TV Listings Highlight Night of Classic Shows and Sports
A dense TV schedule features Apollo 16 related lunar mission visuals and a full night of NBC CBS and ABC programming including Merv Griffin Ellery Queen Love American Style and Olympic Games coverage. Notable films and interviews with Kirk Douglas Orson Welles and Xaviera Hollander are listed alongside sports like tennis and football.
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Amdy Griffith
Gilligan's Island
Aeon and
YOU
NBC News
Andy Griffith
CBS News
Donner
Annon
ABC
Mary Hartman
Mary Artman
Groucho
Don Rickles
Kirk Douglas
Peter Lemongello
the Smothers Brothers
Spencer Tracy
Elizabeth Taylor
Columbia Pictures
Orson Welles
Sidney Poitier
Ernest Borgnine
Glenn Ford
Rosalind Russell
Woman artist aims for cockpit of Delta Queen steamer
Lexie Palmore, 29, a former Dallas commercial artist, enrolls in the National River Academy at Helena Arkansas to become one of Delta Queen Steamboat Co. pilots. She is the academy’s only female cadet in a 22 month course training river pilots for the towboat industry.
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Helena
Ark
Lexie Palmore
National River Academy
Miss Palmore
Dallas
Academy
Tyler
Tex
Delta Queen Steamboat Co
Cincinnati
U.S
Today in History highlights major events on July 26
Highlights note Fidel Castro began a revolt in 1953 Cuba, fortifications at Santiago. Others include 1759 Ft. Ticonderoga change, 1775 post office founded, 1944 V-2 raids, 1952 Eva Peron death, 1956 Suez decree, 1966 equity gains report, 1976 Ford in Europe. Birthday Alice Winchester. Bicentennial item on Congress and tribes.
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Associated Press
Fidel Castro
Cuba
Santiago
Ft. Ticonderoga
Continental Congress
Benjamin Franklin
England
Argentina
Eva Peron
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Alexandria
Suez Canal
United States
South Vietnam
Nguyen Cao Ky
China
Ford
Bonn
West Germany
Alice Winchester
Philadelphia
Polynesian Arrival Ties to Asia via Malay Peninsula
Hawaii’s Polynesians originated in Asia and reached the islands through the Malay Peninsula and Java. Their language featured a small phonetic system built on twelve letters.
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Hawaii
Asia
Islands
Malay Peninsula
Java
George Carlin Returns to CBS with 13 Week Comedy Gig
AP reports George Carlin will host a 13 week five minute monologue segment on CBS’s Tony Orlando and Dawn in a family friendly time slot. Carlin discusses topics from time and language to age and kids, noting TV permits editing and ground rules.
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CBS
Tony Orlando
Dawn
Sunset Blvd
Carlin
New York
West Side
Ace stars in color NBC comedy about a bumbling techie
Aces out Bob Dishy plays a clumsy techie investigating security issues at an electronics firm. He distrusts executives Strutt and Mason as humor peaks when a sprinkler prank erupts during a critical board meeting. The cast includes Rae Allen, Barbara Brownell, Ruth Manning, and Frank Campanella as the firm’s security chief.
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Cross Wits
WOMA
Wilma Scott Heide
America
Margot Marples
Cincinnati Family Services
Ace
Ick van Patten
Frank Campanella
Bob Dishy
Ellery Queen
NBC
Dishy
Strutt
Liam Dunn
Mason
Dick van Patten
Rae Allen
Barbara Brownell
Ruth Manning
Bibbins
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Concentration Comedy Theatre
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Henry Gibson
Barbara Rhoades
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Katie
the Bureau
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Forrester
Merv Griffin
Archie
Murder, Inc
Tuart Whitman
May Britt
Maude Maude
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Carol
St. John and
Paul Muni
David Wayne
E Tomorrow
Tom Ryder
Xaviera Hollander
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Poplin Place
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Charlie Hurst, Inc
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George Carlin
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AP Television
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Rormer
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Polyglas Sale
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