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Retro: Chicago - Thursday, January 11, 1973

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Thought I'd post more schedules from my birthdays in the markets I've lived in according to the year.

2 WBBM (CBS)
AM
5:45 Thought for the Day
5:50 TV2 News
6:00 Sunrise Semester
6:30 It's Worth Knowing
7:00 CBS Morning News
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Joker's Wild
9:30 New Price is Right
10:00 Gambit
10:30 Love of Life
11:00 Where the Heart Is
11:25 CBS Midday News
11:30 Search for Tomorrow
PM
12:00 Lee Phillip - Guests: Van Johnson, Rev. Robert A. P. Holderby II
12:30 As the World Turns
1:00 Guiding Light
1:30 Edge of Night
2:00 Love is a Many Splendored Thing
2:30 Secret Storm
3:00 Family Affair
3:30 Movie: "Goodby, My Fancy" (1951, Comedy/Romance) - Joan Crawford, Robert Young, Frank Lovejoy, Eve Arden
5:30 CBS Evening News
6:00 TV2 News
6:30 Dr. Kildare
7:00 Waltons
8:00 CBS Thursday Night Movies: "The Gypsy Moths" (1969, Drama) - Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr, Gene Hackman
10:00 TV2 News
10:30 CBS Late Movie: "Killer By Night" (1972, Drama) - Robert Wagner, Diane Baker, Greg Morris
AM
12:30 TV2 News
12:45 Movie: "Royal Wedding" (1951, Musical/Comedy) - Fred Astaire (featuring his wall-to-ceiling dance), Jane Powell, Peter Lawford

5 WMAQ (NBC)
AM
5:45 News
5:55 Meditation
6:00 Station Exhange
6:30 Town and Farm
7:00 Today
9:00 Dinah's Place - Guests: Jim Pritchett, Dr. Lee Salk
9:30 Concentration - Bob Clayton
10:00 Sale of the Century - Joe Garagiola
10:30 Hollywood Squares - Panel: Wally Cox (died the following month), Nanette Fabray, Joey Bishop, Bobby Goldsboro, Charo, Charles Nelson Reilly, Lynda Day George, Sammy Davis Jr. Paul Lynde
11:00 Jeopardy
11:30 Who, What or Where Game
11:55 NBC Midday News
PM
12:00 News 5 Chicago
12:30 Three on a Match
1:00 Days of Our Lives
1:30 The Doctors
2:00 Another World
2:30 Return to Peyton Place
3:00 Somerset
3:30 Mike Douglas - Co-host: Totie Fields; Guests: Diana Ross, Ruth Gordon, Billy Eckstine, Dr. Leonard Cammer
5:00 News 5 Chicago
6:00 NBC Nightly News
6:30 New Price is Right - Dennis James
7:00 Flip Wilson - Guests: Andy Griffith, Curtis Mayfield, Roscoe Lee Browne
8:00 Ironside
9:00 Dean Martin - Guest: Bob Newhart
10:00 News 5 Chicago
10:30 Tonight Show - Guests: Michael Caine, Connie Stevens, Ella Fitzgerald, Larry Kert
AM
12:00 News
12:05 Not For Women Only
12:35 Phil Donahue (still based in Dayton, OH until moving to Chicago the following year) - Guest: author Colin M. Turnbull

7 WLS (ABC)
AM
6:25 Reflections
6:30 Perspectives
6:55 Earl Nightingale
7:00 News
7:05 Kennedy & Co. - Guest: Dr. Albert Norris
8:30 Movie: "In Search of America" (1971, Drama) - Carl Betz, Vera Miles, Ruth McDevitt
10:30 Bewitched
11:00 Password - Guests: Tony Randall, Jack Klugman (The "Password" episode of "The Odd Couple" aired the previous Dec. 1; This time, it's the real thing!)
11:30 Split Second
PM
12:00 All My Children
12:30 Let's Make a Deal
1:00 Newlywed Game
1:30 Dating Game
2:00 General Hospital
2:30 One Life to Live
3:00 Love, American Style
3:30 Movie: "The Spiral Road" - Part 1 of 2 (1962, Drama/Adventure/Romance) - Rock Hudson, Burl Ives, Gena Rowlands
5:00 Eyewitness News
5:30 ABC Evening News
6:00 Eyewitness News
7:00 Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau
8:00 ABC News Special: "Highlights of Michaelangelo Antonioni's Chung Kuo (China)"
10:00 Eyewitness News
10:30 Jack Paar Tonite (premiered the previous Monday) - Guests: David Halberstam, Peter Ustinov, Jud Strunk
AM
12:00 Kennedy & Co. - Guest: James Hodge, editor of the Chicago Sun-Times

9 WGN (Ind.)
AM
5:45 News
6:00 Five Minutes to Live By
6:05 Top o' the Morning
6:30 New Zoo Revue
7:00 Ray Rayner and His Friends
8:00 Garfield Goose and Friends
8:30 Romper Room
9:00 I Love Lucy
9:30 Roy Leonard Show
10:00 Patty Duke
10:30 Merv Griffin - Guests: Kay Ballard, Dom DeLuise, Ann Jeffries
11:50 Fashions in Sewing
PM
12:00 Bozo's Circus
1:00 Nanny and the Professor
1:30 Hazel
2:00 What's My Line?
2:30 Beat the Clock
3:00 Mr. Ed
3:30 Gilligan's Island
4:00 Flintstones (x3)
5:05 WGN-TV News
5:30 I Dream of Jeannie
6:00 Andy Griffith
6:30 Dick Van Dyke
7:00 Family Theatre: Mr. Magoo's take on "Dick Tracy" and "The Count of Monte Cristo"
8:00 Ponderosa (title for the syndicated reruns of "Bonanza", which aired its final episode on NBC five days later)
9:00 Perry Mason
10:00 10th Hour News
10:30 Movie: "Bad Day at Black Rock" (1955, Western) - Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Anne Francis, Ernest Borgnine, Lee Marvin
AM
12:05 Night Beat (news)
12:35 Wagon Train
2:05 Late News

11 WTTW (PBS)
AM
7:00 Sesame Street
8:00 Electric Company
8:30 Mister Rogers
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 Mister Rogers
10:30 Let's See America
11:00 Word Music
11:05 TV College - Physical Science
PM
12:00 TV College - Education
12:45 TV College - Business
1:15 For the Love of Art
1:35 Language Lane
2:00 Electric Company
2:30 Lilias, Yoga and You
3:00 Antiques
3:30 Sesame Street
4:30 Mister Rogers
5:00 Sesame Street
6:00 Electric Company
6:30 Zoom
7:00 The Advocates
8:00 An American Family (premiere of landmark PBS documentary series on the Loud Family of Santa Barbara, CA; considered by many to be America's first "reality" TV series)
9:00 Masterpiece Theatre: "The Moonstone"
10:00 Salome
11:30 Lilias, Yoga and You

20 WXXW (sister station to WTTW)
AM
9:28 Memorandum: Interdependency: Metropolitan
10:02 Geography
10:49 Sing Along With Me
PM
12:10 Carrascolendas
1:02 All About You
1:22 Let's See America
2:02 Why!
2:19 Cover to Cover
**off-the-air for remainder of day**

26 WCIU (Ind.)
AM
9:00 Commodity Call
9:10 Stock Market Review
9:30 Newsmakers
10:00 Business News
10:30 Ask an Expert
11:00 Business News
11:15 Report to Investors
11:30 News
11:45 American Stock Exchange
PM
12:00 News
12:20 Ask an Expert
12:50 Gene Inger Report
1:00 Market Basket
1:30 Ask an Expert
2:00 Business News
2:30 News
2:50 Commodity Final
2:55 Market Final
3:00 Harambee
4:30 Soul Train (daily Chicago version)
5:30 A Black's View of the News
5:45 Informacion
6:00 Nino (Little Boy; boldface n represents the Spanish letter enye)
7:00 Ayuda (Help)
8:00 Fiesta en el Centro (Downtown Party)
9:00 Tony Quintana
10:00 Informacion 26
10:30 Un Verano Para Recordar (A Summer to Remember)

32 WFLD (Ind.)
AM
11:15 News
11:35 Jack LaLanne
11:55 Popeye Theater
PM
12:00 BJ and Dirty Dragon
12:30 Addams Family
1:00 Garner Ted Armstrong
1:30 Galloping Gourmet
2:00 Joanne Carson's VIPs
2:30 My Favorite Martian
3:00 Felix the Cat
3:30 Magilla Gorilla
4:00 Speed Racer
4:30 BJ and Dirty Dragon
5:00 Jeff's Collie
5:30 Rifleman
6:00 That Girl
6:30 Petticoat Junction
7:00 Green Acres
7:30 Mayberry, RFD
8:00 Boris Karloff's Thriller
9:00 Of Lands and Seas
9:55 News
10:00 Honeymooners
10:30 Movie: "Huk!" (1956, Action) - George Montgomery, Mona Freeman
AM
12:15 What's Happening (not the sitcom which came in 1976; probably a community calendar program)
12:35 Man in a Suitcase
1:35 News

44 WSNS (Ind.)
AM
11:30 Kimba
PM
12:00 Prince Planet
12:30 Deputy Dawg
1:00 Movie: "Four Faces West" (1948, Western) - Joel McCrea, Frances Dee
3:00 Prince Planet
3:30 Deputy Dawg
4:00 Mundo Hispano (Hispanic World)
5:00 Twelve O'Clock High
5:55 Off Hour News
6:00 Rick Tallet Sports
6:25 Race Track News
6:30 Movie: "You Were Meant for Me" (1948, Musical) - Jeanne Crain, Dan Dailey (Marilyn Monroe may have been an uncredited extra)
7:55 News
8:00 Big Story
8:50 Paul Harvey
8:55 News
9:00 Western Star Theater
9:55 Warner Saunders
9:30 Porter Wagoner
9:55 News
10:00 Championship Wrestling
11:00 Movie: "You Were Meant for Me" (see 6:30 PM)
 
What a week in '73 that was. The week prior we had returned to school from Christmas vacation (I was in 10th grade), when I developed a cold that kept me in bed the rest of the week. The following week the mother of all ice storms hammered the south which shut schools down another week.
 
What a week in '73 that was. The week prior we had returned to school from Christmas vacation (I was in 10th grade), when I developed a cold that kept me in bed the rest of the week. The following week the mother of all ice storms hammered the south which shut schools down another week.
Where were you living that time?
 
Atlanta. We get the occasional snow in winter but that ice storm of '73 was insane.
 
I think you mentioned that after I posted Atlanta's schedule from the day Hank Aaron hit his historic homer.
 
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