expected, walked off with 7:30 to 8 for However, as Man From U.N.C.L.E. con- ABC, while Daniel Boone at NBC tinued at 9 it wrested supremacy from stalked closely on its traces. Jericho at CBS, which begins its movie at that CBS touched bottom. From 8 to 8:30, hour, and ABC, which found too late WTRF-TV BOARD Daniel Boone continued on top of the that Milton Berle today is not the draw- LAUNCHING BEEF! Our latest situation, with ABC's F Troop next in ing card he was yesterday. From 9:30 N.A.S.A. report indicates that line for a merit badge, and the second on, the movies held sway, elbowing both 500 head of cattle will soon be half of Jericho bringing up the rear. At NBC's T.H.E. Cat and Laredo and 7 sent Into space. It'll be the herd 8:30, CBS's My Three Sons won a more ABC's 12 O'clock High away from siza- TV REP?* shot round the world! wtrf-tv Wheeling substantial following than both Dating ble audiences. AN ASTRONAUT is a whirled traveler. Game (which took 's Wheeling wtrf-tv rapidly vacated place at ABC) and Star SATURDAY THE REASON most people don't live within their incomes is that they don't consider that Trek at NBC. Bewitched, ABC's entry Once again it was the network that living. Wheeling-Steubenville Market at 9, bothered and bewildered the first offered the movies that won the night— NEW DRINK on the best cellar list at the Three half hour of CBS's Thursday Night Gaynors . . , it's called "Factory Whistle," one in this case NBC. But the evening blast and you're through for the day. Movies and the second half hour of ALL COLORCASTING started off well for CBS in the rotund CASH IN THESE HILLSI New container plant Star Trek. Bewitched chalked up a 22.5 person of Jackie Gleason, newly reunited now open and employing 800 workers. Tape plant to reach full employment soon. Wheeling rating and Gray had it figured for 22.8— with Art Carney for another go at life area now below national unemployment fig- ures and going lower to drop below 3%. darn close. The movies marched off with among the proletariat. Shane was oppo- Upper Ohio River Valley the next hour, besting That Girl and REMEMBER when you felt like a luvenile de- site for ABC and whoever said "Come linquent 'cause you owed money on a library Hawk at ABC, and The Hero and the back, Shane" had to eat his words. At book? Nation's Ninth Color Market first half of Dean Martin at NBC. But NBC, Flipper did a little less well than PATIENT TO DOCTOR, "You say I'm in good shape for a trip, Doctor, but I can't be well Martin had the last word, drubbing the Gray expected, but he foretold the fol- enough to travel, I just look too much like the final half of Hawk and shading the last lowing of Please Don't Eat the Daisies picture on my passport." Voltage Valley half-hour of the movies. It was CBS's with great accuracy. Get Smart, at 8:30, WTRF-TV AREA boasts two of the largest new night by half a rating point, with NBC power plants in the country, one operating and turned the tide for NBC by rolling up ground broken for a new one. the runner up. a 22.0 (exactly as Gray foresaw), and WTRF-TV ALL COLOR A PSYCHOLOGIST finally figured out why Lawrence Welk, with 20.8, also did well Robin Hood robbed only the rich, the poor had FRIDAY for ABC. This was bound to take some no money. WHEELING WTRF-TV Friday was payday for CBS, which of the starch out of Pistols 'n' Petticoats, *The national rep to see for WTRF-TV Wheeling wound up the evening with a 19.4 av- and so it did. The hour Lawrence Welk is your Blair Television man. Keep him busy!

erage rating, well ahead of NBC's 17.5 show continues past 9 and won that CHANNEL NQ WHEELING, and ABC's 13. Gray had the first hour half-hour for ABC. The first 30 minutes SEVEN ( WEST. VIRGINIA pretty well figured. NBC's Tarzan, which of the movies at NBC was the runner-up, won its time slot, did close to what Gray and Mission Impossible placed third for estimated, and so did runner-up Wild CBS, although it did a bit better than Wild West at CBS and ABC's low men Gray suggested. For the rest of the even- on the totem pole, Green Hornet and ing the movies ruled the roost, despite Time Tunnel. (The general idea ol' respectable ratings for Gunsmoke at time travel is not apparently as appeal- CBS and Hollywood Palace at ABC. ing as the shapers of this season Gray had predicted that the average thought it would be.) At 8:30, those rating for over-all prime time would be' comic POW's, Hogan's Heroes, won the 18.7, but the actual average for all shows half-hour for CBS, while at ABC the was 18.3 Perhaps next time around the second half of Time Tunnel did slightly networks will come up with something better than Gray predicted and the first to bring in that four-tenths of a rating half of Man From U.N.C.L.E. did worse. point. END

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