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Retro: Philadelphia Sat, May 19, 1962

from TV Guide-Philadelphia edition
Channel numbers listed after programs on Philadelphia stations indicate network programs simulcast on:
15 WLYH Lebanon
21 WHP Harrisburg
27 WTPA Harrisburg
43 WSBA York

Not listed: WHYY 35-Edu Philadelphia; programs aired weekdays 9:30am-3:30pm (til 4 on Tues/Wed), and Mon/Wed/Fri 6-10pm


WRCV 3-NBC Philadelphia
6:25 First Report
6:30 Farm (c)
7:25 What's Doing?
7:30 Cartoon Comics
8:30 Pete's Gang
9:30 Pip the Piper "Prof. Fixit" (c)
10:00 Shari Lewis (c)
10:30 King Leonardo (c)
11:00 Fury "Big Leaguer"
11:30 Make Room for Daddy "Margaret's Jealousy"
noon Mr. Wizard
12:30 Championship Debate "Resolved: that no woman should be President of the United States"...against: Ann Cheevers (Fordham) and Elizabeth Anne Hodges (North Texas State), pro: James Godwin (King's College) and Gary Cherrer (Kansas State Teachers' College) (finale)
1:00 Farm & Garden (c)
1:30 Meet Your Neighbor "Turnpike City"/"Home for the Blind" (c)
2:00 Philadelphia Wrestling
2:30 Saturday Playhouse "The Black Ship"
3:30 Armed Forces Day Air Show (from NJ's McGuire AFB; Vince Leonard discusses the show with NBC's Roy Neal and interviews 1611th Air Transport Wing deputy commander Col. Walter I. Bunker)
6:00 Portraits in Music (guest: vocalist David Grundschlag)
6:30 News (c/Harry K. Smith)
6:40 Weather (c/Roy Allred)
6:45 NBC News (Sandur Vanocur)
7:00 King of Diamonds
7:30 Wells Fargo "The Wayfarers" (c/simulcast on 21)
8:30 Tall Man "G.P."
9:00 Saturday Night at the Movies "Garden of Evil" (c)
11:00 News (c/Harry K. Smith)
11:10 Weather (c/Roy Allred)
11:15 Movie 3 "Copper Sky"
1:15 Philadelphia Wrestling
1:45 Farm & Garden (c)
2:15 News

WFIL 6-ABC Philadelphia
7:20 University of the Air
7:45 Off to Adventure
8:00 Big Picture
8:30 TV Garden Club (Kersey)
9:00 Ramar of the Jungle "The Burning Barrier"
9:30 Wee Willie (Bill Webber)
10:00 Zoo Show "Open-Air Classroom" (c)
10:15 Cartoon Pow-Wow (Chief Halftown)
11:15 RFD 6
11:30 Choral Concert: Dover Century Club Chorus
noon Bugs Bunny "A Star is Bored" (15/27)
12:30 Triangle Theater
1:15 News
1:20 Baseball Warm-Up
1:30 Baseball: Phillies host Chicago (Byrum Saam/Frank Sims)
4:30 Grandstand Manager
4:45 Junior All-Stars
5:00 Cowtown Rodeo
5:30 News Conference
6:00 Beany & Cecil
6:30 Phil Silvers "Doberman's Sister"
7:00 Rocky & His Friends (Bullwinkle)
7:30 Calvin & the Colonel "Ring Reward" (15/27)
8:00 Room for One More "King of the Little People" (15/27)
8:30 Leave It to Beaver "Tennis, Anyone?" (27)
9:00 Lawrence Welk (15/27/43)
10:00 Boxing: from St. Nicholas Arena, 10 round heavyweight bout between Cassius Clay (the future Muhammad Ali; Louisville/13-0, 10 KO) and Billy Daniels (Brooklyn/16-0, 7 KO); Don Dunphy calls the action (15/27/43)
10:45 Make That Spare: G. Ralph Brunt is the challenger; Win Elliot reports from Ridgewood NY (15/27/43)
11:00 News (c/John Roberts)
11:10 Weather (c/F. Smith)
11:15 Phillies Front Office
11:30 World's Best Movies "Nightmare Alley"
1:35 Hollywood's Best "The Child and the Killer"

WGAL 8-CBS/NBC Lancaster
7:25 News/Weather
7:30 Covered Wagon Theater "Wells Fargo Gunmaster"
8:30 Allakazam "The General's Horse"
9:00 Percy Platypus
9:30 Pip the Piper "Prof. Fixit" (c)
10:00 Shari Lewis (c)
10:30 King Leonardo (c)
11:00 Fury "Big Leaguer"
11:30 Junior Auction
noon Mr. Wizard
12:30 Championship Debate (finale)
1:00 Choral Concert: Susquehannock Mixed Chorus
1:30 Baseball: Chicago @ Philadelphia
4:30 Wrestling
5:00 Film Feature "His Father's Keeper"
5:30 Band Concert: Conestoga Valley HS Band
6:00 Call of the Outdoors
6:30 Sports/Weather/News
7:00 Third Man "Cross of Candos"
7:30 Perry Mason "The Case of the Promoter's Pillbox"
8:30 Tall Man "G.P."
9:00 Bob Newhart
9:30 Have Gun-Will Travel
10:00 Gunsmoke
11:00 News/Sports/Weather
11:30 Saturday Night Playhouse "Flight Lieutenant"
1:00 News

WCAU 10-CBS Philadelphia
6:55 News
7:00 Official Report
7:30 Pixanne
8:00 Cartoon Corners (London)
9:00 Captain Kangaroo (guests: acrobatic trio Los Gatos)
10:00 Video Village Jr. (Monty Hall)
10:30 Mighty Mouse
11:00 Allakazam
11:30 Roy Rogers "The Silver Fox Hunt"
noon Sky King "Frog Man"
12:30 CBS News (c/Robert Trout; simulcast on 21)
1:00 Camera at Large
1:30 Capitol Hill to Philadelphia
2:00 Accent "The Rebellious Mind Behind the Iron Curtain" (John Ciardi welcomes art critic Richard MacLanathan, who recently visited the Soviet Union under State Department auspices)
2:30 Touch of Fame (Dr. Harvey with a psychological study of Beethoven)
3:00 Picture for a Saturday Afternoon "Ring of Fear"
4:30 Acorn Stakes horse race (from Aqueduct; Fred Capossela/Win Elliot/Sammy Renick)
5:00 Whirlybirds "Four Little Indians"
5:30 Preakness Stakes (commentators Bryan Field/Chris Schenkel/Gil Stratton; simulcast on 21)
6:00 Early Show
6:45 News/Weather
6:55 Sports (Sid Doherty)
7:00 Sea Hunt
7:30 Perry Mason "The Case of the Promoter's Pillbox"
8:30 Defenders "The Accident" (21)
9:30 Have Gun-Will Travel
10:00 Gunsmoke (21)
11:00 News (John Facenda)
11:10 Weather (Herb Clarke)
11:15 Late Show "Bright Leaf"
1:25 Late Late Show "Badman's Territory"
2:55 News
 
Was "American Bandstand" pre-empted that day? Seems odd otherwise that the show's ancestral home, WFIL, wouldn't air it. Also, I did see the name of John "NFL Films/Voice Of God" Facenda anchoring the news on Channel 10...How long did he do news in Philly?
 
"American Bandstand" was still a daily show, airing from
Philadelphia at 4 PM; it didn't move to Saturdays until
the fall of 1963. Somebody else will have to answer
your question about John Facenda since I never lived
in Philadelphia.
 
Corky Marlowe said:
I did see the name of John "NFL Films/Voice Of God" Facenda anchoring the news on Channel 10...How long did he do news in Philly?

From the time WCAU-TV signed on in 1948, until 1973 when he stepped down from the anchor desk, the station by then having been descended to last place not only by Eyewitness News on what became KYW-TV after 1965, but also Action News on what, at the time of its debut in 1970, was still WFIL-TV, but a year after that adopted the current WPVI-TV call letters. (Disclaimer: I don't live in Philly - but have come to this info courtesy places like the Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia.)

I do have to presume, however, that Sid Doherty who handled sports for Channel 10 is one and the same as later became an announcer at WPHL Channel 17.
 
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