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Retro: Chicago - Sunday, June 29, 1969

Source: Chicago Today Television (TV magazine of the Chicago Today American newspaper)

Channel 2 - WBBM-TV (CBS), 630 McClurg ct. WH4-6000.
06:50 am - Thought for the Day
06:55 am - Early Report
07:00 am - Tom and Jerry
07:30 am - Aquaman
08:00 am - Project Head Start
08:30 am - Magic Door
09:00 am - Lamp Unto My Feet
09:30 am - Look Up and Live
Dr. Samuel Belkin, president of Yeshiva University and an advocate of Orthodox Jewry, will be interviewed.
10:00 am - Camera Three
10:30 am - About You
11:00 am - Your Dollar's Worth
11:30 am - Face the Nation
House Minority Leader Gerald Ford of Michigan.
12:00 pm - Noon Report
12:15 pm - Leave it to Beaver (repeat)
12:45 pm - Feature Film
"So Big," Jane Wyman, Sterling Hayden, Nancy Olson. Heartwarming story of a widowed mother's great love
and ambition for her only son (1953).
02:30 pm - Target: News
03:00 pm - N.F.L. Action
"The Way Up" is a fast-paced, hard-hitting story about the Minnesota Vikings which examines the role played
by coach Bud Grant in his team's accomplishments over a two-year period.
03:30 pm - AAU Track and Field
Featured is the National AAU Men's Outdoor championships. Jack Whitaker is host and Ralph Boston and
Dick Bank describe the action in Miami.
05:00 pm - 21st Century (repeat)
"Stranger Than Science Fiction" compares yesterday's science fiction with today's science fact. It also explores
what science fiction today predicts for the 21st century.
05:30 pm - News Special
06:00 pm - Lassie (repeat)
A chance to live is provided a mother mallard and her ducklings when Lassie discovers that their lives are in
danger deep within Oregon's mysterious rain forest. Featured are Jed Allan and Jack De Mave.
06:30 pm - Gentle Ben (repeat)
Mark, despite warnings from his father, sets out with Ben to locate the legendary Lost Lagoon somewhere deep
in the Everglades. Featured are Dennis Weaver, Clint Howard, Beth Brickell, Rance Howard, and Angelo Rutherford.
07:00 pm - Ed Sullivan (repeat)
Guests are Gina Lollobrigida, Jerry Vale, Don Ric kles, the Chamber Brothers, Rudy Cardenas, and the Nitwits.
08:00 pm - Hee Haw
Guests include singers George Jones, Tammy Wynette, and Faron Young.
09:00 pm - Mission: Impossible (repeat)
The former dictator of a Caribbean island is made to have hallucinatory visions in which he sees his ominous
destiny, as part of an ingenious plot designed by the I.M. force.
10:00 pm - News
10:45 pm - Feature Film
"Seminole," Rock Hudson, Barbara Hale, Anthony Quinn. The true story of how a Seminole chief outwitted the army
and never signed a peace treaty (1953).
12:15 am - Feature Film
"Tell It to the Judge," Rosalind Russell, Robert Cummings, Gig Young, Marie McDonald. Couple gets a divorce,
but after many misadventures and new romances, they discover they still love each other (1949).
02:00 am - News
02:05 am - Meditation

Channel 5 - WMAQ-TV (NBC), Merchandise Mart. 644-8300.
07:30 am - Astroboy II
08:00 am - By Gemini II
08:30 am - Read Me a Story
09:00 am - Memorandum
09:30 am - Everyman
10:00 am - Eternal Quest
10:30 am - Sunday in Chicago
12:00 pm - Meet the Press
12:30 pm - World Council of Churches
Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, general secretary of the World Council of Churches, and author Philip Scharper, editor-in-chief
of Sheed and Ward Inc., discuss racism.
01:00 pm - Feature Film
"The Ugly American," Marlon Brando, Eiji Okada, Sandra Church, Pat Hingle, Arthur Hill. The frustrations and
complexities of being an American ambassador to a southern Asian country (1963). (color)
03:15 pm - Feature Film
"Wonders of Aladdin." In ancient Bagdad Aladdin accidentally hubs his lamp and 9-foot genie is at his command.
With Donald O'Connor, Noelle Adam and Vittorio De Sica (1961).
05:00 pm - Congressional Report
05:30 pm - Frank McGee
06:00 pm - Huck Finn (repeat)
Huck, Becky, and Tom descend by balloon into a valley inhabited by prehistoric men who treat the youngsters as
super-beings, in "The Ancient Valley," with Michael Shea, Lu Ann Haslam, and Kevin Schultz.
06:30 pm - Walt Disney (repeat)
"Escape in Florence," with Tommy Kirk and Annette Funicello, is a comedy-adventure about two American students
in Italy who become entangled in an international art theft. In part II of this two-part story, Tommy's suspicion
that the backing of a painting by Annette is actually a masterpiece by Fra Lippo Lippi is confirmed.
07:30 pm - Land's End
Drama of thievery and murder filmed in Baja, Cal., with Rory Calhoun, Gilbert Roland, and Martin Milner.
08:00 pm - Bonanza (repeat)
Little Joe and Candy win a damaged ore-processing mill in a poker game and learn their partner is the beautiful
Kate Kelly. Little Joe and Candy work to repair the mill by day and vie to court Kate at night, in "Queen High,"
with Paul Lambert, Celeste Yarnell, Michael Landon, David Canary, and Lorne Greene.
09:00 pm - Ann-Margret Special (repeat)
Music, comedy special starring Ann-Margret, with guests Bob Hope, Jack Benny, and Danny Thomas.
10:00 pm - News
10:30 pm - WMAQ Special
11:00 pm - Tonight

Channel 7 - WLS-TV (ABC), 190 N. State st. AN3-0800.
07:25 am - Refelctions
07:30 am - Consultation
08:00 am - Exposure
08:30 am - Jubilee Showcase
09:00 am - Linus the Lionhearted
09:30 am - King Kong
10:00 am - Bullwinkle
10:30 am - Discovery '69 (repeat)
"The Backyard People and the Big top Crew." Hostess Virginia Gibson shows a view of what circus life is like
from the inside out. The program focuses on the traveling King Brothers' circus.
11:00 am - For Blacks Only
12:00 pm - Directions (repeat)
"Thou Shalt Teach Them Diligently."
12:30 pm - Issues and Answers
Presidential adviser Dr. Arthur F. Burns.
01:00 pm - Of Cabbages and Kings
02:30 pm - Feature Film
"Wagon Master," Ben Johnson, Joanne Dru, Ward Bond, Harry Carey, Jr. Adventures of a group of Mormons and
their guides as their wagons roll across hazardous frontier territory to Utah (1950).
03:30 pm - Women's Open Golf
Featured is the final round of play in the United States Women's Golf championship tournament from the
Scenic Hills Country club, Pensacola, Fla.
05:00 pm - 77 Sunset Strip (repeat)
06:00 pm - Land of the Giants (repeat)
Steve, Mark, Dan, and Betty take the only safe route - thru the cages of giant zoo animals - to avoid Inspector
Kobick's special intelligence division men while trying to rescue Barry, Fitzhugh, Valerie, and the dog Chipper held
captive in zoo headquarters, in "Seven Little Indians," with Gary Conway, Don Matheson, Stefan Arngrim, Don
Marshall, Deanna Lund, Heather Young, Kurt Kasznar, and Kevin Hagen.
07:00 pm - FBI (repeat)
Banker Howard Converse, an embezzler escaping to Canada via a hoodlum "underground railroad," discovers his
driver is more interested in the stolen money than in his safe delivery, in "The Nightmare," with William Windom,
Patricia Smith, Lee Merriwether, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Phillip Abbott, and William Reynolds.
08:00 pm - Feature Film
"Mickey One," Warren Beatty, Franchot Tone, Hurd Hatfield, Alexandra Stewart. Filmed in Chicago, the story is about
a nightclub entertainer fleeing from mobsters (1965).
10:00 pm - News
10:30 pm - Feature Film
"The Brothers Rico," Richard Conte, Dianne Foster, James Darren, Kathryn Grant. Florida business man, dangerously
involved with the crime syndicate, finds they are gunning for his brother (1957).
12:25 am - Feature Film
"Ghost of the China Sea," David Brian, Lynn Bernay. An unusual mixture of people, led by an embittered man, flee
the Japanese invasion thru dangerous Philippine jungle (1958).
01:55 am - Reflections

Channel 9 - WGN-TV (Independent), 2501 W. Bradley pl. LA8-2311.
07:00 am - Laurel and Hardy
07:30 am - Alvin Cartoons
08:00 am - Three Score
08:10 am - Memo
08:15 am - Mass for Shut-Ins
09:00 am - Heritage of Faith
09:30 am - Superman (repeat)
10:00 am - Secret Agent (repeat)
11:00 am - Feature Film
"The Naked Hills," David Wayne, Keenan Wynn, Marcia Henderson. Indiana farmer, with gold fever, deserts his wife and
child for prospecting in California (1956). (color)
12:15 pm - Lead Off Man
12:25 pm - Baseball
Chicago Cubs vs. St. Louis Cardinals in a double header in Wrigley field.
03:15 pm - Baseball
Second game.
06:00 pm - Feature Film
"The Bounty Hunter," Randolph Scott, Dolores Dorn, Marie Windsor. Man is hired to seek out three killers living as
respectable men (1954). (color)
07:30 pm - Steve Allen
Guests: Billy Eckstein, Mamie Van Doren, John Byner, Terry Gibba, and Joe Interleggi.
09:00 pm - Jim Thomas Outdoors
09:30 pm - All American College
10:00 pm - News
10:30 pm - David Susskind
Topics: "Why Suicide?" and "The Boss of All Astronauts."
12:30 am - News
12:50 am - Feature Film
"Against the Wind," Simone Signoret, James Robertson Justice. English saboteurs, in war time Europe, parachute into
occupied France to aid the resistance movement. The movie is based on true incidents (1949). Until 2:45 am.

Channel 11 - WTTW (Educational), 5400 N. St. Louis. 583-5000.
05:00 pm - Our People (repeat)
06:00 pm - Toy That Grew Up (repeat)
07:00 pm - Sounds of Summer
The Memphis Birthday Blues festival.
09:00 pm - Architecture in Chicago
09:30 pm - NET Playhouse (repeat)
10:30 pm - After Eden
"The Garden Divided." A look at Alexander the Great's march to become an emperor and its dramatic effects on the
people of the fertile crescent and the near east.
11:00 pm - After Eden

Channel 20 - WXXW (Educational), 5400 N. St. Louis. 583-5000.
No programs scheduled.

Channel 26 - WCIU (Independent), Board of Trade Bldg. 663-0260.
11:00 am - Wrestling Champions
12:00 pm - Action '69
12:30 pm - Soul's Harbor
01:00 pm - Rex Humbard
02:30 pm - This Is the Life
03:00 pm - Cinema Special
04:00 pm - Contact
04:30 pm - Consultation
05:00 pm - Bob Lewandowski
06:00 pm - Italian Variety
07:00 pm - Manion Forum
07:15 pm - Cinema Special
07:30 pm - Jerry Skolmar
08:00 pm - German Variety
08:30 pm - Lithuanian TV
09:00 pm - Greek Scene
09:20 pm - Famous Schools

Channel 32 - WFLD (Independent), 300 N. State. 527-4300.
11:00 am - Religious Town Hall
"The Suffering of the World."
11:30 am - Showplace of Homes
12:00 pm - Hawaii Calls
12:30 pm - Munsters (repeat)
Deciding that wrestling willl provide the extra money needed for Eddie's education, Herman appears in the ring as the
"Masked Marvel," in "Herman the Great."
01:00 pm - Feature Film
"Jassy," Margaret Lockwood, Dennis Price, Basil Sydney. A gypsy girl, gifted with ESP, is accused of murdering her
husband (1948). (color)
03:00 pm - Special
"Let My People Go" is a documentary film nominated for an Academy Award and winner of a George Foster Peabody
award. It examines the age-long struggle of the Jews to establish the free state of Israel.
04:00 pm - Outdoor Sportsmen
04:30 pm - Hunting and Fishing
05:00 pm - Steel Pier (Premiere)
Series originating on the Steel Pier in Atlantic City, with host Ed Hurst. Poncie Ponce is among the guests appearing
on the premiere.
06:00 pm - Feature Film
"Captain from Toledo," Stephen Forsyth, Ann Smymer. In the terror-filled days of the Spanish Inquisition, one man's
courage helps determine the empire's fate (1966). (color)
08:00 pm - Feature Film
"Eureka Stockade," Chips Rafferty, Peter Finch, Jack Lambert. Miners fight Australian police for their rights to mine gold (1949).
10:00 pm - Town and Country
10:30 pm - Feature Film
"Forbidden," Douglas Montgomery, Hazel Court, Patricia Burke. An unhappily married scientist plans his wife's death,
so he can be with the girl he loves (1947). Until 12:15 am.
 
I took note of "Jim Thomas Outdoors" on WGN - Channel 9 - at 9:00 P.M. In the 1950's, he and his program were featured on all three Cincinnati commerical TV stations - Channels 5, 9, and 12 - during those years. There were slight changes in the name of the show. For example, on Channel 9, his sponsor was the Greater Cincinnati Rambler Dealers and the show was called, "Your Outdoor Rambler". On Channel 5, the show was shown in color and called "Your Outdoor Guide". His program usually aired on Friday evening or Friday night and in the final few minutes, there would be reports from lakes on fishing for that weekend. These included Lake Cumberland in southern Kentucky and Dale Hollow in Tennessee as well as Indian Lake in west central Ohio. I always wondered what happened to Jim Thomas. He is only one of several people to have had shows on three Cincinnati TV stations.
 
I have to admit I knew nothing of Jim Thomas before posting these listings, but it sounds like he did it all. In addition to the aforementioned Jim Thomas Outdoors and his earlier Cincinnati shows, he hosted another syndicated series (Lone Star Sportsman), he was an editor for WGN-TV for many years, and he founded a recreation area in Northwest Ontario. It appears that after Chicago, he moved to Dallas where he died of cancer in 1999 at the age of 76.
 
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