(Source: Western Kansas Press, Great Bend, 4/27/63)
KCKT 2 Great Bend
and KARD 3 Wichita (NBC/Kansas State Network)
AM
8 Law and Society
8:30 Ruff and Reddy
9 Shari Lewis Show
9:30 King Leonardo
10 Fury
10:30 Make Room For Daddy
11 Around Town
11:30 Exploring
PM
12:30 Magic Ranch
1 Wyatt Earp
1:30 Top Star Bowling
2:30 DeWalt Workshop
3 Baseball: Braves at Giants (Braves won 6-5)
6 Sportsman’s Friend
6:30 Sam Benedict
7 Death Valley Days
8 NBC Saturday Night at the Movies: “Three Coins in the Fountain”
10 News
10:20 Cinema Saturday Night: “Killers of Kilimanjaro”
**This edition of the Press included a UPI interview with Don Bays, who was in charge of NBC’s Saturday and Monday night movies. “Earlier in the year advertisers backed out of ‘It’s A Man’s World’ and ‘Saints and Sinners,’ both hour-long adventure drama series,” the story says. “So we bought the movies as a stop-gap measure. We never intended the movies as a permanent fixture,” Bays is quoted.
The package consisted of 42 movies from 20th Century Fox and 35 from MGM at a total cost of $14 million. Seventeen didn’t pass “broadcast standards…some of them are mediocre musicals which are death on television,” Bays said.
Heavy drama worked better on Saturdays and lighter fare on Mondays, Bays is quoted.
KAYS-TV 7 Hays
and KWCH 12 Hutchinson-Wichita (CBS)
AM
7:15 (12) Agriculture Today
7:30 (12) Masonic Digest
7:45 (12) Cartoon Carnival
8 Captain Kangaroo
9 Alvin
9:30 Mighty Mouse
10 Rin Tin Tin
10:30 Roy Rogers
11 Sky King
11:30 Deputy Dawg
PM
12 News (full local noon newscast on Saturday—unusual)
12:30 TBA
12:45 Baseball: Indians at Yankees (Yankees won 8-1)
3:45 Film Feature
4 Highway Patrol
4:30 I Led Three Lives
5 (7) Film Feature (12) Trails West
5:30 (7) Pioneers (12) Serenaders
6 News
6:30 Jackie Gleason
7:30 Defenders
8:30 Have Gun – Will Travel
9 Gunsmoke
10 News
10:30 Movie: “Golden Earrings”
12 (12) Movie: “The Hitler Gang”
KAKE-TV 10 Wichita (ABC)
AM
8 Big Picture
8:30 American Bandstand (KAKE broadcast the Three Stooges and a movie weekdays instead of Bandstand)
9:30 Popeye and His Pals
10:30 Rascals’ Roll Call
11 Cartoonsville
10:30 Beany and Cecil
PM
12 Bugs Bunny
12:30 Allakazam
1 My Friend Flicka
1:30 Movie: Comedy (not listed)
2:30 Pro Bowlers Tour
4 Wide World of Sports
5:30 Roaring 20s
6:30 Gallant Men
7:30 Hootenanny
8 Lawrence Welk
9 Boxing
9:45 Make That Spare
10 News
10:30 Movie: “She Wore A Yellow Ribbon”
KCKT 2 Great Bend
and KARD 3 Wichita (NBC/Kansas State Network)
AM
8 Law and Society
8:30 Ruff and Reddy
9 Shari Lewis Show
9:30 King Leonardo
10 Fury
10:30 Make Room For Daddy
11 Around Town
11:30 Exploring
PM
12:30 Magic Ranch
1 Wyatt Earp
1:30 Top Star Bowling
2:30 DeWalt Workshop
3 Baseball: Braves at Giants (Braves won 6-5)
6 Sportsman’s Friend
6:30 Sam Benedict
7 Death Valley Days
8 NBC Saturday Night at the Movies: “Three Coins in the Fountain”
10 News
10:20 Cinema Saturday Night: “Killers of Kilimanjaro”
**This edition of the Press included a UPI interview with Don Bays, who was in charge of NBC’s Saturday and Monday night movies. “Earlier in the year advertisers backed out of ‘It’s A Man’s World’ and ‘Saints and Sinners,’ both hour-long adventure drama series,” the story says. “So we bought the movies as a stop-gap measure. We never intended the movies as a permanent fixture,” Bays is quoted.
The package consisted of 42 movies from 20th Century Fox and 35 from MGM at a total cost of $14 million. Seventeen didn’t pass “broadcast standards…some of them are mediocre musicals which are death on television,” Bays said.
Heavy drama worked better on Saturdays and lighter fare on Mondays, Bays is quoted.
KAYS-TV 7 Hays
and KWCH 12 Hutchinson-Wichita (CBS)
AM
7:15 (12) Agriculture Today
7:30 (12) Masonic Digest
7:45 (12) Cartoon Carnival
8 Captain Kangaroo
9 Alvin
9:30 Mighty Mouse
10 Rin Tin Tin
10:30 Roy Rogers
11 Sky King
11:30 Deputy Dawg
PM
12 News (full local noon newscast on Saturday—unusual)
12:30 TBA
12:45 Baseball: Indians at Yankees (Yankees won 8-1)
3:45 Film Feature
4 Highway Patrol
4:30 I Led Three Lives
5 (7) Film Feature (12) Trails West
5:30 (7) Pioneers (12) Serenaders
6 News
6:30 Jackie Gleason
7:30 Defenders
8:30 Have Gun – Will Travel
9 Gunsmoke
10 News
10:30 Movie: “Golden Earrings”
12 (12) Movie: “The Hitler Gang”
KAKE-TV 10 Wichita (ABC)
AM
8 Big Picture
8:30 American Bandstand (KAKE broadcast the Three Stooges and a movie weekdays instead of Bandstand)
9:30 Popeye and His Pals
10:30 Rascals’ Roll Call
11 Cartoonsville
10:30 Beany and Cecil
PM
12 Bugs Bunny
12:30 Allakazam
1 My Friend Flicka
1:30 Movie: Comedy (not listed)
2:30 Pro Bowlers Tour
4 Wide World of Sports
5:30 Roaring 20s
6:30 Gallant Men
7:30 Hootenanny
8 Lawrence Welk
9 Boxing
9:45 Make That Spare
10 News
10:30 Movie: “She Wore A Yellow Ribbon”