Author Topic: Game Shows Past-Dec. 21-27, 1968 (Read 5831 times)

Tim L · « **on:** October 28, 2004, 02:24:35 PM »

Stations Listed:

Athens, Ohio
20 WOUB NET (PBS)

Cincinnati
5 WLWT NBC
9 WCPO CBS
12 WKRC ABC
19 WXIX Ind.
48 WCET (NET)

Columbus
4 WLWC NBC (Now WCMH)
6 WTVN ABC (now WSYX)
10 WBNS CBS
34 WOSU (NET)

Oxford (Miami U. Ohio)
14 WMUB-TV (NET) (Now WPTO)

Dayton
2 WLWD (ABC NBC CBS) (now WDTN)
7 WHIO (CBS NBC ABC)
22 WKEF (NBC ABC CBS)

Kettering-Dayton
16 WKTR Ind. (Now WPTD-partnered with WPTO-14)

Springfield
26 WSWO-Ind. (Now WBDT-WB 26 for Dayton)

Lima
35 WIMA NBC ABC (Now WLIO-NBC Only)

Newark
28 WGSF NET
Channel 28 was later used for WTTE Columbus (Now Fox) WGSF moved to Channel 31 for a time then disappeared

Zanesville
18 WHIZ NBC ABC

(over half of the programming was in color so if there isnt a color designation I will put a BW symbol)

Also: The Apollo 8 Space Mission was launched this week..So there were pre-Emptions for coverage I am sure.

Daytime Programming

9AM
6 Bowling For Dollars
18 Dating Game-BW

10AM
18 22 35 Snap Judgment-Ed Mc Mahon

"The Show's New Format features word communication ala "Password" and Home-audience participation-Guests:Gene Rayburn, Joan Fontaine"
(Pre-empted Wed.. by a Christmas Service from Washington on 2 4 5 and 18 and a film on 22 and 35)

10:25
18 22 35 NBC News-Dickerson

10:30
5 18 35 Concentration-Downs (22 aired ABC's Dick Cavett)
(2 aired Phil Donahue and 4 Nick Clooney)

11AM
5 18 35 Personality-Larry Blyden
Guests:Betsy Palmer, Nipsey Russell and Dick Shawn On Film-George C. Scott

11:30
4 5 18 35 Hollywood Squares-Peter Marshall
Sebastian Cabot, Judy Carne, Wally Cox, Henry Gibson, Arte Johnson, Rose Marie, Charley Weaver, JoAnne Worley and Mickey Dolenz Peter Jones and Mike Nesmith of the Monkees (in the same square apparantely)

2 in Dayton aired ABC's Bewitched reruns

Noon
22 35 Jeopardy!-Art Fleming

2, 4 and 5 aired Bob Braun's 50-50 Club

18 aired Bewitched reruns

12:30
6 Pay Cards!-Syndicated

18 35 Eye Guess-Bill Cullen
22 Treasure Isle-ABC
Final week for this series..Funny You Should Ask moved to this slot.

1PM
6 12 18 22 Dream House-ABC
7 Truth Or Consequences-Bob Barker-Syndicated

1:30
2 4 5 18 Let's Make A Deal-Monty Hall

6 12 22 Funny You Should Ask-Lloyd Thaxton-ABC
Guests:Steve Allen, Jayne Meadows, Henry Gibson, Jan Murray and Minnie Pearl

This would be the final week of LMAD on NBC-Would move to ABC Monday Dec. 30, 1968 at 1:30 ET Funny You Should Ask was moved to 12:30 ET
No word on what replaced LMAD on NBC.

2PM
2 6 12 Newlywed Game-Bob Eubanks

2:30
2 6 12 Dating Game-Jim Lange

3PM
7 You Don't Say! Tom Kennedy

3:30
4 5 18 35 You Don't Say! Kennedy
Guests: June Lockhart, Leonard Nimoy (same as 7 above)
The contestants are children this week.Holiday thing likely.
(Dayton's channel 2 had General Hospital at 3:30 which is why YDS! aired on 7 at 3PM)

4PM
35 Match Game-Gene Rayburn
Bess Myerson, Gordon MacRae

(Channels 2, 4 and 5 aired Vivenne! a Variety show probably part of the Crosley-AVCO stable of programs (Bob Braun Ruth Lyons, etc.)
18 aired Award Theater-Anthology rerun likely
22 had Dark Shadows-ABC

4:25
35 NBC News-Kalber

7PM
4 9 Truth Or Consequences-Bob Barker

PrimeTime/Weekends

Tuesday Dec. 24, 1968

48 It's Academic-Lloyd Baldwin

(Repeat of WCPO 9 Saturday airing)

Saturday Dec. 21
7AM
9 Play It Safe-Quiz

12:30
6 Pinbusters-Bowling

5PM
5 GE College Bowl-Robert Earle
St. Louis University vs. winner of Oberlin(Ohio)/Duke

5:30
9 It's Academic-Quiz-Lloyd Baldwin
Mother Of Mercy , Loveland and Simon Kenton High Schools compete
(Repeat on WCET-48 Tues. 6:30 PM)

6:30
10 In the Know-Hunt Carlile
Columbus Mifflin, Columbus Grandview High Schools Compete

7:30
6 22 Dating Game-Jim Lange
Guest:Dancer Lada Edmund Jr.

8PM
6 22 Newlywed Game-Eubanks

Sunday Dec. 22 1968

Noon
4 GE College Bowl-Earle
Same as 5PM Saturday on 5 in Cincinnati

5:30
9 Amateur Hour-Ted Mack

Summary:
Prime Time Network Game Shows were out of favor by this time..There wew a few syndicated shows but they would pick up within the next year. The programming was different in that there were a lot of movies-Double and triple features on the weekends..Whiile the holiday season affected the schedule obviously Game Shows except in weekday daytime were at a low point.

Tim Lones

uncamark · « **Reply #1 on:** October 28, 2004, 03:14:51 PM »

[quote name=\'Tim L\' date=\'Oct 28 2004, 01:24 PM\']7:30
6 22 Dating Game-Jim Lange
Guest:Dancer Lada Edmund Jr.

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Lada Edmund, Jr.'s claim to fame was that she was the "cage girl" on "Hullabaloo," NBC's mid-60s entry into the prime time pop music variety show genre. (That meant she danced in a cage on the show's discotechque set, you filthy minds.) The show'd been off the air for a couple of years and by now and I bet she needed the exposure.

For you Broadway lovers, another featured dancer on "Hullabaloo" was Donna McKechnie of "A Chorus Line" fame, among other shows.

aaron sica · « **Reply #2 on:** October 28, 2004, 03:36:11 PM »

[quote name=\'uncamark\' date=\'Oct 28 2004, 03:14 PM\']For you Broadway lovers, another featured dancer on "Hullabaloo" was Donna McKechnie of "A Chorus Line" fame, among other shows.

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Among the other shows would be "Dark Shadows", one of my personal favorites.

ObGameShow: "Password" replaced DS on the ABC daytime schedule.

Jimmy Owen · « **Reply #3 on:** October 28, 2004, 04:11:18 PM »

NBC replaced LMAD with "Hidden Faces," a daytime drama. That lasted until late June of 69, when it was replaced by "You're Putting Me On." "Life with Linkletter" came on in late Dec 69 and was replaced by Wink's "Words and Music" in Sept. 70 which gave way to a game, the name of which has been erased from my memory, hosted by Joe Garagiola in Feb 1971. There wasn't much stability on NBC at 1:30 until August 1971, when "Three On a Match" started.

JCGames · « **Reply #4 on:** October 28, 2004, 09:06:55 PM »

Put it back in your memory, Jimmy. It was "Joe Garagiola's Memory Game."

Jimmy Owen · « **Reply #5 on:** October 28, 2004, 10:20:29 PM »

Oh yeah, now I remember. Joe moved over to $otC shortly after JG's Memory Game went off.

clemon79 · « **Reply #6 on:** October 28, 2004, 10:48:48 PM »

[quote name=\'JCGames\' date=\'Oct 28 2004, 06:06 PM\']Put it back in your memory, Jimmy. It was "Joe Garagiola's Memory Game."

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Now THIS, my friends, is irony.

brianhenke · « **Reply #7 on:** October 29, 2004, 10:05:03 AM »

Vivienne! starred Vivienne Della Chiesa, and yes it was a Crosley/AVCO show.

Brian

Poland is the nation directly south of Canada?

mbclev · « **Reply #8 on:** October 31, 2004, 12:09:06 AM »

[quote name=\'Tim L\' date=\'Oct 28 2004, 01:24 PM\']
9 It's Academic-Quiz-Lloyd Baldwin
Mother Of Mercy , Loveland and Simon Kenton High Schools compete
(Repeat on WCET-48 Tues. 6:30 PM)

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Wow! I never knew that this show aired on WCPO! I remember seeing a newspaper clip in 1975 that had a team with a student with the same first and last name as my father, and back then "It's Academic" aired on WLWT Channel 5 with Steve Douglas as host. (I went to an "It's Academic" taping in Washington, D.C. on November 11, 2000 and found out from someone that Claire Slemmer also hosted the Cincinnati version. Steve Douglas was killed in an auto accident years ago. Here in the Cleveland area, of course, the show returned to TV last year after 35 years on the air initially, and four years off, and it airs under the name "Academic Challenge" [a title first used from 1972-96 in Cleveland].) When did the show begin and end in the Cincinnati area?