Retro: Varied cities - Thur. Dec. 7 - Sun., Dec. 10, 1967 (Otis Redding's final days and places)

[RandTV]

Memphis
Thursday, December 7, 1967

Otis recorded his most iconic song "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay" in Memphis and later held a concert in that same city.

3 WREC (CBS)
6:15 Sunrise Semester
6:45 Above the Clouds
7:00 Good Morning Show
7:50 CBS Morning News
8:15 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Candid Camera
9:30 Beverly Hillbillies
10:00 Andy of Mayberry
10:30 Dick Van Dyke
11:00 Love of Life
11:25 CBS Midday News
11:30 Search for Tomorrow
11:45 Guiding Light
NOON December Bride
12:30 As the World Turns
1:00 Love is a Many Splendored Thing
1:30 House Party
2:00 To Tell the Truth - Panel: Tom Poston, Peggy Cass, Orson Bean, Kitty Carlisle
2:25 CBS Afternoon News
2:30 Edge of Night
3:00 Secret Storm
3:30 Early Movie: "Early to Bed" (1936) - Mary Boland, Charles Ruggles
5:00 5 O'Clock News & Weather
5:30 CBS Evening News
6:00 Highway Patrol
6:30 Cimarron Strip: "Nobody"
8:00 CBS Thursday Night Movie: "Under Capricorn" (1949) - Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten, Michael Wilding, Margaret Leighton
10:00 10 O'Clock News & Weather
10:20 Late Movie: "A Stolen Life" (1946) - Bette Davis, Glenn Ford, Dane Clark, Walter Brennan, Charlie Ruggles
MIDNIGHT News & Weather Final

5 WMC (NBC)
6:25 TV Chapel
6:30 College Economics
7:00 Today
7:25 Today in the Mid-South
7:30 Today (continued)
8:25 Today in Memphis
8:30 Today (continued)
9:00 Snap Judgment - Guests: Pat Carroll, Gene Rayburn
9:25 NBC News Morning Report
9:30 Concentration
10:00 Personality - Guests: Florence Henderson, Bill Cullen, Selma Diamond
10:30 Hollywood Squares - Panel: Michael Landon, June Lockhart, Charley Weaver, Ruta Lee, Wally Cox, Rose Marie, Buddy Hackett, Leonard Nimoy, Jan Murray
11:00 Jeopardy!
11:30 Eye Guess
11:55 NBC News Day Report
NOON Noon News
12:30 Let's Make a Deal
1:00 Days of Our Lives
1:30 The Doctors
2:00 Another World
2:30 You Don't Say! - Guests: Kay Starr, Mel Torme
3:00 Match Game - Guests: Jane Withers, Alan King
3:25 NBC News Afternoon Report
3:30 Mike Douglas - Co-host: Don Rickles; Guests: Dr. Joyce Brothers, Hermione Gingold, Ann Hiltn
4:30 Merv Griffin - Guests: George Jessel, Marty Allen & Steve Rossi, Dr. Joyce Brothers, Pete Parbutti
5:30 Huntley-Brinkley Report
6:00 Six O'Clock Report
6:30 Daniel Boone: "Chief Mingo"
7:30 Ironside: "The Past is Prologue"
8:30 Please Don't Eat the Daisies (R; station regularly pre-empted Dragnet 1968 to Saturdays for this show)
9:00 Dean Martin - Guests: Van Johnson, Patrice Munsel & Susan Barret (singing duo), John Barbour
10:00 Ten O'Clock News
10:10 Don Hickman News
10:15 Norm Brewer Report
10:30 Tonight Show - Guests: Mel Brooks, Rich Little, Mitzi Gaynor, Lee Beery; Musical guests: The Serendipity Singers
MIDNIGHT News Final
12:05 TV Chapel

10 WKNO (NET)
Numbers correspond to the grade level.
8:50 Remedial Reading - 4
9:13 Music - 6
9:37 Remedial Reading - 5
10:00 Science - 3
10:23 Science - 6
10:46 Music - 5
11:09 Music - 3
11:32 Music - 4
11:55 Music - 2
12:13 Music - 1
12:31 Science - 4
1:03 Science - 3
1:26 Modern Math - 6
1:49 Art - 5
2:12 Look Around - 5
2:30 All Aboard With Mr. Be
3:00 Journey
3:30 Spectrum
4:00 What's New?
4:30 Public Affairs
5:30 Business Roundtable
6:00 Serenade
6:30 What's New?
7:00 All Aboard
7:30 Channel 10 Travels
8:00 Conversations
8:30 Spectrum
9:00 Eric Hoffer
9:30 Underway for Peace

13 WHBQ (ABC)
6:25 University of Michigan
7:00 Cartoon Time
8:00 Mr. Bingle (Christmas mascot for Lowenstein's department store, as well as its New Orleans-based owner Maison Blanche.)
8:05 Cartoon time (continued)
8:30 Donna Reed
9:00 Topper
9:30 Family Game - Bob Barker
10:00 Temptation - Art James (premiered Dec. 4)
10:25 Children's Doctor
10:30 How's Your Mother-in-Law? - Wink Martindale (premiereed Dec. 4)
11:00 Everybody's Talking - Lloyd Thaxton
11:30 Super Bingo - Bill Leyden (syndicated; locally pre-empts Treasure Isle)
NOON The Fugitive
1:00 Newlywed Game
1:30 Dream Girl of '67 - Paul Petersen
2:00 General Hospital
2:30 Dark Shadows
3:00 Dating Game
3:30 Fun House
4:45 Dan Stewart News
4:55 Ed Craig Weather
5:00 Peter Jennings With the News
5:30 Cheyenne
6:25 Letters to Santa
6:30 Batman: "The Bloody Tower" - Guest Villains: Rudy Vallee as Lord Marmaduke Ffogg, Glynnis Johns as Lady Penelope Peasoup (Ffogg's sister) (final appearance of Madge Blake as Aunt Harriet Cooper)
7:00 Flying Nun: "If You Want to Fly, Keep Your Coronet Dry"
7:30 Bewitched: "My, What Big Ears You Have" - Endora puts a spell on Darrin making his ears grow for every lie.
8:00 That Girl: "It's a Mod, Mod World" (Part 1)
8:30 Peyton Place
9:00 Good Company - F. Lee Bailey
9:30 Felony Squad: "Ordeal by Terror" - Guest starring Beau Bridges; aired on most other ABC affiliates on Mondays.
10:00 Mid-South News
10:15 Moving Weather
10:20 Sports
10:30 Joey Bishop - Guest: Sebastian Cabot, Sandra Dee, Dennis Day; Musical guests: The Standells
MIDNIGHT News Final

Sources: Memphis Commercial Appeal, Memphis Press-Scimitar @ newspapers.com

 

[RandTV]

Nashville
Friday, December 8

Otis and his back-up group The Bar-Kays flew from Memphis to Nashville for a performance at Vanderbilt University.

2 WDCN (NET)
3:00 (PM) All Aboard With Mr. Be
3:30 Viva La France
4:00 Men of Our Time - Mohandas K. Gandhi
5:00 Cultures and Continents - Music of Africa
5:30 Compass
6:00 British Calendar/World Traveler
6:30 American Story Classic: "Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street" - Herman Melville
7:00 What's New?
7:30 Holiday Hints
8:00 Bookbeat
8:30 Museum Open House
9:00 Sibelius: "A Symphony for Finland"

4 WSM (NBC)
5:45 Morning Worship
6:00 Bobby Lord
7:00 Today
- 7:15 Today's Weather
- 8:15 Today's Local News
9:00 Snap Judgment
9:25 NBC News Morning Report
9:30 Concentration
10:00 Personality
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11:00 Jeopardy!
11:30 Eye Guess
11:55 NBC News Day Report
NOON Noon With Jud Collins
12:30 Barbara Moore Noon Show
1:00 Days of Our Lives
1:30 The Doctors
2:00 Another World
2:30 You Don't Say!
3:00 Match Game
3:25 NBC News Afternoon Report
3:30 Flintstones
4:00 Let's Make a Deal
4:30 Ralph Emery
5:25 Early Weather
5:30 Huntley-Brinkley Report
6:00 Dateline Today
6:30 NBC Special: "Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer" (aired on NBC 1964-71)
7:30 Pop 'n' Country*
8:00 Grand Ole Opry*
8:30 Project Four*
9:00 American Profile (NBC News): The Forgotten Peninsula (Baja California)
10:00 10 O'Clock News
10:15 Weather
10:30 Touchdown Preview
10:45 Tonight Show - Guests: Louis Nye, Phil Foster; Musical guest: Nancy Sinatra

*Locally pre-empted NBC schedule:
7:30 Star Trek: "The Deadly Year"
8:30 Accidental Family: "The Return of Mr. Ex"

5 WLAC (CBS)
5:45 Farm News
6:00 Country Junction With Eddie Hill
7:45 Morning News
7:55 Morning Weather
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Mike Douglas - Guest host: Don Rickles; Guests: Peter Breck, Peter Robotti and wife, Hans Holzer, Lana Cantrell, Dorothy Ashby
10:00 Andy of Mayberry
10:30 Dick Van Dyke
11:00 Love of Life
11:25 CBS Midday News
11:30 Search for Tomorrow
11:45 Guiding Light
NOON World at Noon
12:05 Old Time Singing
12:30 As the World Turns
1:00 Love Is a Many Splendored Thing
1:30 House Party
2:00 To Tell the Truth
2:25 CBS Afternoon News
2:30 Edge of Night
3:00 Secret Storm
3:30 Password
4:00 Big Show: "Violent Road" (1958) - Brian Keith, Dick Foran, Efrem Zimablist Jr.
5:25 Radar Weather
5:30 CBS Evening News
6:00 Newsbeat
6:15 Radar Weather
6:20 Today in Sports
6:30 Wild, Wild West: "The Night of the Iron Fist"
7:30 Gomer Pyle: "Change Partners"
8:00 CBS Friday Night Movie: "Gentlemen Marry Brunettes" (1955) - Jane Russell, Jeanne Crain, Alan Young, Scott Brady, Rudy Vallee
10:00 The Big News
10:15 Radar Weather
10:20 Today in Sports
10:30 Films of the '50s: "Two-Way Stretch" (1960) - Peter Sellers, Maurice Denham, Lionel Jeffries

8 WSIX (ABC)
6:30 Highway Patrol
7:00 Bozo Show
8:15 Romper Room
8:50 News Report
8:55 Pick-a-Show
9:30 Dateline: Hollywood
9:55 Children's Doctor
10:00 Honeymoon Race - Bill Malone
10:30 Family Game
11:00 Everybody's Talking
11:30 Donna Reed
NOON The Fugitive
1:00 Newlywed Game
1:30 Dream Girl of '67
1:55 News with the Women's Touch (forgot to put this in the Memphis schedule)
2:00 General Hospital
2:30 Dark Shadows
3:00 Dating Game
3:30 Prize Movie: "Don't Knock the Rock" (1956) - Alan Dale, Alan Freed; Performers: Bill Haley & His Comets, Little Richard, The Treniers, Dave Appell & The Applejacks
5:00 Peter Jennings With the News
5:30 Maverick
6:30 Off to See the Wizard - anthology series hosted by Hal Holbrook; Movie: "Flipper" (1963) - Chuck Connors, Luke Halpin, Joe Higgins, Kathy Maguire'
7:30 Hondo: "Hondo and the Hanging Town"
8:30 Guns of Will Sonnett: "Find a Sonnett, Kill a Sonnett"
9:00 Music City, USA (locally pre-empts Judd for the Defense; episode: "The Living Victim")
10:00 Ten O'Clock News
10:30 Joey Bishop - Guests: Rosemary Clooney, Jack Carter, Irene Ryan, Tony Bill; Musical guests: The Checkmates

Sources: Nashville Tennesseean; Park City (Bowling Green, KY) Daily News @ newspapers.com

 

[RandTV]

Cleveland
Saturday, December 9, 1967

Otis and the Bar-Kays then flew to Cleveland to perform on the local music show Upbeat, as well as three concerts at Leo's Casion at 8:00, 10:30, and 1:00 a.m. on December 10.

3 WKYC (NBC)
7:00 Popeye Theatre
9:00 Super 6
9:30 Super President
10:00 Flintstones
10:30 Samson & Goliath (retitled Young Samson the following April)
11:00 Birdman and the Galaxy Trio
11:30 Atom Ant/Secret Squirrel
NOON Top Cat
12:30 Cool McCool
1:00 Panorama
1:30 Gadabout Gaddies
2:00 AFL Football - Buffalo Bills vs. Boston Patriots (as they were then known as)
5:00 White House Wedding - First Daughter Lynda Bird Johnson weds USMC Maj. Charles Robb (later Lt. Governor, Governor, and U.S. Senator of Virginia)
5:30 GE College Bowl - Robert Earle; Barnard vs. Ohio State
6:00 Big Ralph - Performers: Gladys Knight & the Pips, The Fifth Dimension
6:30 Montage - Topic: The high cost of building in the Cleveland area.
7:00 Frank McGee Report (weekend counterpart to the Huntley-Brinkley Report)
7:30 Maya: "Deadly Passage"
8:30 Get Smart: "The Mild Ones" - Guest starring Steve Allen as a kidnapped prime minister.
9:00 NBC Saturday Night at the Movies: "Incident at Phantom Hill" (1966) - Robert Fuller, Jocelyn Lane, Dan Duryea
11:00 Channel 3 News
11:20 Late Show: "Two Women" (1961; Italian, German) - Sophia Loren, Jean Paul Belmondo
1:00 Late, Late Show: "Step Down to Terror" (1959) - Colleen Miller, Charles Drake

5 WEWS (ABC)
7:30 Herald of Truth
8:00 Beagles
8:30 Bomba, the Jungle Boy
9:30 Deputy Dawg
10:00 Spider-Man
10:30 Journey to the Center of the Earth
11:00 King Kong
11:30 George of the Jungle
NOON Feature Film: "The Sad Horse" (1959) - David Ladd, Chill Wills, Rex Reason, Patrice Wymore
1:30 NCAA Football - Miami vs. Florida
5:00 Upbeat - Peformers: Otis Redding & The Bar-Kays, The Buckinghams, Gary Puckett & the Union Gap
6:00 Greatest Show on Earth
7:00 It's Academic - Hebrew Academy of Cleveland - Yavne vs. John Adams High School
7:30 Dating Game
8:00 Newlywed Game
8:30 Lawrence Welk - Theme: "Winter"
9:30 Iron Horse: "Dealer's Choice"
10:30 Good Company (rerun locally pre-empting ABC Scope)
11:00 TV-5 News
11:20 This Week in the NFL
11:50 Movie on 5: "Duel in the Sun" (1947) - Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Gregory Peck, Lionel Barrymore
2:05 Outdoor World


Bonus schedule: 23 WAKR (ABC) Akron
This station maintained the standard daytime ABC schedule which was largely absent from WEWS. Spaces indicate same listings as WEWS.

9:00 Casper Cartoon Show
9:30 Fantastic Four

NOON The Beatles Cartoon
12:30 American Bandstand - Guests: Glenn Campbell, The Sunshine Company

5:00 ABC's Wide World of Sports - 1) International Toboggan Cresta Championships (St. Moritz, Switzerland); 2) World All-Around Pocket Billiards Championships (Johnston City, IL); 3) World Barrel Jumping Championships (Grossinger, NY)
6:30 Bible Study
7:00 Ernest Tubb

10:30 Hawaii Calls
11:00 ABC Weekend News
11:15 White House Wedding
11:45 Grid Films (football)

8 WJW (CBS)
7:00 Sunrise Semester
7:30 Tom & Jerry
8:00 Underdog
8:30 Ruff & Reddy
9:00 Frankenstein Jr.
9:30 Herculoids
10:00 Shazam!
10:30 Space Ghost
11:00 Moby Dick & Mighty Mightor
11:30 Superman/Aquaman Hour of Adventure
12:30 Jonny Quest
1:00 Lone Ranger
1:30 Road Runner
2:00 Afternoon Movie: "Brain from Planet Arous" (1957) - John Agar, Jayne Meadows, Robert Fuller
3:30 Fans' Voice Browns' Best Football
4:00 NFL Football - Green Bay Packers vs. Los Angeles Rams
7:00 Death Valley
7:30 Jackie Gleason - Guests: Sid Caesar, Shelley Berman, Mel Torme, Peter Nero
8:30 My Three Sons: "Leaving the Nest"
9:00 Hogan's Heroes: "Everybody Loves a Snowman"
9:30 Petticoat Junction: "Kate's Day in Court"
10:00 Mannix: "Turn Every Stone"
11:00 City Camera
11:25 Nite Movie: "Ride, Vaquero!" (1953) - Robert Taylor, Ava Gardner, Howard Keel, Anthony Quinn
1:00 Late Nite Movie: "Armored Attack" (1943) - Anne Baxter, Dana Andrews, Walter Huston, Walter Brennan

25 WVIZ (NET)
(no Saturday broadcasting)

Sources: Plain Dealer @ geneologybank.com; Akron Beacon-Journal @ newspapers.com

 

[classictvfan]

Please post the December 10, 1967 schedule

 

[RandTV]

Please post the December 10, 1967 schedule

Done finally! Thank you for your patience. Sometimes I get sidetracked.

 

[RandTV]

When did the crash happen?

You mean the time? Late afternoon.

 

[RandTV]

When did the crash happen?

I just checked in the Madison papers, and it was at 3:28 PM.