RETRO: WMAQ-TV 5 Chicago - Monday, Aug. 31, 1964

[wbhist]

This day was particularly notable in Chicagoland TV history as it was there and then that NBC's Chicago O&O, heretofore known as WNBQ (as it had been known since its 1949 sign-on), adopted the current call letters of WMAQ-TV to match with its radio sisters (at 670 AM and 101.1 FM, respectively).

[SOURCES: Chicago Tribune, TV Week section, Aug. 29, 1964, and Aug. 31, 1964 TV listings]
(C) - in color

Morning
6:15 Today's Meditation (C)
6:20 Town and Farm (C)
6:30 Education Exchange (C)
7:00 Today - Hugh Downs
9:00 Make Room for Daddy
9:30 Word for Word (C)
9:55 NBC News - Edwin Newman
10:00 Concentration
10:30 Jeopardy (C)
11:00 Say When (C)
11:30 Truth or Consequences (C)
11:55 NBC News - Ray Scherer

Afternoon
12:00 People Are Funny
12:30 Let's Make a Deal (C)
12:55 NBC News - Floyd Kalber
1:00 The Loretta Young Theatre
1:30 The Doctors
2:00 Another World
2:30 You Don't Say (C)
3:00 The Match Game
3:25 NBC News - Sander Vanocur
3:30 Beachcomber
4:00 Channel 5 Presents
5:00 The Man from Cochise
5:30 The Huntley-Brinkley Report
5:45 News - (Tom?) Pettit (C)

Evening
6:00 Local News Report (C)
6:30 Monday Night at the Movies: "Man on Fire" (1957) - Bing Crosby, Inger Stevens
8:30 Hollywood and the Stars - "In Search of Kim Novak"
9:00 Sing Along with Mitch (C)
10:00 News - Floyd Kalber (C)
10:15 The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (C)
12:00 News - (John?) Palmer (C)
12:05 Len O'Connor (C)
12:15 Movie Five: "Murder in Bergen" (1956) - Phyllis Calvert, Garry Marsh
[NOTE: Only one other city I know of aired this on TV: Los Angeles. I haven't seen any New York City TV listings with reference to
this picture, and there is no reference to it in IMDb.]
2:05 Word for Word (C)
followed by sign-off

 

[oldiesfan6479]

5:30 The Huntley-Brinkley Report
5:45 News - (Tom?) Pettit (C)
6:00 Local News Report (C)

The 5:45 listing must have been a typo by the newspaper--Huntley-Brinkley
went to a half-hour in September 1963 (as did Cronkite), so it likely aired
5:30-6 CT on WMAQ.

 

[wbhist]

5:30 The Huntley-Brinkley Report
5:45 News - (Tom?) Pettit (C)
6:00 Local News Report (C)

The 5:45 listing must have been a typo by the newspaper--Huntley-Brinkley went to a half-hour in September 1963 (as did Cronkite), so it likely aired 5:30-6 CT on WMAQ.

I was wondering myself about that . . . even if the papers had it as you saw it.

 

[Stanislav]

12:15 Movie Five: "Murder in Bergen" (1956) - Phyllis Calvert, Garry Marsh
[NOTE: Only one other city I know of aired this on TV: Los Angeles. I haven't seen any New York City TV listings with reference to this picture, and there is no reference to it in IMDb.]

"Murder in Bergen" was actually the Australian release title for "Let George Do It" (1940), a "musical spy farce." Plot: By mistake, a Dinky-Doo (no idea what that is: a wartime U.K. term, apparently) is sent on a counterspy mission to Norway just before that country is invaded by the Nazis.

Sounds like it must have originally been an Aussie print since it carried that title. This info found via Google Books from "Hollywood Movie Musicals" by John Howard Reid.

 

[wbhist]

["Murder in Bergen" was actually the Australian release title for "Let George Do It" (1940), a "musical spy farce." Plot: By mistake, a Dinky-Doo (no idea what that is: a wartime U.K. term, apparently) is sent on a counterspy mission to Norway just before that country is invaded by the Nazis.

Sounds like it must have originally been an Aussie print since it carried that title. This info found via Google Books from "Hollywood Movie Musicals" by John Howard Reid.

Thanks for the info about that . . . one of the more obscure films out there. By any title, as I've said, I never saw this picture mentioned in the New York papers' TV listings.

I have a few plot synopses of this pic (albeit incomplete). From a 1962 Chicago Tribune:
"The death of a musician leads Scotland Yard to an enemy spy ring."
And on the 1964 showing:
"A mysterious murder takes place in a small, quiet village in England."