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Wednesday, May 22nd, 2013
48 Years Ago Today

You've probably seen a lot of news footage from the EF-5 tornado this week from KOCO, ABC 5 in Oklahoma City. Here is a clip from that station from May 23, 1965. "Sunday Scope" featured Ben K. West, KOCO's Vice President and General Manager at the time with "Bill" asking the questions in what appears to be a regular "Ask the Manager" segment.

KOCO Channel 5 - Sundayscope (Excerpt, 1965)

At the end of the 2" Quad reel with the "Lunch with HoHo" promos, there was this interesting clip of the program "Sunday Scope" on KOCO-TV Channel 5 in Oklahoma City.

Featuring Ben West (Ben K. West - KOCO's Vice President and General Manager at the time) with "Bill" asking the questions in what appears to be a regular "Ask the Manager" segment.

This likely aired on local Oklahoma TV on Sunday, May 23rd 1965.

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The guy with the sh*t-eating grin is referred to as "Ben." According to the 1965 Broadcasting Yearbook, Ben K. West was KOCO's vice president and general manager. So apparently this was a regular "Ask the Manager" segment. The interviewer is "Bill," if anyone out there has some historical knowledge of KOCO's newscasters and program hosts.

The episode of Hollywood Palace hosted by the "vulgar" George Burns aired Saturday, May 15, 1965. The Mary Poppins soundtrack was in the midst of its huge run on the Billboard albums chart and "Mrs. Brown You've Got a Lovely Daughter" by Herman's Hermits was the top single. ("Wonderful World" never reached #1, so I'm not sure why they referenced it here.)

Since the program is called "Sunday Scope," we can infer that this aired May 23. Mrs. Agnes Connor would have needed time to write her cranky letter after watching George Burns and mail it to the station.

Comment posted by T.K. on Friday, September 17th 2010 at 5:08am.

I can't believe that by 1965 someone had to ask if Herman's Hermits was an *English* group!
Comment posted by Smctopia on Friday, September 17th 2010 at 7:22am.

Thanks T.K. and Chris Tufts for providing research on this clip. :-)
Comment posted by FuzzyMemories on Friday, September 17th 2010 at 7:39am.

T.K.: If you go to page 14 of that yearbook, you'll see that Channel 32's call letters in 1965 were listed as WOGO-TV.
Comment posted by Szake on Friday, September 17th 2010 at 9:22pm.

Interesting piece. I would love to see that entire sequence.
Comment posted by madsixtian on Sunday, February 13th 2011 at 7:30pm.

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@T.K.: "While I don't think it's exactly the same, the typeface of the Playback logo looks an awful lot like Playboy magazine, doesn't it?"

I was thinking the same thing.

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The spotlight gives me the subtle impression they're covering something up... scuff marks, dings, wine stains...


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