Retro: This Week in TV Guide, July 11, 1964 - MSP Edition

[Mitchell H]

This week the Republican National Convention dominates the headlines and the television coverage. Looking back on it from today's perspective, it's astounding how much importance was attached to the political covention. As for 1964, the GOP convention was a doozy - and, as I write, a good example of why political parties don't want conventions like this anymore. Plus, NBC newswoman Nancy Dickerson does an convention fashion preview, Sullivan vs. The Palace, and more.

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

And now, the week's TV listings, for one of the three days this week not taken over by the convention:

Sunday, July 12, 1964
WCCO, Channel 4 (CBS)
Morning
07:45a Sacred Heart
08:00a Fisher Family
08:30a Look Up and Live
09:00a Business and Finance
09:30a Religious News
09:45a Bowery Boys Movie – “Spook Chasers”
10:45a Roller Derby
11:45a World of Aviation
Afternoon
12:00p News (local)
12:15p Weather (local)
12:20p Sports (local)
12:30p Top Star Bowling
01:30p Movie – “Summer Stock”
03:00p Checkmate
04:00p CBS Sports Spectacular (profile of Gene Mauch, Phillies manager)
04:30p Original Amateur Hour
05:00p The Twentieth Century – “The Plots Against Hitler”
05:30p GOP Convention Preview
Evening
06:00p Lassie
06:30p My Favorite Martian
07:00p Ed Sullivan (Duke Ellington, Liza Minnelli, The Beatles, Jean Paul Vignon, Morecome and Wise, Shirley Verrett)
08:00p Celebrity Game (Fabian, Gypsy Rose Lee, Jack E. Leonard, Paul Lynde, Gisele MacKenzie, Julie Newmar, Barry Sullivan, Ida Lupino, Howard Duff)
08:30p Brenner
09:00p Candid Camera
09:30p What’s My Line? (Robert Q. Lewis, Arlene Francis, Dorothy Kilgallen, Bennett Cerf) (live)
10:00p News (local)
10:15p Weather (local)
10:20p Sports (local)
10:30p All Star Bowling (live)
12:00a News (local)

KSTP, Channel 5 (NBC)
Morning
07:45a Davey and Goliath
08:00a Bible Story Time (color)
08:30a Light Time
08:45a Christopher Program
09:00a Quiz a Catholic (color)
09:30a Frontiers of Faith
10:00a Big Picture
10:30a This Is the Life
11:00a Film Feature
11:30a Famous Playhouse
Afternoon
12:00p Love That Bob!
12:30p Famous Playhouse
01:00p Movie – “Penny Serenade”
03:00p Movie – “Woman in Distress”
04:00p Sunday - GOP Convention Preview
04:30p Meet the Press (Gov. William Scranton)
05:30p GOP Convention Preview
Evening
06:30p Walt Disney’s World of Color (color)
07:30p Grindl
08:00p Bonanza (color)
09:00p Du Pont Show of the Month – “The Last Hangman” (color)
10:00p News (local) (color)
10:15p Weather (local) (color)
10:20p Sports (local) (color)
10:30p Movie – “Last Holiday”
12:15a Movie – “Blackmailer”

KMSP, Channel 9 (ABC)
Morning
09:00a Insight
09:30a Oral Roberts
10:00a Soul’s Harbor
10:30a Movie – “Gunga Din”
Afternoon
12:00p Discovery ’64 (President Eisenhower)
12:30p Issues and Answers (Rep. William E. Miller, Former GOP Chairman Leonard Hall)
01:00p Mantovani
01:30p Movie – “Action in Arabia”
03:00p Yancy Derringer
03:30p Pursuit – “The Red Recruiters”
04:00p Olympic Trials (Boxing, Judo, Equestrian)
05:00p Movie – “Back from the Dead”
Evening
06:30p GOP Convention Preview
07:30p Arrest and Trial
09:00p Death Valley Days
09:30p The Rebel
10:00p News, Weather, Sports
10:30p Movie – “The Breaking Point”

WTCN, Channel 11 (Ind.)
Morning
11:00a Farm Forum
11:30a Faith for Today
Afternoon
12:00p Home Buyers’ Digest
01:00p Business Topics
01:15p Sen. Hubert Humphrey
01:30p Executive Report
02:00p Highway Patrol
02:30p Amos ‘n’ Andy
03:00p Whirlybirds
03:30p Bob Allison
04:00p M Squad
04:30p The Invisible Man
05:00p Rocky and His Friends
05:30p Bold Journey
Evening
06:00p Movie – “Yesterday’s Enemy”
07:30p Movie – “Terror Is a Man”
09:00p Bishop Sheen
09:30p News (local)
09:45p Weather (local)
09:50p Sports (local)
10:00p Movie – “The Great Man’s Lady”
12:15a Silents Please

 

[Joseph_Gallant]

As for 1964, the GOP convention was a doozy - and, as I write, a good example of why political parties don't want conventions like this anymore.

Besides Senator Barry Goldwater's acceptance speech, the most-remembered moment of that convention came when NBC floor reporter John Chancellor was arrested on live TV, signing-off: "I'm John Chancellor, NBC News, reporting from somewhere in custody", as he was being marched off the floor.

I, age eight and a half, was watching it, and the director cut to a two-shot of anchormen Chet Huntley and David Brinkley in the anchor booth, who were laughing their heads off!

Despite the fact that Chancellor went on to anchor "NBC Nightly News" for almost a dozen years (1970-82), he is best remembered not for that, but for the Arrest At The Cow Palace. Some even claimed it was the reason why he got the anchor desk after Huntley and Brinkley split.

The story had a happy ending: The head of security recognized Chancellor, dropped the "charges" against him (maybe the officers arresting him were fans of ABC or CBS!), and ordered him back out on the floor to do his job for NBC.