Retro: Central Florida Saturday, November 17, 1973

[bpatrick]

From TV Guide, Central Florida Edition:

WESH Ch. 2 Daytona Beach/Orlando (NBC)

6:30 Man And Environment
7 AM Flying Nun
7:30 Lassie (new)
8 AM Lidsville
8:30 Inch High Private Eye
9 AM Addams Family (animated)
9:30 Emergency +4
10 AM Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kids
10:30 Star Trek (animated)
11 AM Sigmund And The Sea Monsters
11:30 Pink Panther
12 N Jetsons
12:30 Go!
1 PM Soul Train
2 PM Movie: "King Rat"
4:30 That Good Ole Nashville Music
5 PM NFL Highlights
5:30 The Explorers
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News (Tom Brokaw)
7 PM America (Alistair Cooke looks at the influx
of immigrants at the turn of the 20th century.)
8 PM Emergency!
9 PM NBC Movie: "The Andromeda Strain"
11:40 News
12 M Movie: "Alvarez Kelly"
1:15 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 The Session (Australian duo Burton and
Cunico perform folk-rock)
8:30 Reddick ("Hee Haw"'s Don Harron in a serious
role as a young minister faced with a problem:
having won the respect of the young toughs
in his present church, he gets a chance to move
to a more prestigious church and the kids think
he's used them to fulfill his own ambitions.)
10 PM The Royal Family (coincidentally, as I'm posting this,
Prince William has just announced his engagement)
sign off 11:30 PM

WDBO (WKMG) Ch. 6 Orlando (CBS)

6 AM Growers' Almanac
6:30 Sunrise Semester: "The World Of Islam"
7 AM Flintstones (separate from the network show at 8 AM)
7:30 Amazing Chan And The Chan Clan (delay from Sun 9:30 AM)
8 AM Flintstones
8:30 Bailey's Comets
9 AM New Scooby Doo Movies: "Loch Ness Mess," with the Harlem
Globetrotters in animated form
10 AM My Favorite Martians (animated)
10:30 Jeannie (animated)
11 AM Speed Buggy
11:30 Josie And The Pussycats
12 N Everything's Archie
12:30 Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
1 PM CBS Children's Film Festival: "Stowaway In The Sky"
('60, from France, part 1 of 2)
2 PM Challenge Of The Mountain
2:30 NBA Basketball: Trail Blazers-Rockets
5 PM Disney World Golf Preview (time approximate)
5:30 Southeastern Football Highlights
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News (Dan Rather)
7 PM Hee Haw (guests: Donna Fargo and O.B. McClinton)
8 PM All In The Family
8:30 M*A*S*H (guest: Teri Garr)
9 PM Mary Tyler Moore
9:30 Bob Newhart (Katherine Helmond, pre-"Soap", appears)
10 PM Carol Burnett
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "Night Gallery" (pilot for the series, from '69)

WFLA Ch. 8 Tampa (NBC)

7 AM Laurel And Hardy
8 AM Lidsville
8:30 Inch High Private Eye
9 AM Addams Family (animated)
9:30 Emergency +4
10 AM Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kids
10:30 Star Trek (animated)
11 AM Sigmund And The Sea Monsters
11:30 History In The Making
12 N Information 8
1:30 Categorically Speaking (St. Petersburg vs.
Dunedin High)
2 PM Movie: "Journey To The Center Of Time"
3:30 Movie: "The Boy With Green Hair"
5 PM Death Valley Days
5:30 Rapping With Mannion (topic: the news
media and jury selection)
6 PM News Conference
6:30 NBC News
7 PM News
7:30 Golden Voyage
8 PM Emergency!
9 PM NBC Movie: "The Andromeda Strain"
11:40 News
12:10 It Takes A Thief (x2)

WFTV Ch. 9 Orlando (ABC)

6:55 News
7 AM ABC Saturday Superstar Movie: "Robin
Hoodnik" (delay from noon)
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 Tarzan
1 PM High School Football
1:30 College Football Preview
1:45 College Football: wild-card game to be selected
a few days before air date
5 PM Wide World Of Sports: 19th U.S. Nationals drag
racing, International Pro Skiing Championships,
individual competition at the European Ladies'
Gymnastics Championships (time approximate)
6:30 Reasoner Report
7 PM Lawrence Welk (Thanksgiving show)
8 PM Partridge Family
8:30 Six Million Dollar Man
10 PM Griff (Lorne Greene, guest: Ricardo Montalban,
who will have this timeslot five years hence with
"Fantasy Island")
11 PM ABC News
11:15 News
11:30 Movie: "Bus Stop"
1:20 Movie: "After The Thin Man"
3:10 Movie: "Sundays And Cybele"
5 AM Movie: "Secret Of The Blue Room"

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

6:45 News
7 AM H.R. Pufnstuf (delay from Sun 11 AM)
7:30 Make A Wish (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: "Nanny
And The Professor" (animated)
1 PM American Bandstand (guest: Johnny Whitaker)
1:30 College Football Preview
1:45 College Football
5 PM Wide World Of Sports (time approximate)
6:30 Reasoner Report
7 PM Lawrence Welk
8 PM Partridge Family
8:30 Six Million Dollar Man
10 PM Griff
11 PM ABC News
11:15 Movie: "The Caper Of The Golden Bulls"
1 AM Involvement 10

WINK Ch. 11 Ft. Myers (CBS)

7 AM Compass
7:30 Cisco Kid
8 AM Flintstones
8:30 Bailey's Comets
9 AM New Scooby Doo Movies
10 AM My Favorite Martians (animated)
10:30 Jeannie (animated)
11 AM Speed Buggy
11:30 Josie And The Pussycats
12 N Everything's Archie
12:30 Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
1 PM CBS Children's Film Festival
2 PM Celebrity Bowling: Lloyd Bridges and
Tige Andrews vs. James Farentino and
Jill St. John
2:30 NBA Basketball: Trail Blazers-Rockets
5 PM Wrestling (time approximate)
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 Carol Burnett
11 PM News
11:15 Movie: "The Hellbenders"

WTVT Ch. 13 Tampa (CBS)

6:45 News, Fishing
7 AM Tarzan
8 AM Flintstones
8:30 Bailey's Comets
9 AM New Scooby Doo Movies
10 AM My Favorite Martians (animated)
10:30 Jeannie (animated)
11 AM Speed Buggy
11:30 Josie And The Pussycats
12 N Everything's Archie
12:30 Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
1 PM CBS Children's Film Festival
2 PM Opportunity Line
2:30 College Kaleidoscope
3 PM Mayberry R.F.D.
3:30 Insight (local public affairs, not the
religious program)
4 PM High Q (Cardinal Mooney vs. Dunedin
High)
4:30 UFO
5:30 Dragnet (w/Harry Morgan)
6 PM News
6:30 Department S
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 Carol Burnett
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "Trial Run"

WUSF Ch. 16 Tampa (PBS)
off air on Saturday

WBBH Ch. 20 Ft. Myers (NBC/ABC)

6 AM Movie: "Sands Of Beersheba"
7:30 Flipper
8 AM Lidsville
8:30 Inch High Private Eye
9 AM Addams Family (animated)
9:30 Emergency +4
10 AM Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kids
10:30 Star Trek (animated)
11 AM Sigmund And The Sea Monsters
11:30 Pink Panther
12 N Jetsons
12:30 Go!
1 PM I Dream Of Jeannie
1:30 College Football Preview
1:45 College Football
5 PM Wide World Of Sports (time approximate)
6:30 News
7 PM Price Is Right (Dennis James)
7:30 Let's Make A Deal (Monty Hall)
8 PM Emergency!
9 PM NBC Movie: "The Andromeda Strain"
11:40 News
12:10 Movie: "Castle Keep"
1:30 Movie: "What's Up, Tiger Lily?"
3 AM Movie: "Copacabana Palace"
4:30 Movie: "The Girl-Getters"

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
sign off 3 PM

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 American Bandstand
1:30 College Football Preview
1:45 College Football
5 PM Wide World Of Sports (time approximate)
6:30 Reasoner Report
7 PM Lawrence Welk
8 PM Partridge Family
8:30 Six Million Dollar Man
10 PM Griff
11 PM ABC News
11:15 News
11:30 Movie: "The Creeping Flesh"

WTOG Ch. 44 St. Petersburg (Ind.)

7:30 Chaplain Of Bourbon Street (Bob Harrington)
8 AM Leroy Jenkins
8:30 Rev. Don Stewart
9 AM Temple Heights Gospel Hour
9:30 Unshackled--God's Freedom
10 AM Ernest Angley
11 AM Wally's Workshop
11:30 Munsters
12 N Lost In Space
1 PM Combat!
2 PM Movie: "Revenge Of The Creature"
4 PM Movie: "The Guns Of Fort Petticoat"
6 PM Untouchables (watch for Connie Hines, Carol
Post on "Mister Ed", in this one)
7 PM Wrestling
8 PM Boxing From The Olympic: Pedro Lovell vs.
Cliff McDonald, heavyweights, 10 rounds
9 PM Celebrity Bowling: James MacArthur and Robert
Clary vs. Davy Jones and Alan (Fred Flintstone)
Reed
9:30 Buck Owens (guests: Pat Roberts (who?), David
Frizzell, Tony Booth)
10 PM Wilburn Brothers (guests: Jack Greene and Jeannie
Seely)
10:30 Porter Wagoner
11 PM Night Gallery
11:30 Movie: "House Of Frankenstein" (Boris Karloff)
1:30 Movie: "The Mummy's Ghost" (Lon Chaney)

 

[gregg75]

Wasn't independent WTOG 44 a superstation at this time? I think they were big in Florida, but never reached the status of Turner's WTCG. I wonder why? What made WTOG so popular?

 

[azumanga]

WDBO (WKMG) Ch. 6 Orlando (CBS)

7 AM Flintstones (separate from the network show at 8 AM)
7:30 Amazing Chan And The Chan Clan (delay from Sun 9:30 AM)
8 AM Flintstones

The 8AM show on CBS was a new series, "The Flintstones Comedy Show". The 7AM program was likely the original series.

WFLA Ch. 8 Tampa (NBC)

1:30 Categorically Speaking (St. Petersburg vs.
Dunedin High)

WTVT Ch. 13 Tampa (CBS)

4 PM High Q (Cardinal Mooney vs. Dunedin
High)

Kind of unusual for the same school to appear on two different quiz shows the same day.

Wasn't independent WTOG 44 a superstation at this time? I think they were big in Florida, but never reached the status of Turner's WTCG. I wonder why? What made WTOG so popular?

They were kind of a superstation at the time, but I do not know the extent of it -- they were seen on cable systems at least in the central and southwestern parts of the state.

In the 1980s I came across an article in the Tallahassee Democrat, about the local cable system in that city -- the article did mention them contemplating adding WTOG in the lineup, though I don;t think they ever did.

 

[bpatrick]

Right about "The Flintstones" on Ch. 6. Believe it or not,
at the time Ch. 6 pre-empted "Match Game" at 3:30 to
show the original episodes of Fred and company.

It struck me as strange, too, that Dunedin High appeared
on both high-school quiz bowls on the same day. I was
at the University of Georgia at the time and have no idea
how they made out.

I don't recall WTOG ever being carried on cable outside
Florida. In Brevard County, on the East Coast (where Cocoa
Beach is, "I Dream Of Jeannie" fans), it was carried along with
WFLA and WTVT on cable, and I'm sure it was in other parts
of Florida (at that point, Miami had the only other independent;
Orlando would get one in '74) as well. But a superstation of
WTCG proportions? Never happened.

 

[Stanislav]

I don't recall WTOG ever being carried on cable outside
Florida. In Brevard County, on the East Coast (where Cocoa
Beach is, "I Dream Of Jeannie" fans), it was carried along with
WFLA and WTVT on cable, and I'm sure it was in other parts
of Florida (at that point, Miami had the only other independent;
Orlando would get one in '74) as well. But a superstation of
WTCG proportions? Never happened.

I came to Orlando in 1970, and at the time, as you point out, WTOG and Miami's WCIX were about the only classic, non-religious, non-Spanish indies in the state. A lot of fairly distant cable systems would pick up WTOG (with varying results, depending on how much effort they put into it) to offer an extra choice on those primitive 12-channel systems. Later on, the system we subscribed to picked up WCIX and Ft. Lauderdale's WKID via microwave, dropping WTOG (but WSWB in Orlando had signed on by then, so for a time we had the luxury of three independents -- ooooo! That is, until WSWB went belly-up and U.S. Marshals pulled the plug and seized their equipment...) . :

 

[azumanga]

Later on, the system we subscribed to picked up WCIX and Ft. Lauderdale's WKID via microwave...

Many cable systems in the state, at least as far north as Tampa Bay and Orlando, carried WCIX during the day, and WKID at night after WCIX signed off. Of course, these stations would start fading from distant cable systems by the early-1980s -- WCIX and WKID were gone from then-Group W Cable in Pinellas by the time our family first got cable in 1983, though by then we also had WFTS to go along with our WTOG (plus WTBS and WGN).