TV Guide Retro

[Ian Wallis]

Missouri - Sept 10-16, 1966

Springfield - (3) NBC, ABC  (10) CBS, ABC
Columbia ( NBC
Jefferson City - (13) CBS, ABC
Fort Smith, Ark - (5) CBS, NBC, ABC
Joplin (12) CBS, ABC
Pittsburg, Kansas (7) NBC, ABC
Tulsa (2) NBC  (6) CBS  ( ABC


Sept 12, 1966 - the beginning of Fall Premiere Week

9:00 (2)(3)(7)( [COLOR] EYE GUESS
9:30 (2)(3)(7)( CONCENTRATION
( DATING GAME
10:00 (2)(3)(7)( CHAIN LETTER
[COLOR] Patricia Crowley of "Please Don't
Eat the Daisies" adn actor Dick Patterson
are this week's celebrity guests.  Jan Murray
is the host.
( SUPERMARKET SWEEP
10:30 (2)(3)(7)( [COLOR] SHOWDOWN
11:00 (2)(3)(7)( [COLOR] JEOPARDY

12:30 (2)( [COLOR] LET'S MAKE A DEAL
1:00 (5)(6)(10)(12)(13) PASSWORD
The show begins a month in Hollywood.
Guests are Brian Keith and Barbara Bain.
( BINGO
( NEWLYWED GAME
2:00 (5)(6)(10)(12)(13) TO TELL THE TRUTH
2:30 (2)(3)(7)( YOU DON'T SAY
[COLOR] Actress Abby Dalton, and TV personality
Bill Leyden adn this week's celebrity guests.  Host:
Tom Kennedy.
3:00 (2)(3)(7) MATCH GAME
[COLOR] Actors Cliff Robertson adn Dina Merrill
are the week's celebrity players.
3:30 (3) [COLOR] LET'S MAKE A DEAL
(13) NEWLYWED GAME
5:00 (3) SUPERMARKET SWEEP
9:30 (6) I'VE GOT A SECRET
[COLOR] The show begins its 15th season
(first in color) with actor Stephen Boyd keeping
a secret from Betsy Palmer, Bess Myerson and
Henry Morgan.  Host: Steve Allen.


Not a bad time for games.  Interestingly, "Password" switched to color that week but TVGuide didn't indicate it.  Also, in those days, it was quite common for a station to be affiliated with more than one network.

[uncamark]

[quote name=\'Ian Wallis\' date=\'May 21 2005, 07:31 PM\']
1:00 (5)(6)(10)(12)(13) PASSWORD
The show begins a month in Hollywood.
Guests are Brian Keith and Barbara Bain.

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This would be the beginning of the syndicated repeat package, wouldn't it?

(And they ended up spending more than a month in Hollywood, as it turned out.)

[AH3RD]

O/T: The Monkees first aired on NBC September 12, 1966, as well.

[DjohnsonCB]

Did ( in Columbia (KOMU) by chance air ABC's "Dark Shadows" at 3 instead of "Match Game"?  

What we have here is a prime example of how the FCC really blew it back in the early 1950s by not having the guts to go with Allen DuMont's idea of non-intermixed VHF and UHF channel allocations.  Had they done so, Joplin-Pittsburg, Springfield and Columbia-Jefferson City would have probably been three-affiliate markets long before ABC and CBS went to partial color in prime time.  As it was, Springfield's ABC Channel 27 didn't sign on till 1968 (it's since moved to Ch. 33), Columbia's KMIZ-17 didn't go on till 1971 and Joplin's Ch. 16 might have also gone on in 1971, stealing NBC away from Pittsburg's Ch. 7 and allowing Ch. 12 in Joplin to become a full-time ABC affiliate.

Poor ABC had to wait till everybody bought their first color sets or got a new portable in 1965 or later--their first sets with UHF built-in--to reach primary status in those markets with one or two VHFs.

[Ian Wallis]

[quote name=\'uncamark\' date=\'May 22 2005, 12:36 PM\'][quote name=\'Ian Wallis\' date=\'May 21 2005, 07:31 PM\']
1:00 (5)(6)(10)(12)(13) PASSWORD
The show begins a month in Hollywood.
Guests are Brian Keith and Barbara Bain.

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This would be the beginning of the syndicated repeat package, wouldn't it?

(And they ended up spending more than a month in Hollywood, as it turned out.)

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Yes, it would.  I guess the original plan was to spend just a month in Hollywood - I think it ended up being three.  It's been reported elsewhere that they were in Hollywood to allow time to convert the New York studios to color.  I guess that conversion must have taken longer than they originally thought.

[Ian Wallis]

Did ( in Columbia (KOMU) by chance air ABC's "Dark Shadows" at 3 instead of "Match Game"?

( Columbia aired "Porky Pig" at 3.  "Dark Shadows" was listed, but it was on ( Tulsa.