Retro: Central Florida Saturday, August 17, 1974

[bpatrick]

From TV Guide, Central Florida Edition:

WESH Ch. 2 Daytona Beach/Orlando (NBC)

6:30 Across The Fence
7 AM Flying Nun
7:30 Lassie
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! (kids' show, not the '80s game show)
1 PM Soul Train (George Foreman makes a brief
appearance)
2 PM Baseball Pre-Game Show
2:15 Baseball: Dodgers-Pirates
5 PM That Good Ole Nashville Music (time approximate)
5:30 Wait Till Your Father Gets Home
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News (Tom Brokaw)
7 PM Dean Martin's Comedyworld (delay from Thursday
10 PM)
8 PM Emergency!
9 PM NFL Preseason: Bengals-Falcons
12 M Don Kirshner's Rock Concert (time approximate)
1:30 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 Tennis: Canadian Open (women's
singles final--live)
5:30 Growth: Who Pays? (time approximate)
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
9:30 Yehudi Menuhin Tribute To Willa Cather
11:30 Boarding House (music)

WDBO (WKMG) Ch. 6 Orlando (CBS)

6 AM Growers' Almanac
6:30 Summer Semester: "The American Presidency:
The Men And The Office" (timely since Nixon had
just resigned and Gerald Ford succeeded him)
7 AM Bailey's Comets (delay from Sunday 9 AM)
7:30 Amazing Chan And The Chan Clan (delay from
Sunday 9:30 AM)
8 AM Help! It's The Hair Bear Bunch!
8:30 Sabrina The Teenage Witch (animated)
9 AM New Scooby Doo Movies (an animated Dick Van
Dyke helps Scooby and the gang solve a mystery)
10 AM My Favorite Martians (animated)
10:30 Jeannie (animated)
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: "Countdown To Danger"
(England, 1967)
2 PM Sounding Board
2:30 Movie: "Theatre Of Death"
4:30 Golf: Sammy Davis Jr. Greater Hartford Open
(Third round)
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News (Dan Rather)
7 PM Hee Haw
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: "Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison"

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: Dodgers-Pirates
5 PM Legends Of The West (time approximate)
6 PM News Conference
6:30 NBC News
7 PM News
7:30 To Tell The Truth
8 PM Emergency!
9 PM NFL Preseason: Bengals-Falcons
12 M News (time approximate)
12:30 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 American Bandstand
2 PM In Session
2:30 Championship Wrestling From
Florida
3:30 Movie: "Tom Sawyer" (from 1930,
Jackie Coogan--Uncle Fester to most
of you--plays the title role)
5 PM Wide World Of Sports (Olga Korbut in
an exhibition from Expo '74; NCAA
Volleyball Championships)
6:30 Lawrence Welk
7:30 Movie: "Mr. Skeffington"
10 PM Owen Marshall, Counselor At Law
11 PM ABC News
11:15 News
11:30 Movie: "The Life Of Emile Zola"
1:30 Movie: "Anthony Adverse"
3:30 Movie: "Ship Of Fools"

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

6:35 Pastor's Study
6:45 News
7 AM H.R. Pufnstuf (delay from Sunday 11 AM)
7:30 Make A Wish (delay from Sunday 11:30 AM)
8 AM Bugs Bunny
8:30 Yogi's Gang
9 AM Prevention Of Blindness Tele-Auction (put on
by the Florida Prevention of Blindness Organization,
West Coast branch)
5 PM Wide World Of Sports
6:30 Reasoner Report
7 PM Lawrence Welk
8 PM Partridge Family
8:30 ABC Movie: "Murder Or Mercy"
10 PM Owen Marshall, Counselor At Law
11 PM ABC News
11:15 News
11:30 Movie: "A Covenant With Death"
1 AM Involvement 10

WINK Ch. 11 Fort 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
2:30 To Tell The Truth
3 PM Rifleman
3:30 Championship Wrestling From
Florida
4:30 Golf: Sammy Davis Jr. Greater
Hartford Open (Third round)
6 PM That Good Ole Nashville Music
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: "The Quiet Man"

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 Movie: "Appointment With Danger"
4 PM Dragnet (the 1967-70 version)
4:30 Golf: Sammy Davis Jr. Greater Hartford
Open (Third round)
6 PM Search For The Nile: "The Secret Fountains,"
Part 3
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: "Me And The Colonel"

WUSF Ch. 16 Tampa (PBS)

2:30 Masterpiece Theatre (probably Lord
Peter Wimsey in "Clouds Of Witness,"
part 2)
3:30 Human Dimension
4 PM Movie: "Web Of Evidence"
6 PM Feast Of Language
6:30 Family Classics (I believe this is the
live-action show and not the animated
"Festival Of Family Classics")
7 PM Festival Films
7:30 Video Visionaries
8 PM Humanist Alternative
8:30 Norman Corwin Presents (playwright
Corwin first made his mark writing radio
dramas such as "The Fall Of The City")
9 PM This Week In Government
10 PM Film
10:30 You
sign off 11 PM

WBBH Ch. 20 Fort Myers (NBC)

6 AM Movie: "Forbidden Planet"
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
2 PM Baseball Pre-Game Show
2:15 Baseball: Dodgers-Pirates
5 PM Bonanza (time approximate)
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Mission: Impossible
8 PM Emergency!
9 PM NFL Preseason: Bengals-Falcons
12 M News (time approximate)
12:30 Movie: "Duffy"
2:30 Movie: "The Matchmaker" ("Hello,
Dolly!" is based on this movie)
4 AM Movie: "Dead Ringer"

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 Tennis: Canadian Open (women's
singles final)
5:30 TBA
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 Yehudi Menuhin Tribute To Willa Cather
sign off 11:30 PM

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

10:30 Cartoon Carnival
12 N ABC Saturday Superstar Movie: "Mini-
Munsters" (pre-empted on Ch. 9)
1 PM Quarter Midget Racing
1:30 Celebrity Bowling
2 PM Movie: "Hit The Ice" (Abbott and Costello)
3:30 Movie: "War Of The Colossal Beast"
5 PM Science Fiction Theater
5:30 Cesar's World (Cesar Romero hosts a
travelogue)
6 PM Mothers-In-Law
6:30 Patty Duke
7 PM Big Valley
8 PM Partridge Family (pre-empted on Ch. 9)
8:30 The Prisoner
9:30 Burke's Law
10:30 News
11 PM Movie: "The Return Of Giant Majin" (this one's
from Japan)

WXLT (WWSB) Ch. 40 Sarasota (ABC)

6:30 Across The Fence
7 AM Kid Power (delay from Sunday 10 AM)
7:30 The Osmonds (delay from Sunday 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 American Bandstand
2 PM American Angler
2:30 Car And Track
3 PM Celebrity Bowling
3:30 Celebrity Tennis
4 PM The Avengers
5 PM Wide World Of Sports
6:30 Reasoner Report
7 PM Lawrence Welk
8 PM Partridge Family
8:30 ABC Movie: "Murder Or Mercy"
10 PM Owen Marshall, Counselor At Law
11 PM ABC News
11:15 News
11:30 Movie: "Count Yorga, Vampire"

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
1 PM Combat!
2 PM Movie: "The Horror Chamber Of
Dr. Faustus"
4 PM Movie: "The Bandit Of Zhobe"
6 PM Untouchables
7 PM Boxing From The Olympic: Shig Fukuyama
vs. Carlos Perez, featherweights, 10 rounds
8 PM Championship Wrestling From Florida
9 PM Don Kirshner's Rock Concert
10:30 Bobby Goldsboro
11 PM Night Gallery
11:30 Movie: "The Mummy's Hand"
1 AM Movie: "Captive Wild Woman"

 

[mleach]

From TV Guide, Central Florida Edition:

WESH Ch. 2 Daytona Beach/Orlando (NBC)

12:30 Go! (kids' show, not the '80s game show)

"GO!!" I believe was nothing more than a kids show using the then-new high tech thing called a "mini-cam" which allowed the kids to "GO" on location with host Jo Anne Worley such as a rodeo, a parade or whatever. I believe they even took a trip to the then brand new Sears Tower in Chicago. The one episode of "GO" I can still remember watching back then was when Worley had took a trip to Denver's Elitch Gardens Amusement Park. The mini-cam was placed in the front seat of the Mister Twister Roller Coaster ( at the time one of the biggest coasters in the country ) and the other rides like the ferris wheel, scrambler, tilt-a-whirl, octopus...you get the idea. The purpose? So the kids of America can "ride" the coaster and all the other rides at Elitch Gardens in the comfort of their homes and pjs.

 

[Stanislav]

WDBO (WKMG) Ch. 6 Orlando (CBS)

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

(*SIGH*) Boy, they sure don't make network prime-time lineups like THAT any more.....

 

[oldiesfan6479]

WDBO (WKMG) Ch. 6 Orlando (CBS)
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

(*SIGH*) Boy, they sure don't make network prime-time lineups like THAT any more.....

And even better with the then-incumbent at 10/9, Carol Burnett, who was "OS"
(look that up in your Brooks & Marsh).

I remember Barnaby more as Thursday at 10/9, or Wednesdays at 8:30/7:30
as Jed.

The Saturday 8:30/7:30 slot was one that CBS seemed to shuttle shows in and
out of each season during the '70s.

 

[oldiesfan6479]

WFTV Ch. 9 Orlando (ABC)
3:30 Movie: "Tom Sawyer" (from 1930,
Jackie Coogan--Uncle Fester to most
of you--plays the title role)

Or how about "Sgt. Barnes" to probably...very few of you?

 

[Corky Marlowe]

Quote from: bpatrick on Yesterday at 06:24:32 pm
WFTV Ch. 9 Orlando (ABC)
3:30 Movie: "Tom Sawyer" (from 1930,
Jackie Coogan--Uncle Fester to most
of you--plays the title role)


Or how about "Sgt. Barnes" to probably...very few of you?

I thought Tom Berenger was Sgt. Barnes...

 

[bpatrick]

WDBO (WKMG) Ch. 6 Orlando (CBS)
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

(*SIGH*) Boy, they sure don't make network prime-time lineups like THAT any more.....

And even better with the then-incumbent at 10/9, Carol Burnett, who was "OS"
(look that up in your Brooks & Marsh).

I remember Barnaby more as Thursday at 10/9, or Wednesdays at 8:30/7:30
as Jed.

The Saturday 8:30/7:30 slot was one that CBS seemed to shuttle shows in and
out of each season during the '70s.

"Barnaby Jones" had been moved out of its original Sunday 9:30/8:30 slot
to make room for "60 Minutes," which would do well enough at the same time
the following summer to warrant its present Sunday 7/6 slot in December '75.
In the fall of '74 "Barnaby Jones" began moving in tandem with "Hawaii Five-O,"
first on Tuesdays, then on Fridays in the fall of 1975, and finally on Thursdays
from January 1976-December 1979, when "Five-O" moved to Saturday. "Barnaby"
took over the Thursday 9/8 slot, and "Knots Landing" was put it at 10/9. During
that 5+ years "Five-O" always aired at 9/8, followed by "Barnaby" 10/9.

There were two reasons for the turnover in shows at 8:30 Saturdays, first noticed
when "Bridget Loves Bernie" occupied that slot in 1972-73: lead-in "All In The Family"
was drawing about 50 million viewers (no cable competition), lead-out Mary Tyler Moore,
about 40 million. "Bridget Loves Bernie," although a top-10 show, attracted about 30
million...too many people switching channels or leaving the room to suit CBS. So in
'73 "M*A*S*H" got the slot and became a full-fledged hit; it should have stayed there,
but Fred Silverman saw it as his giant-killer; when he scheduled it on Fridays against
NBC's "Chico And The Man," the latter show never regained the strength of its first season.
"Paul Sand In Friends And Lovers" never caught the public's fancy; "The Jeffersons" did,
but when the family-hour rule forced "AITF" out of the 8 PM slot in 1975, the turnover
really began...and then ABC clicked with "The Love Boat" and "Fantasy Island" in the
1977-78 season.

But while it lasted, the CBS Saturday-night block was the original "must-see TV"; we
used to jam the TV rooms in the dorm to watch. And I still wish WGN or somebody
would run the '70s Bob Newhart shows again.

 

[Braves2005]

Do you have the listings for Monday, August 19th, 1974? I wanted to see what was on weekdays.

 

[oldiesfan6479]

I thought Tom Berenger was Sgt. Barnes...

Think 1962-1963, NBC, Sunday 6:30/5:30 (as everyone goes rushing
to their Brooks & Marsh). Obscurity rules!

 

[Ultimajock]

WUSF Ch. 16 Tampa (PBS)

8:30 Norman Corwin Presents (playwright
Corwin first made his mark writing radio
dramas such as "The Fall Of The City")

...Fall of the City was Archibald MacLeish, not Norman Corwin. Corwin's most important pieces were We Hold These Truths (15 December 1941, the 150th Anniversary of the Bill of Rights becoming part of the Constitution, and only 8 days after Pearl Harbor was bombed), On a Note of Triumph (8 May 1945, VE Day) and Fourteen August (14 August 1945, the day the Japanese announced they were surrendering to the Allies to end World War 2)...

 

[bpatrick]

The Corwin/MacLeish mixup is what I get for dabbling
too deeply into radio history. But I remember reading
somewhere the Corwin 1941 program that aired after
Pearl Harbor had an all-star cast headed by Lionel
Barrymore.

"Fall Of The City" did have an impact, though, on Orson
Welles, who used the same breaking-news technique for
the more famous "War Of The Worlds."

 

[Ultimajock]

...indeed, Norman Corwin's We Hold These Truths did feature Lionel Barrymore, but the "host" was James Stewart, by special arrangement with the Army Air Forces (he enlisted back in March '41), and among the supporting players were Orson Welles, Edward G. Robinson, Walter Brennan and Walter Huston. In fact, Welles had been on the Gulf Screen Guild Theatre the night of 7 December 1941 in another Corwin script, Between Americans (one that, for whatever reason, Corwin himself isn't particularly fond of; I think it's very good)...

...and I think another Archibald MacLeish script that had even more profound an effect on Welles' version of The War of the Worlds was Air Raid, which was broadcast only three nights before WOTW and (IIRC) used actual CBS newsman John Charles Daly as its radio reporter...