Retro: New York City - Monday, March 6, 1972

[RandTV]

Highlight: "The Magic Garden" premiere on WPIX 11.

(L) - Local program

2 WCBS
6:30 Sunrise Semester
7:00 CBS Morning News
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Galloping Gourmet
9:30 Woman - Sherrye Henry (then a frequent panelist on What's My Line?)
10:00 Lucy Show
10:30 My Three Sons
11:00 Family Affair
11:30 Love of Life
NOON Where the Heart Is
12:25 CBS Midday News
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
1:00 Paul Bernard (L)
1:30 As the World Turns
2:00 Love is a Many Splendored Thing
2:30 Guiding Light
3:00 Secret Storm
3:30 Edge of Night
4:00 Gomer Pyle
4:30 Mike Douglas - Week's co-host: Johnny Mathis; Guests: Henry Fonda, Henry Morgan, Shirley Eder, Mel Ball Quartet
6:00 Channel 2 News
7:00 CBS Evening News - Charles Collingwood, sitting in for Walter Cronkite
7:30 Stand Up and Cheer - Guest: Pat Boone
8:00 Gunsmoke
9:00 Here's Lucy - Guest: Flip Wilson (rerun of season premiere)
9:30 Doris Day
10:00 Sonny & Cher - Guest: Sandy Duncan
11:00 Channel 2 News
11:30 CBS Late Movie: "Children of the Damned" (1964, Sci-Fi/Horror) - Ian Hendry, Alan Badel
1:30 Movie: "The Last Command" (1955, Western) - Sterling Hayden, Ernest Borgnine

4 WNBC
6:30 Station Exchange (L)
7:00 Today - Guest: Alabama Gov. George Wallace, two months before his paralyzing assassination attempt
9:00 Not For Women Only
9:30 It's Your Bet - Lyle Waggoner (no celebrity guest info)
10:00 Dinah's Place - Guests: Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty and wife Betts
10:30 Concentration - Bob Clayton
11:00 Sale of the Century - Joe Garagiola
11:30 Hollywood Squares - Panel: Wally Cox, Rose Marie, Jan Murray, Sally Struthers, James MacArthur, Charley Weaver, Lily Tomlin, Jim Backus, Paul Lynde
NOON Jeopardy - Art Fleming
12:30 Who, What or Where Game - Art James
12:55 NBC Midday News
1:00 Watch Your Child/The Me Too Show (L)
1:30 Three On a Match - Bill Cullen
2:00 Days of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3:00 Another World
3:30 Bright Promise
4:00 Somerset
4:30 Movie: "Singin' In the Rain" (1952, Comedy/Musical) - Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds, Donald O'Connor
6:00 Sixth Hour News
7:00 NBC Nightly News
7:30 Dr. Simon Locke
8:00 Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In - Guests: Debbie Reynolds, Charlie Callas, Jack Carter, Johnny Cash, Dick Cavett, Queenie Smith, Burt Mustin
9:00 NBC Monday Night at the Movies: "I Thank a Fool" (1962, Crime Drama) - Susan Hayward, Peter Finch
11:00 Eleventh Hour News
11:30 Tonight Show - Guests: Buffy Sainte-Marie, David Steinberg; Performer: Bobby Darin
1:15 Movie: "The Jazz Singer" - (1927, Musical/Drama) - Al Jolson, May McAvoy, Warner Oland (historic revolutionary "first tallkie", marking the beginning of the end of the Silent Era)

5 WNEW
7:30 Beany & Cecil
8:00 Mr. Ed
8:30 Yogi Bear
9:00 Mothers-In-Law
9:30 Hazel
10:00 Movie: "Million Dollar Legs" (1932, Comedy) - W.C. Fields, Jack Oakie, Susan Fleming
11:30 Midday (L)
1:00 Movie: "Fanny by Gaslight" (UK title)/"Man of Evil" (US title) - (1944, Drama) - Phyllis Calvert, James Mason, Wilfrid Lawson, Stewart Granger
3:00 Porky Pig
3:30 New Zoo Revue
4:00 Yogi Bear
4:30 Lost in Space
5:30 Flintstones (x2)
6:30 Petticoat Junction
7:00 I Love Lucy
7:30 Hogan's Heroes
8:00 Truth or Consequences
8:30 David Frost - Guests: Kenny Rogers, Ted Knight, Matt Munro, Michael Mooney
10:00 10 O'Clock News
11:00 Alfred Hitchcock Presents
11:30 Movie: "Among the Living" (1941, Film Noir) - Susan Hayward, Albert Dekker, Frances Farmer, Harry Carey
12:50 Sea Hunt

7 WABC
7:00 Listen and Learn (L)
7:30 AM New York
9:00 Movie: "Three's a Crowd" (1969, Comedy) - Larry Hagman, Jessica Walter
10:30 What Every Woman Wants to Know (L) - Bess Myersen
11:00 Stump the Stars (reruns from 1969-70) - Mike Stokey
11:30 That Girl
NOON Bewitched
12:30 Password - Guests: Anne Francis, Arte Johnson
1:00 All My Children
1:30 Let's Make a Deal
2:00 Newlywed Game
2:30 Dating Game
3:00 General Hospital
3:30 One Life to Live
4:00 Love, American Style
4:30 Movie: "Do Not Disturb" (1965, Comedy/Romance) - Doris Day, Rod Taylor
6:00 Eyewitness News
7:00 ABC Evening News
7:30 Survival: "Invasion South"
8:00 Monday Night Special: "Champions" - John Secondari (narrator)
9:00 ABC Monday Night Movie: "The Delphi Bureau" (Premiere, Drama) - Laurence Luckinbill, Celeste Holm
11:00 Eyewitness News
11:30 Dick Cavett - Guests: Pierre Buelez, Sada Thompson
1:00 Move: "We're No Angels" (1955, Comedy) - Humphrey Bogart, Aldo Ray, Peter Ustinov

9 WOR
7:30 News, Sports, Weather (audio-only with logo slides)
8:00 Mantrap (L)
8:30 Wagon Train
10:00 Romper Room (L)
11:00 Straight Talk (L)
NOON Nino (Spanish-language telenovela from Argentina)
1:00 Journey to Adventure
1:30 What's My Line? - Wally Bruner
2:00 Virginia Graham
3:00 Joe Franklin (L)
4:00 Gigantor (1963-66 anime)
4:30 Movie: "Cry of the Werewolf" (1944, Horror) - Nina Foch, Stephen Crane
6:00 Get Smart
6:30 Dick Van Dyke
7:00 Wild, Wild West
8:00 Movie: "Bringing Up Baby" (1938, Comedy) - Katherine Hepburn, Cary Grant
10:00 News Digest
10:30 Celebrity Bowling
11:00 Movie: "Cornered" (1945, Film Noir) - Dick Powell, Walter Slezak
1:00 Joe Franklin (L)

11 WPIX
7:05 News, Sports, Weather (audio-only with logo slides)
7:20 Fashions in Sewing (L)
7:30 Popeye
9:00 Time for Joya! (L)
9:30 Fashions in Sewing (L)
9:40 Jack LaLanne
10:00 Zane Grey Theater (L)
10:30 Catholic Window (L)
11:00 Suburban Closeup
11:30 Tennessee Tuxedo
NOON The Magic Garden (L, Premiere)
12:30 Fashions in Sewing
12:40 Tell Me, Dr. (Joyce) Brothers
1:00 Movie: "Illegal Traffic" (1938, Crime Drama) - J. Carrol Naish, Mary Carlisle, Robert Preston, Buster Crabbe
2:30 Patty Duke
3:00 Popeye
3:30 Magilla Gorilla
4:00 Little Rascals
4:30 Superman
5:00 Munsters
5:30 Batman
6:00 Nanny and the Professor
6:30 Beat the Clock - Jack Narz
7:00 I Dream of Jeannie (x2)
8:00 Father Knows Best
8:30 NYPD
9:00 Perry Mason
10:00 TV-11 News
11:00 Movie: "Svengali" (1931, Drama) - John Barrymore, Marian Marsh
12:30 News

13 WNET
8:30 Beginning German
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 School TV Service (Instructional Programs)
1:30 Electric Company
2:00 School TV Service
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers
5:30 Electric Company
6:00 Hodgepodge Lodge
6:30 Course of Our Times
7:00 Spectrum
7:30 Behind the Lines
8:00 Special of the Week: "Awake and Sing!" (from the 1935 Clifford Odet drama) - Walter Matthau, Felicia Farr, Leo Fuchs, Robert Lipton, Ron Rifkin, Martin Ritt, Milton Selzer, Ruth Storey; directed and staged by Norman Lloyd
10:00 51st State (L)
10:30 NPACT Special: "The Longest Journey: The People Who Watched the President" - filmed highlights of Nixon's then-recent China visit, narrated by Theodore H. White
11:30 Film Odyssey: "The 39 Steps" (1935, Thriller) - Rober Donat, Madeileine Carroll; directed by Alfred Hitchcock

 

[fybush]

300 miles upstate, this happens to be the day I was born!

 

[RandTV]

300 miles upstate, this happens to be the day I was born!

Talk about a "Magic Garden" day!

 

[south_ferretti]

NOON Nino (Spanish-language telenovela from Argentina)

It's strange to see a program like this airing on an English-speaking station: I bet it didn't last long in NYC. Wonder if it aired in Spanish or dubbed in English. Nino was very popular in South America, particularly in Argentina and Peru (the countries who co-produced the serial, which aired on Canal 13 Buenos Aires and Panamericana Television, respectively).

 

[RandTV]

It's strange to see a program like this airing on an English-speaking station: I bet it didn't last long in NYC. Wonder if it aired in Spanish or dubbed in English. Nino was very popular in South America, particularly in Argentina and Peru (the countries who co-produced the serial, which aired on Canal 13 Buenos Aires and Panamericana Television, respectively).

I'll check the New York paper archives for that. If it was in Spanish, it might have had English subtitles.

 

[installLSC]

1:15 Movie: "The Jazz Singer" - (1927, Musical/Drama) - Al Jolson, May McAvoy, Warner Oland (historic revolutionary "first tallkie", marking the beginning of the end of the Silent Era)

This is a surprising listing for 1972. Although it was a "talkie", a lot of the movie is still silent. The only silent films I've seen on a commercial station later than this is Charlie Chaplin/Harold Lloyd classic comedies. And I'm surprised that a film featuring blackface was still viable in 1972; it's not like "Holiday Inn" where you can just edit one scene out.

 

[RandTV]

This is a surprising listing for 1972. Although it was a "talkie", a lot of the movie is still silent. The only silent films I've seen on a commercial station later than this is Charlie Chaplin/Harold Lloyd classic comedies. And I'm surprised that a film featuring blackface was still viable in 1972; it's not like "Holiday Inn" where you can just edit one scene out.

I've seen some portions of "The Jazz Singer", and saw it still had the "silent movie" elements. If I misinterpreted the genre, my apologies.

 

[installLSC]

I've seen some portions of "The Jazz Singer", and saw it still had the "silent movie" elements. If I misinterpreted the genre, my apologies.

Oh no you're absolutely right in calling it a "talkie" and that's what movie historians refer to it as. After all we still call "The Wizard of Oz" a color movie even though a good chunk of it's monochrome.