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Retro: Spokane, WA - Friday, November 22, 1963 (Originally Scheduled)

Of course, we all know everything changed that day. But here's what was scheduled to air on what was expected to be an average late-November Friday.

Forgive me if this topic is too morbid.

Channels:
2—KREM (ABC)
4—KXLY (CBS)
6—KHQ (NBC)

7:25
4—Farm Report

7:30
2—Northwest Farmer
4—Sunrise Semester

7:35
2—Living

7:45
2—Muzo

8:00
4—Captain Kangaroo

8:15
2—The King and Odie Show

8:25
6—Inland Empire Farmer

8:30
2—Romper Room
6—Guten Morgen

8:45
4—Song Shop

9:00
2—MOVIE: “Walk Softly, Stranger”
4—The Jack LaLanne Show
6—Say When!

9:25
6—NBC News

9:30
4—I Love Lucy
6—Merv Griffin’s Word for Word

10:00
4—The Real McCoys
6—Concentration

10:30
2—Father Knows Best
4—Pete and Gladys
6—Missing Links

11:00
2—The Price Is Right
4—Love of Life
6—Your First Impression

11:25
4—CBS News

11:30
2—Seven Keys
4—Search for Tomorrow
6—Truth or Consequences

11:45
4—The Guiding Light

11:55
6—NBC News

AFTERNOON

12:00
2—The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show
4—Take 4
6—People Will Talk

12:25
4—CBS Midday News
6—Local News

12:30
2—Telescope
4—As the World Turns
6—The Doctors

12:55
2—Northwest Farmer

1:00
2—General Hospital
4—The Ann Sothern Show
6—The Loretta Young Theater

1:30
2—Adventures in Paradise
4—Art Linkletter’s House Party
6—You Don’t Say!

2:00
4—To Tell the Truth
6—MOVIE: “Valley of Decision”

2:25
4—CBS News

2:30
2—Day in Court
4—The Edge of Night

2:55
2—News with the Woman’s Touch

3:00
2—Queen for a Day
4—The Secret Storm

3:30
2—Who Do You Trust?
4—Password

3:45
6—Song Shop

4:00
2—Major Adams, Trailmaster
4—Wallaby and Jack
6—Space Kids

4:30
6—MOVIE: “Bomba and the Hidden City”

5:00
2—Mickey Mouse Club
4—Maverick

5:30
2—Love That Bob

6:00
2—Newsbeat
4—News
6—The Front Page

6:15
2— The ABC Evening News with Ron Cochran
6—Huntley-Brinkley Report

6:30
2—Frontier Circus
4—CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite
6—The Front Page

7:00
4—Biography
6—Bold Journey

7:30
2—77 Sunset Strip
4—Great Adventure
“Wild Bill Hickok” (Lloyd Bridges)
6—International Showtime
Host Don Ameche presents the “Wonderful, Wonderful Copenhagen Circus”…jam-packed with thrills! Delightful entertainment for the whole family!

8:30
2—Burke’s Law
4—Route 66
“Kiss the Monster… Make Him Sleep”
6—Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
Lee J. Cobb, Gena Rowlands and Harry Guardino in a stirring drama of a man more concerned with the “little people” than with his own welfare. See a brilliant cast in John O’Hara’s “It’s Mental Work”… in color!

9:30
2—The Farmer’s Daughter
4—The Twilight Zone
“Night Call”
6—Harry’s Girls

10:00
2—The Fight of the Week
4—The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
“Body in the Barn” (Lillian Gish/Peter Lind Hayes)
6—The Jack Paar Program
Jack really dishes up a startling combination of guests with LIBERACE, the poetic CASSIUS CLAY, MILT KAMEN & MARY McCARTHY!

10:45
2—Make That Spare

11:00
2—Nightbeat
4—News
6—News and Weather

11:30
2—MOVIE: “Thunder Over the Plains”
4—MOVIE: “Guadalcanal Diary”
6—The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Source: The Spokesman-Review and Wikipedia
 
AKA said:
Of course, we all know everything changed that day. But here's what was scheduled to air on what was expected to be an average late-November Friday.

Forgive me if this topic is too morbid.
...considering all the previously posted listings for this date (New York City, Dallas-Fort Worth, Tucson & Phoenix, Honolulu), it's hardly too morbid a topic for the regulars around here...

Channels:
2—KREM (ABC)
4—KXLY (CBS)
6—KHQ (NBC)


10:30
2—Father Knows Best
...isn't Spokane in the Pacific Time Zone? This would have been the half-hour in that zone when the news of the shootings broke, and the ABC linecheck videotape on YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y36DbAmUKw4 - interrupts a broadcast of Father Knows Best. Could KREM/2 Spokane possibly be the much-speculated source of that tape?...

8:30
4—Route 66
“Kiss the Monster… Make Him Sleep”
...this is the episode promoted at the halftime break during the broadcast of As the World Turns just after the first CBS bulletin about the shooting, as seen at http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=NYlRleYsKDo (after the Nescafe and NuSoft ads)...

10:00
6—The Jack Paar Program
Jack really dishes up a startling combination of guests with LIBERACE, the poetic CASSIUS CLAY, MILT KAMEN & MARY McCARTHY!
...this Jack Paar Program had been taped the previous Sunday evening (Johnny Carson used the same studio for The Tonight Show on weeknights) and was postponed for broadcast on November 29th. The Cassius Clay spot, in which Liberace provides piano accompaniment to Cassius' poetic boasting, appears on Shout! Factory's Jack Paar Collection DVD set, excerpted from the preservation kinescope of the program.
 
Yes, CBS pulled that ''Route 66'' episode that was supposed to air that night to January 24, 1964. CBS also delayed the "Replacement" episode that was supposed to air on November 22, 1963 after JFK's assassination, "A Cage in Search of a Bird," to November 29, 1963, and pulled episode that was scheduled to air that night, "I'm Here to Kill a King," which was then shelved and would not be seen until it went to syndication.
 
How long after the Kennedy Assassination did the networks return to regular programming? Was it Tuesday? Wasn't Thursday the 28th Thanksgiving?
 
AKA asked: said:
How long after the Kennedy Assassination did the networks return to regular programming? Was it Tuesday? Wasn't Thursday the 28th Thanksgiving?

Pretty much, regular programming was back on Tuesday, November 26th, but I understand there were a few special network news reports on Tuesday, dealing with the aftermath of the assassination and the reopening of the stock markets.

I would suspect that the televised Thanksgiving parades and football game telecasts the following Thursday were quite subdued.

Trivia buffs: Supposedly as something to take Americans' minds off the recent tragedy, a feature report filed a few weeks earlier by then-CBS News London bureau chief Alexander Kendrick aired on the "CBS Evening News" on Thanksgiving night: It was about a British singing quartet who had become a sensation in that country and were beginning to become extremely popular across the rest of Europe as well. They were, of course, the Beatles. It reportedly was the first time they appeared in any form on American television, some seven or so weeks ahead of a film of one of their concerts appearing on Jack Paar's prime-time NBC variety show and ten weeks prior to their famed U.S. live TV debut on "Ed Sullivan".
 
Joseph_Gallant said:
Trivia buffs: Supposedly as something to take Americans' minds off the recent tragedy, a feature report filed a few weeks earlier by then-CBS News London bureau chief Alexander Kendrick aired on the "CBS Evening News" on Thanksgiving night: It was about a British singing quartet who had become a sensation in that country and were beginning to become extremely popular across the rest of Europe as well. They were, of course, the Beatles. It reportedly was the first time they appeared in any form on American television, some seven or so weeks ahead of a film of one of their concerts appearing on Jack Paar's prime-time NBC variety show and ten weeks prior to their famed U.S. live TV debut on "Ed Sullivan".
...the Kendrick report on The Beatles had, in fact, run on the CBS Morning News with Mike Wallace on November 22nd, only a couple of hours before the assassination (apparently, KXLY/4 pre-empted Wallace for The Jack LaLanne Show in Spokane). It was scheduled to run, in edited form, on that night's CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite, but, of course, something prevented that. Cronkite did not run his edit of the Kendrick report on The Beatles on Thanksgiving Night, but on December 10th; that, in turn, led a Silver Spring, MD, teenager named Marsha Albert to request WWDC Washington disc jockey Carroll James play one of the songs in the piece, "I Want to Hold Your Hand," which James indeed did on December 17th after tracking down the British Parlophone release of the single (he brought Miss Albert into the WWDC studios to record an introduction for the playing). James then sent a tape dub of the record to fellow disc jockeys on Chicago and St. Louis stations, who themselves started playing it on their own. All of this activity led Capitol Records to move the official release date of the American pressings of the single from January 13th to December 26th. The Jack Paar Program of January 3rd contained film of one of The Beatles' BBC-TV appearances, and, as the cliche goes, the rest is history--

--except that the Wallace broadcast wasn't the first time The Beatles appeared on American network television. On November 18th, four days earlier, NBC's Huntley-Brinkley Report aired a four-minute piece, narrated by Edwin Newman, on The Beatles...
 
November 22, 1963 also happened to be the release date of The Beatles' second UK album, With the Beatles.
 
...which provided the lion's share of the material that appeared on the first two Beatles albums issued in the United States by Capitol, Meet The Beatles! and The Beatles' Second Album. Capitol issued With The Beatles in Canada (as Beatlemania! With The Beatles) the next business day, November 25th...
 
Yep. I have the Capitol Albums, but I'm more of a fan of the UK albums. I came of age during the CD era, so those are the albums I cut my teeth on.
 
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