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Retro: Central Florida Tue., Sept. 3, 1974

Forty years ago today, from TV Guide, Central Florida Edition:

WESH Ch. 2 Daytona Beach/Orlando (NBC)

6:10 Sunshine Almanac
6:25 I Dream Of Jeannie
6:55 Daily Devotional
7 AM Today (former Look magazine photographer Archie Lieberman talks about "Farm Boy," his pictorial essay about an American farming family)
9 AM Phil Donahue (John H. Johnson, publisher of Ebony and Jet magazines)
10 AM Name That Tune (Dennis James hosts)
10:30 Winning Streak
11 AM High Rollers
11:30 Hollywood Squares (Harvey Korman, Pearl Bailey, Roddy McDowall, Charo, Rose Marie, Freddie Prinze, Charley Weaver, Paul Lynde)
12 N News
12:30 Celebrity Sweepstakes (Joey Bishop, Peter Fonda, Carol Wayne, Sue Ane Langdon, Leslie Nielsen)
12:55 NBC News (Edwin Newman)
1 PM Jackpot! (delay from 12 N)
1:30 Jeopardy!
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 How To Survive A Marriage
4 PM Somerset
4:30 Bonanza
5:30 News
6:30 NBC News (John Chancellor)
7 PM To Tell The Truth (Bill Cullen, Peggy Cass, Gene Rayburn, Kitty Carlisle)
7:30 Sale Of The Century (Joe Garagiola version)
8 PM Adam-12
8:30 From Sea To Shining Sea (Robert Culp stars in the first of seven Bicentennial-related dramas to be shown through 1975. He plays John Freeborn, "an American Everyman," who is present at various events in American history; tonight he's in 1775 where he's caught up in the drive for independence but cannot find two people who agree on what liberty is. Among those he meets is George Washington, who is trying to reconcile his desire for freedom for the colonies with his own status as a slaveholder.)
10 PM Police Story
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show (guest: Joan Rivers)
1 AM Tomorrow (Episcopal priest the Rev, Malcolm Boyd and Kristi Witker)

WEDU Ch. 3 Tampa (PBS)

4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Quick On The Draw (kids' show)
6:30 In-Service For Teachers
7 PM Carrascolendas
7:30 West Coast TV Consortium (the title refers to the West Coast of Florida)
8 PM Man Builds, Man Destroys (towing icebergs from Antarctica as a way of providing fresh water to California; the demand for drinkable water in Mexico City)
8:30 Eye To Eye (things or people that embody a particular era: the Eiffel Tower, Charles DeGaulle, the ruins of Angkor Wat in Cambodia)
9 PM The Killers (the subject is heart disease)
10:30 React 3 (members of the Hillsborough (County) Heart Association answer viewers' questions about heart disease)
11:30 Captioned ABC News
sign off 12 M

WDBO (WKMG) Ch. 6 Orlando (CBS)

6:15 Sunshine Almanac
6:30 Summer Semester: "American Presidency: The Men And The Office"
7 AM CBS News (Hughes Rudd)
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Mike Douglas (co-host Ray Stevens, Buddy Rich, Marty Allen, Sarah Vaughan)
10 AM Joker's Wild
10:30 Gambit
11 AM What's My Line? (Soupy Sales, opera singer Joanna Simon (Carly's sister), film critic Leonard Harris, Arlene Francis)
11:30 Love Of Life
11:55 CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
12 N Young And The Restless
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM News
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Guiding Light
2:30 Edge Of Night
3 PM Price Is Right
3:30 Match Game '74 (Richard Dawson, Brett Somers, Scoey Mitchlll, Kaye Stevens, Elaine Joyce, Charles Nelson Reilly)
4 PM Merv Griffin (Ben Gazzara, Fernando Lamas, Stephanie Edwards, Steve Landesberg)
5:30 Green Acres
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News (Walter Cronkite)
7 PM Hogan's Heroes
7:30 Andy Griffith
8 PM Maude
8:30 Hawaii Five-O
9:30 Movie: "Taggart"
11 PM News
11:30 CBS Movie: "Sailor Beware" (Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, from '52; James Dean had a small role as a sailor)

WFLA Ch. 8 Tampa (NBC)

6:15 Sunshine Almanac
6:30 Today In Florida
7 AM Today
9 AM Concentration
9:30 That Girl
10 AM Name That Tune
10:30 Winning Streak
11 AM High Rollers
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N Jackpot!
12:30 Celebrity Sweepstakes
12:55 NBC News
1 PM News
1:30 Jeopardy!
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 How To Survive A Marriage
4 PM Somerset
4:30 Merv Griffin (Mel Torme, Henry Mancini, the Jackson 5, Molly Bee)
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM What's My Line? (Soupy Sales, WABC-TV newscaster Melba Tolliver, Alan Alda, Arlene Francis)
7:30 To Tell The Truth (Bill Cullen, Nipsey Russell, Peggy Cass, Kitty Carlisle)
8 PM Adam-12
8:30 Banacek
10 PM Billy Graham Atlanta Crusade
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show

WFTV Ch. 9 Orlando (ABC)

6 AM Sunrise Jubilee
7 AM Bozo
8 AM Truth Or Consequences
8:30 Movie: "Northern Pursuit"
10:30 $10,000 Pyramid (delay from 4 PM)
11 AM Split Second (delay from 12:30 PM)
11:30 Brady Bunch
12 N Password (celebrities and their children, this week's guests: Joyce Bulifant, Joseph Campanella, Bert Convy, Robert Fuller, Pat Harrington, Jackie Joseph, Harvey Korman, Greg Morris)
12:30 News
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 The Lucy Show
4:30 Gilligan's Island
5 PM Mission: Impossible
6 PM News
6:30 ABC News (Howard K. Smith/Harry Reasoner)
7 PM Sea World
7:30 Hollywood Squares (Redd Foxx, Alan King, Totie Fields, Vincent Price, Pearl Bailey, Suzanne Pleshette, John Davidson, Charley Weaver, Paul Lynde)
8 PM Happy Days
8:30 ABC Movie: "Mrs. Sundance" (Elizabeth Montgomery as Etta Place, made-for-TV)
10 PM Billy Graham Atlanta Crusade
11 PM News
11:30 Wide World Mystery ("Murder By Proxy": a deceased electronics-company executive promised that all potential successors would join him in the grave)
1 AM Movie: "Beloved Infidel"

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

6:30 Involvement 10
7 AM Growing Things
7:15 Those Two (not to be confused with a 1950s series of the same name)
7:45 News
8 AM Morning Show (Russ Byrd)
8:30 Fran Carlton (exercises)
9 AM Romper Room
10 AM Movie: "Gunfighters"
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 $10,000 Pyramid (Loretta Swit, Robert Vaughn)
4:30 Perry Mason
5:30 News
6 PM ABC News
6:30 I Dream Of Jeannie
7 PM Hollywood Squares (Rock Hudson, Nancy Sinatra, Doc Severinsen, Marty Allen, Karen Valentine, Nancy Walker, Rich Little, Charley Weaver, Paul Lynde)
7:30 Police Surgeon
8 PM Happy Days
8:30 From Sea To Shining Sea
10 PM Marcus Welby, M.D. (Jane Wyatt guest stars; she co-starred with Robert Young on "Father Knows Best" and here becomes romantically involved with Welby.)
11 PM News
11:30 Wide World Mystery

WINK Ch. 11 Ft. 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
10:30 Merv Griffin (astrologers Sydney Omarr and Carroll Righter)
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 '74
4 PM Tattletales (Phyllis Diller and Warde Donovan, Patti Deutsch and Donald Ross, Gene and Betty Claire Barry)
4:30 Mike Douglas (co-hostess Martha Mitchell, Dick Shawn, Olivia Newton-John)
6 PM News
7 PM CBS News
7:30 Police Surgeon
8 PM Maude
8:30 Hawaii Five-O
9:30 Hawkins (Jimmy Stewart's second series failure; the first was "The Jimmy Stewart Show" in 1971-72)
11 PM News
11:30 CBS Movie: "Sailor Beware"

WTVT Ch. 13 Tampa (CBS)

6 AM Breakfast Beat
7 AM CBS News
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Mike Douglas (co-hosts are the Pointer Sisters; Marlo Thomas, Professor Irwin Corey, Richard Dawson)
10:30 Gambit
11 AM Now You See It
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 '74
4 PM Mission: Impossible
5 PM Bonanza
6 PM News
7 PM CBS News
7:30 Truth Or Consequences
8 PM Maude
8:30 Hawaii Five-O
9:30 Hawkins
11 PM News
11:30 CBS Movie: "Sailor Beware"

WUSF Ch. 16 Tampa (PBS)

2:30 Consultation
3 PM Goodliest Land
3:30 World Of Adventure
4 PM Campamento
4:30 Art Is
5 PM Washington Debates For The '70s
6 PM The Killers
7:30 Film
8 PM Washington Debates For The '70s (topic: "Can Congress Control Spending?")
9 PM Video Visionaries (a man who seems to merge with his TV set, a boy who blots out his own image by painting an American flag)
9:30 Insight
10 PM TBA

WBBH Ch. 20 Ft. Myers (NBC)

6:30 Gulf Coast Today
7 AM Today
9 AM Phi (all that's given; Phil Donahue, perhaps?)
10 AM Name That Tune
10:30 Winning Streak
11 AM High Rollers
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N Jackpot!
12:30 Celebrity Sweepstakes
12:55 NBC News
1 PM I Dream Of Jeannie
1:30 Jeopardy!
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 How To Survive A Marriage
4 PM Somerset
4:30 The Lucy Show (guest: George Burns)
5 PM Bonanza
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM What's My Line?
7:30 Hollywood Squares (Helen Hayes, Ted Knight, Roy Clark, Tina Sinatra, Harvey Korman, Rich Little, Rose Marie, Paul Lynde)
8 PM Adam-12
8:30 Movie: "Union Station"
10 PM Police Story
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show
1 AM Tomorrow

WMFE Ch. 24 Orlando (PBS)

4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
6:30 Man And Environment--I
7 PM Carrascolendas
7:30 Garden Show
8 PM Man Builds, Man Destroys
8:30 Eye To Eye
9 PM The Killers
10:30 TBA

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

10:55 News
11 AM Romper Room
11:30 Fran Carlton
12 N Florida Lifestyle
12:30 Peyton Place
1 PM Movie: "The Vanishing American" (watch for Jim Davis, aka Jock Ewing, from '55)
2:30 My Favorite Martian
3 PM Mister Ed
3:30 Penthouse Barnyard
4:30 Leave It To Beaver
5 PM Batman
5:30 Lost In Space
6:30 Mayberry R.F.D.
7 PM Star Trek
8 PM Victory At Sea
8:30 Showtime
9:30 Champions (I assume this is the British-made series that played on NBC in the summer of '68.)
10:30 News
11 PM Movie: "Escape Me Never"

WXLT (WWSB) Ch. 40 Sarasota (ABC)

9 AM New Zoo Revue
9:30 Gulf Coast A.M.
10 AM Galloping Gourmet
10:30 Joker's Wild (pre-empted on Ch. 13)
11 AM $10,000 Pyramid
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 Mike Douglas (same as Ch. 11)
5:30 News
6:30 ABC News
7 PM Police Surgeon
7:30 The Challenging Sea
8 PM Happy Days
8:30 From Sea To Shining Sea
10 PM Marcus Welby, M.D.
11 PM News
11:30 Mystery Of The Week
1 AM Tomorrow (pre-empted on Ch. 8)

WTOG Ch. 44 St. Petersburg (Ind.)

7:30 Film
8 AM New Zoo Revue
8:30 Tennessee Tuxedo
9 AM Leave It To Beaver
9:30 Petticoat Junction
10 AM Father Knows Best
10:30 Green Acres
11 AM Phil Donahue (from Milwaukee's Summerfest: the Rev. Jesse Jackson discusses his work on behalf of People United to Save Humanity and comments on the recent murder of Mrs. Martin Luther King Sr.)
12 N News
12:30 Variety
1 PM Movie: "If I'm Lucky" (watch for Phil Silvers and Edgar Buchanan, from '46)
2:30 Underdog
3 PM Three Stooges
3:30 Leave It To Beaver
4 PM Gilligan's Island
4:30 Gomer Pyle, USMC
5 PM Mod Squad
6 PM The Lucy Show (Vivian Vance visits for a flashback fest.)
6:30 Hogan's Heroes
7 PM Star Trek
8 PM The Bold Ones (the lawyers)
9 PM Movie: "Pandora And The Flying Dutchman"
11 PM Night Gallery (Leonard Nimoy as a man whose wife has recently died and who is now being watched by a strangely-menacing kitten)
11:30 The Fugitive
 
Hey bpatrick, do you have any TV Listings from Local TV Guides from Central Florida between 1975 and 1977?
If so, just let me know and I'd love to see some posted! If not, then you should be on the lookout for some!

Here are the listings...

2 - WESH Daytona Beach (NBC)
3 - WEDU Tampa (PBS)
6M - WCIX Miami (Ind.)
6O - WDBO Orlando (CBS)
8 - WFLA Tampa (NBC)
9 - WFTV Orlando (ABC)
10 - WLCY St. Petersburg (ABC)
11 - WINK Fort Myers (CBS)
13 - WTVT Tampa (CBS)
16 - WUSF Tampa (PBS)
20 - WBBH Fort Myers (NBC)
24 - WMFE Orlando (PBS)
26 - WEVU Naples (ABC)
35 - WSWB Orlando (Ind.)
40 - WXLT Sarasota (ABC)
44 - WTOG St. Petersburg (Ind.)
 
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