p Weather - Dr. Thomas D. Nicholson (C)
11:15p News - Bob Teague, (John?) Palmer (C)
11:30p The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (guests include Rod Serling, Lynn Kellogg, David Frye, The Fourth Wall,
Henry Trefflich) (C) (R)
1:00a The Great Great Show: "Giants of Rome" (1963) - Richard Harrison, Ettore Manni (C)
2:40a Sermonette (C)
followed by sign-off

WNEW-TV 5 New York (Independent; owned by Metromedia Television)
7:20a Sign-on & Call to Prayer (C)
7:30a Faith to Faith (C)
8:00a Inside Bedford-Stuyvesant
8:30a Fireball XL-5 (C)
9:00a Marine Boy (C)
9:30a My Little Margie - "Vern's Mother-in-Law" [original airdate 2/2/55]
10:00a Eastside Comedy: "Looking for Danger" (1957) - Huntz Hall, Stanley Clements
11:00a 77 Sunset Strip - "Upbeat" [original airdate 4/15/62]
12:00p Metromedia's Evans-Novak Report (guest: Israeli Ambassador to U.S., Yitzhak Rabin) (C)
12:30p Championship Bowling (C)
1:00p Tales of Wells Fargo - "The Branding Iron" [original airdate 2/23/59]
1:30p Colt .45 - "Absent Without Leave" [original airdate 4/19/60]
2:00p Branded - "Survival" [original airdate 1/24/65]
2:30p Route 66 - "And Make Thunder His Tribute" [original airdate 11/1/63]
3:30p Combat! - "The Bridge at Chalons" [original airdate 9/17/63]
4:30p Secret Agent - "Are You Going to Be More Permanent?" [original UK airdate 12/2/65, US 12/25/65]
5:30p The Man From U.N.C.L.E. - "The Bridge of Lions Affair: Part 1" (C) [original airdate 2/4/66]
6:30p My Favorite Martian - "The Martian's Fair Hobo" [original airdate 5/23/65]
7:00p I Love Lucy - "Lucy Hates to Leave" [original airdate 2/4/57]
7:30p Grand Canyon (a grand tour of the Grand Canyon, with Joseph Wood Krutch on muleback) (C)
8:30p W.C. Fields Film Festival - "Tillie and Gus" (1933) - with Alison Skipworth, Baby LeRoy
10:00p The 10 O'Clock Weekend News with George Scharmen (C)
10:30p Maurice Woodruff Predicts (guests: Carol Burnett, Peter Sellers and James Earl Jones) (C)
11:30p Best of Merv Griffin (C) (R)
1:00a The Outer Limits - "The Hundred Days of the Dragon" [original airdate 9/23/63]
(per TV Guide and The New York Times)
alt:
1:00a American West - "King of the West" (C) [syndicated show from 1968]
1:30a The Cheaters (1960-62 UK mystery series starring John Ireland) - "Fire!" [original UK airdate 3/4/61]
(per Daily News, New York Post, Red Bank Register, and Morning Record and Journal)
2:00a News Headlines (C)
followed by sign-off

WABC-TV 7 New York (ABC; owned and operated)
7:00a Project Know (Dr. Fred Hess lectures on "Fundamental Piloting") (C)
7:30a Davey and Goliath (C)
8:00a Kartoon Carnival (C)
9:00a The New Casper Cartoon Show (C)
9:30a The Adventures of Gulliver (C)
10:00a Spider-Man (C)
10:30a Fantastic Voyage (C)
11:00a Journey to the Center of the Earth (C)
11:30a The Fantastic Four (C)
12:00p George of the Jungle (C)
12:30p American Bandstand '69 (guests: The Grass Roots) (C)
1:30p Happening (guests: The Edwin Hawkins Singers, Sajid Khan) (C)
2:00p Like It Is (includes interviews with Henry Lewis, director of the New Jersey Symphony, and his wife, concert singer
Marilyn Horne; Gil Noble, host) (C)
3:00p The Movie Matinee: "The Desert Rats" (1953) - Richard Burton, James Mason
4:30p Car and Track (C)
5:00p ABC's Wide World of Sports (scheduled: International Surfing Championships, held in December 1968 at Makaha Beach,
Hawaii, reported by Jim McKay and Rick Grigg; and NCAA Wrestling Championships, held March 29 at Provo, Utah,
reported by Bill Flemming) (C)
6:30p Eyewitness News with Bill Aylward (C)
7:00p Wings of Adventure with Tex Antoine - "Denmark" (C)
7:30p The Dating Game (C)
8:00p The Newlywed Game (C)
8:30p The Lawrence Welk Show (features a Stephen Foster medley; plus Bob Ralston performing "A Man and a Woman,"
Tanya Falan singing "People," and Andra Willis singing "My Cup Runneth Over") (C) (R)
9:30p The Hollywood Palace (guest hosts: Diana Ross & The Supremes; guests: Ethel Waters, Stevie Wonder, Soupy Sales,
Sammy Shore, Donald McKayle and Saddris) (C) [original airdate 3/8/69]
10:30p Anniversary Game (host: Alan Hamel) (C)
11:00p ABC Weekend News with Bruce Brown (C)
11:15p Eyewitness News with Gil Noble (C)
11:30p The Best of Broadway I: "Advise and Consent" (1962) - Henry Fonda, Charles Laughton
2:05a The Best of Broadway II: "Ghost of Zorro" (1959) - Clayton Moore, Pamela Black (to 3:30a)
followed by sign-off

WOR-TV 9 New York (Independent; owned by RKO General)
8:55a News and Weather
9:00a East Side Kids: "Call a Messenger" (1939) - Robert Armstrong, Mary Carlisle, The Little Tough Guys
10:30a Super Adventure Theatre: "My Outlaw Brother" (1951) - Mickey Rooney, Robert Stack
12:00p Million Dollar Movie: "O.K. Nero" (1953) - Walter Chiari, Silvana Pampanini
2:00p Sports Special - "Golf a Go-Go" (C)
2:10p Baseball - San Francisco Giants at New York Mets (announcers: Lindsey Nelson, Bob Murphy, Ralph Kiner) (C)
[Mets won, 4-2]
6:00p Death Valley Days - "The Oldest Law" [original airdate 3/29/69]
6:30p I Spy - "Anyplace I Hang Myself Is Home" (C) [original airdate 1/15/68]
7:30p The Time Tunnel - "Reign of Terror" (C) [original airdate 11/18/66]
8:30p New York Nine Presents: Lucille Ball (double feature):
1. "A Girl, a Guy and a Gob" (1941) - with Edmond O'Brien, George Murphy
2. "Having a Wonderful Time" (1938) - with Ginger Rogers, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Red Skelton
11:30p Playboy After Dark with Hugh Hefner (guests: Rich Little, Billy Eckstine, The Grass Roots, Bobby Doyle, Paul Mazursky,
Larry Tucker, Simmy Bow, Sivi Aberg) (C)
12:30p Saturday Night Flick: "The Lost Missile" (1958) - Robert Loggia, Larry Kerr (C)
2:00a News and Weather
followed by sign-off

WPIX-TV 11 New York (Independent; licensor WPIX, Inc., owned by New York Daily News)
7:30a Silver Wings (a look at the Air Force Academy's first class studying, drilling and participating in sports)
8:00a The Christophers (topic: life after 60) (C)
8:30a This Is the Life (an ambitious young man has an unscrupulous plan) (C)
9:00a Aprenda Ingles (C)
9:30a The Kathryn Kuhlman Show (C)
10:00a The Challenge of Space (topic: the use of the Radio Astronomy Explorer to study radio waves of celestial bodies) (C)
10:30a En France - "The Studio of the Painter"
11:00a Equal Time - "If I Am Mayor," discussed by Democratic mayoral candidate Robert F. Wagner (C)
11:30a New York Close-Up - "The Village Project" (C)
12:00p Cooking with David Wade (steak au poivre and navy slum are prepared) (C)
12:30p Insight - "Truth About Time" (C) [original airdate 6/10/66]
1:00p Upbeat (host: Don Webster; guests: Johnny Mathis, The Friends of Distinction, Edwin Starr, Spiral Starecase, Mercy,
The Yellow Payges) (C)
2:00p Saturday Afternoon Movie I: "The Great Flamarion" (1945) - Dan Duryea, Erich von Stroheim, Mary Beth Hughes
3:30p Saturday Afternoon Movie II: "Red Stallion in the Rockies" (1949) - Ray Collins, Arthur Franz, Jean Heather
5:00p Outdoors with Gadabout Gaddis - "Klamath River" (C)
5:30p The Abbott & Costello Show - "The Charity Bazaar" [original airdate 2/6/53]
6:00p Saturday 6 O'Clock News with Marc Howard (C)
6:30p The Invaders - "Summit Meeting: Part I" (C) [original airdate 10/31/67]
7:30p Chiller Theatre: "The Flying Serpent" (1946) - George Zucco, Ralph Lewis
8:30p Baseball: New York Yankees at Kansas City Royals (announcers: Phil Rizzuto, Frank Messer, Jerry Coleman) (C)
[game ended up tied 2-2, due to it being rained out after the 8th inning]
11:00p Movie Classic: "Two Lost Worlds" (1950) - James Arness, Laura Elliott
12:00a Continental Miniatures (highlights of Rossini's "The Barber of Seville" as performed by a puppet group;
host: Erberto Landi)
12:30a It Is Written with George H. Vandeman: "Miracle of Hunza" (C)
1:00a The Big Picture - "D-Day Anniversary" (C)
followed by sign-off

WNDT 13 Newark/New York (NET affiliate; owned by Educational Broadcasting Corp.)
no programs scheduled
 
"The American West" was a travelogue, not a Western
anthology, for anyone who cares; "You Asked For It" host
Smilin' Jack Smith hosted this show as well.

I also noticed David Wade's Dallas-based cooking show.
He came into syndication about the same time as Graham
Kerr, although only once a week. Wade was good but Kerr
was funnier.
 
bpatrick said:
"The American West" was a travelogue, not a Western anthology, for anyone who cares; "You Asked For It" host
Smilin' Jack Smith hosted this show as well.

I also noticed David Wade's Dallas-based cooking show. He came into syndication about the same time as Graham
Kerr, although only once a week. Wade was good but Kerr was funnier.

Mr. Wade's show was an example of WPIX airing syndie shows from different parts of the country at the time; so too did they air Upbeat which originated from WEWS 5 in Cleveland, OH.

But there was a definitive disparity amongst differing sources as to what aired on WNEW-TV early Sunday, June 1st, in the 1 - 2 A.M. period; this is why the "alt." designation. Notice there'd been no description of what The American West was, aside from mentioning the episode title and when it was syndicated; but thanks for advising exactly what it was.
 
I wonder if this was the only Game of the Week that NBC broadcast from Sicks Stadium. The Pilots lasted only one season in Seattle before they moved to Milwaukee and became the Brewers. Jim Bouton's Ball Four gives a rather darkly humored account of just how bad things were for the Pilots in their only season in Seattle: no talent as an expansion team, woefully inadequate stadium, no fan support (less than 700,000 for the entire '69 season)...

BTW the site of Sicks Stadium is now a Lowe's Home Center.
 
Charles1 said:
I wonder if this was the only Game of the Week that NBC broadcast from Sicks Stadium. The Pilots lasted only one season in Seattle before they moved to Milwaukee and became the Brewers. Jim Bouton's Ball Four gives a rather darkly humored account of just how bad things were for the Pilots in their only season in Seattle...

No doubt the name of the stadium didn't make it any better (it was named after a Lethbridge-based brewery who had its US operations in Seattle).
 
Charles1 said:
I wonder if this was the only Game of the Week that NBC broadcast from Sicks Stadium.

It was. They also broadcast a Pilots road game at Chicago earlier in the season.
 
Charles1 said:
I wonder if this was the only Game of the Week that NBC broadcast from Sicks Stadium. The Pilots lasted only one season in Seattle before they moved to Milwaukee and became the Brewers. Jim Bouton's Ball Four gives a rather darkly humored account of just how bad things were for the Pilots in their only season in Seattle: no talent as an expansion team, woefully inadequate stadium, no fan support (less than 700,000 for the entire '69 season)...

BTW the site of Sicks Stadium is now a Lowe's Home Center.

In relation to this, here are a couple of audio clips from Spring Training 1970 of a Seattle-Oakland game on my Cleveland Classic Media Blog..The announcers are Jimmy Dudley, who had been fired as Cleveland Indians radio announcer in 1968 after 20 years, and Bill Schonely, who would become known as the NBA Portland Trailblazers announcer for many years..

This was part of the next to last game as the Pilots..The Milwaukee move was already in motion, though not official as yet..

http://clevelandclassicmedia.blogspot.com/2011/05/jimmy-dudley-seattle-pilots-1970.html

Included are links to the Pilots' Wikipedia page and a great Seattle Pilots History site..
 
Included are links to the Pilots' Wikipedia page and a great Seattle Pilots History site..

A whole website dedicated to four sentences? That's like taking a seven minute long cartoon from the 1960s and making a two hour long live action movie out of it. ;) ;D
 
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