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Retro: Portland (Oregon) November 15, 1965 & 1975

Something a little different for today's post, a comparison of November 15th's programming in Portland in 1965 and 1975. Part 1 will cover 1965, with post #2 covering 10 years later...

Monday, November 15, 1965
from TV Guide-Portland edition

KATU 2-ABC
6:45 Down to Earth
7:00 Newsreel
7:15 Mosaic
7:45 Breakfast with Rusty
8:15 King & Odie
8:30 Romper Room (Miss Sue)
9:00 Love That Bob!
9:30 Smorgasbord
9:55 News/Weather
10:00 Mike Douglas (co-host Sam Levenson/guests weren't listed)
11:00 Young Set (guests Dick Gregory and Jay Kennedy)
noon Donna Reed
12:30 Father Knows Best
1:00 Ben Casey
2:00 Nurses
2:30 A Time for Us
2:55 ABC News
3:00 General Hospital
3:30 Young Marrieds
4:00 Never Too Young
4:30 Where the Action is (guests the Strangeloves, and Mel Carter)
5:00 Topper
5:30 Leave It to Beaver
6:00 News
6:15 ABC News
6:30 Sugarfoot
7:30 12 O'Clock High "Grant Me No Favor"
8:30 Legend of Jesse James "Jail Break"
9:00 Shenandoah "Incident at Dry Creek"
9:30 Peyton Place
10:00 Ben Casey "The Importance of Being 65937"
11:00 News/Weather
11:30 Movie "The Assassin"

KOIN 6-CBS
6:35 Sunrise Semester "Nature of Matter"
7:05 CBS News
7:30 Weather Forecast
7:35 Cartoon Circus
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 I Love Lucy
9:30 Real McCoys
10:00 Andy Griffith
10:30 Dick Van Dyke
11:00 Love of Life
11:25 CBS News
11:30 Search for Tomorrow
11:45 Guiding Light
noon News/Weather
12:05 Hi Neighbor
12:30 As the World Turns
1:00 KOIN Kitchen
1:30 House Party (Art welcomes the US Marine Drum & Bugle Corps)
2:00 To Tell the Truth
2:25 CBS News
2:30 Edge of Night
3:00 Secret Storm
3:30 Password
4:00 Movie "Flight to Hong Kong"
5:40 World Outdoors (c)
5:45 News
6:30 CBS News
7:00 Forest Rangers (c)
7:30 To Tell the Truth
8:00 I've Got a Secret (Omar Sharif tries to stump the panel)
8:30 Lucille Ball (c)
9:00 Andy Griffith (c)
9:30 Hazel "A 'Lot' to Remember" (c)
10:00 Steve Lawrence (c/guests Trini Lopez, Caterina Valente, and Judi Rolin)
11:00 News/Weather
11:30 Silents Please (old slapstick films)

KGW 8-NBC (KGW was a sister station to Seattle's NBC station KING, and also used their crown in local TVG ads, crowning the NBC "snake" with it)
6:55 Town & Country
7:00 Today (c)
8:00 Telescope (c)
9:00 Fractured Phrases (c)
9:25 NBC News
9:30 Concentration
10:00 Morning Star (c)
10:30 Paradise Bay (c)
11:00 Jeopardy (c)
11:30 Let's Play Post Office (c)
11:55 NBC News
noon News (c)
12:25 NBC News
12:30 Days of Our Lives (c)
1:00 Doctors
1:30 Another World
2:00 You Don't Say (c)
2:30 Match Game (c)
2:55 NBC News
3:00 Let's Make a Deal
3:25 News
3:30 Movie "Odds Against Tomorrow"
5:00 Heck's Fun Farm (c)
5:30 Twilight Zone
6:00 NBC News (c)
6:30 News
7:00 Science in Action (c)
7:30 Hullballoo (c/The Rolling Stones launch a 6-week US tour singing "Get Off My Cloud"; other guests include Barry McGuire, Barbara McNair, Brenda Lee, and the Kingsmen)
8:00 John Forsythe "Super Girl" (c)
8:30 Dr. Kildare "Hour of Decision" (c)
9:00 Andy Williams (c/guests Sid Caesar, Ella Fitzgerald, and Andre Previn)
10:00 Run for Your Life "This Town for Sale" (c)
11:00 News/Weather
11:30 Tonight Show (c/guest Murray Roman)

KOAP 10-Edu
9:00 Problems of Philosophy
9:45 Uncle Wonder's Workshop
10:00 Spanish I
10:15 Spanish II
10:30 Let's Be Artists
10:45 French I
11:00 Pianoforte
11:30 Law Enforcement
12:30 TV Kindergarten
1:00 Uncle Wonder's Workshop
1:15 Spanish I
1:30 Spanish II
1:45 French I
2:00 General Psychology
2:45 Social Security
3:00 Problems of Philosophy
3:45 Americans at Work
4:00 Teaching Globes & Maps
4:30 Astronomy for You (insert your own joke here :D)
5:00 Legacy
5:30 TV Kindergarten
6:00 Discovery "Plant and Animal Partnerships"
6:30 What's New
7:00 Almanac "The Meaning of Nature"
7:15 First-Year Spanish
8:00 What in the World?
8:30 Oregon at Work
9:00 America's Crises "The Religious Revolution and the Void" (young people's disenchantment with religion, and how churches are trying to win them back)
10:00 Salesmanship

KPTV 12-Ind
9:45 News/Weather
10:00 Public Service Program
10:30 Jack LaLanne
11:00 Twelve in the Morning
11:30 People are Funny
noon Cartoon Castle
1:00 Girl Talk (panelists Lio, Elaine Taylor, and June Callwood)
1:30 Movie "Rockabye"
3:15 News
3:30 Touche Turtle (c)
4:15 Rocky & His Friends (c/Bullwinkle)
4:30 Popeye's Pier 12 (c)
5:00 Lloyd Thaxton
6:00 Woody Woodpecker (c)
6:30 Colt .45
7:00 Rifleman
7:30 Islands in the Sun (c)
8:00 Cheyenne "The Law Man"
9:00 Rogues "Two of a Kind"
10:00 Greatest Show on Earth "The Glorious Days of Used to Be" (c)
11:00 Sports Final
11:05 Movie "Welcome Stranger"
 
Saturday, November 15, 1975
from TV Guide-Portland edition

KATU 2-ABC
6:30 Bumpity
7:00 Hong Kong Phooey
7:30 Tom & Jerry/Great Grape Ape
8:30 Lost Saucer
9:00 Adventures of Gilligan
9:30 Groove Goolies
10:00 Speed Buggy
10:30 College Football Pre-Game
10:45 College Football: teams TBA
2:00 NFL Game of the Week
2:30 Movie "Tall in the Saddle" (bw)
4:00 Bill Cosby (guests Tony Randall, Karen Valentine, Loretta Lynn, the Paul Ashley Puppets, and the Alan Johnson Dancers)
5:00 ABC Wide World of Sports: World Cup Gymnastics/Motorcycle Race of Champions/World Target-Diving Championships
6:30 News
7:00 Lawrence Welk (Lawrence and his team salute California)
8:00 Howard Cosell (guests Andy Williams, Mark Wilson, Marilyn Michaels, and Taiwanese acrobats)
9:00 SWAT
10:00 Matt Helm
11:00 ABC News
11:15 News
11:30 Movie "Dracula's Castle"
1:15 Movie "War-Gods of the Deep"

KVDO 3-Ind (COLed to Salem)
3pm Ag-USA
3:30 Fury
4:00 Yo Soy Chicano
4:30 Promociones Enciso
5:30 Movie: TBA
7:00 Avengers
8:00 Movie: TBA
10:00 Western Star Theater

KOIN 6-CBS
7:00 Sunrise Semester "Magic, Faith and Healing"
7:30 Camera Three (Andy Rooney talks about stairways)
8:00 Pebbles & Bamm-Bamm
8:30 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
9:30 Scooby-Doo
10:00 Shazam!/Isis
11:00 Far Out Space Nuts
11:30 Ghost Busters
noon Valley of the Dinosaurs
12:30 Fat Albert
1:00 Famous Classic Tales "The Mysterious Island"
2:00 Movie "Move Over, Darling"
4:00 Tarzan
5:00 News
5:30 News Conference 6
6:00 Maverick (bw)
7:00 America (looks back at the 20s and 30s)
8:00 Jeffersons
8:30 Doc
9:00 Mary Tyler Moore
9:30 Bob Newhart
10:00 Carol Burnett (guest Maggie Smith)
11:00 News
11:30 Movie "The White Cliffs of Dover" (bw)
1:30 Movie "The Showdown" (bw)

KGW 8-NBC (KGW was now IDing as TV8, having punted the KING crown into the Willamette ;D)
7:00 Emergency Plus 4
7:30 Josie & the Pussycats
8:00 Waldo Kitty
8:30 Pink Panther
9:00 Land of the Lost
9:30 Run, Joe, Run
10:00 Return to the Planet of the Apes
10:30 Westwind
11:00 Jetsons
11:30 Go-USA
noon How Come?
12:30 Hogan's Heroes
1:00 Thriller (bw)
2:00 Bonanza (guest star Dennis Hopper)
3:00 East Side West Side (visiting Sellwood-Moreland, and looking at environmental problems in North Portland)
4:00 Movie "Man in the Wilderness"
5:55 College Football Scoreboard
6:00 News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 Famous Classic Tales "Robinson Crusoe"
8:00 Movie "Sarah T...Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic"
10:00 Miss Teenage America Pageant (Mac Davis hosts the 15th annual pageant from Tulsa)
11:30 News
mid. Saturday Night (host Robert Klein, music from ABBA and Loudon Wainwright III; this was SNL's 5th episode, the series premiered on October 11th)
1:30 Name of the Game (guest star Ricardo Montalban)

KOAP 10-PBS
7:00 Sesame Street
8:00 Electric Company
8:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 Instructional Programs
2:00 Belly Dancing
2:30 New You
3:00 Antiques
3:30 Bumpity
4:00 Hodgepodge Lodge
4:30 Villa Alegre
5:00 Carrasclendas
5:30 Princess Ida (Gilbert & Sullivan's only 3-act comic opera, from KLRN Austin)
7:00 Firing Line (neurosurgeon Milton Heifitz and Karen Quinlan's doctor's lawyer Ralph Porzio square off on the subject as to whether terminally ill patients have the right to die)
8:00 Soundstage (the Pointer Sisters perform 40s swing and 50s scat tunes)
9:00 Movie "The Seventh Seal" (bw)

KPTV 12-Ind
7:15 News
7:30 New Approaches to High School Learning (a look at a program where students seek new experiences outside the classroom, and then do class projects on what they learned)
8:00 Columbia Crossroads
9:00 Gardening for Fun
10:00 12 in the Morning
10:30 Wally's Workshop
11:00 Garner Ted Armstrong
11:30 Modesto Rios
noon Movie "Apache"
2:00 Virginian "Big Day, Great Day"
3:30 Daniel Boone
4:30 Sports Spectacular: US-USSR team boxing from MSG/Dixie 500 stock-car race
6:00 Movie "Heaven Knoes, Mr. Allison"
8:00 Night Gallery "A Midnight Visit to the Neighborhood Blood Bank"/a women's futuristic encounter with a friendly, but disturbing, couple
8:30 Portland Wrestling
10:00 News
10:30 Virginian
mid. Don Kirshner's Rock Concert: guests Black Sabbath, New Birth, and Mahogany Rush
 
Saturday, November 15, 1975
from TV Guide-Portland edition

KPTV 12-Ind
9:00 Gardening for Fun

This was my grandfathers gardening show that he ran for many years. He died yesterday, and this is the only mention of the show I've seen so far. Hopefully I'll be able to find a recording of the program someday.
 
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