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Philadelphia UHF Independents (17-29-48), September 9-15, 1967

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K.M. Richards

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Philadelphia Independents
September 9-15, 1967
Source: TV Guide Fall Preview issue, Philadelphia edition

17/WPHL-TV
29/WIBF-TV
48/WKBS-TV

(If most of the movies on 17 and 29 seem totally unfamiliar, it is because they apparently ran mostly imported foreign films, even in prime-time.)

Saturday, September 9

8:00am
17 Saturday Serials
8:30
17 Foreign Legion
9:00
17 Casper (ABC, not cleared by WFIL-TV/6)
48 Agriculture Report
9:15
48 N.J. Roundup
9:30
17 Fury (Jim is unable to break a wild palomino)
48 TBA
9:45
29 Davey and Goliath (Davey begins to learn about responsibility)
10:00
17 Trails West
29 Sir Lancelot (Lancelot volunteers to defend an abbey and its occupants from invading Danes)
48 Movie: "Blast Off" (1954 - Rocky Jones makes a forced landing on a planetoid where he finds a strange primitive culture)
10:30
17 Tombstone Territory (After serving time for killing a man, Frank Leslie returns to Tombstone to marry his victim's widow)
29 Roy Rogers (A conniving woman lawyer tries to seize a ranch which is being used as a home for war orphans)
11:00
17 Tall Man (The ladies of the town decide to clean up the community, and as a fiest step they want the dance-hall hostess to leave town)
11:30
17 George of the Jungle (ABC, not cleared by WFIL-TV/6; debut telecast)
29 Whirlybirds (Chuck and P.T. receive a letter from a prospector asking them to fly him out of a mining town)
Noon
17 Men of Annapolis (The young son of a wealthy family is overly confident about his ability to win the Academy inter-battalion boxing championship)
29 Robin Hood (A lord plans to throw a group of Celts off their homeland)
48 Movie: "The Case of Mrs. Loring" (1958 - Mary Loring feels that the only way to save her marriage is to have a child)
12:30pm
17 West Point (Cadets are called on to aid in the rescue and evacuation of an area threatened by a flood)
29 My Hero (Bob's bank president friend is asked to retire because he is 65 years old; Bob decides to falsify the banker's birth certificate)
1:00
17 Movie: "The Bohemian Girl" (1936 - Gypsies Laurel & Hardy find the long-lost daughter of a count)
29 Yancy Derringer (Yancy goes after a band of graverobbers)
1:30
29 Movie: "Lifeboat" (1944 - When a German submarine sinks a freighter, the survivors gather on a crowded lifeboat)
48 Movie: "Dimples" (1936 - A little girl is devoted to her father, thought he is a broken-down actor and given to acts of petty larceny)
3:00
17 Wrestling (from Washington DC)
48 Movie: "Nero and the Burning of Rome" (1955 - Nero paves his way to power with a series of murders)
3:20
29 Movie: "Force of Evil" (1949 - Numbers racketeers take part in a gang war)
4:30
17 Horse Race (Two-year-old fillies run 6 furlongs in the Matron, from Aqueduct)
5:00
17 Ed Hurst
29 Movie: "The Atomic Kid" (1954 - Two uranium prospectors in the Nevada desert are ignorant of the fact that an atomic bomb is to be detonated in their vicinity)
48 Wrestling (from Philadelphia)
6:00
48 Superman (Superman helps an Indian leader)
6:30
17 Gilligan's Island (After the shipwreck, Gilligan and the Skipper set sail on a makeshift raft in hopes of finding help)
29 Sergeant Bilko (Bilko tells his platoon that Doberman's sister is a raring tearing beauty and ends up believing it himself)
48 Hy Lit Dance Party
7:00
17 Village Square
29 ABC Scope (An interview with ABC's David Schoenbrun, who has just returned from Hanoi; not cleared by WPVI-TV/6)
7:30
17 Secret Agent (A member of a British spy ring operating in Europe has betrayed the leader)
29 TBA
48 Munsters (Herman sings into a tape recorder Eddie borrowed from a disc jockey, who hears -- and digs -- Herman's "sound" when the machine is returned)
8:00
48 Movie: "London Town" (1946 - A small-town comedian sets out on the path to stardom)
8:30
17 Mike Hammer (A psychiatrist finds out that a woman patient is being blackmailed and asks Mike to find the culprit)
29 Movie: "Doctor at Sea" (1955 - A doctor signs on a ship run by a gruff captain and is soon involved in a series of amusing situations)
9:00
17 Spartan Preview
9:10
17 Pro Soccer (Spartans vs. Stars, from St. Louis; Al Meltzer and Hal Freeman report the action)
10:00
29 Compass
48 Defenders
10:30
29 Movie: "The Shocking Miss Pilgrim" (1947 - During 1874, a girl fights for women's rights in Boston)
11:00
17 Bullfights
48 Alan Burke (Humorist Joey Adams is the guest)


Sunday, September 10

7:45am
17 Davey and Goliath
8:00
17 Cathedral of Tomorrow
29 Rev. McKinley Williams
8:30
29 Bert Hare
9:00
17 Revival Hour
29 Big Picture (the ubiquitous Army program)
48 Kimba (Boss Rhino tries to take over Volcano Island)
9:30
17 Mr. Piper (children's program)
29 Milton the Monster (ABC, not cleared by WPVI-TV/6)
48 Gigantor (Jimmy and Gigantor search for stolen trucks)
10:00
17 Coronado 9 (A personnel director's gambling losses get him into trouble with a crime syndicate)
29 Robin Hood
48 Hy Lit Dance Party (Guests: The Tokens, Robert Knight, Stevie Wonder, Peggy March and the Purify Brothers)
10:30
17 Harbor Command (Capt. Baxter tries to warn Ma Sperling about taking suspicious characters into her Harbor Mission)
29 Peter Potamus
11:00
17 Highway Patrol (Mathews is stricken with an unknown illness)
29 Bullwinkle (ABC, not cleared by WPVI-TV/6)
48 Al Alberts (Former lead singer with the Four Aces hosts a weekly showcase for young local perfomers; debut telecast)
11:30
17 Discovery '67 (A visit to Moscow to find out what life is like for American youngsters, the children of U.S. diplomats, living in the Soviet capital; ABC, not cleared by WPVI-TV/6)
29 Movie: "Johnny Apollo" (1940)
Noon
17 Seaway (Alcoholic night-club entertainer Roger Dean tries to protect his old drinking buddy)
48 Movie: "Port of Hell" (1955 - A Los Angeles port warden discovers that a freighter docked in the harbor is carrying an atomic bomb)
1:00pm
17 Wyatt Earp (An outlaw uses a visiting Britisher as the target for a swindle racket)
29 Californians (Matt Wayne discovers Samantha Jackson after her wagon train has been plundered by the Bandanna Gang)
1:30
17 Bat Masterson
29 Issues and Answers (Secretary of State Dean Rusk is interviewed in Washington and is expected to discuss last week's elections in South Vietnam; ABC, not cleared by WPVI-TV/6)
48 Hazel (Now that Barbara has Hazel doing all the household chores, she feels utterly useless)
2:00
17 Movie: "Badmen of Tombstone" (1948 - A band of outlaws stop at nothing from robbery to murder)
29 Conversation with William Fox
48 Movie: "Gentlemen Marry Brunettes" (1955 - Two sisters arrive in Paris where they have been promised a job)
2:30
29 Movie: "Colonel Effingham's Raid" (1945 - A retired Army officer decides to reform his home town)
3:30
17 Wells Fargo (A fellow Fargo agent offers Hardie a large reward for outlaw Sam Horne, preferably dead)
4:00
17 Quick Draw McGraw
29 Movie: "Westward Ho" (1935 - Separated as children in an outlaw raid, John and Jim Wyatt meet years later)
48 Wagon Train (Singer Sandra Cummings objects to Cooper's attentions toward her daughter)
4:30
17 Upbeat (Guests include the 5th Dimension, Stevie Wonder, Joe Tex, the New Yorkers, Tim Wilde and the Chartbusters)
29 Christian Cinema
5:30
48 Flintstones (two episodes ... Fred is jealous when Wilma runs into rodeo star Bony Hurdle, an old boy friend; Fred will inherit his rich uncle's estate if he can spend one night in the spooky mansion)
6:00
17 Bowling Championship
29 Stryker (Diamond Annie, who runs a secondhand junk shop, is actually the leader of a gang of thieves)
6:30
29 Mr. Lucky (Lucky is told that the money he won gambling with a scar-faced man was stolen from a race track)
48 McHale's Navy (McHale's crew is feuding with the men who have muscled in on their bootlegging business)
7:00
29 Naked City (Three jewel thieves murder a museum night watchman)
48 Perry Mason (A letter names Myrna Davenport as a murderer)
7:30
17 Movie: "The Blue Continent" (1962 - Account of an underwater expedition in the Red Sea, edited from 10,000 hours of film footage)
8:00
29 Movie: "Lillian Russell" (1940 - At the turn of the century, singer Lillian Russell encounters the famed Diamond Jim Brady)
48 Roller Derby
9:30
17 Secret Agent (Drake goes to Jamaica to find a traitor in the British espionage network)
10:00
48 Evelyn Wood Speed Reading
10:15
48 Joe Pyne (Guests include John Quattrone, director of a computer match-making organization; Lawrence G. Kersta, inventor of the "voiceprint" method of identification; and the W.C. Fields Memorial Electric Marching Band)
10:25
29 Movie: "Missing Secretary" (1950 - A British detective searches for a missing millionaire)
10:30
17 M Squad (A gangster's getaway car crashes into another auto, killing a man and his young son)
11:00
17 Movie: "Trio" (1950 - Adaptation of three W. Somerset Maugham short stories, "The Verger", "Mr. Knowall" and "Sanatorium")


Weekdays September 11-15

9:30am
17 At Your Service
10:00
17 Jack LaLanne
10:30
17 Lock Up
48 Mickey Mouse Club
11:00
17 Fugitive
48 Romper Room
11:55
29 News
Noon
17 Jeopardy (NBC, not cleared by KYW-TV/3)
29 Everybody's Talking
48 Dickory Doc
12:30pm
29 Donna Reed
1:00
17 I Led Three Lives
29 Movie (see below; a second movie immediately follows)
48 Dialing For Dollars
1:30
17 Let's Make A Deal (NBC, not cleared by KYW-TV/3)
48 Movie (see below)
1:55
17 News - Nancy Dickerson (NBC, not cleared by KYW-TV/3)
2:00
17 Movie (see below)
3:30
48 Kimba
4:00
17 Astro Boy
29 Adventures in Paradise
48 Winchell-Mahoney Time
4:30
17 Cartoons
5:00
17 Prince Planet
29 Timmy and Lassie
48 Dobie Gillis
5:30
17 Johnny Cypher
29 Fireball XL-5
48 Little Rascals
6:00
17 Ultraman
29 Broken Arrow
48 Superman
6:30
17 Gilligan's Island
29 F Troop
48 Flintstones
7:00
17 Addams Family
29 Monday: Green Hornet
Tuesday-Friday: Time Tunnel (aired as two sets of half-hour episodes)
48 McHale's Navy
7:30
17 Patty Duke
29 Sergeant Bilko
Wednesday: Game of the Week (highlights of 1966 AFL-NFL championship game)
48 Truth or Consequences
8:00
17 Movie (see below)
29 Movie (see below)
Friday: Rogues
48 Hazel
8:30
48 Woody Woodbury
9:00
29 Friday: Honeymooners (two episodes)
9:45
17 Horse Racing from Atlantic City
10:00
17 Dr. Kildare
29 12 O'Clock High
Friday: NFL This Week
48 Perry Mason
11:00
17 One Step Beyond
29 Untouchables
48 77 Sunset Strip
11:30
17 Movie (see below)


Monday, September 11 Movies

1:00pm
29 "Hell's Half Acre" (1954 - The last line of a song sends a woman to Honolulu in search of her husband)
1:30
48 "We've Never Been Licked" (1943 - After Pearl Harbor, an American college student incurs the disfavor of his fellow students when he remains friends with two Japanese buddies)
2:00
17 "I Am a Criminal" (1938 - A big-time gambler adopts a youngster in the hope that this will make him look good in the eyes of the law)
2:40
29 "I Cover the Waterfront" (1955 - A divinity student impersonates his racketeer brother)
8:00
17 "The Tailor's Maid" (1958 - Handsome tailor Vincenzo Corallo spends more time than he ought in pursuit of women)
29 "The Lady Killers" (1955 - A gang of thieves hides out in the house of a pleasant old lady)
11:30
17 "Defiant Daughters" (1961 - A young woman working at a girls' reform school determines to save a 16-year-old)


Tuesday, September 12 Movies

1:00pm
29 "Make Haste to Live" (1953 - A gangster, recently released from prison after serving an 18-year term, sets out for vengeance)
1:30
48 "The Dark Mirror" (1946 - A girl is seen leaving a man's apartment on the night of his murder)
2:00
17 "Louisiana" (1947 - Jimmie Davis, a hilbilly singer, becomes governor of Louisiana)
2:35
29 "The Man Is Armed" (1957 - A young man is tricked into taking part in a holdup involving a half-million dollars)
8:00
17 "Pacific Destiny" (1956 - The personal experiences of Sir Arthur Grimble, as a young Colonial Officer in the Pacific islands)
29 "In Old Chicago" (1938 - Story of the fighting O'Leary family including the two brothers who love the same girl)
11:30
17 "The Man From Yesterday" (1949 - A young man becomes involved in intrigue in India)


Wednesday, September 13 Movies

1:00pm
29 "I've Always Loved You" (1946 - A talented girl studies tirelessly under her master's direction)
1:30
48 "The Thief" (1952 - An American scientist obtains secret microfilmed records)
2:00
17 "Wicked Wife" (1955 - A man quarrels with his wife when she returns from a store in Liverpool)
3:00
29 "Cross Channel" (1955 - A boat owner becomes involved with a gang of smugglers)
8:00
17 "The Winslow Boy" (1949 - An elegant attorney assumes the case of a 13-year-old boy expelled from naval college)
29 "My Sister Eileen" (1942 - Two stagestruck sisters come to New York and settle down in a weird basement-apartment)
11:30
17 "Port of Escape" (1956 - An American war veteran in Australia suffers from amnesia)


Thursday, September 14 Movies

1:00pm
29 "Trouble in the Glen" (1954 - A Scot returns home from South America to become Laird of the Glen)
1:30
48 "A Letter to Three Wives" (1949 - A hated rival sends a cryptic note to three wives telling them she has run off with one of their husbands)
2:00
17 "Wife Wanted" (1946 - Murder and blackmail are the off-shoots of a lonely hearts racket)
2:35
29 "Terror at Midnight" (1956 - A police detective's girl friend becomes a prime suspect in two killings)
8:00
17 "Made For Each Other" (1939 - A young wife struggles against great difficulties to save her new-born baby and make her husband amount to something)
29 "Dead Reckoning" (1947 - Two paratroopers are en route to Washington to receive war medals; one disappears and his buddy, searching for him, encounters a sordid story of a beautiful woman and murder)
11:30
17 "The Gallant Musketeer" (1960 - In 1588, the Chevalier de Pardillian comes to the aid of King Henry III)


Friday, September 15 Movies

1:00pm
29 "The Sun Shines Bright" (1953 - In post-Civil War Kentucky, a Yankee attorney tries to oust a judge from his position)
1:30
48 "Captain Sirocco" (1949 - A nobleman attempts to lead the people of Naples in a revolt against Bourbon rule)
2:00
17 "Intermezzo" (1939 - Though married, a famed concert violinist finds himself falling in love with a young pianist)
2:35
29 "Track the Man Down" (1956 - A man will stop at nothing to get himself and his stolen money out of the country)
8:00
17 "The Great Deception" (1961 - A young woman, raised as a boy so that her father could inherit a fortune, becomes a soldier for the Hussars)
11:30
17 "The Phantom of the Red House" (1959 - A man, supposedly dead, tries to find out which of his feuding heirs really loved him)
 
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Philadelphia Independents
September 7-13, 1974
Source: TV Guide Fall Preview issue, Philadelphia edition

17/WPHL-TV
29/WTAF-TV
48/WKBS-TV

Found another Philadelphia issue from seven years later, for comparison purposes. Channel 29 had changed hands by then and there were lots fewer bad foreign films ... mostly only on channel 17.

Saturday, September 7

7:25am
29 Black History
7:30
29 Gospel Singing Jubilee
8:30
29 Blue Ridge Quartet
9:00
17 Bulletin Board
29 Harry Bristow
9:30
17 Viewpoint on Nutrition
48 Movie: "Sky Giant" (1938 - An Army flying school provides the background for a tale of conflicts among two men, one girl and the sky)
10:00
17 Movie: "Las Leandras"
29 Muhammad's Temple
10:30
29 New Life Time
11:00
29 Jack Walter's Polka Time
48 Roller Game
11:30
29 Celebrity Bowling
Noon
17 Ultraman
29 Porter Wagoner
48 Outer Limits (An optics expert designs eyeglasses that enable him to see two-dimensional creatures)
12:30pm
17 Movie: "Fighting Trouble" (1957 - Bowery Boys try to photograph a tough gangster)
29 Canadian Football Highlights
1:00
29 Bowling
48 Movie: "Bringing Up Baby" (1948 - Howard Hawks' delightfully mad tale about an heiress, an anthropologist, a dinosaur skeleton and a tame leopard named Baby)
2:00
17 Baseball Pre-Game Show
29 Wrestling
2:10
17 Baseball: Phillies @ Chicago Cubs
3:00
29 Georgie Woods
48 Movie: "Devotion" (1946 - The turbulent lives of the Bronte sisters)
4:00
29 NFL Action '74
4:30
17 Andy Griffith (Tempers flare when Barney re-opens a long-forgotten assault case)
29 R.J. and Company
5:00
17 Wrestling
29 Here Come the Brides (Candy's visiting grandad, a tired and ill man, comes to the Northwest on a seemingly hopeless quest for gold)
48 Soul Train (Johnny Taylor, Syreeta and the Joneses are the guests)
6:00
17 Hee Haw (Hugh Hefner and Lester Flatt are the guests)
29 Ghost and Mrs. Muir (The dispirited ghost of the Captain's unable-bodied seaman makes an appearance)
48 Star Trek (The crew intrudes on a private enterprise inhabited by a man of extraordinary accomplishments and his ward, who is unacquainted with human emotions)
6:30
29 Nanny and the Professor (Nanny's roguish Uncle Horace arrives in town and finds himself in great demand as a rainmaker)
7:00
17 Bonanza (The Cartwright brothers wheel and deal in a bumbling effort to come out ahead in the Virginia City Sweepstakes)
29 Dragnet (The police go after a college student who has turned to murder)
48 Wild Wild West (West fights to protect a Croatian king against a sinister medicine man who commands a pack of bloodthirsty wolves)
7:30
29 N.Y.P.D. (The detectives are the alibi of a man who stole his wife's diamond pendant)
8:00
17 Oral Roberts at Expo '74 (special)
29 Rat Patrol (A young POW complicates the Patrol's attempt to destroy a German ammo dump)
48 The King is Coming
8:30
29 That Good Ole Nashville Music (Porter Wagoner, Dolly Parton and Johnny Duncan are the guests)
48 Untamed World (How the Pacific Ocean influences the wildlife and vegetation of British Columbia)
9:00
17 Movie: "To Die in Paris" (1968 - During World War II, a French underground leader is hunted by a compatriot assassin)
29 Wilburn Brothers (Johnny Paycheck, Barbara Mandrell and Rusty Adams are the guests)
48 Cortez and Montezuma (Documentary recreating the incredible victory of Cortez over the Aztecs)
9:30
29 Country Carnival (Guest: Ronnie Prophet)
10:00
29 Porter Wagoner (Jim and Jesse are the guests)
48 Jack the Ripper (Is Jack a member of the royal family?)
10:30
29 Country Place (Guest: Faron Young)
11:00
17 Alfred Hitchcock (A tour of Italy takes a strange twist for one member who is spirited off to places tourists never see)
29 One Hour For Christ
48 Movie: "Terror by Night" (1946 - Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson investigate murder and jewel thievery aboard a train)
11:30
17 Movie: "The Invisible Man's Revenge" (1944 - A relative tries the vanishing act himself when he thinks he's been swindled)
Midnight
29 Wrestling
1:00am
17 Charlie Chan
1:30
17 Bulletin Board


Sunday, September 8

6:30am
17 Bulletin Board
7:00
17 Old-Time Gospel Hour
29 One Hour For Christ
8:00
17 Day of Discovery
29 Streams of Faith
8:30
17 Oral Roberts
29 Dayof Miracles
48 Kathryn Kuhlman
9:00
17 Hour of Power
29 Rev. McKinley Williams
48 Big Blue Marble
9:30
29 Frank Ventresca
48 Underdog
10:00
17 Kathryn Kuhlman
48 Banana Splits
10:30
17 Rex Humbard
29 It Is Written
11:00
29 UFO (A love triangle leads to the murder of an alien)
48 Little Rascals
11:30
17 Sea Hunt (Mike investigates a drowning)
48 Movie: "Captain January" (1936 - Sentimental tale of a waif adopted by an old lighthouse keeper)
Noon
17 12 O'Clock High (Lt. Kemp whips up a plan to get himself safely out of the war ... convincing General Savage's crew that Savage is unfit to command)
29 Bowling
1:00pm
17 Fugitive (Jailed for a traffic violation, Kimble escapes and teams with a friendless and insecure loner)
29 Daktari (The staff searches for Clarence the lion, whose rare blood-type is needed to save a cub)
48 Movie: "Best Foot Forward" (1943 - Military school shenanigans when a plebe asks a Hollywood glamour queen to the prom)
2:00
17 Baseball Pre-Game Show
29 Movie: "Young Man with a Horn" (1950 - Drama based on the life of jazz giant Bix Beiderbecke)
2:10
17 Baseball: Phillies @ Chicago Cubs
3:00
48 Movie: "The Inspector General" (1948 - Danny Kaye as a simpleton who is mistaken for a law enforcer in a mythical kingdom)
4:00
29 Movie: "Twenty Brave Men" (1962 - During World War II, an old couple in the Greek mountains shows hospitality to soldiers from both sides)
4:30
17 Andy Griffith (Opie's newspaper sales pick up when he adds a gossip column)
5:00
17 Movie: "Monkey on My Back" (1957 - Story of war hero and boxing champion Barney Ross and his fight against drugs)
48 Roller Game
5:45
29 Film
6:00
29 Bewitched (Endora gives Darrin a statue that causes anyone near it to be honest)
48 Beverly Hillbillies (Superstitious Granny dabbles in astrology)
6:30
29 I Dream of Jeannie (Mrs. Bellows accidentally walks off with the magic bottle, with Jeannie trapped inside)
48 Beverly Hillbillies (The Clampetts' housekeeper insists on much sleep and little work)
7:00
17 Love, American Style (Jerry Van Dyke and Ross Martin in a comedy about a very friendly model)
29 Movie: "Sons and Lovers" (1960 - D.H. Lawrence's novel about a sensitive youth coming of age in a 1910 English mining town)
48 Family Classics (Animated version of "Alice in Wonderland")
7:30
17 Love, American Style (A tale of a pestered fortune hunter; a surfeit of beauties plagues the son of a potentate)
48 Movie: "Smoky" (1946 - Story of the capture and training of a wild stallion)
8:00
17 Washington Debates for the '70s (Controlling inflation is discussed by economists Robert Gordond and Milton Friedman)
9:00
17 Movie: "Charlie Bubbles" (1968 - A writer searches for an antidote for wealth and boredom)
48 Oral Roberts at Expo '74 (special)
9:30
29 Saint (Simon tries an ingenious power play after a South American dictator falls under a corrupt Englishman's influence)
10:00
48 Norman Vincent Peale
10:30
29 It Is Written (The consequence of guilt entering into a relationship between two people)
48 Lou Gordon (How overweight people are viewed by themselves and by society)
11:00
17 Garner Ted Armstrong
29 Harry Bristow
11:30
17 World of Survival
Midnight
17 Movie: "Mayor of Hell" (1933 - James Cagney as a crooked political appointee who reforms and exposes corrupt conditions in a boys' reformatory)
29 Black History
2:00
17 Bulletin Board


Weekdays September 9-13

10:25am
29 News
10:30
29 Newsprobe
10:45
48 Delaware Valley Today
11:00
29 Divorce Court
11:30
29 Not For Women Only
48 New Zoo Revue
11:55
17 News
Noon
17 Bulletin Board
29 Peyton Place
48 Banana Splits
12:30pm
17 Romper Room
29 Jack Benny
48 Lucy Show
1:00
17 Gomer Pyle, USMC
29 Phil Donahue
48 Movie (see below)
1:30
17 Patty Duke
2:00
17 Ozzie and Harriet
29 Father Knows Best
2:30
17 Sea Hunt
29 Top Cat
3:00
17 One Step Beyond
29 Super Heroes
48 Huck & Yogi
3:30
17 Alfred Hitchcock
29 Three Stooges
48 Banana Splits
4:00
17 Movie (see below)
29 Batman
48 Little Rascals
4:30
29 Three Stooges
48 Flintstones
5:00
29 Bewitched
5:30
29 Courtship of Eddie's Father
48 Gilligan's Island
6:00
17 Andy Griffith
29 Partridge Family
48 Star Trek
6:30
17 Untouchables
29 Room 222
7:00
29 FBI
48 Mission: Impossible
7:30
17 Love, American Style
8:00
17 Monday, Tuesday: Love, American Style
Wednesday-Friday: Of Lands and Seas (travelogue)
29 Monday, Wednesday: Pro Lacrosse (Wings @ Maryland Arrows)
Tuesday: Boxing from the Olympic
Thursday, Friday: Movie (see below)
48 Dealer's Choice
8:20
17 Monday, Tuesday: Baseball Pre-Game Show
8:30
17 Monday, Tuesday: Baseball (Phillies @ St. Louis Cardinals)
48 Merv Griffin
9:00
17 Wednesday, Thursday, Friday: Movie (see below)
29 Tuesday: Coach Wayne Hardin Show
10:00
29 Tuesday, Thursday, Friday : Saint
48 Perry Mason
11:00
17 Alfred Hitchcock
29 Thriller
48 Best of Groucho
11:30
17 Movie (see below)
48 Movie (see below)
Midnight
29 Tuesday: Astro Disc
Friday: Celebrity Bowling
12:30am
29 Friday: Bowling
1:15am
17 Bulletin Board


Monday, September 9 Movies

1:00pm
48 "Deep Valley" (1947 - A shy mountain girl shelters an escaped convict)
4:00
17 "In the Good Old Summertime" (1949 - Feuding Chicago clerks circa 1900 unknowingly court each other by mail)
11:30
17 "For the Taste of Killing" (1966 - A bounty hunter engineers unique robberies)
48 "Suspicion" (1941 - Hitchcock tale of a shy wife who suspects her husband is going to kill her)


Tuesday, September 10 Movies

1:00pm
48 "The Great Waltz" (1938 - Lush, romantic account of Waltz King Johann Strauss' early life)
4:00
17 "The Bachelor Party" (1957 - A married bookkeeper reluctantly joins a party his friends are throwing for a prospective groom)
11:30
17 "Stars Over Broadway" (1935 - A press agent helps a singer win fame as a crooner and then loses him to grand opera)
48 "Mr. Lucky" (1943 - Opportunistic gambler turns his talents to a war-relief agency and a society girl)


Wednesday, September 13 Movies

1:00pm
48 "Flight for Freedom" (1943 - Fictional experiences of an American aviatrix)
4:00
17 "The Actress" (1953 - Life in a New England town circa 1910)
9:00
17 "Let's Kill Uncle" (1968 - Two children engage in a deadly cat-and-mouse game with a fortune-hunting uncle)
11:30
17 "Topper Takes a Trip" (1939 - Topper tries to prevent his wife from divorcing him, helped and hindered by the ghostly Marian Kerby)
48 "Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House" (1948 - A New Yorker's problems in building a house in Connecticut)


Thursday, September 14 Movies

1:00pm
48 "Three Strangers" (1946 - Two men and a woman form a strange partnership on the Chinese New Year)
4:00
17 "Thunder Road" (1958 - A moonshiner feels the squeeze from Federal men and racketeers who want to muscle in)
8:00
29 "Erik the Viking" (1965 - Viking explorers find danger and romance amid the Indians of North America)
9:00
17 "Colossus: The Forbin Project" (1970 - Battle of wits between man and machine)
11:30
17 "Captain Kidd and the Slave Girl" (1954 - The pirate is saved from the gallows by a rascally earl so that hidden treasure may be located)
48 "The Toast of New York" (1937 - Colorful story of a daring Wall Street financier of the 1880s)


Friday, September 15 Movies

1:00pm
48 "Flamingo Road" (1949 - A carnival girl's rise to prominence in a politically corrupt town)
4:00
17 "It's Always Fair Weather" (1955 - Three service buddies have a reunion and find it's not what they expected)
8:00
29 "Jim Thorpe - All American" (1951 - The Indian athlete combats prejudice and his own temptations)
9:00
17 "The Other Man" (1970 - A neglected wife is drawn into an affair that leads to murder)
11:30
17 "The Curse of Nostradamus" (1962 - The vampire threatens to destroy 13 lives unless a professor helps him establish a vampire cult)
48 "Destination Tokyo" (1943 - World War II saga about a submarine crew's mission to mine Tokyo Bay)
 
Some of the movies listed are pretty well known and well regarded - at least they were when they came out. However, the bulk of the schedules looks like old black and white TV shows, for which the syndication market had dried up since network affiliates went to full time color (and avoided black and white)

Sub-channels are the new UHF. These schedules do look a lot like what is running on sub-channels today. What's missing today is all the local content that was an important part of independent TV: Kids' shows. Movie hosts. Talent shows. Bowling shows. Cooking shows.
 
However, the bulk of the schedules looks like old black and white TV shows, for which the syndication market had dried up since network affiliates went to full time color (and avoided black and white)

I wouldn't say it had necessarily "dried up" ... In 1967, TV Guide's format still made a distinction for color programs, and the syndicated (non first-run, excluding animation) programs for the Philly indies that were in color were:
29: F Troop, Green Hornet, Time Tunnel, 12 O'Clock High
48: Superman, Hazel, Wagon Train
17's only colorcasts, other than a few movies, were the network shows they cleared and some sports programming.

In addition, the only color movies were "London Town", "The Blue Continent", "Pacific Destiny" and "The Gallant Musketeer".

The network-affiliated Vs still had some pockets of black-and-white, though. 6 still had The Detectives, Combat and The Rifleman on the schedule, and 10 was still running Sea Hunt ... but there was very little non-network programming on either or on channel 3, so it's more likely that a large amount of available syndication was non-color and it only becomes obvious because the Us were far more dependent on it. Bottom line: Not enough syndicated programming airing at all at that time for you to be able to draw the conclusion that you did.

Fast forward to 1973: None of the three VHF network affiliates were running any off-network reruns. While the majority of the reruns on the three independent UHF stations were in color, it was a bare majority, with B&Ws Alfred Hitchcock, Charlie Chan, Sea Hunt, Fugitive, Andy Griffith, Patty Duke, Ozzie and Harriet, One Step Beyond, and Untouchables (on 17), Jack Benny and Father Knows Best (on 29) and Outer Limits (on 48) still airing in Philly. I'd call it more a case where there the earliest of the color off-network product was available and the three Us had full choice because the Vs had passed on it all, so they chose a mix of color and black-and-white shows.

Your conclusion about the network affiliates is completely disproven, therefore, since in 1973 they certainly had access to the color reruns and passed on them entirely.
 
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Sub-channels are the new UHF. These schedules do look a lot like what is running on sub-channels today. What's missing today is all the local content that was an important part of independent TV: Kids' shows. Movie hosts. Talent shows. Bowling shows. Cooking shows.

I wonder how many markets had local bowling shows. I remember being able to watch shows on Boston, Providence and Worcester channels while living in suburban Boston, then catching "Syracuse Bowls" on Sundays while in college. Little Rock, where my first job was, had no local show, but I moved here (Connecticut) in 1981 and sure enough, there was a local bowling show (duckpins) on Channel 20. All these shows are long gone. The Boston show was still doing big ratings when canceled, but youth-obsessed advertisers had deserted it. Are there any local bowling shows left on OTA television?
 
K.M., this Delaware Valley born and bred poster thanks you for posting these listings. I had just turned six yo and by coincidence, that listing was around the time my parents (we lived in Chester, PA) bought our first color TV (a Zenith, which was also our first TV with UHF reception capability [replacing our B&W VHF-only GE]), which is how I found out that Philly had a ch. 17, 29, and 48 to go with 3, 6, and 10 (plus 12 [NET] in Wilmington). Thanks again.

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