1963-Thanksgiving Week in Cleveland TV

Ad for NBC's coverage of Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade on Thursday, November 28, 1963..Betty White and Lorne Greene were hosts this year as they would be every year from 1962-71. NBC has had Macy's Parade Coverage since 1952..

Apparently WAKR-TV 49 Akron was going for a new image..Carrying the full ABC Lineup..In previous years they had been known for local movies in prime time and preempting ABC or running ABC shows at other times out of pattern.





TV Guide Ad for "The Andy Williams Show" on NBC Tuesday Nights at 10PM. Other than a few guest appearances on the Jack Benny Show, Phil Harris didnt do a lot of television..The Osmonds were known as "The Osmond Brothers Quartet"..Still relatively early in their Careers..

Lets take a look at The week of November 23-29, 1963..While the schedules below reflect Wednesday and Thursday November 27-28, We'll look at some highlights of the entire week..When I copied these listings, I had no thought of what had happened at the time, namely John F. Kennedy's assassination in Dallas, Texas on Friday, November 22..Network Schedules were prempted for the next several days after..Let's look at what was supposed to be aired during this week..

WJW-TV 8 had Scheduled a Ghoulardi Episode Saturday, Nov. 23 (Island of Lost Men-1939)
Also on Saturday, KYW-TV 3 aired "Barnaby goes to Plymouth" A filmed "Barnaby" (Linn Sheldon) program in which he visits Plymouth, Mass. In a special Thanksgiving show.

Monday-Friday on NBC's "You Don't Say" (In Color)..John Astin and Carolyn Jones of "I'm Dickens, He's Fenster" ABC sitcom are guest panelists..They would be teamed the following fall for ABC's Addams Family..

KYW-3 presents a Mike Douglas Special Monday night 11-25 at 10PM with Tommy Sands, Nancy Sinatra and Bill Daily

WEWS-5 has Price Is Right Primetime Wednesday 11-28 at 8:30 PM with guest Troy Donahue joining Bill Cullen..and at 11:15 the Tonight Show Welcomes Dorothy Kirsten and Lorne Greene..

Mr. Jingeling (Max Ellis) had begun his visits at WEWS-TV 5 on behalf of Halles Department Store..weeknights at 5:30 PM..

TV Guide Schedule-Wednesday, November 27, 1963..

KYW-3 NBC

6:20 News
6:25 Farm Fare
6:30 Sea Power
7AM Today-Hugh Downs
9AM Woodrow-Clay Conroy
9:30 Your Star Today-Anthology Reruns
10AM Say When-Art James
10:30 Word For Word-Merv Griffin-COLOR
11AM Concentration-Hugh Downs
11:30 Missing Links-COLOR
Noon News
12:30 Mike Douglas
2PM People Will Talk-Dennis James-COLOR
2:25 NBC News-Floyd Kalber
2:30 Doctors
3PM Loretta Young
3;30 You Don't Say-Tom Kennedy-COLOR
4PM Match Game-Gene Rayburn-Panel:Pat Carroll, Henry Morgan
4:25 NBC News-Sander Vanocur
4:30 Barnaby, Popeye and Friends-Linn Sheldon
5:05 Movie-Tarzan Escapes-1936
6:30 Huntley-Brinkley
7PM News
7:30 Virginian-COLOR
9PM Espionage
10PM Eleventh Hour-Conclusion of a crossover story from "Dr. Kildare"
11PM News-Bill Jorgensen
11:10 Weather-Dick Goddard
11:15 Steve Allen-Guest Mel Torme'
12:45 Movie-Cairo Road-1950

WEWS-5 ABC

8:55 News
9AM Telecourse-Psychology
9:30 Romper Room-Miss Barbara
10AM Paige Palmer
10:45 TV Classroom-Science
11AM Price Is Right
11:30 Seven Keys
12PM News
12:10 Noon Show-Capt. Penny
1PM One O Clock Club-Bill Gordon, Dorothy Fuldheim
2:30 Day In Court
2:55 ABC News-Howard
3PM Queen For A Day
3:30 Who Do You Trust-Woody Woodbury
4PM Trailmaster
5PM Comedy Clubhouse-Capt. Penny
5:30 Mr. Jingeling
5:45 Comedy Clubhouse
6PM News-Tom Field, Charles Day
6:10 Weather-Ron Jaye
6:15 Dorothy Fuldheim
6:30 Yogi Bear
7PM Quarterback Club-Ken Coleman
7:30 Ozzie And Harriet
8PM Patty Duke
8:30 Price Is Right
9PM Ben Casey
10PM Channing
11PM News-Tom Field, Dan Hackel
11:15 Johnny Carson-COLOR
1AM News

WJW-8 CBS

7:05 Meditation
7:10 News
7:15 Sunrise Semester
7:45 Rex Humbard
8AM Captain Kangaroo
9AM Pinocchio
9:30 People's Choice
10AM As The World Turns
10:30 I Love Lucy
11AM Real McCoys
11:30 Pete And Gladys
Noon Love Of Life
12:25 News-Roger Goodrich
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1PM Hawaiian Eye
1:55 Editorial-Norman Wagy
2PM Password-Allen Ludden/Julia Meade and Frank Fontaine
2:30 House Party-Linkletter
3PM To Tell The Truth-Bud Collyer
3:30 Edge Of Night'
4PM Secret Storm
4:30 Laurel, Ghoulardi and Hardy
5PM Adventure Road-Jim Doney
6PM News, Sports, Weather-Roger Goodrich, Doug Adair, Joel Daly, Howard Hoffman, John Fitzgerakld
6:30 CBS News-Walter Cronkite
7PM Bachelor Father
7:30 CBS Reports
8:30 Leave It To Beaver (Syndicated reruns)
9PM Beverly Hillbillies
9:30 Dick Van Dyke
10PM Danny Kaye
11PM News Sports Weather-Daly, Adair, Fitzgerald, Hoffman
11:20 Movie-China Gate 1957
1AM Movie-Telegraph Trail-1933

49-WAKR Akron ABC

10:55 News
11AM Price Is Right
11;30 Seven Keys
Noon-Tennessee Ernie Ford
12:30 Father Knows Best
1PM General Hospital
1:30 Kartoon Karnival
2PM Matinee 49
2:30 Day In Court
2:55 ABC News-Howard
3PM Queen For A Day
3:30 Who Do You Trust-Woody Woodbury
4PM Trailmaster
5PM TV Hour Of Stars
5:45 Rex Humbard
6PM Professor Jack
6:55 Sports-Bob Wylie
7PM News-Jack Fitzgibbons
7:10 Weather-Bill McKay
7:15 ABC News-Ron Cochran
7:30 ABC News Reports-Delayed from Saturday 7PM-Bob Young
8PM Patty Duke
8:30 Price Is Right
9PM Ben Casey
10PM Channing
11PM ABC News-Murphey Martin
11:10 Local News
11:15 Movie-Under Fire 1957

Thursday, November 28, 1963

KYW-3

6:20 News
6:25 Farm Fare
6:30 Sea Power
7AM Today-Hugh Downs
9AM Woodrow-Clay Conroy
9:30 Your Star Today-Anthology Reruns
10AM Macy's Thanksgiveing Day Parade-COLOR
11:30 Missing Links-COLOR
Noon News
12:30 Mike Douglas
2PM People Will Talk-Dennis James-COLOR
2:25 NBC News-Floyd Kalber
2:30 Doctors
3PM Loretta Young
3;30 You Don't Say-Tom Kennedy-COLOR
4PM Match Game-Gene Rayburn-Panel:Pat Carroll, Henry Morgan
4:25 NBC News-Sander Vanocur
4:30 Barnaby, Popeye and Friends-Linn Sheldon
5:05 Movie-Steel Fist-1952
6:30 Huntley-Brinkley
7PM News
7:30 Festival-Rudolph Serkin-Classical Music
8:30 Dr. Kildare
9:30 Hazel-COLOR
10PM Arthur Godfrey Thanksgiving Special-COLOR
11PM News-Jorgenson, Goddard
11:15 Steve Allen-Dorothy Lamour, Woody Allen
12:45 Movie-Flesh and the Spur-1956

WEWS-5

8:55 News
9AM Choir Music
9:30 Romper Room-Miss Barbara
10AM Paige Palmer
11AM Price Is Right
11:30 Seven Keys
12PM News
12:10 Noon Show-Capt. Penny
1PM One O Clock Club-Bill Gordon, Dorothy Fuldheim
2:30 Cowboy And The Tiger
3:30 AFL Football-Denver Broncos at Kansas City Chiefs-Curt Gowdy and Paul Christman report, with TV 5's Paul Wilcox doing a scoreboard after the game.
6:15 Cartoons
6:30 News-Field, Day
6:40 Weather-Ken Coleman
6:45 Dorothy Fuldheim
7PM High School Football '63-Last Show
7:30 Flintstones-COLOR
8PM Donna Reed
8:30 My Three Sons
9PM Jimmy Dean-With the McGuire Sisters and Don Adams
10PM Sid Caesar
10:30 Call Mr. D
11PM News-Field, Hackel
11:15 Johnny Carson-COLOR-Guest Tuesday Weld
1AM News

WJW-8
7:35 Meditation
7:40 News
7:45 Rex Humbard
8AM Captain Kangaroo
9AM Pinocchio
9:30 People's Choice
10AM Thanksgiveing Parades:

From New York-Macy's:Bess Myerson, Allen Ludden
Philadelphia-Gimbel's:Fran Allison. Gene Crane
Detroit:Hudson's:Bert Parks, Bob Murphy
Toronto:Lloyd Robertson (CBC)(2 hours-8 carried just 90 minutes)

11:30 Sidelines-Bob Neal
11:45 Best Of The Browns
Noon NFL Football-Green Bay At Detroit:Ray Scott, Van Patrick
3PM College Football-Texas at Texas A&M-Terry Brennan, Jim Simpson
5:55 Scoreboard-Joe Mayer
6PM News, Weather, Sports..Adair, Goodrich, Daly, Hoffman, Fitzgerald
6:30 CBS News-Cronkite
7PM Everglades
7:30 Password-Ludden-Jimmy and Gloria Stewart
8PM Rawhide
9PM Perry Mason
10PM Thriller-Syndicated
11PM News-Daly, Adair, Fitzgerald, Hoffman
11:20 Movie-Father Was a Fullback-1949
1AM Movie-Seventeen-1940

WAKR-49
10:55 News
11AM Price Is Right
11;30 Seven Keys
Noon-Tennessee Ernie Ford
12:25 ABC News-Lisa Howard
12:30 Father Knows Best
1PM General Hospital
1:30 Kartoon Karnival
2PM Matinee 49
2:30 Day In Court
2:55 ABC News-Howard
2:30 Cowboy And The Tiger
3:30 AFL Football-Denver Broncos at Kansas City Chiefs-Curt Gowdy and Paul Christman
6:30 Professor Jack
6:55 Sports-Bob Wylie
7PM News-Jack Fitzgibbons
7:10 Weather-Bill McKay
7:15 ABC News-Ron Cochran
7:30 Flintstones-COLOR
8PM Donna Reed
8:30 My Three Sons
9PM Jimmy Dean-With the McGuire Sisters and Don Adams
10PM Sid Caesar
10:30 Jackpot Bil1iards
11PM ABC News-Murphey Martin
11:10 Local News
11:15 Movie-Kronos-1957

All ads and schedules courtesy TV Guide..

I would like to take this opportunity to wish all a blessed and safe Thanksgiving..Over the weekend I have a TV/Radio post from November 1957 using the Canton Repository I will be working on..