Fairbanks, Alaska (May 9, 1977)

[johnnya2k6]

Source: Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, as always2-KFAR (NBC/ABC; now KATN, ABC9-KUAC (PBS)11-KTVF (CBS/ABC, now NBC)7:00am11 CBS Morning News7:222 PTL Club Telethon8:0011 Captain Kangaroo9:0011 Double Dare (the one with Alex Trebek; the Nickelodeon Double Dare with Marc Summers was FAR different!)9:222 Wheel of Fortune9:3011 The Price is Right9:522 Helpful Hints for Homemakers10:002 Shoot for the Stars10:302 Name That Tune11 Tattletales11:002 Lovers & Friends (Never heard of that show before)11 The $20,000 Pyramid11:302 Days of our Lives (Deidre Hall must've joined the show by then)11 Love of Life11:5511 KTVF News at NoonNoon11 Young the the Restless12:302 The Doctors11 Search for Tomorrow1:002 Another World11 As the World Turns2:002 The Gong Show9 Lillias, Yoga, and You11 Guiding Light2:302 Family Feud9 Romantic Rebellion11 Match Game '773:002 The Hollywood Squares9 The Tribal Eye ("Man Blong Custom")11 Matinee Eleven ("Jubaj")3:302 Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour4:009 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood4:309 Sesame Street11 The Archies5:002 Sanford and Son11 All in the Family5:302 NBC Nightly News (John Chancellor)9 The Electric Company11 ABC Evening News (The ill-fated team of Harry Reasoner and Barbara Walters)6:002 Fairbanks Today (anybody know who anchored it at that time, let me know)9 Zoon11 Fairbanks Evening News (Ted Lehne/Chuck Benson)6:302 Little House on the Prairie9 Villa Allegro11 CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite7:009 MacNeil/Lehrer Report (must've been the Friday show; PBS didn't start satellite distribution until the following year)11 Pinocchio (Musical starring Danny Kaye and Sandy Duncan)7:3011 Welcome Back, Kotter9 Lowell Thomas Remembers8:002 Future Cop (one of the reasons why NBC was in last place in 1977!!)11 Busting Loose9:002 NBC Monday Night at the Movies ("Breezy")9 Great Performances ("New Directions in Dance with the Pilobolus Dance Theatre")11 World of Darkness10:009 Six American Families ("The George Family of New York City")11 Andros Targets11:002 Agbaba at Large (commentary with Steve Agbaba, who died in 1992)11 Scope News (Anne Hanley/Carol Silver)11:152 Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson (Guest host: Bob Newhart; guests: Don Rickles, Pat Boone, Alex Karras, and Dr, Wayne Duer)This MUST be the episode in which Don played around with Johnny's cigarette box and then broke it, with Johnny finding out the next night and then heading across the hall (with the destroyed box) to Rickles' "C.P.O Sharkey" studio -- where Jay Leno currently tapes; some lame infotainment show NBC produces now occupies Studio 1 -- to give Don a grilling he would never forget!!!11:3011 The CBS Late Movie Double Feature ("Kojak: Before the Devil Knows"; "The New Healers" would follow at 12:30)12:452 TomorrowI'm glad I wouldn't be born until September 25 in a better TV market (Anchorage) the following year, because with only three channels on the air then (and with cable coming in 1979) and network shows seen on a two-week delay until 1984, Fairbanks TV in the '70s really did suck...except if you happen to be a young teenager named Bill St. Pierre, who couldn't wait until 1992 and the backing of a hip young network to do something about it!Jonathan Allen

 

[Braves2005]

I see that the stations in Fairbanks didn't clear reruns of Chico And The Man on NBC. Also didn't the game show The Better Sex with Bill Anderson and Sarah Purcell begin airing around this time on ABC? If so,Fairbanks didn't clear that show either. Also I noticed that they didn't clear General Hospital,One Life To Live,All My Children,and Ryan's Hope.

 

[johnnya2k6]

I see that the stations in Fairbanks didn't clear reruns of Chico And The Man on NBC. Also didn't the game show The Better Sex with Bill Anderson and Sarah Purcell begin airing around this time on ABC? If so,Fairbanks didn't clear that show either. Also I noticed that they didn't clear General Hospital,One Life To Live,All My Children,and Ryan's Hope.

Right, much of ABC Daytime -- including the soaps and Better Sex -- didn't get any clearance at all, as Channels 2 and 11 both cherry-picked ABC shows in the '70s to mid-'80s. When Channel 2 got new owners, became a primary ABC affiliate, and changed the call letters to KATN in 1984, that's when we played catch-up.Oh yeah...after Edge of Night moved from CBS to ABC in 1975, all of Alaska didn't seem to care about it anymore."Days of Our Lives" was the only NBC soap they continued to run until 1996, when the current owners took over KATN and made them an all-ABC station with KTVF switching from CBS to NBC.Next schedule I'll be posting will be one from 1981, when "General Hospital" was the hottest soap on television thanks to the Luke & Laura saga...AND ALL OF FAIRBANKS MISSED OUT ON THE CRAZE!!!Jonathan Allen

 

[easttxtv]

Johnny, Lovers & Friends was a very short-lived NBC soap that was pulled, then returned months later as For Richer, For Poorer, and it didn't last any longer than the first incarnation. The same exec. producer of Another World was the EP of both L&F and FR,FP; they tried a couple of cheesy crossovers from AW to give the new show some boost but apparently it didn't work.As far as Deidre Hall on Days, she first appeared on the show in 1976.

 

[trusty]

11:152 Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson (Guest host: Bob Newhart; guests: Don Rickles, Pat Boone, Alex Karras, and Dr, Wayne Duer)This MUST be the episode in which Don played around with Johnny's cigarette box and then broke it, with Johnny finding out the next night and then heading across the hall (with the destroyed box) to Rickles' "C.P.O Sharkey" studio -- where Jay Leno currently tapes; some lame infotainment show NBC produces now occupies Studio 1 -- to give Don a grilling he would never forget!!!

I believe the show where the cigarette box was broken was one that Rickles guest-hosted. This one had Rickles as a guest.

 

[johnnya2k6]

11:152 Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson (Guest host: Bob Newhart; guests: Don Rickles, Pat Boone, Alex Karras, and Dr, Wayne Duer)This MUST be the episode in which Don played around with Johnny's cigarette box and then broke it, with Johnny finding out the next night and then heading across the hall (with the destroyed box) to Rickles' "C.P.O Sharkey" studio -- where Jay Leno currently tapes; some lame infotainment show NBC produces now occupies Studio 1 -- to give Don a grilling he would never forget!!!

I believe the show where the cigarette box was broken was one that Rickles guest-hosted. This one had Rickles as a guest.

No; I remember seeing a clip of it on one of the Dick Clark "Bloopers" shows, and it was Newhart guest hosting with Rickles destroying the cigarette box. The two went on Jay Leno last year to discuss it; this was the special Carson tribute show, BTW.But looking at the clip of Johnny heading to the C.P.O. Sharkey studio to confront Rickles...they should've had a hand-held camera follow along with him (the lightweight RCA TK-76 was fairly new at that time) instead of trying to lug that TK-44 across the hallway. Also, they could've shown Johnny the clip from the previous night instead of letting Doc Severinsen explain to him what happened.Jonathan Allen

 

[stdjsb25]

11:152 Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson (Guest host: Bob Newhart; guests: Don Rickles, Pat Boone, Alex Karras, and Dr, Wayne Duer)This MUST be the episode in which Don played around with Johnny's cigarette box and then broke it, with Johnny finding out the next night and then heading across the hall (with the destroyed box) to Rickles' "C.P.O Sharkey" studio -- where Jay Leno currently tapes; some lame infotainment show NBC produces now occupies Studio 1 -- to give Don a grilling he would never forget!!!

I believe the show where the cigarette box was broken was one that Rickles guest-hosted. This one had Rickles as a guest.

No; I remember seeing a clip of it on one of the Dick Clark "Bloopers" shows, and it was Newhart guest hosting with Rickles destroying the cigarette box. The two went on Jay Leno last year to discuss it; this was the special Carson tribute show, BTW.But looking at the clip of Johnny heading to the C.P.O. Sharkey studio to confront Rickles...they should've had a hand-held camera follow along with him (the lightweight RCA TK-76 was fairly new at that time) instead of trying to lug that TK-44 across the hallway. Also, they could've shown Johnny the clip from the previous night instead of letting Doc Severinsen explain to him what happened.Jonathan Allen

I'll confirm that one too......I've seen the clip myself....Newhart was hosting that night

 

[trusty]

OK. OK. No problem...So, what did Rickles break when HE guest-hosted??