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Retro: Central Florida Sat., Aug. 31, 1974

By request, from TV Guide, Central Florida Edition:

WESH Ch. 2 Daytona Beach/Orlando (NBC)

7 AM Across The Fence
7:30 I Dream Of Jeannie
8 AM Lidsville
8:30 Addams Family (animated)
9 AM Emergency +4
9:30 Inch High Private Eye
10 AM Sigmund And The Sea Monsters
10:30 Pink Panther
11 AM Star Trek (animated)
11:30 Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kids
12 N Jetsons
12:30 Go! (an original play, "How Do You Know When You're Not A Kid Anymore?" about a strange old man throwing a birthday party for a young girl)
1 PM Soul Train (the Miracles, Herbie Hancock)
2 PM Baseball Pre-Game Show
2:15 Baseball: Red Sox-Twins or Angels-Brewers (the Brewers were in the American League at the time)
5 PM That Good Ole Nashville Music (Conway Twitty, Marti Brown, Kenny Price, time approximate)
5:30 Wait Till Your Father Gets Home (Jonathan Winters provides the voice of restaurateur Maude Frickert.)
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News (Tom Brokaw)
7 PM NBC News Presents: "More Than A Dream," a look at racial progress in the South since the Brown v. Board decision (don't know what the delay is)
8 PM NBC Movie: "Lucas Tanner" (pilot for the upcoming fall 1974 series with David Hartman as a high school teacher)
9:30 NBC Movie: "The Rockford Files" (pilot for you-know-what)
11 PM News
11:30 Don Kirshner's Rock Concert (Martha Reeves, Leo Kottke, Larry Raspberry and the Highsteppers, Kansas)
1 AM Thriller

WEDU Ch. 3 Tampa (PBS)

7:30 Sesame Street
8:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
9 AM Sesame Street
10 AM Electric Company
10:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
11 AM Sesame Street
12 N Electric Company
12:30 Sesame Street
1:30 Electric Company
2 PM Zoom
2:30 Electric Company
3 PM Sesame Street
4 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
4:30 Electric Company
5 PM Firing Line
6 PM Washington Week In Review
6:30 It's Your Government
7 PM Wall Street Week
7:30 Book Beat
8 PM Carrascolendas
8:30 Great American Dream Machine (the ultimate "dream machine"--the automobile--with segments on car customizer Ed "Big Daddy" Roth and a humorous short on the frustrations of finding a parking space)
9:30 Uncle Sam Requests The Pleasure Of... (an update on how the all-volunteer Army is working)
10:30 From Cancan To Barcarolle (the life and times of 19th-century composer Jacques Offenbach, who wrote "Orpheus In Hell," "Tales Of Hoffman," and "La Perichole")
11:30 Boarding House (music)

WDBO (WKMG) Ch. 6 Orlando (CBS)

6 AM Growers' Almanac
6:30 Summer Semester: Arthur Schlesinger Jr. talks about the American Presidency
7 AM Bailey's Comets (delay from Sun 9 AM)
7:30 Amazing Chan And The Chan Clan (delay from Sun 9:30 AM)
8 AM Help! It's The Hair Bear Bunch!
8:30 Sabrina The Teenage Witch
9 AM New Scooby Doo Movies (Josie and the Pussycats team with Scooby and the gang to solve a mystery.)
10 AM My Favorite Martians (animated)
10:30 Jeannie
11 AM Speed Buggy
11:30 Josie And The Pussycats
12 N Pebbles And Bamm Bamm
12:30 Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
1 PM CBS Children's Film Festival ("Adventure In Golden Bay," '56 from Czechoslovakia)
2 PM Bill Daily's Hocus Pocus Gang
3 PM Sounding Board
3:30 U.S. Open Tennis Championships (early-round matches)
6 PM News (time approximate)
6:30 CBS News (Dan Rather)
7 PM Hee Haw (Johnny Rodriguez, the Oak Ridge Boys)
8 PM All In The Family
8:30 M*A*S*H
9 PM Mary Tyler Moore
9:30 Bob Newhart
10 PM Barnaby Jones
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "The Roots Of Heaven"

WFLA Ch. 8 Tampa (NBC)

6:30 Laurel And Hardy
7 AM Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kids
7:30 Jetsons
8 AM Lidsville
8:30 Addams Family (animated)
9 AM Emergency +4
9:30 Inch High Private Eye
10 AM Sigmund And The Sea Monsters
10:30 Pink Panther
11 AM Star Trek (animated)
11:30 The Wonderful World Around Us
12 N Information 8
1:30 That Girl
2 PM Baseball Pre-Game Show
2:15 Baseball: Red Sox-Twins or Angels-Brewers
5 PM Legends Of The West (time approximate)
6 PM News Special (topic: beach erosion)
6:30 NBC News
7 PM News
7:30 To Tell The Truth (Bill Cullen, Peggy Cass, Alan Alda, Kitty Carlisle)
8 PM NBC Movie: "Lucas Tanner"
9:30 NBC Movie: "The Rockford Files"
11 PM News
11:30 It Takes A Thief

WFTV Ch. 9 Orlando (ABC)

6:55 News
7 AM Tarzan (Ron Ely)
8 AM Bugs Bunny
8:30 Yogi's Gang
9 AM Super Friends
10 AM Lassie's Rescue Rangers
10:30 Goober And The Ghost Chasers
11 AM Brady Kids
11:30 Mission: Magic!
12 N The Invaders
1 PM Meet The Candidates (the seventeen candidates contending for state cabinet offices in the primary election)
2 PM In Session (a one-woman show with singer-composer Dory Previn)
2:30 Championship Wrestling From Florida
3:30 Golf: Tournament Players Championship (third round)
5 PM Wide World Of Sports (Evel Knievel's final tuneup before he attempts to jump the Snake River Canyon; U.S. Open Pocket Billiards Championship final pits Luther Lassiter against Steve Mizerak)
6:30 Lawrence Welk
7:30 Movie: "The Women"
10 PM College Football '74 (season preview)
11 PM ABC News (anchor not given but probably from an o&o)
11:15 News
11:30 Movie: "The Lost Weekend"
1:30 Movie: "The Human Comedy"
3 AM Movie: "Homecoming"
4:30 Movie: "Nothing But Trouble" (Laurel and Hardy in their later years, from '44)

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

6:35 Pastor's Study
6:45 News
7 AM H.R. Pufnstuf (delay from Sun 11 AM)
7:30 Make A Wish (the words "button" and "red" are illustrated by visits to the Exploratorium in San Francisco and the Colorado River, delay from Sun 11:30 AM)
8 AM Bugs Bunny
8:30 Yogi's Gang
9 AM Super Friends
10 AM Lassie's Rescue Rangers
10:30 Goober And The Ghost Chasers
11 AM Brady Kids
11:30 Mission: Magic!
12 N ABC Saturday Superstar Movie: "Mad, Mad Monsters" (Dracula, the Mummy, and the Wolfman come to the wedding of Baron von Frankenstein's "son.")
1 PM Action '74 (Eddie Kendricks, Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods)
2 PM Now
2:15 4-H Spotlight
2:30 Daniel Boone
3:30 Golf: Tournament Players Championship (third round)
5 PM Wide World Of Sports
6:30 Reasoner Report
7 PM Lawrence Welk
8 PM Partridge Family
8:30 ABC Movie: "Hitchhike!" (Cloris Leachman stars, made-for-TV)
10 PM College Football '74 Preview
11 PM ABC News
11:15 News
11:30 Movie: "The Innocents"
1 AM Involvement 10

WINK Ch. 11 Ft. Myers (CBS)

7 AM Compass
7:30 Gilligan's Island
8 AM Help! It's The Hair Bear Bunch!
8:30 Sabrina The Teenage Witch
9 AM New Scooby Doo Movies
10 AM My Favorite Martians
10:30 Jeannie
11 AM Speed Buggy
11:30 Josie And The Pussycats
12 N Pebbles And Bamm Bamm
12:30 Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
1 PM CBS Children's Film Festival
2 PM Celebrity Bowling: Earl Holliman and Robert Culp vs. James Farentino and Stephen Young ("Judd For The Defense")
2:30 Championship Wrestling From Florida
3:30 U.S. Open Tennis Championships (early-round action)
6 PM That Good Ole Nashville Music (time approximate)
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Lawrence Welk
8 PM All In The Family
8:30 M*A*S*H
9 PM Mary Tyler Moore
9:30 Bob Newhart
10 PM Barnaby Jones
11 PM News
11:15 Movie: "In Old California" (John Wayne, from '42)

WTVT Ch. 13 Tampa (CBS)

6:45 News, Fishing
7 AM Tarzan (Ron Ely)
8 AM Elephant Boy
8:30 Sabrina, The Teenage Witch
9 AM New Scooby Doo Movies
10 AM My Favorite Martians
10:30 Jeannie
11 AM Speed Buggy
11:30 Josie And The Pussycats
12 N Pebbles And Bamm Bamm
12:30 Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
1 PM CBS Children's Film Festival
2 PM Black Contact
2:30 Department S
3:30 U.S. Open Tennis Championships (early-round action)
6 PM Search For The Nile (Part 5: Henry Morton Stanley's search for David Livingstone, time approximate)
7 PM News
7:30 Wild Wild World Of Animals
8 PM All In The Family
8:30 M*A*S*H
9 PM Mary Tyler Moore
9:30 Bob Newhart
10 PM Barnaby Jones
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "Love Has Many Faces"

WUSF Ch. 16 Tampa (PBS)

2:30 Masterpiece Theatre
3:30 Human Dimension
4 PM Movie: "The Bells Of St. Mary's"
6 PM Feast Of Language
6:30 Family Classics (don't know if this is the animated "Festival Of Family Classics" or a live-action series called "Family Classics"--I remember WGHP carrying the animated show and WAGA, the live-action one)
7 PM Festival Films
7:30 Video Visionaries
8 PM Humanist Alternative (the goals of humanists and feminists are discussed by Betty Friedan and the eastern regional director of NOW)
8:30 Norman Corwin Presents (Milton Berle stars in Corwin's "The Undecided Molecule.")
9 PM International Performance (Offenbach's light opera "Les Brigands")
10:30 You (the needs of the disabled, especially job opportunities)

WBBH Ch. 20 Ft. Myers (NBC)

6 AM Movie: "Battle Hymn"
8 AM Lidsville
8:30 Addams Family (animated)
9 AM Emergency +4
9:30 Inch High Private Eye
10 AM Sigmund And The Sea Monsters
10:30 Pink Panther
11 AM Star Trek (animated)
11:30 Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kids
12 N Jetsons
12:30 Go!
1 PM This Is Tom Jones (Barbara McNair, Dick Shawn, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles)
2 PM Baseball Pre-Game Show
2:15 Baseball: Red Sox-Twins or Angels-Brewers
5 PM Bonanza (time approximate)
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Mission: Impossible
8 PM NBC Movie: "Lucas Tanner"
9:30 NBC Movie: "The Rockford Files"
11 PM News
11:30 Saturday Tonight Show (Orson Bean, Victoria Principal, singer-impressionist Dean Scott)

WMFE Ch. 24 Orlando (PBS)

7:30 Sesame Street
8:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
9 AM Sesame Street
10 AM Electric Company
10:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
11 AM Sesame Street
12 N Electric Company
12:30 Sesame Street
1:30 Electric Company
2 PM Zoom
2:30 Electric Company
3 PM Fashion Focus
3:30 America Be Fit
3:45 Living Better
4 PM Lilias, Yoga And You
4:30 Book Beat
5 PM Firing Line
6 PM Washington Week In Review
6:30 Video Visionaries
7 PM Cinema Showcase
7:30 Festival Films
8 PM Carrascolendas
8:30 Great American Dream Machine
9:30 Uncle Sam Requests The Pleasure Of...
10:30 From Cancan To Barcarolle

WSWB (WOFL) Ch. 35 Orlando (Ind.)

10:30 Cartoon Carnival
12 N ABC Saturday Superstar Movie (pre-empted on Ch. 9)
1 PM Quarter Midget Racing
1:30 Celebrity Bowling
2 PM Movie: "It Ain't Hay" (Abbott and Costello, from '43)
3:30 Putt Putt Golf Championships
4 PM Baseball Pre-Game Show
4:15 Baseball: Braves-Mets
6:30 Felony Squad (time approximate)
7 PM Big Valley
8 PM Miss Peace International Pageant (taped August 30 in Hartford, CT; host Lee Majors, Elke Sommer, Enzo Stuarti, the Shirelles)
9:30 Burke's Law
10:30 News
11 PM Movie: "Mission Stardust"

WXLT (WWSB) Ch. 40 Sarasota (ABC)

6:30 Across The Fence
7 AM Kid Power (delay from Sun 10 AM)
7:30 The Osmonds (delay from Sun 10:30 AM)
8 AM Bugs Bunny
8:30 Yogi's Gang
9 AM Super Friends
10 AM Lassie's Rescue Rangers
10:30 Goober And The Ghost Chasers
11 AM Brady Kids
11:30 Mission: Magic!
12 N ABC Saturday Superstar Movie
1 PM Action '74
2 PM American Angler
2:30 Celebrity Bowling: Roy Rogers and Ruth Buzzi vs. Jackie Gayle and Fannie Flagg
3 PM Celebrity Tennis: Ricardo Montalban and John Marley vs. Willie Shoemaker and Burt Bacharach
3:30 Golf: Tournament Players Championship (third round)
5 PM Wide World Of Sports
6:30 Reasoner Report
7 PM Lawrence Welk
8 PM Partridge Family
8:30 ABC Movie: "Hitchhike!"
10 PM College Football '74 Preview
11 PM ABC News
11:15 News
11:30 Movie: "The Thing With Two Heads" (I think this was CBS's Friday late movie, pre-empted on Ch. 13)

WTOG Ch. 44 St. Petersburg (Ind.)

7:30 Herald Of Truth
8 AM Leroy Jenkins
8:30 Gerald Derstine
9:30 Temple Heights Gospel Hour
10 AM Ernest Angley
11 AM Wally's Workshop
11:30 High Speed Living
12 N Soul Train (Johnny Taylor, Syreeta, the Joneses)
1 PM Combat!
2 PM Movie: "Warning From Space" (your ungenial host is Dr. Paul Bearer (aka Dick Bennick))
4 PM Baseball Pre-Game Show
4:15 Baseball: Braves-Mets
6:30 Greatest Sports Legends (golfer Jimmy Demaret, time approximate)
7 PM Untouchables
8 PM Championship Wrestling From Florida
9 PM Movie: "Lillian Russell"
11 PM Night Gallery (Phyllis Diller and John Astin play it straight in "Pamela's Voice," about a husband who is haunted by the nonstop-talking wife he murdered.)
11:30 Don Kirshner's Rock Concert (a tribute to Jim Croce, taped before his death, with the Carpenters, Randy Newman, Loggins and Messina, Cashman and West)
1 AM Bobby Goldsboro (guest: Charlie Rich)
 
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