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Retro: Scranton/Wilkes-Barre/Binghamton - Sunday Dec. 1, 1968

Source – TV Guide, Scranton edition

12 – WNFB Binghamton (CBS)
08:00a Bible Answers – drama
08:30a Faith for Today (color)
09:00a Church Day – religion
09:30a This is the Life (color)
10:00a Lamp Unto My Feet – religion (color)
10:30a Social Security (color)
10:45a Into Focus – religion
11:00a Camera Three – Actor-director John Cassavetes discusses film making (color)
11:30a Notre Dame Football – taped replay of Notre Dame at USC from Nov. 30 (color)
01:00p NFL Pre-Game Show (color)
01:30p Pro Football – New York Giants at Cleveland Browns; Jack Whitaker and Frank Gifford report (color)
04:00p Pro Football – Green Bay Packers at San Francisco 49ers; Lindsey Nelson and Tom Brookshire report (color) Time approximate
07:00p Lassie “Track of the Jaguar” (color)
07:30p Gentle Ben – special guest Green Bay Packers quarterback Bart Starr (color)
08:00p Ed Sullivan – guests: Herb Albert and the Tijuana Brass; comedians Jack Carter and Scoey Mitchell; dancer Peter Gennaro (color)
09:00p Ann-Margaret (special, color) – guests: Bob Hope, Jack Benny (Smothers Brothers is preempted)
10:00p Mission: Impossible (color)
11:00p News (color)
11:45p Movie “Hong Kong-Hot Harbor” 1962

16 – WNEP Scranton (ABC)
08:30a The Christophers – religion
09:00a Patterns for Living “The Six Hour Thief”
09:30a The Beatles (color)
10:00a Linus (color)
10:30a King Kong (color)
11:00a Bullwinkle (color)
11:30a Movie “Hell Bent for Leather” 1960; Audie Murphy (color)
01:00p News Conference (color)
01:30p Issues and Answers – Sen. John C. Stennis (D-Miss) (color)
02:00p Sugarfoot “Brink of Fear”
03:00p College Football – a 45 minute tape of Army vs. Navy plus highlights of this weekend’s top college games (color)
04:00p That’s Life “The Ninth Month” (color) – delayed from Tuesday @ 10p (WNEP ran Perry Mason reruns instead)
05:00p Movie “Texas Carnival” 1951; Esther Williams, Red Skelton
06:30p Death Valley Days (color)
07:00p Land of the Giants (color)
08:00p The FBI (color)
09:00p Movie “The King and I” 1956 (color)
11:30p News – McBee (color)
11:45p Movie “Everything I Have is Yours” 1952; Marge and Gower Champion (color)

18 – WSYE Elmira (NBC)
07:00a This is the Life – religion
07:30a Faith for Today (color)
08:00a Eternal Light – religion
08:30a The Christophers – religion (color)
09:00a Movie “The Bullfighters” 1941; Laurel and Hardy
10:15a Movie “The Deerslayer” 1957 Lex Barker, Rita Moreno, Forrest Tucker
11:30a Notre Dame Football – taped replay of Notre Dame at USC from Nov. 30 (color)
01:00p AFL Highlights (color)
01:30p Pro Football – Miami Dolphins at New York Jets; Curt Gowdy and Kyle Rote report (color)
04:00p Bowling – Syracuse
05:00p Movie “Centennial Summer” 1946; Jeanne Crain, Cornel Wilde (color)
07:00p The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn “The Curse of Thut” (color)
07:30p Walt Disney “The Treasure of San Bosco Reef” part 2 (color)
08:30p The Mothers-In-Law “the Birth of Everything But the Blues” (color)
09:00p Bonanza “Queen High” (color)
10:00p Perry Como (special) – guests: Don Adams, Carol Burnett, the Young Americans (color) – this will not be seen if the musician’s strike continues (Phyllis Diller will not be seen)**
11:00p News (color)
11:30p Meet the Press (color) – delayed from 1pm
12:00a Movie “Body and Soul” 1947; John Garfield
02:00a News

22 – WDAU Scranton (CBS)
08:30a Dennis the Menace “The Lost Dog”
09:00a Film (title not listed)
09:15a Mass for Shut-Ins (color)
10:00a Lamp Unto My Feet – religion (color)
10:30a Tom & Jerry (color)
11:00a Aquaman (color)
11:30a Face the Nation (color)
12:00p Governor Shafer (color)
12:30p NFL This Week (color)
01:00p NFL Pre-Game Show (color)
01:30p Pro Football – New York Giants at Cleveland Browns; Jack Whitaker and Frank Gifford report (color)
04:00p Pro Football – Green Bay Packers at San Francisco 49ers; Lindsey Nelson and Tom Brookshire report (color) Time approximate
07:00p Lassie “Track of the Jaguar” (color)
07:30p Gentle Ben – special guest Green Bay Packers quarterback Bart Starr (color)
08:00p Ed Sullivan – guests: Herb Albert and the Tijuana Brass; comedians Jack Carter and Scoey Mitchell; dancer Peter Gennaro (color)
09:00p Ann-Margaret (special, color) – guests: Bob Hope, Jack Benny (Smothers Brothers is preempted)
10:00p Mission: Impossible (color)
11:00p News (color)
11:35p Movie “The Barbarian and the Geisha” 1958; John Wayne
01:10a News – Edwards (color)
01:15a Movie “Blue Murder at St. Trinian’s” 1958; Terry-Thomas

28 – WBRE Wilkes-Barre (NBC)
08:00a Cathedral of Tomorrow – religion (color)
09:00a This is the Life – religion (color)
09:30a Faith to Faith – religion
10:00a Eternal Light – religion (color)
11:00a Three Stooges (color) – cartoon ? (only a handful of shorts were in color)
11:20a Movie “Force of Impulse” 1961; Robert Alda, J. Carroll Naish
01:00p Meet the Press (color)
01:30p Pro Football – Miami Dolphins at New York Jets; Curt Gowdy and Kyle Rote report (color)
04:00p Pro Football – San Diego Chargers at Denver Broncos; Charlie Jones and Al DeRogatis report (color)
07:00p The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn “The Curse of Thut” (color)
07:30p Walt Disney “The Treasure of San Bosco Reef” part 2 (color)
08:30p The Mothers-In-Law “the Birth of Everything But the Blues” (color)
09:00p Bonanza “Queen High” (color)
10:00p Perry Como (special) – guests: Don Adams, Carol Burnette, the Young Americans (color) – this will not be seen if the musician’s strike continues (Phyllis Diller will not be seen)
11:00p News (color)
11:15p Fur Fashions (color)
11:20p Movie “No Love for Johnny” 1965

34 – WBJA Binghamton (ABC)
09:30a The Beatles (color)
10:00a Linus (color)
10:30a King Kong (color)
11:00a Bullwinkle (color)
11:30a Discovery “The Age of Mechanical Marvels”
12:00p College Football – a 45 minute tape of Army vs. Navy plus highlights of this weekend’s top college games (color)
01:00p Directions “Step to a Different Measure”
01:30p Issues and Answers – Sen. John C. Stennis (D-Miss) (color)
02:00p Movie “Jamaica Run” 1953
04:00p Movie “Tropic Zone” 1953 Rhonda Fleming, Ronald Reagan
06:00p Lost in Space
07:00p Land of the Giants (color)
08:00p The FBI (color)
09:00p Movie “The King and I” 1956 (color)
11:30p News – McBee (color)

40 – WINR Binghamton (NBC)
09:00a Davey and Goliath
09:15a Sacred Heart – religion (color)
09:30a Herald of Truth – religion
10:00a Little White Church
10:30a Movie “The Duel at Silver Creek” 1952 Audie Murphy
12:00p Challenge Bowling
01:00p Meet the Press (color)
01:30p Pro Football – Miami Dolphins at New York Jets; Curt Gowdy and Kyle Rote report (color)
04:00p Pro Football – San Diego Chargers at Denver Broncos; Charlie Jones and Al DeRogatis report (color)
07:00p The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn “The Curse of Thut” (color)
07:30p Walt Disney “The Treasure of San Bosco Reef” part 2 (color)
08:30p The Mothers-In-Law “the Birth of Everything But the Blues” (color)
09:00p Bonanza “Queen High” (color)
10:00p Perry Como (special) – guests: Don Adams, Carol Burnette, the Young Americans (color) – this will not be seen if the musician’s strike continues (Phyllis Diller will not be seen)
11:00p News and Weather
11:05p You Asked for It
11:30p Johnny Carson (color)

44 – WVIA Scranton (Educational)
03:30p NET Playhouse – ballet; Igor Stravinsky’s “The Soldier’s Tale”
04:30p NET Festival “Carl Sandburg Remembered”`
05:30p NET Journal “Appalachia”
06:30p Washington News
07:00p Profiles in Courage
07:50p Touch of Tuttle
08:00p PBL – documentary “Birth and Death”
10:00p America’s Crisis “The Teacher Gap”
11:00p Film

**IMDB does not list a Perry Como special for 1968, but Wikipedia seems to indicate that it ran as it's in the list of Perry Como specials. If anyone has any further info it would be appreciated.
 
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