What's on TV? Thursday, July 22, 1965

At this point KTCA is still shown as an educational station - I think they were one of the last local education stations to become formally affiliated with NET.

Two of the local news and information shows: Farm and Country, and Town and Country. That about covers it, doesn't it?

The celebrities on the daytime version of Password (as opposed to the prime-time edition seen that night) are Cliff Robertson and Dina Merrill, who were husband and wife at the time. Password liked using couples as celebrity guests.

I can't stop wondering why we haven't seen The Astounding She-Monster on MST3K or Svengoolie."Near the Sierra Madre mountains, a hardened criminal, a psychotic killer and two women encounter a woman of Amazonian proportions, sheathed in a skin tight metal film which casts off an eerie radiation." I think it would be a perfect fit, don't you?

For years I've seen "News, Rocky Teller" in these listings, with no clue as to who Rocky Teller was. Finally, I got the great idea to see what I could find out on this great thing called the internet. " In those days, there was an outfitter in Duluth, named Rocky Teller, who owned a sporting goods store and who did a weekly TV fishing show. I guess I was about 10 or 11 when I was introduced to the Rapala knife through Rocky Teller. About that time, we started using the original Rapala lures. It was through Rocky Teller and Ron Weber, in Rocky's store, that I learned how to quickly filet and skin virtually any fish, even a Northern Pike." So now we know.

The Young Marrieds was a relatively short-term soap, running from October 1964 to March 1966. One of the young marrieds was Paul Picerni, Eliot Ness' number-two man on The Untouchables, which was also on ABC. Finally we get a look at the agents' home lives!

Every once in a while I'll run across a game show that I hadn't heard of, and Call My Bluff is one of them. Makes sense, since it was only on from March to September of 1965, but since I was watching TV that summer, I would think I might have recalled it. Wonderful set though, isn't it? Screams mid-60s, in the best way.

With only one exception, Channel 8's schedule is identical to that of Channel 2's. Very unusual for that time period - or any time, for that matter, since PBS's national schedules always seem to be optional.

Lois Leppart (12:15 pm) was a local news figure, the "first 'full-fledged woman newscaster' in the Upper Midwest," according to this obituary. She started out on TV in Fargo before moving to the Twin Cities; this show will be cancelled later in the year in favor of soap operas and repeats of hour-long dramas. Another story mentions that in 1964, she used her program to help get children adopted.

Julanne Griffin, one of the guests on Virginia Graham's Girl Talk show, was the then-wife of talk show host Merv Griffin. The things you learn reading TV Guide.