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Retro: St. Louis - Thursday Dec. 4, 1969

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Gregg.

TV Guide - St. Louis - Thurs. Dec. 4, 1969

(2) KTVI ABC

6:30 Thought for Today
6:35 Farm Report / News
6:45 Lone Ranger
7:15 Winchell-Mahoney. Ventriloquist Paul Winchell
8:15 Romper Room
9am Movie--Comedy. "Expresso Bongo" Sylvia Syms, Lawrence Harvey
11am Bewitched
11:30 Charlotte Peters
12:30 Let's Make A Deal
1pm Newlywed Game
1:30 Dating Game
2pm General Hospital
2:30 One Life to Live
3pm Movie--Drama "Brainwashed" Curt Jurgens, Claire Bloom
5pm McHale's Navy. Has Ensign Palmer finally found a girlfriend? Tim Conway
5:30 F Troop. Parmeter makes an enemy of the fastest gun in the territory. Ken Barry
6pm News--Reynolds/Smith (KTVI doesn't carry ABC Evening News?)
6:30 Jacques Cousteau (Special) Grey whales migrates from Alaska to Baja California.
7:30 Bewitched. Mother Goose and Mother Stevens both come to visit. Elizabeth Montgomery
8pm Tom Jones. From Las Vegas...Glen Campbell, Janis Joplin and comedy troupe The Committee.
9pm It Takes A Thief. Alister Mundy (Fred Astaire) is an assassination target. Robert Wagner
10pm News
10:30 Joey Bishop--Variety
12am Combat! Vic Morrow
1am News


(4) KMOX-TV CBS

5:45 Meditation - News
6am Sunrise Semester
6:30 CBS News--Joseph Benti
8am Captain Kangaroo
9am Lucille Ball. Lucy visits London.
9:30 Beverly Hillbillies. Jeb sends Ellie May to a French couturier.
10am Andy Griffith. Jack Albertson plays a con man.
10:30 Love of Life
11am Where The Heart Is
11:25 CBS News--Douglas Edwards
11:30 Search for Tomorrow
Noon My Favorite Martian
12:30 As The World Turns
1pm Love Is A Many-Splendored Thing
1:30 Guiding Light
2pm Secret Storm
2:30 Edge of Night (That's 8 CBS Soaps each weekday!)
3pm Gomer Pyle, USMC
3:30 Movie--Musical. "Country Music Holiday" Ferlin Husky, June Carter.
5pm To Tell The Truth
5:30 CBS News--Walter Cronkite
6pm News
6:30 Family Affair. Mr. French faces competition when Bill's Hong Kong servant moves into the Davis home.
7pm Jim Nabors--Variety. Jim and Bobbi Gentry salute Country Music.
8pm Movie--Drama. "Ten Little Indians" Hugh O'Brian, Shirley Eaton
10pm News
10:30 Merv Griffin--Variety
12am Movie--Science Fiction "The Mole People"
1:30 News


(5) KSD-TV NBC

6:30 Focus Your World
7am Today. Sen. Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin discusses the ecology.
9am It Takes Two--Game
9:25 NBC News--Nancy Dickerson
9:30 Concentration
10am Sale of The Century--Game
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11am Jeopardy
11:30 Name Droppers--Game
12pm News
12:30 You're Putting Me On--Game
1pm Days of Our Lives
1:30 Doctors--Serial
2pm Another World
2:30 He Said, She Said--Game
3pm Letters to Laugh In (Odd concept for a short-lived weekday show.) Ruth Buzzi, Louie Nye.
3:30 Mike Douglas--Variety. Shelly Berman, Butterfly McQueen, Little Anthony & The Imperials.
5pm News
5:30 NBC News--Huntley, Brinkley
6pm News
6:30 Daniel Boone--Adventure. Alex Karras is heading for the hanging tree unless Boone can expose the poachers who framed him.
7:30 Ironside--Crime Drama. Ironside tries to recover a priceless Torah stolen from a synagogue.
8:30 Dragnet--Crime Drama. Robbers are burglarizing stores, leaving few clues.
9pm Dean Martin--Variety. Guests Nancy Wilson and Charles Nelson Reilly.
10pm News
10:30 Johnny Carson
12am News--Harry Gunther
12:10 Rona Barrett
12:15 David Frost
1:45 Weather


(9) KETC NET

8:15 to 3:15 Instructional Classroom Programming (Did they broadcast a slide between 3:15 and 5:45?)
5:45 Misterogers. A visit to a glassblower's workshop. (Eventually they stopped combining Mister and Rogers into one word.)
6:15 Friendly Giant. The gang sings about farms. (One of my favorite shows as a kid, from the CBC.)
6:30 What's New--Children
7pm Personal Finance
7:30 NET Playhouse. "The Tin Whistle." A minister's son becomes obsessed with witchcraft.
9pm French Chef. Broccoli and Cauliflower. Julia Child
9:30 Cineposium--Films. Actors Nina Foch and Walter Brook.
10pm People in Jazz. Michigan State University Jazz Ensemble
10:30 Insurance Seminar
10:45 Today's Interiors
11pm Choral Group


(11) KPLR Independent

8am Underdog
8:30 Love That Bob! Bob fends off a wolf who's got eyes for Margaret.
9am Jack LaLanne--Exercise
9:30 Ed Nelson--Variety. Pierre Salinger, Otto Preminger and the Four Step Brothers. (A 90 min. St. Louis variety show.)
11am Sea Hunt. Mike investigates the legend of a mermaid who lures men to their deaths. Lloyd Bridges
11:30 That Girl. Ann uses zany stunts to attract a producer's attention. Marlo Thomas
Noon Dream House--Game
12:30 Galloping Gourmet. Pork stew with fruit. Graham Kerr
1pm Steve Allen--Variety. Jayne Meadows and Ventriloquist Paul Winchell.
2pm Of Land and Seas. Mexico's Baja California peninsula.
3pm Dark Shadows
3:30 Flintstones
4pm Gilligan's Island
4:30 I Love Lucy. Little Ricky bring home a puppy. Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz
5pm Leave It to Beaver. Beaver considers getting new parents at an adoption agency.
5:30 Dick Van Dyke. Rob remembers the day Laura and he brought Ritchie home from the hospital.
6pm What's My Line? Arlene Francis, Bennett Cerf, Joanna Barnes, Soupy Sales.
6:30 Truth or Consequences
7pm Hazel
7:30 The Game Game. Bill Bixby, Arte Johnson, Dana Wynter
8pm Big Valley--Western. The Barkleys are drawn into a dispute between an attractive young woman and a puritanical sheriff. Lee Majors,

Susan Strasberg
9pm News--Bill Addison (This must be one of the first 9pm newscasts.)
9:30 I Spy. In Greece, Kelly and Scott are ordered to assassinate a likable enemy agent. Robert Culp, Bill Cosby
10:30 Movie--Drama "Beyond All Limits" Jack Palance, Maria Felix
12:35 Here's Barbara--Variety (Is this a half hour Barbara Walters variety show?)
12:55 News, Meditation


(30) KDNL Independent (It must be tough being a UHF Independent in a market with all VHF stations.)

9:15 Financial Reports (Live till 2:30pm)
2:30 America's Favorite Hymns
3pm The Little Castle (Is this a local one-hour kids show?)
4pm Speed Racer
4:30 Ultra Man
5pm Batman
5:30 Patty Duke
6pm Munsters
6:30 Star Trek. William Shatner's talents are showcased as he acts out the personalities of a male and female.
7:30 Beat The Clock--Game
8pm Della Reese--Variety (I didn't know she had a nightly variety show?)
9pm Movie--Drama. "Sundown" Gene Tierney, George Sanders.
11pm Movie--Drama. "The Naked Street" Farley Granger, Anthony Quinn
 
Gregg. said:
TV Guide - St. Louis - Thurs. Dec. 4, 1969

(4) KMOX-TV CBS

3:30 Movie--Musical. "Country Music Holiday" Ferlin Husky, June Carter.
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It also featured a young Patty Duke as June Carter's sister. June did not sing in this movie, but Farron Young was also in it.

Eight soap operas! Those were the days.
 
Reynolds/Smith on KTVI at 6 PM: that's Frank Reynolds and
Howard K. Smith (Harry Reasoner didn't replace Reynolds
until December 1970), so it looks like Ch. 2 is carrying ABC
but not a local newscast.
 
MCarney said:
It also featured a young Patty Duke as June Carter's sister. June did not sing in this movie, but Farron Young was also in it.

Eight soap operas! Those were the days.
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8 soaps on 1 network...wow.

Today between the classic "big 3" networks, there are 4 total.
 
I guess CBS was noted for soap operas from its radio days. But I never realized at one time they were running 8 of them. Yet it appears CBS only had one daytime game show in 1969. I assume To Tell The Truth is a CBS production, with KMOX delaying it till 5pm so they can air a movie at 3:30.

Meanwhile, ABC has three game shows but only two soaps (if KTVI is carrying the full ABC schedule). And NBC has a whopping eight game shows but only three soaps. Plus the oddity "Letters to Laugh In." I guess NBC figured if Laugh In is such a success in prime time, maybe they can build a daytime half hour comedy around it?
 
At that point ABC had 3 (Dark Shadows, General Hospital and One Life to Live), soon to be four when All My Children debuted in January. Two more - The Best of Everything and A World Apart - would come on to the schedule in the spring of 1970.
 
Gregg. said:
NBC has a whopping eight game shows but only three soaps. Plus the oddity "Letters to Laugh In." I guess NBC figured if Laugh In is such a success in prime time, maybe they can build a daytime half hour comedy around it?
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"Letters to Laugh - In " was a game show, viewers sent in jokes, best joke won a big prize, worst joke won a trip to "Beautiful Downtown Burbank"!
 
Gregg. said:
I guess CBS was noted for soap operas from its radio days. But I never realized at one time they were running 8 of them. Yet it appears CBS only had one daytime game show in 1969. I assume To Tell The Truth is a CBS production, with KMOX delaying it till 5pm so they can air a movie at 3:30.

Meanwhile, ABC has three game shows but only two soaps (if KTVI is carrying the full ABC schedule). And NBC has a whopping eight game shows but only three soaps. Plus the oddity "Letters to Laugh In." I guess NBC figured if Laugh In is such a success in prime time, maybe they can build a daytime half hour comedy around it?
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To Tell the Truth was cancelled by CBS in '68, where its regular timeslot was 2:00-2:30 Central. The syndicated version began production in the fall of '69, so it's safe to assume that this is what was being carried.

Interesting that KPLR picked up two daytime shows not cleared by KTVI: That Girl at 11:30, and Dark Shadows at 3:00.
 
Gregg. said:
I guess CBS was noted for soap operas from its radio days. But I never realized at one time they were running 8 of them. Yet it appears CBS only had one daytime game show in 1969. I assume To Tell The Truth is a CBS production, with KMOX delaying it till 5pm so they can air a movie at 3:30.
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"To Tell the Truth" was syndicated at this point. CBS had not offered network programming at 3:30 CT since the 1964-65 season.
 
"Dream House" was also punted from 2 at noon over to 11. This incarnation had only four weeks left, when ABC tried out a soap opera at 1e/noon central. That was a better choice since "All My Children" kept the time slot for the next 41 years.
 
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