Retro: Portland, OR - Friday, May 27, 1960

[Gregg.]

TV Guide - Portland Friday, May 27, 1960 At this time, Portland was on a 6:30-10pm Prime Time Schedule. But the local stations ran either 30 or 60 minutes of syndicated programming at 10pm before starting their late news.

(6) KOIN-TV CBS Portland. KOIN runs local shows at 8am, 11am and 1pm.
6:15 Telecourse
7am News--Grant Holcomb
7:15 Captain Kangaroo
8am Red Rowe--Variety. Guests: Sunshine Boys
8:30 On The Go--Jack Linkletter. Jack interviews a family of recent arrivals to Southern California.
9am I Love Lucy. Golf pro Jimmy Demaret takes the Ricardos and Mertzes on a whirl around the golf course.
9:30 December Bride. Ruth and Gladys think they're not getting enough attention from their husbands.
10am Love of Life
10:30 Search for Tomorrow
10:45 Guiding Light
11am Hostess House Party
11:30 Star Performance--Drama. "To Die at Midnight." Dick Powell
Noon I Led Three Lives--Drama. Philbrick fears his identity as an FBI agent has been discovered.
12:30 As The World Turns
1pm KOIN Kitchen--Betty Davis
1:30 Art Linkletter's House Party
2pm Millionaire--Drama
2:30 Verdict Is Yours
3pm Brighter Day
3:15 Secret Storm
3:30 Edge of Night
4pm For Better or Worse
4:30 Cartoons
5pm Roy Rogers
5:30 City Detective. Rod Cameron
6pm News
6:15 CBS News--Douglas Edwards
6:30 Rawhide--Western. Explosions in the region have made the cattle restless and another may cause a stampede.
7:30 Hotel de Paree. Ellie has allowed alcohol to control her life but now she's struggling to stay on the wagon. Earl Holliman
8pm Circus--Bert Parks (Special)
9pm CBS Reports (Special) Edward R. Murrow looks at a federal court order for Atlanta to begin integrating its schools.
10pm Award Theater--Drama. Two fleeing criminals stop in a small town to have their car repaired. James Whitmore
10:30 Wrestling--Portland
11:30 News--Chuck Foster (Mon.-Thurs. the late news airs at 10:30.)
11:45 Movie--Drama. "Sands of Iwo Jima." John Wayne, Adele Mara


(8) KGW-TV NBC Portland
Lots of local programs, including an hour long variety show at 8am and kids shows at noon and 4:30.
6am Continental Classroom
6:30 Continental Classroom
7am Today--Dave Garroway. Guests include song stylist Blossom Dearie. (Note: KGW only carries the first hour.)
8am Telescope--Variety
9am Price Is Right--Bill Cullen (Color) Jack Narz fills in during Cullen's vacation.
9:30 Concentration
10am Truth or Consequences
10:30 It Could Be You--Bill Leyden (Color)
11am Queen for A Day
11:30 Loretta Young. A psychiatrist's patient has amnesia. The doctor suspects he is the former fiance of the woman he loves.
Noon Wunda, Wunda--Kids
12:30 From These Roots
1pm Thin Man--Mystery
1:30 Yancy Derringer
2pm Dough Re Mi--Gene Rayburn
2:30 Play Your Hunch--Merv Griffin
3pm Movie--Comedy. "Snafu." Robert Benchley, Vera Vague
4:30 Heck Harper--Kids (Color)
5:15 Whirleybirds--Adventure
5:45 NBC News--Huntley, Brinkley (Usually local news runs at 6pm, Huntley-Brinkley at 6:15, and Quick Draw McGraw at 6:30.)
6pm Boxing live from Las Vegas. (Special)
6:45 News--Richard Ross
7pm Sports Special. Boxing and golf.
7:30 March of Medicine (Color) (Special) Examines doctors' practices in five states.
8:30 Masquerade Party (Color)
9pm Wagon Train. Seth Adams takes a liking to a youth who is fatherless and crippled.
10pm Sea Hunt. To impress his finance, a man organizes a dangerous dive. Lloyd Bridges
10:30 News
11pm Lock Up--Drama. A loyal wife refuses to believe her husband killed a young woman.
11:30 Jack Paar--Variety


(12) KPTV ABC Portland (KPTV became an independent station when Channel 2 signed on and took the ABC affiliation.)
7am OEA Presents--Education
8am Roundhouse--Uncle Charlie
9am Romper Room
9:30 Burns and Allen
10am Rosemary Clooney. Trumpeter Pete Candolli is the guest.
10:30 Better Half
11am Restless Gun. A young man, annoyed by his older brother, takes his anger out on a friend. John Payne
11:30 Love That Bob! Bob is hired to photograph a ballerina.
Noon About Faces
12:30 Medic. A widow living with her son and daughter-in-law feels unwanted. Richard Boone
1pm Day in Court
1:30 Gale Storm. Nugey tells Susanna her fortune.
2pm Beat The Clock
2:30 Who Do You Trust?
3pm American Bandstand (KPTV only carries 30 min.)
3:30 High Time--Gene Brendler
4pm Uncle Charlie's Den (I guess Uncle Charlie gets both a morning and afternoon kids show, each an hour long.)
5pm Three Stooges
5:30 Rin Tin Tin
6pm News
6:15 ABC News--John Daly
6:30 Walt Disney
7:30 Man from Blackhawk
8pm 77 Sunset Strip--Mystery. An aging filling station attendant warns a traveler of strange perils on the road ahead. Efram Zimbalist Jr., Ed "Kookie" Byrnes.
9pm Detectives. The director of a lonely hearts club is murdered. Robert Taylor
9:30 Black Saddle. Marshall Scott arrests the suitor of a murdered woman. Peter Breck, Russell Johnson.
10pm Union Pacific. When pressure is put on them to finish the railroad quickly, the men threaten to quit. Jeff Morrow
10:30 Decoy--Police Drama
11pm News--John Salisbury
11:15 Movie--Drama "Back from Eternity" Robert Ryan, Rod Steiger.


13 KVAL-TV NBC, ABC Eugene
6am Continental Classroom
6:30 Continental Classroom
7am Today--Dave Garroway. Guests include song stylist Blossom Dearie. (Note: KVAL only carries the first 90 min.)
8:30 Play Your Hunch--Merv Griffin
9am Americans at Work
9:15 Spanish--Education
9:30 Concentration
10am Truth or Consequences
10:30 It Could Be You--Bill Leyden (Color)
11am Queen for A Day
11:30 Romper Room
Noon Young Dr. Malone
12:30 From These Roots
1pm Thin Man--Mystery
1:30 Yancy Derringer
2pm Movie--Romantic Comedy "Three for Bedroom C" Gloria Swanson, James Warren
3:45 Oregon Pet Corral
4pm Life of Riley
4:30 Addie Bopkins--Kids (Usually Addie Bopkins runs an hour, Count airs at 5:30, Local News at 6, Huntley-Brinkley at 6:15.)
5pm Count of Monte Cristo--Adventure
5:30 News
5:45 NBC News--Huntley, Brinkley
6pm Boxing live from Las Vegas. (Special)
6:45 Feature Sports
7pm Sports Special. Boxing and golf.
7:30 March of Medicine (Color) (Special) Examines doctors' practices in five states.
8:30 Let's Go Fishing (KVAL doesn't air the rest of NBC or ABC's prime time programming.)
9pm Four Just Men. Jeff agrees to defend a woman accused of poisoning her husband. Richard Conte.
9:30 Award Theater. When his partner is found hanging, a wealthy decorator hires a dectective, suspecting murder.
10pm Mike Hammer. Mike investigates bad blood between rival Greenwich Village beatnik cafe owners.
10:30 News
10:45 Movie--Drama "Boys Town" Spencer Tracey, Mickey Rooney. (Odd that KVAL doesn't air Jack Paar.)

 

[Joseph_Gallant]

Oregon and southwest Washington State were on Standard Time while California as likely on Pacific Daylight Time. This will explain why prime-time on network stations ran from 6:30 to 10 P.M. local time. It was easier that way than to invest money in tons of early, very expensive VTR's to record and play back network shows on an hour's delay.

That might also explain the live boxing show at 6 P.M. local, which would be 10 P.M. EDT. Through the Spring of 1960, NBC had live professional boxing matches on Friday nights at 10 P.M. EDT/EST, which were shown live across the network, even on the West Coast.

The boxing was probably one of the last editions of what was officially called "The Gillette Cavalcade Of Sports" prior to it's move to ABC (and from Fridays to Saturdays).

Maybe KGW-8 in the Spring of 1960, once Daylight Time began, usually ran the fights on a tape-delay but went live with this one because perhaps this was, according to that day's Boston Globe a bout for the Welterweight Championship between Don Jordan and Benny "Kid" Paret and yes, it was broadcast on NBC live from Las Vegas (the Globe listed the telecast as starting in Boston at 10 P.M. EDT).

A little less than two years late, Paret was knocked unconscious in a fight against Emile Griffith and died a few days later. Interest in boxing nosedived after that bout, and it wasn't until Muhammad Ali won the Heavyweight Championship that interest in the sport began to rebound.

This may have been one of the first championship fights held in Vegas; today, Las Vegas probably hosts more professional championship bouts than every other city in the world combined.

 

[bpatrick]

For those of us on Eastern Standard Time in those days, the networks had
a 7:30-11 primetime, with everything delayed an hour. However, on Friday
nights NBC's schedule was rearranged in order to show boxing live. In May
1960 that schedule would have been:

7:30 People Are Funny
8 PM Troubleshooters
8:30 Masquerade Party (9:30 EDT)
9 PM Gillette Cavalcade Of Sports (10 EDT)
9:45 Jackpot Bowling (10:45 EDT)
10 PM Bell Telephone Hour alternating with NBC News
Specials (8:30 EDT)

ABC would do something similar on Saturday nights that fall
until daylight saving time ended:

7:30 Leave It To Beaver (8:30 EDT)
8 PM Lawrence Welk (9 EDT)
9 PM Fight Of The Week (10 EDT)
9:45 Make That Spare (10:45 EDT)
10 PM The Roaring '20s (7:30 EDT)

What was really crazy was how ABC's Pacific affiliates juggled
Saturday nights in the 1961-62 season. On KABC the schedule
looked like this:

6 PM Lawrence Welk
7 PM Fight Of The Week
7:45 Make That Spare
8 PM Leave It To Beaver
8:30 Roaring '20s
9:30 not sure--movies, I think

But on XETV San Diego it was:

7 PM Fight Of The Week
7:45 Make That Spare
8 PM Matty's Funday Funnies (became Beany and Cecil
in January 1962) (this show aired at 7 ET/6 CT)
8:30 Leave It To Beaver
9 PM Lawrence Welk (KABC aired him live; XETV, on a three-hour delay)
10 PM Roaring '20s

When ABC had the Wednesday-night fights it would flip-flop it and "Hawaiian
Eye" for EDT/EST. On EDT, "Hawaiian Eye" aired at 9, followed by the fights
at 10; on EST, it was just the opposite.

As for boxing, Muhammad Ali virtually kept interest in boxing alive by himself
after the Griffith-Paret fight, but boxing got a big boost from the U.S. team's
performance at the Montreal Olympics in '76 (Sugar Ray Leonard, Leon and
Michael Spinks, and Howard Davis in particular), and hardly a week went by in
the late '70s that "Wide World Of Sports," the "CBS Sports Spectacular," and
NBC's "Sportsworld" didn't have a bout. I'm not completely sure of this, but
I think younger viewers today prefer the Ultimate Fighting Championship matches
to straight boxing.