As I've suggested before, this was, on balance, a bad idea - the extra time was rarely used the way it was intended, and today it means more to local stations as a source of revenue than a way of serving the community. For ABC, it didn't make any different tonight anyway; they've preempted Marcus Welby, M.D., for the fifth game of the NBA Western Conference finals between Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's current team, the Milwaukee Bucks, and his future team, the Los Angeles Lakers.
By the way, in case you ever wondered what the original owners of these TV Guides watched at the time, perhaps the pencil marks give us an idea. Or maybe it's just a way of ranking the shows?
WMAR, Channel 2 (Baltimore) (CBS)
Morning
|
|
06:30a
|
Sunrise
Semester (Chemistry)
|
07:00a
|
CBS Morning
News with John Hart
|
08:00a
|
Captain
Kangaroo
|
09:00a
|
Romper Room
|
09:30a
|
Dialing
for Dollars
|
09:55a
|
News
|
10:00a
|
To
Tell the Truth
|
10:30a
|
My Three Sons
|
11:00a
|
Family
Affair
|
11:30a
|
Love of Life
|
Afternoon
|
|
12:00p
|
Where the
Heart Is
|
12:25p
|
News (local)
|
12:30p
|
Search for
Tomorrow
|
01:00p
|
Woman’s
Angle
|
01:30p
|
As the World
Turns
|
02:00p
|
Love
is a Many Splendored Thing
|
02:30p
|
The Guiding
Light
|
03:00p
|
The
Secret Storm
|
03:30p
|
The Edge of
Night
|
04:00p
|
The
Flintstones
|
04:30p
|
The Big Valley
|
05:30p
|
Dragnet
|
Evening
|
|
06:00p
|
News, Weather,
Sports (local)
|
06:30p
|
CBS Evening
News with Walter Cronkite
|
07:00p
|
News, Weather,
Sports (local)
|
07:30p
|
I Dream of
Jeannie
|
08:00p
|
High
School Bowl
|
08:30p
|
Hawaii Five-O
|
09:30p
|
Cannon
|
10:30p
|
Man to Man
|
11:00p
|
News, Weather,
Sports (local)
|
11:30p
|
CBS Late Movie
– “Love is Better than Ever”
|
01:10a
|
News (local)
|
WRC, Channel 4 (D.C.) (NBC)
Morning
|
|
06:05a
|
News (local)
|
06:10a
|
Faith and Life
|
06:20a
|
Down
to Earth
|
06:25a
|
Station
Exchange
|
06:55a
|
Events
for Washington
|
07:00a
|
Today (guest Leopold Stokowski, John Housman, James
Keogh)
|
09:00a
|
Not
For Women Only
|
09:30a
|
The Galloping
Gourmet
|
10:00a
|
Dinah’s
Place (guest Bobby
Goldsboro)
|
10:30a
|
Concentration
|
11:00a
|
Sale
of the Century
|
11:30a
|
The Hollywood
Squares (guests James
Brolin, Roy Clark, Arte Johnson, Paul Lynde, Suzanne Pleschette, Joan Rivers,
Karen Valentine, Wally Cox, Charley Weaver)
|
Afternoon
|
|
12:00p
|
Jeopardy
|
12:30p
|
Who,
What or Where Game
|
12:55p
|
NBC News (Floyd Kalber)
|
01:00p
|
Watch
Your Child
|
01:30p
|
Three on a
Match
|
02:30p
|
The
Doctors
|
03:00p
|
Another World
|
03:30p
|
Return
to Peyton Place
|
04:00p
|
Somerset
|
04:30p
|
Mike
Douglas (guests Karen
Valentine, Joyce Bryant, Dean Dixon)
|
Evening
|
|
06:00p
|
News, Weather,
Sports (local)
|
06:30p
|
NBC Nightly
News with John Chancellor
|
07:00p
|
News, Weather,
Sports (local)
|
07:30p
|
Double
Jeopardy (special)
|
08:30p
|
NBC
News Special – “Thou Shalt
Not Kill” (special)
|
09:30p
|
James Garner
as Nichols
|
10:30p
|
Perspective
|
11:00p
|
News, Weather, Sports (local)
|
11:30p
|
The
Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (guest
David Brenner)
|
01:00a
|
International
Zone
|
01:30a
|
Faith
and Life/Events 4 Washington
|
WTTG, Channel 5 (D.C.) (Ind.)
Morning
|
|
06:25a
|
Today
in Your Life
|
06:30a
|
Educational
Show
|
07:00a
|
The
Cisco Kid
|
07:30a
|
Porky Pig
|
08:00a
|
The
Banana Splits
|
09:00a
|
The
Flintstones
|
09:30a
|
Mister
Ed (B&W)
|
10:00a
|
Movie – “Confidence Girl”
|
11:30a
|
To
Tell the Truth (panelists
Kitty Carlisle, Bill Cullen, Anita Gillette, Gene Rayburn)
|
Afternoon
|
|
12:00p
|
Panorama
(guests Bob Brown, William
Chapin)
|
02:00p
|
David Frost (guests Phil Silvers, Jane Wyman, Cleo Lane)
|
03:00p
|
To
Tell the Truth
|
03:30p
|
New Zoo Revue
|
04:00p
|
I
Dream of Jeannie
|
04:30p
|
Petticoat
Junction
|
05:00p
|
Star
Trek
|
Evening
|
|
06:00p
|
I
Love Lucy BW
|
06:30p
|
Truth or
Consequences
|
07:00p
|
Dick
Van Dyke BW
|
07:30p
|
I Dream of
Jeannie
|
08:00p
|
Green
Acres
|
08:30p
|
Merv Griffin
|
10:00p
|
News, Weather,
Sports (local)
|
11:00p
|
Perry Mason
|
12:00a
|
Movie – “Good
Day for a Hanging”
|
WMAL, Channel 7 (D.C.) (ABC)
Morning
|
|
07:00a
|
Assignment
|
07:30a
|
Cartoons
|
08:00a
|
Magic
Door
|
09:00a
|
Major Adams BW
|
10:00a
|
What
Every Woman Wants to Know
|
10:30a
|
Password (guests Barbara Feldon, Roddy McDowell)
|
11:00a
|
Love,
American Style
|
11:30a
|
Bewitched
|
Afternoon
|
|
12:00p
|
News, Weather, Sports (local)
|
12:30p
|
Split
Second
|
01:00p
|
All My
Children
|
01:30p
|
Let’s
Make a Deal
|
02:00p
|
The Newlywed
Game
|
02:30p
|
The
Dating Game
|
03:00p
|
General
Hospital
|
03:30p
|
One
Life to Live
|
04:00p
|
Movie – “Count Three and Pray”
|
Evening
|
|
06:00p
|
News, Weather, Sports (local)
|
07:00p
|
ABC
Evening News with Howard K. Smith and Harry Reasoner
|
07:30p
|
The Undersea
World of Jacques Cousteau (special)
|
08:30p
|
Movie
of the Week – “The Birdmen”
|
10:00p
|
NBA Basketball
– Milwaukee at Los Angeles (special)
|
12:30a
|
News, Weather,
Sports (local) (time approximate)
|
01:00a
|
To Be Announced
|
WTOP, Channel 9 (D.C.) (CBS)
Morning
|
|
06:00a
|
Sunrise
Semester (Latin
American Literature)
|
06:30a
|
Time for
English
|
07:00a
|
CBS
Morning News with John Hart
|
08:00a
|
Captain
Kangaroo
|
09:00a
|
Harambee
|
10:00a
|
The Lucy Show
|
10:30a
|
My
Three Sons
|
11:00a
|
Family Affair
|
11:30a
|
Love
of Life
|
Afternoon
|
|
12:00p
|
Where
the Heart Is
|
12:25p
|
CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
|
12:30p
|
Search
for Tomorrow
|
01:00p
|
News (local)
|
01:30p
|
As
the World Turns
|
02:00p
|
Love is a Many
Splendored Thing
|
02:30p
|
The
Guiding Light
|
03:00p
|
The Secret
Storm
|
03:30p
|
The
Edge of Night
|
04:00p
|
The Virginian
|
05:30p
|
Andy
Griffith BW
|
Evening
|
|
06:00p
|
News, Weather,
Sports (local)
|
07:00p
|
CBS Evening
News with Walter Cronkite
|
07:30p
|
CBS
News Special – “What’s New at
School?” (special)
|
08:30p
|
Hawaii Five-O
|
09:30p
|
Cannon
|
10:30p
|
The
Golddiggers
|
11:00p
|
News, Weather,
Sports (local)
|
11:30p
|
CBS Late Movie
– “Love is Better than Ever” BW
|
01:10a
|
News (local)
|
WBAL, Channel 11 (Baltimore) (NBC)
Morning
|
|
06:30a
|
Learning
to Do BW
|
07:00a
|
Today (guest Leopold Stokowski, John Housman, James
Keogh)
|
09:00a
|
Watch
Your Child
|
09:30a
|
Home Economics
|
10:00a
|
Dinah’s
Place (guest Bobby
Goldsboro)
|
10:30a
|
Concentration
|
11:00a
|
Sale
of the Century
|
11:30a
|
The Hollywood
Squares (guests James
Brolin, Roy Clark, Arte Johnson, Paul Lynde, Suzanne Pleshette, Joan Rivers,
Karen Valentine, Wally Cox, Charley Weaver)
|
Afternoon
|
|
12:00p
|
Jeopardy
|
12:30p
|
Who,
What or Where Game
|
12:55p
|
NBC News (Floyd Kalber)
|
01:00p
|
Perry
Mason BW
|
02:30p
|
The Doctors
|
03:00p
|
Another
World
|
03:30p
|
Return to
Peyton Place
|
04:00p
|
I
Love Lucy BW
|
04:30p
|
Dick Van Dyke BW
|
05:00p
|
Daniel
Boone
|
Evening
|
|
06:00p
|
Duckpins
and Dollars
|
06:30p
|
NBC Nightly
News with John Chancellor
|
07:00p
|
News, Weather,
Sports (local)
|
07:30p
|
Double
Jeopardy (special)
|
08:30p
|
NBC
News Special – “Thou Shalt
Not Kill” (special)
|
09:30p
|
James Garner
as Nichols
|
10:30p
|
American
Adventure
|
11:00p
|
News, Weather, Sports (local)
|
11:30p
|
The
Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (guest
David Brenner)
|
01:00a
|
News (local)
|
WJZ, Channel 13 (Baltimore) (ABC)
Morning
|
|
06:20a
|
Afro-American
Experience
|
06:50a
|
Consumer
Checkout
|
07:00a
|
New
Zoo Revue
|
07:30a
|
Cartoons
|
08:30a
|
Leave
it to Beaver BW
|
09:55a
|
Movie –
“Outside the Wall”
|
11:30a
|
Bewitched
|
Afternoon
|
|
12:00p
|
Password (guests Barbara Feldon, Roddy McDowell)
|
12:30p
|
Split
Second
|
01:00p
|
News (local)
|
01:30p
|
Let’s
Make a Deal
|
02:00p
|
The Newlywed
Game
|
02:30p
|
Mike
Douglas (guests Karen
Valentine, Joyce Bryant, Dean Dixon)
|
03:00p
|
General
Hospital
|
03:30p
|
One
Life to Live
|
04:00p
|
David Frost (guests Phil Silvers, Jane Wyman, Cleo Lane)
|
05:30p
|
News, Weather,
Sports (local)
|
Evening
|
|
06:30p
|
ABC
Evening News with Howard K. Smith and Harry Reasoner
|
07:00p
|
Truth or
Consequences
|
07:30p
|
The
Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau (special)
|
08:30p
|
Movie of the
Week – “The Birdmen”
|
10:00p
|
NBA Basketball – Milwaukee at Los Angeles (special)
|
12:30a
|
News, Weather, Sports (local) (time approximate)
|
01:00a
|
To Be Announced
|
WDCA, Channel 20 (D.C.) (Ind.)
Morning
|
|
07:00a
|
Astro
Boy
|
07:30a
|
Bozo the Clown
|
08:30a
|
George
of the Jungle
|
09:00a
|
The Little
Rascals
|
09:30a
|
Romper
Room
|
10:00a
|
Ben Casey BW
|
11:00a
|
Movie –
“Innocents in Paris”
|
Afternoon
|
|
01:00p
|
Movie – “Twin
Beds”
|
02:30p
|
Bozo the Clown
|
03:00p
|
Ultra
Man
|
03:30p
|
Spiderman
|
04:00p
|
Speed
Racer
|
04:30p
|
Lost in Space
|
05:30p
|
Batman
|
Evening
|
|
06:00p
|
Get
Smart
|
06:30p
|
Bill Cosby
|
07:00p
|
Hogan’s
Heroes
|
07:30p
|
Hogan’s Heroes
|
08:00p
|
Movie –
“Sergeant Rutledge”
|
10:00p
|
The High
Chaparral
|
11:00p
|
Can
You Top This?
|
11:30p
|
Movie – “I Married a Witch”
|
WETA, Channel 26 (D.C.) (PBS)
Morning
|
|
08:00a
|
Sesame
Street
|
09:00a
|
Sesame Street
|
10:00a
|
Classroom
|
Afternoon
|
|
12:00p
|
Hathayoga
|
12:30p
|
The French
Chef
|
01:00p
|
Classroom
|
01:30p
|
The Electric
Company
|
02:00p
|
Classroom
|
03:00p
|
Nine-to-Five
|
03:30p
|
Classroom
|
04:00p
|
Sesame Street
|
05:00p
|
Mister
Rogers’ Neighborhood
|
05:30p
|
The Electric
Company
|
Evening
|
|
06:00p
|
Hodgepodge
|
06:30p
|
What’s
New
|
07:00p
|
Book Beat
|
07:30p
|
Sam
Jones
|
08:30p
|
The Advocates
|
09:30p
|
Black
Journal
|
10:00p
|
Martin
Agronsky: Evening Edition
|
10:30p
|
Firing
Line
|
11:30p
|
Hathayoga
|
WBFF, Channel 45 (Baltimore) (Ind.)
Afternoon
|
|
12:45p
|
Brother
Buzz
|
01:00p
|
Movie – “Girl from Hong Kong”
|
02:30p
|
Captain
Chesapeake
|
03:30p
|
Timmy and
Lassie BW
|
04:00p
|
Mister
Ed BW
|
04:30p
|
Astro Boy
|
05:00p
|
Batman
|
05:30p
|
Star Trek
|
Evening
|
|
06:30p
|
Gidget
|
07:00p
|
Movie – “Cell
2455, Death Row)
|
08:30p
|
Movie – “No, My Darling Daughter”
|
10:45p
|
News (local)
|
11:00p
|
Alfred
Hitchcock Presents BW
|
11:30p
|
Movie – “The
White Orchid”
|
01:00a
|
News (local)
|
WMPB, Channel 67 (Baltimore) (PBS)
Morning
|
|
07:30a
|
The
Electric Company
|
08:00a
|
Symposium on
Drugs
|
09:00a
|
Classroom
|
11:00a
|
Sesame Street
|
Afternoon
|
|
12:00p
|
Classroom
|
03:00p
|
Modern
Supervision BW
|
03:30p
|
Put it in
Writing BW
|
04:00p
|
Sesame
Street
|
05:00p
|
Mister Rogers’
Neighborhood
|
05:30p
|
The
Electric Company
|
Evening
|
|
06:00p
|
Hodgepodge
|
06:30p
|
Educational
Psychology BW
|
07:15p
|
Charlie’s
Pad
|
07:30p
|
The Forsythe
Saga
|
08:30p
|
The
Advocates
|
09:30p
|
Black Journal
|
10:00p
|
Strategy
for Action
|
10:30p
|
Biology (B&W)
|
11:15p
|
Charlie’s
Pad
|
11:30p
|
Martin
Agronsky: Evening Edition
|
TV
The independent stations had great lineups back then, with shows that I can only find on Me-TV nowadays.
ReplyDeleteThe NBC affiliate in DC is WRC, not WRG.
Fall 1971 instead of Wednesday evening at 10:30 PM, ABC gave back 8:30 PM Monday nights, right before Monday Night Football. NANNY AND THE PROFESSOR was left all by itself at 8:00 PM ET/7:00 PM CT, and a lot of ABC affiliates delayed the show or preempted it altogether in ET & CT. It was even worse in MT/PT, as MNF took all 3 hours of ABC primetime in MT and ran early in PT, so this kiddie sitcom had to be delayed on every ABC station, even the O&Os, usually being dumped into weekend afternoon timeslots, if it was shown at all. ABC cancelled the show 15 weeks later, as it died in that timeslot.
Aargh. Fixed.
DeleteHODGEPODGE on the PBS stations was HODGEPODGE LODGE. Mostly about animals...I see it was largely bulk-erased by the MPT originators, according to WIKI. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hodgepodge_Lodge
ReplyDeleteI find it interesting that the fifth game of the NBA conference finals was being played April 18th. Things were much better back then as opposed to these dragged-out playoffs we have now.
ReplyDeleteThere were only 17 teams in the NBA which means the playoffs are shorter(8 teams made it, 4 per conference) and obviously the season started earlier than today. Also the season started in Mid October,not the end of October as it does today. FWIW the teams still played an 82 game schedule.
Delete45 signed on pretty late in the day (12:45 PM!) - it had only been on for about a year at this point.
ReplyDeleteBrother Buzz was a puppet show produced out of San Francisco focusing on "humane education":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgOUp6gLB4k