Retro: Pittsburgh Edition, Wed. May 11th, 1966

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Source: TV Guide. Another new TVG to my collection! This has LBJ on the cover.

CHANNELS
2 KDKA Pittsburgh CBS
4 WTAE Pittsburgh ABC
5 WDTV Fairmont WV ABC
6 WJAC Johnstown NBC/ABC
7 WTRF Wheeling WV NBC/ABC
9 WSTV Steubenville OH CBS/ABC
10 WFBG Altoona CBS
11 WIIC Pittsburgh NBC
12 WBOY Clarksburg WV CBS/NBC
13 WQED Pittsburgh NET
21 WFMJ Youngstown NBC
27 WKBN Youngstown CBS
33 WYTV Youngstown ABC
56 WARD-TV Johnstown ABC/CBS

5/11/1966

5:55
2 Farm Report

6AM
2 Medical Knowledge
11 Quest

6:30
2 9 12 Sunrise Semester
Classical Myths: 'The Odyssey,' Continued. Dr. Philip Mayerson of New York University is the lecturer.
7 Reading (instructional)
11 Farm Report

6:35
11 Devotional Moments

6:40
11 Make Music with Morgan

7AM
2 Daybreak-Riggs/Lynn
6 7 11 12 21 Today (Color)
Scheduled guests include puppeteer Burr Tillstrom and the Kuklapolitans, and Bennett Patterson, author of 'The Ninth Amendment.' Also: some examples of Peruvian gold currently on display at New York City's Gallery of Modern Art. Hugh Downs, Jack Lescoulie, Barbara Walters.
9 R.D. #9
10 Farm News/Weather
27 Sunrise Semester (see 6:30am)

7:05
9 News-Mike Wallace (pre-60 Minutes I assume)

7:10
10 Chat With...

7:15
10 Just for Kids

7:30
4 Hoppity Hooper
9 Cartoons
27 News-Mike Wallace

7:45
9 33 King & Odie

7:55
27 News

8AM
4 Romper Room
9 10 27 Captain Kangaroo
Mr. Green Jeans narrates the film 'Making Glass Containers.'
33 Cartoons

8:15
2 Captain Kangaroo (JIP)

8:30
33 Roaring 20s
'Layoff Charley.' Scott hears about a man named Charley who has an uncanny ability to pick the horses. 'Charley' turns out to be C.W. Webster, who poses weekends as a prosperous insurance agent but during the week is a shabby news vendor. Norris: Rex Reason. Garrison: Donald May.

8:45
4 Ricki & Copper
13 Sing, Children, Sing

9AM
2 Real McCoys
Luke wants to borrow money from George. Richard Crenna, Andy Clyde
6 Romper Room (Color)
7 Ben Casey
An attorney says that brain surgery can correct a convict's criminal tendencies. Lester: Burgess Meredith.
9 Jack La Lanne
10 Industry on Parade
11 Pittsburgh Today-Jaye
12 Cartoons
21 Mack & Myer
27 Romper Room

9:05
13 Humanities

9:15
10 Penn State (telecourse)
21 Classroom TV

9:30
2 Password-Ludden
Celebrity contestants: Douglas Fairbanks and Irene Ryan.
4 Leave it to Beaver
Beaver's class elects him 'Junior Fire Chief' during Fire Prevention Week.
9 Donna Reed
Donna objects to Jeff's entering a go-kart race. Paul Petersen.
11 Girl Ta;lk
Guests are singer Lesley Gore, actress Laura Stevenson and promotion manager Connie De Nave. Virginia Graham.
12 Jack La Lanne
21 Dobie Gillis
Mobster Clyde Calhoun and his gun moll Patsy take refuge at the Gillises. They're trying to figure a way to make good their escape when Maynard arrives-with a perfect plan.
27 Club 27-Cliff Ferre
33 Father Knows Best
Betty is chosen as chairwoman of the Founder's Day pageant. Elinor Donahue.

9:35
13 Science

9:45
27 Classroom TV-Science

9:55
13 Earth and Space Science

10AM
2 Love of Life
4 Jean Connelly
6 7 11 12 21 Eye Guess (Color)
9 27 I Love Lucy
Lucy keeps falling asleep during the day because she has been staying up nights with the baby.
10 Divorce Court
'Dailey vs. Dailey.' The mother of two children sues her husband for divorce, claiming that she is acting on the advice of her psychiatrist. Voltaire Perkins, Bill Welsh.
33 To Be Announced

10:15
13 Science

10:25
2 News-John Reed King
6 7 11 12 21 News-Edwin Newman

10:30
2 As the World Turns
4 Movie
'Father Was a Fullback.' (1949) A football coach, whose team has a habit of losing all its games, finds himself harassed by domestic problems, too. Fred MacMurray, Maureen O'Hara.
6 7 11 12 21 Concentration
9 27 Real McCoys
Grampa thinks that it's time Luke thought about getting married. Grampa: Walter Brennan.

10:40
13 Franklin to Frost

10:55
5 News-James Harris

11AM
2 9 10 27 Andy Griffith
Andy tags along to observe Gomer's first day at Marine boot camp.
5 33 Supermarket Sweep
6 7 11 12 21 Morning Star (Color)

11:05
13 All About You

11:30
2 9 10 27 Dick Van Dyke
Rob feels that he is a poor breadwinner.
5 33 Dating Game
6 7 11 12 21 Paradise Bay (Color)
13 Kindergarten

Noon
2 News, Weather
5 Donna Reed
Alex is worried about making out his income-tax return.
6 7 11 12 21 Jeopardy (Color)
9 10 27 56 Love of Life
13 Social Security
33 Mike Douglas
Scheduled guests include actresses Peggy Wood and Irene Ryan.

12:15
4 News, Weather
13 Tri-State Farmer

12:25
9 10 27 56 News

12:30
2 9 10 Search for Tomorrow
4 Gypsy Rose Lee
Guests are actress Alice Nunni and exotic dancer Lela Badalian.
5 Father Knows Best
Jim and Margaret prepare to celebrate their 20th wedding anniversary. Robert Young.
6 11 12 21 Let's Play Post Office (Color)
7 27 News, Sports
13 Science Reporter
56 America's Problem

12:35
27 Movie
'His Butler's Sister.' (1943) A girl with a good voice and ambitious to be a singer sets out to visit her half-brother in New York. En route, she learns that a noted composer is on the train. Deanna Durbin, Franchot Tone.

12:45
2 9 10 Guiding Light
7 Be My Guest

12:55
6 Weather, News
11 12 21 News-Sander Vanocur

1PM
2 Mike Douglas
Scheduled guests include the singing Four Freshmen, Bob Newhart, Ellie Frankel Sextet.
4 5 33 Ben Casey
Overwhelmed by holiday-accident cases, Casey is forced to recruit an elderly nurse to help him. Vincent Edwards, Sam Jaffe.
7 General Hospital
9 Tel-All
10 Farm, Home & Garden
11 Give It a Whirl (apparently a local WIIC game show)
12 Videoscope
13 Earth and Space Science
21 Girl Talk
Panelists are singers Paula Wayne, Kay Armen and Martina Arroyo.
56 Sunrise Semester (they didn't sign on until noon...how did they get this?)

1:15
6 Jack La Lanne

1:20
13 Learning Our Language

1:30
6 Religion Today-Protestant
7 11 Let's Make a Deal (Color)
9 10 12 56 As the World Turns
21 Kitchen Corner

1:40
13 Science

1:45
6 To Be Announced

1:55
7 11 News-Floyd Kalber

2PM
4 5 33 Confidential for Women
A young man asks Susan for a date. Susan: Sheree North.
6 7 11 12 21 Days of Our Lives (Color)
9 10 27 56 Password
Celebrity contestants: Ray Walston and Bea Benaderet.
13 Talking Town

2:15
13 Demand Performance

2:30
2 9 27 56 House Party (Color)
Investigator Larry Craig reveals the names of more missing heirs.
4 5 33 Time for Us
6 7 11 12 21 Doctors
10 Gloria (Color, exercise show)
13 Humanities

2:55
4 News-Carl Ide
5 33 News-Marlene Sanders

3PM
2 9 10 27 56 To Tell the Truth
4 5 33 General Hospital
6 7 11 12 21 Another World
13 Women's Window

3:15
13 Today's World

3:25
2 9 10 27 56 News

3:30
2 9 10 27 Edge of Night
4 5 33 Nurses
6 7 11 12 21 You Don't Say! (Color)
Celebrity panelists: Don Adams and Barbara McNair.
13 British Calendar
56 Scope

4PM
2 9 10 27 56 Secret Storm
4 Popeye (Color)
5 33 Never Too Young
6 11 12 21 Match Game (Color)
Celebrity contestants: Sam Levenson and Jacqueline Susann.
7 Movie
'Jack Slade.' (1953) Using a revolver given him by his foster father, Jack Slade quickly builds a reputation throughout the west as a 'legal gunman.' Mark Stevens, Dorothy Malone.
13 English: Fact and Fancy

4:25
5 33 Arlene Dahl (Color)
6 Retrospection
11 Movie
'Thunder Pass.' (1954) A Calvary captain is given two days to clear the valley of settlers after his peace talk with Chief Black Eagle fails. Dane Clark, Dorothy Patrick.
12 Nancy's Neighbors
21 News-Nancy Dickerson

4:30
2 Rifleman
A girl named Jennifer and her young brother Charles are surprise trouble at Lucas's ranch. Charles gets measles and Jennifer falls for Lucas. Jennifer: Annie Farge. Charles: Michel Petit.
5 33 Where the Action Is
WDTV - Performers: Just Us ('Only if You Love Me'), the Knickerbockers ('One-Track Mind') and Dave Berry.
WYTV - Performers: the Yardbirds ('I Wish You Would'), Marianne Faithfull ('As Tears Go By'), and Gary Farr & The T Bones ('I End Up Crying').
6 Leave it to Beaver
'Wally's License' to drive was promised when he turned 17-and he loses no time reminding his parents that the time for the driver's test is here. Wally: Tony Dow.
9 Superman
10 Movie
'Fang and Claw.' (1935) Frank Buck on safari is shown catching wild animals for zoos and circuses.
13 Kindergarten
21 Movie
"One Million B.C." (1940) Men and women in the prehistoric age struggle against the forces of nature and the terrifying beasts that roam about. Carole Landis.
27 Movie
'Shake Hands with the Devil.' (1959) In Ireland during the days of the Rebellion, American student Kerry O'Shea wants no part of the Irish Republican Army-even though his father was one of its leaders. James Cagney, Don Murray.
56 Milton the Monster

4:45
12 Movie
'Lorna Doone.' (1951) A young farmer's battle against the Doone family's control of the countryside is complicated by his love for their daughter Lorna. Barbara Hale, Richard Greene.

5PM
2 Movie (Color)
'Apache Territory.' (1958) Logan Cates leads a small group across the Arizona desert-in an attempt to escape from the Apaches. Rory Calhoun, John Dehner.
4 Adventure Time
5 Kartoon Kapers
6 Yogi Bear (Color)
9 Greatest Show (Color)
'There Are No Problems, Only Opportunities.' Clay Keifer holds a large block of stock options on the circus-enough, he thinks, to tell Slate how to run things. Keifer: Barry Nelson. Denny Greenleaf: Joanna Moore.
13 Friendly Giant
Friendly reads 'The Dream Book,' by Margaret Wise Brown, and Jerome dreams of bananas.
33 Wyatt Earp
56 Tom & Jerry

5:15
13 What's New
Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn run off to play pirates on a river island.

5:30
5 Adventure Theater
6 Forest Rangers (Color)
The Junior Rangers come to the rescue when a teacher's nature hike ends in disaster. Ranger Keeley: Graydon Goulde.
7 Cisco Kid (Color)
The attorney of a wealthy rancher has his client murdered and endeavors to take over the estate. Cisco and Pancho step in to foil his plans.
33 News-Lee McCarthy
56 Discovery '66

5:45
13 Earth and Space Science
33 News-Bob Young

6PM
4 5 News-Bob Young
6 Sports, Weather, News (Color)
7 9 10 11 12 21 27 News, Weather, Sports (So out of all the stations in this edition...only WJAC had color news?)
33 Movie
'Love, Honor and Goodbye.' (1945) A stage struck wife suspects her husband of infidelity and decides to disguise herself and play up to him. Virginia Bruce, Edward Ashley.
56 Patty Duke

6:10
13 People and their World
'The Andean Range.' Robert E. Honse.

6:15
4 5 News, Weather

6:20
12 Around and About

6:30
2 9 10 27 56 CBS News (Color)
4 Cheyenne Theater
'Incident at Rapid City.' A renegade Cavalry band insists that Del turn over Lloyd Mitchell to them. They think that Mitchell tried to sell them spoiled food.
5 Five Star Traveler
6 7 11 12 21 NBC News-Huntley/Brinkley
13 Science Report
'Towards Seeing Through You.' John Fitch studies modern X-rays as radiology specialists of Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, explain and demonstrate new techniques in their field.

7pm and later to be posted separately.

 

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7PM
2 News, Sports, Weather
5 Reading
6 Phil Silvers
When Bilko suffers a loss in rank, he threatens those responsible with a loss of reputation. He is planning to scandalize them in a written account of his Army experiences.
7 Zorro
Monasterio plans to masquerade as Zorro-and rob the commandante's dinner guests. Diego: Guy Williams.
9 10 Rifleman
WSTV - A horse, stricken with anthrax, bites Mark and its owner, Ward Haskins-a wanted man. Haskins: Robert Wilke.
WFBG - 'The Mescatero Curse' is placed on Lucas because he was foreman of a jury that convicted an Apache of murder.
11 Woody Woodpecker (Color)
12 Andy Griffith
13 Major American Books
Mark Twain's 'Huckleberry Finn' is discussed by Dr. Harold C. Martin.
21 Wanted-Dead or Alive
27 Twilight Zone
'The Mighty Casey,' a pitcher with a sharp curve and hot fastball has been signed by manager Mouth McGarry. He's the answer to Mouth's prayers-until he's exposed as a robot.
56 Double Life

7:30
2 10 27 56 Lost in Space
'Return from Outer Space.' Will, who's been warned by his father to stay away from the matter-transfer unit, sees Smith order the robot to make the machine operative. Will: Billy Mumy. Smith: Jonathan Harris.
4 5 9 33 Batman (Color)
'The Purrfect Crime,' first of two parts, begins a series of reruns. Batman and Robin wonder what's new, pussycat, when the Catwoman goes on the prowl-with her claws out for the Dynamic Duo. Catwoman: Julie Newmar.
6 7 11 12 21 The Virginian (Color)
A range war threatens with the presence of Australian sheepherders led by Adam Tercell, a man with a hotheaded son, and a daughter the Virginian finds very attractive. Adam Tercell: John Anderson.
13 The Place

8PM
4 5 33 Patty Duke
In this first in a series of reruns, Patty isn't very happy about having her tonsils removed-until she meets her handsome doctor. Patty plays both herself and Cathy.
9 Bewitched
13 News in Perspective (Special)
Panelists, all of the New York Times, are associate editor Lester Markel, Washington bureau head Tom Wicker and diplomatic correspondent Max Frankel. Topic: Buddhist uprisings in Vietnam, the 23rd Communist Party Congress in Russia and President Johnson's domestic program.

8:30
2 9 10 27 Beverly Hillbillies (Color)
Jed wants to send Jethro to college-but what school will accept a student with only a sixth-grade education? Dean Frisby: Louise Lorimer.
4 5 33 Blue Light (Color)
While publicly attacking Field Marshal Gerhardt, a Nazi defector, March tries to help Gerhardt escape to the Allies before the Gestapo closes in on him. Robert Goulet.
56 Dick Van Dyke

9PM
2 9 10 27 Green Acres (Color)
Haney has brought a suit against Oliver, who refuses to pay for Haney's rain-making services. Oliver: Eddie Albert. Haney: Pat Buttram.
4 5 33 56 Big Valley (Color)
Heath is attracted to Maria Montero, whose father Don Alfredo says that a Spanish land grant gives him title to land the Barkleys sold to other ranchers. Lee Majors, Peter Breck. Don Alfredo: Henry Wilcoxon. Maria: Katharine Ross.
6 7 11 12 21 Bob Hope (Color)
While trying to solve a jewel theft, private detective George Holloway gets unsolicited help-from his two teenage daughters and his retired father. Directed by Ida Lupino. George Holloway: David Wayne. Nick Holloway: Robert Young.
13 French Chef
Julia Child prepares petits fours cakes, with a fondant icing.

9:30
2 9 10 27 Dick Van Dyke
Rob, Ritchie and the Helpers go off on a fishing trip, leaving Laura alone at home with no other company than Millie's pet myna bird and a case of the jitters. Laura: Mary Tyler Moore.
13 Showcsae
Experts consider the question 'Can Culture Explode?' as they discuss the extent and importance of the recent growth of American cultural centers. Panelists: Richard Buckminster Fuller, Hilton Kramer, Robert Osborn and Theodore Solotaroff. Moderator: Stanley Kauffmann.

10PM
2 9 10 27 56 Danny Kaye (Color)
Shirley Jones and the Righteous Brothers join Danny for an hour largely devoted to the battle of the sexes in 'The Long Engagement,' Shirley's beau of eight years (Danny) still won't name the wedding date; and in 'The Trial of Man vs. Woman,' evidence is presented in song. Judge: Harvey Korman. Earl Brown singers, Tony Charmoli dancers, Paul Weston.
4 5 33 Long Hot Summer
A gang of motorcyclists roars into Frenchman's Bend led by an old friend of Ben Quick's. Ben isn't impressed by the gang, but it's a different story with young Jody Varner, who is anxious to escape his father's iron-fisted rule. Ben: Roy Thinnes. Varner: Dan O'Herlihy. Jody: Paul Geary.
6 7 11 12 21 I-Spy (Color)
'The Loser.' Hong Kong narcotics smugglers kidnap Scott in an attempt to reclaim a package containing $3 million worth of heroin confiscated by Scott and Robinson. Scott knows he faces certain death-the package has been destroyed. Eartha Kitt sings 'Black Coffee' and 'Easy to Love.' Bill Cosby (Scott) was named Best TV Actor by the American Cinema Editors for his performance in this episode, written by series co-star Robert Culp (Robinson).

11PM
2 4 5 7 9 News
6 News, Weather (Color)
10 11 12 21 27 56 News
33 Movie
'The Maggie.' (1954) A businessman's cargo is mistakingly entrusted to the captain of the Maggie, a broken-down ship. Paul Douglas. (Interrupted for news at 11:45PM).

11:15
4 Movie (Color)
'There's No Business Like Show Business.' (1954) Irving Berlin wrote the songs for this chronicle of the Five Donahues, a big-time vaudeville team. Ethel Merman, Marilyn Monroe, Donald O'Connor.
5 Cannonball
10 Movie
'Crossfire.' (1947) An ex-GI is murdered. Three of his buddies were the last to see him, but two have alibis and none would seem to have had any motive. Robert Young, Robert Ryan, Robert Mitchum, Gloria Grahame. (You were expecting another Robert, weren't you?)
11 Johnny Carson (Color)

11:20
12 Johnny Carson (Color)

11:25
9 Movie
'The Philadelphia Story.' (1940) A reporter and a girl photographer who loves him are assigned to cover the exclusive wedding of a once-married Philadelphia debutante. Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn.
27 Movie
'Montana.' (1950) Australian sheepherders and cattle barons fight over grazing privileges. Errol Flynn, Alexis Smith.

11:30
2 Merv Griffin
Scheduled guests include comic Jan Murray and Donna McKechnie.
6 7 21 Johnny Carson (Color)

1AM
2 Movie
'Dark Corner.' (1946) A private detective discovers that his former partner is having him followed. Mark Stevens, Lucille Ball.

1:15
10 Tell Me, Dr. Brothers (Color)
Time approximate. Dr. Joyce Brothers discusses some facts and fallacies about psychology.