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Newspaper
Weekend Daily Reporter
Location
Dover, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1966
Page
3
A dense listing shows Georgia versus SMU at 2:15 PM in Cotton Row, plus multiple film and sports slots. Notable items include Olin Championship Bowling Road to the Roses at 4:30 PM, East-West Shrine Football at 4:30 PM, and a packed prime-time lineup from 6 PM onward featuring Lost in Space, Faith programs, and sports reports.
Readers can tune in for NFL chatter with Green Bay at Dallas and a rich weekend slate of films. The schedule lists theater films from The Brave One to Tarzan and classics like Mutiny on the Bounty with Elvis Presley and Knute Rockne All American starring Reagan, plus diverse broadcasts across the day.
TV Time Answer Man notes Sebastian Cabot will temporarily leave Family Affair due to illness with John Williams stepping in as Cabot’s relative. Frank Sinatra’s Can Can next on TV features the ABC 24 hour musical Guys and Dolls airing February 8, 1967. Vincent Lopez continues leading a big band. Perry Como from Cannonsburg Pennsylvania and Dean Martin from Steubenville, Ohio.
The first AFL NFL World Championship professional football game will be played Sunday January 15 1967 at the Los Angeles Coliseum and colorcast jointly by NBC and CBS in the first shared national telecast of a sports event. Under a four year agreement networks will pay nine and a half million dollars starting with two million for 1967. From 1968 CBS and NBC will alternate exclusive broadcasts at two and a half million dollars each. Game time is set for 4 p m.
The CBS Golf Classic opens January 14 with 32 pros competing for 166000 at Firestone Country Club Akron. Elimination rounds are 18 holes over 14 Saturdays through April 15, with a 36 hole final on April 22 and 23. Whitaker and Middlecoff will commentate.
Chris Schenkel will describe the action and Jack Twyman makes his NBA debut as ABC’s expert commentator for the first TV game of the season Boston at Los Angeles Sunday at 4 30 p m. Twyman, former Cincinnati Royal captain, retired after the 1965 46 season. Dave Stallworth of the New York Knickerbockers is shown dunking. No major network has indicated coverage due to a football conflict.
Carter Nash a mild town chemist gains a secret chemical formula turning him into a flying crime fighter with superhuman strength in NBCs new half hour color comedy adventure Captain Nice. Premieres Monday Jan 9 at 8 30 p m with Alice Ghostley as his mother and regulars Ann Prentiss Liam Dunn William Zuckert in top roles.
Danny Thomas will star in a weekly NBC series for the 1967 68 season titled The Danny Thomas Hour The format will mix musicals comedies and dramas with Thomas acting as performer or storyteller He had contracted with NBC in 1964 to star in specials each year and has earned critical acclaim for his productions.
Televised slate lists CBS Cotton Bowl Georgia vs SMU from Dallas with Whitaker and Brookshire. NBC special Road to the Roses with Purdue vs USC analysis. AFL Championship Bills vs Chiefs. CBS News 1966 roundup. Cotton Bowl Neldiami Championship Cowboys vs Packers. Ed Sullivan Show and more spanning 2 televised days.
On ABC Stage 67 The Trap of Solid Gold Cliff Robertson and Dina Merrill co star as husband and wife. They were married in Washington DC last week and taped the show in New York last month. Robertson praised Merrill as perfect for the wife role while hinting at real plans and dowry commentary.
Four of Opéra's great ladies Birgit Nilsson Leontyne Price Renata Tebaldi and Joan Sutherland will sing and speak of their careers in the Bell Telephone Hour color cast on NBC Sunday at 6 30 p m Donald Voorees will interview them and conduct the Bell Telephone Orchestra for the arias Nilsson selects Dich Teure Halle and In Questa Reggia Price sings To Son L Umile Ancelia and Pace Pace Mio Dio Sutherland performs the Bell Song and Io Non Sono Più L Annelle
The piece recalls Paul Christman in the 1940 Orange Bowl for Missouri against Georgia Tech with Spurrier later in mind. Christman scored early but Tech rallied, winning 21-7 as Georgia Tech overwhelmed Missouri. Christman later shone in the 1941 Shrine All-Star game as standout.
Five newly elected Republican senators Charles Percy Edward Brooke Mark Hatfield Howard Baker and Cliff Hansen will appear on NBCs Meet the Press in a one hour special edition Sunday Jan 15. They will be sworn in earlier that week as the 90th Congress convenes. Interviewers include Jack Bell David Broder Nancy Dickerson and Lawrence Spivak.
Crosby guest hosts a gala ABC TV New Year’s Eve show called The Hollywood Palace at 9 30 p m The tuneful hour features Doro thy Collins The Mills Brothers Skilith Henderson and the French rage Charles Aznavour Also appearing are John ny Pulco and his harmonica gang ballet artists Stony and Clair Burns and Schreiber and the uni cyclists the Volentes
Ohio's production testing program for beef cattle seeks to enhance both meat quality and overall herd quality through selective breeding. The effort focuses on identifying superior animals to guide breeding decisions and improve efficiency.
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