[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
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
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