In anticipation of the anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King which took place 43 years ago Monday, here are proposed listings for the broadcast day, with a dividing line (- - -) between what was aired up to the point of the assassination, and what may or may not have been preempted by news coverage thereof; plus to which days such shows were preempted, if applicable.
[SOURCES: TV Guide, New York-Metropolitan Edition, March 30-April 5, 1968 issue; day's listings in The New York Times, Daily News, New York Post, and (for Connecticut movie show titles) The Hour (Norwalk, CT); show episode info, where applicable, courtesy IMDb and TV.com]
(C) - in color
WCBS-TV 2 New York (CBS; owned and operated)
6:30a Sunrise Semester (Russian literature: the second generation of symbolists) (C)
7:00a News (C)
7:05a CBS Morning News with Joseph Benti (C)
7:30a CBS Morning News with Joseph Benti (C)
7:55a News (C)
8:00a Captain Kangaroo (pet corner: sheep dog puppies and guinea pigs) (C)
9:00a Love That Bob! - "Bob Meets the Mortons" (guest: George Burns) [original airdate 3/21/57]
9:30a Leave It to Beaver - "Wally's Play" [original airdate 6/11/60]
10:00a Candid Camera (motorists entering Delaware told the state is closed; hotel guests find a mule in their room)
10:30a The Beverly Hillbillies (Fred Clark as physician frazzled by Granny's hillbilly doctoring) (C)
11:00a The Andy Griffith Show [or was the Andy of Mayberry title still used at this point?] - "Aunt Bee Learns to Drive"
(C) [original airdate 2/7/66]
11:30a The Dick Van Dyke Show - "Will You Two Be My Wife?" (guest: Barbara Bain) [original airdate 1/16/63]
12:00p Love of Life (C)
12:25p CBS News - Joseph Benti (C)
12:30p Search for Tomorrow (C)
12:45p The Guiding Light (C)
1:00p Dennis the Menace - "Dennis and the Hermit" (guest: Edgar Buchanan) [original airdate 12/30/62]
1:30p As the World Turns (C)
2:00p Love Is a Many Splendored Thing (C)
2:30p Art Linkletter's House Party (guests: costume designer Theodore Van Runkle ["Bonnie and Clyde"] and singer
Charles Vick) (C)
3:00p To Tell the Truth (C)
3:25p CBS Midday News with Douglas Edwards (C)
3:30p The Edge of Night (C)
4:00p The Secret Storm (C)
4:30p The Mike Douglas Show (guests: Ozzie & Harriet Nelson, Jack Douglas & Reiko, and singers Marilyn Maye and
Hal Frazier) (C)
6:00p Evening Report with Jim Jensen (C)
7:00p CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite (from Washington, DC) (C)
[NOTE: The New York newsroom was manned by Dan Rather who anchored special reports on the King assassination]
- - -
7:30p Cimarron Strip - "Whitey" (C) [original airdate 10/19/67]
9:00p The CBS Thursday Night Movies: "One Man's Way" (1964) - Don Murray, Diana Hyland, William Windom
11:00p Late Report with Tom Dunn (C) [scheduled; CBS News did a special report on the King assassination at 11]
11:30p WCBS-TV News Special Report - on installation of Archbishop Terence J. Cooke (anchor: Jim Jensen; reporters:
Harry Arouh, Jeanne Parr, Robert Potts [later a part of WNBC-TV's NewsCenter4 team in the 1970's], Chet Curtis
[later famous as co-anchor at WCVB-TV Boston]) (C)
12:00a The Late Show: "Damn Yankees" (1958) - Tab Hunter, Gwen Verdon (C)
2:10a News (C)
2:15a The Late Late Show I: "Look Back in Anger" (1959) - Richard Burton, Claire Bloom
4:15a The Late Late Show II: "War Paint" (1953) - Robert Stack, Joan Taylor
6:00a Give Us This Day (C)
followed by sign-off
WNBC-TV 4 New York (NBC; owned and operated)
[NOTE: network shows aired on WATR-TV 20 Waterbury, CT (owned by WATR-TV, Inc.) will be in italics; TV Guide only listed network shows on Channel 20 up to late 1971-early '72]
6:30a Education Exchange (C)
7:00a Today (scheduled: National Educational Association president-elect Libby Koontz; author Jane Grant ["Ross,
The New Yorker and Me"]; baseball spring training report by Joe Garagiola; Senator J. William Fulbright (D-AR) gives
Hanoi's response to President Johnson's speech at 7:30) (C)
9:00a The Bonnie Prudden Show (guest: Dr. J.A. Blais of Canadian Arthritis Society) (C)
9:30a Dobie Gillis - "Move Over, Perry Mason" (guest: Douglass Dumbrille) [original airdate 10/24/61]
10:00a Snap Judgment (guests: George Hamilton, Diana Sands) (C)
10:25a NBC News - Nancy Dickerson (C)
10:30a Concentration (C)
11:00a Personality (celebrities: Marty Allen, Eydie Gormé, Barry Nelson; on-film personality: Shelley Winters) (C)
11:30a The Hollywood Squares (celebrities: Jim Backus, Bill Bixby, Jack Cassidy, Barbara Feldon, Gale Gordon,
Shirley Jones (C)
12:00p Jeopardy (C)
12:30p Eye Guess (C)
12:55p NBC News - Edwin Newman (C)
1:00p Installation Ceremony for Most Rev. Terence J. Cooke to Archbishop of New York Archdiocese (C)
[pre-empted: PDQ; Channel 20 aired Let's Make a Deal, Days of our Lives and The Doctors
as scheduled]
3:00p Another World (C)
3:30p You Don't Say! (celebrities: June Lockhart, Jack Narz) (C)
4:00p The Match Game (guests: Peter Lawford, Lauren Bacall) (C)
4:25p NBC News - Floyd Kalber (C)
4:30p Movie Four: "The Reckless Moment" (1949) - James Mason, Joan Bennett
6:00p Sixth Hour News with Lew Wood (C)
7:00p The Huntley-Brinkley Report (C)
- - -
7:30p Daniel Boone - "Faith's Way" (guests: Julie Harris, Jeff Morrow) (C)
8:30p Ironside - "Return of the Hero" (guests: Gary Collins, plus a pre-Mary Tyler Moore Show / Love Boat
Gavin MacLeod) (C)
9:30p Dragnet 1968 - "The Joy Riders" (C) [postponed to 2/13/69, on which it was aired under the Dragnet 1969
banner]
10:00p The Dean Martin Show (guests: Jimmy Stewart, George Gobel, Shecky Greene, Wisa D'Orso) (C)
11:00p Eleventh Hour News with Jim Hartz (C)
11:10p Weather - Frank Field (C)
11:15p News - Jim Hartz (C)
11:25p Sports - Kyle Rote (C)
11:30p The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (guests: Rex Reed, George Carlin, Peggy Fleming) (C)
1:00a Tonight's News with Bob Teague (C)
1:15a The Great Great Show: "Remember the Day" (1941) - Claudette Colbert, John Payne
2:50a Sermonette (C)
followed by sign-off
WNEW-TV 5 New York (Independent; owned by Metromedia Television)
7:00a Yoga for Health
7:30a The Sandy Becker Show (C)
8:00a Daphne's Castle (C)
9:30a Morning Double Feature:
1. "The Great Victor Herbert" (1939) - Allan Jones, Mary Martin, Walter Connolly
2. "The Ladykillers" (1955) - Alec Guinness, Peter Sellers [though the latter was in color, there was no indication in
any TV listings that it was shown as such]
1:00p The New Yorkers with Sonny Fox (guest: Jacqueline Susann) (C)
3:00p The Woody Woodbury Show (guests: Michael Callan, Patricia Harty, Pete Barbutti) (C)
4:30p Marine Boy (C)
5:00p Winchell-Mahoney Time (C)
6:00p The Flintstones (C)
6:30p McHale's Navy - "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad War" [original airdate 9/29/64]
7:00p I Love Lucy - "Lucy and Superman" [original airdate 1/14/57]
- - -
7:30p Truth or Consequences (C)
8:00p Hazel - "Hazel's Tax Deduction" (C) [original airdate 11/1/62]
8:30p The Merv Griffin Show (scheduled: José Ferrer, Bob Crane, Jack Douglas & Reiko) (C)
10:00p The 10 O'Clock News with Bill Jorgensen (C)
10:30p The Alan Burke Show (C)
11:15p The Les Crane Show (topic: "Christ and Krishna"; guests include Benjamin Weiss of Youth for Christ, Swami A.C.
Bhaktivedanta, and Keith Phillipls of World Opportunities) (C)
12:15a The Joe Pyne Show (guests hosts: Cornel Wilde and Jean Wallace; guests are from the PR firm handling Richard M.
Nixon's Presidential campaign) (C)
12:45a News (C)
followed by Call to Prayer (C)
and sign-off
WABC-TV 7 New York (ABC; owned and operated)
7:20a News
7:30a Cartoons (C)
8:30a Girl Talk with Virginia Graham (C)
9:00a Movie of the Day: "The 'I Don't Care' Girl" (1953) - Mitzi Gaynor, David Wayne, Oscar Levant, George Jessel (C)
10:30a The Dick Cavett Show (scheduled: singer Dana Valery) (C)
[NOTE: TV Guide listed the program under its original title - This Morning.]
12:00p Bewitched (Endora jumps to conclusions after seeing Darrin with a pretty girl)
12:30p Treasure Isle (C)
1:00p Dream House (C)
1:30p Wedding Party (C) [early game-show hosting gig by the future Mr. Suzanne Somers, Alan Hamel]
2:00p The Newlywed Game (C)
2:30p The Baby Game (C)
2:55p The Children's Doctor with Dr. Lendon Smith (C)
3:00p Dark Shadows (C)
3:30p General Hospital (C)
4:00p The Dating Game (C)
4:30p The Big Show: "Lust for Life" (1956) - Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn (C)
[NOTE: The 4:30 Movie title didn't take effect until about January 1969]
6:30p 6:30 News with John Schubeck (C)
7:00p ABC Evening News with Bob Young (C)
[Mr. Young's anchoring of the King assassination was his most famous moment in his brief stint as ABC Evening News
anchor; by fall 1968, he had gone on to WCBS-TV in New York to anchor its 11 P.M. newscast]
- - -
7:30p The Second Hundred Years - "Just Pay the Two Dollars" (C) [original airdate 11/1/67]
8:00p The Flying Nun - "Love Me, Love My Dog" (C)
8:30p Bewitched - "I Confess" (C)
9:00p ABC News Special - "California Girl" (about the California way of life as seen through women living it; narrated by
Sally Field; music by Dick Hyman) (C)
10:00p Suspense Theatre - "The Sweet Taste of Vengeance" (C) [original airdate 4/30/64]
[NOTE: Episodes syndicated under the title Crisis were from the second (1964-65) season of Kraft Suspense
Theatre; this show was from its first season; both shows were rerun for some two decades by Channel 7]
11:00p 11 O'Clock News with Bill Beutel (C)
11:10p Weather with Tex Antoine (C)
11:15p Local News - Bill Beutel (C)
11:30p The Joey Bishop Show (scheduled: Eva Gabor, Wayne Newton, Pete Barbutti, Don Knotts) (C)
1:00a The Best of Broadway: "I Was a Male War Bride" (1949) - Cary Grant, Ann Sheridan
followed by prayer and sign-off
WOR-TV 9 New York (Independent; owned by RKO General)
8:55a News and Weather
9:00a Marvel Superheroes: The Mighty Thor (C)
9:30a Romper Room with Miss Louise Redfield (C)
10:30a The Joe Franklin Show (guests include drama critic Harold Clurman) (C)
12:00p 9 at Noon with John Wingate and Mary Helen McPhillips (C)
12:30p Journey to Adventure - "Jamaica, No Place Like Home" (C)
1:00p Perspective on Greatness - "That Ever Livin' Babe" (about Babe Ruth; narrated by Terry O'Sullivan)
2:00p Kingdom of the Sea - "Tuna Clipper" (C)
2:30p The Loretta Young Show - "The Demon and Mrs. Devon" [original airdate 1/5/58]
3:00p Fireside Theatre - "Retribution" [original airdate 3/23/54]
3:30p Movie: "Having a Wonderful Time" (1938) - Ginger Rogers, Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
5:00p Gilligan's Island - "Goodbye Island" [original airdate 11/21/64]
5:30p Make Room for Daddy - "Charley the Artist" [original airdate 12/31/62]
6:00p Movie: "The Fugitive Kind" (1959) - Marlon Brando, Anna Magnani
- - -
8:00p Million Dollar Movie: "The Mark" (1961) - Stuart Whitman, Maria Schell, Rod Steiger
10:00p Laredo - "Jinx" (C) [original airdate 12/2/65]
11:00p The Flick: "The Seventh Veil" (1945) - James Mason, Ann Todd
1:00a Film Short
1:15a Whirlybirds - "Top of the Mountain" [original airdate 3/28/57]
1:45a News and Weather
followed by Moment of Prayer and sign-off
WPIX-TV 11 New York (Independent; licensor WPIX, Inc., owned by New York Daily News)
8:30a The Little Rascals
9:00a Jack La Lanne (C)
9:30a The Millionaire - "Millionaire Karen Summers" [original airdate 3/8/60]
10:00a The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show (Gracie is convinced Ronnie and a certain young lady get along very well
together, and has come to the conclusion that she is about to become the mother of the groom)
10:30a Biography - "Emperor Hirohito" [original airdate 1963]
11:00a True Adventure - "Devil River" (host: Bill Burrud) (C)
11:30a Cartoons (C)
12:00p Bozo the Clown (C)
[NOTE: This was the syndicated version that originated from then-WHDH Channel 5 in Boston, MA, with Frank Avruch
as Bozo]
1:00p Movie - "A Game of Death" (1945) - John Loder, Audrey Lang
2:30p Pat Boone in Hollywood (guests: Dick Shawn, Soupy Sales, Bessie Griffin, The Pozo-Seco Singers) (C)
4:00p The Eighth Man (C)
4:30p Speed Racer (C)
5:00p The Little Rascals [listed in TV Guide as (C)]
5:30p The Three Stooges [listed in TV Guide as (C)]
6:00p Adventures of Superman - "The Big Freeze" (C) [original airdate 3/3/56]
6:30p The Munsters - "Love Locked Out" [original airdate 3/4/65]
7:00p F Troop - "A Fort's Best Friend Is Not a Mother" (guest: Jeanette Nolan) [original airdate 4/19/66]
- - -
7:30p The Patty Duke Show - "Three Little Kittens" [original airdate 4/6/66]
8:00p Password (guests: June Lockhart, Ross Martin) (C) [original airdate 5/1/67]
8:30p The Honeymooners - "Head of the House" [original airdate 3/31/56]
9:00p Perry Mason - "The Case of the Drowsy Mosquito" [original airdate 10/10/63]
10:00p 10 O'Clock News with Rex Marshall (C)
10:30p Tonight at the Movies - "Untouched" (1956) - Ricardo Montalban, Victor Parra
12:15a The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show (Gracie attempts to arrange the marriage of a friend's daughter)
12:45a sign-off
WNDT 13 Newark/New York (NET affiliate; owned by Educational Broadcasting Corp.)
9:00a Cultures and Continents
9:30a Project History
9:50a Habla Español
10:05a Americans All
10:25a Cover to Cover
10:45a Exploring Language
11:05a Parlons Français II
11:20a Americans All
11:40a Alive and About
12:00p Cultures and Continents
12:30p Spectrum
1:00p Charity Bailey
1:30p Parlons Français II
1:45p You and Eye
2:05p Alive and About
2:25p Americans All
2:45p Habla Español
3:00p Cultures and Continents
3:30p Spectrum
4:00p Communications and Education
4:30p India: Fables and Legends
5:00p Film Short
5:15p The Friendly Giant
5:30p Misterogers' Neighborhood (topic: tubes)
6:00p What's New - "The Emperor Penguin Story"
6:30p The French Chef - "Strawberry Tart"
7:00p University Forum (guests: Bishop J.J. Dougherty and students from Seton Hall; moderator, Robert B. Meyner)
- - -
7:30p Communications and Lecture (Prof. Charles A. Siepmann discusses the "Equal Time" provision [Section 315] of the
Communications Act; excerpts of Kennedy/Nixon "Great Debate" and Nixon's Checkers speech are shown)
8:00p Tonight in Person (Australian folk singers Lyn and Graham McCarthy sing such numbers as "The Overlander," "Out After
Ale" and "Stringybark and Greenhide")
8:30p Spectrum - "Search for a Future" (interview with cell biologist Michael Feldman at the Weizmann Institute in Tel Aviv;
host: David Parowitt)
9:00p NET Festival - "Chicago Double Bill," with two productions:
1. "Requiem for a Slave"
2. "Coppelia" (Act II)
10:00p Newsfront with Mitchell Krauss (scheduled guests: George Ball, Muhammad Ali; guest list changed due to King
assassination)
10:30p Book Beat (teen-ager Susan Hinton discusses her book about teen-age caste systems; host: Robert Cromie)
11:00p sign-off
[SOURCES: TV Guide, New York-Metropolitan Edition, March 30-April 5, 1968 issue; day's listings in The New York Times, Daily News, New York Post, and (for Connecticut movie show titles) The Hour (Norwalk, CT); show episode info, where applicable, courtesy IMDb and TV.com]
(C) - in color
WCBS-TV 2 New York (CBS; owned and operated)
6:30a Sunrise Semester (Russian literature: the second generation of symbolists) (C)
7:00a News (C)
7:05a CBS Morning News with Joseph Benti (C)
7:30a CBS Morning News with Joseph Benti (C)
7:55a News (C)
8:00a Captain Kangaroo (pet corner: sheep dog puppies and guinea pigs) (C)
9:00a Love That Bob! - "Bob Meets the Mortons" (guest: George Burns) [original airdate 3/21/57]
9:30a Leave It to Beaver - "Wally's Play" [original airdate 6/11/60]
10:00a Candid Camera (motorists entering Delaware told the state is closed; hotel guests find a mule in their room)
10:30a The Beverly Hillbillies (Fred Clark as physician frazzled by Granny's hillbilly doctoring) (C)
11:00a The Andy Griffith Show [or was the Andy of Mayberry title still used at this point?] - "Aunt Bee Learns to Drive"
(C) [original airdate 2/7/66]
11:30a The Dick Van Dyke Show - "Will You Two Be My Wife?" (guest: Barbara Bain) [original airdate 1/16/63]
12:00p Love of Life (C)
12:25p CBS News - Joseph Benti (C)
12:30p Search for Tomorrow (C)
12:45p The Guiding Light (C)
1:00p Dennis the Menace - "Dennis and the Hermit" (guest: Edgar Buchanan) [original airdate 12/30/62]
1:30p As the World Turns (C)
2:00p Love Is a Many Splendored Thing (C)
2:30p Art Linkletter's House Party (guests: costume designer Theodore Van Runkle ["Bonnie and Clyde"] and singer
Charles Vick) (C)
3:00p To Tell the Truth (C)
3:25p CBS Midday News with Douglas Edwards (C)
3:30p The Edge of Night (C)
4:00p The Secret Storm (C)
4:30p The Mike Douglas Show (guests: Ozzie & Harriet Nelson, Jack Douglas & Reiko, and singers Marilyn Maye and
Hal Frazier) (C)
6:00p Evening Report with Jim Jensen (C)
7:00p CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite (from Washington, DC) (C)
[NOTE: The New York newsroom was manned by Dan Rather who anchored special reports on the King assassination]
- - -
7:30p Cimarron Strip - "Whitey" (C) [original airdate 10/19/67]
9:00p The CBS Thursday Night Movies: "One Man's Way" (1964) - Don Murray, Diana Hyland, William Windom
11:00p Late Report with Tom Dunn (C) [scheduled; CBS News did a special report on the King assassination at 11]
11:30p WCBS-TV News Special Report - on installation of Archbishop Terence J. Cooke (anchor: Jim Jensen; reporters:
Harry Arouh, Jeanne Parr, Robert Potts [later a part of WNBC-TV's NewsCenter4 team in the 1970's], Chet Curtis
[later famous as co-anchor at WCVB-TV Boston]) (C)
12:00a The Late Show: "Damn Yankees" (1958) - Tab Hunter, Gwen Verdon (C)
2:10a News (C)
2:15a The Late Late Show I: "Look Back in Anger" (1959) - Richard Burton, Claire Bloom
4:15a The Late Late Show II: "War Paint" (1953) - Robert Stack, Joan Taylor
6:00a Give Us This Day (C)
followed by sign-off
WNBC-TV 4 New York (NBC; owned and operated)
[NOTE: network shows aired on WATR-TV 20 Waterbury, CT (owned by WATR-TV, Inc.) will be in italics; TV Guide only listed network shows on Channel 20 up to late 1971-early '72]
6:30a Education Exchange (C)
7:00a Today (scheduled: National Educational Association president-elect Libby Koontz; author Jane Grant ["Ross,
The New Yorker and Me"]; baseball spring training report by Joe Garagiola; Senator J. William Fulbright (D-AR) gives
Hanoi's response to President Johnson's speech at 7:30) (C)
9:00a The Bonnie Prudden Show (guest: Dr. J.A. Blais of Canadian Arthritis Society) (C)
9:30a Dobie Gillis - "Move Over, Perry Mason" (guest: Douglass Dumbrille) [original airdate 10/24/61]
10:00a Snap Judgment (guests: George Hamilton, Diana Sands) (C)
10:25a NBC News - Nancy Dickerson (C)
10:30a Concentration (C)
11:00a Personality (celebrities: Marty Allen, Eydie Gormé, Barry Nelson; on-film personality: Shelley Winters) (C)
11:30a The Hollywood Squares (celebrities: Jim Backus, Bill Bixby, Jack Cassidy, Barbara Feldon, Gale Gordon,
Shirley Jones (C)
12:00p Jeopardy (C)
12:30p Eye Guess (C)
12:55p NBC News - Edwin Newman (C)
1:00p Installation Ceremony for Most Rev. Terence J. Cooke to Archbishop of New York Archdiocese (C)
[pre-empted: PDQ; Channel 20 aired Let's Make a Deal, Days of our Lives and The Doctors
as scheduled]
3:00p Another World (C)
3:30p You Don't Say! (celebrities: June Lockhart, Jack Narz) (C)
4:00p The Match Game (guests: Peter Lawford, Lauren Bacall) (C)
4:25p NBC News - Floyd Kalber (C)
4:30p Movie Four: "The Reckless Moment" (1949) - James Mason, Joan Bennett
6:00p Sixth Hour News with Lew Wood (C)
7:00p The Huntley-Brinkley Report (C)
- - -
7:30p Daniel Boone - "Faith's Way" (guests: Julie Harris, Jeff Morrow) (C)
8:30p Ironside - "Return of the Hero" (guests: Gary Collins, plus a pre-Mary Tyler Moore Show / Love Boat
Gavin MacLeod) (C)
9:30p Dragnet 1968 - "The Joy Riders" (C) [postponed to 2/13/69, on which it was aired under the Dragnet 1969
banner]
10:00p The Dean Martin Show (guests: Jimmy Stewart, George Gobel, Shecky Greene, Wisa D'Orso) (C)
11:00p Eleventh Hour News with Jim Hartz (C)
11:10p Weather - Frank Field (C)
11:15p News - Jim Hartz (C)
11:25p Sports - Kyle Rote (C)
11:30p The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (guests: Rex Reed, George Carlin, Peggy Fleming) (C)
1:00a Tonight's News with Bob Teague (C)
1:15a The Great Great Show: "Remember the Day" (1941) - Claudette Colbert, John Payne
2:50a Sermonette (C)
followed by sign-off
WNEW-TV 5 New York (Independent; owned by Metromedia Television)
7:00a Yoga for Health
7:30a The Sandy Becker Show (C)
8:00a Daphne's Castle (C)
9:30a Morning Double Feature:
1. "The Great Victor Herbert" (1939) - Allan Jones, Mary Martin, Walter Connolly
2. "The Ladykillers" (1955) - Alec Guinness, Peter Sellers [though the latter was in color, there was no indication in
any TV listings that it was shown as such]
1:00p The New Yorkers with Sonny Fox (guest: Jacqueline Susann) (C)
3:00p The Woody Woodbury Show (guests: Michael Callan, Patricia Harty, Pete Barbutti) (C)
4:30p Marine Boy (C)
5:00p Winchell-Mahoney Time (C)
6:00p The Flintstones (C)
6:30p McHale's Navy - "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad War" [original airdate 9/29/64]
7:00p I Love Lucy - "Lucy and Superman" [original airdate 1/14/57]
- - -
7:30p Truth or Consequences (C)
8:00p Hazel - "Hazel's Tax Deduction" (C) [original airdate 11/1/62]
8:30p The Merv Griffin Show (scheduled: José Ferrer, Bob Crane, Jack Douglas & Reiko) (C)
10:00p The 10 O'Clock News with Bill Jorgensen (C)
10:30p The Alan Burke Show (C)
11:15p The Les Crane Show (topic: "Christ and Krishna"; guests include Benjamin Weiss of Youth for Christ, Swami A.C.
Bhaktivedanta, and Keith Phillipls of World Opportunities) (C)
12:15a The Joe Pyne Show (guests hosts: Cornel Wilde and Jean Wallace; guests are from the PR firm handling Richard M.
Nixon's Presidential campaign) (C)
12:45a News (C)
followed by Call to Prayer (C)
and sign-off
WABC-TV 7 New York (ABC; owned and operated)
7:20a News
7:30a Cartoons (C)
8:30a Girl Talk with Virginia Graham (C)
9:00a Movie of the Day: "The 'I Don't Care' Girl" (1953) - Mitzi Gaynor, David Wayne, Oscar Levant, George Jessel (C)
10:30a The Dick Cavett Show (scheduled: singer Dana Valery) (C)
[NOTE: TV Guide listed the program under its original title - This Morning.]
12:00p Bewitched (Endora jumps to conclusions after seeing Darrin with a pretty girl)
12:30p Treasure Isle (C)
1:00p Dream House (C)
1:30p Wedding Party (C) [early game-show hosting gig by the future Mr. Suzanne Somers, Alan Hamel]
2:00p The Newlywed Game (C)
2:30p The Baby Game (C)
2:55p The Children's Doctor with Dr. Lendon Smith (C)
3:00p Dark Shadows (C)
3:30p General Hospital (C)
4:00p The Dating Game (C)
4:30p The Big Show: "Lust for Life" (1956) - Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn (C)
[NOTE: The 4:30 Movie title didn't take effect until about January 1969]
6:30p 6:30 News with John Schubeck (C)
7:00p ABC Evening News with Bob Young (C)
[Mr. Young's anchoring of the King assassination was his most famous moment in his brief stint as ABC Evening News
anchor; by fall 1968, he had gone on to WCBS-TV in New York to anchor its 11 P.M. newscast]
- - -
7:30p The Second Hundred Years - "Just Pay the Two Dollars" (C) [original airdate 11/1/67]
8:00p The Flying Nun - "Love Me, Love My Dog" (C)
8:30p Bewitched - "I Confess" (C)
9:00p ABC News Special - "California Girl" (about the California way of life as seen through women living it; narrated by
Sally Field; music by Dick Hyman) (C)
10:00p Suspense Theatre - "The Sweet Taste of Vengeance" (C) [original airdate 4/30/64]
[NOTE: Episodes syndicated under the title Crisis were from the second (1964-65) season of Kraft Suspense
Theatre; this show was from its first season; both shows were rerun for some two decades by Channel 7]
11:00p 11 O'Clock News with Bill Beutel (C)
11:10p Weather with Tex Antoine (C)
11:15p Local News - Bill Beutel (C)
11:30p The Joey Bishop Show (scheduled: Eva Gabor, Wayne Newton, Pete Barbutti, Don Knotts) (C)
1:00a The Best of Broadway: "I Was a Male War Bride" (1949) - Cary Grant, Ann Sheridan
followed by prayer and sign-off
WOR-TV 9 New York (Independent; owned by RKO General)
8:55a News and Weather
9:00a Marvel Superheroes: The Mighty Thor (C)
9:30a Romper Room with Miss Louise Redfield (C)
10:30a The Joe Franklin Show (guests include drama critic Harold Clurman) (C)
12:00p 9 at Noon with John Wingate and Mary Helen McPhillips (C)
12:30p Journey to Adventure - "Jamaica, No Place Like Home" (C)
1:00p Perspective on Greatness - "That Ever Livin' Babe" (about Babe Ruth; narrated by Terry O'Sullivan)
2:00p Kingdom of the Sea - "Tuna Clipper" (C)
2:30p The Loretta Young Show - "The Demon and Mrs. Devon" [original airdate 1/5/58]
3:00p Fireside Theatre - "Retribution" [original airdate 3/23/54]
3:30p Movie: "Having a Wonderful Time" (1938) - Ginger Rogers, Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
5:00p Gilligan's Island - "Goodbye Island" [original airdate 11/21/64]
5:30p Make Room for Daddy - "Charley the Artist" [original airdate 12/31/62]
6:00p Movie: "The Fugitive Kind" (1959) - Marlon Brando, Anna Magnani
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8:00p Million Dollar Movie: "The Mark" (1961) - Stuart Whitman, Maria Schell, Rod Steiger
10:00p Laredo - "Jinx" (C) [original airdate 12/2/65]
11:00p The Flick: "The Seventh Veil" (1945) - James Mason, Ann Todd
1:00a Film Short
1:15a Whirlybirds - "Top of the Mountain" [original airdate 3/28/57]
1:45a News and Weather
followed by Moment of Prayer and sign-off
WPIX-TV 11 New York (Independent; licensor WPIX, Inc., owned by New York Daily News)
8:30a The Little Rascals
9:00a Jack La Lanne (C)
9:30a The Millionaire - "Millionaire Karen Summers" [original airdate 3/8/60]
10:00a The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show (Gracie is convinced Ronnie and a certain young lady get along very well
together, and has come to the conclusion that she is about to become the mother of the groom)
10:30a Biography - "Emperor Hirohito" [original airdate 1963]
11:00a True Adventure - "Devil River" (host: Bill Burrud) (C)
11:30a Cartoons (C)
12:00p Bozo the Clown (C)
[NOTE: This was the syndicated version that originated from then-WHDH Channel 5 in Boston, MA, with Frank Avruch
as Bozo]
1:00p Movie - "A Game of Death" (1945) - John Loder, Audrey Lang
2:30p Pat Boone in Hollywood (guests: Dick Shawn, Soupy Sales, Bessie Griffin, The Pozo-Seco Singers) (C)
4:00p The Eighth Man (C)
4:30p Speed Racer (C)
5:00p The Little Rascals [listed in TV Guide as (C)]
5:30p The Three Stooges [listed in TV Guide as (C)]
6:00p Adventures of Superman - "The Big Freeze" (C) [original airdate 3/3/56]
6:30p The Munsters - "Love Locked Out" [original airdate 3/4/65]
7:00p F Troop - "A Fort's Best Friend Is Not a Mother" (guest: Jeanette Nolan) [original airdate 4/19/66]
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7:30p The Patty Duke Show - "Three Little Kittens" [original airdate 4/6/66]
8:00p Password (guests: June Lockhart, Ross Martin) (C) [original airdate 5/1/67]
8:30p The Honeymooners - "Head of the House" [original airdate 3/31/56]
9:00p Perry Mason - "The Case of the Drowsy Mosquito" [original airdate 10/10/63]
10:00p 10 O'Clock News with Rex Marshall (C)
10:30p Tonight at the Movies - "Untouched" (1956) - Ricardo Montalban, Victor Parra
12:15a The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show (Gracie attempts to arrange the marriage of a friend's daughter)
12:45a sign-off
WNDT 13 Newark/New York (NET affiliate; owned by Educational Broadcasting Corp.)
9:00a Cultures and Continents
9:30a Project History
9:50a Habla Español
10:05a Americans All
10:25a Cover to Cover
10:45a Exploring Language
11:05a Parlons Français II
11:20a Americans All
11:40a Alive and About
12:00p Cultures and Continents
12:30p Spectrum
1:00p Charity Bailey
1:30p Parlons Français II
1:45p You and Eye
2:05p Alive and About
2:25p Americans All
2:45p Habla Español
3:00p Cultures and Continents
3:30p Spectrum
4:00p Communications and Education
4:30p India: Fables and Legends
5:00p Film Short
5:15p The Friendly Giant
5:30p Misterogers' Neighborhood (topic: tubes)
6:00p What's New - "The Emperor Penguin Story"
6:30p The French Chef - "Strawberry Tart"
7:00p University Forum (guests: Bishop J.J. Dougherty and students from Seton Hall; moderator, Robert B. Meyner)
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7:30p Communications and Lecture (Prof. Charles A. Siepmann discusses the "Equal Time" provision [Section 315] of the
Communications Act; excerpts of Kennedy/Nixon "Great Debate" and Nixon's Checkers speech are shown)
8:00p Tonight in Person (Australian folk singers Lyn and Graham McCarthy sing such numbers as "The Overlander," "Out After
Ale" and "Stringybark and Greenhide")
8:30p Spectrum - "Search for a Future" (interview with cell biologist Michael Feldman at the Weizmann Institute in Tel Aviv;
host: David Parowitt)
9:00p NET Festival - "Chicago Double Bill," with two productions:
1. "Requiem for a Slave"
2. "Coppelia" (Act II)
10:00p Newsfront with Mitchell Krauss (scheduled guests: George Ball, Muhammad Ali; guest list changed due to King
assassination)
10:30p Book Beat (teen-ager Susan Hinton discusses her book about teen-age caste systems; host: Robert Cromie)
11:00p sign-off
