A look at the first weekday after July 4th.
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 - Joey Heatherton co-hosts
5:30 Partridge Family
6:00 News
6:30 CBS News (Cronkite)
7:00 News
7:30 Name That Tune
8:00 Rhoda
8:30 Phyllis
9:00 All In The Family
9:30 Maude
10:00 Medical Center
11:00 News
11:30 Movie - "Notorious"
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 (game show)
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 (presumably the local Bowling For Dollars?)
7:30 Wild Kingdom
8:00 Viva Valdez (sounds like a sitcom)
8:30 Monday Night Baseball - Dodgers at Phillies
11:00 News
11:30 It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman - Musical adaptation of the Superman legend
1:30 Ironside
WJAC-6 Johnstown (NBC)
7:00 Today
9:00 Leave It To Beaver
9:30 Electric Company (yes, some small market stations carried PBS shows back then)
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 Focus on Women
1:30 Days of Our Lives
2:30 Doctors
3:00 Another World
4:00 Somerset
4:30 Superman
5:00 Dinah
6:00 News
6:30 NBC News (Chancellor/Brinkley)
7:00 Space:1999
8:00 Rich Little
9:00 Joe Forrester (crime drama)
10:00 Jigsaw John (crime drama)
11:00 News
11:30 Johnny Carson
(Last listing of the day; apprently WJAC didn't carry "Tomorrow")
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 - Joey Heatherton co-hosts
5:00 Gunsmoke
6:00 News
6:30 CBS News (Cronkite)
7:00 Billy Graham
8:00 Rhoda
8:30 Phyllis
9:00 All In The Family
9:30 Maude
10:00 Medical Center
11:00 News
11:30 Movie - "Notorious"
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 - "The West Point Story"
6:00 News
7:00 NBC News (Chancellor/Brinkley)
7:30 Let's Make a Deal
8:00 Billy Graham
9:00 Joe Forrester (crime drama)
10:00 Jigsaw John (crime drama)
11:00 News
11:30 Johnny Carson
1:00 Tomorrow
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 Zoom
7:30 Lowell Thomas Remembers
8:00 Beyond Sand Dunes
8:30 America, America, America
10:00 Natonal Governor's Conference
11:00 Robert MacNeil Report
11:30 World Press
WPGH-53 (Ind.)
7:00 Good Morning America (pre-empted by WTAE)
9:00 Life in the Spirit
9:30 New Day
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 Gomer Pyle
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 NFL Action '76
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 - Joey Heatherton co-hosts
5:30 Partridge Family
6:00 News
6:30 CBS News (Cronkite)
7:00 News
7:30 Name That Tune
8:00 Rhoda
8:30 Phyllis
9:00 All In The Family
9:30 Maude
10:00 Medical Center
11:00 News
11:30 Movie - "Notorious"
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 (game show)
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 (presumably the local Bowling For Dollars?)
7:30 Wild Kingdom
8:00 Viva Valdez (sounds like a sitcom)
8:30 Monday Night Baseball - Dodgers at Phillies
11:00 News
11:30 It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman - Musical adaptation of the Superman legend
1:30 Ironside
WJAC-6 Johnstown (NBC)
7:00 Today
9:00 Leave It To Beaver
9:30 Electric Company (yes, some small market stations carried PBS shows back then)
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 Focus on Women
1:30 Days of Our Lives
2:30 Doctors
3:00 Another World
4:00 Somerset
4:30 Superman
5:00 Dinah
6:00 News
6:30 NBC News (Chancellor/Brinkley)
7:00 Space:1999
8:00 Rich Little
9:00 Joe Forrester (crime drama)
10:00 Jigsaw John (crime drama)
11:00 News
11:30 Johnny Carson
(Last listing of the day; apprently WJAC didn't carry "Tomorrow")
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 - Joey Heatherton co-hosts
5:00 Gunsmoke
6:00 News
6:30 CBS News (Cronkite)
7:00 Billy Graham
8:00 Rhoda
8:30 Phyllis
9:00 All In The Family
9:30 Maude
10:00 Medical Center
11:00 News
11:30 Movie - "Notorious"
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 - "The West Point Story"
6:00 News
7:00 NBC News (Chancellor/Brinkley)
7:30 Let's Make a Deal
8:00 Billy Graham
9:00 Joe Forrester (crime drama)
10:00 Jigsaw John (crime drama)
11:00 News
11:30 Johnny Carson
1:00 Tomorrow
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 Zoom
7:30 Lowell Thomas Remembers
8:00 Beyond Sand Dunes
8:30 America, America, America
10:00 Natonal Governor's Conference
11:00 Robert MacNeil Report
11:30 World Press
WPGH-53 (Ind.)
7:00 Good Morning America (pre-empted by WTAE)
9:00 Life in the Spirit
9:30 New Day
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 Gomer Pyle
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 NFL Action '76