Retro: Philadelphia Mon, Oct 31, 1966

[Bluenoser]

Since nobody's put a Halloween sked up yet...;D
from TV Guide-Philadelphia edition
Coverage of President Johnson's trip to Asia may pre-empt or delay programming

KYW 3-NBC Philadelphia
5:55 Farm & Market News
6:00 News
6:05 On Stage: The Actor's Art (premiere of the 65-episode series)
6:35 Farm & Garden
6:45 News
7:00 Today (c/guests The Amazing Randi, and toy expert Antonio Fraser; also a look at the GA Governor's race between Howard Callaway (R) and Lester Maddox (D))
9:00 Contact (Tom Snyder welcomes Constitutional Party candidate for PA Governor Edward Swartz)
9:55 News (George Caldwell)
10:00 Eye Guess (c)
10:25 NBC News (c)
10:30 Concentration
11:00 Pat Boone (c/guests Telly Savalas and Marni Nixon)
11:30 Hollywood Squares (c)
noon News/Weather/Sports
12:30 Mike Douglas (co-host Cesar Romero)
2:00 Days of Our Lives (c)
2:30 Doctors (c)
3:00 Another World (c)
3:30 You Don't Say! (c)
4:00 Match Game (c)
4:25 NBC News (c)
4:30 Merv Griffin (guests Josephine Premice, and Henry Morgan)
6:00 News/Weather/Sports
6:30 NBC News (c)
7:00 Death Valley Days "Brute Angel" (c)
7:30 Monkees (c)
8:00 I Dream of Jeannie (c)
8:30 Roger Miller (c/guests Arthur Godfrey, and Brasil '66)
9:00 Road West "Piece of Tin" (c)
10:00 Run for Your Life "Edge of the Volcano" (c)
11:00 News/Weather/Sports
11:30 Tonight Show (c/guest Shari Lewis)
1:00 News (Jim Collis)

WFIL 6-ABC Philadelphia
6:05 News (Wes Sarginson)
6:15 RFD #6
6:30 Cartoon Carnival (c)
7:00 Wordland Workshop
7:30 Cartoon Circus (c)
9:00 Girl Talk
9:45 Schoolhouse (c)
10:00 Ben Casey
11:00 Supermarket Sweep
11:30 Dating Game
noon Movie "The People Against O'Hara"
2:00 Newlywed Game
2:30 A Time for Us
2:55 ABC News
3:00 General Hospital
3:30 Nurses
4:00 Popeye Theater (c)
5:30 Movie "California"
7:00 News/Weather/Sports (c)
7:15 ABC News
7:30 Iron Horse "War Cloud" (c)
8:30 Rat Patrol (c)
9:00 Felony Squad "The Death of a Dream" (c)
9:30 Peyton Place (c)
10:00 Big Valley
11:00 News/Weather/Sports (c)
11:30 Movie "Marco Polo"
1:25 Peter Gunn

WGAL 8-NBC Lancaster
7:00 Today (c)
9:00 Mike Douglas
10:00 Eye Guess (c)
10:25 NBC News (c)
10:30 Concentration
11:00 Pat Boone (c)
11:30 Hollywood Squares (c)
noon Noonday on 8 (c)
12:15 Genevieve Blatt
12:30 Swingin' Country (c)
12:55 NBC News
1:00 Merv Griffin
1:30 Let's Make a Deal (c)
2:00 Days of Our Lives (c)
2:30 Doctors (c)
3:00 Another World (c)
3:30 You Don't Say! (c)
4:00 Match Game (c)
4:25 NBC News (c)
4:30 Mister Ed
5:00 Bugs Bunny (c)
5:30 Cisco Kid "Pancho Hostage" (c)
6:00 News/Weather/Sports (c)
6:30 NBC News (c)
7:00 Honeymooners
7:30 Monkees (c)
8:00 I Dream of Jeannie (c)
8:30 Roger Miller (c)
9:00 Road West "Piece of Tin" (c)
10:00 Run for Your Life "Edge of the Volcano" (c)
11:00 News/Weather/Sports (c)
11:30 Tonight Show (c)
1:00 News

WCAU 10-CBS Philadelphia
Italics indicate CBS programs aired by WLYH 15-Lancaster/Lebanon, for whom TVG only ran network listings
5:40 News
5:45 Sunrise Semester "Studies in Style"
6:15 History of the Theater
6:45 Bill Bennett
7:00 News (Gene Crane)
7:05 CBS News
7:30 Gene London
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Pixanne
9:30 Dennis the Menace "Dennis Haunts a House"
10:00 Candid Camera
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies
11:00 Andy Griffith
11:30 Dick Van Dyke
noon Love of Life
12:25 CBS News (c)
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1:00 TV10 Around Town (c)
1:25 News (c/Jim Rogers)
1:30 As the World Turns
2:00 Password (c)
2:30 House Party (guest Ray Geiger)
3:00 To Tell the Truth
3:25 CBS News (c)
3:30 Edge of Night
4:00 Secret Storm
4:30 Movie "The Unseen"
6:00 News/Weather/Sports (c/John Facenda)
7:00 CBS News (c)
7:30 Gilligan's Island (c)
8:00 Run, Buddy, Run (c)
8:30 Lucille Ball (c/part 1 of a 2-parter co-starring Carol Burnett)
9:00 Andy Griffith (c)
9:30 NFL: Chicago-St. Louis (Lindsey Nelson, Jack Drees, and Frank Gifford call the action...pre-empts Family Affair, Jean Arthur, and I've Got a Secret)
12:30 News/Weather/Sports (c/Facenda again)
12:55 Movie "Phantom of the Opera" (c)
2:40 Movie "The Black Scorpion"
4:20 News

WHYY 12-Edu Wilmington/Philadelphia
9:30 Classroom: Western Hemisphere/Junior High Science/Junior High Math/Grade 4 Spanish/Senior High Biology
12:05 Sing Hi-Sing Lo
12:20 Classroom: Grade 9 Math
12:45 Friendly Giant
1:00 Biography: Franco
1:30 Classroom: French I/III/II, World of Words
3:00 Beyond the Earth "Reflecting and Radio Telescopes"
3:30 New Math
4:00 Struggle for Peace "War Plans"
4:30 Fundamental French
5:00 TBA
5:30 Friendly Giant
5:45 Sing Hi-Sing Lo
6:00 News (Shaw/Lang)
6:30 What's New
7:00 High School Biology
7:30 Antiques
8:00 Local Report
8:30 NET Journal "The Vanishing Newspaper" (conclusion of a report on the problems facing small-town newspapers; papers featured include Bennington Banner (Vermont) and Berkshire Eagle (Pittsfield, MA))
9:30 Biography: Theodore Roosevelt
10:00 Pittsburgh Symphony
11:00 News (John Lang)

WPHL 17-Ind Philadelphia
9:00 Jack LaLanne (c)
9:30 Cartoon Capers (c)
10:00 Mr. Piper (c)
10:30 Love That Bob!
11:00 Divorce Court
noon Jeopardy (c)
12:30 Swingin' Country (c)
12:55 NBC News
1:00 Pioneers
1:30 Let's Make a Deal (c)
1:55 NBC News (c)
2:00 Movie "Close-Up"
4:00 Cartoons (c/Webber)
4:45 Junior G-Men
5:00 Astroboy
5:30 Quick Draw McGraw (c)
6:00 Eighth Man
6:30 Patty Duke
7:00 Huckleberry Hound (c)
7:30 Charlie Chaplin "Shanghaied" (from 1915)
8:00 Roller Skating
9:00 Movie "Night is My Future"
11:00 Movie "Folly to Be Wise"

WIBF 29-Ind Philadelphia
10:00 Your All-Star Theater
10:30 View from 29 (guests include Abingdon HS Principal Dr. Allan Glatthorn)
noon Donna Reed
12:30 Father Knows Best
1:00 Scarlett Hill
1:30 December Bride
2:00 Your All-Star Theater "Exclusive"
2:30 Movie "Bedtime Story"
4:00 Dark Shadows
4:30 Jam Session
5:30 Where the Action is (guests include the Sandpipers, and Mel Carter)
6:00 Circle 29 Ranch
6:50 Sports (Don Henderson)
7:00 Movie "U-Boat Prisoner"
8:15 Movie "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington"
10:30 News
10:35 Movie "That Hamilton Woman"

WUHY 35-Edu Philadelphia
Not listed by TVG...programs air M/W/F 9:30am-3pm, Tu/Th 9am-3pm

WKBS 48-Ind Philadelphia
10:30 Cartoons (c)
11:00 Romper Room (c)
noon Dickory Doc (c)
1:00 Movie "The Scarf"
3:00 Our Miss Brooks
3:30 Captain Philadelphia (c)
5:00 Mickey Mouse Club
5:30 Gigantor
6:00 Superman (c)
6:30 Flintstones (c)
7:00 McHale's Navy
7:30 Los Angeles Boxing (c)
9:00 Movie "Destination Moon" (c)
11:00 Stu Nahan (c/sports)
11:05 Joe Pyne (c)

 

[gregg75]

On most of the posts like this the network stations are pretty much NETWORK. I tend to look more at the independents to see what "they" were doing.

Indendent TV 17 and 29 seem to be taking on the network show the locals didn't want.

Independent 48 looks like a kids/cartoon type station for most of the day. Which bring the
questions, what is "Our Miss Brooks" doing on there??? She is following an afternoon grown-up movie................ I guess this gives the kids a chance to take a nap from 1-3:30 or go with mom to get their older siblings from school. Bet she rarely saw the ending of those movies!

Are 17, 29, 48 around today? If so, are they independents?

 

[azumanga]

Are 17, 29, 48 around today? If so, are they independents?

17 and 29 are still around, but they are now MyNetworkTv (17) and a Fox O&O (29).

48 went dark in 1982, as a result of the Field family unable to sell off the station following a feud. A new channel 48, WGTW, went on the air in 1992 as a cheapie independent; TBN bought the station few years back and is now their O&O in Philly.

 

[FreddyE1977]

9:30 NFL: Chicago-St. Louis (Lindsey Nelson, Jack Drees, and Frank Gifford call the action...pre-empts Family Affair, Jean Arthur, and I've Got a Secret)

hmmmm.....Monday Night Football on CBS, three years before the famous one premiered?

 

[bpatrick]

CBS, as I recall, had a few primetime games before ABC
made Monday Night Football into a regular series; I think
some aired in 1967 and '68.

Looking at these schedules, particularly KYW's, I'm reminded
of my high-school days; one of my best friends had moved to
Birmingham from Pottstown, PA, and--knowing my interest in
schedules from different parts of the country--brought me a
Sunday TV insert from the Philadelphia Inquirer. The resemblance
between KYW's daytime schedule and WSB's was amazing (this was
around 1969 or '70), and the fact that some of NBC's games, particularly
"Jeopardy!" and "Who, What Or Where", were airing on independents in
both markets (both affiliates were running news at noon and Mike
Douglas at 12:30 at the time) also struck me. And the thing about it is:
WSB and KYW were not, and are not, sister stations. (In fact, Westinghouse's
other talker at that time, David Frost, aired on WAGA in Atlanta.)

 

[mleach]

Are 17, 29, 48 around today? If so, are they independents?

17 and 29 are still around, but they are now MyNetworkTv (17) and a Fox O&O (29).

48 went dark in 1982, as a result of the Field family unable to sell off the station following a feud. A new channel 48, WGTW, went on the air in 1992 as a cheapie independent; TBN bought the station few years back and is now their O&O in Philly.

Actually WKBS went dark on August 30, 1983. I am still a bit surprised someone didn't roll tape that night considering that VCRs at the time were commonplace and also just about everyone in the area more/less knew when the end of WKBS would take place since it was common knowledge even among those outside the biz ( KYW Newsradio even announced the time during their newscast when WKBS would do their final sign-off ). If someone had recorded on their VCR the night WKBS had said goodbye...I had never seen it.

 

[oldiesfan6479]

CBS, as I recall, had a few primetime games before ABC made Monday Night Football into a regular series; I think some aired in 1967 and '68.

And earlier in 1966 as well as this October 31 game.

On Saturday night September 10, 1966, CBS had a prime time game. This was just before
the new season began the following Monday, September 12--besides some "advance premiere"
shows on ABC the previous week, and I think Star Blecch began on NBC September 8.

As far as who the teams were, whether it was exhibition or regular season, and the start time,
I can't recall...at least not until I can find my '66-'67 Fall Preview TV Guide.

 

[azumanga]

If someone had recorded on their VCR the night WKBS had said goodbye...I had never seen it.

Would you settle for an audio recording? You can find that here:

http://www.broadcastpioneers.com/wkbssignoff.html

The Wikipedia article includes the final transcript:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WKBS-TV_(Philadelphia)

 

[mleach]

If someone had recorded on their VCR the night WKBS had said goodbye...I had never seen it.

Would you settle for an audio recording? You can find that here:

http://www.broadcastpioneers.com/wkbssignoff.html

The Wikipedia article includes the final transcript:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WKBS-TV_(Philadelphia)

Thanks ..but I have heard it many times before. I just find it very very strange that, well here is a very well known television station ( WKBS ) in a major TV market..everyone knew the exact time they would go off the air for good..yet nobody ( to my knowledge ) had recorded it on video tape. Hell even that infamous Jessica Savitch on-air meltdown which would take place some weeks later, even that was captured on tape by a third party even though for the longest time it was believed to had been lost.

I wonder if WKBS themselves had recorded their goodbye and whoever has the tape now for one reason or another won't allow it to be shown?

 

[Corky Marlowe]

The story I always heard was that CBS was the first network to whom the NFL pitched "Monday Night Football"; They did indeed try it a few times, but (as the story goes) since Mrs. Paley complained that it would shove "Gunsmoke" to the side, it didn't happen. Also, from the way the listings look, the game on this night was in black and white. I thought all network sports by this time were in color.