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WIBW Topeka-Chon. 13, Cable 3 9, 1964. Oral Roberts fiomestead USA Lamp Unto My Feet :30 Look. Up and Live to -80 Camera Three This Is the Life Church Service Challenge Golf 1:00 Champ Bridge 1:30 Face the Nation Winter 4:00 Alumni Fun 4:30 Biography 6:00 20th Century Lassie My Favorite Martian Ed Sullivan Show :00 Bonanza n-eo Candid Camera What's My 10:00 CBS News. Barry Reasoner 40:15 WIBW-TV Hews and Weather Arrest and Trial atanaay.

February Sunrise Semister 7-00 Rush Hour Captain Kangaroo CBS Morning News I Love Lucy The McCoys Pete and Gladya Ixwe of Lite CBS News Search for Tomorrow The Guiding Light WIBW-TV News WIBW-TV Weather with Roger Bailey Farm Report with Wilbur Levering As the World Turns Password Hcuseparty To Tell The Truth CBS News Edge of Night Secret Storm Lee Phillip Show O-Gec Sea Hunt Katie and the Captain Bear Walter Cronkite News WIBW-TV News. Car! Sisstand Dev Nelson Sports WIBW-TV Weather with Biil Kurtis To Tell The Truth I've got a Secret The Lucy Show The Danny Thomas Show The Andy Griffith Show Ben Casey WIBW-TV Nexvs. John Beatty WIBW-TV Weather with Bill Kurtis Dev Nelson Sports Combat Peter Gunn 10:00 10:80 11:00 11 11:30 11:45 12-90 U-IO 32:15 12:30 1:30 2:00 2:25 2:30 3:00 3:30 3:45 4 00 4:30 5:30 6:20 11 11:25 11 11 12:00 12:10 12:15 12:30 1:00 1:30 2:00 3:00 3:30 3:45 4:00 4:30 5 00 5:30 6:00 6:20 6:25 6-30 7:00 8:00 9:00 10:00 10:15 10:20 10:30 6:30 7:00 7:30 8:00 8-30 9:00 10:00 10 US 10:30 11:30 Tuesday, February 11, 1964 Sunrise Semister 7 00 Rush Hour 8:00 Captain Kangaroo 9:00 CBS Morning News 1 Love Lucy 10-00 The McCoys 10:30 Pete and Gladys 11:00 Love of Life 11:25 CBS News 11:30 Search for Tomorrow 11:45 The Guiding Light 12:00 WTBW-TV News 12:10 WIBW-TV Weather with Roger Bailey 12.15 Farm Report with Wilbur Levering 12:30 As the World Turns I -00 Password Houseparty 3:00 To The Truth ZS CBS Hews Edge of Night Secret Storm Lee Phillip Show 3:45 This Afternoon 4 00 Sea Hunt Katie and One Captain 6:60 Bugs Bunny Walter Cronkite Mews :00 WIBW-TV ICcws. Car) Sisstand Oev Nelson Sports WIBW-TV Weather with Kurtie Dillon 9:60 Skelton flour Petbooat Junction 8:30 Jack Benny Show Garry Moore Show WIBW-TV News. John Beatty JO 16 WIBW-TV Weather Bill Curtis 90 Oev Nelson Sports 10:30 Tuesday Movie Febnarv 12, Sunrise Semuter 7:00 Rush Hmir 00 Captain Kangaroo CBS News with Mike Wallace Love Lucy The McCoys 10:90 Pete Gladys Love of Life News 11 :36 Search for Tomorrow 11 The Guiding WIBW News 12.40 Weather tt 16 Farm Report 11 As the World Turns 1:40 Password 1:38 House Party To Tell the Truth 2 30 Cdge of Might Secret Storm djee Phillip Show Oev WeteBB Sporte Winter Shew Tbe Greatest Show on Love of Life News Search for Tomorrow The Guiding Light WIBW News Weather Farm Report As the World Turns Password House Party To Tell the Tratfe Edge of Night Secret Storm Lee Phillip Show This Afternoon Sea Hunt Katie and the Captain Wild Kingdom Walter Cronkite WTBW-TV News, Carl Sisskmd Dev Nelson Sports WIBW-TV Weather with Bill Kurtia Password Rawhide Perry Mason The Nurses WIBW-TV News.

John Beatty WIBW-TV Weather wiUl Bill Kurtis Oev Nelson Sports Thursday Feature Friday. February 14, 1964 6:30 Sunrise Semister 7:00 Rush Hour 8:00 Capiain Kangaroo 8:00 CBS Morning News 9:30 1 Love Lucy 10:00 The McCoys 10.30 Pete and Gladys 11 00 Love of Life 11:25 CBS News 11:30 Search for Tomorrow 11:45 The Guiding Light WIBW-TV News WIBW-TV Weather with Roger Bailey 12:15 Farm Report with Wiibur Levering 12:30 As the World Turns 1:00 Password 1:30 Houseparty 2.00 To Tell The Truth 2:25 CBS News 2:30 Edge of Night 3.0C Secret Storm Lee Phillip Show 3 45 O-Gee 4:00 Sea Hunt 4:30 Katie and the Captain 5:00 Huckleberry Hound 5:30 Waiter Cronkite News 6:00 WIBW-TV News, Carl Sisskind 6:20 Dev Nelson Sports 6 25 WIBW-TV Weather with Bill Kurtis 30 The Great Adventure 7:30 K'lute 66 8:30 Twilight Zone 9-1)0 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour 10:00 WIBW-TV News, John Beatty 10-15 WIBW-TV Weather 10:20 Dev Nelson Sports 10:30 NBA Basketball Sea Katie Captata Woody Woodpecker ft Walter Ovokite News tlews. Cari Stscfctntf Oev Weteoe Sports 4:38 Chronicle Donna Heed Show Tbe Beverh OitttMJbes Oiok the Sbrw 88-88 8TIBWTV Mews lorn- WO 8TWW -TV Saturday. February 15, 1964 6:33 Sunrise Semister 7:00 Captain Kangaroo 8:00 Alvm and Chipmunks 8:31 Tennessee Tuxedo 9:00 Quick Draw McGraw 9-30 Mightv Mouse Playhouse 10:00 Rin Tin Tin 10:30 Junior Auction 11-00 Sky Rang 11:30 Do You Know 12 00 News 2-30 Seahunt 1:00 Industry on Parade 1:15 Kansas Afield 1:30 Challenge Golf 2:30 Pro Bowlers 4:00 Matched Classics Golf 5:00 Communism 5:30 Your Question Please 5 45 News and Weather The Snortman's Friend 6:30 The Jackie G4eason Show 7:30 The Defenders 8:30 Phil Silvers Show 8:00 Gunsmoke 10:00 WIBW-TV News. Weather and Sports 10:30 East Side-West Side 11:30 Peter Gunn T-V Mailbag am a Peter Sellers fan and I wish he would make some TV appearances soon.

He's one of the very best comedians around today and would be a natural for a TV series of his own. Does he have any TV plans? L.W.S. New New Britain, Conn. Answer supurb British is far too active in film making these days to enter TV on a weekly basis. As for specials, nothing definite has been announced.

He is currently making the film "A Shot In the Dark" with Hie Swedish beauty Eike Sommer as his costar. He has three films awaiting reSease "Dr. Strangetove: or How I Learned lo Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb." in which he plays less than, three roles and Utt no deserves Academy Awards for at least two of them; "The Pink Panther," one of the slickest and funniest movies to come along in quite awhile with Sellers stealing every scene he's in as a bumbling French inspector; and "The World of Henry which co-stars Paula Prentiss and Angela Lansburjr. On NBC Special The Wizard Of Oz' Returns NEW YORK When I was a child, back in the better forgotten thirties, the OZ books were at the peak of their popularity, and I can still remember gobbling up each new volume and crossing the Deadly Desert in the company of such brave adventurers as Dorothy, Speedy, Peter and other assorted American children who always seemed to get mysteriously transplanted to this wonderful fairyland. "The Wizard of Or" was the initial story in the series, started by L.

Frank Baum in the first decade of this century, and it remains the most familiar tale in the entire history of Oz. The MGM film, based on the book, has become a TV classic and CBS runs it every season. A successful animator, who was weaned on the Oz books, named Arthur Rankin. decided that there was room on TV for more tales from the Land of Oz. As head of his own firm, Videocraft International, he researched the Oz situation to find out where he had to go to obtain the rights to his favorite fairy tales.

Like every other full grown Oz buff who has had similar designs on the rights to the books, he heard a hundred different rumors about two who actually owned them. But lo and behold it took only about ten minutes of his lime to discover that "The Wizard of was written well over 50 years ago and is therefore in the public domain. Mr. Rankin was in business. He began by syndicating a series of five minute shorts based on the characters from "The Wizard of Oz." out he played around with them a little bit so they would belong more to Arthur Rankin than to the public domain The Cowardly Lion became Dandy lion, the Tin Woodman was converted to Rusty the Tinman, and the brainless Scarecrow was now called Socrates the Strawman.

The Oz shorts did quite well in syndication and Mr. Rankin decided that since the MGM film was such a big success there might be a TV market for a full-length, animated feature film about Oz. His firm was turning out -commercials for some of our industrial giants and Mr. Rankin took advantage of the open door to try and sell one of these companies his idea. In spite of the fact that it will be the most expensive one hour TV show of the year, he made the sale and "Return to Oz" can be seen on NBC this Sunday from 5-6 p.m.

EST. As a dedicated Oz buff I was anxious to learn whether Rankin was going to tell one of L. Frank Baum's later stories and include characters like Jack Pumpkinhead, the Sawhorse or Tik Tok the mechanical man. "Not a said Rankin, "although I was very fond of all oif them. But 'The Wizard of Oz 1 is the one story in the group that everybody knows and I could see no reason to get off a good thing.

What we have done is retold 'The Wizard' using our own imagination and twists. "We begin with Dorothy Kansas, but she's already had the original adventure and been to Oz where she destroyed the Wicked Witch, found courage, brains and a heart for the lion, scarecrow and tinman and even helped the wizard over a few rough spots. But while Dorothy is sitting in her farmhouse, she receives a message from the wizard begging her to come back because he needs help. She agrees, there's a cyclone and we're off with our version. You see the message was from the Wicked Witch who's not really destroyed, but wants revenge on Dorothy, the wizard, scare- crow, tinman and lion so we have a perfect frame for our 'Return to Mr.

Rankin pointed out that CBS which generally telecasts "The Wizard of Oz" as a November pre Christmas special changed their plans this season after NBC announced "Return to Oz" and decided to show the film late in January. "At first we thought this might hurt us," said Arthur, "but now I'm honestly convinced that it will backfire on them and help usi After ail, what could do more to whet an audience's appetite for a 'Return to Oz' than a full length film. We now considei their telecast our trailer." Rankin hopes 'Return to Ox" will become a seasonal visitor to TV and this year's sponsor has already decided to repeat it next season. He just signed to prepare a Christmas show for next year based on the song "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer' and he has another, completely original animated feature ready for national release. Arthur began as a graphic artist for ABC back in 1948 whem they first went on the air, but he had enough confidence in his own ability to start his firm in 1952 and he's been successfully doing graphic arts, commercials and animated shorts ever since.

T-V Mailbag was the young man on the recent "Ed Sullivan Show" who did the medley of Hank Williams songs? I have heard many singers try to imi- itate the last singer's style, but this young man was the moat J.L.S., Jacksonville, Fla. country singer was none other than Hank Williams who is following ia hie famoua dad's.