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Retro: Central PA, Thur. March 21st, 1974

Source: TV Guide

CHANNELS
2 WCBS New York City [CBS]
3 KYW Philadelphia [NBC]
4 WNBC New York City [NBC]
5 WNEW New York City [IND]
6 WPVI Philadelphia [ABC]
7 WABC New York City [ABC]
8 WGAL Lancaster [NBC]
9 WOR New York City [IND]
10 WCAU Philadelphia [CBS]
11 WPIX New York City [IND]
12 WHYY Wilmington, DE [PBS]
13 WNET New York City [PBS]
15 WLYH Lancaster [CBS]
16 WNEP Scranton [ABC]
17 WPHL Philadelphia [IND]
21 WHP Harrisburg [CBS]
22 WDAU Scranton [CBS]
27 WTPA Harrisburg [ABC]
28 WBRE Scranton [NBC]
29 WTAF Philadelphia [IND]
33 WITF Hershey [PBS]
39 WLVT Allentown [PBS]
43 WSBA York [CBS]
44 WVIA Scranton [PBS]
48 WKBS Philadelphia [IND]

5:45
10 News

6AM
3 Farm Market Report
10 Sunrise Semester
The Media in America: The mass marketing of published fiction.
28 Christopher Closeup

6:10
3 News

6:15
3 Sut Yung Ying Yee

6:20
2 News

6:30
2 22 Sunrise Semester
See WCAU, 6AM.
4 Knowledge
Using energy sources and planning for future needs.
5 Your Future is Now
6 Operation Alphabet BW
7 New York Area Colleges: Present and Future
Scheduled: Notre Dame of St. John's University.
8 Country Music
10 Wake Up!
28 Garner Ted Armstrong

6:45
3 Farm, Home and Garden

7AM
2 10 15 22 43 CBS News-Hughes Rudd
3 4 8 28 Today
Previewing a special on the energy crisis, which will be shown this evening. Also: changes in the weather are explained by meteorologist Reid Bryson. Frank McGee is the host.
5 Underdog
6 Perspective
7 A.M. New York
Restaurateur Calvin Holt and graphics designer Ron Schereskin unite to illustrate the concept of "sweeter days" with an old-fashioned ice cream parlor.
11 News-Roy Whitfield

7:25
6 News

7:30
5 Flintstones
6 Captain Noah
9 News BW
11 Little Rascals

8AM
2 10 15 22 43 Captain Kangaroo
A film about Australian ballerina Rosalyn Watson. Also: how to make a balloon teddy bear.
5 Bugs Bunny
9 Garner Ted Armstrong
11 Courageous Cat
16 Hatchy Milatchy
39 Sesame Street

8:30
5 Mister Ed
9 Joe Franklin
11 Timmy and Lassie BW
Timmy and Lassie help round up a flock of sheep that escaped from a truck.

8:55
6 Dialing for Dollars
Anthropologist Peggy Sanday is a scheduled guest. Also: soybean recipes.

9AM
2 Farmer's Daughter BW
Katy does some oriental dancing to help out a friend. Inger Stevens.
3 Somerset
4 Not for Women Only
The older woman is the focus of Part 4 of a discussion on fashions with Barbara Walters and guest designers.
5 Rifleman BW
Ex-convict Dan Mowry [Lee Van Cleef] goes gunning for Micah, the man responsible for his conviction. Paul Fix.
7 Movie
"Daddy Long Legs." [1955] Captivating entertainment from Fred Astaire and Leslie Caron in this story of a middle-aged millionaire who anonymously sends a young French girl through school, while falling for her. Great dancing.
8 22 Mike Douglas
James Coco, playwright Terrence McNally, Lynn Redgrae, Gretchen Wyler, musician David Sewall and magician Max Blackstone Jr.
10 Morningside with Edie Huggins
Aries predictions by astrologer Louise Williams.
11 Aprenda Ingles
12 13 Sesame Street
15 New Zoo Revue
21 Captain Kangaroo
A film about Australian ballerina Rosalyn Watson.
27 Bulletin Board
28 Phil Donahue
43 Encounter

9:10
27 Nature's Window

9:15
27 Fun Fair

9:30
2 Pat Collins
Guests: a psychologist and two people with opposing religious views.
3 Jackpot!
4 Truth or Consequences
5 Flying Nun
Sr. Bertrille launches a feverish campaign to save a nonproductive cow from the butcher.
9 Journey to Adventure
11 Ask Congress
15 Limelight
Guest: guitarist-singer Bill Stains.

9:55
27 News

10AM
2 10 15 21 22 43 Joker's Wild
3 4 8 28 Dinah Shore
Singers Sandler and Young are the guests. Also: Dr. Neil Solomon discusses weight control, and Dinah fixes seafood pilaf.
5 Hazel
George's lazy cousin drops in for a visit-and stays..and stays.
6 Truth or Consequences
9 27 Romper Room
11 Movie BW
"Fire over England." [1937] Highly effective historical saga about an Englishman [Laurence Olivier] spying in Spain.
16 Love, American Style
John Davidson and Karen Valentine in a tale about surviving in Hollywood.
44 Sesame Street

10:30
2 10 15 21 22 43 $10,000 Pyramid
Lee Meriwether, Jack Carter. Dick Clark is host.
3 4 8 28 Jeopardy!
5 Mothers-In-Law
To finance the newlyweds, Eve and Kaye try to sell Kaye's famous spaghetti and meatballs on campus.
6 Love, American Style
Tales about a topless restaurant and a traveling salesman.
16 I Dream of Jeannie BW
With Jeannie doing all the chores, Tony feels he's getting soft.
27 Tennessee Tuxedo

10:45
48 Delaware Valley Today
Commissioner Dominic Sabatini, Department of License and Inspections, is the scheduled guest.

11AM
2 10 15 21 22 43 Gambit
3 4 8 28 Wizard of Odds
5 I Love Lucy BW
Pen in hand [and caution to the wind], Lucy writes a novel.
6 Password
Sandy Duncan and Tom Kennedy.
7 Gomer Pyle, USMC
A missing pet rabbit creates problems for Sergeant Carter [Frank Sutton].
9 Straight Talk
16 Dick Van Dyke BW
Rob [Dick Van Dyke] recalls his job interview with Alan [Carl Reiner].
27 Leave it to Beaver BW

11:30
2 10 15 21 22 43 Love of Life
3 4 8 28 Hollywood Squares
Marty Allen, Vic Damone, Sally Field, Demond Wilson, Lee Meriwether, McLean Stevenson, Karen Valentine, Paul Lynde, Charley Weaver. Peter Marshall host.
5 Midday Live
Pediatrician Jack Shiller discusses childhood obesity.
6 7 16 27 Brady Bunch
Bobby and Cindy learn about the dangers of pride in this story about a children's TV quiz show. Susan Olsen.
11 Abbott and Costello BW
The boys' pet chimp causes trouble.
33 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
48 New Zoo Revue
Knowing about knowledge.

11:55
2 10 15 21 22 43 CBS News-Douglas Edwards
17 News

Noon
2 10 15 21 22 43 Young and the Restless
3 6 News
4 8 28 Jackpot!
7 16 27 Password
Sandy Duncan and Tom Kennedy.
9 Lucy Show BW
Lucy buys stock in the Danfield Bank.
11 New Zoo Revue
A lesson about the ocean
13 Masterpiece Theatre
17 Bulletin Board
48 Huck & Yogi

12:30
2 10 15 21 22 43 Search for Tomorrow
3 4 28 Baffle
James Darren, Jo Anne Worley.
6 7 16 27 Split Second
8 Noonday on 8
9 Beverly Hillbillies
Precocious poltergeists shake up the Clampett castle.
11 Magic Garden
17 Romper Room
48 Lucy Show
Lucy and banker Mooney move to California.

12:55
3 4 28 NBC News-Newman

1PM
2 What's My Line?
3 Marciarose
4 Concentration
5 Movie
"Neptune's Daughter." [1949] Bright, laugh-filled frolic about a bathing beauty [Esther Williams] in the swim-suit business.
6 7 16 27 All My Children
8 What's My Line?
Soupy Sales, opera singer Joanna Simon, film critic Leonard Harris.
9 Movie
"The Half-Breed." [1952] Apaches, gold-seekers and a dash of sex enliven this slow-moving outdoor tale. Robert Young.
10 Tattletales
Meredith MacRae and Greg Mullavey, Pat and Marjorie Harrington.
11 Galloping Gourmet
Recipe: pigeon with spiced peaches.
12 13 33 39 44 Electric Company
15 Raparound
17 Movie BW
"Confidence Girl." [1952] Low-budget tale about the exploits of a swindling team [Tom Conway, Hillary Brooke].
21 Galloping Gourmet
Recipe: sweetbreads and bacon pie.
22 Petticoat Junction
The Shady Rest gets a strange visitor - from outer space?
28 What's My Line?
See WGAL, 1PM.
43 Not for Women Only
48 Movie BW
"Flamingo Road." [1949] Joan Crawford's forceful personality lends conviction to this overblown tale of a carnival girl's rise to prominence in a politically corrupt town.

1:30
2 10 15 21 22 43 As the World Turns
4 8 28 Three on a Match
6 7 16 27 Let's Make a Deal
11 Get Smart
In a plot to foil KAOS, Max poses as a king marked for assassination. Don Adams [Smart] co-authored the script.

2PM
2 10 15 21 22 43 Guiding Light
3 4 8 28 Days of Our Lives
6 7 16 27 Newlywed Game
11 Addams Family BW
The Addamses are losing their home or a freeway.
29 My Favorite Martian
Uncle Martin, packed in a tiny bottle, is bound for the Middle East.

2:30
2 10 15 21 22 43 Edge of Night
3 4 8 28 Doctors
6 7 16 27 The Girl in My Life
9 Millionaire BW
A man charged with embezzlement may have even more explaining to do after he receives a $1,000,000 gift. Leif Erickson.
11 Bill Cosby
Substituting for an algebra teacher adds a factor Chet didn't count on: he doesn't know the answers.
17 Gomer Pyle, USMC
A night-club owner tries to pirate singing Private Pyle from the base.
29 Newsprobe

3PM
2 10 15 21 22 43 Price is Right (when it was still a half-hour)
3 4 8 28 Another World
5 Casper
6 7 16 27 General Hospital
9 Movie BW
"The Mummy's Ghost." [1944] Kharis [Lon Chaney] rises to seek his princess, and terrorizes a college town. John Carradine.
11 Father Knows Best BW
Bud [Billy Gray] buys a car for $10.
17 Patty Duke BW
Ross tries to patch up a feud between Patty and Richard.
29 Lone Ranger-Cartoon
33 Hodgepodge Lodge
39 Woman
44 Carol Guild
48 Kimba

3:30
2 10 15 21 22 43 Match Game
Pat Harrington, Nipsey Russell, Jo Anne Worley, Fannie Flagg, Richard Dawson, Brett Somers Klugman.
3 4 8 28 How to Survive a Marriage
5 Huckleberry Hound
6 7 16 27 One Life to Live
11 Nanny and the Professor
A lesson in thrift turns Butch into an obsessive hoarder.
17 Johnny Sokko
29 Three Stooges BW
33 Career 360
39 44 Magic Window
48 Banana Splits

4PM
2 15 21 22 43 Tattletales
Meredith McRae and Greg Mullavey, Ed Mallory and Joyce Bulifant, Elaine Joyce and Bobby Van.
3 Mike Douglas
James Coco, playwright Terrence McNally, Lynn Redgrave, Gretchen Wyler, musician David Sewall, the singing Dixie Hummingbirds and magician Max Blackstone Jr,.
4 8 28 Somerset
5 Bugs Bunny
6 Big Valley
Jarrod [Richard Long] battles bigotry and political extermism when he defends a Basque sheepherder who admits to being an anarchist-but not a murderer.
7 27 Love, American Style
Shelley Berman as professor with a pleasant problem: a sexy coed willing to give a lot for a good grade.
9 Movie BW
"Operation Pacific." [1951] Sub officer [John Wayne] vs. the Japanese fleet. Patricia Neal.
10 Movie
"The Horizontal Lieutenant." [1962] The misadventures of a bungling officer [Jim Hutton] in love and war.
11 F Troop BW
Indian-hating Major Winster plots to wipe out the friendly Hekawis.
12 13 33 39 44 Sesame Street
16 Bewitched
Darrin a mouse? Not if Samantha can stop Endora's latest scheme.
17 Popeye
48 Little Rascals BW

4:30
2 Mike Douglas
Lucie Arnaz is today's co-host. Guests include Zsa Zsa Gabor, singer Freda Payne, football's Larry Csonka, comic Ron Carey.
4 Movie
"The Spiral Road." [1962] Part 1. Rock Hudson as a doctor who struggles with God and conscience in the Java jungles. Burl Ives.
5 Lost in Space BW
The Robinsons are visited by a long-lost astronaut [Warren Oates], which agrees to help their children return to earth.
7 Movie
"Parrish." [1960] Conclusion. Widow Ellen McLean's teen-age son Parrish gets involved in simultanious affairs with three different girls. Filmed in Connecticut's tobacco country. Troy Donahue.
8 Merv Griffin
11 Munsters BW
Herman wrecked a gift Grandpa made for Eddie, and Grandpa is furious.
15 43 Lucy Show
Lucy attempts to reform an unwilling drunk-Milton Berle in disguise.
16 Movie
"The Stranger Wore a Gun." [1953] A badman [Randolph Scott] reforms, then tries to disrupt the activities of rival outlaws. Entertaining.
17 Ozzie and Harriet BW
Rick makes a deal with a horse-woman to trade guitar lessons for riding lessons.
21 48 Flintstones
22 Gomer Pyle, USMC
Carter stakes the Marine's honor on a boxing match.
27 Gilligan's Island
The castaways attempt to leave the island in a two-man space capsule.
28 Bonanza
Outlaw Gunnar Borgstorm [Neville Brand] interrupts his journey to Canada to visit his brother-in-law - Ben Cartwright.
29 Superman
An underworld boss obtains a piece of kryptonite - the only substance that can destroy Superman.

5PM
6 Mod Squad
Suspended for his ghetto activities, a militant priest [Sammy Davis Jr.] ignores death threats-until a youth catches a bullet intended for him. Robert Duvall.
11 Gilligan's Island
Gilligan tampers with a crate filled with plastic explosives. Bob Denver.
12 13 33 39 44 Mister Rogers
15 43 Beverly Hillbillies
Mrs. Drysdale's father [Charlie Ruggles] is interested in Granny.
17 Wanted: Dead or Alive BW
Josh tries to get a sick child out of the clutches of a quack healer.
21 Star Trek
The crew intrudes on a private paradise inhabited by two individuals: a man [James Daly] of extraordinary accomplishments, and his ward, superbly educated - but unacquainted with human emotions.
22 Merv Griffin
Guests: Fernando Lamas, actor Wayne Rogers.
27 I Dream of Jeannie
29 Lost in Space BW
The Robinsons encounter a family of hillbilly space farmers who grow deadly plants-and practice witchcraft.

5:30
3 15 27 43 News
5 Flintstones
11 I Dream of Jeannie
Jeannie [Barbara Eden] is roped into being a rodeo queen.
12 13 33 39 44 Electric Company
17 Sea Hunt BW
A Greek sponger finds a priceless undersea treasure.
28 Hogan's Heroes
48 Gilligan's Island
Gilligan discovers a hot-water spring; the Professor searches for a volcano.

6PM
2 3 4 6 7 News
5 I Love Lucy BW
Lucy has promised that Ricky will play for a benefit show but Ricky refuses to appear. Lucille Ball.
8 10 21 28 News
9 Wild Wild West
West [Robert Conrad] must find a Gargantuan cannon that has turned one town into dust-and is now aimed at Denver.
11 I Dream of Jeannie
After turning the house into a mansion, Jeannie decides to sell it.
12 Delaware News BW
13 Hodgepodge Lodge
15 43 Bonanza
A self-styled rainmaker offers his services to drought-stricken Virginia City-for a price.
17 Untouchables BW
Step one in a counterfeit plan is hijacking a truck carrying currency paper. Step two: the jail break of one of the country's top engravers.
27 ABC News-Smith/Reasoner
29 Bewitched
The Loch Ness monster figures in a comical case of revenge.
33 44 Weather
39 Sesame Street
48 Star Trek
The Enterprise is besieged by an unfamiliar life form: twinkling lights that attack various areas of the human brain.

6:15
16 News
33 44 Farm, Home and Garden

6:30
3 8 28 NBC News-Chancellor
5 Bewitched
Julie Newmar as a temptress.
6 16 ABC News-Smith/Reasoner
11 Beat the Clock
12 33 44 Antiques
13 Zoom
21 22 CBS News-Walter Cronkite
27 Movie
"Stranger on the Run." [1967] The 1885 Southwest is the colorful setting for an excellent made-for-TV yarn about the relentless hounding of a murder suspect [Henry Fonda].
29 Courtship of Eddie's Father
Lisa Kirk as Tina's ebullient mother, who brings her belief in magic to an impressionable Eddie [Brandon Cruz].

7PM and later tomorrow.

-crainbebo
 
Much thanks for posting this!

Includes two sets of channels from two spots I lived (Harrisburg and Scranton's TV stations) so it was interesting to see what syndicated fare aired at the time. The first time I came across channel 16 in 1982 they had the "Dialing for Dollars" movie from 4-6..Interesting to see at this point it was only 4:30-6..
 
7PM
2 10 15 43 CBS News-Cronkite
3 What's My Line?
Soupy Sales, Dana Valery, Gene Shalit and Arlene Francis.
4 NBC News-Chancellor
5 Mission: Impossible
The IMF strives to free an imprisoned priest.
6 To Tell the Truth
Peggy Cass, Bill Cullen, Alan Alda and Barbara Howar. Garry Moore.
7 ABC News-Smith/Reasoner
8 16 Truth or Consequences
9 Lucy Show
Lucy tries to nab an escort for a fancy ball.
11 Mod Squad
Leslie Nielsen as a war correspondent involved in drugs.
12 Take 12
13 Book Beat
17 Bonanza
Guitar-strumming cousin Muley Jones [Bruce Yarnell] brings his glass-shattering voice to the Ponderosa.
21 To Tell the Truth
Kitty Carlisle, Bill Cullen, Peggy Cass and Orson Bean.
22 News
28 Wait Till Your Father Gets Home
The Boyles are out to patch a fight between their newlywed neighbors.
29 That Girl
Misunderstandings multiply when Don appears in women's clothes. Ted Bessell.
33 39 Your Future is Now
44 Hodgepodge Lodge
48 Mission: Impossible
Anthony Zerbe as a heroin supplier caught in an IMF scheme to break his connection.

7:30
2 Wacky World of Jonathan Winters
Dan Rowan, country-singer Lynn Anderson and the singing Ding-a-Lings are the guests.
3 Eyewitness News: Yesterday
20th century Olympics are featured in film clips dating back to the turn of the century. Past newsreels capture Babs Didrickson, Johnny Weismuller.
4 28 Hollywood Squares
6 Hollywood Squares
Tony Randall, Elke Sommer, Martin Milner, Sally Field, Demond Wilson, Rose Marie, Suzanne Pleshette, Paul Lynde, Charley Weaver.
7 Animal World
Winter at Yellowstone National Park includes scenes of a bison roaming the park grounds, and an elk hunting for food. Also: migratory patterns and mating habits of animals in the area.
8 Hollywood Squares
Bobby Riggs, Florence Henderson, Vincent Price, Rob Reiner.
9 Bowling for Dollars
10 Safari to Adventure
Animals found along the Pacific shore line. Bill Burrud is host.
12 Jane Moore and...
13 Coronation Street
15 43 Wild, Wild World of Animals
16 To Tell the Truth
21 Green Acres
Enrolled at Hooterville High, Lisa causes chaos in the classroom.
22 Great Mysteries
Jose Ferrer plays an eavesdropping derelict who is put into a sorry state by what he overhears "In the Confessional."
29 Hogan's Heroes
Colonel Crittendon [Bernard Fox] escapes from Stalag 16-ruining Hogan's plan to blow up a plant. Bob Crane. John Banner.
33 44 Great Decisions
39 Antiques

8PM
2 10 15 21 22 43 The Waltons
The Waltons begin the repeat season by trying to help a neighbor. Already weakened by a failing heart, the old lady will die unless she can be induced to settle down and rest. Richard Thomas.
3 4 8 28 Flip Wilson
Perry Como, Denise Nicholas, comedian Charlie Callas and singer-dancer Lola Falana are the guests in the season's first repeat, originally shown in 1970. Sketches include Geraldine Jones asking psychiatrist Pery about "Killer's" reluctance to marry. George Wyle orchestra.
5 Dealer's Choice
6 Billy Graham Crusade
SPECIAL: In the first of three programs on his Crusade from the Arena in St. Louis, Dr. Graham speaks on "The Meaning of Faith." Among the participants are vocalists Suzanne Johnson, Myrtle Hall and George Beverly Shea. Also: Pianist Tedd Smith and organist Don Hustad.
7 16 27 Chopper One
Time is of the essence in a search for an illegal alien who isn't aware that he's carrying deadly typhoid fever. Jim McMullan.
9 NHL Hockey
The New York Rangers take on the Flames at Atlanta's Omni.
11 To Tell the Truth
See 7PM, WPVI.
12 13 33 39 44 Advocates
Should private carriers be allowed to handle first-class mail? The proposal's supporters feel private service would offset rising postal rates and deteriorating service. Opponents agree that private carriers would only increase postal costs.
17 Of Lands and Sea
The Spanish Main.
29 Everything Goes
Guests include Henny Youngman, and singers Billy Daniels and Bob Francis. Norm Crosby, Mike Darrow and CAtherine McKinnon.
48 Dick Van Dyke BW
Barbara Bain appears in this episode, in which Rob recalls the time he proposed to two girls.

8:30
5 Merv Griffin
7 16 27 Firehouse
The firemen fight a museum fire where arson is suspected. They also extinguish a blaze in a house trailer. Capt. Spike Ryerson: James Drury. Myers: Richard Jaeckel. Caputo: Mike DeLano.
11 Dragnet
Martin Milner and Kent McCord appear as Officers Malloy and Reed to portray the policeman's role in society. Jack Webb.
48 Merv Griffin
Guests: Fernando Lamas, actor Wayne Rogers, country singer Lynn Anderson.

9PM
2 10 15 21 22 43 Movie-Western
Belly laughs abound in "Sidekicks," a 1974 TV-movie about two inept con men on the sagebrush trail. Even with an irate posse on their heels, our hapless heroes have time for one more caper-a typically impossible scheme to collect the $15,000 reward on an outlaw's head. Lou Gossett, Larry Hagman.
3 4 8 28 Ironside
Ironside's repeat season begins with a visit to a musty mansion that is rumored to be haunted. He is combing the place searching for two visitors who disappeared-until he vanishes, too. Raymond Burr. Mark: Don Mitchell. Ed: Don Galloway.
6 7 16 27 Kung Fu
A shadowy killer, the virtual embodiment of pure evil, is the adversary in this drama of a blind man's quest to avenge the murder of a friend.
11 Bonanza
Hoss [Dan Blocker] tries to help an aging prospector [Arthur Hunnicutt] and his sleepy watchdog fend off three gold thieves.
12 33 Movie
"Grand Illusion," director Jean Renoir's 1937 antiwar classic. In a World War I prison camp, four protagonists from different classes engage in a battle of wills, prejudices and private illusions. The French film is shown with English subtitles.
13 Season of Gilbert and Sullivan for All
Two gondoliers suddenly find themselves rulers of Barataria in Gilbert and Sullivan's "The Gondoliers." It all results from a case of mistaken identity. Highlights of the comic opera are performed.
17 Movie BW
"Sabre Jet." [1953] Familiar story of U.S. fliers and their wives at an air base in Japan. Good aerial sequences.
39 School Board Report
Special: Members of the Bethlehem Area School Board give a report and answer viewers' questions.
44 Jean Shepherd's America
The conversation is long when Jean meets up with Seaweed Ernie, an amiable hermit.

9:30
29 Phil Donahue
From Miami: Susan Saint James ["McMillan and Wife"] is the guest. She discusses her acting career.
44 Washington Connection
Are Vietnam veterans receiving adequate benefits? Their financial problems are explored in this report.

10PM
3 4 8 28 Energy Report
Special: "NBC News Presents"-"The Energy Crisis: American Solutions."
5 11 News
6 7 16 27 Streets of San Francisco
The repeat season begins with Michael Constantine ["Room 222"] featured as the outraged father of a teenage robbery suspect killed by Detective Keller. The policeman swears the boy had a gun, and his career hinges on finding it.
13 51st State-John Hamilton
39 Career 360
"Straight Dope," about laws and programs available to alert employees, including equal pay for women.
44 Martin Agronsky: Evening Edition
48 Perry Mason BW
Mason [Raymond Burr] is retained when two young pen pals become pawns in a deadly game of stock maniupulations and murder. Douglas Henderson.

10:30
2 10 15 21 22 43 Comedy Pilot
SPECIAL: Slightly lunatic people populate "Slither," a pilot based on the 1973 comedy-adventure film. The central character is footloose Dick Kanipsia [Barry Bostwick], who gets talked into a scheme to sell produce salvaged from a train wreck. Patti Deutsch.
9 News-Tom Dunn
29 Not for Women Only
Enlivening the lives of the public with news on the newsmakers: newspaper columnists join Barbara Walters for Part 4 of a discussion of reporting on celebrities in show business, politics and high society.
39 Silent Comedy Film Festival
Hal Roach, Hollywood stunt man turned producer, is discussed by actor Don Koll and film critic John Cocchi ["Box Office Magazine"]. Known for his comedies, Roach made films with Our Gang, Harold Lloyd, and Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. Film clips include "Monkey Business," "Sold at Auction."
44 Washington Straight Talk
Patrick Buchanan, special consultant to President Nixon, is interviewed by Bill Moyers.

11PM
2 3 4 6 7 8 10 News
5 One Step Beyond BW
A woman [Georgann Johnson] hesitates to remarry. Her husband has been missing in action for two years, but she thinks he's still alive.
9 Wanted: Dead or Alive BW
Wanted: stolen loot and a kidnaped ranch hand-and the man who took them both. Josh: Steve McQueen.
11 Perry Mason BW
A young woman, innocently caught in the middle of a conspiracy to sabotage a cosmetics firm, turns to Mason [Raymond Burr] when she's accused of murder. Patricia Breslin.
12 Aviation Weather
13 Bill Moyers' Journal
15 16 21 22 27 28 43 News
17 Alfred Hitchcock BW
In the English town of Bramley, a bank clerk secures lodgings at a seemingly deserted rooming house run by an eccentric old woman. Dean Stockwell.
29 Safari BW
Western Canada.
33 ABC News-Captioned
44 Career 360
See 10PM, WLVT.
48 Night Gallery
Richard Kiley as an American tourist protecting an English widow from the gaunt specter of her husband in "The Ghost of Sorworth Place."

11:30
2 10 15 21 22 43 Movie BW
Truckers haul explosive rocket fuel over treacherous routes in "Violent Road" [1958], a story derived from the 1953 French classic "The Wages of Fear." Brian Keith, Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
3 4 8 28 Johnny Carson
McLean Stevenson and Jack Albertson are scheduled.
5 Movie BW
"The Bride Came C.O.D." [1941] A flier [James Cagney] is employed to bring an eloping heiress [Bette Davis] back to her father [Eugene Palette] before she gets hitched.
6 7 16 27 Dick Cavett
Abbie Hoffman, Tom Hayden, Jerry Rubin and Rennie Davis, radical leaders in the '60s, are scheduled; a panel offers opposing views in a separate segment.
9 Movie BW
"The Gazebo." [1959] The macabre Broadway comedy about a black-mailed TV writer [Glenn Ford] who plots a real murder with surprising results. Debbie Reynolds.
13 Day at Night
17 Movie BW
"Flirtation Walk." [1934] Humor and sentiment are deftly blended in this ingratiating West Point romance. Good tunes and lavish production numbers. Dick Powell, Ruby Keeler.
33 Woman
What women should look for in gynecological care is the topic.
48 Movie
"The Half-Breed." [1952] Apaches, gold-seekers and a sash of sex enliven this slow-moving outdoor tale. Robert Young.

Midnight
11 Twilight Zone BW
Hyder Simpton's hunting trip was anything but routine. He returns home wet, tired-and a stranger to his neighbors and wife.
29 It's Here with Jerry Blavat

12:30
11 News

12:50
11 Twilight Zone BW
Jack Klugman portrays Max Phillips, a bookie who learns that his son has been critically wounded in combat.

1AM
3 4 8 Tomorrow
29 Ski Show-Bill Hoffman

1:20
2 Movie
"Ziegfeld Follies." [1945] An all-star revue, as Ziegfeld [William Powell] would have presented it. Highlights: "Limehouse Blues," with Fred Astaire and Lucille Bremer; "The Interview," with Judy Garland; Lena Horne singing "Love." Esther Williams.
10 15 21 22 News

1:30
5 Outer Limits BW
An agent from the planet Xenon tries to recruit brilliant Earth children for a bizarre kind of tutoring. Macdonald Carey.
6 Perspective
7 Movie BW
"The Atomic City." [1952] Suspenseful yarn about the kidnapping of a nuclear physicist's son. Ransom: the atomic-bomb formula.
9 Joe Franklin
10 Movie
"Branded." [1950] Alan Ladd poses as a long-lost son to gain wealth, in an outdoor show with more plot than usual-perhaps too much.
17 Bulletin Board
27 News

2AM
3 8 News
4 Movie BW
"80,000 Suspects." [1963] Doctors fight to control a rapidly spreading smallpox epidemic. Claire Bloom.

2:30
9 News

3:15
7 News

3:25
10 Give Us This Day

3:30
2 Movie
"Dakota Incident." [1956] A group of strangers, traveling across Indian territory, find themselves surrounded by a band of marauding Indians. Dale Robertson.
10 Movie BW
"Nightmare." [1956] Tricky murder yarn about a New Orleans jazz musician [Kevin McCarthy] who dreams that he commits a crime. Edward G. Robinson.

-crainbebo
 
crainbebo said:
7PM
22 News

The more things change, the more they stay the same.......Both WNEP-16 and WYOU-22 do 7pm news these days....
 
I don't think any NYC big-three station did until CBS gave the 4 pm slot to local affiliates...as for the last several years, channel 2 aired the 4 pm show at noon. However, I think by sometime in the early 80s, channel 9 aired news at noon...I'm sure someone who lived in the NYC market during that time period will keep me honest...

Joseph_Gallant said:
No New York station did local news at 12 Noon?!?!??

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Joseph_Gallant said:
No New York station did local news at 12 Noon?!?!??

:eek:

Of course not, Joe. WCBS, WNBC, and WABC were all O&Os, and, by their nature, they no choice but to clear the network feed as it came out the pipeline, so to speak, so they couldn't run newscasts at Noon sharp. Back then, CBS and NBC had their affil breaks at 1, while ABC ran straight from 11:30 to 4:30 without one, because of the late start-up time for the day.

Let's break things down: the Jack Narz "Concentration" on WNBC was licensed to Goodson-Todman by NBC, so that meant that WNBC at least would have to carry it (dunno about KNBC Los Angeles, WMAQ Chicago, WRC Washington, or WKYC Cleveland, the other O&Os) on the sked at some slot--the only other possibility would have been 9:30 a.m., where the Bob Barker "Truth or Consequences" was still hobbling along. As for "What's My Line?" on WCBS, that show likewise had a deep connection with CBS, as we know. I doubt either was competitive in NYC with "All My Children" on WABC, but remember, this was the Seventies, and even network O&Os were under pressure due to the national recession to keep costs down. That's the main reason why no local news ran on either station at 1.

We must remember that people were not as news-crazy then as we, their children's generation, are. Even though Watergate was going on at the time (and NYC was falling apart in terms of crime and the economy), most people got their news on radio (WCBS' radio sister was a splendid source, as was WINS) during the daytime or waited for the afternoon newspaper or evening news. Local stations didn't feel the pressure they do now to stay up with the likes of the Chicken Noodle Network, Little Miss Foxy, and the Must See Nothing Broadcasting Company--all that was years away. And when these said stations were the flagships of their networks, they sure would have looked foolish to the brass upstairs taking a high-cost risk like a midday newscast. Above all, life was just slower-paced then ("no duh!"), with most people much more able to delay gratification than is even possible these days.

To me, the expansion of local news is more a sign of the declining importance of local television, not a sign of strength or "community commitment," whatever you want to call it. For me, I know that if I had been living in NYC at the time, I would have much preferred to see "WML?" or "Concentration" at 1 instead of news.
 
I can tell you precisely when WABC added noon news - it was when they stopped programming the noon slot. When "Home" went back from 90 to 60 minutes in August 1992 is when WABC started programming news at noon.
 
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