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
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