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Johnny's first show day
New York City (produced there)
Monday, October 1, 1962
P - Premiere
SP - Season Premiere
2 WCBS
6:00 College of the Air
6:30 Sunrise Semester
7:00 Channel 2 Morning Report
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Life of Riley
9:30 Our Miss Brooks
10:00 Calendar - Guests: West Berlin mayor and future West German chancellor Willy Brandt
10:30 I Love Lucy
11:00 The McCoys
11:30 Pete & Gladys
NOON Love of Life
12:25 CBS Midday News - Harry Reasoner
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1:00 Burns & Allen
1:30 As the World Turns
2:00 Password - Guests: Rita Moreno, Louis Nye
2:30 Art Linkletter's House Party
3:00 The Millionaire (serial)
3:30 To Tell the Truth (Daytime) - Panel: Joan Fontaine, Barry Nelson, Phyllis Newman, Abe Burrows
3:55 CBS Afternoon News - Douglas Edwards
4:00 Secret Storm
4:30 Edge of Night
5:00 Love That Bob
5:30 Early Show: "Knute Rockne - All American" (1940) - Pat O'Brien, Ronald Reagan
7:00 Seven O'Clock Report
7:15 Walter Cronkite and the News (succeeded Douglas Edwards on April 16, 1962; renamed CBS Evening News and expanded to a half-hour on September 2, 1963)
7:30 To Tell the Truth (Prime Time) - Panel: Tom Poston, Peggy Cass, Robert Q. Lewis, Kitty Carlisle
8:00 I've Got a Secret - Panel: Bill Cullen, Betsy Palmer, Henry Morgan, Bess Myerson; Celebrity guest: Andy Griffith
8:30 Lucy Show: "Lucy Waits Up for Chris" (SP)
9:00 Danny Thomas: "The Baby Hates Charley" (SP)
9:30 Andy Griffith: "Mr. McBeevee" (SP)
10:00 New Loretta Young Show: "Second Look"
10:30 Stump the Stars - Host: Pat Harrington Jr. (replaced by Mike Stokey December 10); Guests: Lee Marvin, Gypsy Rose Lee; Regulars: Sebastian Cabot, Beverly Garland, Ross Martin, Jan Clayton, Mickey Manners, Diana Dors
11:00 Eleven O'Clock Report
11:15 Political Talk
11:20 Late Show: "Disbarred" (1939) - Gail Patrick, Robert Preston
12:30 Late Late Show: "Rumba" (1935) - George Raft, Carole Lombard
4 WNBC
6:00 Continental Classroom (x2)
7:00 Today
9:00 Trouble With Father
9:30 Dr. Joyce Brothers
10:00 Say When!! - Art James
10:25 NBC News Morning Report - Edwin Newman (Premiere)
10:30 Play Your Hunch - Guest host: Robert Q. Lewis
11:00 Price is Right - Bill Cullen
11:30 Concentration
NOON Your First Impression - Bill Leyden
12:30 Truth or Consequences
12:55 NBC News Day Report - Ray Scherer
1:00 Leave It to the Girls
2:00 Merv Griffin Show (Premiere) - Guests: Shelley Berman, Hugh Downs, Roberta Peters, Peter Nero
2:55 NBC News Early Afternoon Report - Floyd Kalber (The Afternoon Report with Sander Vanocur was pre-empted by the NL Playoffs.)
3:00 Loretta Young Theatre
3:30 Young Dr. Malone
3:45 MLB National Leauge Playoffs - San Francisco Giants vs. Los Angeles Dodgers (This was the first of a 3-game tie-breaker series as both teams ended their regular season with identical win-loss records. League Championship Series didn't exist until 1969. The Giants won that series in the deciding Game 3, before losing to the Yankees in the World Series.)
6:30 Gabe Pressman News
6:45 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7:00 Biography: "Babe Ruth"
7:30 It's a Man's World: "Molly Pitcher and the Green-Eyed Monster"
8:30 Saints and Sinners: "The Man on the Rim"
9:30 Price is Right - Celebrity bidders: Arlene Francis, Alan King, Betsy Palmer, Hugh Downs (Regular contestants receive prizes by the winning bidders.)
10:00 David Brinkley's Journal (SP)
11:00 John K. M. McCaffery
11:15 The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (Premiere) - Guests: Groucho Marx, Tony Bennett, Mel Brooks, Joan Crawford, Rudy Vallee; Musical guests: The Phoenix Singers
1:00 News
1:05 13th Hour Drama
5 WNEW
7:30 Columbia (University) Lectures
8:00 Sandy Becker
9:30 Topper
10:00 Ten O'Clock Movie: "A Run for Your Money" (1949) - Donald Houston, Meredith Edwards, Alec Guinness, Moira Lister, Hugh Griffith
11:24 Channel 5 Reports
11:30 Romper Room
12:30 Cartoon Playtime
1:24 Channel 5 Reports
1:30 Late Lunch Movie (see 10:00 AM)
2:54 Channel 5 Reports
3:00 Mr. District Attorney
3:30 Big Payoff - Robert Paige
4:00 Deputy Dawg
4:30 Felix and the Wizard
5:30 Sandy Becker Hour
6:30 Mickey Mouse Club
7:00 The Outlaws
7:30 New York State Republican Committee
8:00 Tightrope
8:30 Peter Gunn
9:00 Cain's Hundred
10:00 The Deputy
10:30 Dragnet
11:00 Faces and Places in the News
11:10 Hollywood's Finest: "The Other Love" (1947) - Barbara Stanwyck, David Niven, Richard Conte
12:40 Channel 5 Reports
1:00 Five Star Movie: "The Reckless Moment" (1949) - James Mason, Joan Bennett
7 WABC
7:10 Breakfast Time
7:30 Early Bird Cartoons
8:00 Tommy Seven Show
8:30 Little Rascals
9:00 Funny Manns - Cliff Norton
9:30 Gale Storm
10:00 Susie
10:30 Answering Service (P) - Betty Furness
11:00 Tennessee Ernie Ford
11:30 Yours for a Song - Bert Parks
NOON Jane Wyman Presents
12:30 Camouflage - Don Morrow
1:00 Dr. Hudson
1:30 December Bride
2:00 Day in Court
2:30 Seven Keys - Jack Narz
3:00 Queen for a Day - Jack Bailey
3:30 Who Do You Trust? - Woody Woodbury debuts as new host, replacing Johnny Carson
4:00 American Bandstand
4:30 Discovery '62 (P) - Frank Buxton
5:00 I Married Joan
5:30 Highway Patrol
6:00 ABC Evening Report - Ron Cochran
6:15 Report to New York
6:30 Rescue 8
7:00 Father Knows Best
7:30 Cheyenne: "Satonka"
8:30 Rifleman: "Waste" Part 1 of 2 (SP)
9:00 Stoney Burke: "The Contender" (P)
10:00 Ben Casey: "Mrs. McBroom and the Cloud Watcher" (SP)
11:00 News Final
11:10 Report to New York
11:15 Night Show: "Father Was a Fullback" (1949) - Fred MacMurray, Maureen O'Hara, Natalie Wood, Betty Lynn, Thelma Ritter, Jim Backus, Rudy Vallee
1:00 Goodnight Show: "In the Meantime Darling" (1944) - Jeanne Crain, Frank Latimore, Mary Nash
9 WOR
9:00 Jack LaLanne
9:30 All-Star Movie: "Colonel Effingham's Raid" (1946) - Charles Coburn, Joan Bennett, William Eythe
11:00 Johnny Andrews (P)
NOON Science Fiction Theatre
12:30 Joe Franklin's Memory Lane
1:30 Star and Story
2:00 Blessing of Liberty
2:30 All-Star Movie (see 9:30 AM)
4:00 Road to Danger
4:30 Looney Tunes
5:00 Movie of the Week: "The Cosmic Monsters" (1958) - Forrest Tucker, Gaby Andre, Martin Benson
6:30 Zoorama
7:00 Merrytoon Circus
7:30 Million Dollar Movie: Alfred Hitchcock's "Strangers on a Train" (1951) - Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Robert Walker
9:30 Maverick
10:30 Keyhole (P)
11:00 Million Dollar Movie (see 7:30 PM)
1:00 Playback
1:05 Almanac; News
11 WPIX
8:45 News
9:00 Comedy Party Cartoons
10:00 For Your Information - Fran Allison, Bob Considine
10:30 Morning Movie: "Hi Diddle Diddle" (1943) - Adolphe Menjou, Martha Scott, Pola Negri, Dennis O'Keefe, Billie Burke
11:30 How to Marry a Millionaire
11:50 News
NOON The Merry Mailman's Funhouse
12:30 Rocky and His Friends
12:45 The Merry Mailman's Funhouse
1:00 People Are Funny
1:30 Best of Groucho
2:00 Divorce Court
3:00 Abbott & Costello
3:30 Laurel & Hardy and Chuck
3:55 New Adventures of Pinnochio
4:00 Bozo the Clown
4:25 Koko the Clown
4:30 Dick Tracy
4:55 Fractured Fairy Tales
5:00 Cartoon Zoo
5:25 Rocky and His Friends
5:30 Popeye the Sailor
6:00 Three Stooges
6:30 Yogi Bear
7:00 World News
7:10 New York News
7:25 Weather
7:30 Checkmate
8:30 One Step Beyond
9:00 I Search for Adventure
9:30 Grand Jury
10:00 Trackdown
10:30 Broadway Goes Latin
11:00 Steve Allen - Guests: wife Jayne Meadows, Buddy Hackett, Martin Denny, Dayton Allen, Marilyn Maye
12:30 Five Star Final (news)
13 WNDT (NET; newly acquired that affiliation Sept. 16)
9:30 Parlons Francais
9:45 Understanding Science
10:05 Merchandising Adventures
10:25 Places in the News
10:45 Parlons Francais (R)
11:00 Science Corner
11:20 Tell Me a Story
11:40 Merchandising Adventures (R)
NOON Russian for Beginners
12:30 TBA
1:00 Fun at One
1:30 New York Metropolis
1:50 Merchanisiding Adventures (R)
2:10 Places in the News (R)
2:30 Time Now for Music
3:00 The American Economy
3:30 You, the Consumer
5:00 Once Upon a Day
6:00 What's New?
6:30 Profile: New Jersey
7:00 Russian for Beginners (R)
7:30 Books for Our Time
8:30 The Art of Seeing
9:00 Perspectives
10:00 The World at Ten (news)
10:30 Japanese television drama: "Kill for Kill"
11:30 Reflections
Primary sources: New York Daily News @ newspapers.com; New York Times @ timesmachine.com
New York City (produced there)
Monday, October 1, 1962
P - Premiere
SP - Season Premiere
2 WCBS
6:00 College of the Air
6:30 Sunrise Semester
7:00 Channel 2 Morning Report
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Life of Riley
9:30 Our Miss Brooks
10:00 Calendar - Guests: West Berlin mayor and future West German chancellor Willy Brandt
10:30 I Love Lucy
11:00 The McCoys
11:30 Pete & Gladys
NOON Love of Life
12:25 CBS Midday News - Harry Reasoner
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1:00 Burns & Allen
1:30 As the World Turns
2:00 Password - Guests: Rita Moreno, Louis Nye
2:30 Art Linkletter's House Party
3:00 The Millionaire (serial)
3:30 To Tell the Truth (Daytime) - Panel: Joan Fontaine, Barry Nelson, Phyllis Newman, Abe Burrows
3:55 CBS Afternoon News - Douglas Edwards
4:00 Secret Storm
4:30 Edge of Night
5:00 Love That Bob
5:30 Early Show: "Knute Rockne - All American" (1940) - Pat O'Brien, Ronald Reagan
7:00 Seven O'Clock Report
7:15 Walter Cronkite and the News (succeeded Douglas Edwards on April 16, 1962; renamed CBS Evening News and expanded to a half-hour on September 2, 1963)
7:30 To Tell the Truth (Prime Time) - Panel: Tom Poston, Peggy Cass, Robert Q. Lewis, Kitty Carlisle
8:00 I've Got a Secret - Panel: Bill Cullen, Betsy Palmer, Henry Morgan, Bess Myerson; Celebrity guest: Andy Griffith
8:30 Lucy Show: "Lucy Waits Up for Chris" (SP)
9:00 Danny Thomas: "The Baby Hates Charley" (SP)
9:30 Andy Griffith: "Mr. McBeevee" (SP)
10:00 New Loretta Young Show: "Second Look"
10:30 Stump the Stars - Host: Pat Harrington Jr. (replaced by Mike Stokey December 10); Guests: Lee Marvin, Gypsy Rose Lee; Regulars: Sebastian Cabot, Beverly Garland, Ross Martin, Jan Clayton, Mickey Manners, Diana Dors
11:00 Eleven O'Clock Report
11:15 Political Talk
11:20 Late Show: "Disbarred" (1939) - Gail Patrick, Robert Preston
12:30 Late Late Show: "Rumba" (1935) - George Raft, Carole Lombard
4 WNBC
6:00 Continental Classroom (x2)
7:00 Today
9:00 Trouble With Father
9:30 Dr. Joyce Brothers
10:00 Say When!! - Art James
10:25 NBC News Morning Report - Edwin Newman (Premiere)
10:30 Play Your Hunch - Guest host: Robert Q. Lewis
11:00 Price is Right - Bill Cullen
11:30 Concentration
NOON Your First Impression - Bill Leyden
12:30 Truth or Consequences
12:55 NBC News Day Report - Ray Scherer
1:00 Leave It to the Girls
2:00 Merv Griffin Show (Premiere) - Guests: Shelley Berman, Hugh Downs, Roberta Peters, Peter Nero
2:55 NBC News Early Afternoon Report - Floyd Kalber (The Afternoon Report with Sander Vanocur was pre-empted by the NL Playoffs.)
3:00 Loretta Young Theatre
3:30 Young Dr. Malone
3:45 MLB National Leauge Playoffs - San Francisco Giants vs. Los Angeles Dodgers (This was the first of a 3-game tie-breaker series as both teams ended their regular season with identical win-loss records. League Championship Series didn't exist until 1969. The Giants won that series in the deciding Game 3, before losing to the Yankees in the World Series.)
6:30 Gabe Pressman News
6:45 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7:00 Biography: "Babe Ruth"
7:30 It's a Man's World: "Molly Pitcher and the Green-Eyed Monster"
8:30 Saints and Sinners: "The Man on the Rim"
9:30 Price is Right - Celebrity bidders: Arlene Francis, Alan King, Betsy Palmer, Hugh Downs (Regular contestants receive prizes by the winning bidders.)
10:00 David Brinkley's Journal (SP)
11:00 John K. M. McCaffery
11:15 The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (Premiere) - Guests: Groucho Marx, Tony Bennett, Mel Brooks, Joan Crawford, Rudy Vallee; Musical guests: The Phoenix Singers
1:00 News
1:05 13th Hour Drama
5 WNEW
7:30 Columbia (University) Lectures
8:00 Sandy Becker
9:30 Topper
10:00 Ten O'Clock Movie: "A Run for Your Money" (1949) - Donald Houston, Meredith Edwards, Alec Guinness, Moira Lister, Hugh Griffith
11:24 Channel 5 Reports
11:30 Romper Room
12:30 Cartoon Playtime
1:24 Channel 5 Reports
1:30 Late Lunch Movie (see 10:00 AM)
2:54 Channel 5 Reports
3:00 Mr. District Attorney
3:30 Big Payoff - Robert Paige
4:00 Deputy Dawg
4:30 Felix and the Wizard
5:30 Sandy Becker Hour
6:30 Mickey Mouse Club
7:00 The Outlaws
7:30 New York State Republican Committee
8:00 Tightrope
8:30 Peter Gunn
9:00 Cain's Hundred
10:00 The Deputy
10:30 Dragnet
11:00 Faces and Places in the News
11:10 Hollywood's Finest: "The Other Love" (1947) - Barbara Stanwyck, David Niven, Richard Conte
12:40 Channel 5 Reports
1:00 Five Star Movie: "The Reckless Moment" (1949) - James Mason, Joan Bennett
7 WABC
7:10 Breakfast Time
7:30 Early Bird Cartoons
8:00 Tommy Seven Show
8:30 Little Rascals
9:00 Funny Manns - Cliff Norton
9:30 Gale Storm
10:00 Susie
10:30 Answering Service (P) - Betty Furness
11:00 Tennessee Ernie Ford
11:30 Yours for a Song - Bert Parks
NOON Jane Wyman Presents
12:30 Camouflage - Don Morrow
1:00 Dr. Hudson
1:30 December Bride
2:00 Day in Court
2:30 Seven Keys - Jack Narz
3:00 Queen for a Day - Jack Bailey
3:30 Who Do You Trust? - Woody Woodbury debuts as new host, replacing Johnny Carson
4:00 American Bandstand
4:30 Discovery '62 (P) - Frank Buxton
5:00 I Married Joan
5:30 Highway Patrol
6:00 ABC Evening Report - Ron Cochran
6:15 Report to New York
6:30 Rescue 8
7:00 Father Knows Best
7:30 Cheyenne: "Satonka"
8:30 Rifleman: "Waste" Part 1 of 2 (SP)
9:00 Stoney Burke: "The Contender" (P)
10:00 Ben Casey: "Mrs. McBroom and the Cloud Watcher" (SP)
11:00 News Final
11:10 Report to New York
11:15 Night Show: "Father Was a Fullback" (1949) - Fred MacMurray, Maureen O'Hara, Natalie Wood, Betty Lynn, Thelma Ritter, Jim Backus, Rudy Vallee
1:00 Goodnight Show: "In the Meantime Darling" (1944) - Jeanne Crain, Frank Latimore, Mary Nash
9 WOR
9:00 Jack LaLanne
9:30 All-Star Movie: "Colonel Effingham's Raid" (1946) - Charles Coburn, Joan Bennett, William Eythe
11:00 Johnny Andrews (P)
NOON Science Fiction Theatre
12:30 Joe Franklin's Memory Lane
1:30 Star and Story
2:00 Blessing of Liberty
2:30 All-Star Movie (see 9:30 AM)
4:00 Road to Danger
4:30 Looney Tunes
5:00 Movie of the Week: "The Cosmic Monsters" (1958) - Forrest Tucker, Gaby Andre, Martin Benson
6:30 Zoorama
7:00 Merrytoon Circus
7:30 Million Dollar Movie: Alfred Hitchcock's "Strangers on a Train" (1951) - Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Robert Walker
9:30 Maverick
10:30 Keyhole (P)
11:00 Million Dollar Movie (see 7:30 PM)
1:00 Playback
1:05 Almanac; News
11 WPIX
8:45 News
9:00 Comedy Party Cartoons
10:00 For Your Information - Fran Allison, Bob Considine
10:30 Morning Movie: "Hi Diddle Diddle" (1943) - Adolphe Menjou, Martha Scott, Pola Negri, Dennis O'Keefe, Billie Burke
11:30 How to Marry a Millionaire
11:50 News
NOON The Merry Mailman's Funhouse
12:30 Rocky and His Friends
12:45 The Merry Mailman's Funhouse
1:00 People Are Funny
1:30 Best of Groucho
2:00 Divorce Court
3:00 Abbott & Costello
3:30 Laurel & Hardy and Chuck
3:55 New Adventures of Pinnochio
4:00 Bozo the Clown
4:25 Koko the Clown
4:30 Dick Tracy
4:55 Fractured Fairy Tales
5:00 Cartoon Zoo
5:25 Rocky and His Friends
5:30 Popeye the Sailor
6:00 Three Stooges
6:30 Yogi Bear
7:00 World News
7:10 New York News
7:25 Weather
7:30 Checkmate
8:30 One Step Beyond
9:00 I Search for Adventure
9:30 Grand Jury
10:00 Trackdown
10:30 Broadway Goes Latin
11:00 Steve Allen - Guests: wife Jayne Meadows, Buddy Hackett, Martin Denny, Dayton Allen, Marilyn Maye
12:30 Five Star Final (news)
13 WNDT (NET; newly acquired that affiliation Sept. 16)
9:30 Parlons Francais
9:45 Understanding Science
10:05 Merchandising Adventures
10:25 Places in the News
10:45 Parlons Francais (R)
11:00 Science Corner
11:20 Tell Me a Story
11:40 Merchandising Adventures (R)
NOON Russian for Beginners
12:30 TBA
1:00 Fun at One
1:30 New York Metropolis
1:50 Merchanisiding Adventures (R)
2:10 Places in the News (R)
2:30 Time Now for Music
3:00 The American Economy
3:30 You, the Consumer
5:00 Once Upon a Day
6:00 What's New?
6:30 Profile: New Jersey
7:00 Russian for Beginners (R)
7:30 Books for Our Time
8:30 The Art of Seeing
9:00 Perspectives
10:00 The World at Ten (news)
10:30 Japanese television drama: "Kill for Kill"
11:30 Reflections
Primary sources: New York Daily News @ newspapers.com; New York Times @ timesmachine.com