From TV Guide, Central Florida Edition:
WESH Ch. 2 Daytona Beach/Orlando (NBC)
7 AM Across The Fence
7:30 Flying Nun
8 AM Dr. Dolittle
8:30 Woody Woodpecker
9 AM Deputy Dawg
9:30 Pink Panther
10 AM New Year's Parade Salute: "Rose Parade Sounds
Of '72" from Pasadena (Bobby Vinton hosts);
the Junior Orange Bowl Parade from Coral Gables, FL
(Bert Parks and former Miss America Vonda Kay Van Dyke
host)
11:30 Tournament Of Roses Parade (Raymond Burr and Betty White
report for NBC)
1:45 Rose Bowl Preview
2 PM Star Trek
3 PM Safari To Adventure
3:30 Bob Underwood's Outdoor World
4 PM That Good Ole Nashville Music (Tom T. Hall, Arlene Harden,
Waylon Jennings, Stringbean)
4:30 Rose Bowl Pre-Game Show
4:45 Rose Bowl: Michigan-Stanford (the two teams who played in
the first Rose Bowl, in 1902 (Michigan won the 1902 game,
49-0; this time, Stanford won, 13-12)
7:45 Orange Bowl Pre-Game Show (time approximate)
8 PM Orange Bowl: Nebraska-Alabama for the national championship
(Nebraska won, 38-6)
11 PM News, Weather, Sports (time approximate)
11:30 Movie: "Many Rivers To Cross"
WEDU Ch. 3 Tampa (PBS)
5:30 Evening At Pops (ragtime pianist Max Morath is guest)
6:30 Front Desk (representatives of the American Cancer Society,
the Palma Ceia Women's Club, the Hillsborough County Department
of Health)
7 PM Masquerade (three tales of magic and intrigue: "Jack And The Beanstalk,"
"Abu Nowas" (about a good-natured scalawag), "The Three Treasures"
(how an innkeeper cheats three lazy boys))
7:30 The Advocates (should the ERA be enacted?)
8:30 Hollywood Television Theatre ("Day Of Absence"--what happens when
the black work force takes a day off)
9:30 Book Beat
10 PM Masterpiece Theatre ("Cold Comfort Farm", to 12)
WDBO (WKMG) Ch. 6 Orlando (CBS)
6:30 Growers' Almanac
7 AM Tom & Jerry (delay from Sun 9 AM)
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 Tournament Of Roses Parade Preview (Bob
Barker and June Lockhart host)
10:30 Cotton Bowl Festival Parade (Peter Graves and
Marilyn Van Derbur host)
11:30 Tournament Of Roses Parade (Bob Barker and
June Lockhart report for CBS)
1:45 Cotton Bowl: Texas-Penn State (Penn State won,
30-6)
4:30 TBA
5 PM Porter Wagoner
5:30 Bill Anderson
6 PM News, Weather, Sports
6:30 CBS News (Roger Mudd)
7 PM Hee Haw
8 PM All In The Family
8:30 Mary Tyler Moore
9 PM The New Dick Van Dyke Show
9:30 Arnie
10 PM Mission: Impossible
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Movie: "Santiago"
WFLA Ch. 8 Tampa (NBC)
6:30 Across The Fence
7 AM Movie: "The Mole People" (this is not "Superman
And The Mole Men"--Hugh Beaumont appears in
this one)
8:30 McHale's Navy
9 AM History In The Making
9:30 Pink Panther
10 AM New Year's Parade Salute
11:30 Tournament Of Roses Parade
1:45 Rose Bowl Preview
2 PM Movie: "The Dark At The Top Of The Stairs"
4:30 Rose Bowl Pre-Game Show
4:45 Rose Bowl
7:45 Orange Bowl Pre-Game Show (time approximate)
8 PM Orange Bowl
11 PM News, Weather, Sports (time approximate)
11:30 Changing Times
11:45 Movie: "On The Riviera" (Danny Kaye)
WFTV Ch. 9 Orlando (ABC)
6:55 News, Weather, Sports
7 AM Thunderbirds
7:30 Huck & Yogi
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 UPI Year End Sports Review
11:30 Sugar Bowl Pre-Game Show (includes an interview
with Heisman winner Pat Sullivan of Auburn--and
I still think Ed Marinaro should have won it
that year)
12 N Sugar Bowl: Oklahoma-Auburn (Oklahoma won, 40-22)
3 PM Outer Limits (time approximate, the Central Florida Edition
listed Orlando auto dealer Art Grindle as host--believe me,
his commercials were every bit as memorable as Cal Worthington's)
4 PM Commercial Film (what today we might call an infomercial)
4:30 Sports Challenge (former New York Giants Frank Gifford, Kyle Rote,
and Charley Conerly vs. former Los Angeles Rams Roman Gabriel,
Deacon Jones, and Merlin Olsen)
5 PM Movie: "The Pathfinder" (watch for Jay Silverheels in this one)
6:30 News, Weather, Sports
7 PM Pet Set (Betty White hosts; Vikki Carr talks about wildlife rescue)
7:30 Lawrence Welk (salute to the Rose Bowl teams, 1972 Rose Queen Margo
Lynn Johnson and her court)
8:30 ABC Movie: "The Feminist And The Fuzz" (Barbara Eden, David Hartman)
10 PM The Persuaders (about to move to Wed 9:30 as "The Sixth Sense" debuts
in this timeslot)
11 PM ABC News (Sam Donaldson)
11:15 News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Movie: "The Prisoner Of Zenda"
WLCY (WTSP) Ch. 10 St. Petersburg (ABC)
6:45 News
7 AM Romper Room
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 Jonny Quest
11:30 Sugar Bowl Pre-Game Show
12 N Sugar Bowl
3 PM Now (time approximate)
3:15 4-H Spotlite
3:30 Movies: "The Second Greatest Sex" and "The
Oklahoman" (Barbara Hale co-stars in the second one)
6:30 News, Weather, Sports
7 PM Lawrence Welk
8 PM Getting Together (Bobby Sherman)
8:30 ABC Movie: "The Feminist And The Fuzz"
10 PM The Persuaders
11 PM ABC News
11:15 Football Scoreboard
11:30 Movie: "The Last Rebel" (true story of outlaw Joaquin
Murrieta--I think there was a different movie with this title
in the late '60s starring Joe Namath)
1 AM Involvement 10
WINK Ch. 11 Ft. Myers (CBS)
7 AM Compass
7:30 Cisco Kid
8 AM Bugs Bunny
8:30 Scooby Doo, Where Are You?
9 AM Harlem Globetrotters
9:30 Help! It's The Hair Bear Bunch!
10 AM Tournament Of Roses Parade Preview
10:30 Cotton Bowl Festival Parade
11:30 Tournament Of Roses Parade
1:45 Cotton Bowl
5 PM Wrestling (probably from Tampa)
6 PM Sports Challenge
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Lawrence Welk
8 PM All In The Family
8:30 Mary Tyler Moore
9 PM The New Dick Van Dyke Show
9:30 Arnie
10 PM Mission: Impossible
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Movie: "The Kid From Left Field"
WTVT Ch. 13 Tampa (CBS)
6:45 News, Fishing, Weather
7 AM Tarzan
8 AM Bugs Bunny
8:30 Scooby Doo, Where Are You?
9 AM Harlem Globetrotters
9:30 Help! It's The Hair Bear Bunch!
10 AM Tournament Of Roses Parade Preview
10:30 Cotton Bowl Festival Parade
11:30 Tournament Of Roses Parade
1:45 Cotton Bowl
4:30 Here's Lucy (time approximate, delay from
Mon 9 PM)
5 PM Gunsmoke (delay from Mon 8 PM)
6 PM News, Weather, Sports
6:30 Perry Mason
7:30 Dragnet
8 PM All In The Family
8:30 Mary Tyler Moore
9 PM The New Dick Van Dyke Show
10 PM Mission: Impossible
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Movie: "Betrayed"
WUSF Ch. 16 Tampa (PBS)
off air on Saturday
WBBH Ch. 20 Ft. Myers (NBC/ABC)
6 AM Cartoons
7 AM Batman (Shelley Winters as Ma Parker,
two episodes)
8 AM Dr. Dolittle
8:30 Woody Woodpecker
9 AM Deputy Dawg
9:30 Pink Panther
10 AM New Year's Parade Salute
11:30 Tournament Of Roses Parade
1:45 Rose Bowl Preview
2 PM Movie: "The Kettles On Old MacDonald's
Farm" (watch for Parker Fennelly, the voice
of Pepperidge Farm in the '60s, as Pa Kettle)
3:30 Hee Haw (guests: Amanda Blake, Buddy Alan)
4:30 Rose Bowl Pre-Game Show
4:45 Rose Bowl
7:45 Orange Bowl Pre-Game Show (time approximate)
8 PM Orange Bowl
11 PM News, Weather, Sports (time approximate)
11:30 Movies: "Behold A Pale Horse," "Female On The
Beach," "White Slave Ship," "Romulus And The
Sabines" (to 6:30 AM)
WMFE Ch. 24 Orlando (PBS)
off air on Saturday
WXLT (WWSB) Ch. 40 Sarasota (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 Jonny Quest
11:30 Sugar Bowl Pre-Game Show
12 N Sugar Bowl
3 PM Movie: "Bikini Beach" (time approximate)
5 PM Movie: "It's A Bikini World"
6:30 Across The Seven Seas
7 PM Lawrence Welk
8 PM Getting Together
8:30 ABC Movie: "The Feminist And The Fuzz"
10 PM The Persuaders
11 PM ABC News
11:15 Movie: "The Astounding She-Monster"
WTOG Ch. 44 St. Petersburg (Ind.)
1:30 For Adults Only (guest: Art Buchwald; hosts:
Joyce (Mrs. David) Susskind and Barbara Howar)
2 PM Conversations With Galadriel
2:30 Rollin' On The River (B.J. Thomas joins Kenny Rogers
and the First Edition)
3 PM Movies: "Every Day's A Holiday" (Mae West), "Disraeli"
(from 1929)
6:30 CBS News (pre-empted on Ch. 13)
7 PM Boxing From The Forum (Arturo Zuniga vs. Bobby Jordan,
lightweights, 10 rounds)
8 PM Championship Wrestling From Florida
9 PM Movies: "Devils Of Darkness," "The Beast With Five Fingers,"
"Calling Dr. Death" (and that is not wrestler Steve Williams)
WESH Ch. 2 Daytona Beach/Orlando (NBC)
7 AM Across The Fence
7:30 Flying Nun
8 AM Dr. Dolittle
8:30 Woody Woodpecker
9 AM Deputy Dawg
9:30 Pink Panther
10 AM New Year's Parade Salute: "Rose Parade Sounds
Of '72" from Pasadena (Bobby Vinton hosts);
the Junior Orange Bowl Parade from Coral Gables, FL
(Bert Parks and former Miss America Vonda Kay Van Dyke
host)
11:30 Tournament Of Roses Parade (Raymond Burr and Betty White
report for NBC)
1:45 Rose Bowl Preview
2 PM Star Trek
3 PM Safari To Adventure
3:30 Bob Underwood's Outdoor World
4 PM That Good Ole Nashville Music (Tom T. Hall, Arlene Harden,
Waylon Jennings, Stringbean)
4:30 Rose Bowl Pre-Game Show
4:45 Rose Bowl: Michigan-Stanford (the two teams who played in
the first Rose Bowl, in 1902 (Michigan won the 1902 game,
49-0; this time, Stanford won, 13-12)
7:45 Orange Bowl Pre-Game Show (time approximate)
8 PM Orange Bowl: Nebraska-Alabama for the national championship
(Nebraska won, 38-6)
11 PM News, Weather, Sports (time approximate)
11:30 Movie: "Many Rivers To Cross"
WEDU Ch. 3 Tampa (PBS)
5:30 Evening At Pops (ragtime pianist Max Morath is guest)
6:30 Front Desk (representatives of the American Cancer Society,
the Palma Ceia Women's Club, the Hillsborough County Department
of Health)
7 PM Masquerade (three tales of magic and intrigue: "Jack And The Beanstalk,"
"Abu Nowas" (about a good-natured scalawag), "The Three Treasures"
(how an innkeeper cheats three lazy boys))
7:30 The Advocates (should the ERA be enacted?)
8:30 Hollywood Television Theatre ("Day Of Absence"--what happens when
the black work force takes a day off)
9:30 Book Beat
10 PM Masterpiece Theatre ("Cold Comfort Farm", to 12)
WDBO (WKMG) Ch. 6 Orlando (CBS)
6:30 Growers' Almanac
7 AM Tom & Jerry (delay from Sun 9 AM)
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 Tournament Of Roses Parade Preview (Bob
Barker and June Lockhart host)
10:30 Cotton Bowl Festival Parade (Peter Graves and
Marilyn Van Derbur host)
11:30 Tournament Of Roses Parade (Bob Barker and
June Lockhart report for CBS)
1:45 Cotton Bowl: Texas-Penn State (Penn State won,
30-6)
4:30 TBA
5 PM Porter Wagoner
5:30 Bill Anderson
6 PM News, Weather, Sports
6:30 CBS News (Roger Mudd)
7 PM Hee Haw
8 PM All In The Family
8:30 Mary Tyler Moore
9 PM The New Dick Van Dyke Show
9:30 Arnie
10 PM Mission: Impossible
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Movie: "Santiago"
WFLA Ch. 8 Tampa (NBC)
6:30 Across The Fence
7 AM Movie: "The Mole People" (this is not "Superman
And The Mole Men"--Hugh Beaumont appears in
this one)
8:30 McHale's Navy
9 AM History In The Making
9:30 Pink Panther
10 AM New Year's Parade Salute
11:30 Tournament Of Roses Parade
1:45 Rose Bowl Preview
2 PM Movie: "The Dark At The Top Of The Stairs"
4:30 Rose Bowl Pre-Game Show
4:45 Rose Bowl
7:45 Orange Bowl Pre-Game Show (time approximate)
8 PM Orange Bowl
11 PM News, Weather, Sports (time approximate)
11:30 Changing Times
11:45 Movie: "On The Riviera" (Danny Kaye)
WFTV Ch. 9 Orlando (ABC)
6:55 News, Weather, Sports
7 AM Thunderbirds
7:30 Huck & Yogi
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 UPI Year End Sports Review
11:30 Sugar Bowl Pre-Game Show (includes an interview
with Heisman winner Pat Sullivan of Auburn--and
I still think Ed Marinaro should have won it
that year)
12 N Sugar Bowl: Oklahoma-Auburn (Oklahoma won, 40-22)
3 PM Outer Limits (time approximate, the Central Florida Edition
listed Orlando auto dealer Art Grindle as host--believe me,
his commercials were every bit as memorable as Cal Worthington's)
4 PM Commercial Film (what today we might call an infomercial)
4:30 Sports Challenge (former New York Giants Frank Gifford, Kyle Rote,
and Charley Conerly vs. former Los Angeles Rams Roman Gabriel,
Deacon Jones, and Merlin Olsen)
5 PM Movie: "The Pathfinder" (watch for Jay Silverheels in this one)
6:30 News, Weather, Sports
7 PM Pet Set (Betty White hosts; Vikki Carr talks about wildlife rescue)
7:30 Lawrence Welk (salute to the Rose Bowl teams, 1972 Rose Queen Margo
Lynn Johnson and her court)
8:30 ABC Movie: "The Feminist And The Fuzz" (Barbara Eden, David Hartman)
10 PM The Persuaders (about to move to Wed 9:30 as "The Sixth Sense" debuts
in this timeslot)
11 PM ABC News (Sam Donaldson)
11:15 News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Movie: "The Prisoner Of Zenda"
WLCY (WTSP) Ch. 10 St. Petersburg (ABC)
6:45 News
7 AM Romper Room
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 Jonny Quest
11:30 Sugar Bowl Pre-Game Show
12 N Sugar Bowl
3 PM Now (time approximate)
3:15 4-H Spotlite
3:30 Movies: "The Second Greatest Sex" and "The
Oklahoman" (Barbara Hale co-stars in the second one)
6:30 News, Weather, Sports
7 PM Lawrence Welk
8 PM Getting Together (Bobby Sherman)
8:30 ABC Movie: "The Feminist And The Fuzz"
10 PM The Persuaders
11 PM ABC News
11:15 Football Scoreboard
11:30 Movie: "The Last Rebel" (true story of outlaw Joaquin
Murrieta--I think there was a different movie with this title
in the late '60s starring Joe Namath)
1 AM Involvement 10
WINK Ch. 11 Ft. Myers (CBS)
7 AM Compass
7:30 Cisco Kid
8 AM Bugs Bunny
8:30 Scooby Doo, Where Are You?
9 AM Harlem Globetrotters
9:30 Help! It's The Hair Bear Bunch!
10 AM Tournament Of Roses Parade Preview
10:30 Cotton Bowl Festival Parade
11:30 Tournament Of Roses Parade
1:45 Cotton Bowl
5 PM Wrestling (probably from Tampa)
6 PM Sports Challenge
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Lawrence Welk
8 PM All In The Family
8:30 Mary Tyler Moore
9 PM The New Dick Van Dyke Show
9:30 Arnie
10 PM Mission: Impossible
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Movie: "The Kid From Left Field"
WTVT Ch. 13 Tampa (CBS)
6:45 News, Fishing, Weather
7 AM Tarzan
8 AM Bugs Bunny
8:30 Scooby Doo, Where Are You?
9 AM Harlem Globetrotters
9:30 Help! It's The Hair Bear Bunch!
10 AM Tournament Of Roses Parade Preview
10:30 Cotton Bowl Festival Parade
11:30 Tournament Of Roses Parade
1:45 Cotton Bowl
4:30 Here's Lucy (time approximate, delay from
Mon 9 PM)
5 PM Gunsmoke (delay from Mon 8 PM)
6 PM News, Weather, Sports
6:30 Perry Mason
7:30 Dragnet
8 PM All In The Family
8:30 Mary Tyler Moore
9 PM The New Dick Van Dyke Show
10 PM Mission: Impossible
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Movie: "Betrayed"
WUSF Ch. 16 Tampa (PBS)
off air on Saturday
WBBH Ch. 20 Ft. Myers (NBC/ABC)
6 AM Cartoons
7 AM Batman (Shelley Winters as Ma Parker,
two episodes)
8 AM Dr. Dolittle
8:30 Woody Woodpecker
9 AM Deputy Dawg
9:30 Pink Panther
10 AM New Year's Parade Salute
11:30 Tournament Of Roses Parade
1:45 Rose Bowl Preview
2 PM Movie: "The Kettles On Old MacDonald's
Farm" (watch for Parker Fennelly, the voice
of Pepperidge Farm in the '60s, as Pa Kettle)
3:30 Hee Haw (guests: Amanda Blake, Buddy Alan)
4:30 Rose Bowl Pre-Game Show
4:45 Rose Bowl
7:45 Orange Bowl Pre-Game Show (time approximate)
8 PM Orange Bowl
11 PM News, Weather, Sports (time approximate)
11:30 Movies: "Behold A Pale Horse," "Female On The
Beach," "White Slave Ship," "Romulus And The
Sabines" (to 6:30 AM)
WMFE Ch. 24 Orlando (PBS)
off air on Saturday
WXLT (WWSB) Ch. 40 Sarasota (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 Jonny Quest
11:30 Sugar Bowl Pre-Game Show
12 N Sugar Bowl
3 PM Movie: "Bikini Beach" (time approximate)
5 PM Movie: "It's A Bikini World"
6:30 Across The Seven Seas
7 PM Lawrence Welk
8 PM Getting Together
8:30 ABC Movie: "The Feminist And The Fuzz"
10 PM The Persuaders
11 PM ABC News
11:15 Movie: "The Astounding She-Monster"
WTOG Ch. 44 St. Petersburg (Ind.)
1:30 For Adults Only (guest: Art Buchwald; hosts:
Joyce (Mrs. David) Susskind and Barbara Howar)
2 PM Conversations With Galadriel
2:30 Rollin' On The River (B.J. Thomas joins Kenny Rogers
and the First Edition)
3 PM Movies: "Every Day's A Holiday" (Mae West), "Disraeli"
(from 1929)
6:30 CBS News (pre-empted on Ch. 13)
7 PM Boxing From The Forum (Arturo Zuniga vs. Bobby Jordan,
lightweights, 10 rounds)
8 PM Championship Wrestling From Florida
9 PM Movies: "Devils Of Darkness," "The Beast With Five Fingers,"
"Calling Dr. Death" (and that is not wrestler Steve Williams)