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Retro: Carolina-Tennessee Saturday, November 27, 1971

From TV Guide, Carolina-Tennessee Edition:

WSJK (WETP) Ch. 2 Knoxville (Sneedville, TN) (PBS)
off air on Saturday

WBTV Ch. 3 Charlotte (CBS)

7 AM Kirby 'n Casper
8 AM Bugs Bunny
8:30 Scooby Doo, Where Are You?
9 AM Harlem Globetrotters (animated)
9:30 Help! It's The Hair Bear Bunch!
10 AM Pebbles And Bamm Bamm
10:30 Archie's TV Funnies
11 AM Sabrina, The Teenage Witch
11:30 Josie And The Pussycats
12 N Monkees (guest: Hal March as a conniving
dance-lesson salesman)
12:30 You Are There (the confrontation between
Columbus and Ferdinand and Isabella)
1 PM CBS Children's Film Festival ("Lost In Pajamas,"
'66, from Czechoslovakia)
2 PM Perspectives
2:30 World Of Sports Illustrated
3 PM That Good Ole Nashville Music (Sammi Smith,
Grandpa Jones, Tommy Overstreet, George Morgan)
3:30 Wilburn Brothers (guest: Sonny Wright)
4 PM Porter Wagoner (guests: the Young Country Singers)
4:30 Championship Wrestling (from the studio)
5:30 Chicago Teddy Bears (delay from Fri 8 PM; Ch. 3 aired
"Let's Make A Deal" Fridays at 8)
6 PM Gunsmoke (delay from Mon 8 PM; Ch. 3 aired movies
Mondays at 7:30)
7 PM News, Sports, Weather
7:30 Tommy Faile (country-music show eventually seen in
Greenville, SC and Richmond as well)
8 PM All In The Family
8:30 Funny Face (Sandy Duncan)
9 PM The New Dick Van Dyke Show (the episode that sold
this show to CBS: Dick and Jenny Preston have to deal
with her pregnancy in middle age)
9:30 Mary Tyler Moore
10 PM Mission: Impossible
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:30 Movie: "Action Of The Tiger"

WFBC (WYFF) Ch. 4 Greenville, SC (NBC)

6:30 Farm News
7:30 Monty's Rascals
8:30 Woody Woodpecker
9 AM Deputy Dawg
9:30 Pink Panther
10 AM Barrier Reef
10:30 Take A Giant Step (the topic is food; among the
segments, Dennis Weaver discusses organic food)
11:30 Bugaloos
12 N This Week In Pro Football
1 PM Wrestling (from Raleigh)
2 PM Jetsons (delay from 12:30 PM)
2:30 NFL Game Of The Week
3 PM Larry Kane (Neil Sedaka, Jeff Barry, Laura Lee, Lighthouse)
4 PM Furman Presents (a salute to the basketball team's 1971 Southern
Conference title, with coach Joe Williams and players Russ Hull and
Sessor Leonard, the latter being a freshman on the 1971-72 team)
4:30 Sports Challenge
5 PM Porter Wagoner (same as Ch. 3)
5:30 Death Valley Days
6 PM News, Sports, Weather
6:30 High Chaparral
7:30 Juvenile Jury (guest: Los Angeles mayor Sam Yorty)
8 PM The Partners
8:30 The Good Life (Larry Hagman, R.I.P.)
9 PM NBC Movie: "Hour Of The Gun"
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:30 Movie: "The King's Pirate" (Doug McClure made this one while working
on "The Virginian" in 1967.)

WCYB Ch. 5 Bristol, VA (NBC)

7 AM Rural Tenneva
7:30 Bugs Bunny (separate from the CBS show)
7:55 News, Weather
8 AM Dr. Dolittle
8:30 Woody Woodpecker
9 AM Deputy Dawg
9:30 Pink Panther
10 AM Barrier Reef
10:30 Take A Giant Step
11:30 Bugaloos
12 N Mr. Wizard (electromagnets: shown in use on a
telephone receiver, doorbell, and TV speaker)
12:30 Jetsons
1 PM Klassroom Kwiz
1:30 Cheyenne
2:30 Country Carnival (guest: George Hamilton IV)
3 PM Country Place (guest: Wilma Burgess)
3:30 Buck Owens
4 PM Arthur Smith
4:30 Bonnie Lou And Buster
5 PM That Good Ole Nashville Music (same as Ch. 3)
5:30 Porter Wagoner (guest: Warner Mack)
6 PM News, Sports, Weather
6:30 NBC News (Garrick Utley)
7 PM Untamed World
7:30 Golddiggers
8 PM The Partners
8:30 The Good Life
9 PM NBC Movie: "Hour Of The Gun"
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:30 Saturday Tonight Show (Richard Chamberlain,
David Frost, Bob and Ray)

WATE Ch. 6 Knoxville (NBC)

6:30 Agriculture, U.S.A.
7 AM Bugs Bunny (separate from the CBS show)
8 AM Dr. Dolittle
8:30 Woody Woodpecker
9 AM Deputy Dawg
9:30 Pink Panther
10 AM Barrier Reef
10:30 Take A Giant Step
11:30 Bugaloos
12 N Mr. Wizard
12:30 Jetsons
1 PM The Pet Set (the 21st annual Patsy Awards,
honoring performing animals--Betty White hosts)
1:30 Movie: "Lad: A Dog"
3:30 Arthur Smith
4 PM Bonnie Lou And Buster
4:30 Wilburn Brothers (same as Ch. 3)
5 PM Porter Wagoner (guest: T. Texas Tyler)
5:30 Kathy Hill (country music)
6 PM News, Sports, Weather
6:30 NBC News
7 PM National Geographic (a tour of Alaska)
8 PM The Partners
8:30 The Good Life
9 PM NBC Movie: "Hour Of The Gun"
11 PM Movie: "Compulsion" (re-creation of the
Leopold-Loeb case, from '59)

WSPA Ch. 7 Spartanburg, SC (CBS)

6:30 Sunrise Semester: "Classical Mythology"
7 AM South Carolina Agriculture
8 AM Bugs Bunny
8:30 Scooby Doo, Where Are You?
9 AM Harlem Globetrotters (animated)
9:30 Help! It's The Hair Bear Bunch!
10 AM Pebbles And Bamm Bamm
10:30 Archie's TV Funnies
11 AM Sabrina, The Teenage Witch
11:30 Josie And The Pussycats
12 N Monkees
12:30 You Are There
1 PM CBS Children's Film Festival
2 PM Cliff Gray (music and farm news)
2:30 American Scene (Kenny Rogers and the First
Edition, Creedence Clearwater Revival)
3 PM Gaffney High School Chorus
3:30 Place In The Sun (variety show of some sort)
4 PM Hugh X. Lewis (Norro Wilson, George Morgan,
Barbara Mandrell)
4:30 Buck Owens
5 PM Bill Anderson
5:30 That Good Ole Nashville Music (Bill Anderson,
Jan Howard, Henson Cargill)
6 PM News, Sports, Weather
6:30 CBS News (Roger Mudd)
7 PM Hee Haw
8 PM All In The Family
8:30 Funny Face
9 PM The New Dick Van Dyke Show
9:30 Mary Tyler Moore
10 PM Mission: Impossible
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:15 Commercial Film (what we now call an infomercial)
11:30 Movie: "Strategic Air Command"

WSOC Ch. 9 Charlotte (NBC)

7 AM Popeye
7:30 Abbott And Costello
8 AM Dr. Dolittle
8:30 Woody Woodpecker
9 AM Deputy Dawg
9:30 Pink Panther
10 AM Barrier Reef
10:30 Take A Giant Step
11:30 Bugaloos
12 N Mr. Wizard
12:30 Jetsons
1 PM Fury
1:30 Sports Challenge
2 PM Movie: "The Atomic City" (watch for Gene Barry in
an early appearance, 1952)
4 PM Lost In Space
5 PM Rollin' On The River (B.J. Thomas joins Kenny Rogers
and the First Edition.)
5:30 Untamed World (life in Morocco, stressing the beliefs
of Islam)
6 PM News, Sports, Weather
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Lawrence Welk (hits from Broadway musicals)
8 PM The Partners
8:30 The Good Life
9 PM NBC Movie: "Hour Of The Gun"
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:30 Movie: "Dayton's Devils" (Leslie Nielsen plays it straight
in this one from '68; watch, too, for Hans Gudegast, aka
Eric Braeden, aka Victor Newman on "The Young And The
Restless.")

WBIR Ch. 10 Knoxville (CBS)

7 AM University Of Tennessee Agriculture
7:30 Uncle Hank
7:45 Davey And Goliath
8 AM Bugs Bunny
8:30 Scooby Doo, Where Are You?
9 AM Harlem Globetrotters (animated)
9:30 Help! It's The Hair Bear Bunch!
10 AM Pebbles And Bamm Bamm
10:30 Archie's TV Funnies
11 AM Sabrina, The Teenage Witch
11:30 Josie And The Pussycats
12 N Monkees
12:30 You Are There
1 PM CBS Children's Film Festival
2 PM Knoxville Jaycees
2:30 Movie: "Revenge Of The Creature"
3:45 Commercial Film
4 PM Cumberland College (the Cumberland College
Players from Williamsburg, KY, present "Your
Shoes Squeak, Mr. Smith")
4:30 Country Jamboree
5:30 That Good Ole Nashville Music (Tex Ritter,
Johnny Tillotson, Diana Trask)
6 PM News, Sports, Weather
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Hee Haw (Sammi Smith, the Bakersfield Brass)
8 PM All In The Family
8:30 Funny Face
9 PM The New Dick Van Dyke Show
9:30 Mary Tyler Moore
10 PM Mission: Impossible
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:30 Movie: "Strange Bedfellows"

WJHL Ch. 11 Johnson City, TN (CBS)

7:15 Uncle Hank
7:30 Groovie Goolies (delay from Sun 9:30 AM)
8 AM Bugs Bunny
8:30 Scooby Doo, Where Are You?
9 AM Harlem Globetrotters (animated)
9:30 Help! It's The Hair Bear Bunch!
10 AM Pebbles And Bamm Bamm
10:30 Archie's TV Funnies
11 AM Sabrina, The Teenage Witch
11:30 Josie And The Pussycats
12 N Monkees
12:30 You Are There
1 PM CBS Children's Film Festival
2 PM Batman (x2)
3 PM Hugh X. Lewis
3:30 Bill Anderson
4 PM Tom & Jerry (delay from Sun 9 AM)
4:30 Virginian
6 PM News, Sports, Weather
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Hee Haw
8 PM All In The Family
8:30 Funny Face
9 PM The New Dick Van Dyke Show
9:30 Mary Tyler Moore
10 PM Mission: Impossible
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:30 Movie: "Man's Favorite Sport?"

WLOS Ch. 13 Asheville, NC (ABC)

6:30 Modern Almanac
7 AM Cartoon Fun
7:30 Mr. Bill's Workshop
8:30 Road Runner
9 AM Funky Phantom
9:30 Jackson Five
10 AM Bewitched
10:30 Lidsville
11 AM Curiosity Shop ("Dennis The Menace" creator
Hank Ketcham hosts a show about play.)
12 N Jonny Quest
12:30 Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp
1 PM College Football Pre-Game Show
1:15 Army-Navy Game
4 PM College Football: Alabama-Auburn (from Birmingham,
time approximate)
7 PM Kodak's 1971 All-America Football Team (time approximate)
7:30 Lawrence Welk
8:30 ABC Movie: "The Failing Of Raymond" (somehow this seems
timely: Dean Stockwell as a student that teacher Jane Wyman
flunked years ago; now he's plotting his revenge)
10 PM The Persuaders (Roger Moore, Tony Curtis)
11 PM ABC News (Sam Donaldson)
11:15 Movie: "All Fall Down"

WHKY Ch. 14 Hickory, NC (Ind.)

4:30 Movie: "Public Cowboy No. 1" (Gene Autry, from '37)
5:30 Navy Film
6 PM News, Sports, Weather
6:15 Lenoir Rhyne College Today
6:30 Adventure Time
7 PM Scope
7:30 Movie: TBA
9 PM Movie: TBA
10:30 Holiday
11 PM Death Valley Days
11:30 Movie: TBA

WUNE Ch. 17 Linville, NC/WUNF Ch. 33 Asheville, NC (PBS)

Lists "Folk Guitar" at 5:30 and nothing else the rest of the day.
I think this was a typo and the two stations were off the air
on Saturday.

WCCB Ch. 18 Charlotte (ABC)

7:30 Agricultural Science
8 AM Will The Real Jerry Lewis Please Sit Down?
8:30 Road Runner
9 AM Funky Phantom
9:30 Jackson Five
10 AM Bewitched
10:30 Lidsville
11 AM Curiosity Shop
12 N Jonny Quest
12:30 Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp
1 PM College Football Pre-Game Show
1:15 Army-Navy Game
4 PM College Football: Alabama-Auburn (time approximate)
7 PM Kodak's 1971 All-America Football Team (time approximate)
7:30 Silent Service
8 PM TBA
8:30 ABC Movie: "The Failing Of Raymond"
10 PM The Persuaders
11 PM ABC News
11:15 Movie: "The Texas Rangers" (watch for a young Fred
MacMurray, from '36)

WKPT Ch. 19 Kingsport, TN (ABC)

8 AM Will The Real Jerry Lewis Please Sit Down?
8:30 Road Runner
9 AM Funky Phantom
9:30 Jackson Five
10 AM Bewitched
10:30 Lidsville
11 AM Curiosity Shop
12 N Jonny Quest
12:30 Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp
1 PM College Football Pre-Game Show
1:15 Army-Navy Game
4 PM College Football: Alabama-Auburn (time approximate)
7 PM Kodak's 1971 All-America Football Team (time approximate)
7:30 Roller Derby
8:30 ABC Movie: "The Failing Of Raymond"
10 PM The Persuaders
11 PM ABC News
11:15 Movie: "Dementia 13"

WTVK Ch. 26 (WVLT Ch. 8) Knoxville (ABC)

7:30 Agricultural Science
8 AM Will The Real Jerry Lewis Please Sit Down?
8:30 Road Runner
9 AM Funky Phantom
9:30 Jackson Five
10 AM Bewitched
10:30 Lidsville
11 AM Curiosity Shop
12 N Jonny Quest
12:30 Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp
1 PM College Football Pre-Game Show
1:15 Army-Navy Game
4 PM College Football: Alabama-Auburn (time approximate)
7 PM Kodak's 1971 All-America Football Team (time approximate)
7:30 Wrestling
8:30 ABC Movie: "The Failing Of Raymond"
10 PM The Persuaders
11 PM ABC News
11:15 Movie: "Red, Hot And Blue"

WNTV Ch. 29 Greenville, SC (PBS)

7:30 Sesame Street
8:30 Electric Company
9 AM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
9:30 Sesame Street
10:30 What's New
11 AM Masquerade (wishes: a turtle who wants to grow,
a slave who wants freedom, a man who doesn't
want to work so hard for a living)
11:30 Sesame Street
12:30 off the air
5:30 Highway Panorama
5:45 Agricultural Panorama
6 PM Folk Guitar
6:30 At Home
7 PM Speaking Freely (guest: French anthropologist
Claude Levi-Strauss)
8 PM Masterpiece Theatre (Dostoyevsky's "The Gambler"
(nothing to do with Kenny Rogers), conclusion)
9 PM Thirty Minutes With (Secretary of Labor James Hodgson)
9:30 Stravinsky Remembered (the NET Opera Theater performs
the composer's rarely-staged 1914 work "The Nightingale")
sign off 11 PM

WRET (WCNC) Ch. 36 Charlotte (Ind.)

8:30 Across The Fence
9 AM Movies: "Attack Of The Robots" and "Blood Of Dracula"
12 N Grambling Highlights (Grambling vs. Cal State (Fullerton))
1 PM Rocket Robin Hood
1:30 Tennessee Tuxedo
2 PM Popeye And Pals
2:30 Movie: "Voyage To The End Of The Universe"
4 PM One Step Beyond
4:30 Twilight Zone
5 PM Outer Limits
6 PM Roller Game Of The Week
8 PM Championship Wrestling From Florida
9 PM Movie: "Hercules And The Captive Women"
11 PM Alfred Hitchcock Presents
11:30 Movie: "The Disembodied"

WAIM (WMYA) Ch. 40 Anderson, SC (ABC/CBS)

8 AM Bugs Bunny
8:30 Scooby Doo, Where Are You?
9 AM Harlem Globetrotters (animated)
9:30 Help! It's The Hair Bear Bunch!
10 AM Pebbles And Bamm Bamm
10:30 Archie's TV Funnies
11 AM Sabrina, The Teenage Witch
11:30 Josie And The Pussycats
12 N Monkees
12:30 You Are There
1 PM CBS Children's Film Festival
2 PM Panorama
3:30 Compass
5 PM Accent On Action
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Quest For Adventure
8 PM All In The Family
8:30 Funny Face
9 PM The New Dick Van Dyke Show
9:30 Mary Tyler Moore
10 PM Mission: Impossible
sign off 11 PM
 
bpatrick said:
WLOS Ch. 13 Asheville, NC (ABC)
WCCB Ch. 18 Charlotte (ABC)
WKPT Ch. 19 Kingsport, TN (ABC)
WTVK Ch. 26 (WVLT Ch. 8) Knoxville (ABC)

4 PM College Football: Alabama-Auburn (time approximate)

Coming into the game, Alabama was 10-0-0 and ranked 4th in the both polls; Auburn was 9-0-0 (they played a 10-game schedule that season) and ranked 5th in both polls. It was the only time in Iron Bowl history that both teams entered the game undefeated and untied; in '94 Alabama was 10-0-0, but Auburn was 9-0-1.

Sadly for me in '71 (I bleed orange and blue), Alabama won 31-7.
 
I shouldn't be surprised that no one has asked why the ABC
stations did their own thing at 8 PM that night: the access
rule. With a network show (the Kodak All-America team) at
7, ABC had to pre-empt Bobby Sherman's sitcom "Getting Together"
(no great loss since most sets were tuned to "All In The Family" anyway),
to get down to the mandatory three hours. Lawrence Welk usually aired
at 7 on Ch. 13, roller derby at 7 on Ch. 19, and wrestling at 7 on Ch. 26.
I remember a local program called "Inquiry" on Ch. 18, followed by a variety
of shows over the years at 7:30 ("Animal World" perhaps the most successful).
 
PTAR Year 1 (Was: Re: Retro: Carolina-Tennessee Saturday, November 27, 1971)

I believe there were two waivers to the Prime-Time Access Rule in the 1971-72 TV season:

ABC got one on Tuesday nights to keep their popular 1970-71 Tuesday-night  lineup ("Mod Squad" at 7:30 ET; "Tuesday Movie Of The Week" at 8:30 ET and "Marcus Welby, M.D." at 10 ET) intact; while NBC got the other to keep their popular Sunday-night lineup ("The Wonderful World Of Disney" at 7:30 P.M. ET, Jimmy Stewart at 8:30 ET, "Bonanza" at 9 ET, and "Bold Ones" at 10 ET) intact.

But to get those waivers, each of those networks had to only program two-and-a-half hours of prime-time on one night a week.

ABC did not feed programming from 8:30 to 9 P.M. ET on Mondays (during the Fall of 1971, some ABC affiliates, like then-affiliate WNAC-7 here in Boston, used the half-hour to do a local pre-game show for "NFL Monday Night Football" which would begin at 9); likewise, NBC was "{dark" from 10:30 to 11 P.M,. ET/PT on Fridays.

The only exceptions to the rule in the early years were either:

(1) Live coverage of a special news event (whether pre-scheduled, like a political convention or a moon walk; or a breaking news story of some sort), or

(2) Network evening newscasts could run from 7 to 7:30 P.M. ET/PT if a local affiliate had broadcast a full hour local news show from 6 to 7 P.M. ET/PT.

ABC ran up against PTAR in 1972, when it wanted to broadcast three-and-a-half hours of coverage of the 1972 Summer Olympics from 7:30 to 11 P.M. EDT each weeknight during the Games. The FCC said "No", and as a result, ABC had to eliminate five hours from what was to have been about 66 or so hours of coverage.

But by 1975, the FCC had eased the Prime Time Access Rule so that networks could feed programs on Sunday nights from 7 to 8 P.M. ET/PT if one of those hours was either a children's show, news, or public affairs. That's how "60 Minutes" got moved to it's present 7 P.M. ET/PT slot at the beginning of 1976.

Also, by 1976, the FCC had reclassified the Olympics as a "news event", allowing ABC to run three and a half hours of prime-time coverage (7:30-11 P.M. EDT) every night of that year's Summer Games in Montreal, and for the same network to run five hours of prime-time coverage each evening (7 P.M.-12 Midnight ET/PT; I believe it ran live from 4-9 P.M. local in Los Angeles) of the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
 
All of that information is correct. However, TV Guide
does not indicate that the Kodak All-America Team show
was live; if, as I believe, it was taped, I'm not sure it would
count as an exception to PTAR (some of the names of players
picked to the team were mentioned, including Ed Marinaro,
Oklahoma's Greg Pruitt, and Alabama's Johnny Musso). And
since Chs. 13, 18, 19, and 26 would have normally carried
"Getting Together," I have to believe ABC pre-empted 8 PM
to satisfy the FCC.
 
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