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Retro: Washington-Baltimore Mon., Oct. 17, 1966

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From TV Guide, Washington-Baltimore Edition:

WMAR Ch. 2 Baltimore (CBS)

6:30 Sunrise Semester: "Philosophy"
7 AM News, Weather
7:05 CBS News (Joseph Benti, COLOR)
7:30 Gigantor
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Romper Room (COLOR)
9:30 News (Richard Strader)
9:40 Dialing For Dollars (COLOR)
10 AM Divorce Court
11 AM Andy Griffith
11:30 Dick Van Dyke
12 N Love Of Life
12:25 News (Richard Strader, COLOR)
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1 PM Woman's Angle (COLOR)
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Password (John Forsythe, Barbara Rush, COLOR)
2:30 Art Linkletter's House Party (columnist Dorothy Manners, singer Jennie Smith, COLOR)
3 PM To Tell The Truth
3:25 TBA
3:30 Edge Of Night
4 PM Secret Storm
4:30 Superman (COLOR)
5 PM Movie: "Ride Lonesome"
6:25 News (COLOR)
6:30 CBS News (Walter Cronkite, COLOR)
7 PM News, Weather, Sports (COLOR)
7:30 Gilligan's Island (COLOR)
8 PM Run, Buddy, Run (COLOR)
8:30 The Lucy Show (COLOR)
9 PM Andy Griffith (COLOR)
9:30 Family Affair (COLOR)
10 PM Corrallin' The Colts (Chuck Thompson reviews the Colts-Lions game.)
10:30 I've Got A Secret (Lucille Ball is guest; Steve Allen hosts; panel: Bill Cullen, Betsy Palmer, Henry Morgan, Bess Myerson, COLOR)
11 PM News, Weather, Sports (COLOR)
11:20 Movie: "Half Angel" (COLOR)
12:55 News

WRC Ch. 4 Washington, DC (NBC)

6:15 Faith And Life (COLOR)
6:25 Down To Earth (COLOR)
6:30 Education Exchange: "Survival In The City"
7 AM Today (Melina Mercouri; Rowland Evans and Robert Novak discuss their book about LBJ, COLOR)
9 AM Today With Inga And Mark (COLOR)
9:30 Exercise With Gloria (Gloria Roeder, COLOR)
9:55 News (Dave Rush, COLOR)
10 AM Eye Guess (COLOR)
10:25 NBC News (Sander Vanocur, COLOR)
10:30 Concentration
11 AM Pat Boone (debut of his daytime show; guests: Johnny Carson, Lorne Greene, Edie Adams, COLOR)
11:30 Hollywood Squares (debut of a daytime institution; regulars: Rose Marie, Morey Amsterdam, Abby Dalton, Wally Cox, Cliff "Charley Weaver" Arquette; guests: Agnes Moorehead, Ernest Borgnine (in the center square; Paul Lynde did not become a regular until 1968), Nick Adams, Sally Field, Pamela Mason, COLOR) (and no, I don't know which of the five regulars sat out that week)
12 N Jeopardy! (COLOR)
12:30 Swingin' Country (hosts: Roy Clark, Molly Bee, Rusty Draper; guest: Roberta Sherwood, COLOR)
12:55 NBC News (anchor not given, probably Edwin Newman, COLOR)
1 PM PDQ (revived in 1973 as "Baffle," COLOR)
1:30 Let's Make A Deal (COLOR)
1:55 NBC News (Nancy Dickerson, COLOR)
2 PM Days Of Our Lives (COLOR)
2:30 The Doctors (COLOR)
3 PM Another World (COLOR)
3:30 You Don't Say! (Peter Lawford, Anne Francis, COLOR)
4 PM Match Game (Miss America 1967 Jane Anne Jayroe, Sal Mineo, COLOR)
4:25 NBC News (Floyd Kalber, COLOR)
4:30 Movie: "Crash Dive" (COLOR)
6 PM News, Weather, Sports (COLOR)
6:30 Huntley-Brinkley Report (COLOR)
7 PM News, Sports (COLOR)
7:30 The Monkees (COLOR)
8 PM I Dream Of Jeannie (COLOR)
8:30 Roger Miller Show (Liberace, sound-effects expert Wes Harrison, COLOR)
9 PM The Road West (COLOR)
10 PM Run For Your Life (COLOR)
11 PM News, Weather, Sports (COLOR)
11:30 Tonight Show (COLOR)
1 AM News, Weather
1:05 Dimension Washington (COLOR)

WTTG Ch. 5 Washington, DC (Ind.)

7:15 News, Today In Your Life
7:30 Bugs Bunny (COLOR)
8 AM Romper Room
9 AM Jack LaLanne (COLOR)
9:30 Country Music Caravan (COLOR)
10 AM Yoga For Health
10:30 Ann Sothern
11 AM People In Conflict (an immigrant girl is unhappy with her new husband; a teenage girl objects to her mother's meddling)
11:30 Gypsy Rose Lee (guests are satiric composer Peter Schickele and Pat Harrington Jr.)
12 N Movie: "A Kiss In The Dark"
2 PM Bold Journey
3 PM Cisco Kid (COLOR)
3:30 Countdown Carnival
4:30 Billy Johnson (kids' show; he'd been in DC before, on Ch. 9, IIRC)
5 PM Superman (COLOR)
5:30 Woody Woodpecker (COLOR)
6 PM Flintstones (COLOR)
6:30 Dennis The Menace
7 PM Twilight Zone
7:30 Truth Or Consequences (COLOR)
8 PM Movie: "The Razor's Edge"
10 PM News (Alan Smith, COLOR)
10:30 Jean Arthur (short-lived sitcom about a female lawyer and her son-partner, CBS, pre-empted on Ch. 9, delay from 10 PM, COLOR)
11 PM Alfred Hitchcock Presents
12:30 Eleventh Hour

WMAL (WJLA) Ch. 7 Washington, DC (ABC)

7:30 Bozo The Clown (COLOR)
8 AM Claire And Co Co
9 AM Merv Griffin (Michael Caine, Susannah York)
10 AM Girl Talk (guests: Arlene Francis and Betsy Palmer)
10:30 Here's Barbara (Barbara Coleman's long-running talk show)
11 AM Supermarket Sweep
11:30 Dating Game
12 N Donna Reed
12:30 Father Knows Best
1 PM Ben Casey
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 A Time For Us
2:55 ABC News (Marlene Sanders)
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 The Nurses
4 PM Dark Shadows
4:30 Where The Action Is (Count 5 ("Psychotic Reaction"), Neil Diamond)
5 PM Mike Douglas (co-hosts: Ozzie and Harriet Nelson)
6 PM News, Weather, Sports (COLOR)
6:30 Sonny Jurgensen (review of the Redskins-Giants game, COLOR)
6:45 ABC News (Peter Jennings)
7 PM Branded (COLOR)
7:30 Iron Horse (COLOR)
8:30 Rat Patrol (COLOR)
9 PM Felony Squad (COLOR)
9:30 Peyton Place (COLOR)
10 PM Big Valley (DC radio personality Jackson Weaver plays a doctor in this episode, COLOR)
11 PM News, Weather, Sports (COLOR)
11:30 Movie: "Great Day In The Morning" (COLOR)

WGAL Ch. 8 Lancaster, PA (NBC)

7 AM Today (COLOR)
9 AM Mike Douglas
10 AM Eye Guess (COLOR)
10:25 NBC News (COLOR)
10:30 Concentration
11 AM Pat Boone (COLOR)
11:30 Hollywood Squares (COLOR)
12 N Noonday On 8 (COLOR)
12:30 Swingin' Country (COLOR)
12:55 NBC News (COLOR)
1 PM Merv Griffin (oddly, Ch. 8 carries only 30 minutes)
1:30 Let's Make A Deal (COLOR)
1:55 News
2 PM Days Of Our Lives (COLOR)
2:30 The Doctors (COLOR)
3 PM Another World (COLOR)
3:30 You Don't Say! (COLOR)
4 PM Match Game (COLOR)
4:25 News
4:30 Mister Ed
5 PM Bugs Bunny (COLOR)
5:30 Cisco Kid (COLOR)
6 PM News, Weather, Sports (COLOR)
6:30 Huntley-Brinkley Report (COLOR)
7 PM Honeymooners
7:30 Monkees (COLOR)
8 PM I Dream Of Jeannie (COLOR)
8:30 Roger Miller Show (COLOR)
9 PM The Road West (COLOR)
10 PM Run For Your Life (COLOR)
11 PM News, Weather, Sports (COLOR)
11:30 Tonight Show (COLOR)

WTOP (WUSA) Ch. 9 Washington, DC (CBS)

6:30 Sunrise Semester: "Studies In Style"
7 AM News, Weather
7:05 CBS News (repeats at 7:30 AM, COLOR)
7:55 News, Weather, TV Editorial
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Ranger Hal
9:55 News (Bill Diehl)
10 AM Candid Camera (Buster Keaton plays a gas-station attendant who puts spots on windows; an occupied phone booth begins filling up with soap bubbles)
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies
11 AM Andy Griffith
11:30 Dick Van Dyke
12 N Love Of Life
12:25 Doctor's House Call
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1 PM News, Weather, TV Editorial (COLOR)
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Password (COLOR)
2:30 Art Linkletter's House Party (COLOR)
3 PM To Tell The Truth
3:25 CBS News (Douglas Edwards, COLOR)
3:30 Edge Of Night
4 PM Secret Storm
4:30 Movie: "Shadow On The Wall"
6 PM News, Weather, Sports (COLOR)
7 PM CBS News (COLOR)
7:30 Gilligan's Island (COLOR)
8 PM Run, Buddy, Run (COLOR)
8:30 The Lucy Show (COLOR)
9 PM Andy Griffith (COLOR)
9:30 Family Affair (COLOR)
10 PM Secret Agent
11 PM News, Weather, Sports (COLOR)
11:25 Movie: "Bright Road"
12:55 News, Weather, Sports (COLOR)

WBAL Ch. 11 Baltimore (NBC)

6:30 Learning To Read
7 AM Today (COLOR)
9 AM Doctor Alvarez (Dr. Walter C. Alvarez discusses medical problems, sounds like a show ahead of its time)
9:30 Science Class
10 AM Sparetime Bowling
10:30 Concentration
11 AM Pat Boone (COLOR)
11:30 Hollywood Squares (COLOR)
12 N Jeopardy! (COLOR)
12:30 Swingin' Country (COLOR)
12:55 NBC News (COLOR)
1 PM Gypsy Rose Lee (guests: actor Charles Robinson and his wife Joan)
1:30 Girl Talk (Dr. Joyce Brothers; Dr. Jean Houston, author of "The Varieties Of Psychedelic Experience")
2 PM Days Of Our Lives (COLOR)
2:30 The Doctors (COLOR)
3 PM Another World (COLOR)
3:30 You Don't Say! (COLOR)
4 PM Match Game (COLOR)
4:25 Kid's Stuff (COLOR)
4:30 Krazy Cartoons (COLOR)
5 PM Cheyenne
6 PM News, Weather, Sports (COLOR)
6:30 Huntley-Brinkley Report (COLOR)
7 PM News, Weather, Sports (COLOR)
7:30 To Promote Goodwill (COLOR)
8 PM I Dream Of Jeannie (COLOR)
8:30 Roger Miller Show (COLOR)
9 PM The Road West (COLOR)
10 PM Run For Your Life (COLOR)
11 PM News, Weather, Sports (COLOR)
11:30 Tonight Show (COLOR)
1 AM Movie: "The Bear" (COLOR)

WJZ Ch. 13 Baltimore (ABC)

6:15 Agricultural World
6:25 Managers In Action
6:55 News
7 AM Three Stooges
7:30 Bob McAllister (later host of "Wonderama" on Ch. 5 in New York)
9:15 Let's Tell A Story
9:30 General Hospital (delay from 3 PM)
10 AM Ben Casey (delay from 1 PM)
11 AM Supermarket Sweep
11:30 Dating Game
12 N Contact! (John Sterling)
12:55 News (Ann Bishop)
1 PM Merv Griffin (Sammy Kaye, Ozzie and Harriet Nelson)
2:30 A Time For Us
2:55 ABC News
3 PM Mike Douglas (co-host: Eddie Fisher)
4:30 Where The Action Is
5 PM Movie: "Bagdad"
6:25 News (George Baumann)
6:30 Leave It To Beaver
7 PM News (George Baumann)
7:10 ABC News
7:20 Sports, Weather (apparently Ch. 13 did indeed cut off the last five minutes of the Jennings newscast)
7:30 Iron Horse (COLOR)
8:30 Rat Patrol (COLOR)
9 PM Felony Squad (COLOR)
9:30 Peyton Place (COLOR)
10 PM Big Valley (COLOR)
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Movie: "Outside The Law"
1:15 News, Weather

WOOK Ch. 14 (now a repeater for Ch. 53 in Annandale, VA) Washington, DC (Ind.)

5 PM Teenarama Dance Party
6:30 Rate The Record
7 PM Teen Talk
8 PM Roy Rogers
9 PM Safest Way (religious program)
9:30 Adventures In Living
10 PM Critique (public affairs)

WBOC Ch. 16 Salisbury, MD (ABC/CBS/NBC)
network programs only, with an exception

8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9:30 General Hospital
12 N Love Of Life
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Password (COLOR)
2:30 Art Linkletter's House Party (COLOR)
3 PM To Tell The Truth
3:25 CBS News (COLOR)
3:30 Edge Of Night
4 PM Secret Storm
6:30 CBS News (COLOR)
7:30 Gilligan's Island (COLOR)
8:30 The Lucy Show (COLOR)
9 PM Andy Griffith (COLOR)
9:30 Peyton Place (COLOR)
10 PM Big Valley (COLOR)
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Tonight Show (COLOR)

WDCA Ch. 20 Washington, DC (Ind.)

10:45 Devotions
10:50 Krazy Kartoons
11 AM Carousel Classroom
11:30 Laurel And Hardy
12 N Fun Park
12:30 Dialing For Dollars
1 PM Divorce Court
2 PM Movie: "Violent Stranger"
3:30 Gigantor
4 PM Soupy Sales
4:30 Wing Ding
5:30 Patty Duke
6 PM Marshal Dillon
6:30 Rawhide
7:30 Movie: "Love Me, Love Me Not"
9 PM Movie: "Where The Hot Wind Blows"
10:55 News (Jack Anderson)
11 PM Movie: "Where The Hot Wind Blows" is repeated
1 AM News, Weather

WETA Ch. 26 Washington, DC (NET)

9:15 Classroom (senior-high literature, 4th-5th grade social studies, "Roundabout," 2nd-3rd grade geometry, French II, senior-high literature, 5th-7th grade physical science)
12 N Classroom ("Living For The Sixties," "Auto Mechanics," 5th-6th grade English, 2nd-3rd grade science, 6th-7th grade social studies, senior-high literature, 3rd-4th grade English, Montgomery County special)
4:30 Nine On Japan
5 PM Friendly Giant
5:15 Sing Hi--Sing Lo
5:30 What's New
6 PM Big Picture
6:30 Science Reporter (computerized reading aids for the blind)
7 PM What's In A Word (the origins of the names of colors)
7:30 French Chef
8 PM Japan Society Presents (Japanese wood-block painting)
8:30 Jazz Casual (pianist Joe Sullivan performs)
9 PM NET Journal ("A Time For Burning" looks at a Nebraska clergyman, Rev. William Youngdahl, as he tries to improve race relations in his community.)
10 PM Georgetown Forum (contrasting views of the UN)
10:30 Pharmacy Seminar (topic: birth control)
sign off 11 PM

WSBA (WPMT) Ch. 43 York, PA (CBS)
network programs only, with an exception

8 AM Captain Kangaroo
10 AM Candid Camera
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies
11 AM Andy Griffith
11:30 Dick Van Dyke
12 N Love Of Life
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Password (COLOR)
2:30 Art Linkletter's House Party (COLOR)
3 PM To Tell The Truth
3:25 CBS News (COLOR)
3:30 Edge Of Night
4 PM Secret Storm
6:30 CBS News (COLOR)
7:30 Gilligan's Island (COLOR)
8 PM Run, Buddy, Run (COLOR)
8:30 The Lucy Show (COLOR)
9 PM Andy Griffith (COLOR)
9:30 Family Affair (COLOR)
10:30 I've Got A Secret (COLOR)
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
 
I think you should be ready on the look out for some TV listings from Local TV Guides from Washington-Baltimore from the time period of 1967 to 1971. If you get some, just let me know and I'd love to see some posted!

Here are the listings!

2 - WMAR Baltimore (CBS)
4 - WRC Washington (NBC)
5 - WTTG Washington (Ind)
7 - WMAL Washington (ABC)
8 - WGAL Lancaster (NBC)
9 - WTOP Washington (CBS)
11 - WBAL Baltimore (NBC)
13 - WJZ Baltimore (ABC)
14 - WOOK Washington (Ind, changed call letters to WFAN in 1969)
16 - WBOC Salisbury (CBS)
20 - WDCA Washington (Ind)
25 - WHAG Hagerstown (NBC)
26 - WETA Washington (NET, became PBS member station in 1971)
43 - WSBA York (CBS)
45 - WBFF Baltimore (Ind)
67 - WMPB Baltimore (NET, became PBS member station in 1971)
 
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Whoops! I checked! And there's so much 70s & 80s TV Guides from Baltimore-Washington. So, I think you should be ready on the look out for some TV listings from local TV Guides from Washington-Baltimore from the time period of 1992-94, and from either Baltimore or Washington from the time period of 1994-96. If you find some, just let me know and I'd love to see some posted!

Here are the listings....

2 - WMAR Baltimore (NBC, switched to ABC in 1995)
4 - WRC Washington (NBC)
5 - WTTG Washington (Fox)
7 - WJLA Washington (ABC)
8 - WGAL Lancaster (NBC)
9 - WUSA Washington (CBS)
11 - WBAL Baltimore (CBS, switched to NBC in 1995)
13 - WJZ Baltimore (ABC, switched to CBS in 1995)
16 - WBOC Salisbury (CBS)
20 - WDCA Washington (Ind, became UPN affiliate in 1995)
22 - WMPT Annapolis (PBS)
25 - WHAG Hagerstown (NBC)
26 - WETA Washington (PBS)
28 - WCPB Salisbury (PBS)
31 - WWPB Hagerstown (PBS)
32 - WHMM Washington (PBS)
45 - WBFF Baltimore (Fox)
47 - WMDT Salisbury (ABC)
50 - WFTY Washington (Ind, became WB affiliate and changed call letters to WBDC in 1995)
54 - WNUV Baltimore (Ind, became UPN affiliate in 1995)
62 - WFPT Frederick (PBS)
67 - WMPB Baltimore (PBS)
68 - WJAL Hagerstown (Ind, became WB affiliate in 1995)
 
I find it interesting that neither 13 in Baltimore nor 7 in Washington aired Mike Douglas or Merv Griffin in color. Were these shows produced in color or did they not have color VTR capabilities? I noticed that 7 had color studio capabilities as Bozo and their local news was in color.
 
WOOK 14 D.C.
I saw a PBS program about their 5PM Teenarama Dance Show. Even though they had a very small studio, the kids and this show actually "built" WOOK. Here's what Wikipedia says about it..... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WFDC-TV

Channel 14 first signed on as WOOK on March 6, 1963 as the first television station in the country aimed at the African-American demographic. WOOK's claim to fame was their teen-oriented dance show called Teenarama, which featured big-name acts such as James Brown and Marvin Gaye.
 
I find it interesting that neither 13 in Baltimore nor 7 in Washington aired Mike Douglas or Merv Griffin in color. Were these shows produced in color or did they not have color VTR capabilities? I noticed that 7 had color studio capabilities as Bozo and their local news was in color.

...IIRC, Griffin wasn't in color until early '67 and Douglas upgraded to color after KYW-TV/3 moved from Cleveland to Philadelphia a couple of months earlier than this...
 
I moved to Norfolk about a month after these listings, and there WAVY was carrying Mike in color. WTAR (now WTKR) picked up Merv in the spring of '67. and IIRC he aired in color as well. Apparently WJZ did not have color capabilities (neither did our ABC affiliate in Norfolk, WVEC, at that time); as for WMAL/WJLA I have no explanation. What's odd is that WJZ was and is KYW's sister station.
 
Well then bpatrick2, do you have any TV listings from local TV guides from Eastern Virginia from the time period of 1987-1991? If so, just let me know and I'ld love to see them posted!

Here are the listings!

3H - WHSV Harrisonburg (ABC)
3N - WTKR Norfolk (CBS)
5 - WTTG Washington (Fox)
6 - WTVR Richmond (CBS)
8 - WXEX Petersburg (ABC, changed call letters to WRIC in 1990)
10 - WAVY Portsmouth (NBC)
12 - WWBT Richmond (NBC)
13 - WVEC Hampton (ABC)
15 - WHRO Norfolk (PBS)
20 - WDCA Washington (Ind)
23 - WCVE Richmond (PBS)
27 - WGNT Portsmouth (Ind)
29 - WVIR Charlottesville (NBC)
33 - WTVZ Norfolk (Fox)
35 - WRLH Richmond (Fox)
41 - WHTJ Charlottesville (PBS)
51 - WVPT Staunton (PBS)
57 - WCVW Richmond (PBS)
 
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