TV Guide, Arkansas edition--Don Rickles, cover
Little Rock, Arkansas:
(2) KETS (PBS)--now on digital 7 (PSIP 2)*
(4) KARK (NBC)--now on digital 32 (PSIP 4)
(7) KATV (ABC)--now on digital 44 (PSIP 7)
(11) KTHV (CBS)--now on digital 12 (PSIP 11)
Monroe, Louisiana:
(8) KNOE (CBS; ABC secondary)--now on digital 8 (PSIP same)
Shreveport, Louisiana:
(3) KTBS (ABC)--now on digital 28 (PSIP 3)
(12) KSLA (CBS)--now on digital 17 (PSIP 12)
Shreveport, Louisiana/Texarkana, Texas:
(6) KTAL (NBC)--now on digital 15 (no PSIP)
El Dorado, Arkansas/Monroe, Louisiana:
(10) KTVE (NBC; ABC secondary)--now on digital 27 (PSIP 10)
*--translator of the Arkansas Educational Television Network. Did not broadcast in color.
MORNING
5:55
(8) Pastor's Study--local religious devotional
6:00
(8) Good Morning Ark-La-Miss--local; "Ark-La-Miss" was media term for states of Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi, of course
6:20
(12) Sunrise Semester--"Latin-American Literature"
6:30
(6) Texarkana College--telecourse from community college
(11) Sunrise Semester--same as KSLA at 6:20 a.m.
6:45
(4) RFD--local farm show; Bob Buice, host
(6) RFD "6"--likewise
6:50
(12) Your Pastor--local religious devotional
6:55
(3) (4) (10) Devotional--all local and separately produced; TV Guide lumped them together in the listing
7:00
(3) Ark-La-Tex Sportsman--local hunting and fishing show; "Ark-La-Tex" was short for Arkansas-Louisiana-Texas
(4) (6) (10) Today Show--Frank McGee, Barbara Walters, Edwin Newman
(7) Country Music Time--unsure if local or a 1950s/1960s filmed show with Nashville stars
(8) (11) (12) CBS Morning News--John Hart
7:25
(11) Arkansas A.M.
7:30
(3) Cartoon Funtime--probably a local kids' show that was on its last legs (likely moved from the afternoons some time earlier)
(7) Bozo's Big Top
7:45
(2) in-school programming until 3:45 p.m.
8:00
(7) New Zoo Revue--well-beloved live-action syndicated kiddie show that featured life-sized puppets teaching moral lessons
(8) (11) (12) Captain Kangaroo--today's topic: bread making
8:15
(3) Movie--"Chain Lightning," 1950
8:30
(7) This Morning--local variety show; probably country-music-oriented
9:00
(4) Hazel--sitcom rerun
(6) (10) Dinah's Place--stuttering was discussed on this episode
(7) Movie--"Scarlet Angel," 1952
(8) (11) Lucy Show--CBS rerun; listed as "Lucille Ball"
(12) Sesame Street--another commercial station running the PBS program; the market did not get public TV until 1978 (from a translator of Louisiana Public Broadcasting)
9:30
(4) (6) (10) Concentration
(8) (11) My Three Sons--CBS rerun
9:50
(3) Lucille Rivers--syndicated sewing show for women
10:00
(3) Split Second--tape-delayed from ABC
(4) (6) (10) Sale of the Century--original version; hosted by Joe Garagiola
(8) (11) (12) Family Affair--CBS rerun
10:30
(3) (7) Bewitched--ABC rerun
(4) (6) (10) Hollywood Squares
(8) (11) (12) Love of Life
11:00
(3) (7) Password--"The password is ..."
(4) (6) (10) Jeopardy!
(8) (11) (12) Where the Heart Is--soap
11:25
(8) KNOE News
(11) (12) CBS News--Douglas Edwards
11:30
(3) KTBS News
(4) (6) (10) Who, What or Where Game
(7) Split Second
(8) (11) (12) Search for Tomorrow
11:55
(4) (6) (10) NBC News--Floyd Kalber
AFTERNOON
12:00
(3) (7) All My Children
(4) Little Rock Today--local features/variety show
(6) KTAL News
(8) KNOE News
(10) Phil Donahue (60-minute version; one of his first appearances in a Deep South market)
(11) Eye on Arkansas--news/features; the "eye" referred to the KTHV's CBS affiliation
(12) KSLA News
12:05
(8) Lucille Rivers
12:15
(8) Open House--women's show, hosted by Mildred Swift
12:30
(3) (7) Let's Make a Deal--"and, behind curtain number one, you have ... a pogo stick!"
(6) Three on a Match
(8) (11) (12) As the World Turns
12:50
(4) Lucille Rivers
1:00
(3) (7) Newlywed Game--"in a moment, we'll find out what the husbands have to say."
(4) (6) (10) Days of Our Lives
(8) (11) (12) Love is a Many Splendored Thing
1:30
(3) (7) Dating Game
(4) (6) (10) Doctors--Mel Brandt's memorable intro: "the Emmy-Award-winning program dedicated to the brotherhood ... of healing"
(8) (11) (12) Guiding Light
2:00
(3) (7) General Hospital
(4) (6) (10) Another World
(8) (11) (12) Secret Storm
2:30
(3) (7) One Life to Live--a/k/a "One Wife to Leave"--!!!
(4) (6) (10) Return to Peyton Place--launched a month earlier; this revival of the famed 1960s prime-time soap never brought back the old viewers and didn't attract new ones; ran until January 1974
(8) (11) (12) Edge of Night--about half the time, it seemed, a murder trial took place on this serial
3:00
(3) (7) Love, American Style--ABC rerun
(4) Mike Douglas (60-minute version)
(6) (10) Somerset
(8) (11) (12) Amateur's Guide to Love--CBS dipped its toe into the pool of game shows with this Gene Rayburn-hosted, Heatter-Quigley-packaged entry after a four-year absence from the field
3:30
(3) Movie--"The Hideous Sun Demon," 1955
(6) Munsters--this episode apparently had Herman cheating on Lily
(7) Bozo--back for an afternoon session of the circus
(8) (11) (12) Virginian--same episode on KTHV and KSLA, strangely enough (and, coincidentally, all three stations were CBS affils)
(10) Movie--"Jane Eyre," 1944
4:00
(2) Sesame Street
(4) Flipper--rerun
(6) Big Valley--this Western was seen in reruns throughout the 1970s, unusual for a show that lasted only four years on ABC in the 1960s
4:30
(4) Daniel Boone--episode description: "A white woman, captured by Indians and presumed dead, returns home with her half-breed son"
(7) To Tell the Truth
**All network evening newscast information courtesy of Vanderbilt TV News Archive: http://tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/**
5:00
(2) Electric Company
(3) (7) (8) ABC Evening News--Howard K. Smith (reporting from Los Angeles), Harry Reasoner
(6) Rifleman
(10) Truth or Consequences
(11) Green Acres--"You are my wife ... Goodbye, city life"
(12) Petticoat Junction--episode description: "Gossips lap it up when Steve (Mike Minor) moves out of his home: the baby is allergic to him"--!
5:30
(2) Mister Rogers--featured: the Bob Brown Marionettes
(3) KTBS News
(4) (6) (10) NBC Nightly News--John Chancellor
(7) Truth or Consequences
(8) (11) (12) CBS Evening News--Walter Cronkite
EVENING
6:00
(2) Film--"The Mouse House" and "The Mouse-Wife" by British novelist Rumer Godden
(3) Truth or Consequences
(4) KARK News
(6) KTAL News
(7) KATV News
(8) KNOE News
(10) KTVE News
(11) KTHV News
(12) KSLA News
6:30
(2) Arkansas Game and Fish--probably produced either for, or by, the state agency
(3) Let's Make a Deal--syndicated
(4) I Dream of Jeannie--rerun
(6) (7) (8) Dragnet (different episodes on each station)
(10) Reel Fun--probably local fishing show
(11) All in the Family--tape-delayed from CBS the previous Saturday (KTHV ran "Hee Haw" Saturdays at 6:30 p.m.)
(12) Movie--"Night Slaves," 1970 (90 minutes)
7:00
(2) Thirty Minutes--unsure if local or PBS
(3) Alias Smith and Jones--Roy Huggins and Glen Larson-packaged neo-Western that ran about two years
(4) (6) (10) Flip Wilson--guests, Tony Randall, Phyllis Diller, and big-band singer Billy Eckstine
(7) National Geographic Special--a look at the Amazon's entire length in South America
(8) (11) Me and the Chimp--a butt of many jokes about bad TV for years afterward; considered one of the worst shows in history
(12) It Takes a Thief--ERROR: this could not have been running at the same time as the movie at 6:30, so either one or the other was a mistake
7:30
(2) NET Playhouse Biography"--"Dante's Inferno" (not the literary classic, but a look at 19th-century poet and painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti)
(8) (11) My Three Sons--last season
8:00
(3) (7) Longstreet--James Franciscus starred in this crime drama about a blind insurance investigator in New Orleans
(4) (6) (10) Bob Hope Special--Glen Campbells, Carol Lawrence, Vic Damone, Dorothy Lamour, and Sugar Ray Robinson show up for the festivities
(8) (12) Movie--"Kona Coast," 1968 (Richard Boone filck that was said to inspire "Hawaii-Five-O," the lead role of which Boone turned down)
(11) Movie--"Move Over, Darling," 1963
9:00
(2) World Press--probably PBS discussion
(3) (7) Life, Death and the American Woman--ABC News special hosted by Patricia Neal
(4) (6) (10) Dean Martin--Carroll O'Connor, Ruth Buzzi, Vikki Carr, and the comedy team Clair and McMahon on tap this time
9:45
(2) David Littlejohn/Critic at Large--review of Peter Brooks' "King Lear" and Roman Polanski's "Macbeth" (both film adaptations of Shakespearean works)
10:00
(3) KTBS News
(4) KARK News
(6) KTAL News
(7) KATV News
(8) KNOE News
(10) KTVE News
(11) KTHV News
(12) KSLA News
10:30
(3) Dick Cavett
(4) (6) (10) Tonight Show--Joey Bishop, guest host (last week that the show originated from New York)
(7) Jaycee TV Auction--local fundraiser; probably donated airtime
(8) (12) Movie--"Advance to the Rear," 1964
(11) Arkansas Sportsman--local hunting and fishing show
11:00
(11) Movie--"Terror by Night," 1946
12:00 a.m.
(6) Devotional
12:30
(8) KNOE News
(12) KSLA News
Little Rock, Arkansas:
(2) KETS (PBS)--now on digital 7 (PSIP 2)*
(4) KARK (NBC)--now on digital 32 (PSIP 4)
(7) KATV (ABC)--now on digital 44 (PSIP 7)
(11) KTHV (CBS)--now on digital 12 (PSIP 11)
Monroe, Louisiana:
(8) KNOE (CBS; ABC secondary)--now on digital 8 (PSIP same)
Shreveport, Louisiana:
(3) KTBS (ABC)--now on digital 28 (PSIP 3)
(12) KSLA (CBS)--now on digital 17 (PSIP 12)
Shreveport, Louisiana/Texarkana, Texas:
(6) KTAL (NBC)--now on digital 15 (no PSIP)
El Dorado, Arkansas/Monroe, Louisiana:
(10) KTVE (NBC; ABC secondary)--now on digital 27 (PSIP 10)
*--translator of the Arkansas Educational Television Network. Did not broadcast in color.
MORNING
5:55
(8) Pastor's Study--local religious devotional
6:00
(8) Good Morning Ark-La-Miss--local; "Ark-La-Miss" was media term for states of Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi, of course
6:20
(12) Sunrise Semester--"Latin-American Literature"
6:30
(6) Texarkana College--telecourse from community college
(11) Sunrise Semester--same as KSLA at 6:20 a.m.
6:45
(4) RFD--local farm show; Bob Buice, host
(6) RFD "6"--likewise
6:50
(12) Your Pastor--local religious devotional
6:55
(3) (4) (10) Devotional--all local and separately produced; TV Guide lumped them together in the listing
7:00
(3) Ark-La-Tex Sportsman--local hunting and fishing show; "Ark-La-Tex" was short for Arkansas-Louisiana-Texas
(4) (6) (10) Today Show--Frank McGee, Barbara Walters, Edwin Newman
(7) Country Music Time--unsure if local or a 1950s/1960s filmed show with Nashville stars
(8) (11) (12) CBS Morning News--John Hart
7:25
(11) Arkansas A.M.
7:30
(3) Cartoon Funtime--probably a local kids' show that was on its last legs (likely moved from the afternoons some time earlier)
(7) Bozo's Big Top
7:45
(2) in-school programming until 3:45 p.m.
8:00
(7) New Zoo Revue--well-beloved live-action syndicated kiddie show that featured life-sized puppets teaching moral lessons
(8) (11) (12) Captain Kangaroo--today's topic: bread making
8:15
(3) Movie--"Chain Lightning," 1950
8:30
(7) This Morning--local variety show; probably country-music-oriented
9:00
(4) Hazel--sitcom rerun
(6) (10) Dinah's Place--stuttering was discussed on this episode
(7) Movie--"Scarlet Angel," 1952
(8) (11) Lucy Show--CBS rerun; listed as "Lucille Ball"
(12) Sesame Street--another commercial station running the PBS program; the market did not get public TV until 1978 (from a translator of Louisiana Public Broadcasting)
9:30
(4) (6) (10) Concentration
(8) (11) My Three Sons--CBS rerun
9:50
(3) Lucille Rivers--syndicated sewing show for women
10:00
(3) Split Second--tape-delayed from ABC
(4) (6) (10) Sale of the Century--original version; hosted by Joe Garagiola
(8) (11) (12) Family Affair--CBS rerun
10:30
(3) (7) Bewitched--ABC rerun
(4) (6) (10) Hollywood Squares
(8) (11) (12) Love of Life
11:00
(3) (7) Password--"The password is ..."
(4) (6) (10) Jeopardy!
(8) (11) (12) Where the Heart Is--soap
11:25
(8) KNOE News
(11) (12) CBS News--Douglas Edwards
11:30
(3) KTBS News
(4) (6) (10) Who, What or Where Game
(7) Split Second
(8) (11) (12) Search for Tomorrow
11:55
(4) (6) (10) NBC News--Floyd Kalber
AFTERNOON
12:00
(3) (7) All My Children
(4) Little Rock Today--local features/variety show
(6) KTAL News
(8) KNOE News
(10) Phil Donahue (60-minute version; one of his first appearances in a Deep South market)
(11) Eye on Arkansas--news/features; the "eye" referred to the KTHV's CBS affiliation
(12) KSLA News
12:05
(8) Lucille Rivers
12:15
(8) Open House--women's show, hosted by Mildred Swift
12:30
(3) (7) Let's Make a Deal--"and, behind curtain number one, you have ... a pogo stick!"
(6) Three on a Match
(8) (11) (12) As the World Turns
12:50
(4) Lucille Rivers
1:00
(3) (7) Newlywed Game--"in a moment, we'll find out what the husbands have to say."
(4) (6) (10) Days of Our Lives
(8) (11) (12) Love is a Many Splendored Thing
1:30
(3) (7) Dating Game
(4) (6) (10) Doctors--Mel Brandt's memorable intro: "the Emmy-Award-winning program dedicated to the brotherhood ... of healing"
(8) (11) (12) Guiding Light
2:00
(3) (7) General Hospital
(4) (6) (10) Another World
(8) (11) (12) Secret Storm
2:30
(3) (7) One Life to Live--a/k/a "One Wife to Leave"--!!!
(4) (6) (10) Return to Peyton Place--launched a month earlier; this revival of the famed 1960s prime-time soap never brought back the old viewers and didn't attract new ones; ran until January 1974
(8) (11) (12) Edge of Night--about half the time, it seemed, a murder trial took place on this serial
3:00
(3) (7) Love, American Style--ABC rerun
(4) Mike Douglas (60-minute version)
(6) (10) Somerset
(8) (11) (12) Amateur's Guide to Love--CBS dipped its toe into the pool of game shows with this Gene Rayburn-hosted, Heatter-Quigley-packaged entry after a four-year absence from the field
3:30
(3) Movie--"The Hideous Sun Demon," 1955
(6) Munsters--this episode apparently had Herman cheating on Lily
(7) Bozo--back for an afternoon session of the circus
(8) (11) (12) Virginian--same episode on KTHV and KSLA, strangely enough (and, coincidentally, all three stations were CBS affils)
(10) Movie--"Jane Eyre," 1944
4:00
(2) Sesame Street
(4) Flipper--rerun
(6) Big Valley--this Western was seen in reruns throughout the 1970s, unusual for a show that lasted only four years on ABC in the 1960s
4:30
(4) Daniel Boone--episode description: "A white woman, captured by Indians and presumed dead, returns home with her half-breed son"
(7) To Tell the Truth
**All network evening newscast information courtesy of Vanderbilt TV News Archive: http://tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/**
5:00
(2) Electric Company
(3) (7) (8) ABC Evening News--Howard K. Smith (reporting from Los Angeles), Harry Reasoner
(6) Rifleman
(10) Truth or Consequences
(11) Green Acres--"You are my wife ... Goodbye, city life"
(12) Petticoat Junction--episode description: "Gossips lap it up when Steve (Mike Minor) moves out of his home: the baby is allergic to him"--!
5:30
(2) Mister Rogers--featured: the Bob Brown Marionettes
(3) KTBS News
(4) (6) (10) NBC Nightly News--John Chancellor
(7) Truth or Consequences
(8) (11) (12) CBS Evening News--Walter Cronkite
EVENING
6:00
(2) Film--"The Mouse House" and "The Mouse-Wife" by British novelist Rumer Godden
(3) Truth or Consequences
(4) KARK News
(6) KTAL News
(7) KATV News
(8) KNOE News
(10) KTVE News
(11) KTHV News
(12) KSLA News
6:30
(2) Arkansas Game and Fish--probably produced either for, or by, the state agency
(3) Let's Make a Deal--syndicated
(4) I Dream of Jeannie--rerun
(6) (7) (8) Dragnet (different episodes on each station)
(10) Reel Fun--probably local fishing show
(11) All in the Family--tape-delayed from CBS the previous Saturday (KTHV ran "Hee Haw" Saturdays at 6:30 p.m.)
(12) Movie--"Night Slaves," 1970 (90 minutes)
7:00
(2) Thirty Minutes--unsure if local or PBS
(3) Alias Smith and Jones--Roy Huggins and Glen Larson-packaged neo-Western that ran about two years
(4) (6) (10) Flip Wilson--guests, Tony Randall, Phyllis Diller, and big-band singer Billy Eckstine
(7) National Geographic Special--a look at the Amazon's entire length in South America
(8) (11) Me and the Chimp--a butt of many jokes about bad TV for years afterward; considered one of the worst shows in history
(12) It Takes a Thief--ERROR: this could not have been running at the same time as the movie at 6:30, so either one or the other was a mistake
7:30
(2) NET Playhouse Biography"--"Dante's Inferno" (not the literary classic, but a look at 19th-century poet and painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti)
(8) (11) My Three Sons--last season
8:00
(3) (7) Longstreet--James Franciscus starred in this crime drama about a blind insurance investigator in New Orleans
(4) (6) (10) Bob Hope Special--Glen Campbells, Carol Lawrence, Vic Damone, Dorothy Lamour, and Sugar Ray Robinson show up for the festivities
(8) (12) Movie--"Kona Coast," 1968 (Richard Boone filck that was said to inspire "Hawaii-Five-O," the lead role of which Boone turned down)
(11) Movie--"Move Over, Darling," 1963
9:00
(2) World Press--probably PBS discussion
(3) (7) Life, Death and the American Woman--ABC News special hosted by Patricia Neal
(4) (6) (10) Dean Martin--Carroll O'Connor, Ruth Buzzi, Vikki Carr, and the comedy team Clair and McMahon on tap this time
9:45
(2) David Littlejohn/Critic at Large--review of Peter Brooks' "King Lear" and Roman Polanski's "Macbeth" (both film adaptations of Shakespearean works)
10:00
(3) KTBS News
(4) KARK News
(6) KTAL News
(7) KATV News
(8) KNOE News
(10) KTVE News
(11) KTHV News
(12) KSLA News
10:30
(3) Dick Cavett
(4) (6) (10) Tonight Show--Joey Bishop, guest host (last week that the show originated from New York)
(7) Jaycee TV Auction--local fundraiser; probably donated airtime
(8) (12) Movie--"Advance to the Rear," 1964
(11) Arkansas Sportsman--local hunting and fishing show
11:00
(11) Movie--"Terror by Night," 1946
12:00 a.m.
(6) Devotional
12:30
(8) KNOE News
(12) KSLA News