Tuesday: At the top is an ad for the premiere of “60 Minutes,” paid for not by CBS, but by the sponsor. This was years before Andy Rooney, so it’s a little unclear on who was doing the chuckling. (Channels 3, Gray 5, and Black 5 were affiliates of multiple networks, hence the bump to late night.)
Thursday: How to decide which one to watch?! And if you don’t like wacky sitcoms, “Ironside” is on NBC…counterprogrammed by Denver independent station KWGN with reruns of “Perry Mason.”
If you don’t like wacky sitcoms or Raymond Burr, educational station KRMA brings you a film described as “William C. Smith of Oregon Educational Broadcasting guides this tour of a dairy farm and a dairy manufacturing plant.” Now that’s a must-see Thursday!
Monday: Even in 1968, they were rushing the Christmas season a bit, with this local kids’ show premiering on September 23rd. Presumably, “Santa” was portrayed by the same guy who was playing “Cowboy Bill” (or whatever) up until September 20th, just with a different costume and a pile of fake snow on the set. Don’t worry, kids, he wasn’t the real Santa, and they didn’t really move the North Pole to Colorado Springs, and you don’t actually have to make a reservation to visit.
on Sep 18th, 2008 at 1:04 pm
Art Buchwald contributed segments to “60 Minutes” originally.
There also was a segment that appeared before commercial breaks called “A Digression”–where two actors in silhouette did a “humorous” debate on the topic of the story that just ended, usually ending this way:
MAN ONE: Thank you.
MAN TWO: Thank *you.*
Both of these segments appeared in the body of the show and were framed in the “60 Minutes” “cover.” After they began the letters segment at the end of the show and people complained about how banal “A Digression” was, it disappeared. Buchwald disappeared on his own.
I suspect that Rooney wrote and produced the “Digression” segments.