1963–64 United States network television schedule aired on CBS from 6:30 to 7 p.m. "100 Grand" only lasted three weeks, and was replaced by "Laughs For Sale", which ran until December 1963. On April 1964, "The Celebrity Game" was added to CBS' primetime lineup. "Empire" on ABC consisted of reruns of the 1962-63 NBC TV series. Note: Beginning in September, "CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite" (formerly "Walter Cronkite with the News") and "The Huntley-Brinkley Report" expanded to a half-hour, airing weekdays at 6:30 p.m Note: The 1964 CBS summer series "High Adventure with Lowell Thomas" consisted of reruns of specials which had aired under that
Walter Cronkite 2006. Cronkite's voiceover was notably not used on introducing the broadcast reporting his funeral – no voiceover was used on this occasion. Cronkite made a cameo appearance on a 1974 episode of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show", in which he met with Lou Grant in his office. Ted Baxter, who at first tried to convince Cronkite that he (Baxter) was as good a newsman as Eric Sevareid, pleaded with Cronkite to hire him for the network news, at least to give sport scores, and gave an example: "The North Stars 3, the Kings Oh!" Cronkite turned to Grant and said,