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Retro: Central Florida Wednesday, August 21, 1974

From TV Guide, Central Florida Edition:

WESH Ch. 2 Daytona Beach/Orlando (NBC)

6:10 Sunshine Almanac
6:25 Profiles In Education
6:55 Daily Devotional
7 AM Today
9 AM Phil Donahue (Ron Howard and Anson Williams
discuss "Happy Days" and the nostalgia craze.)
10 AM Name That Tune (Dennis James hosts)
10:30 Winning Streak (Bill Cullen)
11 AM High Rollers (Alex Trebek's first U.S. success)
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N News
12:30 Celebrity Sweepstakes
12:55 NBC News (Edwin Newman)
1 PM Jackpot! (delay from noon)
1:30 Jeopardy! (as Lin Bolen tries to kill the original show,
putting it against "Let's Make A Deal" and "As The
World Turns")
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 (Kitty Carlisle, Peggy Cass, Bill
Cullen, Joe Garagiola)
7:30 Price Is Right (again, with Dennis James)
8 PM Chase
9 PM NBC Movie: "Some Kind Of A Nut" (Dick Van Dyke as
a bank teller-turned-hippie who becomes an anti-
Establishment hero, from '69)
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show (Rich Little subs for Johnny)
1 AM Tomorrow (subject: prescription drugs)

WEDU Ch. 3 Tampa (PBS)

4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Your Future Is Now
6:30 Carrascolendas
7 PM Bulletin Board
7:30 Electric Company
8 PM Growth: Who Pays? (conclusion of a three-part
documentary on Florida's rapid growth)
8:30 Great American Dream Machine (Albert Brooks gives
pie-throwing lessons; life on the 92nd floor of Chicago's
John Hancock building; Robert Townsend, author of "Up
The Organization," has advice for young people; an animated
feature, "Claude," on how to deal with nagging parents)
9:30 Boarding House (guest: r&b singer Esther Phillips)
10 PM Festival Films (the techniques of Alfred Hitchcock)
10:30 Video Visionaries (Willard Rosenquist, professor of design at
UC-Berkeley, shows his film "Lostine," a series of changing
abstract patterns.)
11 PM Bulletin Board
11:30 Captioned ABC News (Howard K. Smith/Harry Reasoner)

WDBO (WKMG) Ch. 6 Orlando (CBS)

6:15 Sunshine Almanac
6:30 Summer Semester: "Practical Health For The Layman"
7 AM CBS News (Hughes Rudd)
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Mike Douglas (co-host Richard Thomas; Sian Barbara Allen
(Thomas' girlfriend at the time), David Clayton-Thomas,
Monty Hall)
10 AM Joker's Wild
10:30 Gambit
11 AM What's My Line? (Jack Cassidy, Bert Convy, Anita Gillette,
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
4 PM Merv Griffin (George Plimpton, Fred Williamson, Warren Oates,
actor Gianni Russo)
5:30 Green Acres
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News (Walter Cronkite)
7 PM Hogan's Heroes
7:30 Andy Griffith (Don Knotts as Barney Fife in a color episode)
8 PM Hudson Brothers (guest: Danny Thomas)
9 PM Cannon
10 PM Kojak
11 PM News
11:30 CBS Movie: "Hammerhead" (Vince Edwards as an adventurer
on the trail of a master criminal, from '68)

WFLA Ch. 8 Tampa (NBC)

6:15 Sunshine Almanac
6:30 Today In Florida
7 AM Today
9 AM Concentration (Jack Narz)
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 (Rod McKuen, Steve Allen, Jayne
Meadows)
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM What's My Line? (Soupy Sales, Dana Valery,
Allen Ludden, Arlene Francis)
7:30 To Tell The Truth (Nipsey Russell, Kitty Carlisle,
Bill Cullen, Peggy Cass)
8 PM Chase
9 PM NBC Movie: "Some Kind Of A Nut"
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: "Dark Passage" (one of four movies Humphrey
Bogart and Lauren Bacall made together; the others
were "To Have And Have Not," "The Big Sleep," and
"Key Largo")
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
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
7 PM Alfred Hitchcock Presents
7:30 Jimmy Dean (guest: Boots Randolph)
8 PM ABC Movie: "Wonder Woman" (Cathy Lee Crosby,
not Lynda Carter, in the title role--she doesn't
look or dress anything like Carter or the comic-book
rendition of the character)
9:30 ABC Movie: "Men Of The Dragon"
11 PM News
11:30 Wide World Special: "The Unofficial Miss Las Vegas
Showgirl Pageant" (in spirit, more like "The $1.98
Beauty Show" since it doesn't take itself too seriously--
Steve Allen hosts; Phyllis Diller provides commentary;
and Henny Youngman, Jayne Meadows, and Prof. Irwin
Corey are the judges)
1 AM Movie: "The Broadway Melody" (first talkie to win Best
Picture, from '29)

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

6:30 Involvement 10
7 AM Meet St. Pete Junior College
7:15 Day Of Discovery
7:45 News
8 AM Morning Show
8:30 Fran Carlton
9 AM Romper Room
10 AM Movie: "The Jolson Story" (conclusion--Larry Parks plays
Jolson, who does his own singing; this movie from '46
sparked a revival of Jolson's career)
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
4:30 Perry Mason
5:30 News
6 PM ABC News
6:30 I Dream Of Jeannie
7 PM Treasure Hunt
7:30 Wacky World Of Jonathan Winters (guests:
George Kennedy, Charo, Tony Orlando and Dawn)
8 PM ABC Movie: "Wonder Woman"
9:30 ABC Movie: "Men Of The Dragon"
11 PM News
11:30 Wide World Special (same as Ch. 9)

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 (guest host Fernando Lamas;
Marty Allen, Louis Nye)
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
4:30 Mike Douglas (co-host Marvin Hamlisch; Buddy
Hackett, James Darren)
6 PM News
7 PM CBS News
7:30 To Tell The Truth (Jack Cassidy, Kitty Carlisle,
Bill Cullen, Peggy Cass)
8 PM Hudson Brothers
9 PM Cannon
10 PM Kojak
11 PM News
11:30 CBS Movie: "Hammerhead"

WTVT Ch. 13 Tampa (CBS)

6 AM Breakfast Beat
7 AM CBS News
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Mike Douglas (co-host Ray Stevens; George Maharis,
the Miracles, Ron Carey)
10:30 Gambit
11 AM Now You See It (Jack Narz)
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 Hudson Brothers
9 PM Cannon
10 PM Kojak
11 PM News
11:30 CBS Movie: "Hammerhead"

WUSF Ch. 16 Tampa (PBS)

2:30 Man Builds, Man Destroys
3 PM Film
3:30 Toy That Grew Up (Jackie Coogan in "My Boy,"
from 1921)
4:30 Who Is Man?
5 PM Family Classics
5:30 Chicago Roundtable (a program that was a Sunday-
afternoon fixture on NBC in radio days)
6 PM Eye To Eye (art)
6:30 Film
7 PM Interface
7:30 Our Street
8 PM Insight
8:30 Aeroeopagitica (I can't pronounce it, let alone tell
you what it was about.)
9 PM One Of Us
9:30 Sports Roundtable
10 PM Jeanne Wolf With... (Lily Tomlin)
10:30 Performance (the Baltimore Chamber Players)
sign off 11 PM

WBBH Ch. 20 Ft. Myers (NBC)

6:30 Gulf Coast Today
7 AM Today
9 AM I Dream Of Jeannie
9:30 The Lucy Show (guest: Danny Thomas)
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 News (local)
1 PM I Dream Of Jeannie (guest: Dabney Coleman)
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 (Ann Sothern as the Countess)
5 PM Bonanza
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM What's My Line? (Werner Klemperer, Joanna Barnes,
Arlene Francis, Soupy Sales)
7:30 Wild Kingdom
8 PM Chase
9 PM NBC Movie: "Some Kind Of A Nut"
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show
1 AM Tomorrow
2 AM Movie: "Tarantula"
3:30 Movie: "Trouble With Women"
4:45 Movie: "Our Man In Casablanca"

WMFE Ch. 24 Orlando (PBS)

4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Sesame Street
7 PM Population And Growth
8 PM Zoom
8:30 Great American Dream Machine
9:30 Boarding House
10 PM Festival Films
10:30 Video Visionaries
11 PM Captioned ABC News
sign off 11:30 PM

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: "Two Guys From Texas"
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 Name Of The Game
9:30 The Saint
10:30 News
11 PM Movie: "The Purple Plain"

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 Let's Make A Deal
7:30 Safari To Adventure
8 PM ABC Movie: "Wonder Woman"
9:30 ABC Movie: "Men Of The Dragon"
11 PM News
11:30 Wide World Special (same as Ch. 9)
1 AM Tomorrow (pre-empted on Ch. 8)

WTOG Ch. 44 St. Petersburg (Ind.)

7:30 Forum 44
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 (trends in cosmetics)
12 N News
12:30 Variety (the Clydesdale horses appear)
1 PM Movie: "Second Honeymoon"
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 Green Acres
5:30 Addams Family
6 PM The Lucy Show
6:30 Get Smart
7 PM Star Trek
8 PM The Bold Ones (the doctors)
9 PM Movie: "A Man Alone" (watch for Raymond Burr,
pre-Perry Mason, Ward Bond, pre-"Wagon
Train," and Alan Hale, pre-"Gilligan's Island," from '55)
11 PM Night Gallery
11:30 Movie: "Home Sweet Homicide"
 
bpatrick said:
WESH Ch. 2 Daytona Beach/Orlando (NBC)

1:30 Jeopardy! (as Lin Bolen tries to kill the original show,
putting it against "Let's Make A Deal" and "As The
World Turns")

The show would eventually be sacrificed for an all-new game show from Merv Griffin -- "Wheel of Fortune". Little did Bolen know that both shows would become big hits in the 1980s, especially with "High Rollers" host Alex Trebek hosting "Jeopardy!".

bpatrick said:
WUSF Ch. 16 Tampa (PBS)
8:30 Aeroeopagitica (I can't pronounce it, let alone tell
you what it was about.)

Does it have to do with John Milton and his fight against censorship?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Areopagitica
 
It's a reasonable assumption that the program "Areopagitica" was about
Milton and censorship. However, TV Guide botched the spelling and provided
no details as to what the program was about.

Re "Jeopardy!"/"Wheel Of Fortune": it's my understanding that Lin Bolen
got Merv to trade the last year of "Jeopardy!" for "Wheel" (which, BTW,
was hosted by Chuck Woolery and Susan Stafford when it debuted in
1975). But, although Ms. Bolen no longer appears to be on the television
scene, it's noteworthy that both shows do thrive in syndication.
 
RE: Dana Valery

She was a semi-regular panelist on What's My Line throughout the 70's. Besides being spending a considerable amount of time seated between Soupy Sales and Gene Ryburn/Bert Convy/Alan Alda/Allen Ludden, what was/is her claim to fame?
 
Charles1 said:
RE: Dana Valery

She was a semi-regular panelist on What's My Line throughout the 70's. Besides being spending a considerable amount of time seated between Soupy Sales and Gene Ryburn/Bert Convy/Alan Alda/Allen Ludden, what was/is her claim to fame?

Maybe she was a Broadway actress? As the 70s version was taped in New York, I would think the show would get their share of stage stars over the years (including Bert Convy, who acted on Broadway in the days before "Tattle Tales").
 
Dana Valery is the sister of singer Sergio Franchi. In his book
on "What's My Line?" Gil Fates talks about some of the people
who filled in the middle chairs between Soupy and Arlene, some
of whom, like Alan Alda, Sandy Duncan, and Jerry Orbach, went
on to bigger things; others, like Phyllis Newman and Anita Gillette,
seemed to do nothing but game shows. Some of these guest
panelists had made a mark on Broadway: Duncan, Elaine Joyce,
Tony Roberts, Carole Shelley, and Orbach. Others came from
news programs: Gene Shalit, Melba Tolliver, and Jim Bouton (ex-
baseball player then working at WCBS as a sportscaster). And,
of course, there were people besides Phyllis Newman and Anita
Gillette who were veteran panelists on Goodson-Todman shows:
Bennett Cerf, Henry Morgan, and Joanna Barnes, as well as hosts
Allen Ludden and Gene Rayburn. And for an international flavor,
besides Dana Valery, there were people like Alejandro Rey and a
Welsh actor who appeared frequently during "Line"'s first year in
syndication, Gawn Grainger, who apparently returned home because
I don't even remember him.

It's a pretty good bet that if you had lived all your life in New York,
many of these names would have been familiar to you even then;
for the rest of us, most of them--at the time--seemed to be little
more than professional game-show panelists.
 
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