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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1966
Page
9
The guide notes that Virginia stations Channels 3 8 123 and 15 will air one hour later on Ref By watington. Charleston and Parkersburg switch to Eastern Daylight Saving Time while Ohio stations remain on Eastern Standard Time.
A fragmentary TV grid lists programs from 6:00 to 8:00 with news, Western Cheyenne, films, variety shows and comedies including The Rifleman The Singing Caravan and The Littlest Hobo. Several entries appear garbled or duplicated, reflecting OCR issues in the source.
A dense listing shows hourly TV programming from 7:00 to 2:50, featuring cartoons, kids shows, baseball games, movies, and variety programs. Scheduled stations include NBC and local channel lineups with titles like Popeye, The Jetsons, Bugs Bunny, Indian baseball, and westerns such as The Rifleman.
A long OCR listing shows daily tv and radio programs across stations WSAZ WIWC WTVN WCHS WBNS and others. It names movies sports coaching and religious shows with time slots and channel notes including parentheses for color programs.
Taiwa a dance drama based on a Pawnee legend opens this Friday and Saturday as a University Theatre Studio Production with Curtail 8 p m. The title character Taiwa is an Indian maiden whose devotion survives even after death. Composer Hodkinson uses electronic sounds and 30 exotic percussion instruments while Coggan designs choreography and directs. The work is part of The Masks of the Amerind series Coggan is developing for production and may lead to a producing company. Hodkinson has a notable career with major orchestras and was a Danforth Grant recipient for 1966 67.
WOUB TV Channel 20 will extend its broadcast into summer with a hiatus between Aug 19 and Sept 19. Programs run 7 to 10 p.m. weekdays and include Cinema International and NEA public affairs shows. The Friday Festival features Bach, Sandburg, and performances by the Pittsburgh Symphony and California Chamber Symphony.
Ohio University Opera Workshop performs Sunday at 8 p.m. in Ewing Auditorium with excerpts from The Marriage of Figaro Don Giovanni Mignon and Down in the Valley under director Stephen Harbachick and choral prep by Dr Martha Wurtz. Cast includes Susie Pawson David Coleman Richard Kagen Mary Lou Griffin Pat Glick Roberta Krauter Kenneth Hy bloom Diana Lewis and two faculty members Harold Baedecker and Dr Charles Brient. Admission is free.
WOUB Radio schedules feature International Club Around the World to Norway at 5 45 and Concert Stage with Binkerd Stravinsky and Cop at 8 05. Saturday afternoon lists Broadway's Best My Fair Lady at 12 30.
A late night and daytime lineup lists Drums Along the Mohawk From the Earth to the Moon Senta Fe Passage The River Changes Attack of the Puppet People The Human Monster Twelve to the Moor Fire Monster versus Son of Hercules Meet Captain Kidd Convicted Bride Comes Home American Guerrilla in the Philippines Menace in the Night Hercules Unchained Stalag 17 Strategic Air Command The Electric Monster The Samer Ester Held Back the Dawn Mother is a Freshman The First Time The Stronger Wore A Gun and more films with actors such as Joseph Cotton Rod Cameron Bela Lugosi Glenn Ford and Tyrone Power across multiple time blocks and genres.
A late night schedule shows 2:30 a m screening of Remar and the Burning Barrier and 11:30 p m Panic in the Streets. John Wayne stars in Wyoming Outlaw at 9:32 p m and other titles include Mark of the Tortoise, Tartar Invasion, Black Patch, Underwater and Mr Hobbs Takes a Vacation with James Stewart and Maureen O Hara. Also listed are Under Texas Skies, Father is a Bachelor, Criminal rt and Hellgate with Sterling Hayden and Joan Leslie among others. Shows run into the early morning hours with a midnight entry And Baby Makes Three featuring Robert Young.
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