Weekend TV Schedule Highlights and Christmas Specials
Channel listings summarize a dense slate of programs across ABC NBC and CBS with Christmas themes. Notable entries include Charlie Browns Christmas special on CBS Channel 12 and Radio City Christmas on NBC Channel 5, with films dramas and news blocks interwoven throughout the weekend.
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Charlie Brown
Radio City
ABC
KTVI
WSIL
WTV
NBC
KSD
WPSD
CBS
KMOX
KFVS
Weekly TV Schedule Clips and Save List for Sunday Start
The article lists daytime and evening television programs for Southern Illinois Sundays. It outlines a fixed weekday routine of channels and shows, with notes on nonvarying daily listings, occasional daytime changes, and repeated evening previews.
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Southern Illinois
Murphysboro Christmas Program Featuring School Bands
Murphysboro pupils present a 4 p.m. Christmas program at Carruthers Junior High Gym with an intermediate band of 65 fifth and sixth graders performing five selections and seventh to eighth graders singing three carols. A Cadet Band of 65 seventh and eighth graders performs three tunes while the eighth graders join for Do You Hear What I Hear and the final Christmas Season. Admission is free.
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Murphysboro
Carruthers
Frosty the Snowman
King Wenceslas
Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer
Patricia Bacheldor
Charles W. Taylor
Charles B. Rogers
Hamilton shines in Barefoot in the Park at Drury Lane
In Chicago George Hamilton stars as Paul Bratter in Neil Simon's Barefoot in the Park at Drury Lane Theatre in the round. Linda Staab as Corie challenges his high brow persona, prompting 20 minutes of prat falls and physical comedy. The audience of about 800 applauds his versatile performance. Hamilton avoids commenting on Lynda Bird Johnson’s wedding.
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Chicago
George Hamilton
Mexico
Spain
London
Neil Simon
Hamilton
Paul Bratter
Corie
Linda Staab
Drury Lane
Lynda Bird
Lyndon Johnson
Murder plot alleged against Illinois crime chief
Crime unit chief Charles Siragusa of the Illinois Crime Investigating Commission said a letter from Cook County jail claimed a plot to murder him. The letter named three imprisoned crime syndicate members and a jail employee as plotters, with no stated motive. Jail Warden Jack Johnson confirmed threats but said no syndicate members remain in the jail.
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Charles Siragusa
Illinois Crime Investigating Commission
Cook County
Siragusa
Jack Johnson
Ed. Johnson
Patrick Tuite
Carbondale to Receive Christmas Tree in Ceremony
Carbondale will receive its Christmas tree at 7 30 p m Monday as Hilda Stein president of the Carbondale Garden Club Council presents the tree to Mayor David Keene. The tree was donated by Mr and Mrs Noble Kelley and funded by a downtown tag sale. The tree will be placed at Washington and Main streets with carols to follow led by the Madrigal singers of Carbondale Community High School Central under Janet Cox.
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Yale
Carbondale Community High School
Madrigal Singers
Carbondale
Hilda Stein
Carbondale Garden Club Council
David Keene
Noble Kelley
Chautauqua St
Washington
Main Streets
Miss Stein
Duane Lanchester
First Presbyterian Church
Carbondale Community High School Central
Janet Cox
TV Listings Chronicle Dense Schedule of Daytime and Evening Shows
A full daily grid lists dozens of program times and channels from 11:45 to 11:00 including Guiding Light The Fugitive As The World Turns Let s Make A Deal Love Is A Many Splendored Thing Days Of Our Lives General Hospital To Tell The Truth Another World Dark Shadows Edge Of Night The Dating Game Secret Storm Match Game Gypsy Rose Lee Show Perry Mason Captain Eleven Flintstones The Hour Perry Mason and more across channels 2 3 4 5 6 7 11 12 1 8 with movies cartoons and public affairs noted in sequence for a local television lineup
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Guiding Light
King and Odie
Charlotte Peters
Pastor Speaks
the Doctors
General Hospital
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