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Retro: Southeast Texas Saturday, July 7, 1962

From TV Guide, Southeast Texas Edition:

KPRC Ch. 2 Houston (NBC)

6:30 RFD-TV
7 AM Today Is Saturday
8 AM Happy Time
8:30 Pip The Piper (COLOR)
9 AM Shari Lewis (COLOR)
9:30 King Leonardo (COLOR)
10 AM Fury
10:30 Make Room For Daddy
11 AM Mr. Wizard
11:30 Sergeant Preston Of The Yukon
12 N Championship Bowling
1 PM Topper
1:30 People's Choice
2 PM Superman
2:30 Movie: "Andy Hardy's Double Life"
4 PM Rough Riders
4:30 State Trooper
5 PM Divorce Court
6 PM Tombstone Territory
6:30 Tales Of Wells Fargo (COLOR)
7:30 The Tall Man
8 PM NBC Movie: "The Frogmen"
10 PM News
10:10 Sports
10:15 Movie: "The Eddie Cantor Story" (Keefe Brasselle
thought this movie made him a star; he's really
pretty forgettable.)

KJAC Ch. 4 Port Arthur (NBC)

7:30 Travelog
8 AM Fun Club
9 AM Shari Lewis (COLOR)
9:30 King Leonardo (COLOR)
10 AM Fury
10:30 Make Room For Daddy
11 AM Mr. Wizard
11:30 My Little Margie
12 N Baseball: White Sox-Indians (Bob Wolff
and Joe Garagiola report, so this is NBC's
game)
3 PM Championship Bridge (time approximate)
3:30 Movie: "Desperate"
5 PM Wrestling (from Port Arthur)
6 PM NBC News (Sander Vanocur)
6:15 News
6:30 Tales Of Wells Fargo (COLOR)
7:30 The Tall Man
8 PM NBC Movie: "The Frogmen"
10 PM News And Weather
10:15 Movie: "Law Of The Badlands"

KFDM Ch. 6 Beaumont (CBS)

7:30 Farm And Ranch
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Alvin Show
9:30 Mighty Mouse
10 AM Magic Land Of Allakazam
10:30 Roy Rogers
11 AM Sky King
11:30 CBS News (Roger Mudd)
11:45 Famous Playhouse
12:15 Baseball: Milwaukee Braves-Cubs
(Dizzy Dean and Pee Wee Reese report,
so this is CBS's game)
3 PM Jim Thomas Outdoors (time approximate)
3:30 Movies: "They Knew What They Wanted" and
"No Place To Go"
6 PM Dragnet (Ben Alexander is Jack Webb's partner--
the Harry Morgan episodes didn't start until 1967)
6:30 Perry Mason
7:30 The Defenders
8:30 Have Gun, Will Travel
9 PM Gunsmoke
10 PM News And Weather
10:15 Movie: "The Thing"

KPLC Ch. 7 Lake Charles, LA (NBC/ABC/CBS)

8 AM Deputy Dawg
8:30 Pip The Piper (COLOR)
9 AM Shari Lewis (COLOR)
9:30 King Leonardo (COLOR)
10 AM Fury
10:30 Make Room For Daddy
11 AM Mr. Wizard
11:30 Jeff's Collie
12 N Baseball: White Sox-Indians
3 PM Best Of Groucho (time approximate)
3:30 Big Picture
4 PM Susie (Ann Sothern)
4:30 Kit Carson
5 PM NBC News
5:15 Texas Rasslin' (from Dallas, main event:
Danny Savich vs. Ray Gunkel)
6:15 Church Service
6:30 Tales Of Wells Fargo (COLOR)
7:30 The Tall Man
8 PM NBC Movie: "The Frogmen"
10 PM Weather And News
10:10 Untouchables (ABC, delay from Thu 9 PM)
11:10 Movie: "Tulsa"

KUHT Ch. 8 Houston (NET)
off air on Saturday

KTRE Ch. 9 Lufkin (NBC/CBS/ABC)

8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Shari Lewis (COLOR)
9:30 King Leonardo (COLOR)
10 AM Fury
10:30 Make Room For Daddy
11 AM Mr. Wizard
11:30 Racket Squad
12 N Social Security In Action
12:15 Baseball: Braves-Cubs
3 PM Racket Squad (time approximate)
3:30 Code Three
4 PM Popeye Theater
5 PM Father Knows Best (delay from Mon 7:30)
5:30 Mister Ed (delay from Sun 5:30)
6 PM Leave It To Beaver (delay from 7:30)
6:30 Tales Of Wells Fargo (COLOR)
7:30 The Tall Man
8 PM Lawrence Welk (Welk begins his eighth year
on ABC)
9 PM Boxing: Ted Wright, welterweight, vs. Denny
Moyer, middleweight, 10 rounds, from Madison
Square Garden (taped, aired live at 10 PM EDT)
9:45 Morris Frank (sports, time approximate)
10 PM News
10:10 Robert Taylor's Detectives (delay from Fri 7:30)
11:10 Death Valley Days

KHOU Ch. 11 Houston (CBS)

7:30 This Week In Galveston (KHOU actually started as
a Galveston station and, as Dan Rather has recalled,
was trying to play down the Galveston connection
in the early '60s--so explain this program, somebody.)
7:45 Cartoon Carnival
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Alvin Show
9:30 Mighty Mouse
10 AM Magic Land Of Allakazam
10:30 Roy Rogers
11 AM Sky King
11:30 Goals For Americans
12 N Big Picture
12:30 Movie: "In Caliente"
2 PM Al Bell (local variety show)
3 PM Movie: "Mister 880"
4:30 Jim Thomas Outdoors
5 PM Sports Digest (Chris Schenkel)
5:30 Mister Ed
6 PM Death Valley Days
6:30 Perry Mason
7:30 The Defenders
8:30 Have Gun, Will Travel
9 PM Gunsmoke
10 PM News
10:10 Movie: "The Far Horizons"
12 M Movie: "Doctor X"
1:15 News (Ron Stone, later big on Ch. 2,
anchors along with Al Bell)

KBMT Ch. 12 Beaumont (ABC)

9 AM This Is The Answer (religious program produced
by the Southern Baptist Convention)
9:30 Movie: "Tripoli"
11 AM Cartoons
11:30 Big Picture
12 N Bugs Bunny (interesting that ABC could do daytime
programming on a clock-time schedule--why can't
or won't anyone do that now?)
12:30 Movies: "California Mail," "Force Of Arms," and "Moon
Over Miami"
5 PM Man And The Challenge
5:30 Men Into Space
6 PM Beany And Cecil
6:30 Calvin And The Colonel (an animated "Amos 'n' Andy,"
with the same creators and radio voices--Freeman
Gosden and Charles Correll--only here Andy and the
Kingfish are a bear and a fox. Good attempt to eliminate
racial stereotyping, but I don't think the public was buying--
the show lasted only one season and has never been rerun.)
7 PM Room For One More
7:30 Leave It To Beaver (this block 7-9 ET/6-8 CT begins to sound
like a forerunner of "TGIF")
8 PM Lawrence Welk
9 PM Boxing
9:45 Saturday Sports Final (Merle Harmon, time approximate)
10 PM News, Weather, Sports
10:15 Movie: "Androcles And The Lion" (Alan Young stars in this)

KTRK Ch. 13 Houston (ABC)

7 AM Farm Journal
7:30 Cartoons
8 AM Movie: "Come On Danger"
9:15 Popeye And His Pals
10 AM Kitirikville (the title, in part, is KTRK sounded phonetically)
11 AM Sheena, Queen Of The Jungle
11:30 Gulf Coast Jamboree
12 N Bugs Bunny
12:30 Movies: "The Warriors" and "Africa Adventure"
3:30 Larry Kane (yes, the one whose show was syndicated a
few years later)
5:30 Beany And Cecil
6 PM Victory At Sea
6:30 Calvin And The Colonel
7 PM Room For One More
7:30 Leave It To Beaver
8 PM Lawrence Welk
9 PM Boxing
9:45 Morris Frank (time approximate)
10 PM News And Weather
10:15 Maverick (delay from Sun 5:30--tomorrow will be its
last episode on ABC: the "Bonanza" satire "Three Queens
Full")
11:15 Movie: "Cruel Swamp"
 
- Although Channel 11 moved to Houston in 1960, their COL remained "Houston/Galveston" (as opposed to just "Houston" for the other stations) until Belo bought the station in the 80s. They maintained a presence there for years, and some old-timers still think of channel 11 as the "Galveston station".
- Per MLB rules at the time, NBC and CBS' baseball game of the week were blacked out in Houston, which became a major league market in '62.
 
bpatrick said:
KTRK Ch. 13 Houston (ABC)
3:30 Larry Kane (yes, the one whose show was syndicated a few years later)

But not, of course, the legendary Philadelphia news anchor who lasted one year in New York. ;) ;D
 
On Sunday, July 8, Chs. 12 and 13 carried a game between
what was then the Houston Colt .45s and the Cincinnati Reds
from Cincinnati. The Houston local announcing team of Guy Savage,
Gene Elston, and Al Helfer called that game. Neither the NBC (White
Sox-Indians) nor CBS (Braves-Cubs) games aired in Houston, although
both games aired in Beaumont.

Philadelphia's Larry Kane did a great job of alienating New Yorkers during
his short stay in the Big Apple. He refused to move, and probably logged
more miles on the New Jersey Turnpike than anyone else in history. Then
he refused to use the local pronunciations; for example, calling it "HEWS-ton
Street" instead of "HOUSE-ton Street" (reference to Houston Street). No
wonder he was sent back to Philly so soon.
 
I need to make a correction. Ch. 4's call letters were
KPAC; I remember them as KJAC when I lived in Texas
and I guess those call letters are ingrained in my head.
Today it's KBTV (the third station--after WFAA Dallas
and KUSA Denver--to have had those call letters at
one time) and is a Fox affiliate.
 
Just noticed something - no Houston Wrestling. Was it "live" on Fridays back then?
 
I don't know if it was live but Houston Wrestling aired
on Ch. 13 Fridays 10:15-11:15 PM. On Friday nights
ABC's late newscast was delayed until 12:30 AM, following
a movie.
 
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