Retro:Philadelphia VHF TV Friday April 1, 1966

[Tim L]

Source:TV Guide Philadelphia Edition

KYW-3 NBC

5:25 Farm/Market News
5:30 News
5:35 Fair Adventure
6:05 Meaning of Communism
6:35 Farm and Garden
6:45 Local News
7AM Today
9AM Bachelor Father
9:30 PDQ-Dennis James
10AM Eye Guess-Bill Cullen
10:30 Concentration
11AM Morning Star
11:30 Paradise Bay
Noon News
12:30 Mike Douglas
2PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 Doctors
3PM Another World
3:30 You Don't Say-Tom Kennedy-Panel:Mona Freeman, Jack Ging
4PM Match Game-Gene Rayburn-Panel:Lloyd Bridges, Betty White
4:25 NBC News-Nancy Dickerson
4:30 Merv Griffin
6PM News
6:30 Huntley-Brinkley
7PM Littlest Hobo
7:30 Vietnam:Home Front-SPECIAL (Preempts Camp Runamuck and Hank)
8:30 Sammy Davis Jr.
9:30 Mr. Roberts
10PM Man Fron UNCLE
11PM News
11:30 Johnny Carson
1AM Bronco
2AM FBI Most Wanted
2:05 Contact
2:35 News

WPVI-6 ABC

6:35 News-Joe Novenson
6:45 RFD 6
7AM New Math
7:30 Gloria-Exercise
8AM Cartoon Circus
8:30 Romper Room-Connie Rouselle
9:30 Features for Women
9:40 News/Weather
9:45 Schoolhouse
10AM Dating Game
10:30 Dolls and Dollars
11AM Supermarket Sweep
11:30 Girl Talk
12:30 Let's Play Post Office-NBC
1PM Ben Casey

2PM Confidential For Women
2:30 A Time For Us
2:55 ABC News-Marlene Sanders
3PM General Hospital
3:30 Nurses
4PM Movie-The Enchanted Cottage-1945
5:45 Popeye Theater
7PM News-Redpath
7:15 ABC News-Jennings
7:30 Flintstones
8PM Tammy
8:30 Addams Family
9PM Honey West
9:30 Farmer's Daughter
10PM Jimmy Dean Show
11PM News
11:30 Movie-Till the Clouds Roll By-1946
2:05 Movie-Hot Rod Gang-1958

WGAL-8 NBC-Lancaster

7AM Today
9AM College Of The Air
9:30 Debbie Drake
10AM Eye Guess-Bill Cullen
10:30 Concentration
11AM Morning Star
11:30 Paradise Bay
Noon Noonday 8
12:30 Let's Play Post Office
1PM Bachelor Father
1:30 Let's Make A Deal-Monty Hall
1:55 NBC News
2PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 Doctors
3PM Another World
3:30 You Don't Say-Tom Kennedy-Panel:Mona Freeman, Jack Ging
4PM Match Game-Gene Rayburn-Panel:Lloyd Bridges, Betty White
4:25 NBC News-Nancy Dickerson
4:30 Leave It To Beaver
5PM Bugs Bunny
5:30 Forest Rangers
6PM News
6:30 Huntley-Brinkley
7PM Death Valley Days
7:30 Vietnam:Home Front-SPECIAL (Preempts Camp Runamuck and Hank)
8:30 Sammy Davis Jr.
9:30 Mr. Roberts
10PM Man Fron UNCLE
11PM News
11:30 Johnny Carson
1AM News

WCAU-10 CBS

5:40 News
5:45 Sunrise Semester
6:15 Urban School Crisis
6:45 Bill Bennett's Almanac
7AM News-Gene Crane
7:05 CBS News-Mike Wallace
7:30 Gene London-Children
8AM Captain Kangaroo
9AM Pixanne-Children
9:30 Leave It To Beaver
10AM I Love Lucy
10:30 (Real) McCoys
11AM Andy Griffith
11:30 Dick Van Dyke
Noon Love Of Life
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1PM TV 10 Around Town
1:30 As The World Turns
2PM Password
2:30 House Party
3PM To Tell The Truth-Bud Collyer
3:25 CBS News-Douglas Edwards
3:30 Edge of Night
4PM Secret Storm
4:30 Movie-Fixed Bayonets-1951
6PM News
7PM CBS News-Walter Cronkite
7:30 Wild Wild West
8:30 Hogan's Heroes
9PM Gomer Pyle, USMC
9:30 Smothers Brothers-Sitcom where Tom plays an angel sent to help his brother Dick
10PM Trials Of O Brien
11PM News
11:25 Movie-King Richard and the Crusaders-1954
1:35 Movie-Jeanne Eagles-1957
3:40 News

12-WHYY-NET Wilmington/Philadelphia

9:30 Classroom
11:35 Film Feature
12:05 Friendly Giant
12:20 Places In the News
12:45 Sing Hi Sing Lo
1PM Film Feature
3PM Urban School Crisis
3:30 Teaching French
4PM USA-Art
4:30 Southeast Asia
5PM Folk Guitar
5:30 Friendly Giant
5:45 Sing Hi Sing Lo
6PM Local News
6:30 What's New
7PM High School History
7:30 TV 12 Garden Club
8PM Diamond State Profile
8:30 Opinion In The Capital
9PM Intolleranza-Opera
11PM Local News

 

[Tim L]

Source:TV Guide Philadelphia Edition


WPVI-6 ABC

For accuracy purposes, and for the fact the time limit has passed for editing original posts, WPVI-6 should read WFIL-6..

 

[KYLEBOOK]

Surprising to see Channel 6 WFIL passing on ABC's "Where The Action Is".

I realize that many ABC affiliates at this time were passing on it (Many local stations wanted that 4 - 5 PM network slot back for syndicated programming or movies where they could sell the ad time), but the station was the birthplace of Dick Clark's "American Bandstand". One would figure that as a former local host, his programming, such as "Where The Action Is", would warrant carriage on the Philly network affiliate, or his local popularity would still be such that the ratings would support it.

At least it got cleared on the indy, Channel 29.

 

[Ultimajock]

Surprising to see Channel 6 WFIL passing on ABC's "Where The Action Is".

I realize that many ABC affiliates at this time were passing on it (Many local stations wanted that 4 - 5 PM network slot back for syndicated programming or movies where they could sell the ad time), but the station was the birthplace of Dick Clark's "American Bandstand". One would figure that as a former local host, his programming, such as "Where The Action Is", would warrant carriage on the Philly network affiliate, or his local popularity would still be such that the ratings would support it.

At least it got cleared on the indy, Channel 29.

...I wouldn't be surprised if WFIL-TV was ticked off with Clark for moving "American Bandstand" to Hollywood in the early '60s. It was what gave WFIL national fame, and by 1966 the big Philadelphia TV production had become "The Mike Douglas Show" on competitor KYW-TV/3...