Next Issue Ad

Here's another ad for the next issue of TV Guide. From the Chicago, IL edition of TV Guide, dated December 14-20, 1968.

WFLD Channel 32 TV Schedule for Wednesday, December 18, 1968

Afternoon
========
   2:55 pm                   Film (no title listed)
   3:00 pm                   Dialing for Dollars
   3:30 pm                   Cartoons
   5:00 pm                   Munsters
   5:30 pm                   Rawhide   "The Slavemaster"


Evening
======
   6:30 pm                  Truth or Consequences
   7:00 pm                  Honeymooners
   7:30 pm                  Movie   "Legend of a Gunfighter"
   9:30 pm                  News, Weather
 10:00 pm                  Run For Your Life
 11:00 pm                  100 Paintings
 11:15 pm                  News, Weather

WCIU Channel 26 TV Schedule for Wednesday, December 18, 1968

Morning
=======
   8:30 am                     Supervisory Technique
   9:00 am                     Stock Market Review
   9:15 am                     Stock Market Observer


Afternoon
=========
 12:15 pm                    Stock Market Observer
   1:45 pm                    Statistical Analysis
   3:15 pm                    Market Round-Up
   3:30 pm                    Little Rascals
   4:00 pm                    Mulqueens' Kiddie-A-Go-Go
   5:30 pm                    Spanish Drama


Evening
=======
   6:30 pm                   Today's Racing with Bob Philbin
   6:45 pm                   Sports Report with Jesse Owens
   6:55 pm                   Film (no title listed)
   7:00 pm                   Luis Carlos Uribe
   8:00 pm                   Luis Carlos Uribe
   9:00 pm                   Luis Carlos Uribe
 10:00 pm                   Country-Western Music

WXXW Channel 20 TV Schedule for Wednesday, December 18, 1968

Morning
========
   8:20 am                    Nursing In Psychiatry
   9:18 am                    Classroom (subjects: Americans All, Spanish, Wordsmith, Songs, & Math 3)
 11:15 am                    Pediatric Nursing


Afternoon
========
   1:03 pm                   Classroom (subjects: Communists, & Spanish)
   2:12 pm                   Maternity Nursing
  


Evening
======
   7:00 pm                   World We Live In   "Life In Parched Lands"
   7:30 pm                   Busy Knitter with Elizabeth Zimmermann
   8:05 pm                   Physical Science   "Laws of Motion"
   9:00 pm                   TV High School

Jacques Costeau Ad

Here's a vintage ad for a rerun of "Whales", from the Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau, on WLS(7). From the Chicago, IL edition of TV Guide, dated December 14-20, 1968.

WTTW Channel 11 TV Schedule for Wednesday, December 18, 1968

Morning
=======
   8:40 am                     TV High School
   9:15 am                     Classroom (subjects: Science, Roundabout, Math 4, Art, & Sounds Like
                                                                            Magic
 11:10 am                     Literature   "Ernest Hemingway"


Afternoon
========
 12:05 pm                     Shorthand
   1:00 pm                     Classroom (subjects: Language, Roundabout, Neighborhood Explorers & Art)
   3:00 pm                     Humanities   "Opera"
   3:45 pm                     Italian
   4:30 pm                     Misterogers
   5:00 pm                     What's New
   5:30 pm                     Friendly Giant
   5:45 pm                     Psychology   "Psychological Testing"


Evening
=======
   6:30 pm                    Government   "Controlling Leadership"
   7:15 pm                    Data Processing   "Applications: Mathematical & Scientific"
   8:00 pm                    News In Perspective
   9:00 pm                    Adventure (rerun)
   9:30 pm                    NET Journal (rerun)
 10:30 pm                    NET Playhouse   "A Crack In the Ice"

WGN Channel 9 TV Schedule for Wednesday, December 19, 1968

Morning
=======
   6:15 am                     News, Sports
   6:30 am                     Meditation
   6:35 am                     Top O' the Morning
   7:00 am                     Ray Rayner
   8:15 am                     King & Odie
   8:30 am                     Romper Room
   9:00 am                     Gloria (exercise program)
   9:30 am                     Donna Reed
 10:00 am                     Virginia Graham (guests: Nina Foch, Jane White, & Elaine Giftos)]
 10:30 am                     Jim Conway (guests: Dr. Maria Piers, Jean McCarthy, & Mary Frann)


Afternoon
========
 12 noon                      Bozo's Circus
   1:00 pm                    Hazel
   1:30 pm                    Movie   "The Bells of St. Mary's" part 1
   3:00 pm                    Mister Ed
   3:30 pm                    Johnny Cypher
   4:00 pm                    Batman
   4:30 pm                    Garfield Goose
   5:15 pm                    News, Weather
   5:30 pm                    Flintstones


Evening
=======
   6:00 pm                    I Love Lucy
   6:30 pm                    Pro Hockey: Chicago Black Hawks at New York Rangers (regular
                                                           programming is preempted)
   9:00 pm                    Perry Mason
 10:00 pm                    News, Weather, Sports
 10:30 pm                    Movie   "A Taste of Honey"


Early Thursday, December 19, 1968
==========================
 12:30 am                    News with Carl Greyson
 12:50 am                    Movie   "Never Let Go"

WLS Channel 7 TV Schedule for Wednesday, December 18, 1968

Morning
=======
   6:50 am                      News
   7:00 am                      Perspectives
   7:30 am                      Three Stooges (cartoons)
   8:00 am                      Movie   "The Princess Comes Across"
   9:30 am                      Dick Cavett (guest: Burgess Meredith)
 11:00 am                      Bewitched
 11:30 am                      Treasure Isle


Afternoon
========
 12 noon                       Dream House
 12:30 pm                     Funny You Should Ask with Lloyd Thaxton
 12:55 pm                     Children's Doctor
   1:00 pm                     Newlywed Game
   1:30 pm                     Dating Game
   2:00 pm                     General Hospital
   2:30 pm                     One Life To Live
   3:00 pm                     Dark Shadows
   3:30 pm                     Movie   "These Wilder Years"
   5:30 pm                     News with Frank Reynolds


Evening
=======
   6:00 pm                    News, Weather
   6:30 pm                    Here Come the Brides   "A Christmas Place"
   7:30 pm                    Movie   "The Robe" (notes that Peyton Place is preempted)
 10:00 pm                    News, Weather, Sports
 10:30 pm                    Joey Bishop (guests: Lee Marvin, John Gary, & Bobby Doyle)


Early Thursday, December 19, 1968
===========================
 12 midnight              Chicago
   1:30 am                   News

WMAQ Channel 5 TV Schedule for Wednesday, December 18, 1968

Morning
========
   5:45 am                    Town & Farm
   6:00 am                    Education Exchange with J.E. Sparks   "Read Right: Reading Novels"
   6:30 am                    Today In Chicago
   6:55 am                    News with Charles Heath
   7:00 am                    Today with Hugh Downs & Barbara Walters (guests: Liz Carpenter & Bess
                                                                 Abel)
   9:00 am                     Snap Judgment
   9:25 am                     News with Dickerson
   9:30 am                     Concentration
 10:00 am                     Personality
 10:30 am                     Hollywood Squares
 11:00 am                     Jeopardy
 11:30 am                     Eye Guess
 11:55 am                     News with Edwin Newman


Afternoon
========
 12 noon                       News, Weather
 12:30 pm                     Let's Make a Deal
   1:00 pm                     Days of Our Lives
   1:30 pm                     Doctors
   2:00 pm                     Another World
   2:30 pm                     You Don't Say
   3:00 pm                     Match Game
   3:25 pm                     News with Floyd Kalber
   3:30 pm                     Merv Griffin (guests: Liza Minelli, Mary Allen, & Ronnie Dyson)
   5:00 pm                     News, Weather


Evening
=======
   6:00 pm                     News with Chet Huntley & David Brinkley
   6:30 pm                     Virginian   "Big Tiny"
   8:00 pm                     Music Hall with Eddy Arnold, Burl Ives, & Terry-Thomas
   9:00 pm                     Outsider   "The Land of the Fox"
 10:00 pm                     News, Weather, Sports
 10:30 pm                     Johnny Carson (guests: James Mason & Tiny Tim)


Early Thursday, December 19, 1968
==========================
 12 midnight                News, Weather
 12:30 am                    Farm Forum

WBBM Channel 2 TV Schedule for Wednesday, December 18, 1968

Morning
=======
   5:55 am                   News
   6:00 am                   Sunrise Semester   "English Literature: Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels" pt.2
   6:30 am                   Seminar '68
   7:00 am                   Editorial
   7:05 am                   News with Joseph Benti
   7:30 am                   Dennis the Menace
   8:00 am                   Captain Kangaroo
   9:00 am                   Lucille Ball
   9:30 am                   Beverly Hillbillies
 10:00 am                   Andy Griffith
 10:30 am                   Dick Van Dyke
 11:00 am                   Love of Life
 11:25 am                   News with Joseph Benti
 11:30 am                   Search for Tomorrow


Afternoon
========
 12 noon                    News, Weather
 12:15 pm                  Lee Phillip
 12:30 pm                  As The World Turns
   1:00 pm                  Love Is a Many Splendored Thing (mistakenly listed as being on WLS[7])
   1:30 pm                  Guiding Light
   2:00 pm                  Secret Storm
   2:30 pm                  Edge of Night
   3:00 pm                  Linkletter Show (guest: Lena Horne; rerun)
   3:25 pm                  News with Edwards
   3:30 pm                  Leave It to Beaver
   4:00 pm                  Man From U.N.C.L.E.
   5:00 pm                  McHale's Navy
   5:30 pm                  News with Cronkite


Evening
=======
   6:00 pm                 News, Weather
   6:25 pm                 Editorial
   6:30 pm                 Daktari   "The Discovery"
   7:30 pm                 Good Guys   "The Biggest Madre of Them All"
   8:00 pm                 Beverly Hillbillies   "The Week Before Christmas"
   8:30 pm                 Green Acres   "The Blue Feather"
   9:00 pm                 Jonathan Winters (guests: Godfrey Cambridge, Sugar Ray Robinson, Roosevelt
                                                                 Grier, Minnie Pearl, & Roy Clark)
 10:00 pm                 News, Weather, Sports
 10:55 pm                 Movie   "My Six Convicts" (time approximate)


Early Thursday, December 19, 1968
===========================
   1:10 am               Movie   "Crosswinds" (time approximate)

WLS(7) News Ad

Here's a vintage ad for WLS(7)'s 6 pm & 10 pm newscasts, which were anchored by Fahey Flynn & Joel Daly at the time. From the Chicago, IL edition of TV Guide, dated December 14-20, 1968.

WFLD Channel 32 TV Schedule for Tuesday, December 17, 1968

Afternoon
========
   2:25 pm                  Film (no title listed)
   2:30 pm                  Dialing for Dollars
   3:00 pm                  Interweave
   3:30 pm                  Cartoons
   5:00 pm                  Munsters
   5:30 pm                  Rawhide   "The Night Visitor"


Evening
=======
   6:30 pm                 Truth or Consequences
   7:00 pm                 Honeymooners
   7:30 pm                 Movie   "Legend of a Gunfighter"
   9:30 pm                 News, Weather
 10:00 pm                 Run For Your Life
 11:00 pm                 100 Paintings
 11:15 pm                 News, Weather

WCIU Channel 26 TV Schedule for Tuesday, December 17, 1968

Morning
======
   8:45 am                   Spanish
   9:00 am                   Stock Market Review
   9:15 am                   Stock Market Observer



Afternoon
========
 12 noon                    Stock Market Observer
   1:45 pm                  Statistical Analysis
   3:00 pm                  Business News Highlights
   3:15 pm                  Market Roundup
   3:30 pm                  Supervisory Technique
   4:00 pm                  Mulqueen's Kiddie-A-Go-Go
   5:30 pm                  Spanish  Drama


Evening
========
   6:30 pm                  Today's Racing with Bob Philbin
   6:45 pm                  Sports Report with Jesse Owens
   6:55 pm                  Stock Market Wrap-Up
   7:00 pm                  How to Invest with James Pinney
   8:00 pm                  ESP with Lee Wayne
   8:30 pm                  Country-Western Music
   9:00 pm                  Auto Racing with Bill Maloney
 10:00 pm                  Roller Derby (no teams listed)

WXXW Channel 20 TV Schedule for Tuesday, December 17, 1968

Morning
=======
   8:20 am                   Nursing In Psychiatry
   9:15 am                   Classroom (subjects: Art, Science, Math 4, Math 2, & Spanish)
 11:45 am                   Pediatric Nursing


Afternoon
========
   1:00 pm                 Classroom (subjects: French, Sounds Like Magic, Art, & All About You)
   2:17 pm                 Maternity Nursing
   3:05 pm                 Man: His Growth & Development
  


Evening
=======
   7:00 pm                  Book Beat (guest: Herbert Mitgang)
   7:30 pm                  Joyce Chen Cooks
   8:05 pm                  Humanities  "The Short Novel II"
  

Little Drummer Boy

Here's a vintage Close Up for the Christmas special "The Little Drummer Boy" that was seen on WMAQ(5). From the Chicago, IL edition of TV Guide, dated December 14-20, 1968.

WTTW Channel 11 TV Schedule for Tuesday, December 17, 1968

Morning
=======
   8:05 am                    Government   "Controlling Leadership In a Democracy"
   9:12 am                    Classroom (subjects: Science, Cover to Cover, History & Wordsmith)
 11:05 am                    Data Processing   "Applications: Business & Public Service"


Afternoon
========
 12:05 pm                   Speech   "Improve Televised Speaking"
  1:03 pm                    Classroom (subjects: Quest for the Best, Word Magic, Songs, & You & Eye)
  3:00 pm                    Physical Science   "Laws of Motion"
  3:45 pm                    Psychology   "Psychological Testing"
  4:30 pm                    Misterogers
  5:00 pm                    What's New
  5:30 pm                    Friendly Giant
  5:45 pm                    Storyteller


Evening
=======
   6:00 pm                  Speech   "Improve Televised Speaking"
   6:30 pm                  Shorthand
   7:15 pm                  Italian
   8:00 pm                  French Chef with Julia Child
   8:30 pm                  Action People   "What Is the Helping Relationship In Our Schools?"
   9:30 pm                  Chicago Festival (guests: Richard Pick & David Chausow)
 10:00 pm                  Insight
 10:30 pm                 German Playhouse
 11:00 pm                 Bridge with Jean Cox

WGN Channel 9 TV Schedule for Tuesday, December 17, 1968

Morning
=======
   6:15 am                     News, Sports
   6:30 am                     Meditation
   6:35 am                     Top O' the Morning
   7:00 am                     Ray Rayner
   8:15 am                     King & Odie
   8:30 am                     Romper Room
   9:00 am                     Gloria (exercise program)
   9:30 am                     Donna Reed
 10:00 am                     Virginia Graham (guests: Annemarie Huste & Maggie Daly)
 10:30 am                     Jim Conway (guests: Maggie Daly, Ann Landers, & Albert V. Sadacca)


Afternoon
========
 12 noon                     Bozo's Circus
   1:00 pm                   Hazel
   1:30 pm                   Movie   "The Diary of Anne Frank" (part 2)
   3:00 pm                   Mister Ed
   3:30 pm                  Superman (TV series)
   4:00 pm                  Batman
   4:30 pm                  Garfield Goose
   5:15 pm                  News, Weather
   5:30 pm                  Flintstones


Evening
=======
   6:00 pm                 Mike Douglas (guests: Jan Peerce, Herblock, & Jose Greco)
   7:30 pm                 I Love Lucy
   8:00 pm                 Steve Allen (guests: Gypsy Rose Lee, Richard Pryor, Jackie DeShannon, &
                                                                    Smokey Robinson & the Miracles; rerun)
   9:00 pm                 Perry Mason
 10:00 pm                News, Weather, Sports
 10:30 pm                Movie   "The Ghost & Mrs. Muir"


Early Wednesday, December 18, 1968
==============================
 12:35 am              News with Carl Greyson
 12:55 am              Sports World
   1:00 am              Movie   "Flame of the Islands"

WLS Channel 7 TV Schedule for Tuesday, December 17, 1968

Morning
=======
   6:50 am                     News
   7:00 am                     Perspectives
   7:30 am                     Three Stooges (cartoons)
   8:00 am                     Movie   "The Reckless Moment"
   9:30 am                     Dick Cavett (guests: Hugh Downs & Leopold Stokowski)
 11:00 am                     Bewitched
 11:30 am                     Treasure Isle


Afternoon
=======
 12 noon                      Dream House
 12:30 pm                    Funny You Should Ask with Lloyd Thaxton
 12:55 pm                    Children's Doctor
   1:00 pm                    Newlywed Game
   1:30 pm                    Dating Game
   2:00 pm                    General Hospital
   2:30 pm                    One Life To Live
   3:00 pm                    Dark Shadows
   3:30 pm                    Movie   "Vacation from Marriage"
   5:30 pm                    News with Frank Reynolds


Evening
=======
   6:00 pm                    News, Weather
   6:30 pm                    Mod Squad   "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Starlet"
   7:30 pm                    It Takes a Thief   "Glass Riddle"
   8:30 pm                    N.Y.P.D.   "The Witch of 116th Street"
   9:00 pm                    That's Life   "Twas the Night Before Christmas"
 10:00 pm                    News, Weather, Sports
 10:30 pm                    Joey Bishop (guests: Lorne Greene, Chuck Eisenmann & his dog act, & Bobby
                                                                       Doyle)


Early Wednesday, December 18, 1968
==============================
 12 midnight              Chicago
   1:30 am                   News

WMAQ Channel 5 TV Schedule for Tuesday, December 17, 1968

Morning
=======
   5:45 am                    Town & Farm
   6:00 am                    Education Exchange with J.E. Sparks   "Read Right: Reading Contemporary
                                                        Non-Fiction Books"
   6:30 am                    Today In Chicago
   6:55 am                    News with Charles Heath
   7:00 am                    Today with Hugh Downs & Barbara Walters (guests: Leo Rosten, Marjorie
                                                Craig, & Lee Trevino)
   9:00 am                    Snap Judgment
   9:25 am                    News with Dickerson
   9:30 am                    Concentration
 10:00 am                    Personality
 10:30 am                    Hollywood Squares
 11:00 am                    Jeopardy
 11:30 am                    Eye Guess
 11:55 am                    News with Edwin Newman


Afternoon
========
   12 noon                  News, Weather
   12:30 pm                Let's Make a Deal
     1:00 pm                Days of Our Lives
     1:30 pm                Doctors
     2:00 pm                Another World
     2:30 pm                You Don't Say
     3:00 pm                Match Game
     3:25 pm                News with Floyd Kalber
     3:30 pm                Merv Griffin (guests: Peter Lind Hayes, Phyllis Newman, Jackie Kannon, &
                                                                       Arthur Treacher)
     5:00 pm                News, Weather


Evening
=======
    6:00 pm                News with Chet Huntley & David Brinkley
    6:30 pm                Jerry Lewis (guests: Noel Harrison & Kaye Ballard)
    7:30 pm                Julia   "Designers Don't Always Have Designs"
    8:00 pm                Movie   "For Those Who Think Young"
  10:00 pm                News, Weather, Sports
  10:30 pm                Johnny Carson (guest: David Frye)


Early Wednesday, December 18, 1968
=============================
   12 midnight          News, Weather
   12:30 am               Everyman

WBBM Channel 2 TV Schedule for Tuesday, December 17, 1968

Morning
=======
   5:55 am                    News
   6:00 am                    Sunrise Semester: Philosophy with Rudolf Bultmann
   6:30 am                    Seminar '68
   7:00 am                    Editorial
   7:05 am                    News with Joseph Benti
   7:30 am                    Dennis the Menace
   8:00 am                    Captain Kangaroo
   9:00 am                    Lucille Ball
   9:30 am                    Beverly Hillbillies
 10:00 am                    Andy Griffith
 10:30 am                    Dick Van Dyke
 11:00 am                    Love of Life
 11:25 am                    News with Joseph Benti
 11:30 am                    Search for Tomorrow


Afternoon
========
 12 noon                     News, Weather
 12:15 pm                   Lee Phillip
 12:30 pm                   As The World Turns
   1:00 pm                   Love Is a Many Splendored Thing
   1:30 pm                   Guiding Light
   2:00 pm                   Secret Storm
   2:30 pm                   Edge of Night
   3:00 pm                   Linkletter Show (guest: Professor Julius Miller Sumner; rerun)
   3:30 pm                   Leave It to Beaver   "Wally's Car"
   4:00 pm                   Man From U.N.C.L.E.
   5:00 pm                   McHale's Navy
   5:30 pm                   News with Cronkite


Evening
=======
   6:00 pm                  News, Weather
   6:25 pm                  Editorial
   6:30 pm                  Lancer   "The Heart of Pony Alice"
   7:30 pm                  Red Skelton
   8:30 pm                  Doris Day   "The Job"
   9:00 pm                  To be announced
   9:30 pm                  Opportunity Line
 10:00 pm                  News, Weather, Sports
 10:55 pm                  Movie   "Our Man In Havana" (time approximate)


Early Wednesday, December 18, 1968
================================
   1:10 am               Movie   "The Badlanders" (time approximate)

Chicago Bulls Ad

Here's a vintage ad for a Chicago Bulls-Baltimore Bullets game that aired on WGN(9) on Friday, December 19, 1968. From the Chicago, IL edition of TV Guide, dated December 14-20, 1968.

WFLD Channel 32 TV Schedule for Monday, December 16, 1968

Afternoon
========
   2:55 pm                   Film (no title listed)
   3:00 pm                   Dialing for Dollars
   3:30 pm                   Cartoons
   5:00 pm                   Munsters
   5:30 pm                   Rawhide


Evening
=======
   6:30 pm                Truth or Consequences
   7:00 pm                Honeymooners   "The Golfer"
   7:30 pm                Movie   "Legend of a Gunfighter"
   9:30 pm                News, Weather
 10:00 pm                Run For Your Life
 11:00 pm               100 Paintings
 11:15 pm               News, Weather

WCIU Channel 26 TV Schedule for Monday, December 16, 1968

Morning
=======
   8:50 am                  Comment with Ralph Dystant
   9:00 am                  Stock Market Review
   9:15 am                  Stock Market Observer


Afternoon
========
 12:15 pm                Stock Market Observer
   1:45 pm                Statistical Analysis
   3:15 pm                Market Round-Up
   3:30 pm                Fundamentals with Frigstad
   3:45 pm                Little Rascals
   4:00 pm                Mulqueen's Kiddie-A-Go-Go
   5:30 pm                Spanish Drama


Evening
=======
   6:30 pm                Today's Racing with Bob Philbin
   6:45 pm                Sports Report with Jesse Owens
   6:55 pm                Stock Market Wrap-Up
   7:00 pm                Pioneers
   7:30 pm                Survival
   8:00 pm                Country-Western Music
   8:30 pm                Amateur Showcase
   9:00 pm                Wrestling Champions
 10:00 pm                Manny Silva

WXXW Channel 20 TV Schedule for Monday, December 16, 1968

Morning
=======
   8:20 am                    Nursing In Psychiatry
   9:18 am                    Classroom (subjects: Math 4, Spanish, Math 5, Language)



Afternoon
========
   1:03 pm                Classroom (subjects: Spanish & Stepping Into Melody)
   2:10 pm                Maternity Nursing
  


Evening
=======
   7:00 pm                   World Spotlight   "The Middle East: Is Peace Possible?"
   8:05 pm                   Physical Science   "Motion"
   9:00 pm                   TV High School

Nutcracker & Next Week

Here's a page from the Chicago, IL edition of TV Guide, dated December 14-20, 1968 that has a Close Up for the Nutcracker special airing on WBBM(2) & an ad for the next week's issue.

WTTW Channel 11 TV Schedule for Monday, December 16, 1968

Morning
=======
   8:40 am                   TV High School
   9:15 am                   Classroom (subjects: Math 4, Roundabout, Science, & Americans All)



Afternoon
========
 12:05 pm                  Shorthand
   1:00 pm                  Classroom (subjects: Places In the News, Land & Sea, Roundabout, Songs)
   3:00 pm                  Humanities   "Drama"
   3:45 pm                  Italian
   4:30 pm                  Misterogers
   5:00 pm                  What's New
   5:30 pm                  Friendly Giant
   5:45 pm                  Psychology  "Group Approaches to Personality Change"


Evening
=======
   6:30 pm               Data Processing   "Applications: Business & Public Service"
   7:15 pm               Literature   "Ernest Hemingway"
   8:00 pm               NET Journal   "A Plague On Your Children"
   9:00 pm               Book Beat (guest: Herbert Mitgang)
   9:30 pm               Chicago Profile (featured: Burr Tillstrom)
   9:45 pm               Fact of the Matter
 10:00 pm               Gardener's Notebook   "Selecting Woody Plant Material"
 10:30 pm               NET Festival  "The Film Generation"

WGN Channel 9 TV Schedule for Monday, December 16, 1968

Morning
========
   6:15 am                   News, Sports
   6:30 am                   Meditation
   6:35 am                   Top O' the Morning
   7:00 am                   Ray Rayner
   8:15 am                   King & Odie
   8:30 am                   Romper Room
   9:00 am                   Gloria (exercise program)
   9:30 am                   Donna Reed
 10:00 am                   Virginia Graham (guests: Cyril Marcus & Susan Williamson)
 10:30 am                   Jim Conway (guests: Lois Gilbrandsen, Mary Jane Odell, Lila & Arthur
                                           Weinberg, DeVore H. Walterman, & Peter Stavredes)


Afternoon
========
 12 noon                   Bozo's Circus
   1:00 pm                 Hazel
   1:30 pm                 Movie   "The Diary of Anne Frank" (part 1)
   3:00 pm                 Mister Ed
   3:30 pm                 Stingray
   4:00 pm                 Batman
   4:30 pm                 Garfield Goose
   5:15 pm                 News, Weather
   5:30 pm                 Flintstones


Evening
=======
   6:00 pm                Mike Douglas (guests: Jan Peerce, Connie Francis, Chet Atkins, & Joe Namath)
   7:30 pm                I Love Lucy
   8:00 pm                Steve Allen (guests: Barbara Feldon, Jack Cassidy, & Rodney Dangerfield;
                                                                   rerun)
   9:00 pm                Perry Mason
 10:00 pm                News, Weather, Sports
 10:30 pm                Double Feature   "Pursuit to Algiers" & "Charlie Chan at the Racetrack"


Early Tuesday, December 17, 1968
==========================
   1:15 am              News with Carl Greyson
   1:35 am              William Tell

WLS Channel 7 TV Schedule for Monday, December 16, 1968

Morning
=======
   6:50 am                    News
   7:00 am                    Perspectives
   7:30 am                    Three Stooges (cartoons)
   8:00 am                    Movie   "Private Worlds"
   9:30 am                    Dick Cavett (guests: Lee Marvin & Ida Kaminska)
 11:00 am                    Bewitched
 11:30 am                    Treasure Isle


Afternoon
========
 12 noon                    Dream House
 12:30 pm                  Funny You Should Ask with Lloyd Thaxton (guests: Bob Crane, Stu Gilliam,
                                              Buddy Hackett, Connie Stevens,& Jo Anne Worley)
 12:55 pm                  Children's Doctor
   1:00 pm                  Newlywed Game
   1:30 pm                  Dating Game
   2:00 pm                  General Hospital
   2:30 pm                  One Life To Live
   3:00 pm                  Dark Shadows
   3:30 pm                  Movie   "Gay Purr-ee"
   5:30 pm                  News with Frank Reynolds


Evening
=======
   6:00 pm                 News, Weather
   6:30 pm                 Avengers   "The Rotters"
   7:30 pm                 Peyton Place
   8:00 pm                 Outcasts   "The Man from Bennington"
   9:00 pm                 Big Valley   "The Prize"
 10:00 pm                 News, Weather, Sports
 10:30 pm                 Joey Bishop (guest: Manuela[singer])



Early Tuesday, December 17, 1968
==========================
12 midnight                Chicago
   1:30 am                    News

WMAQ Channel 5 TV Schedule for Monday, December 16, 1968

Morning
=======
   5:45 am                    Town & Farm
   6:00 am                    Education Exchange with J.E. Sparks   "Read Right: Reading Magazines"
   6:30 am                    Today In Chicago
   6:55 am                    News with Charles Heath
   7:00 am                    Today with Hugh Downs (guests: James Brown, & Karl Shapiro)
   9:00 am                    Snap Judgment
   9:25 am                    News with Nancy Dickerson
   9:30 am                    Concentration
 10:00 am                    Personality
 10:30 am                    Hollywood Squares
 11:00 am                    Jeopardy
 11:30 am                    Eye Guess
 11:55 am                    News with Edwin Newman


Afternoon
========
 12 noon                     News, Weather
 12:30 pm                  Let's Make a Deal
   1:00 pm                  Days of Our Lives
   1:30 pm                  Doctors
   2:00 pm                  Another World
   2:30 pm                  You Don't Say
   3:00 pm                  Match Game with Gene Rayburn
   3:25 pm                  News with Floyd Kalber
   3:30 pm                  Merv Griffin (guests: Nipsey Russell, Judd Strunk, Frankie Laine, & Helen
                                                                    O'Connell. Notes that there will be an interruption  for the
                                                                     lighting of the White House Christmas Tree)
   5:00 pm                  News, Weather


Evening
======
   6:00 pm                 News with Chet Huntley & David Brinkley
   6:30 pm                 I Dream of Jeannie   "Doctor Bellows Goes Sane"
   7:00 pm                 Rowan & Martin
   8:00 pm                 Movie   "The Sunshine Patriot"
 10:00 pm                 News, Weather, Sports
 10:30 pm                 Johnny Carson (guests: Woody Allen, Shari Lewis, & Turk Murphy)


Early Tuesday, December 17, 1968
==========================
 12 midnight             News, Weather
 12:30 am                 Memorandum

WBBM Channel 2 TV Schedule for Monday, December 16, 1968

Morning
=======
   5:55 am                   News
   6:00 am                   Sunrise Semester   English Literature: Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels (pt.1)
   6:30 am                   Seminar '68
   7:00 am                   Editorial
   7:05 am                   News with Joseph Benti
   7:30 am                   Dennis the Menace
   8:00 am                   Captain Kangaroo
   9:00 am                   Lucille Ball
   9:30 am                   Beverly Hillbillies
 10:00 am                   Andy Griffith
 10:30 am                   Dick Van Dyke
 11:00 am                   Love of Life
 11:25 am                   News with Joseph Benti
 11:30 am                   Search for Tomorrow


Afternoon
=======
 12 noon                    News, Weather
 12:15 pm                  Lee Phillip
 12:30 pm                  As The World Turns
   1:00 pm                  Love Is a Many Splendored Thing
   1:30 pm                  Guiding Light
   2:00 pm                  Secret Storm
   2:30 pm                  Edge of Night
   3:00 pm                  Linkletter Show (guests: Richard Crenna & Edith Head)
   3:30 pm                  Leave It to Beaver
   4:00 pm                  Girl From U.N.C.L.E.
   5:00 pm                  McHale's Navy
   5:30 pm                  News with Cronkite


Evening
======
   6:00 pm                 News, Weather
   6:30 pm                 Gunsmoke   "Lobo"
   7:30 pm                 Here's Lucy   "Lucy, the Matchmaker"
   8:00 pm                 Mayberry, R.F.D.   "Emmett's 50th Birthday"
   8:30 pm                 Family Affair    "Ciao, Uncle Bill"
   9:00 pm                 Carol Burnett
 10:00 pm                 News, Weather, Sports
 10:55 pm                 Movie   "The Gene Krupa Story" (time approximate)


Early Tuesday, December 17, 1968
===========================
   1:05 am              Movie   "Safari" (time approximate)

Sunday In Chicago Ad

Here's a vintage ad for Sunday In Chicago, hosted by Bob Hale, and airing on WMAQ(5). From the Chicago, IL edition of TV Guide, dated December 14-20, 1968.

WFLD Channel 32 TV Schedule for Sunday, December 15, 1968

Afternoon
========
   3:00 pm                    American Religious Town Hall
   3:30 pm                    Western Star Theater   "Phantom Procession"
   4:00 pm                     Outdoor Sportsmen
   4:30 pm                     Star Track (not to be confused with the iconic sci-fi series)
   5:00 pm                     Defenders


Evening
======
   6:00 pm                    Movie   "Legend of a Gunfighter
   8:00 pm                    Holiday In a Toy Store (special; featuring the Serendipity Singers)
   9:00 pm                    Hit 'Em Again Harder
   9:30 pm                    Bill Anderson (guest: Don Bowman)
 10:00 pm                    Movie   "Legend of a Gunfighter"


Early Monday, December 16, 1968
==========================
 12 midnight             100 Paintings