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Retro: This Week in TV Guide, February 25, 1961 - MSP Edition

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Mitchell H

James Hagerty, ABC News executive and former Eisenhower press secretary, offers some interesting rules for TV newsmen. The youth in France are in turmoil - can US kids be far behind? Candid Camera, Life Magazine, a lame ad for The Flintstones and a really clever one for Chex - that and more in an issue that starts, however obliquely, to show some of the cracks forming in American culture.

http://www.itsabouttv.com/2013/02/this-week-in-tv-guide-february-25-1961.html

And now, your listings for the Twin Cities for Wednesday, March 1, 1961. Note that Channel 2's schedule includes "The Gustavus Adolphus Hour" at 8pm and "The Hamline College Hour" at 8:30pm, each running for 30 minutes. As a graduate of Hamline, I can only observe that if this is how these institutes measured time, it would explain a lot...

KTCA, Channel 2 (Educ.)
Morning
08:30a Science – Grade 7
09:00a Discovery III
09:30a Science – Grade 7
10:00a Japanese Brush Painting
10:30a Science – Grade 7
11:00a Portfolio
Afternoon
12:00p Science – Grade 7
12:30p Virus
01:00p Science – Grade 7
01:30p Art – Kindergarten
02:00p Science – Grade 7
02:30p Health – Grade 3
Evening
06:15p The Friendly Giant
06:30p Japanese Brush Painting
07:00p Human Relations
07:30p Photography with Ansel Adams
08:00p Gustavus Adolphus Hour
08:30p Hamline College Hour
09:00p Books From Bell Collection
09:30p Civil War Background
10:00p Heart Association
10:30p Background
10:40p American Perspective

WCCO, Channel 4 (CBS)
Morning
07:00a Siegfried’s Flying Saucer (cartoons)
08:00a CBS News (Richard C. Hottelet)
08:15a Captain Kangaroo
09:00a News (Dean Montgomery)
09:10a Reuben K. Youngdahl
09:20a What’s New
09:30a Video Village
10:00a I Love Lucy
10:30a Clear Horizon
11:00a Love of Life
11:30a Search for Tomorrow
11:45a Guiding Light
Afternoon
12:00p News (Dave Moore)
12:15p Something Special 20 Weather (Bud Kraehling)
12:30p As the World Turns
01:00p Full Circle
01:30p House Party
02:00p Randy Merriman Show
02:30p The Verdict is Yours
03:00p Brighter Day
03:15p Secret Storm
03:30p Edge of Night
04:00p Around the Town
04:30p Bozo the Clown
05:00p Axel and His Dog
05:30p Clancy the Cop
05:55p Sports (Rollie Johnson)
Evening
06:00p News (Dean Montgomery)
06:10p Weather (Don O’Brien)
06:15p CBS News (Walter Cronkite)
06:30p Huckleberry Hound
07:00p Grand Jury
07:30p The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
08:00p Tom Ewell
08:30p Red Skelton
09:00p Garry Moore
10:00p News (Dave Moore)
10:15p Weather (Bud Kraehling)
10:20p Sports (Dick Enroth)
10:30p Tightrope
11:00p Weather (Don O’Brien)
11:05p Movie – “Seven Guns to Mesa”

KSTP, Channel 5 (NBC)
Morning
06:00a Continental Classroom (Chemistry) (color)
06:30a Continental Classroom (Statistics) (color)
07:00a Dave Garroway (aka Today Show)
09:00a Say When
09:30a Play Your Hunch (color)
10:00a The Price is Right (color)
10:30a Concentration
11:00a Truth or Consequences
11:30a It Could Be You (color)
11:55a NBC News (Ray Scherer)
Afternoon
12:00p News (John MacDougall)
12:15p Weather (Johnny Morris)
12:20p Treasure Chest
01:00p Jan Murray (color)
01:30p Loretta Young Show
02:00p Young Doctors
02:30p From These Roots
03:00p Make Room for Daddy
03:30p Here’s Hollywood
04:00p Topper
04:30p T.N. Tatters
05:15p City Detective
05:45p NBC News (Huntley/Brinkley)
Evening
06:00p News (Bob Ryan)
06:15p Weather (Johnny Morris)
06:30p Laramie
07:30p Alfred Hitchcock Presents
08:00p Thriller
09:00p JFK – Report No. 1
10:00p News (John MacDougall)
10:15p Weather (Johnny Morris)
10:20p Sports (Dick Nesbitt)
10:30p Jack Paar (color)
12:00a News (Roger Krupp)

KMSP, Channel 9 (Ind.)
Morning
09:50a Chapel of the Air
09:55a Newsbeat
10:00a Jack La Lanne
10:30a Movie – “Blonde Alibi”
11:30a I Married Joan
Afternoon
12:00p Kartoontime
12:30p Willy
01:00p Follow That Man
01:30p Racket Squad
02:00p Movie – “Strange Interlude”
04:00p How to Marry a Millionaire
04:30p Mr. Adams and Eve
05:00p Susie
05:30p Our Miss Brooks
Evening
06:00p Looney Tuners Club
07:00p Movie – “My Friend Flicka”
08:30p Walter Winchell File
09:00p Movie – “Behave Yourself”
10:35p News (Paul Severeid)
10:50p Sports (Tony Parker)
10:55p Weather (Jere Smith)
11:00p Streets of Danger
11:30p Medic

WTCN, Channel 11 (ABC)
Morning
07:55a Farm News
08:00a Good Morning Minnesota!
08:30a Cartoon Circus
09:00a Romper Room (Miss Betty)
09:45a Shape Up
10:15a Ways With Food
10:30a Life of Riley
11:00a Morning Court
11:30a Love that Bob!
Afternoon
12:00p Camouflage
12:30p Number Please
01:00p About Faces
01:30p Dr. Hudson’s Secret Journal
02:00p Day in Court
02:30p Road to Reality
03:00p Queen for a Day
03:30p Who Do You Trust?
04:00p American Bandstand
05:00p 5 O’Clock Report
05:05P Casey Jones and Popeye
05:30p Rocky and His Friends
Evening
06:00p Expedition!
06:30p Bugs Bunny
07:00p The Rifleman
07:30p The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
08:00p Stagecoast West
09:00p Alcoa Presents – “The Stranger”
09:30p Sea Hunt
10:00p News (Chick McCuen)
10:15p Weather (Stuart A. Lindman)
10:20p Sports (Beutel/Horner)
10:30p U.S. Marshall
11:00p News (Ken Anderson)
11:05p Movie – “Best of the Badmen”
12:30a News (Stuart A. Lindman)
 
Interesting to see Randy Merriman with a local show. He
was host of "The Big Payoff" from 1951 to 1957--exactly
six years in fact (Dec. 31-Dec. 31). I've read somewhere
that his family was never really happy in New York, and that
he left to start the local Minneapolis program you probably
have listed here (he was a native of Minneapolis, BTW). I
also think he spent most of his later years in Florida. He
passed away in 2005 and was in his 90s at the time.

However, during his years on "Payoff" he suffered the same
fate as Pat Sajak much later: taking a back seat to the model/
hostess on the show; Bess Myerson was to Merriman what
Vanna White is to Sajak. I don't know about Merriman but Sajak
has never seemed to mind being upstaged by Vanna.
 
Perhaps the kid in the Flintstones ad was Arnold the paperboy, since this was a few years before Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm.
 
bpatrick said:
Interesting to see Randy Merriman with a local show. He
was host of "The Big Payoff" from 1951 to 1957--exactly
six years in fact (Dec. 31-Dec. 31). I've read somewhere
that his family was never really happy in New York, and that
he left to start the local Minneapolis program you probably
have listed here (he was a native of Minneapolis, BTW). I
also think he spent most of his later years in Florida. He
passed away in 2005 and was in his 90s at the time.

However, during his years on "Payoff" he suffered the same
fate as Pat Sajak much later: taking a back seat to the model/
hostess on the show; Bess Myerson was to Merriman what
Vanna White is to Sajak. I don't know about Merriman but Sajak
has never seemed to mind being upstaged by Vanna.
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Very interesting - thanks for the info. I don't remember his TV show, but I fondly remember his voice from WCCO radio. It's also nice to know that he's in the Museum of Broadcasting Hall of Fame.

http://www.museumofbroadcasting.org/Merriman.htm

Personally, I wouldn't mind being upstaged by Bess Myerson myself!
 
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