A few years ago, at a flea market, I bought an old TV schedule supplement to Chicago Daily News. It’s for April 27 – May 4, 1968. Leslie Uggams is on the cover, and the interview is with Betsy Palmer (sadly, best known for her later work as psycho killer Mrs. Voorhees in Friday the 13th). It’s interesting to see what was on the tube at the time. At least we had Star Trek – and a shitload of westerns. And whatever happened to The Doodletown Pipers?
SATURDAY:
Cartoon Carnival
Sandy Koufax Show
Celebrity Billiards (Minnesota Fats vs. Buddy Hackett)
Have Gun, Will Travel
Car 54, Where Are You?
My Favorite Martian
Jackie Gleason Show (guests: Milton Berle, Vikki Carr, Frank Gorshin)
Death Valley Days
The Dating Game
The Newlywed Game
The Saint
My Three Sons
Get Smart
Lawrence Welk
Hogan’s Heroes
Petticoat Junction
Mannix
Password
SUNDAY:
Bugs Bunny
Superman
Bullwinkle
Cisco Kid
Face the Nation
Meet the Press (guest: Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey)
French Chef (featuring Julia Child)
Flipper
Thunderbirds
Lassie
Wild Kingdom
Gentle Ben
Walt Disney
Ed Sullivan Show (guests: Richard Harris, Ella Fitzgerald, George Corliss, violinist Kyung Wha Chung, The Doodletown Pipers, Milt Kamen, comedy team of Stiller & Meara)
The Mothers-in-Law
Smothers Brothers Show (guests: Carl Reiner, Jennie Smith, The Happenings, Hamilton Camp)
Bonanza
Mission: Impossible
ANY GIVEN WEEKDAY:
Leave It to Beaver
Captain Kangaroo
Romper Room
Candid Camera
Beverly Hillbillies
Andy of Mayberry
Dick Van Dyke Show
Bewitched
Guiding Light
As the World Turns
Let’s Make a Deal
Days of Our Lives
Art Linkletter
To Tell the Truth
Edge of Night
Dark Shadows
Secret Storm
Hollywood Squares
Match Game
My Friend Flicka
Merv Griffin
Three Stooges
Little Rascals
Garfield Goose
McHale’s Navy
Mike Douglas Show
Huntley-Brinkley Report
MONDAY:
Rawhide
Gunsmoke
The Monkees
Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In (guest: Tiny Tim)
Lucy Show
Rat Patrol
Andy Griffith Show
Danny Thomas Hour
Family Affair
Peyton Place
Carol Burnett Show
I Spy
Big Valley
TUESDAY:
Daktari
I Dream of Jeannie
Garrison’s Gorillas
Jerry Lewis Show (guests: Barbara Feldon, The Doodletown Pipers)
Red Skelton Show (guests: Nipsy Russell, The Association)
It Takes a Thief
N.Y.P.D.
The Invaders
WEDNESDAY:
Lost in Space
The Virginian
The Avengers
Green Acres
Dom DeLuise Show
THURSDAY:
Cimarron Strip
Daniel Boone
The Flying Nun
That Girl
Peyton Place
Dean Martin Show (guests: Rosemary Clooney, Buddy Hackett, Minnie Pearl, David Steinberg)
FRIDAY:
Wild, Wild West
Tarzan
Gomer Pyle
Star Trek
Hollywood Squares