Can you believe this was what was probably pre-empted that night after Oswald got shot ??

[Laura PourMeADrink]

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[font color=blue]Talk about what must have been the DEATH OF INNOCENCE ! [font color=black]

[font size = 3.2]1963 Sunday Night TV Line Up[/font size = 3.2]


CBS

Lassie
Dennis the Menace
Ed Sullivan Show
The Real McCoys
GE True
Candid Camera
What's my line

NBC

Ensign O'Toole
Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color
Car 54 Where Are You
Bonanza
Dupont Show of the week

ABC

Father Knows Best (repeats)
The Jetsons
Hollywood Special
The Voice of Firestone

[AmBlue]

1. Where's Bonanza?

I think we watched that right after Walt Disney.... if my memory isn't too foggy.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

4. OOPS...just added

[roguevalley]

2. I remember them all in black and white. THe anthology shows were remarkable.

some of the greatest writers in the world wrote eps.

[duffyduff]

3. Mr. Ed and the Judy Garland Show are left out, too. n/t

[Laura PourMeADrink]

5. here's the whole week's schedule for 1962-1963

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1962%E2%80%9363_United_States_network_television_schedule

[duffyduff]

6. It's not accurate. That is a 1962-63 schedule. JFK died that fall, so it would be the 63-4 season.

I was alive then and watched both Mr. Ed and Judy Garland's program. Mr. Ed was on earlier in the evening on Sundays. As for Judy Garland, she sang "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" in honor of JFK on her show.

It aired Sunday nights, and it was canceled because it couldn't compete with Bonanza.

Here is the schedule for 63-4:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1963%E2%80%9364_United_States_network_television_schedule


Mr. Ed was on around 6:30 p.m. on Sundays, as I recall. It was on earlier in the schedule than the link shows. It's in a footnote at the link.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

9. wow. thanks. stand correct. Judy

?t=47s

[duffyduff]

11. In my opinion, that was perhaps the best variety show ever.

However, it was a troubled series with lots of personnel changes. The format changed constantly, but it was no match in the ratings for Bonanza.

Fortunately it's out on DVD, with the videotape quality so good, it looks like it was recorded yesterday.

Judy Garland was good friends with JFK, and the assassination affected her deeply.

[dflprincess]

8. From the time it was announced JFK was dead

until early Tuesday morning none of the major networks ran any regular programming. Just over 4 solid days of news coverage - this didn't happen again until 9/11... Only in 1963 there were no cable channels or videos you could escape to for a little while.

[duffyduff]

12. But it wasn't on 24/7.

There was around 55 hours of coverage total, at least on the part of CBS. The other networks were probably the same.

This also included recaps and concerts.

I never regarded it as overkill. The coverage of the horrendous 9/11 tended towards it.

[dflprincess]

14. The coverage of the JFK's murder was constant there was no regular programming

on thel 3 major networks.

http://www.mercurynews.com/entertainment/ci_24557411/kennedy-assassination-how-it-changed-tv-forever
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Over the next four days, the three networks dumped regularly scheduled programming and suspended commercials to provide uninterrupted news coverage. During that period, 96 percent of TV-owning households tuned in for an average of more than 31 hours apiece, and a record-setting 41.5 million television sets were in use during Kennedy's funeral Monday afternoon, according to Nielsen.


I thought the coverage of 9/11 was over the top and wondered if it would have been so constant had two of the targets not been in New York.

[duffyduff]

15. Not the same. I am watching the original CBS coverage.

Back in those days, the networks were NOT on 24/7. CBS's coverage was about 9 hours the first day, 15 hours for two days, and 14 for one day. NBC was similar, and probably the same with ABC.

It is misleading by the reporter to say that there was "uninterrupted" coverage because the broadcast was NOT 24/7. For CBS it went on without commercials from about 8 a.m. EST to 11 or 11:30 p.m. That's what the reporter meant, but it was not 24/7 because television networks and stations did NOT operate on a 24-hour basis.

They, meaning CBS, reported the events, and then broadcast documentaries about JFK and LBJ, had roundtable discussions with historians and religious leaders, church services from Boston, and concerts (one of which is being rebroadcast right now with Leonard Bernstein and the NY Philharmonic). They also had recaps.

Not the same at all. 9/11 was virtually blanket coverage on the cable networks especially, and THAT went on 24/7 for days.

People are bitching about the JFK coverage, but it was a MAJOR watershed not only in American history, but in television history. People need to see it to understand not only the past but the present. Nitwits like Karen Tumulty are a disgrace to journalism.

[moondust]

10. Incidentally, many are still on.

FYI: If you have an over-the-air (OTA) antenna and tuner for the old public airwaves you may be able to get Antenna TV, ME TV, THIS TV, and maybe others that run old shows all the time. Too many to name but include Mr. Ed, Car 54, Perry Mason, George Burns/Gracie Allen, Jack Benny Show, Alfred Hitchcock, Outer Limits, many more.

One noticeable difference is that there are almost no minorities on those old shows. There's Rochester on the Jack Benny show but that's about it and of course he was a valet.

[duffyduff]

13. I Spy was the big breakthrough for minorities on television.

That was a couple of years later, at the peak of the "spy craze."

The gimmick shows really began here and were everywhere in the mid-1960s. I think they were popular because they took people's minds off of what happened that weekend and all of the other chaos going on in the country and the world at that time.

The most popular show in the United States that television season of 1963-64 was The Beverly Hillbillies, one of the ultimate escapist shows.