Retro: Philadelphia Sat, Oct 29, 1966

[Bluenoser]

from TV Guide-Philadelphia edition

KYW 3-NBC
6:25 News
6:30 This Land of Ours "Dynamics of Animal Agriculture"
7:00 Through Children's Eyes "All About Fire"
7:30 Lorenzo & His Friends
9:30 Atom Ant (c)
10:00 Secret Squirrel (c)
10:30 Space Kidettes (c)
11:00 Cool McCool (c)
11:30 Jetsons (c)
noon Top Cat (c)
12:30 Smithsonian (c/Al Myrick discusses what bones can tell us about history)
1:00 Animal Secrets "Travelers on the Wing" (c)
1:30 Progress '67
2:00 On the Scene "African Artists"
2:30 Hercules (c)
3:00 Movie "The 7th Voyage of Sinbad" (c)
4:30 Superheroes (c)
5:00 Movie "Ten Seconds to Hell"
7:00 NBC News (c)
7:30 Flipper (c)
8:00 Please Don't Eat the Daisies (c)
8:30 Get Smart (c)
9:00 Movie "The Buccaneer" (c)
11:30 News/Weather/Sports
11:50 Movie "Gunsight Ridge"
1:30 Movie "Rock Around the Clock"
3:00 News

WFIL 6-ABC
6:55 Christian Answer
7:00 Film Feature "Hurricane Betsy"
7:30 International Zone
8:00 RFD #6
8:30 Chief Halftown
9:00 Discovery '66 "Elephants in the Teak Forest" (conclusion of a 2-part tour of Thailand)
9:30 Hoppity Hooper (c)
10:00 King Kong (c)
10:30 Beatles (c)
11:00 Casper (c)
11:30 Magilla Gorilla (c)
noon Genevieve Blatt
12:15 Popeye Theater (c)
1:00 American Bandstand (guests Billy Stewart and the 13th Floor Elevators)
1:30 Cartoon Carnival (c)
1:45 College Football: Missouri-Nebraska (c)
5:00 ABC Wide World of Sports: the Dodgers travel to Tokyo to take on the Yomiuri Giants (c)
6:30 Horse Racing: Jockey Club Gold Cup
7:00 Step This Way
7:30 Shane (c)
8:30 Lawrence Welk (c/Halloween songs)
9:30 Hollywood Palace (c/host Herb Alpert, joined by his Tijuana Brass, welcomes guests Shelly Berman, Gilbert Becaud, the Supremes, Ullett & Hendra, the Sorreletis, and low-wire act the Santos)
10:30 Post Time (c)
11:00 News/Weather/Sports (c)
11:30 Movie "Master of the World" (c)
1:00 Movie "Castle of the Living Dead"
2:40 News/Sports
2:55 Movie "The Amazing Transparent Man"

WGAL 8-NBC Lancaster
7:25 News/Weather
7:30 Wells Fargo
8:00 Forest Rangers (c)
8:30 Percy Platypus
9:00 Super 6 (c)
9:30 Atom Ant (c)
10:00 Secret Squirrel (c)
10:30 Space Kidettes (c)
11:00 Cool McCool (c)
11:30 Jetsons (c)
noon Top Cat (c)
12:30 Smithsonian (c)
1:00 Animal Secrets "Travelers on the Wing" (c)
1:30 Dance Party (c)
3:00 Movie "Breakthrough"
5:00 Horse Race: Jockey Club Gold Cup
5:30 AFL Report (c)
6:00 News/Sports/Weather (c)
6:30 NBC News (c)
7:00 Sea Hunt
7:30 Flipper (c)
8:00 Please Don't Eat the Daisies (c)
8:30 Get Smart (c)
9:00 Movie "The Buccaneer" (c)
11:30 News/Sports/Weather (c)
mid. Movie "Back from Eternity":
1:50 News

WCAU 10-CBS
Italicized programs simulcast on WLYH 15-Lebanon, which TVG only ran network listings for
5:55 News
6:00 Sunrise Semester "Philosophy"
6:30 Fundamental French
7:00 Pixanne
7:30 Mighty Heroes (c)
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Cartoon Corners (c)
10:00 Frankenstein Jr. (c)
10:30 Space Ghost (c)
11:00 Superman (c)
11:30 Lone Ranger (c)
noon Road Runner (c)
12:30 Beagles (c)
1:00 Tom & Jerry (c)
1:30 News (Jim Rogers)
1:35 Trial by Another Jury
2:00 Jerry Blavat
3:00 Championship Bowling (c/Harry Smith v Don Johnson)
3:30 NFL Game of the Week (c/from Oct 23, highlights of the Eagles-Giants match)
4:00 NFL Countdown (c)
5:00 Movie "Watch the Birdie"
6:15 News/Sports (c)
6:30 CBS News (c)
7:00 President Johnson's Trip (c/Charles Collingwood reports on President Johnson's trip to Thailand)
7:30 Jackie Gleason (c)
8:30 Pistols 'n' Petticoats (c)
9:00 Mission: Impossible (c)
10:00 Gunsmoke (c)
11:00 News/Weather/Sports (c)
11:25 Movie "Helen of Troy" (c)
2:05 Movie "Men with Wings"
4:10 News

WHYY 12-Edu
9am Classroom: Modern Math/Primary Reading/Science/Math/Fact & Fancy/Human Relations I & II
12:45 sign-off

WPHL 17-Ind
8:00 Mr. Piper (c)
8:30 Buck Rogers
9:00 Flash Gordon
9:30 Rough Riders
10:00 MacKenzie's Raiders
10:30 Tombstone Territory
11:00 Tall Man
11:30 Fury
noon Men of Annapolis
12:30 West Point
1:00 Men Into Space
1:30 College Football: Delaware-Temple
4:00 Movie "Way Out West"
5:00 Cartoon Club (c)
6:00 Everglades (c)
6:30 Flying Fisherman (c)
7:00 Arrest & Trial
8:30 Movie "Quartet"
11:00 Bullfights (from Mexico City)

WIBF 29-Ind
8:45 Davey & Goliath "The Wild Goat"
9:00 African Patrol
9:30 Underdog (c)
10:00 Sir Lancelot
10:30 Fireball XL-5 (TVG listed this as Fireball XL-15)
11:00 Circle 29 Ranch
noon Bugs Bunny (c)
12:30 Movie "Captain Scarlett"
2:00 Roy Rogers "Eye of Texas"
3:00 Whirlybirds "File 777"
3:30 Movie "Cry Vengeance"
5:00 Zorro's Legion
5:30 Robin Hood
6:00 Buccaneers "Ghost Ship"
6:30 William Tell
7:00 President Johnson's Trip (c/ABC, spiked by 6; Howard K. Smith anchors)
7:30 Untouchables "Junk Man"
8:30 Deputy
9:00 Californians
9:30 Movie "The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance"
10:45 Norm Snead (Snead was a QB for the Eagles)
11:00 College Football: Notre Dame-Navy (same-day tape)

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

WKBS 48-Ind
8:45 New Jersey Roundup
9:00 Movie "The Manster"
10:30 Movie "Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation"
noon Upbeat
1:00 Eagles Nest (c)
2:00 American West "Ski World of Utah" (c)
2:30 Wrestling (c/Philadelphia)
3:30 Roller Derby
4:30 Horse Race: Jockey Club Gold Cup (48's coverage was live with commentators Fred Capossela, Win Elliot, and Conn McCreary)
5:00 Movie "The Barbarian King" (c)
6:30 Superman (c)
7:00 Hy Lit (c)
8:00 The Beat (c)
8:30 Movie "Jungle Jim in the Forbidden Land"
10:00 Political talk (Pennsylvania Democratic candidate for Governor Milton Shapp)
10:30 Joe Pyne (c/guest Bishop James A. Pike)
mid. College Football: Xavier-Villanova (same-day tape, Stu Nahan commentates)

 

[bpatrick]

"The Bugs Bunny Show" aired on ABC at 12 N. Did Channel 6
air it on delay?

I also noticed a listing for a movie called "Back From Eternity."
That 1956 film was a remake of the 1939 now-classic "Five Came
Back," notable because it had Lucille Ball in a largely non-comic role
(she didn't appear in the remake; too busy with "I Love Lucy"). Turner
Classic Movies shows the original from time to time. The plot is that
a group of air travelers are stranded in the jungle after their plane crashes;
the pilot and co-pilot get the plane working but it can hold only five people;
the rest will be abandoned to their fates. Since I don't know when the movie
will air next, I don't mind giving you a spoiler: Lucy does make it out alive.

 

[Bluenoser]

"The Bugs Bunny Show" aired on ABC at 12 N. Did Channel 6
air it on delay?

According to Wikipedia, which sources The TV Schedule Book, ch 6 carried Bugs in tandem with the network.

 

[bpatrick]

Not according to the listing you have from TV Guide. It
shows Genevieve Blatt (whoever she is) at 12 N and "Popeye
Theater" at 12:15; IIRC, "Milton The Monster" aired at 12:30,
and I don't see that listed either. I'm more inclined to trust
TV Guide on this, but it still remains a mystery as to whether
Bugs and/or Milton aired in Philadelphia.

 

[Vinnie2012]

Master of the world at 1130 followed by Castle of the Living Dead at 1am were part of Double Chiller Theater of WFIL TV CHANNEL 6

The Amazing Transparent Man at around 250 or so was the Hollywoods Best feature.

I believe the news sports update at 230 or so came from ABC NEWS.

Usually that late night newscast which ran for years on abc till 1991 was about 15 minutes in length.

Perhaps imediately afterwards ch 6 had a 5 minute or so slides only audio newscast with a live booth announcer before the 3rd movie?

 

[bpatrick]

I overlooked something: Bugs airs at 12 N on Ch. 29; it's
not out of the question that the independent picked up
a program pre-empted by an affiliate (I seem to recall this
being the case when Ch. 3 pre-empted "Jeopardy!" and "Who,
What Or Where"), so it seems logical that 29 was carrying the
ABC show. I noticed they also carried "Underdog," pre-empted
on Ch. 10. I'd like to see 29's Sunday schedule, to see if they
picked up "Super 6" from NBC or "Milton The Monster" from ABC
and aired them on delay.

 

[Vinnie2012]

Sorry my apologies misread the time for the abc weekend report it aired at 240 and the hollywoods best movie the amazing transparent man started at around 255am

i wonder if ch 6 did a live slides only audio newscast after the 3rd movie as other stations did in those days followed by the sign off sermon and then the classic sign off film?

if they did it just wasnt listed in the tv guides.

 

[Bluenoser]

I overlooked something: Bugs airs at 12 N on Ch. 29; it's
not out of the question that the independent picked up
a program pre-empted by an affiliate (I seem to recall this
being the case when Ch. 3 pre-empted "Jeopardy!" and "Who,
What Or Where"), so it seems logical that 29 was carrying the
ABC show. I noticed they also carried "Underdog," pre-empted
on Ch. 10. I'd like to see 29's Sunday schedule, to see if they
picked up "Super 6" from NBC or "Milton The Monster" from ABC
and aired them on delay.

Philly was full of many examples of indies picking up network shows...WPHL picked up the noon-1pm NBC programs weekdays (Jeopardy at noon, Swingin' Country at 12:30, NBC News at 12:55) and also showed Pioneers at 1, and Let's Make a Deal from NBC at 1:30. Blatt's show also aired on WGAL- they ran it Mondays 12:15pm, blowing out the last 15 minutes of the normally 30 min Noonday on 8.

 

[Corky Marlowe]

Swingin' Country at 12:30

Wow...never heard of that show. Was it a variety show?

 

[Tim L]

Swingin' Country at 12:30

Wow...never heard of that show. Was it a variety show?

To a degree..Dick Clark put this together for NBC-Regulars were Rusty Draper, Molly Bee and Roy Clark..Lasted from fall 1966-into 1967..

 

[Marckd]

NO Channel 29's Bugs Bunny was not from ABC. They ran syndciated pre 48 color cartoons from Merrie Melodies and Looney Toons. ABC ran a mix of post 48 episodes that were at those points not in syndication. Channel 6 also owned pre 41 colorized Porky Pig cartoons and the post 48 syndicated Bugs Bunny and Porky Pig and Warner Bros Cartoons. They had these until 1977 or 1978. Those went to Channel 17 in 78 then to 48 in 80 and back to 17 in 83. Chances are Channel 6 aired ABC's Bugs Bunny on delay.