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Retro: Philadelphia Tues, May 22, 1962

50 years ago today, from TV Guide-Philadelphia edition

Channel numbers listed after Philly listings indicate programs relayed by:
15 WLYH Lebanon
21 WHP Harrisburg
27 WTPA Harrisburg
43 WSBA York


WRCV 3-NBC Philadelphia
5:50 Farm & Market News
5:55 News
6:00 Continental Classroom "Probability and Statistics", followed by "American Government" at 6:30 (both c)
7:00 Today
9:00 Lee Dexter
9:20 What's Doing? (Bob Bradley)
9:25 News (Bob again)
9:30 Exercise (Gloria/c)
10:00 Say When
10:30 Play Your Hunch (c)
11:00 Price is Right (c)
11:30 Concentration
noon Your First Impression (c)
12:30 Truth or Consequences
12:55 NBC News
1:00 Award Theater "The Long, Long Laugh" (c)
2:00 Jan Murray (c)
2:25 NBC News
2:30 Loretta Young "Innocent Conspiracy"
3:00 Young Dr. Malone
3:30 Our Five Daughters
4:00 Make Room for Daddy "Rusty, the Weightlifter"
4:30 Here's Hollywood (Jack Linkletter interviews Dr. Frank Baxter, who speaks on TV's importance in education; Laramie's Spring Byington speaks with Helen O'Connell)
4:55 NBC News
5:00 Kukla (Fran) & Ollie "The Bird"
5:05 Five O'Clock Show "SOS Coast Guard"
6:20 FBI Most Wanted
6:25 Sports (Jim Leaming/c)
6:30 News (Vince Leonard/c)
6:40 Weather (Kinnan/c)
6:45 NBC News
7:00 Concept "Folk Music of the Pennsylvania Dutch" (produced by Franklin & Marshall College)
7:30 Laramie "The High Country" (c)
8:30 Alfred Hitchcock "Opportunity"
9:00 Dick Powell "Somebody's Waiting" (21)
10:00 Emmy Awards (the 14th annual is a 3-host, 3-city affair with Johnny Carson in New York, Bob Newhart in Hollywood, and David Brinkley in DC; this pre-empts Cain's Hundred)
11:30 News (Vince Leonard/c)
11:40 Weather (Kinnan/c)
11:45 Tonight Show (c/Jan Murray fills in for Johnny, who's otherwise occupied)
1:00 Danger is My Business "Matterhorn Mountaineer" (c/John Graham climbs up the 14,780' Alp sans rope)
1:30 Progress '62 (deals with education in NJ)
2:00 News

WFIL 6-ABC Philadelphia
6:15 RFD 6
6:30 Operation Alphabet
7:00 News (Neil Harvey)
7:05 Breakfast Time (c)
7:45 Rocky & His Friends (Bullwinkle)
8:00 Happy the Clown
8:55 News (Neil Harvey)
9:00 Trim 'n Slim
9:15 Morgan in the Morning "Garden Day"
9:45 Concepts in Science
10:00 Tennessee Ernie Ford
10:30 Yours for a Song
11:00 Studio Schoolhouse
11:15 University of the Air
noon Camouflage (15-27-43)
12:30 Window Shopping (15-27-43)
1:00 Day in Court (15-27-43)
1:25 ABC News (15-27-43)
1:30 Who Do You Trust? (15)
2:00 Jane Wyman "Sometimes You Break Even" (15-27-43)
2:30 Seven Keys (15-27-43)
3:00 Queen for a Day (live from the World Fair in Seattle, also on 15-27-43)
3:30 American Bandstand (15)
4:50 American Newsstand (15-27-43)
5:00 Quick Draw McGraw
5:30 Popeye Theater (c)
6:25 Clutch Cargo (c)
6:30 Third Man "The Girl Who Didn't Know"
7:00 News (Gunnar Beck/c)
7:10 Weather (Davis/c)
7:15 ABC News
7:30 Bugs Bunny "This is a Life?" (Elmer takes a lead role as he presents a review of that wascally wabbit's life; also on 27-43)
8:00 Bachelor Father "Marry Thy Neighbor" (15-27-43)
8:30 Speedway Through the Years (Tom Carnegie narrates this film which looks back at the Indy 500)
9:00 Baseball: Phillies-St. Louis (Byrum Saam and Frank Sims report; simulcast on 15, ch 8 was also part of the Phillies network but only aired weekend games)
mid. News (Gunnar Beck/c)
12:10 Weather (Davis/c)
12:15 Sports (Mal Alberts/c)
12:20 World's Best Movies "White Heat"

WGAL 8-CBS/NBC Lancaster
6:00 Continental Classroom (c/same classes as ch 3)
7:00 Today
9:00 You Asked for It
9:30 Cartoons
9:40 Kukla (Fran) & Ollie "Curtain Trouble" (pt 1)
9:45 Gateway to Glamor
10:00 Say When
10:30 Play Your Hunch (c)
11:00 Price is Right (c)
11:30 Concentration (c)
noon News (Nelson Sears)
12:05 Personalities & Events
12:10 Weather (Anne Herr)
12:15 TV Farmer (Bob Malick)
12:30 Truth or Consequences
12:55 NBC News
1:00 Byline, Steve Wilson
1:30 As the World Turns
2:00 Love That Bob!
2:30 Loretta Young "Innocent Conspiracy"
3:00 Yougn Dr. Laone
3:30 Our Five Daughters
4:00 Star Time
4:30 Edge of Night
5:00 Quick Draw McGraw (running a different line-up than ch 6)
5:30 Colonel Bleep (c)
5:45 Whirlybirds "The Black Pearl"
6:15 News/Weather/Sports
6:45 NBC News
7:00 Ripcord "Radar Rescue"
7:30 Laramie "The High Country" (c)
8:30 Alfred Hitchcock "Opportunity"
9:00 Red Skelton "Best Man Blues"
9:30 Ichabod & Me
10:00 Emmy Awards
11:30 News/Sports/Weather (c)
mid. Tonight Show (c)
1:00 News

WCAU 10-CBS Philadelphia
5:55 News
6:00 College of the Air "New Biology"
6:30 Television Seminar
7:00 Bill Bennett's Almanac "Strawberry Culture"
7:30 News (Crane/Hart/Leslie)
7:45 Pixanne
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Gene London
9:55 News (Bob Collier)
10:00 Calendar (21)
10:30 I Love Lucy (21)
11:00 Video Village (21)
11:30 Clear Horizon (21)
11:55 CBS News (21)
noon Love of Life (21)
12:30 Search for Tomorrow (21)
12:45 Guiding Light (21)
1:00 News (Bob Collier)
1:05 Burns & Allen
1:30 As the World Turns
2:00 Password (21)
2:30 House Party (guest is US Information Agency's Dr. Paul Conroy; also on 21)
3:00 Millionaire (21)
3:30 Verdict is Yours (21)
4:00 Brighter Day (21)
4:15 Secret Storm (21)
4:30 Edge of Night
5:00 Highway Patrol
5:30 Early Show "The Doolins of Oklahoma"
7:00 News/Comment/Weather/Sports
7:15 CBS News (21)
7:30 Marshal Dillon (Gunsmoke; also on 21)
8:00 Password (21)
8:30 Dobie Gillis "Back to Nature Boy" (15-21)
9:00 Red Skelton "Best Man Blues"
9:30 Ichabod & Me
10:00 Garry More (guests Red Skelton, Bob Melvin, and Steve Lawrence; also on 21)
11:00 News (John Facenda)
11:10 Weather (Herb Clarke)
11:15 Late Show "Dr. Rhythm"
12:50 Late Late Show "Girl from Scotland Yard"
2:20 News

WHYY 35-Edu Philadelphia
not listed by TVG, programming aired:
M/W 9:30-4, 6-10
Tu 9:30-4
Th 9:30-3:30
F 9:30-3:30, 6-10
 
Note about Johnny Carson. He did not become the official Tonight Show host until October 1, 1962.

Also, the WFIL-TV newscaster's name was Gunnar Back.
 
and "Kinnan" was Wally Kinnan, who, after seven years in Philly, moved to WKYC-TV in Cleveland as chief weather forecaster upon the swap back of NBC and Westinghouse stations in 1965..
 
Also, the WFIL-TV newscaster's name was Gunnar Back.

There was a cut on one of the old Kermit Schaefer blooper albums (one of the cuts that was actually the real thing) of an ABC Radio newscast where absolutely everything went wrong. The anchor, whose name I can't remember, tried repeatedly and futilely to throw a story to Gunnar Back.
 
Corky Marlowe said:
Also, the WFIL-TV newscaster's name was Gunnar Back.

There was a cut on one of the old Kermit Schaefer blooper albums (one of the cuts that was actually the real thing) of an ABC Radio newscast where absolutely everything went wrong. The anchor, whose name I can't remember, tried repeatedly and futilely to throw a story to Gunnar Back.

I.I.N.M., the radio anchor in question was Philadelphia broadcast legend Taylor Grant - who by the time of these Philly listings had become the voice of TV Guide magazine, which he would remain through early spring 1981.
 
Neil Rattigan said:
Note about Johnny Carson. He did not become the official Tonight Show host until October 1, 1962.

What "occupied" Johnny was his ABC contract, which the Peacock (according to Brooks and Marsh) had to wait out. Jan Murray was one of a number of "guest" hosts warming Jack Paar's seat (Paar had just left The Tonight Show on 3.30.62) until Carson was available.

ixnay
 
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