Retro: Central Florida Friday, October 12, 1973

[bpatrick]

Deviating from "on this day" listings because I
want to put up something different (for me, at
least). From TV Guide, Central Florida Edition:

WESH Ch. 2 Daytona Beach/Orlando (NBC)

6:15 Sunshine Almanac
6:30 Flying Nun
7 AM Today (Frank McGee/Barbara Walters)
9 AM Phil Donahue
10 AM Dinah's Place
10:30 Baffle
11 AM Wizard Of Odds
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N Jeopardy!
12:30 News
12:55 NBC News (Edwin Newman)
1 PM I Love Lucy
1:30 Three On A Match
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors (the soap)
3 PM Another World
3:30 Return To Peyton Place
4 PM Somerset
4:30 Bonanza
5:30 News
6:30 NBC News (John Chancellor)
7 PM To Tell The Truth
7:30 Police Surgeon
8 PM Sanford And Son
8:30 The Girl With Something Extra
9 PM Needles And Pins
9:30 Brian Keith Show
10 PM Dean Martin
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show (Joey Bishop subs
for Johnny)
1 AM Midnight Special (the Bee Gees are
hosts--this is before Helen Reddy
took over--and Monty Python's
Flying Circus are among the guests)

WEDU Ch. 3 Tampa (PBS)

In-school programs until

4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Sesame Street
7 PM Man And Environment
7:30 It's Your Government
8 PM Washington Week In Review
8:30 Pacem In Terris III (a convocation
on U.S. foreign policy)
10 PM Auburn Football Highlights (of
Auburn-Ole Miss)
sign off 11 PM

WDBO (WKMG) Ch. 6 Orlando (CBS)

6:15 Sunshine Almanac
6:30 Sunrise Semester: "Twentieth-
Century Literature: Its Past And
Present"
7 AM CBS News (Hughes Rudd/Sally Quinn)
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM What's My Line?
9:30 Concentration
10 AM Joker's Wild
10:30 $10,000 Pyramid
11 AM Gambit
11:30 Love Of Life
11:55 CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
12 N Secret Storm (delay from 4 PM)
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM News
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Guiding Light (Ch. 6 is one of the
stations carrying GL in the morning
nowadays)
2:30 Edge Of Night
3 PM Price Is Right
3:30 Flintstones
4 PM Merv Griffin
5:30 Green Acres
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News (Walter Cronkite)
7 PM Hogan's Heroes
7:30 Andy Griffith
8 PM Calucci's Dept.
8:30 Roll Out! (Larry Gelbart tried and
failed to duplicate his success on
M*A*S*H with this sitcom about the
Red Ball Express in World War II)
9 PM Movie: "Dragnet" (Jack Webb/Harry
Morgan)
11 PM News
11:30 CBS Movie: "The Valley Of Gwangi"

WFLA Ch. 8 Tampa (NBC)

5:45 Sunshine Almanac
6 AM Ambassador College (Garner Ted
Armstrong)
6:30 Today In Florida
7 AM Today
9 AM Concentration
9:30 That Girl
10 AM Dinah's Place
10:30 Baffle
11 AM Wizard Of Odds
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N Jeopardy!
12:30 Who, What Or Where
12:55 NBC News
1 PM News
1:30 Three On A Match
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 Return To Peyton Place
4 PM Somerset
4:30 Merv Griffin
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM What's My Line?
7:30 To Tell The Truth
8 PM Sanford And Son
8:30 The Girl With Something Extra
9 PM Needles And Pins
9:30 Brian Keith Show
10 PM Dean Martin
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show
1 AM Midnight Special
2:30 Movie: "Madame X"
4 AM Movie: "The Lively Set"
5:30 Movie: "The Sergeant Was A Lady"
(male sergeant assigned to a WAC unit)

WFTV Ch. 9 Orlando (ABC)

6 AM Sunrise Jubilee
7 AM Bozo
8 AM Mike Douglas
9 AM Movie: "Ma And Pa Kettle At
The Fair"
11 AM Password
11:30 Brady Bunch
12 N News
12:30 Split Second
1 PM All My Children
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 The Girl In My Life
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 One Life To Live
4 PM Movie: "Sorrowful Jones"
5:30 Truth Or Consequences
6 PM News
6:30 ABC News (Howard K. Smith/
Harry Reasoner)
7 PM The Lucy Show
7:30 Hollywood Squares
8 PM Brady Bunch
8:30 Odd Couple
9 PM Room 222
9:30 Adam's Rib
10 PM Love, American Style
11 PM News
11:30 In Concert (Blood, Sweat & Tears
are featured)
1 AM Movie: "Beloved Infidel"
2:30 Movie: "Today We Live"
4:30 Movie: "Rider On A Dead Horse"

WLCY (WTSP) Ch. 10 St. Petersburg (ABC)

7 AM Meet The Realtors
7:15 Kathryn Kuhlman
7:45 News
8 AM Morning Show With Russ Byrd
8:30 Fran Carlton (exercise show--Ms. Carlton
later served in the Florida legislature)
9 AM Romper Room
10 AM Leave It To Beaver
10:30 I Love Lucy
11 AM Love, American Style
11:30 Brady Bunch
12 N Password
12:30 Split Second
1 PM All My Children
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 The Girl In My Life
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 One Life To Live
4 PM Movie: "The Lion And The
Horse"
5:30 News
6 PM ABC News
6:30 Beat The Clock
7 PM Hee Haw (Ch. 10 had both Hee Haw
and Lawrence Welk, and Welk got the
Saturday 7 PM slot)
8 PM Brady Bunch
8:30 Odd Couple
9 PM Room 222
9:30 Adam's Rib
10 PM Love, American Style
11 PM News
11:30 In Concert
1 AM News

WINK Ch. 11 Fort Myers (CBS)

6:30 Sunshine Almanac
6:45 Good Morning
7 AM CBS News
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Jack LaLanne
9:30 Sesame Street (no PBS affiliate in
Southwest Florida at the time)
10:30 Merv Griffin
11:30 Love Of Life
11:55 CBS News
12 N Young And The Restless
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Joker's Wild
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Guiding Light
2:30 Edge Of Night
3 PM Price Is Right
3:30 Match Game '73
4 PM Secret Storm
4:30 Mike Douglas
6 PM News
7 PM CBS News
7:30 To Tell The Truth
8 PM Calucci's Dept.
8:30 Roll Out!
9 PM CBS Movie: "Dracula" (TV-movie
version with Jack Palance)
11 PM News
11:30 CBS Movie: "The Valley Of Gwangi"

WTVT Ch. 13 Tampa (CBS)

6 AM Breakfast Beat (Ernie Lee's country show
was an institution in the Bay Area)
7 AM CBS News
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Mike Douglas
10:30 $10,000 Pyramid
11 AM Gambit
11:30 Love Of Life
11:55 CBS News
12 N Pulse-Plus!
1 PM Search For Tomorrow
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Guiding Light
2:30 Edge Of Night
3 PM Price Is Right
3:30 Match Game '73
4 PM Bonanza
5 PM Mission: Impossible
6 PM News
7 PM CBS News
7:30 Truth Or Consequences
8 PM Calucci's Dept.
8:30 Roll Out!
9 PM Movie: "Arabesque"
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "The Man Who Could
Cheat Death"
1 AM Movie: "The Sorceress"

(One of the great things about Tampa television
in those days was that the network newscasts
were staggered: ABC at 6, NBC at 6:30, CBS at 7.
We'd usually watch at least two: I liked Smith and
Reasoner, while my dad liked Chancellor. We couldn't
have done that in Orlando, where they all came on
at 6:30.)

WUSF Ch. 16 Tampa (PBS)
(USF stands for University of South Florida)

3:30 Introduction To Psychology
4 PM Social Science Statistics
4:30 Issues In Music
5:30 Time For Timothy
6 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
6:30 Electric Company
7 PM Sports Roundtable
7:30 Insight
8 PM Issues In Music
9 PM Social Science Statistics
9:30 Introduction To Psychology
sign off 10 PM

WBBH Ch. 20 Fort Myers (NBC/ABC)
(ABC affiliate WEVU, now WZVN/26,
didn't sign on until the fall of 1974.)

6 AM Gulf Coast--Today
7 AM Today
9 AM Petticoat Junction
9:30 Nanny And The Professor
10 AM Dinah's Place
10:30 Baffle
11 AM Wizard Of Odds
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N Jeopardy!
12:30 Who, What Or Where
12:55 News (local)
1 PM Truth Or Consequences
1:30 Three On A Match
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 Return To Peyton Place
4 PM Somerset
4:30 I Dream Of Jeannie
5 PM Bonanza
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM What's My Line?
7:30 Dragnet (Webb/Morgan)
8 PM Sanford And Son
8:30 The Girl With Something Extra
9 PM Needles And Pins
9:30 Brian Keith Show
10 PM Dean Martin
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show
1 AM Midnight Special
2:30 Movie: "Daring Game"
4:15 Movie: "Any Number Can Play"

WMFE Ch. 24 Orlando (PBS)

In-school programs until

4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Sesame Street
7 PM Chan-Ese Way
7:30 Wall Street Week
8 PM Washington Week In Review
8:30 Pacem In Terris III
10 PM Black Composers
sign off 11:30 PM

WXLT (WWSB) Ch. 40 Sarasota (ABC)

9 AM New Zoo Revue
9:30 Suncoast Digest (this, IIRC, was
Chris Chubbuck's show)
10 AM Death Valley Days
10:30 Joker's Wild (pre-empted on Ch. 13)
11 AM Galloping Gourmet
11:30 Brady Bunch
12 N Password
12:30 Split Second
1 PM All My Children
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 The Girl In My Life
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 One Life To Live
4 PM Love, American Style
4:30 Movie: "The Human Jungle"
6 PM News
6:30 ABC News
7 PM This Week In Pro Football
8 PM Brady Bunch
8:30 Odd Couple
9 PM Room 222
9:30 Adam's Rib
10 PM Love, American Style
11 PM News
11:30 In Concert

WTOG Ch. 44 St. Petersburg (Ind.)

10:30 Fury
11 AM To Seek, To Teach, To Heal
(Ch. 44 ran film features at this time)
11:30 Not For Women Only
12 N Variety-News
1 PM Movie: "A Black Veil For Lisa"
2:30 Patty Duke
3 PM New Zoo Revue
3:30 Bullwinkle
4 PM Gilligan's Island
4:30 Petticoat Junction
5 PM Green Acres
5:30 Gomer Pyle, USMC
6 PM The Lucy Show
6:30 Hogan's Heroes
7 PM Mod Squad
8 PM The Bold Ones (The Lawyers)
9 PM Don Kirshner's Rock Concert
10:30 Bobby Goldsboro
11 PM Night Gallery
11:30 Movie: "Duck Soup"

 

[Stanislav]

WFLA Ch. 8 Tampa (NBC)

6 AM Ambassador College (Garner Ted
Armstrong)

Should have been in the old "I used to believe.." thread: Growing up, having never met anyone named "Garner," I thought the guy's name was Ted Armstrong and that "Garner" was some sort of title like "Bishop" or "Reverend." ("Garner" = "one who garns?")

WFTV Ch. 9 Orlando (ABC)

7 AM Bozo

As I once mentioned here, the local Orlando Bozo was played by a guy who graduated from my high school. Around this time, Bozo would have been ably assisted by "Uncle Hubie," a "hick" character played by WFTV personality Hugh Turley. He would later "defect" to the new WSWB ch. 35 when it signed on about 6 months after this schedule, and create a rival kiddie show there called "Uncle Hubie's Penthouse Barnyard."

WLCY (WTSP) Ch. 10 St. Petersburg (ABC)

8:30 Fran Carlton (exercise show--Ms. Carlton
later served in the Florida legislature)

As did former Orlando TV car salesman Art Grindle, famous for jumping on the hoods of his cars in his "I want to sell you a CAR!!" ads. FWIW, I went to school with Ms. Carlton's oldest daughter.

WXLT (WWSB) Ch. 40 Sarasota (ABC)

9:30 Suncoast Digest (this, IIRC, was
Chris Chubbuck's show)

The show had only debuted a few weeks earlier, at the end of August. About nine months after the date of this schedule, she would achieve a morbid place in TV history.

 

[pqgeorge]

WXLT (WWSB) Ch. 40 Sarasota (ABC)

9:30 Suncoast Digest (this, IIRC, was
Chris Chubbuck's show)



The show had only debuted a few weeks earlier, at the end of August. About nine months after the date of this schedule, she would achieve a morbid place in TV history.

The station has never totally recovered since that horrible incident back in '74. Even to this day, even with a new set of call-letters (WWSB), many people still equate Sarasota's Channel 40 as the place where Christine Chubbuck committed suicide on live TV. It's a shame too.

 

[mleach]

WXLT (WWSB) Ch. 40 Sarasota (ABC)

9:30 Suncoast Digest (this, IIRC, was
Chris Chubbuck's show)



The show had only debuted a few weeks earlier, at the end of August. About nine months after the date of this schedule, she would achieve a morbid place in TV history.

The station has never totally recovered since that horrible incident back in '74. Even to this day, even with a new set of call-letters (WWSB), many people still equate Sarasota's Channel 40 as the place where Christine Chubbuck committed suicide on live TV. It's a shame too.

And I am willing to bet money they STILL get phone calls ( or even people stopping by ) asking about Chubbuck too like "..hey do you have the video ?" Wonder how they react to those people? I know in the case of Denver's KOA radio and Alan Berg, KOA has been known to slam down the phone on those who are curious about Berg. I forgot who was on the air at KOA last year but one night during "open phones" some guy calls in asking the host a question about Berg and not only did the host cut off the caller in mid sentance but he warned the audience if they want to talk about Alan Berg...well they won't be treated with respect.

 

[DToTheJ]

The station has never totally recovered since that horrible incident back in '74. Even to this day, even with a new set of call-letters (WWSB), many people still equate Sarasota's Channel 40 as the place where Christine Chubbuck committed suicide on live TV. It's a shame too.

And I am willing to bet money they STILL get phone calls ( or even people stopping by ) asking about Chubbuck too like "..hey do you have the video ?" Wonder how they react to those people?

Yikes! I don't even think WPVI in Philly even gets calls anymore over the Bud Dwyer thing (which inspired the Filter song "Hey Man, Nice Shot" - but I digress...)

More information on Ms. Chubbuck:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_Chubbuck

 

[Stanislav]

The station has never totally recovered since that horrible incident back in '74. Even to this day, even with a new set of call-letters (WWSB), many people still equate Sarasota's Channel 40 as the place where Christine Chubbuck committed suicide on live TV. It's a shame too.

And I am willing to bet money they STILL get phone calls ( or even people stopping by ) asking about Chubbuck too like "..hey do you have the video ?" Wonder how they react to those people?

Yikes! I don't even think WPVI in Philly even gets calls anymore over the Bud Dwyer thing.....

That's because Dwyer's suicide took place in the VCR era, and copies of the footage circulate on the Net; anyone who wants to see it probably has. Chubbuck's suicide, by contrast, happened in 1974, and the only copy of the original tape was impounded and later given to the family. So the macabre (and sick) voyeurs who like to watch the unfortunate demise of fellow human beings are out of luck.