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Retro: This Week in TV Guide, January 18, 1969 - Philly Edition

On this week, TV covers the inauguration of Richard Nixon, Darren McGavin talks about his new series, The Outsider, Sullivan vs. The Palace, a sneak peek at possible shows for the new season, and the week in daytime television.

http://www.itsabouttv.com/2013/01/this-week-in-tv-guide-january-18-1969.html

As always your comments, positive as well as negative, are welcome.

And now the programming for Wednesday, January 22, 1969:

KYW, Channel 3 (NBC)
Morning

06:05a Farm Market Report (B&W)
06:10a News (local) (B&W)
06:15a Communication Is (B&W)
06:45a Farm, Home and Garden
06:55a Today in Philadelphia (B&W)
07:00a Today (guests Murray Teigh Bloom, Bernard Maxwell, Msgr. John G. Nolan)
09:00a Contact (host Tom Snyder, guest David Black)
10:00a Snap Judgment (Tony Randall, Ina Balin)
10:25a NBC News (Nancy Dickerson)
10:30a Concentration
11:00a Personality (Godfrey Cambridge, Joan Fontaine, Peggy Cass)
11:30a Hollywood Squares (Henry Gibson, Arte Johnson, Paul Lynde, Jan Murray, Tony Randall, Kaye Stevens, Wally Cox, Rose Marie, Charley Weaver)
Afternoon
12:00p News (local)
12:30p Mike Douglas (no guests listed)
02:00p Days of Our Lives
02:30p The Doctors
03:00p Another World
03:30p You Don’t Say! (Pat Buttram, Alice Ghostley)
04:00p Match Game (Ethel Merman, Nipsey Russell)
04:30p Merv Griffin (guests Hugh Heffner, Sheldon Leonard, Jackie Vernon, Nancy Phillips)
Evening
06:00p News (local)
06:30p NBC News (Huntley/Brinkley)
07:00p News (local)
07:30p The Virginian
09:00p Kraft Music Hall (host Bobby Darin, guests Judy Collins, Laura Nyro, Martha and the Vandellas, Buddy Rich)
10:00p The Outsider
11:00p News
11:30p Tonight (guests Sandler and Young)

WFIL, Channel 6 (ABC)
Morning

06:30a Operation Alphabet (B&W)
07:00a World Around Us
08:00a Popeye Theater
09:00a On Camera
09:25a Paul Harvey
09:30a Greatest Show on Earth
10:25a Connie Roussin
10:30a Dick Cavett (guests Norman Mailer, Paul Weiss)
Afternoon
12:00p Bewitched (B&W)
12:30p Funny You Should Ask
12:55p Children’s Doctor
01:00p Dream House
01:30p Let’s Make a Deal
02:00p Television Kitchen
02:30p The Dating Game
03:00p General Hospital
03:30p Jerry’s Place
04:00p Dark Shadows
04:30p I Love Lucy (B&W)
05:00p Steve Allen (guests Miriam Makeba, Louis Nye, Linda Cristal)
Evening
06:00p News (local)
06:30p ABC News (Frank Reynolds)
07:00p What’s My Line? (Joanna Barnes, Godfrey Cambridge, Arlene Francis, Soupy Sales)
07:30p Here Come the Brides
08:30p Peyton Place
09:00p Movie – “The Patsy”
11:00p News (local)
11:30p Joey Bishop (guests George Shearing, Allan Drake, Guy and David)
01:00a The Westerners (B&W)

WCAU, Channel 10 (CBS)
Morning

05:55a News (local) (B&W)
06:00a Sunrise Semester (color)
06:30a Major American Writers
07:00a Morning Report (B&W)
07:05a CBS News (Joseph Benti)
07:30a Gene London
08:00a Captain Kangaroo
09:00a Pixanne
09:30a Dennis the Menace (B&W)
10:00a Lucille Ball
10:30a Beverly Hillbillies
11:00a Andy Griffith
11:30a Dick Van Dyke (B&W)
Afternoon
12:00p Love of Life
12:30p Search for Tomorrow
01:00p The Farmer’s Daughter
01:30p As the World Turns
02:00p Love is a Many-Splendored Thing
02:30p The Guiding Light
03:00p The Secret Storm
03:30p Edge of Night
04:00p Art Linkletter (guest Jack Bailey of “Queen for a Day”)
04:30p Sea Hunt (B&W)
05:00p I Spy
Evening
06:00p News (local)
07:00p News (Cronkite)
07:30p The Enchanted Isles
08:30p The Good Guys
09:00p Beverly Hillbillies
09:30p Green Acres
10:00p Hawaii Five-O
11:00p News (local)
11:40p Movie – “Blood Alley”
01:55a Movie – “Bedevilled”
03:35a News (B&W)

WHYY, Channel 12 (NET) Wilmington-Philadelphia
Morning

09:10a Art (B&W)
09:30a World of Words (B&W)
10:05a Jr. High Science (B&W)
10:30a R for Rhythm (B&W)
10:50a Jr. High Math (B&W)
11:20a 4th Grade Spanish (B&W)
11:40a Sr. High Biology (B&W)
Afternoon
12:05p Let’s Investigate (B&W)
12:20p Looking at Careers (B&W)
12:45p The Friendly Giant (B&W)
01:00p Franklin to Frost (B&W)
01:30p French I (B&W)
01:50p French II (B&W)
02:10p French III (B&W)
02:30p Window Sill World (B&W)
02:45p Roundabout (B&W)
03:00p Concert 12 (Pittsburgh Symphony) (B&W)
04:00p Roundabout (B&W)
04:15p Merlin the Magician (B&W)
04:30p Sing Hi - Sing Lo (B&W)
04:45p The Friendly Giant (B&W)
05:00p Misterogers (B&W)
05:30p What’s New (B&W)
Evening
06:00p The French Chef (B&W)
06:30p On Guard (B&W)
07:00p High School of the Air (B&W)
07:30p Folk Guitar Plus (B&W)
08:00p NET Festival (B&W)
09:00p News in Perspective
10:00p Wednesday at Ten
10:30p Book Beat (B&W)
11:00p Local News (B&W)

WPHL, Channel 17 (Ind.)
Morning

10:30a At Your Service
11:00a Jack LaLanne
11:30a I Led Three Lives (B&W)
Afternoon
12:00p Jeopardy! (from NBC)
12:30p Eye Guess (from NBC)
12:55p NBC News (Edwin Newman)
01:00p One Life to Live (from ABC)
01:30p Hidden Faces
02:00p Dr. Kildare (B&W)
03:00p Crusader Rabbit
03:15p Rocky and His Friends
03:30p Prince Planet (B&W)
04:00p Johnny Cypher
04:15p Rocky and His Friends
04:30p Marine Boy
05:00p Eighth Man
05:30p Speed Racer
Evening
06:00p Gilligan’s Island
06:30p The Twilight Zone (B&W)
07:00p College Basketball Doubleheader – Detroit vs. Villanova
08:45p College Basketball Doubleheader – Penn vs. LaSalle
10:30p M-Squad (B&WW)
11:00p One Step Beyond (B&W)
11:30p Movie – “Waterfront” (B&W)

WIBF, Channel 29 (Ind.)
Morning

10:00a Stock Market Report (B&W)
11:00a Stock Market Report (B&W)
11:30a Woman’s View (B&W)
Afternoon
12:00p Stock Market Report (B&W)
01:00p Stock Market Report (B&W)
02:00p Stock Market Report (B&W)
03:00p Stock Market Report (B&W)
04:00p Make Room for Daddy (B&W)
04:30p Matches and Mates
05:00p PDQ
05:30p F Troop (B&W)
Evening
06:00p Batman
06:30p Lost in Space (B&W)
07:30p The Honeymooners (B&W)
08:00p Movie – “Destroyer” (B&W)
09:30p Boxing – Light Heavyweight Championship (Bob Foster vs. Frankie DePaula)
11:00p Adventures in Paradise (B&W)

WKBS, Channel 48 (Ind.)
Morning

11:30a Mickey Mouse Club (B&W)
Afternoon
12:00p Romper Room
12:45p Cartoons
01:00p Movie – “The Informers” (B&W)
03:00p Kimba
03:30p Huck and Yogi
04:00p Superman (B&W)
04:30p Little Rascals (B&W)
05:00p The Flintstones
05:30p The Munsters (B&W)
Evening
06:00p McHale’s Navy (B&W)
06:30p Perry Mason (B&W)
07:30p Truth or Consequences
08:00p Pay Cards! (guest Mel Torme)
08:30p Donald O’Connor (guests Sugar Ray Robinson, Ted Mack, Della Reese, Lou Alexander)
10:00p News (local)
10:30p Alfred Hitchcock
11:00p The Outer Limits (B&W)
12:00a News (local)
 
I take it TV 6 preempted The Newlywed Game that day. Considering it was a top rated daytime show, many people weren't happy about that.
 
Many of the syndicated programs on WKBS-48 were also seen on Kaiser Broadcasting sister station WKBG-56 here in Boston at that time.

In fact, the prime-time lineup between 7:30 and 10 P.M. that night on WKBS and WKBG were exactly the same, both in terms of what programs were shown and the order they were shown in.

I suspect "Truth Or Consequences", "Pay Cards" and "Donald O'Connor" were purchased by most of the Kaiser stations (with the likely exception of KBSC-52 in Los Angeles; that station being run "on the cheap") and may in fact have run from 7:30 to 10 P.M. local on the Kaiser stations (again excluding KBSC) in the same order they ran on WKBS and WKBG.

WKBS had already launched a 10 P.M. local newscast (WKBG would do so at the end of 1969). In the case of WKBG, the newscast was cancelled (and the news department shut down) at the end of 1970; I think Kaiser pulled the plug on all it's local newscasts around that time.

Could the 12 Midnight news on WKBS have been a repeat of the newscast broadcast live at 10 P.M.??
 
Kaiser's WKBF-61 in Cleveland aired Pay Cards and Donald O' Connor but not Truth Or Consequences, which was in the middle of an 8-year run weeknights at 7PM on Storer's WJW-TV 8..
 
Honeymooners on WIBF 29???? Does not sound right. I always thought WKBS TV Channel 48 had Honeymooners from their sign on till they went dark. I may be wrong but I know by 1972 WKBS had them and I swear they had them in the mid 60's...Maybe they moved to 29 for several years. Interestiung that Channel 17 had Gilligan originally as well. That moved to Channel 48 in 1971 and to Channel 29 in 1976. So that was on all 3 stations one time or another. Also Gilligan's Island was originally on in New York City on WOR TV. It moved to WPIX in 71 the same time it moved to 48. Gilligan in New York went to Channel 5 WNEW TV in 1978. SO that show was known to change hands in most markets a few times.
 
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