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Retro: Philadelphia Sun, Nov 25, 1962

from TV Guide-Philadelphia edition

Channel numbers after Philly station listings indicate simulcasts of network programming by:
15 WLYH Lebanon
21 WHP Harrisburg
27 WTPA Harrisburg
43 WSBA York


WRCV 3-NBC Philadelphia (Became KYW-TV in 1965)
6:20 Thought for Today
6:25 First Report
6:30 Farm Front
7:00 Let's Discuss It "The Future and the Aged"
7:30 Seekers "The Noblest Art"
8:00 Pete's Gang
9:30 Bertie the Bunyip (c)
11:00 Come Little Children "St. Catherine of Alexandria-the Spirit of Learning"
11:30 Film Feature
noon Goal of Life "Board of Rabbis-Source of Unity"
12:30 Progress '62
1:00 Frontiers of Faith "Chance to Begin" (Dr's John Regier and James McCracken of the National Council of Churches' Board of Home Missions, talk about the resettlement of Cuban refugees)
1:30 Eternal Life "Never Ask What Country" (profiling William Green, who led the American Federation of Labor from 1924 until his 1952 death)
2:00 Speak Up (c)
2:30 Pinpoint (Transport Workers Union Local 234 boss David Rick discusses the union's negociations with the PTC)
3:00 Movie "Gulliver's Travels" (c/animated)
4:30 This is NBC News (looks at mainland China's military and political growth, as well as an increasing rift with the USSR)
5:00 Update
5:30 Bullwinkle (c)
6:00 Meet the Press (c)
6:30 McKeever & the Colonel "Blackwell's Stand"
7:00 Ensign O'Toole "Operation: Impersonation"
7:30 Walt Disney's World "The Magnificent Rebel" (c/conclusion)
8:30 Car 54, Where are You? "A Star is Born in the Bronx"
9:00 Bonanza "The Beginning" (c)
10:00 Chosen Child (this doc on adoptions follows a NY State couple through the adoption process; pre-empts DuPont Show of the Week)
11:00 News (c)
11:10 Weather (c)
11:15 Desilu Playhouse "A Diamond for Carla"
12:15 Can You Afford Tomorrow? "Business-David or Goliath?"
12:45 Spectrum "What Shall It Profit?"
1:15 Pinpoint
1:45 News
1:50 Thought for Today

WFIL 6-ABC Philadelphia
7:10 Adventurous Mission "O Brasiliero"
7:40 Christian Answer
7:45 This is the Life
8:15 Living Word
8:30 Through the Porthole
8:45 Adventures in Israel
9:15 Christopher Program "The Need for the Spiritual"
9:30 Off to Adventure "The Struggle for Food"
9:45 Stories Retold "Laughter on the Hill of Martyrs"
10:00 Pick Temple's Ranch
11:30 My Friend Flicka
noon Tell It to the Mayor
12:30 Larry Ferrari
1:00 Kiplinger Letter (15/21)
1:15 Hollywood's Best "San Diego, I Love You"
2:30 Popeye Theater
3:30 AFL: San Diego-Houston (also on 15/27/43; commentators Curt Gowdy and Paul Christman)
6:15 Pro Scoreboard (15/27/43)
6:30 Art Carney Meets Peter & the Wolf (also on 27, this first aired in 1958)
7:30 Jetsons "Unilab" (also aired on 27...oddly enough, it was colorcast in Harrisburg but not in Philly ::))
8:00 Sunday Night Movie "Trooper Hook" (27)
9:30 As Caesar Sees It (also on 27/Sid's second show of the season features guest Barbara Harris)
10:00 Voice of Firestone (also on 27/guests Earl Wrightson, Lois Hunt, Byron Janis, and in its American TV debut the Orfeon of Coimbra)
10:30 Howard K. Smith (27/includes a profile of French President Charles de Gaulle)
11:00 Jurgensen to McDonald (15/21/43)
11:30 Maverick "The Jail at Junction Flats"
12:40 World's Best Movies "If I'm Lucky"

WGAL 8-CBS/NBC Lancaster
9:55 News/Weather
10:00 Lamp Unto My Feet "Voices in a Modern Eden" (featuring works from G.K. Chesterton, Hillaire Beloc, Graham Greene, and Evelyn Waugh)
10:30 Eternal Light "A Visit with Isaac Stern" (who is interviewed by music critic Martin Bookspan)
11:00 Christopher Program "What One Bootmaker Did"
11:15 Davey & Goliath "Good Neighbor"
11:30 This is the Life "Deep is the Well"
11:55 News
noon Airman's World
12:30 Sky King (Philly saw this episode on 10 the previous day at noon)
1:00 Championship Bowling
2:00 Movie "Blood Alley" (c)
4:00 Boston Symphony
5:00 Ensign O'Toole
5:30 Bullwinkle (c)
6:00 Doorway to Life
6:20 News/Weather
6:30 Walt Disney's World "The Magnificent Rebel" (c/conclusion)
7:30 Dennis the Menace "Dennis at Boot Camp"
8:00 Ed Sullivan (guests Anthony Quinn, Margaret Layton, Rosemary Clooney, Tony Bennett, Jackie Mason, Jack Carter, and Charlie Cairoli & Company)
9:00 Bonanza "The Beginning" (c)
10:00 Candid Camera
10:30 What's My Line? (guest panelist Martin Gabel)
11:00 CBS News
11:15 Weather
11:20 Dragnet
11:50 Adventures in Paradise "Whip Flight"
12:50 Consult Dr. Brothers
1:00 News/Sports
1:05 A Minute with Your Bible

WCAU 10-CBS Philadelphia
6:50 Give Us This Day
6:55 News
7:00 Sunday School
7:30 Sunday Seminar
8:00 Space-The New Ocean "Green Cheese, or What?"
8:30 Cartoons 'n' Stuff
9:30 Tottle "Fear of the Dark"
10:00 Lamp Unto My Feet "Voices in a Modern Eden" (15/21/43)
10:30 Look Up & Live "Brandeis: Prophet of Justice" (also on 15-21-43/looks at the philosophy of former Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis)
11:00 Camera Three "Reunion on Camera Three" (also on 15-21-43/guests Larry Adler, Paul Draper, and Nina Simone)
11:30 Look at the Schools "The Night Visitor"
noon Dissenters
12:30 Washington Report (15/21/43)
1:00 Camera at Large
1:30 Gene London Presents "Young People"
3:00 Picture for a Sunday Afternoon "Great Guns"
4:30 Repertoire Workshop "Crawling Around"
5:00 Ted Mack's Amateur Hour (also on 21; guests include the Windjammers (Evanston IL/Dixieland band), Robert Hayden (Evansville IN/singer), Rudolph Williams (Chicago/musical-novelty act), Maxine Patarini (South Bend IN/soprano), and Carol Marie Peterson (Letts IA/tap dancer))
5:30 GE College Bowl: Oregon State vs Manhattanville College of the Sacred Heart-Brooklyn College winner (21)
6:00 Twentieth Century "So That Men are Free" (21; documents a group of Peruvian Indians' rise from slaves (until 1952) to making a down payment on a ranch)
6:30 Password (15/21/43)
7:00 Lassie (15/21/43; guest star Rafer Johnson)
7:30 Dennis the Menace "Dennis at Boot Camp" (15/21/43)
8:00 Ed Sullivan
9:00 Real McCoys "Pepino's Inheritance" (15/21/43)
9:30 GE True "Mile-Long Shot to Kill" (15/21/43)
10:00 Candid Camera (15/21/43)
10:30 What's My Line? (15/21/43)
11:00 CBS News (21)
11:15 Late Show "The Young Stranger"
12:50 Late Late Show "Government Girl"
2:35 News
2:40 Give Us This Day

WHYY 35-Edu Philadelphia
not listed in TVG, programs aired weekdays...
Mon/Fri 9:30-2:35/6:30-10
Tues/Wed 9:30-3:30/6:30-10
Thurs 9:30-3/6:30-10
 
The World's Best Movies umbrella used as of 1962 by WFIL (which became WPVI-TV in 1971) was also in use at New Haven, CT's WNHC-TV (now WTNH) - which, like Channel 6, was also owned by Triangle at the time.
 
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