Retro: Connecticut - Friday, September 24, 1976

[RandTV]

Again by request, the schedule from the day now-retired pro wrestler and current WWE chairwoman Stephanie McMahon was born in Hartford.

Sources: Hartford Courant, Newsday (Long Island), New York Daily News

(P) - (Series) Premiere
(SP) - Season Premiere

3 WFSB (CBS) Hartford
6:00 Vision On
6:30 Barrio
7:00 CBS Morning News
8:00 Captain Kangaroo - Guest: Fran Allison (Kukla, Fran & Ollie), close friend and colleague of Bob Keeshan
9:00 New England Journal
10:00 Price is Right
11:00 Gambit
11:30 Love of Life
11:55 CBS Midday News
NOON Eyewitness News
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
1:00 Match Game '76 - Panel: Scoey Mitchell, Brett Somers, Charles Nelson Reilly, Mary Wickes, Richard Dawson, Betty White
1:30 As the World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3:00 All in the Family
3:30 Mickey Mouse Club (original 1955-59 version; the 'New' version premiered the following January)
4:00 Gilligan's Island
4:30 Dinah! - Guests: George Carlin, Tony Orlando & Dawn
6:00 Eyewitness News
7:00 CBS Evening News
7:30 Match Game PM
8:00 WFSB Special: "WFSB's Election Magazine" (pre-empting CBS's Spencer's Pilots)
9:00 CBS Friday Night Movies: "Magnum Force" (1973, Crime Drama/Action/Mystery) - Clint Eastwood (as Dirty Harry), Hal Holbrook, Mitchell Ryan
11:25 Eyewitness News
11:55 Movie: "Kiss of Evil" (1963, Horror) - Clifford Evans, Edward De Souza, Jennifer Daniel

8 WTNH (ABC) New Haven
6:00 Dialogue
6:15 Davey and Goliath (15 min.)
6:30 Dialogue
7:00 Little Rascals
7:30 Musnters
8:00 Cartoon Carnival
8:30 Dusty's Treehouse
9:00 Donahue
10:00 All My Children
10:30 Edge of Night
11:00 Hot Seat - Jim Peck
11:30 Happy Days
NOON 12 O'Clock Live
1:00 Ryan's Hope
1:30 Family Feud
2:00 $20,000 Pyramid - Guests: Vicki Lawrence, Rick Hurst
2:30 One Life to Live
3:15 General Hospital
4:00 Brady Bunch
4:30 Star Trek
5:30 Odd Couple
6:00 Action News
6:30 ABC Evening News
7:00 Concentration
7:30 Muppet Show (P) - Guest: Rita Moreno
8:00 Donny & Marie (SP) - Guests: Milton Berle, George Gobel, Desi Arnaz , Arthur Godfrey, Lassie, Paul Lynde, Robert Hegyes, Peggy Fleming, Lorne Greene, Buffalo Bob Smith and Howdy Doody, George Fenneman, Art Linkletter, Harriet Nelson, Gail Storm, Groucho Marx (second to final TV appearance)
9:00 ABC Friday Night Movie: "Walking Tall Part 2" (1975, Crime Drama/Action/Biography) - Bo Svenson, Noah Beery Jr., Leif Garrett
11:00 Eyewitness News
11:30 Movie: "Black Friday" (1940, Horror) - Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi

24 WEDH (PBS) Hartford
3:00 Lilias, Yoga and You
3:30 Hodgepodge Lodge
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers
5:30 Electric Company
6:00 Open Video
6:30 Self, Inc. - Parent/Teacher Preview of new instructional series
7:00 Crockett's Victory Garden
7:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
8:00 Washington Week in Review
8:30 Wall $treet Week
9:00 The End of the Game (wildlife conservation film)
9:30 Shoppin' Around (folk music)
10:00 Steambath (contains nudity and offensive language; viewer discretion advised)
11:00 Captioned ABC News

30 WHNB (NBC) New Britain)
6:25 It Is Written
6:55 Today's Woman
7:00 Today
9:00 Not for Women Only
9:30 To Tell the Truth
10:00 Sanford and Son
10:30 Celebrity Sweepstakes - Panel: Loretta Swit, David Huddleston, Jack Albertson, Shelley Winters, Alan Sues, Carol Wayne
11:00 Wheel of Fortune
11:30 Hollywood Squares - Panel: Jack Klugman, Florence Henderson, Tim Matheson, Dick Van Dyke, Kurt Russell, Lesley Ann Warren, George Gobel, Rose Marie, Paul Lynde
NOON The Fun Factory - Bobby Van
12:30 Gong Show
12:55 NBC Midday News
1:00 Somerset
1:30 Days of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3:00 Another World
4:00 Cross-Wits
4:30 Partridge Family
5:00 Emergency One!
6:00 Newscenter 30
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
7:30 Hollywood Squares
8:00 Sanford and Son (SP, 60 min.)
9:00 Rockford Files (SP)
10:00 Serpico (P)
11:00 Newscenter 30
11:30 Tonight Show - Guests: Diahann Carroll, Fernando Lamas, Ilie Nastase, Normal Fell, Roy Rogers
1:00 Midnight Special - Golden Oldies Special; Host: Lesley Gore; Performers: Bobby Vee, the Shirelles, Del Shannon, the Drifters, Lloyd Price, Danny and the Juniors, Jimmie Rodgers, Johnny Tillotson

 

[RandTV]

The main reason I don't list nighttime syndicated game show guests is due to the "bicycling" practice, meaning the broadcast order was out of sync from the production order. Plus the guests are usually not listed in the newspapers' schedules.

 

[cbsfan95]

and i can see WTNH had pre-empted Good Morning America.

 

[RandTV]

and i can see WTNH had pre-empted Good Morning America.

At least there was still WABC 7 available.

 

[Ccook55]

So Vision On was still making the rounds on U.S. TV. In 1972, our CBS station (then WAGA) slotted it Saturdays at 9 AM over the network offering (The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan). Noted it ran 12 years on BBC and among the cast was a pre-Doctor Who Sylvester McCoy.

 

[RandTV]

So Vision On was still making the rounds on U.S. TV. In 1972, our CBS station (then WAGA) slotted it Saturdays at 9 AM over the network offering (The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan). Noted it ran 12 years on BBC and among the cast was a pre-Doctor Who Sylvester McCoy.

I remember first seeing it on KQED San Francisco (PBS) in 1982.

 

[RandTV]

Here is another Connecticut schedule from that day.

20 WATR (NBC) Waterbury
8:00 Today
10:00 Sanford and Son
10:30 Celebrity Sweepstakes
11:00 Wheel of Fortune
11:30 Hollywood Squares
NOON Fun Factory
12:30 Gong Show
12:55 NBC Midday News
1:00 Call of the West (syndicated title for Death Valley Days)
1:30 Days of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3:00 Another World
4:00 PTL Club
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 Roller Derby
8:00 Sanford and Son (SP, 60 min.)
9:00 Rockford Files (SP)
10:00 Serpico (P)
11:00 News 20
11:30 Tonight Show
1:00 Midnight Special
See ch. 30 WHNB for guest info on Celebrity Sweepstakes, Hollywood Squares, The Tonight Show, and Midnight Special.

Addendum and Corrections:
Additional guests on ch. 3's broadcast of Dinah! (4:30 PM) were Freddie Prinze, Ruth Buzzi, Jerry Martinez (comc), Bob Holt (impressionist) and Jag Fashions (model-dancer troupe)
The guest star on ch. 8's premiere of The Muppet Show was actually Sandy Duncan, not Rita Moreno.

 

[TexasTom]

That schedule for WATR certainly looks low budget. Did they really not even have a 6 PM news show, but just 2 1/2 hours of hte PTL Club?

 

[RandTV]

That schedule for WATR certainly looks low budget. Did they really not even have a 6 PM news show, but just 2 1/2 hours of hte PTL Club?

According to the schedule in the papers.