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Retro: Carolina-Tennessee Wednesday, May 22, 1963

From TV Guide, Carolina-Tennessee Edition:

WBTV Ch. 3 Charlotte (CBS/ABC)

6:20 College Of The Air: "American Economy"
(this would become "Sunrise Semester"
in the fall)
6:50 Farm Journal
7 AM Carolina Calling (Arthur Smith)
7:55 Local News, Weather
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Romper Room
9:30 Who Do You Trust? (ABC, delay from 3:30 PM)
10 AM Calendar (Harry Reasoner)
10:30 Tennessee Ernie Ford Show (ABC, delay from 12 N)
11 AM Real McCoys
11:30 Pete And Gladys
12 N Love Of Life
12:25 CBS News (Harry Reasoner)
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1 PM Betty Feezor
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Gale Storm
2:30 Art Linkletter's House Party (Mrs. Mary Stewart
discusses the high-school dropout problem.)
3 PM To Tell The Truth (panel: Sally Ann Howes, John
Henry Faulk, Phyllis Newman, Barry Nelson)
3:25 CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
3:30 Pat Lee (women's show)
4 PM Secret Storm
4:30 Edge Of Night
5 PM Three Ring Circus
6 PM Waterfront
6:25 Sports (Don Robertson)
6:30 News
6:45 CBS News (Walter Cronkite)
7 PM Hennesey
7:30 CBS Reports: "Reflections Of A Soviet Scientist,"
an interview with Nobel Prize-winning physicist
Igor Tamm
8 PM WBTV Reports: "The Fast Ones," a look at stock car
racing
8:30 Dobie Gillis
9 PM Beverly Hillbillies
9:30 Dick Van Dyke
10 PM Armstrong Circle Theater: "Swindler In Paradise,"
about two New York brokers who buy 10,000 acres
of worthless land in the Southwest and try to peddle
to the public at a huge profit.
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:15 Movie: "Ambush At Tomahawk Gap"

WFBC (WYFF) Ch. 4 Greenville, SC (NBC)

6:30 Film Feature
7 AM Today (Basil Rathbone, singer Betty Johnson)
9 AM Morning Gospel Sing (Bob Poole, who hosted a similar
program on Sundays)
9:30 Best Of Groucho
10 AM Say When!
10:25 NBC News (Edwin Newman)
10:30 Play Your Hunch (COLOR)
11 AM Price Is Right (COLOR)
11:30 Concentration
12 N Your First Impression (panel: Stubby Kaye, Adela Rogers
St. Johns, Dennis James, COLOR)
12:30 Truth Or Consequences
12:55 NBC News (Ray Scherer)
1 PM Tele-Scope (Greenville legend--especially with kids--
Monty DuPuy)
2 PM Ben Jerrod (COLOR)
2:25 NBC News (Floyd Kalber)
2:30 The Doctors (not yet a full-fledged soap, but a new five-
part story each week)
3 PM Loretta Young
3:30 You Don't Say! (guests: Inger Stevens and Michael Landon,
COLOR)
4 PM Match Game (guests: Barbara Cook and Sam Levenson)
4:25 NBC News (Sander Vanocur)
4:30 Monty's Club (this would become the long-running "Monty's
Rascals")
5:30 Quick Draw McGraw
6 PM Sea Hunt
6:30 News
6:45 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7 PM Wyatt Earp
7:30 The Virginian (COLOR)
9 PM Perry Como (from Chicago: guests are Jane Powell and
Jimmy Durante, who brings along sidekicks Eddie Jackson,
Sonny King, and Jack Ross)
10 PM The Eleventh Hour
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Tonight Show (from Hollywood: Maureen O'Hara, Raymond
Massey, Milton Berle, Ernest Borgnine, Kaye Stevens, COLOR)

WCYB Ch. 5 Bristol, VA (NBC/ABC)

7 AM Today
9 AM Best Of Groucho (Groucho talks about the teen world with
50 junior high school students in the audience.)
9:30 Jane Wyman (ABC, delay from 2:30 PM)
10 AM Say When!
10:25 NBC News
10:30 Play Your Hunch (COLOR)
11 AM Price Is Right (COLOR)
11:30 Concentration
12 N Your First Impression (COLOR)
12:30 Truth Or Consequences
12:55 NBC News
1 PM News, Weather
1:15 Editorial
1:25 Matinee (Ed Spiegel)
1:30 Tennessee Ernie Ford Show
2 PM Ben Jerrod (COLOR)
2:25 NBC News
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Loretta Young
3:30 You Don't Say! (COLOR)
4 PM Match Game
4:25 NBC News
4:30 Make Room For Daddy
5 PM Looney Tunes (Ed Spiegel)
5:30 Quick Draw McGraw
6 PM Highway Patrol
6:30 News
6:45 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7 PM Biography (Harry Truman's administration)
7:30 The Virginian (COLOR)
9 PM Perry Como
10 PM The Eleventh Hour
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Tonight Show (COLOR)

WATE Ch. 6 Knoxville (NBC)

7 AM Today
9 AM Children And Science
9:30 Homemakers (Mary Starr)
10 AM Say When!
10:25 NBC News
10:30 Play Your Hunch (COLOR)
11 AM Price Is Right (COLOR)
11:30 Concentration
12 N Your First Impression (COLOR)
12:30 Truth Or Consequences
12:55 NBC News
1 PM News, Weather
1:05 Movie: "Tight Spot"
2:25 NBC News
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Loretta Young
3:30 You Don't Say! (COLOR)
4 PM Match Game
4:25 NBC News
4:30 Make Room For Daddy
5 PM Popeye Theater
5:15 Quick Draw McGraw
5:45 Local News
6 PM News
6:15 Cas Walker (country music)
6:45 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7 PM Biography (same as Ch. 5)
7:30 The Virginian (COLOR)
9 PM Perry Como
10 PM The Eleventh Hour
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Tonight Show (COLOR)

WSPA Ch. 7 Spartanburg, SC (CBS)

6:15 Social Security
6:30 College Of The Air
7 AM Mr. Dutch (kids' show)
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Jack LaLanne
9:30 Father Knows Best (ABC, pre-empted on
Ch. 13, delay from 12:30 PM)
10 AM Calendar
10:30 I Love Lucy
11 AM Real McCoys
11:30 Pete And Gladys
12 N Love Of Life
12:25 CBS News
12:30 Movie: "It's In The Bag" ('45 comedy-mystery that's
a treat for nostalgia lovers; in it are Fred Allen, Jack
Benny, and William Bendix)
1:45 Gesell Report (I wonder if this has anything to do with
Dr. Gerhard Gesell.)
2 PM Password (guests: Artie Shaw and Pat Carroll)
2:30 Art Linkletter's House Party
3 PM To Tell The Truth
3:25 CBS News
3:30 Millionaire (the check goes to a family whose Uncle
Robby's sudden death has complicated the terms of
his will)
4 PM Secret Storm
4:30 Edge Of Night
5 PM Frontier Circus
5:55 Sports
6 PM Amos 'n' Andy
6:30 News
6:45 CBS News
7 PM Jimmy Dean
7:30 CBS Reports
8 PM TBA
8:30 Dobie Gillis
9 PM Beverly Hillbillies
9:30 Dick Van Dyke
10 PM Armstrong Circle Theater
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:15 Movie: "Under Two Flags"

WSOC Ch. 9 Charlotte (NBC/ABC)

6:45 Farm And Home
7 AM Today
9 AM Cartoons
9:15 Debbie Drake
9:30 On The Mall (interview show with Jack Knight)
10 AM Say When!
10:25 NBC News
10:30 Play Your Hunch (COLOR)
11 AM Price Is Right (COLOR)
11:30 Concentration
12 N News (Charlotte legend Jimmy Kilgo)
12:30 Father Knows Best
1 PM General Hospital (ABC, this is in pattern; it didn't
move to 3 PM until Dec. 30)
1:30 Best Of Groucho
2 PM Ben Jerrod (COLOR)
2:25 NBC News
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Loretta Young
3:30 You Don't Say! (COLOR)
4 PM Deputy Dawg
4:15 Rocky And His Friends
4:30 Clown Carnival (one of two legendary kids' shows
in Charlotte, the other being Fred Kirby's "Rascals
Club" on WBTV--Brooks Lindsay does this one)
5:30 Quick Draw McGraw
6 PM Amos 'n' Andy
6:30 News
6:45 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7 PM Ripcord
7:30 Wagon Train (ABC)
8:30 Our Man Higgins (ABC, delay from 9:30 PM)
9 PM Perry Como
10 PM Naked City (ABC)
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Tonight Show (COLOR)

WBIR Ch. 10 Knoxville (CBS)

6 AM College Of The Air
6:30 Farm And Home (Cas Walker--he could get away
with being on two different stations since he was
also a local grocer and big advertiser)
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM UT Telecourse
9:30 Birthday Dog
10 AM Calendar
10:30 I Love Lucy
11 AM Real McCoys
11:30 Pete And Gladys
12 N Love Of Life
12:25 CBS News
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1 PM Best Of Groucho
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Edge Of Night
2:30 Art Linkletter's House Party
3 PM To Tell The Truth
3:25 CBS News
3:30 Millionaire
4 PM Secret Storm
4:30 Movie: "Sweater Girl"
6 PM Three Stooges
6:15 News (Doc Johnston)
6:30 Highway Patrol
7 PM Mull's Singing Convention
7:30 CBS Reports
8 PM Your Voice
8:30 Dobie Gillis
9 PM Beverly Hillbillies
9:30 Dick Van Dyke
10 PM Armstrong Circle Theater
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:15 Movie: "Mexican Spitfire Out West" (Lupe
Velez' popular character from the '40s)

WJHL Ch. 11 Johnson City, TN (CBS/ABC)

6:30 College Of The Air
7 AM Rise And Shine
7:15 Baptist Bible Hour
7:30 Gospel Time
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Cartoons
9:25 Morning Devotions
9:30 Psychology
10 AM Calendar
10:30 I Love Lucy
11 AM Real McCoys
11:30 Pete And Gladys
12 N Love Of Life
12:25 CBS News
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1 PM News, Weather
1:05 Memo From Ilo (women's show)
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Password
2:30 Art Linkletter's House Party
3 PM To Tell The Truth
3:25 CBS News
3:30 Millionaire
4 PM Secret Storm
4:30 Edge Of Night
5 PM Sugarfoot
6 PM Parade Of Champions (I think this was
putt-putt golf.)
6:30 Leave It To Beaver (ABC, delay from Thu 8:30 PM)
7 PM News (Art Van)
7:15 CBS News
7:30 Wagon Train
8:30 Open House (Roy Acuff)
9 PM Beverly Hillbillies
9:30 Dick Van Dyke
10 PM Armstrong Circle Theater
11 PM News (Bob Carlton)
11:15 Movie: "Sand" (about a wild horse trained to be
a show horse)

WLOS Ch. 13 Asheville, NC (ABC)

6:30 Mr. Bill's Cartoons
6:55 News For Farmers
7 AM Mr. Bill's Cartoons
8 AM Discovery '63 (delay from 4:30 PM)
8:25 Mr. Bill's Cartoons
9:30 Movie: "Maryland"
11 AM Day In Court (delay from 2 PM)
11:25 News
11:30 Seven Keys
12 N Tennessee Ernie Ford Show (guest: Minnie Pearl)
12:30 Leave It To The Girls (Henry Morgan faces off against
Linda Darnell, Rita Hayes, Lissa Charell, and Sue Oakland--
if the format sounds familiar it's the same as the early-'70s
show "Mantrap" and was revived in the early '80s as "Leave
It To The Women".)
1 PM General Hospital
1:30 Divorce Court
2:30 Jane Wyman
3 PM Queen For A Day
3:30 Who Do You Trust?
4 PM American Bandstand
4:30 Movie: "Tarzan And The Slave Girl" (Lex Barker as Tarzan)
5:55 News, Weather, Sports
6:15 ABC News (Ron Cochran)
6:30 Lone Ranger
7 PM Bat Masterson
7:30 Wagon Train
8:30 Movie: "Duel In The Sun"
11 PM News, Weather, Editorial
11:20 Movie: "Three Stripes In The Sun" (a group of Japanese
orphans melt the cold, cold heart of an American sergeant--
watch for Chuck Connors and Dick York in this one from '55)

WTVK Ch. 26 (WVLT Ch. 8) Knoxville (ABC)

11:30 Seven Keys
12 N Tennessee Ernie Ford Show
12:30 Father Knows Best
1 PM General Hospital
1:30 UT French
2 PM Day In Court
2:25 ABC News (Alex Dreier)
2:30 Jane Wyman
3 PM Queen For A Day
3:30 Who Do You Trust?
4 PM American Bandstand
4:30 Discovery '63 (the workings of the human body)
4:55 American Newsstand
5 PM Film Feature
5:30 Modern Almanac
6 PM ABC News
6:15 Burns And Allen (George's best friend Jack Benny
is a guest, helping to convince Gracie that she's
legally married.)
6:45 CBS News (pre-empted on Ch. 10)
7 PM Outlook
7:30 Wagon Train
8:30 Going My Way (Gene Kelly and Leo G. Carroll take
the roles made famous by Bing Crosby and Barry
Fitzgerald; Dick York is in this as well.)
9:30 Our Man Higgins
10 PM Naked City
11 PM ABC News (Murphy Martin)
sign off 11:10 PM

WAIM (WMYA) Ch. 40 Anderson, SC (ABC/CBS)

8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Algebra
9:30 South Carolina History
10 AM Calendar
10:30 I Love Lucy
11 AM Day In Court
11:25 News
11:30 Seven Keys
12 N Tennessee Ernie Ford Show
12:30 Father Knows Best (the in-pattern time but
an episode airing on delay)
1 PM General Hospital
1:30 Science
2 PM Farm And Home Hour
2:25 ABC News
2:30 Jane Wyman
3 PM Queen For A Day
3:30 Who Do You Trust?
4 PM American Bandstand
4:30 Discovery '63 (again, in-pattern time but delayed
episode, showing a butterfly emerging from its cocoon,
a tadpole developing into a frog, and a bird hatching)
4:55 Local News, Weather
5 PM Sports Film
5:30 Evening Vespers
6 PM Industry On Parade
6:15 ABC News
6:30 Film Feature
6:45 CBS News
7 PM Playhouse 40
7:30 Wagon Train
8:30 Going My Way
9:30 Our Man Higgins
10 PM Naked City
sign off 11 PM
 
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