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Retro: Wisconsin/Western Upper Michigan Sat, Nov 12, 1966

from TV Guide-Wisconsin edition
Educational channels WMVS 10-Milwaukee and WHA 21-Madison were dark on Saturdays
Gemini XII coverage updates may pre-empt programs


WBAY 2-CBS Green Bay
6:30 Sunrise Semester
7:00 Cheer-Up Time (Dave O'Brien)
8:00 Mighty Heroes (c)
8:30 Underdog (c)
9:00 Frankenstein Jr. (c)
9:30 Space Ghost (c)
10:00 Superman (c)
10:30 Lone Ranger (c)
11:00 Road Runner (c)
11:30 Beagles (c)
noon Tom & Jerry (c)
12:30 Zane Grey
1:00 Soupy Sales
2:00 Movie "I Died a Thousand Times"
4:00 NFL Countdown (c/previews of tomorrow's games)
5:00 Bill Veeck
5:30 Tony Gosz (c; TVG lists it as that, but TV2's ad calls it Romy Gosz Band with Tony Gosz)
6:00 News (c)
6:30 Jackie Gleason (c/the Honeymooners are in London, with Louis Nye and Robert Coote along for the ride)
7:30 Pistols 'n' Petticoats (c)
8:00 Mission: Impossible (c)
9:00 Gunsmoke (c)
10:00 News (c)
10:30 Movie "Anatomy of a Murder"

WISC 3-CBS Madison
7:00 Captain Kangaroo
8:00 Mighty Heroes (c)
8:30 Underdog (c)
9:00 Frankenstein Jr. (c)
9:30 Space Ghost (c)
10:00 Superman (c)
10:30 Lone Ranger (c)
11:00 Road Runner (c)
11:30 Beagles (c)
noon Tom & Jerry (c)
12:30 Cartoon Theater (c)
1:00 Information Center
1:30 Sergeant Preston
2:00 Peter Gunn
2:30 Film Feature "The Second Seat" (c/Navy air-observer training)
3:00 NFL Countdown (c)
4:00 Bill Veeck
4:30 Movie "Fort Dobbs" (TVG ad calls this the Big Show)
6:00 Family Affair
6:30 Jackie Gleason (c)
7:30 Pistols 'n' Petticoats (c)
8:00 Mission: Impossible (c)
9:00 Gunsmoke (c)
10:00 News
10:30 Movie "Duel in the Sun" (c; Fabulous 60s Theatre)
mid. Movie "Gorilla at Large"

WTMJ 4-NBC Milwaukee
6:30 Agriculture Today (c)
7:00 Cartoon Carnival (c)
7:15 Library Story (c; this program was also carried by WMVS)
7:30 Jetsons (listed as the same show aired 3 hrs later by 5, 12 and 15...network kinnie?)
8:00 Super 6 (c)
8:30 Atom Ant (c)
9:00 Secret Squirrel (c)
9:30 Space Kidettes (c)
10:00 Cool McCool (c)
10:30 Laurel & Hardy (c)
11:00 Top Cat (c)
11:30 Smithsonian (c/a look at Yankee inventors)
noon Championship Bowling: Fred Lenning v Bud Horn (c)
1:00 Movie "Garden of Evil" (c)
3:00 Greatest Show on Earth "The Wrecker" (c)
4:00 Movie "Fury of the Congo"
5:30 NFL Game of the Week: Vikings-Packers highlights (c)
6:00 News (c)
6:30 Flipper (c)
7:00 Please Don't Eat the Daisies (c)
7:30 Get Smart (c)
8:00 Movie (Saturday Night at the Movies) "The Man Who Knew Too Much" (c)
10:30 News (c)
10:45 Movie "This Earth is Mine" (c)
1:10 News/Weather (c)
1:20 Movie "Alcatraz Express" (though the description has Al Capone going to the Atlanta Pen ;D)

WFRV 5-NBC Green Bay
6:00 Social Security in Action
6:15 Americans at Work
6:30 Lori's Log Cabin
7:00 Astroboy
7:30 Kimba the White Lion (c)
8:00 Super 6 (c)
8:30 Atom Ant (c)
9:00 Secret Squirrel (c)
9:30 Space Kidettes (c)
10:00 Cool McCool (c)
10:30 Jetsons (c)
11:00 Top Cat (c)
11:30 Littlest Hobo "The Last Chance"
noon Yancy Derringer
12:30 Mr. Magoo (c)
1:00 Movie "The Brave One" (c)
2:30 Movie "The Deerslayer" (c)
4:00 Outdoor Sportsman (c)
4:30 Northwest Passage "The Secret of the Cliff" (c)
5:00 Zorro "Agent of the Eagle"
5:30 Sugarfoot "The Stallion Trail"
6:30 Flipper (c)
7:00 Please Don't Eat the Daisies (c)
7:30 Get Smart (c)
8:00 Movie "The Man Who Knew Too Much" (c)
10:30 News (c)
10:45 Movie (Saturday Late Show) "The Naked and the Dead" (c)
1:00 Movie "The Pursuit and Loves of Queen Victoria" (c)

WITI 6-ABC Milwaukee
7:00 Farm Scene
7:45 News (c/Larry Ebert)
7:55 Opinion
8:00 Cartoon Alley (Barb Becker)
9:00 Hercules (c)
9:30 Beatles (c)
10:00 Casper (c)
10:30 Magilla Gorilla (c)
11:00 Bugs Bunny (c)
11:30 Cartoons
11:45 NCAA Pre-Game (c)
noon College Football: Northwestern-Michigan
3:15 Bill Veeck
3:45 TBA
4:00 Sgt. Bilko "The Big Uranium Strike"
4:30 Sea Hunt
5:00 Highway Patrol
5:30 Littlest Hobo
6:00 News (c)
6:30 Shane (c)
7:30 Lawrence Welk (c)
8:30 Hollywood Palace (c/Phil Harris hosts; guests George Jessel, Abbe Lane, Jack Burns & Avery Schreiber, comic pantomimist Jacques Ary, trapeze artists the Artons and David Nelson, dancers Szony & Claire, and knife-throwing act Elizabeth & Collins)
9:30 Midwestern Hayride (c)
10:00 News (c)
10:20 Movie "Toy Tiger" (c)
mid. News (c/Ward Allen)
12:15 Movie "The Slime People"

WLUC 6-CBS/ABC Marquette (TVG didn't mention the ABC link in the Stations Listed section) Listed CT, TVG's ad for the late movie only mentioned ET
8:00 Mighty Heroes (c)
8:30 Underdog (c)
9:00 Frankenstein Jr. (c)
9:30 Space Ghost (c)
10:00 Superman (c)
10:30 Lone Ranger (c)
11:00 Road Runner (c)
11:30 Beagles (c)
noon College Football: Northwestern-Michigan
3:00 F Troop
3:30 Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea "Deadly Waters"
4:30 Film Short
4:45 News/Sports/Weather
5:00 Musical Fantasy "Alice Through the Looking Glass" (c/a musical version, including Jack Palance (Jabberwock) and Jimmy Durante (Humpty Dumpty) in the cast with Judi Rolin in the title role)
6:30 Jackie Gleason (c)
7:30 Lawrence Welk (c)
8:30 Country Music Caravan
9:00 Gunsmoke (c)
10:00 News
10:30 Movie "Anatomy of a Murder"

WSAU 7-CBS Wausau
7:00 Captain Kangaroo
8:00 Mighty Heroes (c)
8:30 Underdog (c)
9:00 Frankenstein Jr. (c)
9:30 Space Ghost (c)
10:00 Superman (c)
10:30 Lone Ranger (c)
11:00 Road Runner (c)
11:30 Beagles (c)
noon Tom & Jerry (c)
12:30 Movie: TBA
3:00 NFL Countdown (c)
4:00 Championship Bowling
5:00 NFL Game of the Week: same game as ch 4
6:00 News
6:30 Jackie Gleason (c)
7:30 Pistols 'n' Petticoats (c)
8:00 Barn Dance
8:30 Film Feature
9:00 Gunsmoke (c)
10:00 Mission: Impossible (2 hr delay)
11:00 Movie "Oh, You Beautiful Doll"

WAOW 9-Wausau/WKOW 27-Madison (ABC)
7:00 Big Picture (c)
7:30 Wisconsin Education
8:00 Agriculture Today
8:30 Agriculture USA (c)
9:00 King Kong (c)
9:30 Beatles (c)
10:00 Casper (c)
10:30 Magilla Gorilla (c)
11:00 Bugs Bunny (c)
11:30 Milton the Monster (c)
noon College Football: Northwestern-Michigan
3:15 American Bandstand (guests the Count Five)
4:00 ABC Wide World of Sports: National 500 Stock-Car Championship/World Lumberjack Championship (from Hayward)/Cleveland Williams-Cassius Clay preview
5:30 Outdoors (Jim Thomas)
6:00 News
6:20 (27 only) It's Your Life (Bill Ardell)
6:25 (27 only) Weather (Bill again)
6:30 Dairyland Jubilee
7:30 Lawrence Welk (c)
8:30 Hollywood Palace (c)
9:30 Porter Wagoner
10:00 News/Sports
10:15 Movie "Slightly Scarlet" (c)
mid. News
12:05 Movie "The Monster of Piedras Blancas"

WLUK 11-ABC Green Bay
7:00 Supercar
7:30 Sergeant Preston
8:00 Cartoons (Col. Caboose)
9:00 King Kong (c)
9:30 Beatles (c)
10:00 Casper (c)
10:30 Magilla Gorilla (c)
11:00 Bugs Bunny (c)
11:30 Milton the Monster (c)
noon College Football: Northwestern-Michigan (c)
3:15 American Bandstand
4:00 ABC Wide World of Sports
5:30 Hawaiian Eye "Murder Anyone?"
6:30 Shane (c)
7:30 Lawrence Welk (c)
8:30 Hollywood Palace (c)
9:30 Country Music Caravan
10:30 Rat Patrol
11:00 News/Sports/Weather
11:15 Movie "The Bad and the Beautiful"
1:25 News/Sports

WISN 12-CBS Milwaukee
6:30 Sunrise Semester
7:00 Captain Kangaroo
8:00 Mighty Heroes (c)
8:30 Underdog (c)
9:00 Frankenstein Jr. (c)
9:30 Space Ghost (c)
10:00 Superman (c)
10:30 Lone Ranger (c)
11:00 Road Runner (c)
11:30 Beagles (c)
noon Tom & Jerry (c)
12:30 Popeye
1:00 Movie "Cyclotrode 'X'" (feature version of serial Crimson Ghost)
3:00 NFL Countdown (c)
4:00 Garden State Stakes horse race (c)
4:30 Film Feature (c)
5:00 77 Sunset Strip "Strange Bedfellows"
6:00 CBS News (c)
6:30 Jackie Gleason (c)
7:30 Pistols 'n' Petticoats (c)
8:00 Mission: Impossible (c)
9:00 Gunsmoke (c)
10:00 News
10:25 Movie "Hercules Against the Sons of the Sun" (c)
12:10 News (Lee Murray)
12:15 Movie "Spy Ship"

WAEO 12-NBC Rhinelander (in its first month of operation, the station signed-on October 20th)
8:00 Super 6 (c)
8:30 Atom Ant (c)
9:00 Secret Squirrel (c)
9:30 Space Kidettes (c)
10:00 Cool McCool (c)
10:30 Jetsons (c)
11:00 Top Cat (c)
11:30 Smithsonian (c)
noon Animal Secrets "To Live on the Land" (c/how animals adapt to the environments)
12:30 Sea Power (c)
1:00 Topic (c)
1:30 Around the World (c)
2:00 Arrest & Trial
3:30 Vietnam Review (c)
4:00 Around the World (c)
4:30 AFL Report (c/highlights)
5:00 Death Valley Days (c)
5:30 NBC News (c)
6:00 News (c)
6:30 Flipper (c)
7:00 Please Don't Eat the Daisies (c)
7:30 Get Smart (c)
8:00 Movie "The Man Who Knew Too Much" (c)
10:30 News (c)
11:00 Tonight Show (c/guests Al Capp, Anita Gillette, Mo Koffman, and psychologist/author Eric Berne; Milwaukee aired the weekend Carson on Sundays at 10:30)

WMTV 15-NBC Madison
8:00 Super 6 (c)
8:30 Atom Ant (c)
9:00 Secret Squirrel (c)
9:30 Space Kidettes (c)
10:00 Cool McCool (c)
10:30 Jetsons (c)
11:00 Top Cat (c)
11:30 Smithsonian (c)
noon Animal Secrets "To Live on the Land" (c)
12:30 Littlest Hobo
1:00 Movie "Champ for a Day"
2:30 Harry S Truman
3:00 Championship Bowling
4:00 Music Showcase
4:30 AFL Report (c)
5:00 Wisconsin Hunter
5:30 Outdoors Calling (Bran)
6:00 NBC News (c)
6:30 Flipper (c)
7:00 Please Don't Eat the Daisies (c)
7:30 Get Smart (c)
8:00 Movie "The Man Who Knew Too Much" (c)
10:30 News/Weather/Sports
11:00 Tonight Show (c)

WVTV 18-Ind Milwaukee (also aired some network cast-offs, mainly from NBC)
5pm Big Picture
5:30 Upbeat
6:30 Ernest Tubb
7:00 Stoneman Family
7:30 Barn Dance (premiere)
8:00 East Side/West Side "The Street"
9:00 Irv Kupcinet (news at midnight)
 
I have some extended family in the area around Ironwood, Mich., in the northwest U.P.
Aside from the station in Rhinelander I doubt any of these were viewable over the air.
 
Bluenoser said:
WBAY 2-CBS Green Bay

5:30 Tony Gosz (c; TVG lists it as that, but TV2's ad calls it Romy Gosz Band with Tony Gosz)
...Romy Gosz had been an extremely popular polka bandleader who recorded for the Decca, Columbia and Mercury labels from the '30s through the '50s, and was an early TV star in Wisconsin over WBAY-TV. (Apparently, it was a connection with Bing Crosby that led to the deal with Decca.) According to http://www.internationalpolka.com/gosz.htm, Romy Gosz had died a few weeks prior to this broadcast, by which time his younger brother Tony Gosz had taken over the band and the TV show. Most of the polka TV shows in Wisconsin around this time were run on Sundays, with Dr. John Check and Dick Rodgers' WLUK shows syndicated throughout Wisconsin and Michigan, and Alvin Styczynski's program running on WBAY-TV and WVTV...
 
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