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30 years ago, Pittsburgh 7/3/76

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bhayes1016

Source: TV Guide

KDKA-2 (CBS)
6:00 Teaching Children to Read
6:30 Summer Semester
7:00 Passing The Buck
7:30 Harlem Globetrotters Popcorn Machine
8:00 Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm
8:30 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
9:30 Scooby-Doo
10:00 SHAZAM!/Isis
11:00 Far Out Space Nuts
11:30 Ghost Busters (this was years before the movie of the same name)
12:00 Valley of the Dinosaurs
12:30 Vibrations
1:30 Woman Is
2:00 I Dream of Jeannie
2:30 Movie-"The Naked Brigade"
4:30 CBS Sports Spectacular - Taped coverage of the Pocono 500 Indy car race
6:00 News
6:30 CBS News - Dan Rather was doing weekends back then
7:00 Great American Celebration - 12-hour marathon of bicentennial celebrations from around the country
11:00 News
11:30 Great American Celebration continues

WTAE-4 (ABC)
7:00 Tri-State Farmer
7:30 Fury
8:00 Hong Kong Phooey
8:30 Tom and Jerry/Grape Ape
9:30 Adventures of Gilligan
10:00 Super Friends
11:00 Speed Buggy
11:30 Oddball Couple - cartoon version of The Odd Couple?
12:00 Women's Bowling
1:30 Fishin' Hole
2:00 Women's Tennis - taped from Hilton Head
3:30 Movie - "Tarawa Beachhead"
5:00 Wide World of Sports - U.S. Olympic Gymnastics and Diving Trials
6:30 News
7:00 Hee Haw
8:00 Movie - "Huckleberry Finn"
9:30 Movie - "The Man Without a Country"
11:00 News
11:30 Movie - "Mutiny on the Bounty"
2:45 Mystery of the Week
4:15 ABC News

WJAC-6 Johnstown (NBC)
8:00 Emergency + 4
8:30 Josie and the Pussycats
9:00 Secret Lives of Waldo Kitty
9:30 Pink Panther
10:00 Land of the Lost
10:30 Run, Joe, Run
11:00 Return to the Planet of the Apes
11:30 Westwind
12:00 Jetsons
12:30 Wimbledon Tennis - Women's singles final, taped Friday (Breakfast at Wimbledon hadn't been served by NBC yet)
2:00 Baseball - Phillies at Pirates (Rain game: Angels at Twins)
5:00 Wimbledon Tennis - Men's singles final, taped earlier that day
6:30 News
7:00 Tarzan
8:00 Emergency
9:00 Inventing of America - Documentary about technology in the U.S.
11:00 News
11:30 Weekend - NBC newsmagazine that occasionally aired in place of SNL

WTAJ-10 Altoona (CBS)
6:00 Summer Semester
6:30 Good Morning with John Riley
7:00 Harlem Globtrotters Popcorn Machine
7:30 Popeye
8:00 Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm
8:30 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
9:30 Scooby-Doo
10:00 SHAZAM!/Isis
11:00 Far Out Space Nuts
11:30 Ghost Busters (this was years before the movie of the same name)
12:00 Valley of the Dinosaurs
12:30 Fat Albert
1:00 Children's Film Festival
2:00 Champions - AAU wrestling and diving
3:00 Nashville on the Road
3:30 Lawrence Welk
4:30 CBS Sports Spectacular - Taped coverage of the Pocono 500 Indy car race
6:00 Ask the Manager
6:30 CBS News - Dan Rather was doing weekends back then
7:00 Great American Celebration - 12-hour marathon of bicentennial celebrations from around the country
11:00 News
11:30 Great American Celebration continues

WIIC-11 (NBC)
7:00 Farm, Home and Garden
7:30 Flying Nun
8:00 Emergency + 4
8:30 Josie and the Pussycats
9:00 Secret Lives of Waldo Kitty
9:30 Pink Panther
10:00 Land of the Lost
10:30 Run, Joe, Run
11:00 Return to the Planet of the Apes
11:30 Westwind
12:00 Jetsons
12:30 Wimbledon Tennis - Women's singles final, taped Friday (Breakfast at Wimbledon hadn't been served by NBC yet)
2:00 Baseball - Angels at Twins (Phillies-Pirates blacked out in Pittsburgh)
5:00 Wimbledon Tennis - Men's singles final, taped earlier that day
6:30 NBC News - Brokaw was doing weekends back then, too
7:00 Lawrence Welk
8:00 Emergency
9:00 Inventing of America - Documentary about technology in the U.S.
11:00 News
11:30 Movie - "It Came From Outer Space"
1:00 Movie - "The Werewolf of London"

WQED-13 (PBS)
8:30 Mister Rogers (what else?)
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 Electric Company
10:30 Mister Rogers
11:00 Sesame Street
12:00 Electric Company
12:30 Zoom
1:00 Sesame Street
2:00 Electric Company
2:30 Hodgepodge Lodge
3:00 Nova
4:00 Bill Moyers' Journal
5:00 Tribal Eye
6:00 Echoes Bright and Clear - Tribute to 200 years of American music
7:00 Wall Street Week
7:30 Evening at Symphony
9:00 Goodbye America
10:30 In Performance at Wolf Trap

WPGH-53 (Ind.)
8:00 Hercules
8:30 Speed Racer
9:00 Jeff's Collie (they couldn't call it "Lassie" for some reason)
9:30 Lone Ranger
10:00 Little Rascals
11:00 Jeff's Collie
11:30 Lone Ranger
12:00 Lost Saucer
12:30 Fat Albert (pre-empted by KDKA)
1:00 Children's Film Festival (pre-empted by KDKA)
2:00 Movie - "Magic Town"
4:00 Wild, Wild West
5:00 Championship Wrestling
6:00 Soul Train
7:00 ABC News - guess who *else* was doing weekends? Ted Koppel! (pre-empted by WTAE)
7:30 Happy Place
8:00 Polka Party
8:30 That Good Ole Nashville Music
9:00 Jack Wheeler's Tonight in Pittsburgh
10:00 700 Club
11:30 Weekend (pre-empted by WIIC...does this mean that SNL usually followed Pat Robertson??)
 
Here ya go...I also have 7/4 and 7/5 typed up, I'll post those in the next few days.

Source: TV Guide

KDKA-2 (CBS)
6:00 Getting Over
6:30 Summer Semester
7:00 CBS News
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Playmates-Schoomates
9:30 Tattletales
10:00 Price Is Right
11:00 Gambit
11:30 Love of Life
11:55 CBS News
12:00 News
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
1:00 Young and the Restless
1:30 Marie Torre (local talk show)
2:30 Guiding Light
3:00 All In The Family
3:30 Match Game '76
4:00 Mike Douglas - Marvin Hamlisch co-hosts
5:30 Partridge Family
6:00 News
6:30 CBS News (Cronkite)
7:00 News
7:30 Animal World
8:00 Baseball - Pirates at Reds (local telecast, also seen on WJAC)
10:30 Animal World
11:00 News
11:30 Movie - "Who's Minding The Store?"
1:20 Don Kirshner's Rock Concert

WTAE-4 (ABC)
6:45 News
7:00 Dusty's Treehouse
7:30 Fury
8:00 AM Pittsburgh
9:30 Father Knows Best
10:00 Edge of Night
10:30 Dinah
12:00 Let's Make a Deal
12:30 All My Children
1:00 Ryan's Hope
1:30 Rhyme and Reason (last show of the series...a new show called "Family Feud"

debuts the following Monday)
2:00 $20,000 Pyramid
2:30 Break The Bank
3:00 General Hospital
3:30 Lost In Space
4:30 Bewitched
5:00 Brady Bunch
5:30 Adam-12
6:00 News
6:30 ABC News (Reasoner)
7:00 Bowling
7:30 Match Game PM
8:00 Donny & Marie - special guests Lee Majors and Farrah Fawcett-Majors
9:00 Movie - "Waterloo"
11:00 News
11:30 Movie - "The Long, Long Trailer"
1:30 Ironside

WJAC-6 Johnstown (NBC)
7:00 Today
9:00 Leave It To Beaver
9:30 Electric Company
10:00 Sanford and Son
10:30 Celebrity Sweepstakes
11:00 Wheel of Fortune
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12:00 Fun Factory
12:30 Gong Show
12:55 News
1:15 Cross Section
1:30 Days of Our Lives
2:30 Doctors
3:00 Another World
4:00 Somerset
4:30 Hopalong Cassidy
5:00 Dinah
6:00 News
6:30 NBC News (Chancellor/Brinkley)
7:00 Wild Kingdom
7:30 Glen Campbell
8:00 Baseball - Pirates at Reds
10:30 Police Story (JIP)
11:00 News
11:30 Johnny Carson

WTAJ-10 Altoona (CBS)
5:45 Farm, Home and Garden
6:00 Summer Semester
6:30 Good Morning with John Riley
7:00 CBS News
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 Price Is Right
11:00 Gambit
11:30 Love of Life
11:55 CBS News
12:00 Young and the Restless
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
1:00 Bewitched
1:30 As The World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3:00 All In The Family
3:30 Match Game '76
4:00 Mike Douglas
5:00 Gunsmoke
6:00 News
6:30 CBS News (Cronkite)
7:00 Bonanza
8:00 CBS News Special
9:00 Movie - "Alaskan Safari"
11:00 News
11:30 Movie - "Who's Minding The Store?"
1:20 Washington Debates for the 70s

WIIC-11 (NBC)
5:55 Farm Report
6:00 Quest
6:30 Radius
7:00 Today
9:00 Phil Donahue
10:00 Sanford and Son
10:30 Celebrity Sweepstakes
11:00 Wheel of Fortune
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12:00 Pittsburgh at Noon
12:30 Gong Show
12:55 NBC News
1:00 Petticoat Junction
1:30 Days of Our Lives
2:30 Doctors
3:00 Another World
4:00 Movie - "Lost Flight"
6:00 News
7:00 NBC News (Chancellor/Brinkley)
7:30 Let's Make a Deal
8:00 Sanford & Son
8:30 The Practice
9:00 Rockford Files
10:00 Police Story
11:00 News
11:30 Johnny Carson
1:00 Midnight Special

WQED-13 (PBS)
(No listings before 4:30 pm)
4:30 Sesame Street
5:30 Electric Company
6:00 Villa Alegre
6:30 Mister Rogers
7:00 Consumer Survival Kit
7:30 Harrisburg Report
8:00 Washington Week in Review
8:30 Tourists Are Comin
9:00 USA People and Politics
10:00 Masterpiece Theatre
11:00 Robert MacNeil Report
11:30 Harrisburg Report

WPGH-53 (Ind.)
7:00 Good Morning America (pre-empted by WTAE)
9:00 The Bible
9:30 Grand Old Gospel Time
10:00 700 Club
11:30 Happy Days (pre-empted by WTAE)
12:00 Beverly Hillbillies
12:30 Not For Women Only
1:00 Somerset (pre-empted by WIIC)
1:30 As The World Turns (pre-empted by KDKA)
2:30 Banana Splits
3:00 Mickey Mouse Club
3:30 Lassie
4:00 Rin Tin Tin
4:30 Little Rascals
5:00 Batman
5:30 McHale's Navy
6:00 Gomer Pyle
6:30 Hogan's Heroes
7:00 Beverly Hillbillies
7:30 Green Acres
8:00 Merv Griffin
9:30 700 Club
11:00 Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
11:30 Suspense Theatre
12:30 Greatest Sports Legends
1:00 Mr. Chips
 
WPGH-53(Ind.)

9:00 AM Jeff's Collie(wonder why it wasn't called Lassie)

These were reruns of Tommy Retting's run on the show from 1954-1957.

There have been many syndicated versions due to the fact that Lassie was still on the air either on CBS or in new episodes in syndication.

Timmy and Lassie were the episodes with Jon Provost and Cloris Leachman at first,then June Lockhart from 1957-1964

The only other episodes where "Lassie" was in the title was where the Ranger was a regular and when Lassie was by herself and then when Larry Wilcox was a regular on the show in new episodes in syndication from 1973-1975.
 
I used to love that early-evening lineup on WPGH 53

5:00 Batman
5:30 McHale's Navy
6:00 Gomer Pyle
6:30 Hogan's Heroes
7:00 Beverly Hillbillies
7:30 Green Acres

It was usually the thing that got me in trouble for skipping homework!

I also remember "Playmates-Schoolmates" on KDKA. It was a Group W production,
I think it was taped at KYW in Philly. They were trying to do a ground-breaking
educational program, but it became quite controversial because a character
on the program (Brother Blue) would tell stories using street lingo/slang/jargon,
setting off a big debate between the "teach proper English" people and the
"cultural diversity" crowd. I think they just let the show die a quiet death after that.

The Saturday morning Ghost Busters was a live action show starring Forrest Tucker and
Larry Storch from F-Troop, this time starring as a pair of paranormal detectives. I think
it had a character in a gorilla costume also....I remember being surprised that Dan Akroyd et.al.
got away with using the title.
 
Buddy Hayes said:
WPGH-53 (Ind.)
8:00 Merv Griffin
9:30 700 Club
11:00 Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
Click to expand...

Talk about some strange audience flow! I wonder how many "700 Club" viewers stuck around for "Mary Hartman"?
 
For a time I think that Pat Robertson was buying up every available block of time on WPGH.
700 Club ran several times per day, as did his version of the Bozo Show and lots of other
CBN stuff.
 
I didn't even know CBN had their own Bozo (besides Pat, of course). Were there any diffrerences between this Bozo and the more familiar ones (especially from Chicago and Boston)?
 
CBN Bozo would recite Scripture and read stories from a Childrens' Bible.
Other than that I think it was the standard Bozo act they did everywhere else.
I believe that Pat Robertson got the rights to Bozo for the Norfolk-Virginia Beach
market when he bought his UHF station down there. And since Pittsburgh never
had a local Bozo (except maybe our ex-mayor??) there was no conflict in showing
them up here as well.
 
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