Retro: Detroit/Windsor/Toledo Mon., July 23, 1973

From TV Guide, Detroit Edition:

WJBK Ch. 2 Detroit (CBS)

6:25 On The Farm Front
6:30 Summer Semester: "The Immigrant In American Life"
7 AM Mayberry R.F.D.
7:30 News
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM My Favorite Martian
9:30 $10,000 Pyramid (delay from 10:30 AM)
10 AM Joker's Wild
10:30 Phil Donahue
11:30 Secret Storm (delay from 4 PM)
12 N News
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Love Of Life (delay from 11:30 AM)
1:25 News
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Guiding Light
2:30 Edge Of Night
3 PM Gambit (delay from 11 AM)
3:30 Match Game '73
4 PM Price Is Right (delay from 3 PM)
4:30 Mike Douglas (from Sea World, co-host is Marty Allen)
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News (Roger Mudd)
7 PM Truth Or Consequences
7:30 What's My Line?
8 PM Gunsmoke (watch for Eric Braeden, aka Victor Newman of "The Young And The Restless," in part 2 of the classic 1971 episode "The Bullet," wherein a gravely wounded Matt tries to reach Denver for a life-saving operation)
9 PM Wild Africa (first of two on that continent's wildlife)
10 PM Medical Center
11 PM News
11:30 CBS Movie: "The Psychopath"
1:15 Movie: "Dangerous Money"
2:45 News

WWJ (WDIV) Ch. 4 Detroit (NBC)

6:30 Classroom: reason vs. emotion
7 AM Today (Edward J. Logue, president of the Urban Development Corporation, discusses new types of public housing; a 75th anniversary tribute to Stephen Vincent Benet)
9 AM That Girl
9:30 Who, What Or Where (delay from 12:30 PM)
9:55 Carol Duvall (decorating)
10 AM Dinah's Place (David Birney and Meredith Baxter of "Bridget Loves Bernie")
10:30 Baffle
11 AM Wizard Of Odds (Alex Trebek's first U.S. game show)
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N Jeopardy!
12:30 News
1 PM Somerset
1:30 Three On A Match
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 Return To Peyton Place
4 PM Bonanza
5 PM George Pierrot (interviews and films with world travelers)
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News (John Chancellor)
7 PM News
7:30 Mouse Factory (Wally Cox traces the life of Ben Franklin; featured: the cartoon "Ben And Me")
8 PM Rowan And Martin's Laugh-In (a Christmas show with Steve Lawrence as a singing Santa and ballet-dancing Jack Frost; he also appears in blackouts as Groucho Marx; Steve Allen and Peter Marshall have cameos)
9 PM NBC Movie: "I Love A Mystery" (unsold 1966 pilot based on the old radio show, with Ida Lupino as the villainess who has Jack (David Hartman), Doc (Les Crane), and Reggie (Hagan Beggs) trapped in a mysterious castle)
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show (Vikki Carr subs for Johnny)
1 AM News

WXYZ Ch. 7 Detroit (ABC)

6:10 News
6:30 TV College: "Ethnic Studies" focuses today on the Native American
7 AM A.M. Detroit (host Dennis Wholey, guests Lorne Greene and plant expert Jerry Baker)
8:30 Movie: "The Song Of Bernadette" (Part 1)
10:15 News
10:30 Mothers-In-Law
11 AM Green Acres
11:30 Brady Bunch
12 N Password
12:30 Split Second
1 PM All My Children
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 The Girl In My Life
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 One Life To Live
4 PM Love, American Style (guests: Karen Valentine, Dick Gautier, Ruta Lee--is this a comedy anthology or a game show?)
4:30 Movie: "Taras Bulba" (Part 1)
6 PM News
6:30 ABC News (Howard K. Smith/Harry Reasoner)
7 PM To Tell The Truth
7:30 Let's Make A Deal
8 PM The Rookies
9 PM ABC Movie: "Man-Trap" (not the talk show but a 1961 police drama, directed by actor Edmond O'Brien)
11 PM News
11:30 Jack Paar Tonite
1 AM News

CKLW (CBET) Ch. 9 Windsor (CBC)

6 AM Cartoon Playhouse
6:30 Uncle Bobby
7 AM Bozo The Clown
8 AM Ontario Schools
10 AM Mon Ami ("my friend," kids' show)
10:15 Friendly Giant
10:30 Mr. Dressup
11 AM Take 30
11:30 Family Court
12 N Galloping Gourmet
12:30 Real Magees
1 PM Movie: "The Ballad Of Josie"
3 PM Beat The Clock (Gene Wood version)
3:30 Cartoon Playhouse
4 PM Bozo's Big Top
5 PM Dick Van Dyke
5:30 F Troop
6 PM Courtship Of Eddie's Father
6:30 I Dream Of Jeannie
7 PM Beverly Hillbillies
7:30 Norm Cash (baseball)
8 PM Beachcombers
8:30 Bobby Goldsboro (guest: Bill Withers)
9 PM News (Don Daly)
9:30 This Is The Law
10 PM V.I.P. (guests: Lorne Greene, who discusses his days as a CBC newscaster and actor; astronaut James Irwin)
10:30 What On Earth
11 PM CBC News (Lloyd Robertson)
11:30 News
12 M Movie: "The Heiress"

WTOL Ch. 11 Toledo (CBS)

6:30 Summer Semester
7 AM CBS News (John Hart)
7:30 Acorn Alley (kids' show)
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Not For Women Only (first of five on prominent women in sports; today: tennis star Althea Gibson, skier Suzy Chaffee (remember "Suzy Chapstick"?), golfer Kathy Whitworth)
9:30 Match Game '73 (delay from 3:30 PM)
10 AM Joker's Wild
10:30 $10,000 Pyramid
11 AM Gambit
11:30 Love Of Life
11:55 CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
12 N News
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Young And The Restless (delay from 12 N)
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Guiding Light
2:30 Edge Of Night
3 PM Price Is Right
3:30 Secret Storm (delay from 4 PM)
4 PM Movie: "Gallant Bess"
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM To Tell The Truth (Kitty Carlisle, Peggy Cass, Bill Cullen, Gene Rayburn)
7:30 Hollywood Squares (Raymond Burr, Buddy Hackett, Florence Henderson, Carl Reiner, Wally Cox, Charley Weaver, Paul Lynde)
8 PM Gunsmoke
9 PM Here's Lucy (guest: Don Knotts)
9:30 Doris Day
10 PM Medical Center
11 PM News
11:30 CBS Movie: "The Psychopath"
1:15 News

WSPD (WTVG) Ch. 13 Toledo (NBC)

6:25 Farm Report
6:30 Garner Ted Armstrong
7 AM Today
9 AM Three On A Match (delay from 1:30 PM)
9:30 Jeopardy! (delay from 12 N)
10 AM Dinah's Place
10:30 Baffle
11 AM Wizard Of Odds
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N News
12:30 Who, What Or Where
12:55 NBC News (Edwin Newman)
1 PM Phil Donahue (guest: Carol Channing)
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 Return To Peyton Place
4 PM Gilligan's Island
4:30 Merv Griffin (Totie Fields, Abbe Lane, Pat Cooper, Gabe Kaplan)
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM What's My Line?
7:30 Truth Or Consequences
8 PM Rowan And Martin's Laugh-In
9 PM NBC Movie: "I Love A Mystery"
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show

WXON Ch. 20 Detroit (Ind.)

4 PM Romper Room
4:30 My Friend Flicka
5 PM The Monroes
6 PM Land Of The Giants
7 PM Nanny And The Professor
7:30 Rifleman
8 PM Burke's Law
9 PM Ozzie And Harriet
9:30 700 Club
11:30 Charisma

WDHO (WNWO) Ch. 24 Toledo (ABC)

7:45 Farm Report
7:50 Lucille Rivers (sewing)
8 AM Jonny Quest
8:30 New Zoo Revue'
9 AM Romper Room
9:30 Flying Nun
10 AM Mike Douglas (co-host Joel Grey; Buddy Rich, Michele Lee, Ken Howard)
11 AM Love, American Style (Edie Adams, the Lennon Sisters, day-behind from Fri 4 PM)
11:30 Brady Bunch
12 N Password
12:30 Split Second
1 PM All My Children
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 The Girl In My Life
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 One Life To Live
4 PM Munsters
4:30 Flintstones
5 PM Lost In Space
6 PM ABC News
6:30 Dick Van Dyke
7 PM Bowling For Dollars
7:30 I've Got A Secret
8 PM The Rookies
9 PM ABC Movie: "Man-Trap"
11 PM News
11:30 Jack Paar Tonite

WGTE Ch. 30 Toledo (PBS)

4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Insight
6:30 Rinconcito Norteno (don't ask me what this means)
7 PM Speaking Freely (Chip Bohlen discusses Russian-American diplomacy with Edwin Newman)
8 PM Leonardo: To Know How To See (Sir John Gielgud narrates a life of Leonardo da Vinci)
9 PM Double Reed (oboes and bassoons; included are a look at the manufacture of oboes, woodwind instruments in Boston's Museum of Fine Arts)
9:30 Book Beat (Michael Korda discusses "Male Chauvinism! How It Works")
10 PM Midwestern Governors' Conference (taped July 8-11 in Rapid City, SD)
sign off 11 PM

WKBD Ch. 50 Detroit (Ind.)

9:30 Jack LaLanne
10 AM Detroit Today
10:30 Not For Women Only (the U.S. team from the 1972 International Culinary Competition in Frankfurt, Germany)
11 AM New Zoo Revue
11:30 Tennessee Tuxedo
12 N Kimba The White Lion
12:30 Danny Thomas (guest: Jack Benny, who emcees Rusty's Boy Scout show)
1 PM Movie: "Genevieve"
3:30 Banana Splits
4 PM Yogi Bear
4:30 Three Stooges
5 PM Little Rascals
5:30 Addams Family
6 PM Flintstones
6:30 Gilligan's Island
7 PM I Love Lucy
7:30 Hogan's Heroes
8 PM Dragnet
8:30 Merv Griffin
10 PM Perry Mason
11 PM One Step Beyond
11:30 Movie: "Escape From Red Rock"

WTVS Ch. 56 Detroit (PBS)

10 AM Sesame Street
11 AM Electric Company
11:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
12 N TBA or off the air
2 PM French Chef
2:30 Lilias, Yoga And You
3 PM Turning Points (how Winston County, AL, turned its economy around by becoming a center of mobile-home production)
3:30 Carrascolendas
4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Lilias, Yoga And You
6:30 Consumer Game (I somehow doubt this is a game show.)
7 PM Speaking Freely
8 PM Leonardo: To Know How To See
9 PM Double Reed
9:30 Book Beat
10 PM Midwestern Governors' Conference
sign off 11 PM

I guess 20's listings weren't carried except for prime time. Pre-GMA on ABC, NBC had the morning show market to itself. Still had the 1PM Movie with Bill Kennedy on 50 and the 4PM Movie on 7. TV was better then.

Thanks for posting this.

WJBK-TV never did take the CBS Morning News (at this point a hard news show anchored by Hughes Rudd) in any of its incarnations (Morning, This Morning...). Shortly after this, they did expand their local morning news to a full-blown local morning show and it did quite well. Other Storer stations did the same.

I had forgotten that Jack Paar came back to late nights, doing a show on ABC at 11:30pm opposite Johnny Carson, who replaced him on the Tonight Show. As with all the attempts to compete with Carson, this one failed as well. Was syndicated Arsenio the only successful late night show to compete with Carson, or was Leno already doing Tonight and Letterman on CBS by the time Arsenio premiered?

Nobody stayed on all night, even though Detroit was a major city back then, with shift workers from the auto factories working all sorts of hours. WJBK-TV 2 ran two movies after the 11pm news. WDIV and WXYZ-TV did a newscast at 1am, then went off the air. At least one station in NYC, LA and I think several other cities stayed on all night.

Gregg. said:

I had forgotten that Jack Paar came back to late nights, doing a show on ABC at 11:30pm opposite Johnny Carson, who replaced him on the Tonight Show. As with all the attempts to compete with Carson, this one failed as well. Was syndicated Arsenio the only successful late night show to compete with Carson, or was Leno already doing Tonight and Letterman on CBS by the time Arsenio premiered?

Nobody stayed on all night, even though Detroit was a major city back then, with shift workers from the auto factories working all sorts of hours. WJBK-TV 2 ran two movies after the 11pm news. WDIV and WXYZ-TV did a newscast at 1am, then went off the air. At least one station in NYC, LA and I think several other cities stayed on all night.

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Depends on how you define success. Hall ran in syndication for a little over five years. Dick Cavett ran on ABC for six years. Joey Bishop (with Regis) ran two years and about eight months. But Nightline ran for 25 years.

Arsenio debuted in 1989, around the same time as Pat Sajak's short-lived CBS show (I remember WAGA, then still a CBS affiliate, carrying Arsenio instead of Sajak). Letterman was at NBC then; he didn't move to CBS until 1993. Leno replaced Johnny in 1992.

Re WJBK's pre-empting CBS's morning show; they eventually began airing "Captain Kangaroo" on a day-behind at 7 AM and put "Good Morning Detroit" at 8. I also notice a major scrambling of CBS's daytime schedule in 1973; I wonder if that practice ceased after CBS pulled KXLY Spokane's affiliation for rearranging the network's schedule to suit itself (WKRG Mobile used to do that with CBS's primetime schedule, but not the daytime schedule, a practice that ceased after KXLY lost CBS). I know that, for one, Donahue was moved to 9 AM in Detroit later in the '70s.

Not true, Fred. By 1983, when Diane Sawyer was hosting the CBS Morning show, WJBK was airing it. It carried them before flipping to Fox in 1995. When they started carrying it (if it was before 1983), I'm not sure.