Did NBC air the soap opera Another World instead of a pregame show before game 6 of the 68 series, like they did later on in the 80s with Cosby?
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1968 World Series question
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Would make sense, expect that i hard an aircheck of an AW epsoide from 1968 and it was dated Ocotber 9, 1968..
I do ownder if NBC had AW or any of their other soaps(Days of Our Lives or The Doctors) on reserve in case of a rain out or long enough delay?
That would be correct.
I do have another question about the 1974 NLCS game 4 was on October 9th. According to the TV guide, WYFF was scheduled to air a rerun of The Addams Family at 3:30, but that's when the Pirates-Dodgers game started. I'm guessing The Addams Family was in the TV listings just in case there wasn't a game that day? Must have been confusing because the listings say one thing, but the baseball game aired instead? Why not just put to be announced?
I know that during the 72 series, NBC aired Return to Peyton Place before game 5. That was the last time NBC skipped a pregame till 1986 with Cosby.....
For the World Series, NBC planned well ahead. Those preemptions would be known ahead of time. So the soaps would be a bit behind, unless there was a 4 game sweep, like in 1970. In 1977, The Doctors aired before the infamous NLCS game 3, but on the west coast, The Doctors would be preempted. Maybe the western stations aired The Doctors at the same time as the east coast, so they wouldn't be behind.
It's possible that Another World aired instead of a pregame, but i just don't see NBC pulling that kind of move. Now if in advance, if they knew it was raining, then maybe they'd air AW, until play did start.
They probably. wouldn’t schedule a soap—or a new episode of anything—unless they were pretty certain it would air in the entire country. They don’t want part of the country ahead of the rest—and network advertisers generally wanted to reach the whole country.
Most stations weren’t on the air overnight yet and most viewers didn’t have a way to record an overnight episode of their favorite soap.
And in the case of the Price is Right rerun Gr8Oldies mentioned, I wouldn’t be surprised if all of the network breaks were filled with PSA and generic promos.
Most stations weren’t on the air overnight yet and most viewers didn’t have a way to record an overnight episode of their favorite soap.
And in the case of the Price is Right rerun Gr8Oldies mentioned, I wouldn’t be surprised if all of the network breaks were filled with PSA and generic promos.
Eventually, TV Guide would do that, but apparently not in 1974. Just one of those little tweaks they made over time, like listing the times at the top of each page('9 AM. to 11 A.M', rather than 'Morning'), or identifying the edition at the bottom of every page (also something they didn't do til the '70s).
That didn't stop them from airing Another World before their NBA games on Christmas Day or memorial Day. But AW was at 2:00 at that time. And I remember AW airing before many LCS games between 85 and 89.
As I go through listings of newspapers from Google News Archive, game 6 of the 1968 World Series started at 1:30 PM ET. Local programming preceded it, so it would have aired straight through the rest of NBC's daytime programming up to 4 PM ET (Let's Make a Deal, Days of Our Lives, The Doctors, Another World, You Don't Say!). In the west, it's not clear what aired after the game as it would have ended at 1 PM, where The Doctors, Another World, You Don't Say! and The Match Game would normally air at that point. Perhaps the morning shows bumped for the game were aired on delay.
I looked at the TV listings for that day in 1974, and there's no way Days of Our Lives, The Doctors, Another World, and a rerun of The Addams Family could have aired. There was a game in Baltimore at 2:00 and a game in Los Angeles at 3:30. How to Survive a Marriage couldn't have aired either.
Now I get it. Local programming would have preceded it, so no room for any of the soaps.
On the West coast, the game shows would be impacted. Maybe the game shows aired earlier out west?
You Don't Say! was the only afternoon game in the east that didn't get aired. The Match Game aired, provided the game didn't go into extra innings (which it did not). As I peruse the Spokane WA newspaper on Google Archives, the game started at 10:30 AM PT out west. The bumped shows were all delayed till after the game ended, with Hollywood Squares at 1:30, Jeopardy! at 2 PM and Eye Guess at 2:30. The Match Game was pre-empted.
Of note, there was a pre-game at 12:30 in the east on game 6, pre-empting Eye Guess. So pre-first pitch stuff would have started at 1 PM with first pitch at 1:30.
Of note, there was a pre-game at 12:30 in the east on game 6, pre-empting Eye Guess. So pre-first pitch stuff would have started at 1 PM with first pitch at 1:30.
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The box score at baseball-reference.com shows that Game 6 took 2 hours, 26 minutes to play, so did the network get out of the telecast ASAP so the stations' top-of-the-hour programming could start on time, or was there a postgame show and a "joined in progress" or delayed start for that programming?
I was 13 in the fall of 1968. In those days, few kids were complaining about baseball games being too late at night to watch, expecially since most weekday night games weren't televised at all. But all those World Series games during the day were a huge nuisance, and with the game being played at a much faster pace back then, it was rare for a kid to see more than the last couple of innings, if that, after getting home from school.
I wish I had a time machine to take me back to that date to see. As I recall, I was home from school for the day which would have made the end of the game at 3:56 PM ET. They presumably wrapped things up so The Match Game could start on time. Only a presumption. Where's a TARDIS when you need one?
The answer is NO NBC did NOT air Another world. I checked the Minneapolis Tribune TV listings and the NBC came on the air with at 12:30 PM CT and was scheduled to be on the air till 3:30 PM CT. Game 5 started an hour earlier due to Detroit being in the Eastern Time Zon3
That was the last weekday afternoon WS game. That WS went the distance. Games 1, 2, 6, and 7 were in all in the afternoon ET in Cincy. OAK won games 1 and 2. Games 3, 4, and 5 were scheduled for twilight PT starts in Oakland. IIRC g3 was postponed a day by rain. When they finally played g3 the next night, the Reds won, necessitating g5 on Friday afternoon (the A's won game 4 at night) to minimize potential jet lag if g6 were needed the next day 3 time zones to the east. CIN won games 5 (to require game 6) and 6 (the only game of that Series won by more than 1 run) but OAK won game 7.
The last *scheduled* weekday daytime WS game was in 1971 (PIT beat BAL to go back to Crabtown up 3-2 after squaring the Series the night before in the first WS night game). BAL won g6 in 10 but PIT won g7 (the only game of that Series won by the visitor; it would be 16 more years before every game of a WS was won by the host).
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